"I can't believe you're married, dude," I told Nate just before he got into his SUV. "You're officially old now."

"I'm 23!" he replied, mock-defensively. "And I'm younger than you, grandpa!"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," I smirked. "Have fun."

"Oh, I plan to, don't worry," he grinned.

I headed back into the house as he and Caitlyn drove to the airport to leave for their honeymoon. They were going to Paris for a couple of weeks. I was still in my tuxedo from the wedding – Lexi and I had come back to help the happy couple finish loading their luggage into the car. But mostly, I think we just wanted to have some time alone. The past few days had been so crazy with all of the wedding stuff and bachelor/bachelorette parties, we'd barely seen each other.

I walked up the stairs and into my room. I mean, our room – she'd moved into my room, Caitlyn had moved into Nate's, and they used Lexi's old room as basically a huge closet for the ridiculous amount of clothes and shoes they had. Lexi was fiddling with the strap on her high heels. She looked incredible in her bridesmaid's dress. I don't even remember much of the ceremony – I was too busy looking at her. I know they say the bride is supposed to be the most beautiful woman at the wedding, but…

"Hey, sweetie," she smiled at me, finally getting her heels off.

"Hey," I replied.

Lexi stood up and walked over to the dresser and started taking off her jewelry. I put my hands in my pockets and touched the small, velvet box I'd been carrying around for days. I didn't know when, or how, I was going to do it. I'd talked to Jason about it, but he told me not to say anything to Nate until after the wedding – he said that would be 'stealing their thunder'. But I did ask Nate how he knew when it was the right moment to ask. He said that you just know. I didn't really know what the hell that meant, but I took his word for it. And now that he and Caitlyn were officially gone, I could ask whenever I 'knew' without being a thunder-stealer.

Before Lexi and I started dating, I didn't think I'd ever be the kind of guy who would get married. But I knew now. I'd known since the day I kissed her that I wanted to marry her. And now, after we'd been together for three years, I definitely knew.

"Didn't Caitlyn look beautiful in that dress?" she asked, setting one of her earrings on the top of the dresser.

"Not as beautiful as you would look in it," I replied.

"Well, I don't know about that…"

OH MY GOD, THIS WAS THE MOMENT. Nate was right, I totally knew. I was freaking out. How the hell do you do this? I had been thinking of things to say since I bought the ring, but I couldn't remember any of them.

"I guess there's only one way to find out."

"What do you mean?" she asked, her back still towards me.

I got down on one knee and pulled the box out of my pocket. I felt like I was going to have a heart attack. That would be embarrassing.

"Shane…?" she started when I didn't answer.

She turned around and looked around the room for me before she realized that I was kneeling in front of her. Her eyes widened and she silently looked between me and the ring.

"Marry me," I said simply. She just kept staring at me, and that freaked me out even more. I started rambling. If my fans met me in real life, they would never believe that I really wrote all of our songs. I was so bad with words when it actually came to moments like this. "I don't have a big romantic speech to give you. I don't know what else to say. I just know that I love you more than anything, Lexi, and I want to be with you…I want to make you happy for…forever, and I think I could…I know I could…if you'll let me, and…marry me, baby."

"Oh my God," she said quietly.

I waited for a moment to see if she was going to say anything else. She didn't. "Is that 'oh my God yes' or 'oh my God no'?"

Lexi laughed. "Oh my God YES!"

I slid the ring on her finger and jumped to my feet to kiss her. She said yes. SHE SAID YES. I'm not sure why I was so surprised. I had thought she would say yes, I think. It didn't matter, really, because she said yes. She wanted to marry me.

"Do you remember when my mom always used to tease us about how we were going to get married someday?" I asked her.

She grinned. "Yes…what was it you always said? 'Eww, no way! Why would I marry her?!'"

"Yeah, well, I was young and stupid," I smiled and kissed her again. "And I didn't realize how completely in love with you I already was."

"And when we were in middle school and I made you promise that if neither of us were married by the time we were 25, we would get married?" she reminded me. "25 used to seem so old."

"Well, sorry, but I plan on being married by the time I'm 25," I smirked.

Lexi grinned and kissed me sweetly. "She's a lucky girl."

A/N: The end! I have another fic that's pretty much done, but I don't know if I want to post it or not. I started writing a Nate + Mitchie fic because I think the reason not a lot of people read my stories is that they have original characters But I have the first couple of chapters partly written…I'm going out of town this weekend so I'll work on them a little and probably start posting it on Sunday? I think it will probably be called "Bad Girl" but I haven't totally decided. Thanks for reading!