“W-wait… Sarah? There’s something I h-have to say, first.” He shifts his weight from leg to leg, nervous. It’s too cold in the room without her warm skin up against him.
She turned on her heels and smiled. “What is baby?” She had to admit to herself, she was scared on the inside. What if he wanted to break up?
“I, um.” Techie froze, staring wide-eyed at his feet helplessly, like a malfunctioning droid. But he had to do this, had to say this! Techie gathers all the scattered atoms of courage he holds in his twiggy body, just enough to say:
“S-Sarah? Will you, uh, m-marry me? I don’t h-have a ring- but! I c-can get one!”
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