"Oh god, what am I gonna do?" Isaac asked himself aloud as he dialed his boyfriend's correct number while walking to his room. "Hello? Jackson? Were you asleep?"

"Yeah, what time is it?" Jackson responded, tiredness in his voice.

"You know how I got a new cell phone today?" Isaac said worried as if Jackson would somehow find out what happened. "I didn't get to transfer the contacts list, so I didn't set up the speed dial, and-"

"What are you talking about?" Jackson said cutting off Isaac's ramblings.

Isaac inhaled deeply, nervous and unsure of what to say next "Listen, your last four digits are 7892." He said almost to reassure himself "It's nothing never mind, I got a new phone today and-"

"Isaac, I have to wake up early tomorrow. We'll see each other tomorrow night" Jackson responded interrupting him

"You remembered," Isaac said as he looked at the puppy calendar hanging on his wall, smiling at the 25th that read 4 Year Anniversary

"Wear something nice" Jackson input.

"Okay" Isaac said smiling with excitement.

"Don't be late" Jackson said cutting down a piece of Isaac's excitement.

"Yeah, goodnight" Isaac responded as he hung up the phone, slightly hurt from the comment.

Regardless he felt good; Isaac smiled once more, jumped onto his bed belly first and let out a sigh of delight. Then he recalled the events of earlier that night "Wait a minute, who was that freak?" he flipped though his phone just to glance at the number "What a creepy pervert." Closing his eyes, Isaac rolled himself into his sheets as if it would protect him from the past 15 minutes. When he opened his eyes he saw the Cosmopolitan magazine article on his nightstand 14 Sexy Phone Techniques and he sighed in defeat.

...

The next day Isaac went out to browse every underwear and lingerie aisle in the mall with his two best friends: Lydia and Danny

"What? You had phone sex with a stranger?" Danny asked astonished at the moral crime his friend had committed.

"It wasn't exactly phone sex," Isaac responded to reassure everyone, including himself "Because I didn't enjoy it, I mean I just dialed one wrong digit"

"And made one pervert very happy!" Lydia said with amusement as she flipped though the laced lingerie. "But there must be something wrong with having phone sex in the first place, or wanting to sell undies online"

"It's an online undergarment shop which I love running. You just watch, it's gonna be the next big Victoria's Secret for women and men" Isaac said to kill off any kind of doubt his friends may have in his yet to be bloomed company.

"So Jackson hasn't proposed yet?" Lydia said in an attempt to change the subject as fast as she could. "Oh, you poor thing" she said comforting Isaac after seeing the hurt look he wore from the question.

"He makes me so mad, I mean he made you quit your job" Danny said with concern "He should've married you a long time ago!"

"Jackson didn't make me quit" Isaac snapped back in defense of his boyfriend "And guys do you really think I, Isaac Lahey, would quit his job simply because of marriage?" Isaac said while changing his voice to sound reassuring to his friends.

"Yes," Danny and Lydia said simultaneously.

A sad air of defeat lingered over Isaac, because he knew his friends were kind of right. He pondered over the truth for a bit before Danny broke his train of thought.

"Are you really gonna get married to him? Don't do it!" he said in a motherly voice "If you get married the sex will die off!"

"Is that really something you should be telling your best friend?" Isaac asked hoping Lydia would input a disagreeing response for him.

"I'm telling you this as a true friend: The number of positions goes first, then the number of times you have sex is next." Danny said as if it was a fact. "And then goes the number of your heartbeats"

"Hey, that's a bit harsh. Just because we don't have sex much doesn't mean our love will die." Isaac announced in confidence.

"Sex is like communication: if there's no communication, there's no love." Lydia said wholeheartedly "If your nether regions get bored, your heart will too."

"I wasn't gonna tell you guys this, but today's our 4 year anniversary." Isaac said stopping the love lesson he had to endure. "He can't remember Christmas, let alone my birthday. But he made dinner reservations at a river deck restaurant for tonight," he said as he took pictures of underwear and lingerie for ideas on merchandise for his future store. "And do you know what that means?" he asked with a smile on his face.

"A proposal!" Danny yelled proud to have said the answer first.

...

Later that day Isaac went to the restaurant and met up with Jackson, who was already sitting waiting.

"Hey!" Isaac said smiling as he took his seat.

"Hey, babe I-"Jackson stopped, he pulled out his phone that was vibrating, "Hold up: work" Jackson answered the phone as he walked away to take the call outside.

"Oh, okay" Isaac replied. Left on the table was a small burgundy box, which most obviously held a ring. Isaac sat there smiling at the box, imagining what combination of metal and jewel sat behind the velvet exterior.

"Congratulations" the waitress said with a smile.

"Pardon?" Isaac responded, caught off guard.

The waitress looked at the box and raised her eyebrows at it. "Businessmen don't know much about romance" she said, "Cakes for birthdays and a ring for proposals. Aren't you tired of it?" She made direct eye contact with Isaac "For an occasion like this you need something special." As she continued she looked at the box "That ring is helplessly sitting at the table, it feels lonely" she proclaimed.

"It's because he's shy" Isaac said reassuring her of Jackson

"I might be out of line doing this but, I can help you," she said with a smile. She bent down and whispered into Isaac's ear an idea.

"Yeah, if you could do that I'd be so grateful!" Isaac said with glee

The waitress responded by raising her eyebrows at him.

"Ah, okay" Isaac said understanding her request. He handed the girl a discreet 20 dollars.

As they finished up their meal Isaac stared at the box that had yet to be opened. Jackson saw this and picked up the box and began moving it up and down, Isaac's head following like a puppet. Jackson put his head down in laughter at Isaac. In response, Isaac awkwardly laughed with him, and clinked his glass signaling to the waitress from earlier; then soft piano music began to play.

Recovering from his laughter Jackson looked up, presented the box to Isaac, and said confidently "Open it."

Isaac put his hand over Jackson's and said "Frankly, I'd be lying to you if I told you I wasn't upset at all. If you didn't do it today I was gonna get a little mad."

"Really? I hope you like it." Jackson remarked proudly "I was gonna get the expensive ones, but the big ones looked tacky."

"It's fine, I don't care about that kind of stuff" Isaac responded ecstatically "I'm not the extravagant type, no I'm not"

"Nope" Jackson said with agreement

"I'm just happy you put your heart into this precious…" Isaac said as he opened the box "earring." He finished while wearing a false smile.

"Congratulations!" the waitress announced as confetti shot out of the wrists of her long-sleeved shirt. She looked at the box that contained no ring. "Oh," she said as she began to place ten dollars back on the table.