"What?" I asked. I didn't just hear him say…

"I said, 'will you marry me?'"

I did…

Whoa.

"Yeah." I said breathlessly.

The crowd around us erupted with laughter, applause, and approval.

Fang smiled and dipped me. He leaned in and we kissed.

About a minute later, we broke apart.

"So…where's my ring?" I asked with a smirk. He shrugged and reached into his pocket.

"Here." He opened the box to reveal a beautiful silver ring with a quarter carat diamond.

It was in a word, beautiful.

"Wow." I said breathlessly. "Thank you." I said and hugged Fang.

Everyone erupted again.

Later that night, Fang escorted me home, which means that he really just drove in front of me and scared everyone else off the road.

Everything ran through head from the last couple hours. But I especially replayed Fang's proposal.

His timing was perfect. Like he had known I was going to catch it. Like he had spent forever planning how he was going to ask me.

We pulled into my driveway.

Fang walked over to my car as I got out. "You're beautiful, you know that?"

"Really. Why else would you propose?" I grabbed his hands. He made like he was thinking.

"Because you're awesome. Because you're Max. Because I've known you most of your life and I bet I could tell you things you don't know about yourself." He squeezed my hand and looked straight into my eyes. "Because I love you."

Fang being sweet. Fang being romantic. Fang expressing emotion.

"You've opened up a lot since we were fifteen." I said with a smirk. This was a lot nicer than my dreams about him.

"I had to. Eight years ago, you and I couldn't get past a whole date."

I laughed. The whole Hawaii incident. "I guess you could say that."

He smiled and glanced at his watch. His face darkened. "It's about eleven." He said. "I better get going."

"You could sleep over." I offered. "I have a guest room. It's got an inflatable mattress."

He laughed and shrugged. "Sounds great."

The next morning, Fang woke me up. "I got doughnuts." He said.

I perked right up. Breakfast in bed! And it's doughnuts! Who wouldn't wake up?

He handed me my favorite kind of doughnut, a chocolate Boston cream.

Mmm. "Thanks. You really didn't have to get me anything though."

He shook his head. "It's a thank you for last night."

I squinted at him. "You stayed in the guest room right?"

He chuckled. "Yeah. You won't need Midol."

"Good." I said sighing. I finished off the doughnut. "That was good." I plopped back down onto my pillow.

"So…" Fang trailed off. "How does it feel to be engaged?"

I thought for a moment. "Exactly like being in a dream."

He nodded. "Same here."

I crawled out of bed, around Fang's butt. I grabbed some random clothes out of my dresser and ran to the bathroom. I changed quickly and ran back into my room.

"So what are we doing today?" I asked. He shrugged and laid down on my bed.

"I guess it's kind of up in the air. We don't have to do anything Nudge's wedding because it already happened. We don't have an annual coming up. I don't have to go to work until four…We could go out?"

I sucked in a breath. "Our first date as a real couple?" He nodded, his head sinking into the comforter.

"Or, we could just go out for lunch." He glanced at the clock. It read eleven o'clock. Technically the flock's third breakfast.

"Lunch." I agreed. "You want to go to the lake? Afterward?"

He moved his gaze from the ceiling to me. "Sure. But you might want to put more than that on…"

I looked down. I was wearing a tank top and a really short pair of cutoffs. I noticed the huge stain on the tank. "I should, shouldn't I?"

I dug through my dresser and found an acceptable t-shirt. I turned around and changed.

"Okay, let's go!"

We settled for fast food. A lot of it. Through drive through. Less questions that way.

Fang then drove us over to the beach. It was beautiful out. Sunny, warm and breezy. We set up a picnic on top of a hill with a view of Lake Michigan.

All of my other dreams couldn't hold a candle to this; eating triple bacon cheeseburgers and sucking down large shakes with Fang.

If my dreams were perfect, this was heaven.

"Max, where to after this?"

I wiped the burger grease off my chin before answering. I had no clue.

"Swimming?"

