PHOTO PROMPT © Brenda Cox
Our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary gift to ourselves is a weekend at the mountainous inn where we’re to spend our honeymoon. Hours pass along the ever-winding-ever-rising road through green tunnels of trees. We’re both relaxed and smiling, our hands lightly touching as the breeze blows through the windows of the car.
Friday evening’s dinner is on the patio. Our forks are raised, mid-dessert – when a tall, tanned, handsome man approaches our table and drops to one knee, eyes fixed in moist torment upon my beloved Anna.
He holds out a small ring box and says, “Anna, will you marry me?”
[100 words]
Part 2 is here.
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the gracious host of Friday Fictioneers.
Tao Talk 
Lovely.
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🙂 Thank you!
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You’re welcome ☺️
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Now that could go in so many directions from there
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Yes! Thank you for reading and your comment.
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Please continue…
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If the picture is right next week, I’ll try, Fandango!
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Well, I wasn’t expecting that! I suspect the expression on Anna’s face would be very revealing.
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Thanks for reading, Penny, and I suspect you’re right 🙂
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I wasn’t expecting it to end this way. Great take!
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Shweta, thank you! I’m sure they weren’t either!
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You’re welcome, Li
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A very surprising ending or an intriguing beginning to a much longer story. My curiosity is peaked, and I want to know more. Well done, Lisa!
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Thanks much, Brenda! We’ll see what next week’s picture is and maybe there will be a part 2 🙂
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Ummm… well now. We have many questions!!
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🙂 perhaps I have some answers…. depending on next weeks pic.
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Very interesting… 😉
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Stab him with a fork, continue eating pudding… 🙂
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One in each eye.
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There’s definitely another parallel story here…(k)
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Oops. I didn’t expect that and now I have questions. Well done tormenting us. 😀
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My pleasure, Gah! Thanks for reading and your comment.
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Such a sweet story.
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🙂 One man’s nightmare is another man’s dream! Thank you.
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This is true. You’re welcome.
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Dear Lisa,
Intriguing. You’ve left me hanging with so many questions. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, sorry to leave you with so many questions. Who knows, the answers could be revealed in some future 😉 Thank you.
Shalom,
Lisa
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looks like a scene from a movie currently being filmed. did i hear the director said, “cut?” 🙂
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LOL great comment, Plaridel, thank you 🙂
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Ooh, a story with a hidden back story that leaves us readers guessing. That’s so well written and intriguing.
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Jenne, thank you!
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Anna, you have some explaining to do! 😀
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🙂
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I wonder what went on during the honeymoon, does the handsome man remember her from then?, Did Anna whisper sweet-nothings behind her husbands back?.Is there murder in the air? No wonder the trees fell over.
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James, I glad you got the connection between my story and the trees falling over 🙂
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OMG where has he come from or is it the ghost of the husband from all that time ago. A point in time reenacting itself?
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Your imagination on what’s going on is better than the story itself, Michael. We may never know…. Thank you for reading and commenting 🙂
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Perhaps his eyes were so moisty that he mistook this Anna for another Anna. No? Just a thought!
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lol May be, Keith!
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That’s a long time to wait to propose marriage! I’d like to believe that young man was a reincarnation of the narrator 🙂
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I like your guess, Linda! Thanks for reading and commenting. We may never know!
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A case of mistaken identity, which ever way it pans out there is plenty of possibilities
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We may never know, Michael…
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I think the silver wedding anniversary celebrations might be on pause while this sorts itself out. Original take on the prompt, well done.
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I think so too, Sandra. Thank you!
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twisty twisty twisty. you write a good cliffhanger ~
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Thank you! I’m hoping to do another part to it next week if I can…
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Your fans await 🙂
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🙂
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Well! That was unexpected. What happened in the past that the present is, well, unexpected.
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Thanks, Alicia!
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Hmm… Has he been carrying a torch for 25 years? Or has someone been sneaking in some clandestine trips? Either way, that’s a bold move when she’s clearly with someone else.
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Lots of unanswered questions… Thanks for reading and commenting, Nobbin.
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Ooooooooooo
Ouch!
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Now that’s a cliffhanger. Got to click on part 2 to find out next.
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🙂
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That was excellent, I didn’t read last weeks, I think Anna had a lucky escape there. Brilliant stuff
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The link to part one is at the bottom if you want to see what came before. Thanks, Shrawl.
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Sorry I read the both of them, really smart, what a good ide to have a 2 week story. I might give that a go next time
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Thank you, Shrawl 🙂
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Well! Oh!
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🙂
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Wonderful story Lisa! 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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