“It’s beautiful,” she whispered.

“You make everything beautiful, my love,” Sully said, then glanced up at the jeweler. “Does she have to take it off?”

The jeweler smiled. “I think we can work around that. Do you want to look at a band to go with it?”

Sully nodded, and a short while later the final decision had been made. A simple band to complement the solitaire, and one swipe of a credit card, and they were out the door and back in the car.

Melissa kept looking at the ring and smiling.

“It’s so beautiful, Sully. You were my first love. You were the first boy I ever kissed, and it’s so special that fate put us back together again. I love you so much.”

“Then we commemorate the first kiss with another to celebrate the engagement,” he said, and leaned across the console.

She met him halfway, and it was sweeter the second time around.

“There’s one more thing I need to do before we leave,” Sully said. “I don’t have any real dress clothes here. Do you know if there’s a Big and Tall shop in Savannah?”

“We’ll go to Oglethorpe Plaza. There’s a Men’s Wearhouse, and they have a big and tall section.”

“Will you help me pick out something proper for the party?”

She beamed. “I’d love to.”

“We can get something new for you, too,” he added.

“I don’t need anything, honey. I already have several outfits I could wear,” Melissa said.

“Wow, I may be the luckiest man in the world. I have fallen in love with a woman who turned down an opportunity to shop.”

“Oh, just hush and drive,” she said.

Sully laughed, and was still laughing when they drove away from the jewelry store.

They reached the plaza, parked on the side closest to Men’s Wearhouse, and walked in hand in hand. Once they found the store, then went back to the section for big and tall, Sully went straight to black dress slacks and picked out a couple of styles.

Melissa was looking through them on her own and picked out one more style.

“Sully, I think you might like these, too.”

“Okay. I’ll try them on, and you choose.”

“What about shirts? Do you want one to tuck in, or—”

“I brought my good belt, so a tuck-in, but with an open collar,” he said.

“What about color?” Melissa asked.

“White…for the occasion,” Sully said, and went into the dressing room while Melissa gathered up a couple of white dress shirts. One was made of a thick, crisp cotton, and the other was a polyester blend.

She was sitting in a chair outside the dressing room when he walked out in the first pair of black slacks, and she sighed.

“You are such a hunk,” she whispered.

He grinned. “I’ll go try the next ones.”

He came back out a couple of minutes later. “What about these?”

“They both make your legs look even longer. They’re a perfect fit on your cute little butt. You’re still a hunk.”