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“I don’t have to think about this, Bella,” Kelsey said as a tear rolled down her cheek. “I want to be your wife. Yes, I’ll marry you!”

Isabella brought their lips together in a tear-filled kiss while their friends applauded.

“Uh, excuse us.”

Isabella pulled away and looked up to see two women standing there.

“We don’t mean to intrude,” the woman said. “We’ve been following your travel blog since you started it in January. We could feel the magic that you both speak about so often. It inspired us to come see for ourselves.” She smiled at the woman standing next to her who began to speak as Kelsey and Isabella got to their feet.

“We’ve watched you fall in love through these trips. When we saw your post yesterday about coming to Honeymoon Beach, we had to see it, too. We’ve been married thirty years and this magic reminded us of what’s most important and that’s us.”

“So, you can fall in love or fall back in love here,” the woman said with a smile. “Your posts and these trips are reaching people. I hope you’ll keep going.”

Kelsey smiled at Isabella and nodded.

“Uh, we posted the picture we took of you earlier,” the first woman said, turning the phone around so they could see.

She had captured Isabella and Kelsey strolling along the beach. “I hope you don’t mind, but it was so sweet and captured the winding down of this wonderful day.”

Isabella looked at Kelsey and smiled. “Thank you. We don’t mind.”

“We also took this video when we saw what was happening,” the woman said with a sheepish grin. “I’d like to send it to you and then I’ll delete it. This was a beautiful private moment between you and your friends and you should have it.”

The woman handed Isabella her phone so she could type in her phone number. After she took the phone back the woman sent Isabella the video then deleted it.

“Have you been to Peaches yet?” Kelsey asked them.

“No, that’s our next stop,” the woman replied. “We were gathering our things when we saw Isabella kneel.”

“Please join us there,” Kelsey said. “We were about to leave as well.”

“We’re going dancing,” Isabella said, putting her arm around Kelsey’s shoulder.

They packed up their things and headed towards the trail. Kelsey and Isabella were behind everyone else when Kelsey tugged at Isabella’s hand. She turned to look back at the beach.

“We fell in love here and now we’ve gotten engaged here. I know where we should spend our honeymoon.” Kelsey grinned.

“How could we not?” Isabella reached up and kissed Kelsey tenderly. “I know where I want to get married.”

“I do, too,” Kelsey replied. “On the beach outside our bungalow.”

Isabella smiled and kissed Kelsey again. “Wait a minute,” she said. “I didn’t give you a ring. So much for spontaneity.”

Kelsey chuckled. “I don’t need a ring. I’ve got you.”

“We’ll get matching rings tomorrow in the gift shop,” Isabella said, leading them down the trail to catch up with the others. “Something really tacky and fun.”

Kelsey laughed. “To always remember this day.”

40

Seven Months Later

“It’s almost time,” Kelsey said.

“After twelve months of trips,” Isabella began. “We’ve done winter on the beach, Valentine’s Day, spring break, family vacations, bridesmaids getaway, honeymoons, and…”

“We did self-care, girls trips, fall vacations, holidays, and just because,” Kelsey added.