𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 | redlyn oneshots

it's gonna be a night to remember

Big Red and Ashlyn aren't as developed in their relationship as the others in their friend group, and they're okay with that. They just like to take it slow and easy. After two years pass by, Ashlyn decides to break the standards and try proposing to Red. However, with the theater kids, nothing ever goes as planned.

After high school summer, we all went our separate ways, but still had time for each other. There were FaceTime calls every week, and we texted each other nearly 1,000,000,000,000 times a week.

Nini and Ricky wedded in June and decided to go to Stanford together. Her old fancy school in Denver went out of business, due to some heavy winter storm. Seb and Carlos received a scholarship to Julliard, and so did EJ. I guess he's just third-wheeling them, but I'm happy that at least ONE of the 18 colleges accepted him. Gina enrolled in the Atlanta Dance Academy because she had to move there with her mom next, and the people were impressed with her skills. Kourtney got a job as an intern for one of her mom's cousins in Broadway, so she'll probably be seeing Seblos and EJ soon.

That leaves Red and me. We're just staying in Salt Lake, running the pizza place, and going to the performing arts community college. We're the two that didn't get accepted for anything, so we're chillaxing here.

I've been thinking about proposing. I mean, of course, Ricky and Nini were the first, they won "High School Sweethearts Most Likely To Marry Right After High School" last year. Cassie Wilson is very repetitive.

I know that Seb and Carlos have also been planning to since I remember a private call with both of them last week, one-on-one. Carlos had said that he's already gotten a ring from his aunt's jewelry shop in Southampton, and Seb had to borrow some money from his sister. However, neither of them know that the other is planning to propose. Red bet me $20 that they'd do it while serenading their significant other with a song from Hamilton. He's likely going to win this.

Step 1 has been completed: I'm proposing to him with a bag of pizza bagels.

Step 2: Try finding a nice place. I'm going with the pizza place, because that's literally the only place in Salt Lake that's in my budget. I told all the other theater kids of the EHS gang, and even told Red's parents, mine, and Howie. I'll likely have to tape his mouth the day I'm carrying out my plan.

Step 3: Come up with a convincing lie. Red is extremely gullible, as I've heard from Ricky. When he was in fourth grade, he tried to pick up a ten-dollar bill that was hanging by a string, and then a can of purple paint fell over his head. It was an April Fools' Prank, but he looked like a grape bomb for a whole week.

I needed to make this a night to remember. So, I decided the best time to do it would be summer. In the theater kids' lives, nothing is more important than their family and friends.

Everyone agreed to come back to help me set up. A week earlier, planes came in from California, Georgia, and New York. I embraced everyone tightly, and we all spent time just crying over how much we didn't get to see each other in person for the past year.

I needed a good distraction, so I enlisted the help of Howie to lead Red to a graveyard. It was planned to be an "educational outing" about the history of the existentiality of ghosts.

Everyone helped me set up the restaurant. So, when Red comes back, the whole place will be dark. Then, everyone will jump out from behind the couch and yell, "SURPRISE!" After that, the place will go dark once more, and when they turn back on, I'll be there on one knee, probably singing "Wondering."

When Red and Howie came back, the plan went perfectly. After I proposed, he kissed me and we shared the pizza bagels with everyone else. It was all good--until I felt something cold hit my hair. I turned around and saw Ricky and EJ with two tubs of ice cream that clearly read "EXPIRED" on the front.

"What? You had too many expired ice creams sitting in the freezer, and we decided to put it to good use," Ricky and EJ shrugged. "Besides, what's the point of a proposal if there isn't a food fight?"

I smirked and took another expired tub from the freezer. "You're on!"

Soon, the whole gang had joined in the food fight. Even Red's parents joined in! Soon, the whole place was covered in globs of ice cream, and everyone was completely coated in ice cream, whether it be chocolate, strawberry, or mint chocolate chip.

"This proposal was...not what I planned," I blushed, turning to Big Red.

"Are you kidding? I got to throw food without landing in detention!" he exclaimed. "Who's up for another round? This time, I've got expired tomato sauce!"

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-V