Topanga stood against the door frame of her and Cory's bedroom staring in the halfway open door of Shawn's room at his back. Topanga shuddered at a sudden touch running up her arm.

Cory emerged from the bedroom wrapping his arms around her "What's the matter honey?"

"Shawn, Cory he's practically stopped living. He never goes out, he so damn pale, he looks like a walking corpse."

"Topanga we can't force him to go out, he's been like this ever since Angela stopped making any type of communication with him. Has she even come back yet?"

"I don't know, she hasn't contacted me."

"Well I wish she would, I swear that damn ring has been burning a hole in his pocket for over a year now. He's dying to see it on her finger."

"What ring?" her head snapped around and she said a little louder than she meant to.

Cory yanked Topanga back into their room as he saw Shawn's head turn and shut the door.

"Shhh the last thing he needs is people talking about him behind his back right in front of him"

Topanga just gave him a look that said 'that hardly made any sense'

"Anyway when Shawn told Angela to go to Europe with her father he only told her to go because she said she appreciated him letting her have this chance to spend with her father, he was going to ask her to stay and ask her to marry him. All he wants is for her to have everything and for her to be happy."

"Oh my God that is the sweetest thing I've ever heard."

Shawn shook out of his concentration he turned his head as he thought he heard talking behind him. He pushed it from his mind when heard the door shut, he figured Cory and Topanga were doing something nasty. Sure enough when he turned around the door across the hall that usually stayed open all day was shut tight. A faint smile danced across his lips he always dreamed he and Angela could do a little something nasty too. But the farthest they ever got was a few hot and heavy make out sessions. Since the senior prom they have talked about having sex but Angela was a little nervous about the whole thing, so they both agreed to wait. Rubbing a knot out of his neck he flopped on to his bed, he reached into his pocket, pulled out a small black velvet box and just held it in the palm of his hand.

"She'll say yes you know"

Shawn's eyes turned up towards the door, "I didn't even hear you come in."

"Yeah well it's a lot easier when you're alone"

"What makes you so sure she'll even come back? I mean she hasn't yet; she hasn't even called in over a year. She probably found some rich European hunk and fell in love with him. She doesn't love me any more; I mean what's to love about me? I'm just some poor kid from a trailer park, with a dead, dead beat father, a mother who I don't where she is and another who pretended to be my mother for the first sixteen years of my life. What could I possibly have to offer Angela?"

"Man don't put yourself down like that, you have a lot to offer her"

"Like what Eric?"

"Well you love her for her and not her body; you said you two haven't had sex yet right?"

"Yeah so what?"

"Think about it Shawn, you respect her feelings, you would do anything for her, you love her, you want her to be safe, you let her go to Europe and be away from you for over a year while you stay here and mope, you'd do anything to make her happy, if you could I swear you would give her the world on a silver platter."

"Yeah I would"

"Come on Hunter you've come a long way from that poor little kid from the trailer park. You made through college, you own your own house; granted you own it with three other people but you still own it none the less, you make a good living for yourself. You've made a great life for yourself, you did it Hunter, and you proved yourself to be a man. A good, kind, caring, supportive, loving man; there is no way Angela would ever say no to that."

"You think?"

"I know, now let me see that ring you've been hiding in your pocket"

Shawn handed Eric the black velvet box, Eric flipped it open "Wow, that's beautiful… silver?"

"White gold, with an inset caret and a half square cut diamond. I bought it a few months after she left."

"She's gonna love it"

"Yeah well she can't love it if she's not here" Shawn said while walking into the hallway. "Shawn" Eric followed, just then the door across the hall open and Cory and Topanga saw Shawn looking even worse than normal if that's even possible.

"Look I'm gonna take a walk." Shawn announced while shoving the ring back in his pocket.

"Cory" Topanga spoke nervously.

"I know he's going outside… voluntarily" Cory responded with his famous facial shock.