Note: Oh gosh, last chapter was a little difficult and almost completely off the storyline, but it'll lead into something, promise! The bit that I wanted is coming up!

BB woke in the morning as light flooded in through the car windows. He let out a soft yawn and smiled as L shuffled up a little to nuzzle against his shoulder sleepily. "Morning, beautiful," he whispered before slowly wrapping an arm around his uke's waist. The elder smiled in response and glanced up.
"Seems that we stayed out all night." Both laughed quietly until realisation dawned.

"We stayed out all night naked in the car and the neighbours could've seen and-" All seriousness dropped again as the laughing returned. "Lawlie, you're such a bad influence on me," the younger joked as he playfully punched his partner's shoulder.
"Well, I used to be sensible until I fell in love with you," L said matter-of-factly with the slightest of smirks.

"You clearly aren't now, though, our clothes are still soaked through and it's not really like we can walk back into the house with just towels on, right?" Beyond lifted the clothes up to prove the point. Lawliet sat thinking or a few seconds before wrapping one of the towels around his waist and opening the door.
"Two options. Either I go in and get some clothes for you or you follow me in with your towel." Without waiting for a response, he took the keys from the younger's jean pocket and clambered out of the car.

BB hesitated for a moment as he weighed up the options, then he grabbed the clothes up in one hand, wrapped the towel around him and used the other hand to handle the keys. In record time, he was up in their bedroom, but something seemed wrong. L was strangely quiet, even for him. "Are you okay, Lawlie?" he asked, slightly confused. Dark eyes met red ones for a short moment.
"I found a ring in your draw but since you took me, you haven't been out of the house."

The younger male felt his heart sink in his chest as he tried to think up an excuse. It would be stupid to say that he had bought the ring in advance in case his plan to take the elder had succeeded, which it had, even though it was the truth. L had seemed just a few days ago to have no feelings for him, but now he looked like his heart had been broken. Beyond quickly took his hand and pulled him to sit on the bed before taking a deep breath and searching for the words.

"It's really not what you think. I never wanted to get engaged to anyone else and no one ever proposed to me, I promise. What actually happened was A read my diary and found out about my crush on you, then started mocking me over it. I told him that I didn't want to be his friend anymore because it upset me how everything he said to me was about how I was his gay best friend and how you were most definitely straight.

"Then after you visited he told me that you told him that you were madly in love with me and were coming the next week just to see me, so I wasted no time in getting an engagement ring ready for when you came so we could move to America together and spend the rest of our lives with each other. When I got home, Roger told me that you had already moved to America and weren't coming back after A asked him to say instead of having to admit that he had said it as payback for not wanting to be his friend anymore. It killed me inside, but I kept the ring for a moment like this."

Lawliet blinked. He had never heard such a story before, but knew that every word would be true. "You were ready to make a committment that big when you were fifteen?"
"Only for you, I could never love anyone else as much as I loved you," Beyond whispered. His fingers slowly wrapped around L's thinner ones and squeezed them gently. The dark eyed male stared at the floor for a moment as the information went in before looking up.

"Wait, you said it's for 'a moment like this'... a moment like what?" BB sighed quietly at the oblivious nature of his partner as crawled off the side of the bed and kneeled next to the older male.
"Lawlie, my dearest love, will you marry me?"