(Scene: fade in, Top of the stairs.)
As they reach the top of the stairs and turn towards the bedroom, Greg lowers Anna's feet gently to the floor and kisses her passionately, deeply. Together they walk hand in hand down the hall as she slowly undresses. (Scene: fade out)
(Scene: bedroom, fade in on couple in bed)
As the day fades to night, Greg and Anna share the exquisite pleasures of a couple in love. Embracing life, they explore the rapt sensuality of their bodies and each other, playfully laughing, embracing and making love. After several enraptured hours and with the light of day fully extinguished, they finally pause and roll apart to catch their breath. As they lay back on the bed basking in the afterglow of pleasure, Greg rolls over and draws from a drawer on the night stand a dainty black box, tied with a small scarlet ribbon. Rolling over again to face Anna, he presents the gift gently to his lover. "A gift for you, my love, for all eternity" he says with breathless anticipation, "will you be my wife?" A moment of pause as she opens the box and catches her breath at the sight of the simple, yet elegant, ring cradled within. "I.. I don't know what to say" she stammers. "Say, yes" he gently asks. "Yes!, Yes! I'll marry you!" she cries out in joyous song and throws herself at him in a bodily embrace of passion. The two young lovers fall once again to the bed and, with the renewed vigor of teenagers, make love once more before snuggling close and drifting off to sleep in each others arms. (Scene: fade out, couple on bed)
(Scene: fade in, Greg in bed on his side, covers under arms)
As Greg slowly opened his eyes, they grew accustomed to the bright light of a new day bursting into the room through the window behind him, and he felt at peace. At long last he had found someone special, someone to share his life with, and he felt whole. Slowly, he rolled over, thinking lovingly of his future wife laying beside him, the children they would have and the love and happiness they would bring. But as he gazed down at the pillow which but scant hours before had cradled the soft cheek of his fiancé, the sight that met him was a shock. It was not the sight of his lovely Anna, the beautiful woman whom he had so lovingly ask to marry him, but just the pillow, empty and blank as a fresh field of new fallen snow. The only distraction from its emptiness was a simple note. A small square pinned to the pillow, along with the ring he had given so blissfully the night before. On this small piece of parchment was written, in the elegant hand of a woman, two simple words. "I'm Sorry".
Pain, sadness, grief, confusion, anger, humiliation overwhelm him at once, finally giving way to remorse, regret, disillusionment, and depression. All his emotions took their turn that day at kicking him in the heart. He could not understand, why someone whom he so deeply loved would accept him for life into her soul, only to run away? The question stuck in his soul. Why had life dealt him such a cruel blow just as he had finally found his one true love and soul mate in life.