Mei and Yuzu had gotten married a little over 4 years ago during the winter. The proposal happened mid fall, in which time Yuzu had just finished her training and received her license from the beauty school she had been attending. As a present Mei had decided to take her out to a fancy dinner and surprise her afterward with the big question.
The proposal itself was nothing fancy or elegant and didn't involve Mei down on one knee either. But it was sincere and Yuzu knew it. For Mei to be the one to take the action to engage upon proposing was breathtaking for the blonde, especially since she had been proposing marriage to Mei since before they graduated high school to which the dark haired girls response was always the same, "not yet."
The location of the proposal also didn't mean much. It was just a random sidewalk that they took from the restaurant they were just at, to Mei's late grandfather's house which had become their home the past 2 years living together. Mei had stopped along the way which, in turn got Yuzu to stop and turn towards her, "are you ok? why'd you stop?"
"When?"
"Huh? When? When what?" asked the blonde, confused as to why Mei seemed a little anxious.
"When do you want to get married?" she asked, moving closer to Yuzu's face and smiling at seeing the complete shock across it. "I would ask 'do you want to get married to me?' but that's a pointless question. I mean, unless you've changed your mind I'm pretty sure I know its a yes from you. And it's always been a yes from me when you've ask it was just bad timing soooo-" she looked for any sign of change of expression on Yuzu's face "you pick the date and lets do it."
Yuzu began to show tears on the side of each of her eyes with Mei wiped away with her thumbs as she held Yuzu's face gently in her hands. "Happy tears I hope?" Mei asked receiving a nod and a smile from the blonde. "Good" she responded back with a sigh of relief.
"Mei, why do you think the timing is right now?"
"Oh, I don't really" she replied in a 'matter of fact' tone while lowering her hands from Yuzu's warm face. "I'm still finishing the university and until then I don't really have any way to give you anything. Well," she paused trying to think of the right words before continuing, "well nothing new or extra at least from what you know now. And before you cut me off on that, I know you don't care about things like 'oh she provides for me' but I do. You make me the happiest person in the world, as cliché as that is to say right now."
"So why ask now then?" Yuzu questioned, really confused. "If you care so much about your financial stability" whispering 'even though your rich regardless' under her breath, "why do you want me to pick the date out now then? You're right, nothing has changed in the sense of what you can or can't 'provide for me' now as opposed to what you might be able to later, so I'm a little lost. Help me out here."
Mei looked away towards the street, gathering her thoughts as she starred at nothing in particular. "I guess its just because I want to be your wife." She turned back towards Yuzu who had the shocked expression again on her face and the smile on Mei's face returned again. "I can't explain it. I just do. Seeing you get your license today at that small ceremony, I was just overwhelmed with this feeling of wanting to shout out like 'wooo! there goes my wife!' type of thing, and I kind of caught myself. I don't know, maybe we just been living together so long now that your personality is starting to rub off on me and I'm catching cases of Yuzu moments."
Yuzu threw herself up on her toes and placed her lips on her girlfriends for a strong kiss. "I love you" she whispered after, smiling strong which just sent chills through Mei. For that moment it was only them. No traffic lights in the background. No random strangers walking around the two in the middle of the sidewalk. It was them, with a light cold breeze, surrounded with some dead leaves on the ground. And that was all that mattered in those seconds to Mei before Yuzu broke the silence.
"Come on let's go home. Your nose is getting red, and last thing you need is a cold." She wrapped her arm around Mei's arm and began walking towards the house. "Oh and don't think I didn't catch the little hint of romance you did here. Proposing on the sidewalk we used to walk to school in. Super cute hehe."
"Uh yea!" Mei said looking forward shocked, scared, surprised and expressionless all at the same time due to her not having made that connection at all. When she snapped out of it she noticed how happy Yuzu was, so who was she to ruin the fun. She unintentionally did something right, so why ruin the moment. "I knew you would piece it together."