“Had fun?”
She smiled, nodded her head, and softly whispered a thank you.
I smiled back. It was nice to see her happy like this. It had been a rough week and it’s been ages since we did something nice together. But dinners at fancy restaurants really do pay off.
“You didn’t get a souvenir though,” I teased. She wanted to keep our dinner tab as a keepsake, but it was not until too late that the thought crossed her mind. She had been genially griping about it all the way to our ride home.
“Well it’s a good thing then,” I said smiling broadly, “that I got this.”
I took something from my pocket, and placed it in her hands. She seemed genuinely surprised. I grinned. It was a small heart-shaped box.
“Open it,” I told her.
She did so quickly, but she seem to have done it quite in the wrong way, practically broke the poor box into pieces. We were laughing uncontrollably by the time she got out the small silver ring.
I took the ring from her hand and gently placed it around her finger. I looked at her for the longest of moments. I have never seen her this happy before. She was so beautiful, always was.
“Oh, I nearly forgot,” I said, grinning widely. “I should be asking a question, right?”
I leaned and gently whispered to her ear.
She smiled and softly said, "Yes."
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march 24, 2006, around half-past eight
