Chapter 9: The Proposal

Vinny is making dinner when Elliot walks in.

"What's going on?" Vinny asked him.

"Sarah's still mad at me that's what's going on." Elliot told him.

"You're going to pout because Sarah's still mad at you?" Vinny then asked him.

"I wasn't pouting." Elliot said to him.

"It sounds like pouting to me." Vinny then told him.

"Whatever." Elliot replied.

Vinny looks at Elliot who seems to be depressed.

"Lorraine tells me that you were going to give Sarah an engagement ring." Vinny told him.

"I was but, now I don't what I'm going to do." Elliot stated.

"If you want to propose to her you should." Vinny then told him.

"How did you propose to Lorraine?" Elliot asked him.

"I waited until she asked 'When are you going to propose to me?'. I had the ring ready and BAM did right there at our favorite restaurant in Manhatten." Vinny explained.

"Was she suprised?" Elliot then asked him.

"Totally caught off guard." Vinny smiled.

"I can't do that with Sarah. She'll think I was waiting for her to ask me." Elliot then explained.

"What's your point?" Vinny then shrugged.

"It will feel like I planned it." Elliot told him.

"You did plan it." Vinny then told him.

"I just don't know." Elliot said to him.

"Have I ever gave you bad advice?" Vinny asked him.

"Are you kidding me?" Elliot then asked him.

"Don't answer that." Vinny told him.

"It would take me a few years to answer that question." Elliot laughed.

At Sarah's house.

"How did Vinny propose to you?" Sarah asked Lorraine.

"That came out of nowhere." Lorraine told her.

"Just tell me how Vinny proposed to you." Sarah said again.

"He waited until I asked him 'When are you are going to propose to me?'. He had the ring there and asked me to marry him." Lorraine explained.

"Were you suprised?" Sarah asked her.

"No. I knew he had the ring. I saw it in his pocket when he got up to go the bathroom." Lorraine told her.

"Elliot would never do anything like that. He would want it to be all romantic like and I hate that kind of thing." Sarah explained.

"He'll propose to you when he's ready." Lorraine told her.

"When will that be?" Sarah asked her.

"Soon. I told Vinny he had the engagement ring." Lorraine told her.

"Oh God. He's never going to propose now that Vinny's involved." Sarah said as she placed her head on the table.

"Vinny won't screw this up. If he does he knows I'll kill him." Lorraine reassured her.

"How does he know that?" Sarah then asked her.

"I told him 'If you screw this up, I'll kill you.' " Lorraine told her.

"If he screws this up, I'll kill him." Sarah said to her.

"Not if I get to him first." Lorraine smiled.

Back at Vinny's house.

"I want it to be romantic." Elliot told him.

Vinny starts to laugh.

"What?" Elliot asked him.

"Sarah doesn't like all that romantic crap." Vinny told him.

"How do you know?" Elliot then asked him.

"Lorraine told me." Vinny said to him.

"She told you to ask me when I'm going to ask Sarah to marry me didn't she?" Elliot then asked him.

"It told you long enough to figure that one out." Vinny laughed.

"Now, I don't know if I want to ask her." Elliot replied.

"You have to or Lorraine will kill me." Vinny told him.

"No, she won't." Elliot told him.

"She even told me 'If you screw this up, I'll kill you.' " Vinny told him.

"It's been nice knowing you." Elliot said as he walked out the back door.

"Fuck, I'm going to get blamed for this somehow." Vinny said to himself as he continued to make dinner.

Elliot walks into Sarah's house.

"Don't you knock?" Sarah asked him.

"You never knock before you walk into Vinny's house." Elliot told her.

"That's different he's family." Sarah explained.

Elliot gets on one knee.

"Oh God." Sarah said to him.

"What's wrong?" Elliot then asked her.

"I think her water just broke." Lorraine told him.

They get Sarah to the hospital. Lorraine calls Vinny from the hospital.