I awoke to the sound of birds chirping outside the small window of my bedroom, in my tiny one room apartment that I shared with my wonderful boyfriend. Speak of the devil. "Good morning, gorgeous." He whispered in my ear while resting his hand on my waist, rubbing it softly. I smiled and turned to face him, kissing his chin. "Morning Joshie", I replied. He grinned and kissed me quickly, "so, how'd you sleep, babe?" A blush rose to my cheeks as I remembered last night, which happened to be our three year anniversary. "Just great!" I responded cheerily. He chuckled softly, "me too, babe."

After talking in bed for a while we got up and went to go get some breakfast before we went to our meeting at Fueled By Ramen for our next album. I've been writing a lot more these past few months, mostly about Josh and I. We've been having some problems in the past year of our relationship, but I can't bring myself to end it. I mean would you just throw away three years of love? 

Even now, as we were walking into the studio hand in hand, I cant help but think this is where I belong, with Josh. 

We were greeted by Josh's brother Zac first, I liked Zac, he was a really sweet guy and sort of the peacemaker between Josh and I when we fought in front of the guys. Next was our friend Taylor, he wasn't officially in the band but he agreed to help us out since we need a rhythm guitarist for Warped Tour in a couple months. I was talking to Taylor about the tour when I felt myself being lifted off the ground.

"Spongebob!" a male voice shouted enthusiastically.

I giggled, "Jerm, put me down!"

Jeremy carefully put me back on the ground and ruffled my long orange hair. Jeremy Davis. We'd been friends since I first moved to Franklin. My mom was apparently in town one day and saw a flyer for a band that needed a lead singer, that's where I met Jeremy and our friend Kimee, and the rest is history.

A few minutes later we were called into the meeting, our label head, John, seemed to be a bit more excited than usual. We entered the conference room and sat down at the big table in the middle of the room. I rolled my eyes when I heard Zac and Taylor giggle, they liked to play with office chairs by spinning themselves until they pass out. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw our manager give them a disapproving look and motion for them to sit down. Once we were all seated John spoke.

"Okay guys, now that you've finished recording the album it's time to pick singles, and talk video ideas."

"I vouch for Miz Biz." Josh called out. All of us nodded in agreement and John's assistant wrote the song down.

"I don't know about you guys, but I think crushcrushcrush would make an awesome video" Jeremy said. John furrowed his eyebrows in thought. At first he didn't even want crushcrushcrush on the record, so that's why he was hesitating.

"Okay" John finally agreed, Jeremy pumped his fists in victory.

"That's What You Get should be one too" Josh piped up again. 

John nodded, then looked at me. "What about you, Hayley? What do you think?"

I sat up in my seat and cleared my throat. I never usually spoke much at meetings, just kind of went with what everyone else said.

"What about Hallelujah?" I mumbled. "Kind of like a tribute to us and the fans for making it this far?"

John smiled, "I think that's a great idea. So it's settled, there will be four singles."

We all nodded and started talking about video concepts. towards the end of the meeting, John said he had an announcement to make. He looked at me and smiled. 

"I got a call this morning from a producer in Hollywood, his team is making a movie about the life of Conway Twitty, and they think Hayley would be perfect for the role of Conway's first wife!" John exclaimed. 

I was speechless. Me. In a movie? Who the hell decided that was a good idea?! Everyone in the room was looking at me expectantly, waiting for my answer. 

"Me? Seriously?" I asked, pointing a finger to myself. John nodded. 

I thought about it. I always wanted to try acting, and this could be great publicity for the band. I heard John sigh, "listen Hayley, just fly out to L.A. next week and meet with the director, I promise you won't regret it."

I bit my lip, "okay" I agreed finally. 

John smiled and said he'd make all the arrangements, promising once again that I won't regret this. 

*~*~*

Later that night, when Josh and I were laying in bed, he brought the movie up again.

"Are you seriously considering doing this movie, Hayles?" 

I sighed and turned around in his embrace so I was facing him, burying my face in his chest. I chewed my bottom lip softly. 

"I mean, maybe? but what if I'm no good? what if everyone laughs at me and I have to spend the rest of my life living under a rock!" I cried.

Josh shushed me and rubbed my back comfortingly. 

"Hayley, I'm sure you'd be amazing!" Josh exclaimed.

"Really?" I asked, he nodded.

"It's just, you'd be playing someone's wife, and I don't know how comfortable I'd be watching someone else touch you and talk to that way." Josh explained with his trademark puppy dog eyes.

