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The World Fades Out

A Chmergs One - Shot (Peta’s POV of the engagement)

It was the end of the Saturday night performance and we had just finished bows. I slowly faded into the back so that I could listen to Maks's speech. He hated practicing so he rambled it off every night and made it seem so eloquent. I kind of hated him for it. If you'd put me on that kind of spot I'd ramble and stumble until I figured it out. But it was also one of the reasons I loved him so much, the way he presented himself, it was something else.

"Pete! Come here!" I hear Merv yelling for me. My brain blanks for a minute because I love that he wants to see me but I also want to listen. At this point the cast always seemed to start to mingle and group off while I take a few steps back so I can listen on my own.

"Pete!" He yells again and I look at him like I just heard and let him pull me towards him and to the front of the group. He keeps his arm around me holding me there which seems weird to me but I let it go, half listening to him ramble about the show while listening to Maks at the same time.

Maks keeps talking and talking thanking various people but then I notice he starts getting nervous. He can't stand still and he's fidgeting way more than normal for him. He's making me nervous now so my hands automatically do what I always do when I'm nervous, I check my hair and my lipstick. He's still nervous, why is he nervous? I shift my weight on my feet and almost lose my balance but the guy next us, oh hell, I can't remember his name, catches me and somehow I end up holding on to his arm. I must have missed something because now Maks is coming towards us asking for Merv. Merv lets go of me while he moves forward with Maks who then reaches for me.

"Come with me." He mouths and I look at him confused but then laugh as he drags me to the middle of the stage. The crowd suddenly erupts in cheers as they figure out what is happening just before I do. Suddenly it clicks and I feel a chill run through my whole body and my hands begin to sweat. Or wait are his hands sweaty? I'm not sure anymore but one of us have sweaty hands. He doesn't have a tight grip on me but he's playing with my hand like he does when he's nervous. Why is he nervous? No? He couldn't be doing this could he? He is. Oh my god. This is going to happen. My free hand flies up to my face as my eyes suddenly fill with tears.

"Dear Peta.......Dear Peta." I hear him say and then repeat as the crowd begins to relax some. He shakes my hand lightly trying to get me to look at him. I think at least or because that's what he does when he's nervous. I don't completely know what's happening anymore but I know I need to look at him. So I let my hand fall and give him that as I look into his eyes. His eyes that have always held so much for me. They are warm right now and full of love but definitely nervous too.

I take a deep breath and try to listen to him. I want to remember this. I need to remember this. Stop thinking Peta. You're missing it. Deep breath. Okay hand on my hip, no, I want his hand. You can't have his hand, he's holding the mic. Hell, he's talking I'm missing it. I'm missing all of this cause this is happening right now.

"I'm.........words, but................ moment to be speechless ..................... love with you." I hear him say. Wait, I missed pieces, focus Peta listen to him. I lock my eyes on his and suddenly it seems like the room fades out and it's just me and him and I can hear him and only him. It kind of sounds like we're in a tunnel and he's echoing but I can finally hear him and see him through the tears slipping out of my eyes.

"And I want to be in love with you for the rest of my life. And I know that I will be. And if you'll have me, I want you to be a part of mine." At this point I'm half trying to grip his hand and control my tears and nervous laugh at the same time. He's grinning at me like a cat and I love it. I absolutely love it but he's also so nervous. It's so freaking adorable. Oh how I love him. Wait, he's letting go of me. Oh my god, he's on his knee. He's holding up a ring. I turn away from him in shock as the tears start to fall again.

"Would you marry me?" His voice echoes as it suddenly feels like the world stops for a second.

"Yes." My voice croaks out. I reach for the ring, why am I reaching for the ring. I want him. I fall forward and kiss him as his arms wrap around me tight. I bury my face into his neck as my tears keep falling. It's a lost cause now to try to stop the tears. I'm so happy I can't even stop them.

"I love you. I love you. I love you." He says over and over in my ears.

"I love you too. Maksim. Oh Maks." My voice shakes as he continues holding me tight.

"I'm letting go." He whispers as he releases my body. I'm confused for a second then I realize he wants to put the ring on my finger. I go to reach for it to help him when I realize my entire body is shaking like a leaf. Wait, let him do it. He wants to do it. Somehow between the two of us we get it on. Suddenly he's got me wrapped up again as he holds me as tight as he's ever held me and I don't mind at all cause I'm doing the same thing back. I don't even have the words right now for him so I just turn my head and my lips meet his again. Suddenly everyone swarms us, hugging us, congratulating us, Eventually I lose my grip on him in the crowd and we're pulled apart.

