Character: BONNIE, 28, overachiever, Type A, with a deep need for approval.
BONNIE: So, well, we didn’t have to walk that far and the view was just… unrelenting. I can’t even. It literally took my breath away, which, may have been the altitude. But. He got down on one knee with all these blossoms and flowers and the sun low in the sky behind him. All I could think about was, remember that bumper sticker Daddy had that said Spring Has Sprung, and it had that enormous flower jumping on a trampoline, like catapulting into the sky? Well that’s how Austin looked, just this burst of color, like exploding behind him, just like my heart was exploding into my throat and like, his words were so calm and quiet, “Will, you, marry, me?” But the colors behind him were just... so loud and so certain. Just like I felt. And I said, equally quietly, as clearly as the sun was bright, “Yes. Of course.” I mean, I almost just blurted “Duh, Austin, DUH!” But like, obviously not. Just the quietest, “Yes.” And that was it. It was done. I feel like one of those results of an anthropological study where it’s like I went out into the wilderness and I found the most capable man and I just... owned him. You know? So, anyway. That’s how it happened.
