Fluff. Don't you just love it?
"Amy, love, I really need to speak to you!"
"Not now Ian! The train leaves in five minutes!" Amy said, jogging across the train station with her boyfriend behind her.
The ground was littered with garbage and graffiti covered the walls. Ian was most certainly not in his element.
"Look, Amy, can't you just leave tomorrow? I got dinner reservations at that new restaurant in town, and the meeting doesn't really start until tomorrow night!" Ian pleaded; pushing passed the crowd of bystanders to keep up with his girlfriend.
Amy turned around and started walking backwards as she faced him. "Ian, I can't! The train leaves in," she checked her watch. "Four minutes and twenty four seconds."
She turned around, shoving her way through the crowd with a couple of suitcases dragging behind her.
"Amy! I have to tell you something!" Ian said stubbornly, reflecting on how this was not the way he wanted to break the news to her.
"Just text me!" she said happily, craning her neck out over the rails to look for to oncoming train.
"Please! Just go tomorrow!"
Amy glanced impatiently down at her watch. "You have three minutes. Shoot."
Ian panicked. "Look, it really isn't the kind of thing that can just be said randomly, anywhere! Come back to the apartment and I'll tell you!"
"Ian, if you can't say it here, why say it anywhere?" she asked, rolling her eyes.
Suddenly, there was a loud long horn as the train pulled into the station. Amy whipped the ticket out of her pocket and kissed Ian once on the cheek.
"I'll call as soon as I get there!" she promised.
Ian fumbled with the zipper on his coat pocket, thinking about how this was not the right place or time for this. But he really couldn't wait any longer.
"Amy!" he yelled as she walked to the doors of the train.
"Oh, God, Ian! What!" she asked.
He took a deep breath and looked around. The sun was setting, but that was the only nice thing about the scenery. Bottles of beer and soda littered the floor, along with hundreds of wrappers, chewed gum, and other random pieces of trash.
Wincing, he knelt to the ground and pulled a small black box from his pocket.
Amy's eyes widened and Ian said, "Love, this isn't the time or place I wanted to tell you this, but I love you more than anything in the world, and I want to be with you forever. And I needed to tell you now, before you left for God-knows-how-long for some place the Madrigals are meeting. Amy Cahill, I may act like a stuck up jerk sometimes, but when I'm around you, I'm just myself. And that's one of the many reasons that I love you!"
Ian was rambling now as he spoke, but he went on. "And really, I just needed to ask," he took a deep breath. "Amy Hope Cahill, will you marry me?"
Amy's eyes looked like owl eyes now, and she barely noticed as the train started to pull out of the station. Slowly, with his breath held, Ian stood up and opened the box, revealing a sparkling diamond ring inlaid with jade stones on the edges.
She threw her arms around him and yelled, "Of course I will you idiot!"
A couple of bystanders had overheard their conversation and cheered as Amy kissed him on the lips and said, "Screw the meeting. The Madrigals will have another."
Ian nodded and put the ring on her. "I love you," he told her, giving her a big hug.
"I love you too," she said.
The walls were painted with graffiti, and the train was pulling out sending plumes of smoke into the air, and the shadows were throwing shapes around the platform littered in trash. But Amy still thought that it was the best proposal ever.
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~Dani (Aka amianfan102)