Will You Marry Me?

It was a temperate autumn afternoon. The girl sat beside the Mr. McDonald's sculpture whose smiling was weird. The sausage McMuffin with egg on her left hand has become stale and cold after being ignored for already a half an hour. Her eyes stared at the old-fashioned, small mobile phone on her right hand. No New Message. No Call. Her long, brunet hair fluttered and twisted in the breeze.

The boy was entering the restaurant when she started biting her burger.

"Sweetie," he whistled, "sorry to be late. Shouldn't we go to Outback to have lunch? Today I have got a new client. A valued one. If I do well, I may get a promotion and higher salary next year. So we are closer to our dream wedding..."

The girl looked up and stopped him from talking, "Go and buy your lunch first."

The boy sat down with his Big N'Tasty, large fried and Coke-cola. "Remind me to buy a cup of Salted Caramel Mocha Frappuccino from Starbucks later. It is the autumn special beverage." He started devouring the fried. "Do you want some coke? You like it most don't you? Why did you buy a burger only?" He pushed forward his cup of coke to her. She shook her head, "I can't have cold drink." "Okay."

She looked at him who sat in front of her and ate with relish. Her mind went muddled and her eyes became blurred. It scared him. "Oh honey, what's happened? About work? Or your mom vents her temper to you unreasonably again?"

"It's you."
"Me? What have I done......you mean being late? Dear, you should have understood me more! I did apologize, right?"
"It's not the first time."
"You were late sometimes didn't you? I am working hard for our future!"
"I save all the money and you spend all of them on luxury and never necessities."
"I just want little compensation to my hard working and busy life!"

The air between them condensed. The trees on the road sides stopped swaying. She drooped her head. Her eyes and cheeks were fully red as she was controlling her emotion and tears.

"Will you marry me?" She asked.
"...we have not enough money. You know well." He was confused.
"Then when?"
"It is not the right time...I swear, I swear that I will marry you in a couple of years."
"He can't wait."
"Who can't wait......what's happened, Chloe?"

The girl looked up with her blurred eyes and red nose. Her hands were put on her slightly bulged abdomen tenderly.

He realized all the matters eventually, "Oh!"