I sighed, Josh was always jealous! I know he means well, but it's so annoying sometimes! I brought my hand up and ran it through his long, soft hair. 

"Honey, how many times are we gonna go through this? I already told you that you don't ever have to worry about me. I'd never let anyone or anything come between us, my heart is yours, remember?"

Josh cracked a smile, making me grin in return. I leaned over and kissed him softly, and eventually felt him push his body against mine until my back hit the mattress. My mouth opened as he slid his tongue into it. I knew where this was going. I blindly reached for the box of condoms on my nightstand, so I could grab one. While my hand was flailing around, I felt Josh's kissing slowly getting softer and softer until it ceased completely. 

I opened my eyes, lips still puckered, only to see Josh staring intensely at me. He gently ran his fingers through my hair. "I wanna be with you forever!" he breathed.  He searched my eyes with his own, seemingly looking for any sign of rejection. "R-Really?" I questioned, Josh nodded. "Yeah" he said softly. 

Next thing I know, he jumped off the bed. He began searching around for his pants, which he pulled over his pajama pants, then put on his slippers. "What are you doing?" I asked, leaning up on my elbows. Josh crawled up to me on the bed, "you wanna be with me forever, right Hayles?" I nodded, and he smiled, "then come on!" He said enthusiastically. I couldn't help but giggle at his excitement and jump off the bed. I didn't know where he was taking me, but I could really care less at this point. 

Once I was dressed, Josh took my hand and dragged me out of our apartment. We were both laughing like maniacs as we got into Josh's truck. As he drove, he would occasionally look over and smile lovingly at me, the kind of smile from when we first started dating. This spontaneous, happy Josh was reminding me of the old Josh, the Josh I first fell in love with four years ago.

Josh soon pulled into the parking lot of a shopping mall and I realized he had actually driven us to Nashville. He turned the truck off and moved in his seat to look at me. He stared intensely at me, reaching for my hands. "I love you, Hayley", he said seriously. "Josh, I love you too", I replied. He smiled at me and exited the truck. I followed him inside and soon discovered where he was taking me.

I gasped as we stood in front of a small jewelry store. Josh just looked at me, squeezed my hand, and led me inside. We approached a man who was standing at a counter, he gave us a friendly smile and asked us what we needed. Josh reached into his pants and pulled  his wallet out, pulling out his credit card. "We would like to see some rings, please." Josh said. 

My mouth fell open as the man nodded and started to show Josh some rings. Josh browsed until he found one he liked.

The ring was gorgeous. More than I could ever ask for. Josh saw the look in my eyes and smiled at the  man, "I'll take it." The man smiled back as he took Josh's credit card and rang up what turned out to be a $1,500 ring. Once the ring was paid for and put into a nice little box, Josh took my hand, and got down onto one knee. Oh my god. He took one of my hands, holding the ring out with the other. 

"Hayley", he began, "you know how much I love you, you know I've loved you since the first day Zac introduced me to you. Because of you, I've gotten the chance to live my dream, alongside my best friends, and you, the most beautiful girl in the world, the love of my life. I want to spend the rest of my life with you, cutie. I want you to take this ring, as a promise that one day, maybe soon, I will ask you to be my wife, and we can live the rest of our lives together, playing music and loving each other. Hayley, will you accept this promise ring?"

My mouth wouldn't move, so I nodded my head instead. I never imagined in a million years that Josh would ask me to marry him, or promise that I would. To be honest, I had never really felt good enough for him, especially compared to some of his exes. But here we were, in a jewelry store in front of a dozen or so strangers with him down on one knee. I love Josh so much, I couldn't imagine myself without him, and now I won't have to.

Josh jumped up and hugged me tight, lifting me up and spinning me around. I giggled as he let me down, but he soon silenced me by smashing his lips against mine. When we pulled away he took my left hand into his, both of our hands were shaking. He went to slide the ring on, when the man at the counter spoke,  "promises go on the right hand." Josh's cheeks flushed with slight embarrassment as he picked my right hand up. At least I could say I was the only one he'd ever given a promise ring too. Josh gently slid the ring onto my right ring finger, bringing my hand up and kissing the back of it. I wrapped my arms around his neck, bringing him down to my level for a more passionate kiss. We pulled away when the other people around us started clapping. My cheeks flushed as I looked up into Josh's eyes, only to see him already staring at me. This is the best night of my life!

I know this started really Joshayley-like, but it will get to Hayley and Chad soon. The ring will actually be important later, I promise (get it?). Thanks for reading, I love you guys! - H