"Ar..Are you serious about this?" Sato stuttered when he heard what Gray had said.
"I am being completely serious," Getting out of bed in his pyjamas, Gray head for the drawer that had a passcode lock on it. Typing in the password, he opened it up and retrieved a black velvet box, the General came back to the stunted young man who was also in his pyjamas. Kneeling on one knee and with the ring box opened, Gray looked into Sato's eyes lovingly. He said, "Sato Takahashi, will you marry me?"
"Ye..Yes. I would love to." Sato's eyes got watery over Gray's proposal. There wasn't an ounce of hesitation when he answered. Although he was nervous, the young man was just deeply in love with Gray.
Gray had prepared a beautiful platinum ring of the highest quality for Sato and himself. There were slightly differing matters, where Sato had an S on the inner ring, while Gray had a G on his. Gray helped Sato put on his ring on his trembling hand. Sato reciprocated and helped Gray to wear his one on. To be honest, Sato did not know whether he should laugh or cry. Who in the world proposes when they were in pyjamas?
The young man knew that Gray was most definitely just anxious and too exhilarated that he had said yes to letting Gray decide when to propose. As such, the normally extremely romantic General simply chose to propose there and then. Although it was not as Sato had imagined, such a proposal was one that would go down in his memory lane as one of his best moments in life.
The next day, Sato and Gray went downstairs, hand in hand, and told Sato's parents, who were now staying together with the couple, that there were engaged. They then also gave a call to both Gray's parents and grandparents. All three older couples were extremely happy with the both of them. Even Alex had a slight smile on his face to see that his eldest son was in a loving relationship.
Within two months, the couple held a wedding where they only invited their family and closest friends. For Gray, his three closest friends, Marion Lee, Pete and Delilah Kouglas were invited. For Sato, Li Ming was his only friend whom he invited. Of course, after hearing about the news, Ming did not hesitate and had booked a ticket and came back from Country U. That day, it was a refreshing sight to see Ming Yue Guang appear not only as a plus one, but technically, as a cousin to Gray.
The wedding was held in Country Z, on a cliff side clearing that had a spectacular view of the ocean. The entire atmosphere was very unlike what a powerful family was supposed to have. It was low key and closed in, just the way the coupled liked it to be. Gray and Sato chose to wear two different coloured suits that day. For the smaller statured young man, the wedding designer had chose to make for him a beige coloured tuxedo. While the larger built Gray, he was given a nice black tuxedo. The contrast in colour fitted perfectly with couple. Even for the family and friends, they were very surprised as to see the two men look superb together.
Sato and Gray did not want to go through the hassle of asking their friends to be their best man. However, they did hire an officiate to help conduct the wedding for them. As Sato and Gray stood by the wedding pedestal, the officiate asked for the couple to say their respective vows to each other.
Gray started first with his speech. "Sato, I love you. You are my best friend. From the beginning when we first met, I had fallen head over heels for you. There was not once when my heart wavered when I was with you. I was always sure that you would be the one that I would marry. Regardless of how many obstacles we had or would face, I promise to always be by your side and protect you from the bad times. I promise to unconditionally love you in good times and in bad, when life seems easy and when it seems hard. I pr..promise to cherish you and to always ho..hold you in the highest regard. The..These things I give to you today, and all the days of our life."
As Gray said his vow, the General could not help his eyes becoming watery. Hearing his words, Sato also started to tear up. It took a good thirty seconds for Sato to calm down and start to say his vow. Unlike Gray, Sato decided that he wanted this vow to be more special.
"Gray, ever since I met you, I knew that you were the one and only person that I would love in my entire life. It was fate that we could meet each other when we were younger. However, knowing how terrible my luck is, we were separated from each other for a good few years. It was only through fate that we managed to meet each other again and even till this day, I couldn't believe how lucky I was that day. I still remember how we met again. That day, I had chased down a thief that stole your phone and funnily enough, it was you who had to save me in the end."
At that part, many of the witnesses laughed lightly at Sato's interesting story. Then again, as he continued on with his speech, the tears soon came back.
"Time and time again, you would sa..save me from the multitudes of sticky situations I had gotten in. Ti..Time and time again, you would tolerate my stubbornness and flaws. I am thankful for everything you had done for me and so now, I would like to pro..promise you what you were already doing for me. Before these witnesses, I promise to love you and ca..care of you as long as we both live. I promise to help you when you need he..help and I will turn to you when I need help. I choose you, Gray Tobion as the person I will spend the rest of my life with."