Prompt 15 - Propose
@wolfstarmicrofic February 15, word count 527
Sirius checked and rechecked everything. He called the waiter over, and he reassured Sirius that he had it in hand. Sirius took a breath and threw his glass of whisky down his throat as he waited for Remus to arrive.
The dinner went perfectly. Sirius was dressed in his favourite blue shirt, and Remus was in his favourite wool jumper, much to Sirius’s dismay. This was a nice place; he was honestly shocked they’d let him in.
It was time for pudding, and Sirius knew exactly what Remus would pick.
“I’ll have the chocolate cake, please,” Remus said to the waiter. The waiter winked at Sirius as he went to put their orders in. Sirius had to restrain himself from rolling his eyes. Their puddings came out, and Sirius poked at his cheesecake as he watched with bated breath as Remus began digging into his chocolate cake.
He was about halfway through the frankly enormous piece of cake when he coughed a bit and clutched his throat before swallowing hard. “Sorry, big chunk of chocolate in that bite.” Remus told him as he took another bite of his cake. Sirius winced and let out a defeated sigh. “Something wrong?” Remus looked up, worry creasing his face.
“Little bit. Erm, darling, was that previous bite a bit hard to chew?”
“Yeah, nearly broke a tooth on it,” Sirius’s head fell into his hands. “Sirius, what’s going on?” Remus asked, shaking Sirius’s hands, trying to pull them away from his face. Sirius took a deep breath, in through his mouth, out through his nose.
“That er, chocolate chunk was the engagement ring I had put in your chocolate cake. I was going to propose,” Remus dropped his fork and then burst into laughter. “Yeah, alright, worst place ever to put a ring. I should have known your hunger for all things chocolate would make this a disaster.” He waved the waiter over to get the check.
“And how did everything go this evening, gentlemen?” The waiter asked, his excitement barely contained.
“He swallowed it. Could we have the check, please? We have another date with A&E.” The smile dropped from the waiter's face, and he scurried off to get their bill.
“The answer is yes, by the way,” Remus said as he finished his last bite of cake. “Yes, I will marry you.” They looked at each other and burst into fits of laughter again. They were still laughing as they entered the hospital to hopefully get Remus’s ring back out of his stomach. If not, Sirius was already thinking about replacements.
He took Remus’s hand when his name was called and sat beside him while the doctor asked them how he could help today.
“Well,” He started. “My fiancé here accidentally swallowed his engagement ring, and we were hoping you could get it back for us.” They all had a good laugh about it, and a little while later, Sirius and Remus were walking out of the hospital. Remus had his engagement ring on, and now they had the best engagement story out of all of their friends. It couldn’t have gone any better in Sirius’s opinion.
