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Pam sat giddily in her lawn chair, watching as the fireworks that Jim paid for went off in the night sky.

Jim was going to propose any minute now.

Any minute now, he was going to turn to her and say those four magical words she'd been waiting to hear ever since he said that he was going to kick her ass.

Maybe he'd say her name first. Make it seven words instead of four and add a few more seconds to their moment. Just a bit more of this night for her to remember.

And as Darryl's band played the last strains of The Temptations' "Just My Imagination," Jim started shifting in his seat and his fingers began to play nervously across her thigh. She turned away from the fireworks to see Jim smiling widely at her.

She smiled back.

Is this it?

And as Jim took a deep breath, his own smile got wider in a game of smile-one-upmanship.

Yeah. This is it.

Andy's voice cut through electricity around them however dragging their attention to him, as he spoke into the microphone, "Can I have your attention please? I was waiting for the right time to do this…"

Pam could only watch as Andy spoke-even introducing his parents to the group-and destroyed expensive equipment as he proposed to Angela.

Hearing Angela say "Okay," Pam turned her head to look at Jim, to get confirmation that this was indeed happening. That Angela had actually agreed to marry Andy.

But Jim wasn't looking at the (somewhat) happily engaged couple. He was looking down, disappointment clearly written across his face.

Eyes narrowing in curiosity, Pam followed his gaze to where his left hand lay on his lap, and what she saw made her breath hitch.

A black velvet box.

A box that could only hold one thing.

A box that-Jim was slowly moving towards his pocket.

Eyes widening in shock at what Jim was doing, Pam squeezed (more like pinched) the inside of his elbow to make him look at her.

Their eyes met and Pam shook her head with a stern look on her face.

Oh no, you don't. I saw the box.

Caught, Jim had no choice but to bring his hand back up to show Pam what he had been about to hide. Her gaze flicked from the box back up to Jim's face, where his eyebrows were furrowed and he was biting his bottom lip. His sad eyes moved quickly from Angela and Andy and back to her.

I hoped that that would be us right now.

Pam reached across to place her right hand on top of Jim's and used her left to cup his cheek. Her smile was reassuring and encouraging.

Ask me.

Now? Here?

She nodded once.

Yes.

Feeling better now, Jim smiled once again and opened the box with trembling hands to reveal a beautiful oval-cut diamond engagement ring of white gold. But Pam's gaze was firm on Jim's face as his expression turned slightly nervous.

Will you marry me?

Pam was nodding so hard that she was like one of Dwight's bobblehead dolls.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Both of their hands shook as the ring was placed on her finger. And when it was, Pam wasted no time in throwing herself across the arm of her lawn chair to wrap her arms tightly around Jim's neck; mostly out of emotion, but also because she was afraid her chair would slip from under her and that she would end up on the asphalt.

Pam felt Jim grasp the metal tubing of her chair and pull on it to bring her closer to him and to make it much more stable before putting his arms around her once again.

Their faces inched closer together, and their lips met so that they could share their first kiss as an engaged couple.

I love you.

I love you too.

It seemed as if everyone was still too preoccupied with Angela and Andy to bother them about their PDA, but neither of them cared too much. Let someone else receive all the inappropriate comments and unwanted attention of Dunder-Mifflin Scranton for once.

This was their moment and no one else's.

They laced their fingers together, exchanging furtive smiles at the new sensation of the ring on Pam's finger, and turned to watch along with everyone else as Kelly tried to convince Angela that she would make the perfect bridesmaid.