Collins was walking down the street with Roger and Mark to meet all the girls at the Life for dinner.
"I can't do this", he said nervously fiddling with a small box in the pocket of his leather overcoat.

"Collins, you have got to be kidding me," Roger looked the man in the face. "You have been talking about this ever since you found out it was legalized"

"I know but...I am so nervous"

"It is okay to be nervous, I mean no one can honestly take such a big step and not be nervous". Mark reassured his very nervous friend.
Mark pulled out his very precious camera to document this momentous occasion.

"December 24 1992 8:00pm EST. Collins is FINALLY going to propose to Angel"
Collins gave the camera and Mark a look that said 'Go To Hell', as Mark continued to narrate and film.
"Gay marriage was legalized last month and Collins has been wanting to do this ever since, tell me Collins, Why did you wait until today"

Collins happily told him,"Well...We met exactly three years ago today so it just make this day even more special us...if she says yes."
All of a sudden his face went from happy to worried. "Oh God what if she says no," Collins stopped in his tracks, "I Can't do this".
Collins began to turn around and head back to Mimi's Loft which Collins and Angel had bought from her when she moved in with Roger.

"She can't not say yes", Roger said offering a little as reassurance as he turned the tall philosopher back towards the Life Cafe.

"If you didn't noticed she is completely head over heels nuts for you", Mark informed Collins as he helped Roger push him to the door of the Life.

"You got the ring and everything", Mark asked

"Oh God I can't," Collins said nervously as Roger turned him around for the twentieth time.

"Yes you can," Roger firmly stated to his friend. They walked in to see all the girls sitting in the center at tables which by then they had pushed together, and the manager was in his normal jolly mood about a)them moving the tables and b)them being there in the first place.

"Hey honey", Angel said lovingly to Collins as she kissed him on the cheek."Whats wrong?" Angel asked looking and her lover who by the time she saw him was pale and sweating from nerves.

"Nothing", Collins said with a fake smile on his face, inside he wanted to run away and forget about, but he also wanted to begin his life with Angel forever. The orders were placed with the waiter. "Angel can I talk to you outside?" Collins asked hoping the nerves wouldn't get to him until after he had asked her the big question.

"Sure" Angel replied. She was wondering what was wrong with her lover. He has been acting weird around me all day, is he going to break up with me? or is he really sick? Is he dieing? She could only think of bad thoughts. She never even suspected what he was really going to ask her.

"You know I love Angel, and when you where laying in that hospital bed last year, vowed to myself that if you survive I would never leave your side."

"Thomas Bayne Collins, What do you have up your sleeve?" she questioned him as a smile grew across his face.

"It's not whats up my sleeve, but whats in my pocket," he corrected her as the snow began to fall.

"Angel, the past three years have been the greatest years of my whole life, and I love you so much, and I want to be with you for the rest of my life, as long as it may be" Collins took a deep breath and got down on one knee.
Here it goes Tom he thought as pulled the box he was fiddling with early out of his pocket.
"Angel Dumott Schunard Will you marry me?" Collins opened the box to reveal a antique ring, that had "I'll Cover You" engraved on it, and a tiny little diamond that was pink.
Angels eyes began to tear up, she couldn't speak all she did was leap into the philosophers arms, and gave him a passionate kiss.

"So is that a yes?" he asked but he thought he knew the answer.

"YES YES YES ", she said as he slipped the ring on to her finger, then they kissed again, and headed back to they're loft. Everyone wondered what had happened to them.

Mark leaned over to Roger,"I guess she said yes" he whispered into to his best friends ear.

Roger nodded,"Or he is off going to try to kill himself because she said no" Once everyone was done eating they left and headed back to the loft, wondering what had happened to they're two other friends, until they passed the loft that belong to the to lovers and heard a giggle that they all knew belonged to Angel.

"She definitely said yes," Roger and Mark said to each other in agreement.

Mark was sitting in a chair playing with his camera, Maureen and Joanne were siting on the table that divided the living room from the kitchen, Joanne was on her cell phone, and Maureen was cuddled close to her, and Mimi and Roger were on the couch basically making out. When they heard the familiar voices of Collins and Angel.
Mark got his camera and filmed there entrance.

"December 24 1992 10:00pm Est. the two lovers Collins and Angel have decided to join us"
Everyone looked up from what they were doing to find out where they had been although they already knew the answer to that.

"We have an announcement to make," Collins started out, as Mark still filming began to give a big grin to Collins then to Roger who was grinning too.

"Angel and I are"

"GETTING MARRIED," Angel nearly yelled, as she cut off Collins from finishing his sentence.
Maureen, Joanne, and Mimi just stared half surprised by the announcement, and half in awe at the beautiful engagement ring that Angel had on her finger. On the other hand Roger and Mark smiled.

"You owe me $20 Angel," Mimi informed her newly engaged best friend.

"Why"

"Remember when you said Roger and I were going to be the first to get engaged and I said you and Collins would so then we made a bet"

"I was kind of hoping you forgot," Angel told Mimi as she pulled $20 out of her purse.

"Apuéstele 100 dólares Roger y usted es comprometidos antes Maureen y Joanne hacen." Angel told her friend in Spanish which was pretty common in the friendship of Mimi and Angel.

"Su en" Mimi replied

"Prepare para perder 100 chica macho," Angel told her friend confidently.

"What where you two talking about," Collins questioned Angel a little worried to know the answer.

"Oh nothing, don't worry," She said kissing her soon to be husband on lips.

Spanish Translation: Apuéstele 100 dólares Roger y usted es comprometidos antes Maureen y Joanne hacen-Bet you 100 dollars Roger and you get engaged before Maureen and Joanne do

Su en-Your On

Prepare para perder 100 chica macho-Prepare to lose 100 buck chica

A/N: Well there you go really this is my first actual fan fic, I've written poems but not storys so I hope you enjoy this I have more chapters to it so don't worry this will not be a one shot.

-Roger and Mimi-