For what seems like forever we're congratulated by our loved ones, our friends, our family, basically anyone in the show or helping with the show as well as some of our friends and family in the crowd. My happy tears stop and start with each new person and each new round of congratulations. We've been celebrating for so long, the crew is starting to clean up for tomorrow's show. They've even drawn the curtain. When did that even happen?

"I want to hold you." I feel his presence before I hear him in my ear. His hand grips mine tight as he patiently or not so patiently waits for me to finish up with the person I'm talking to. It's the guy who caught me earlier. I still don't know his name but I thank him as does Maks before he leads me away from the crowd and the chaos. His arms wrap around my waist tight as my arms go around his neck and my face buries into the crook between his ear and as shoulder. Suddenly it all hits at once and I'm sobbing.

"Hey, hey, hey, are you okay?" He said pulling back just enough that he can see me.

"Perfect, I've never been better. I love you." I say as the tears keep falling. He nods his head letting me know he understands before he leans forward and kisses my nose before slipping down to my lips once more.

"I love you too so so so so so much. Thank you." He whispers softly as he pulls me back in tight. I can feel his body slightly shudder too almost in sync with mine. We stand there holding each other for what feels like forever until finally our breathing evens out and we just stand there seemingly lost in one another. Eventually though we have to let go.

"We have to go to the after party." He whispers in my ear.

"Uh huh." I grumble ever so slightly in his ear as his lips press to my neck.

"A few hours, then only us til morning." He says as he draws back to kiss me once more. Everyone has filtered out at that point, probably to go get ready for the after party. After the After Party we were all supposed to go to some club. I was currently not so pleased I had agreed to that. We walk to my dressing room and he leans down to kiss me once more

"Be quick fiance." I grin at him as the words flow from my lips.

"Fiance." He whispers as he pulls me back in kissing me once more. "I'll be super quick. I'll meet you here in a bit okay?"

"Okay, I love you."

"I love you too." And with that he heads towards his dressing room to change. I head into mine with the girls and I'm pleased to see that Rumer is the only one left. She bounces over to me and throws her arms around me.

"Oh my god, congratulations. I told you on the stage but I'm pretty sure you're not going to remember much of any of that." She says laughing as she holds me.

"You're right. I don't remember half of it." I say laughing as she lets me go and I head over to start working on my hair.

"Good thing he did it in front of the world so now you have a zillion fans who have videoed it and put it on the internet for everyone to see." She say laughing.

"Fuck! Shar!" I yelp as I suddenly realize she missed it. And probably knows. Rumer's eyes get huge too as it registers for her not only the fact that Sharna missed it but probably the fact that I just screamed fuck too. It rarely comes out of my mouth but my brain is so across the board right now it felt okay. I search through my bag for my phone. Rumer finally clicks into gear too and starts helping me look. Finally I pull it out from one of my dance shoes and realize I have about a 1000 notifications flying up on my phone.

"Holy hell." Rumer says as she looks over my shoulder. "Just close everything and go to your messages. That's where she'd be."

"Right. Right. Right." I say as I do what she says and pull up my messages. I only have about a 100 at that moment. Finally I find hers and see I do have a message from her. I open it.

"OH. MY. GOD. I'M GOING TO KICK HIS ASS! AHHHHH! CONGRATULATIONS! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! GO HAVE FUN AT THE AFTER PARTY AND EVERYTHING ELSE BUT I WANT A PHONE CALL BEFORE YOU GO TO BED! I THOUGHT YOU WERE SLEEPING IS NOT AN OPTION! I LOVE YOU! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!" Her message read. I crack up because I can totally see her bouncing around in excitement. For a quick moment I'm sad that she's not here. She was suppose to be in the show but DWTS refused to let all of us go for rehearsals and the show so Val and I ended up being the only ones coming. It passes though, I know I'll have a lot to tell her.

"I love you too. I'll call you for sure I promise. Text me if you do go to bed though babe. I love you! Thank you! I wish you had been here too." I send back before Rumer and I spent the next 15 mintues getting me ready speed style. She tamed my waves while I fixed my makeup. Thank god so much of it was waterproof. I swap my costume for my tan dress I had picked out. I went to put my heels on and Rumer gives me a look.

