"Oh, I certainly don't mind," Liliana said. "I don't think anyone else has asked, actually."
Perhaps they'd asked Ignis? Certainly not her.
"He proposed to me; left to my own devices, we would have gone on as we are now for the rest of eternity." Because, yeah. Marriage mean remarkably little to her. "It turns out that he'd bought the ring last August and had then spent the last year psyching himself out of asking me."
Which...honestly probably hadn't been the worst thing.
"Then on the rude day when the baggage rained down, one of his bags simply said 'Marriage,' which I assumed meant he had baggage around the entire concept. Which...then had me thinking about how I felt about that, and how it wasn't the immediate relief I might have assumed otherwise."
Especially since she had grossly misinterpreted where such baggage could have come from, but who needed to get into all of that? Not Liliana, that was for certain.
"For him, however, it was the galvanizing impetus he needed, especially upon following it up with a weekend apart. So Monday afternoon, he inveigled me to run away with him to our home in Argentina for a few days. Wednesday evening, he brought me outside, we danced together under the stars, and then he surprised me by asking if I would marry him." She smiled a bit, mostly because if she let herself smile fully, it would become something truly ridiculous. "Three times, in total."
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Perhaps they'd asked Ignis? Certainly not her.
"He proposed to me; left to my own devices, we would have gone on as we are now for the rest of eternity." Because, yeah. Marriage mean remarkably little to her. "It turns out that he'd bought the ring last August and had then spent the last year psyching himself out of asking me."
Which...honestly probably hadn't been the worst thing.
"Then on the rude day when the baggage rained down, one of his bags simply said 'Marriage,' which I assumed meant he had baggage around the entire concept. Which...then had me thinking about how I felt about that, and how it wasn't the immediate relief I might have assumed otherwise."
Especially since she had grossly misinterpreted where such baggage could have come from, but who needed to get into all of that? Not Liliana, that was for certain.
"For him, however, it was the galvanizing impetus he needed, especially upon following it up with a weekend apart. So Monday afternoon, he inveigled me to run away with him to our home in Argentina for a few days. Wednesday evening, he brought me outside, we danced together under the stars, and then he surprised me by asking if I would marry him." She smiled a bit, mostly because if she let herself smile fully, it would become something truly ridiculous. "Three times, in total."