012. Silence.
"Avril?" His voice spoke again.
It broke through her shock, but she wants to wish it all away. She wants him to take back the words he just said.
"Avril!" His tone is more frustrated and he waves a hand in front of her face.
She sighs. "I don't want to answer your question." She mutters.
"Stop acting childish." He commands. "You may have loved Kujo, but he's picked someone else. And I'm in your life now. I thought we got along well. So tell me Avril, will you marry me?"
She winced as he repeated the question. She didn't want to contemplate it. Didn't want to think about being with someone else. Everyone was telling her, prodding her, that she needed to move on. "But isn't your first love the hardest to get over?" Avril blurts the words out without really meaning to, but once they've left her mouth she doesn't regret them. The question is honest.
He smiles gently. "Avril, look at me."
She realizes she hasn't been meeting his gaze for a while now. She steels herself for a moment before letting her eyes rest on his.
There is a bright twinkle in his gaze; his eyes have always been full of so much life. She wishes she could capture that sort of feeling in her own. "Don't let him into your thoughts. So you love him, hopefully loved, past tense, but now I'm here. Do you want to marry me? Do you think you could ever love me, like you loved him?"
Avril took a deep breath and thought about what the answer could be.