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No flipping way. “That’s crazy. This is all so crazy.”
A strange sound came from inside his suit jacket. Miso popped her head out from the neck hole. He must have had her in a sling on his back.
I laughed.
“I want all of the crazy days, for the rest of my life, to be with you,” Oscar said. “The money doesn’t matter to me. I’ll give it away. I’m working on fixing everything, cleaning house at Carrington Media. Your friends’ dreams, your dreams, I’m making it all right. When that’s done, I can sell the company and we can live in a shoebox for all I care, so long as I have you.”
“You can’t sell your father’s company,” I said. “You shouldn’t.”
He shrugged. “It’s not what matters to me. You are.”
He’d sell his father’s company, which meant everything to him, for me. I didn’t want that.
“Keep it,” I said.
His expression dropped, clearly not understanding my meaning.
“I love you, and I’ll marry you. But don’t throw away what matters to you. We’ll figure it out together.”
“You’re what matters to me.”
Layana threw her hands in the air. “She said yes!”
Everyone cheered.
Surrounded by the people who meant the most to us, I kissed the man I loved, the man I was going to marry, the man who I couldn’t wait to make a lifetime’s worth of crazy memories with.
EPILOGUE
MORGAN
Five months later…
Layana snatched my right hand from my lap and crushed it in her enthusiastic death grip. I squeezed her right back, equally as hard. Just past her sat Glitter, Chester, and my dad all in the same row. To my left was Oscar, who gently circled his thumb over my bare knee, and beside him, his mom.
Everyone’s attention was on the stage as the curtain fell and the crowd cheered.
The two lead performers stepped forward and bowed to massive applause. We popped up to our feet, clapping.
Dad craned his neck to see me past my friends. He loudly asked, “It’s the crown, right?”
Chester nodded and said something to Dad I couldn’t hear.
Yes. It was the crown, or more accurately, the headpiece.Ihad made the bow bandana for the lead of the offbeat holiday performanceDawn of the Nutcrackerat the friggingResplendent Theatre!
I still couldn’t believe this was happening. Sure, a mashup ofThe NutcrackerandDawn of the Deadwasn’t the biggest show. The Nutcracker Prince and Clara fight off legions of undead toys with sugarplum grenades and candy cane katanas. But this was only the beginning.
“You did great,” Oscar whispered in my ear.
As we exited the theater, my friends congratulated me and insisted on going out for drinks at Pour Decisions. My dad and Oscar’s mom didn’t join, but I was so glad they could make it, especially with my dad driving all the way out from Cricket Falls for the show.
We walked together as a group to the bar, just like we used to do when we were still filmingWhat the What?
I curled into Oscar’s side.
“How is the living arrangement going?” Oscar asked Layana.
“Not nearly as exciting as it was when I was rooming with your fiancée.” She cast me a teasing grin.