"It's April. We'll freeze." Fang looked out at the water. "Yeah, there's no way I'm getting in there. Gills or not."

"Okay." Hmm. "How about we go for a flight?" He looked up at the clear sky.

"That sounds okay."

We finished up our burgers and shakes and disposed of the wrappers and cups. Then we went for a fly.

It had been so long since I'd really been on a joy flight. Even longer since I'd been on a joy flight with Fang.

This was seriously a perfect day. We spread our wings and just circled around for about an hour. His wings still shone blue-purple in the sun. It reminded me of when we did the air shows.

"Want to dance?" I asked Fang, hovering a little closer to him.

"What?" He half yelled. Oh, didn't hear me.

"Wanna dance?" I asked a little louder. He nodded.

"Sure."

So we spun, twirled, pirouetted (really funny to see Fang do that, let me tell you. But, he was really good at it), dived, and showed off; own mini air show.

"Where'd you learn to pirouette like that?" I yelled over the wind. He chuckled.

"My adoptive sister. She's a ballerina. Needed a dummy to help her practice."

"And you were her dummy." I laughed. "At least you can show off your mad skills."

He sighed. "Yeah, go ahead. Make fun of your fiancé who was nice enough to help out his sister with her ballet."

"It was sweet." I said between laughs, "But, I could never imagine you really ballet dancing."

"At least I'm not a fridge." That sounded familiar. Oh. When he was fighting Ari; "You. Are. A. Fridge. With. Wings. We're. Freaking. Ballet. Dancers." Right.

I giggled. I heard Fang sigh again. "Max, Max, Max."
"Yes?" Fang sighed.

This was too easy. Fang was too easily annoyed.

"Why do you—" everything got dimmer.

I looked up and saw a huge front of clouds come in. A storm.

"Lightning?" I asked. There was a flash in response.

"Yep." Fang said and pulled his wings in tight. He dropped like a stone.

I dropped down too. It was very dangerous to be flying in a storm. Granted it was better if you were hit by lightning, you wouldn't be grounded, but still wasn't good to fly in.

When we had reached Fang's truck and hopped in, it started to pour. And I mean pour. Flash flood conditions; everything soaked within a minute.

"Well. That was unexpected." He said simply.

I tossed him my trademarked duh, where were you look.

He totally ignored it in his trademarked I can't see you, you're not insulting me way. I bet he doesn't even realize he does that.

"Anyway. You enjoy our first date as an engaged couple?" He asked and brushed a loose strand of hair behind my ear.

"Yeah. We should do that more often."

There was a flash of lightning. Fang lifted up my chin so he could kiss me. We leaned in—and a rumble of thunder made us jump apart.

We tried again. Same result.

Fang sat back in his seat. "Too many years of paranoia. Otherwise I might be able to kiss you."

"I think that someone up there, probably Aphrodite, is screwing with us."

"Aphrodite?"

"Goddess of love."

Fang nodded. "Probably. Hopefully she gives us a break though." He leaned in one more time. "Because I like to do this."

We kissed and broke apart right before the thunder could startle us apart again.

I laughed. "Take that, Aphrodite."

There was a bright flash and a huge rumble of thunder.

Fang and I laughed. He started up the truck and we started to drive through the downpour to home.

Me: Wasn't that cute?

Fang: I miss Max.

Iggy: And I miss making my bombs.

Alex: Can we leave now?

Me: You all are such whiners. In a week maybe.

Alex, Iggy, and Fang: Finally!

Me: If you do that again though, it will be another three weeks.

Them: :P

Me: -sigh- Boys.

On a different note. Sorry about not updating in forever. I was planning on doing it this Friday, but I had my Graduation Dance. Then I had to go to Six Flags Great America for a competition, and then I was sick on Sunday. And Monday. And today…

Alex: And you made us wait on you.

Me: I couldn't walk. Sorry.

Alex: :P

R&R please? I'll respond to non-anonymous ones. And post all anonymous answers here. :)