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“He can’t go with me because he has a game,” he corrected.
“Then why did you hide it from me or ask me to invite him tonight?”
“I didn’t know what you were organizing,” he admitted. “Putting whether or not I would have invited him aside, there was no way I could have guessed it would be all of this. It was pretty mind-blowing.”
Hearing Lou’s words sent a warm feeling dancing through me. I liked knowing I had made him happy.
“Now about that other thing. There could be some debate about whether getting engaged was a mistake. No decision is perfect. But it wasn’t like I was batting off better offers.”
“Maybe if you had waited a second before answering, you would have gotten one,” I told him remembering how I watched him say yes with a bouquet of roses in my hand.
“Would I have? From who?” Lou asked staring into my eyes wanting me to say it.
As much as I wanted to and as sure as I was about him, there was no way I wanted the day I declared my love for him to be the day of his grandmother’s memorial. Besides, I was exhausted! I had been working non-stop on this from the moment he told me he wanted a game night. I could barely stand up I was so tired.
I wanted what I hoped to be the first day of our lives together to be more than just the aftermath of his grief. And I wanted to be emotionally present for it. I wanted the date to be as special for me as I hoped it would be for him.
“That’s what I thought,” he said after the silence drew out.
He didn’t say it in an angry way, though. It wasn’t even sadness. It was more resignation and acceptance. I didn’t want Lou to think those things about the way I felt about him.
“You know I’m gonna be the best fake fiancé you’ll ever have, right? I’m gonna ruin you for all your future fake fiancés.”
Lou laughed, so at least there was that. But as I thought further, something came to mind.
“If your parents have already met Seymour, how are you gonna pass me off as your fiancé? He and I look nothing alike.”
“First of all, you do. That was one of the first things I noticed about him.”
“That he looked like me?”
Lou tightened his lips innocently as he looked up into my eyes.
“Wow!” I said never expecting Lou to admit to such a thing. Because, yeah, to be honest, it was hard to miss the resemblance between the two of us.
“But secondly, and more importantly, my parents never looked at him. They looked down the entire time like they were embarrassed to be a part of it. I could bring home Quin and they wouldn’t know the difference.”
“So, I take it that Quin is busy this weekend?”
“Well, I’m asking you. So, obviously.”
I laughed. I didn’t know whether he was joking. I never knew if he was joking when he talked about crushing on Quin. But it wasn’t like he was a threat.
“Obviously,” I agreed. “I would expect nothing less.”
“Nothing less,” Lou echoed before we both cracked up.
“So you think passing me off as your fiancé will work, huh?”
“After tonight, there’s clearly no one who knows me better.”
“That is true. So, does that mean we’ll be sharing a bed?”
“Don’t you get any ideas, mister,” he teased. “I’m a good boy,” he said pulling his body close to mine.
“I wouldn’t dream of it,” I told him imagining stripping him naked and pressing his thighs against his chest.
“Oh!” Lou said suddenly pulling away.