"What?" I ask her as I hook the one.

"Shouldn't you give your ankle a break?" She asks looking pointedly at the high heels I was slipping on.

"It's okay Rue. I promise." I say brushing it off. She's probably right but I'm too excited right now. I love the heels and they match the dress.

"P."

"I'll change for the club okay? Promise."

"Okay. Let's go, I think I hear someone's fiance outside our door." She says with a smirk as my continuous grin gets bigger and bigger. We head out and he is waiting out there.

"You look gorgeous." He says reaching for my hand spinning me so he can take in all of me. Something he always seems to do when we get dressed up. Not that I mind. I think it's adorable.

"You look pretty handsome yourself." I say leaning over to kiss him. Is it possible to need to be near or touching someone more than I am right now. I'm just so happy I want him near me as much as possible and from his grip on my body he agrees as well. The three of us head over to the banquet room where the after party is being held.

There's a press line because well why wouldn't there be a press line. And people are already curious. I love it but I completely can't seem to remember so much of it. I'm still so ecstatic and happy that my head is spinning so I answer their questions as best as I can while letting Maks hold on to me as I fiddle with his jacket or shirt collar. It has become a bad habit of mine and something that I do without thinking. When we're home and curled up it's not a big deal, in the middle of a press line where everyone is taking pictures probably not the best idea. I try to stop my hand and he notices.

"It's okay." He says as he presses a kiss to my cheek letting me know it's alright. I smile at him and nod. It's another thing I love about him. He always seems to read me right before I have to say anything. So I rest my hand on his shoulder and let my fingers slightly grasp the collar without messing it up.

The next hour seems to take forever filled with interviews and pictures. Oh my god everyone wants pictures, pictures of us, pictures of me, pictures of the ring, pictures with Val, pictures of the family. I don't mind but I also just want to be with my fiance and hold him and bask in this. We'll get there though. A few more hours like he said. Suddenly we see his parents and Larissa's arms are around me so tight and so quickly. She's rambling in Russian and I'm not sure what she's saying but she's making me cry again. She suddenly remembers I only know a small amount of Russian and switches to English.

"Oh Peta, you've always been like a daughter to me. I've loved you from the first time you came to visit with Maks but now it's official and I couldn't be happier. My family of four is now officially a family of five. I could kick his butt for taking so long but I"m so happy he finally did. I love you sweet girl." She says pulling back to look at me before giving me a kiss on my cheek.

"I love you too Momma and thank you for always looking after me and loving me like your own. With all my time in the States I've definitely cherished that more than anything." She goes to say something back to me but our attention is drawn to Maks and Sasha who are yelling, well not yelling but speaking intensely in Russian. Maks looks sad for a moment and I'm not sure why. I move from Larisa and slip my arm around his waist and sink into him. He wraps his arm around me as well and looks down at me. Larisa moves Sasha away at the same time to try to settle him as well.

"He missed it." He says softly.

"Excuse me? He was running the show?! How did he miss it?" I ask incredulously.

"He stepped out for like 5 minutes to check on something outside. And yeah..." He says slightly defeated.

"I'm sorry handsome. At least we have it recorded? We can watch it with him?" I offer trying to lighten the moment and get him back to the happy Maks that was there a few moments ago.

"Yeah, I just. I thought he was there." He says as he looks at me. I lean up and kiss him. He's always trying to make it better for everyone and it drains him at times but it's him and a piece of him I love.

"I know but you didn't do it on purpose. Give him a little bit, he'll calm down. And if not we'll act it out for him." It finally makes him crack a smile and I see it get better. He presses his lips to mine and kisses me softly.

"I love you." He utters.

"I love you too."

"We have to go do the auction. I don't want to let you go though." He says softly as he begins to lead me over to the stage area.

"I don't either but it'll be quick and they are going to pull me up when they do you too." I say pressing a kiss to his cheek.

"True."

"Go handsome. I'll stay where I can see you." I say pushing him to go. I don't want him away either but the quicker he goes the quicker we're done. The next hour they auction off the different lessons with each of the people involved, they pull me up for Maks's and do us together. In the meantime, I do as I promised and stay where I can see him so he can see me. Various people congratulate me and I pull up some of the videos of the engagement and flip through my Instagram trying to clear some of the notifications. All the love and excitement makes me smile even more. I see Maks's picture and it brings tears to my eyes. His simpleness is enough for me. Finally it's done and Maks appears next to me again.

