"Well……" I said, still continuing on with our little game. Then, childishly, he started tickling me. I couldn't help laughing as I squirmed under his touch, wanting it to stop while at the same time never wanting it to end. Eventually, after a lot of "persuasion", I couldn't take it anymore. "Okay, okay," I laughed out, "you win!" He looked at me with a pleasure in his eyes that I knew was both because, he got me to relent, and because of what I was going to say. I looked into his eyes, and with so much surety that I knew no one would even think to doubt, "I love you more than anything in the world, Alexander Wallis."
His smile was so beautiful as I said that, that I couldn't help smiling too as I stared at him. Then he grabbed my left hand and slipped something onto my finger, and I looked down, confused.
I stared at my ring finger dumbly for a few heart beats before I slowly brought my gaze up to meet his.
His eyes were pleading, and I saw worry there, but not a trace of humor that I could find. "Exactly," He said. "So marry me."
I stared at him for another second, eyes wide, the biggest smile I've ever had forming on my face, before laughing and hurling my arms him with so much force that I pushed him off of me and on the ground so that we switched places, and I knew he was going to have bruises. And I was still laughing, collapsed on top of him, my face in his neck, leaving kisses there, and practically chocking him, never wanting to let go.
"So…" he said.
I laughed, pulling myself up to face him. Then I slapped his shoulder playfully. "Well, duh." I said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. And it was. "Of course I will, idiot!" We both laughed.
And then we heard a throat clear behind us.