❛❛𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂❞

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"DO YOU WANNA GET MARRIED?"
[AN EXTRA CHAPTER]
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☘︎ ݁˖Soshiro had a bucket list. You know-skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights, petting a capybara. Normal stuff. But number one on that list?

"Marry you."

And honestly, who could blame him? You two were that couple. The kind of couple that made others gag with jealousy. Childhood friends turned soulmates. People gave you two space, not out of kindness, but because being around that much love made them feel aggressively single.

Now, you were supposed to be studying in the library-supposed to. But Soshiro? He had the book open. He had the title memorized. He had not turned a single page. Because he wasn't reading the book.

He was reading you.

Leaning on his hand, head tilted, eyes sparkling like two overcaffeinated hearts. He looked like he'd just been hit with Cupid's arrow and also forgotten how gravity worked.

The librarian, poor woman, looked five seconds away from throwing the Oxford English Dictionary straight at his lovesick face.

Then it happened.

"Marry me."
He said it.

LOUDLY.

Like... "surround-sound-in-a-library" loudly.

Every single neck in that building snapped toward you like you'd just dropped a baby unicorn on the floor.

"What?" you blinked, because your brain short-circuited for a second.

Soshiro immediately turned red-like "tomato-on-a-skateboard-in-traffic" red-and realized what he just did. He covered his mouth, bowed his head, and whispered like a scared raccoon,
"Marry me?"

Your eyes lit up like the Fourth of July. You practically launched yourself at him.

"Yes! Yes, of course I'll marry you!"

Everyone in the library:
"SSSHHHHHH!"

You clapped a hand over your mouth.
"Oops-uh, yes... of course I'll marry you," you repeated in a whisper that could melt glaciers.

Then you paused.

You held out your hand.

"Where's the ring?"

Soshiro blinked. Froze.

He forgot the ring.

Of course he did.

He was so desperate to lock you down before someone else snatched you up in the library's "Romance" section that he forgot the key item.

You stared at him.

In a moment of sheer panic, Sohiro fashioned a wobbly paperclip ring, offering it with a sheepish grin. You, amused and touched, accepted it, playfully displaying the makeshift ring as if it were a priceless diamond. The library's collective groan turned into a chuckle, even softening the librarian's stern expression.

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