"You ready?" He says pressing a kiss to my cheek. It's like he can't keep his lips or his hands off me. I'm not complaining though, I love it and I feel the same way. He's my fiance now. I've dreamed about this for forever and it's finally real.

"Yup." I says linking my arm through his. He leads me out and we get into the car waiting for us so we can head back to the hotel. We slid in and I press my body as close to his as I can. It's the first moment we're really alone well not alone considering the driver but we're alone as far as I'm concerned. I can't seem to get close enough to him and he notices.

"Here." He says lifting my legs over his and pulling my body into his. I sigh in satisfaction and his lips come down to mine and we spend the entire drive back to the hotel making out like horny teenagers but I don't really care, he's my fiance. Finally we pull in and the driver let's us know.

"Sorry." I apologize slightly for our actions as they actually make me giddy at the same time.

"It's okay, congratulations." He says nodding at my ring.

"Thank you!" We chorus as we slid out. We head up and as soon as we're in our room Maks pulls me back into him kissing me hard this time. The sweetness is gone from both of us as the entire night flows through us both and all we need is each other.

"The bar." I mumble between kisses as I'm unbuttoning his top.

"We'll be late." He says as he unties the top of my dress letting it fall from my body. I finally get the last button undone and push it as well as the jacket off him letting it fall to the floor. I undo his belt quickly and push his pants down onto the floor. Finally we're both undressed and he pushes me backwards onto the bed, kissing down my body until I pull him back up to meet me. We make love needily, it's quick and fast but it's needed. The excitement, joy, disbelief, happiness, and love over the past four hours have gotten to us both. Eventually we are both lying there catching our breath.

"Do we have to go?" I say rolling over and curling up into him.

"Unfortunately yes. But we don't have to behave as well there." He says kissing me hard once more.

"Thank god." I say as we get up and get ready. My hair is kinda crazy from everything and I try my best to make it look normal. I pull on my favorite sweater dress before checking my make up and wait for him to finish. I sit down on the edge of the bed and look at my ring finally. I realize after the hype and the craziness of the night that I haven't even gotten to take in the gorgeousness of the ring. It is exactly what I would have picked. The cut and the design is gorgeous as well as the way it's laid out looks like the Eiffel tower.

"Do you like it?" He says as he sits down next to me wrapping his arm around me.

"I love it. It's gorgeous Maks. It's exactly what I would have picked." I say leaning up to kiss him.

"And it fits?" He says pulling me in tightly as I admire the ring.

"Perfectly, how?" I ask as I nuzzle into him.

"A string, while you were sleeping and 5 weeks of Skype calls with the designers at Cantamessaman." He says pressing a kiss to my head. For some reason the sweet response makes my eyes fill up with tears again and I drop my hand to wrap my arms around him.

"I love you." I say as my voice is clogged with tears.

"Hey, I didn't mean to make you cry." He whispers as he rocks us slowly.

"You didn't. Well I mean you did. " He cracks up and it makes me giggle some through my tears.

"It's just, your answer was just so sweet and this whole night has been perfect. And I couldn't have asked for a better moment. I just I love you." I say as I hold him. He let's me be for a moment as my tears calm down. His hands run up and down my back as I cling to him.

"I love you too." He whispers as he continues to rock us. Finally I settle and pull back to look at him. He wipes my tears and kisses my nose. He's always said he loves my nose, so weird in my opinion but he loves to kiss the tip of it, so I let him.

"We should go." I say softly not really wanting to leave this room or this moment with him. I do know that our friends are waiting for us though and it would be rude to disappoint.

"We should." He said as he lets me go to stand up and pull me with him. We grab our things and head over to the bar where everyone was. The next 2 hours are spent having a great time with our friends laughing and celebrating. Most importantly it's just all of us so Maks and I can be free and us. We dance, kiss and stay together without anyone complaining. Eventually the bar is closing and it's time to head back to the hotel. We head back and get changed. I slip out of my dress and just pull on one of his shirts and walk out to find him seated on the sofa.

"Hey you." I say as I walk over and he pulls me down into his lap.

"Hey, I'm not very sleepy." He says as his hands coast up and down my back.

"Me either." I say as the whole day still has my body buzzing. And suddenly I remember Sharna. "Oh my god."

"What's wrong?" Maks asks.

"Shar, I have to call Shar." I ramble.

"Okay, you can call her." He says laughing slightly.

"I don't want to move tho." I wrinkle my nose at him. "I'm comfy."

"Well you can stay here."

"But my phone.....and girl talk. You hate girl talk." I say looking at him pointedly.

"Go get your phone goof. I think I can make tonight an exception." He says laughing as I stand up from his lap to grab my phone. I find it and bring it over to him.

"She's probably going to yell." I say warning him as I dial her number.

"I figured, it's okay." He says as he leans back some dragging me with him so we're half reclined on the couch.

"Finally!" My best friends voice echos over the phone as she picks up.

"Hey babe." I say laughing as Maks cracked up as well.

"Oh my god. I'm going to kill him, literally kill him." She says as soon as she hears him.

"He says you can yell, it's okay. If it helps, his dad was here and missed it too." I say softly.

"Wait what? How does that happen? His dad runs the show and does the booth and makes the calls?"

"That was my reaction too. He apparently went outside to check something. He thought it was over so he figured it was okay. He was quite upset at first but Maks and I both talked to him and he's okay now. Excited like everyone else. I think he's more mad at himself. Maks felt like crap though when he found out." I explain as I reach for his free hand that isn't playing on his phone and play with his fingers.

"I'll bet. So I'll let it slide for him. I wanna hear everything from you though. Did you know?"

"No! We went from doing the closing speech to suddenly he has me by the hand in the middle of the floor. I don't remember half of it to be honest. Rumer politely pointed out that I have about a million copies of it though thank god."

"She's right. It's everywhere! I love it though. I'm so happy for you guys! Finally! Now the ring? Tell me about the ring!" She exclaims giddily and I love it.

"Well it's emerald cut and then there's two diagonal bands on each side all encrusted with diamonds. But the best part is that the diagonal bands elevate it and it kind of resembles the Eiffel Tower. Which I loveeeeee" I say as I admire it once more. We talk for a bit longer just enjoying the fact that I can share all this with her. After a bit, I feel Maks begin to get bored as his fingers slip up the side of my shirt as he starts tracing lazy patterns on my skin that makes me shiver.

"Alright babe, I'm going to let you go. I guess I need to try to get some sleep." I say as his fingers begin to get the best of me.

"Alright Pete. I love you. I'll see you Monday right?"

"Yup, Monday, straight off a plane." I say cringing slightly at the thought.

"Okay, night girlie."

"NIght Shar, love you too." I say as I disconnect the call and slither down so that I'm basically laying on Maks.

"She doesn't hate me anymore?" He asks as he drops his phone and slips both hands around my waist making my shirt ride up.

"Nope. Although you're going to be in trouble with me if you don't stop that." I say as my body shivers and reacts to his hands.

"I think I can handle that. You ready for bed?" He asks with a sultry look letting me know he's definitely not talking about sleeping.

"Yes." I say shrieking slightly as he picks me up and carries me to our bed. He flips off all the lights and lays me down gently before moving over top of me. This round of lovemaking is much slower than the first. He went slow loving each and every part of me while I in turn did the same with him.

Afterwards I was curled up on him in the darkness of our room. His heart beating out my favorite rhythm under my ear as his hand held me close to him. My leg was looped over his as my arm was across his waist.

"You okay?" He asks as his hand finds mine and his fingers begin to play with my ring.

"Perfect. Absolutely perfect. You?" I ask pressing a kiss to his chest.

"Same." He says drawing me in a little closer.

"I still can't believe you planned all this yourself." I say softly.

"Me either beautiful. But now it's all up to you. I'm out on the rest of this. I want you to have everything you want."

"And if I want you to help?" I ask laughing

"Then we'll see." He says kissing my head. I laugh and yawn at the same time.

"I think I'm finally sleepy." I whisper as the exhaustion sets in and my eyes feel heavy almost immediately.

"Go to sleep sweetheart. I love you." He whispers.

"I love you too, fiance." I mumble out as sleep takes over and I'm out.

***The End. Please don't forget to let me know what you thought and like it up! Thanks for reading and supporting! Xoxo

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