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DYLAN POV
Mom comes down the stairs quickly with what looks like leggings and disappears back into the guest restroom. The whole living room is deadly silent, as I debate back and forth.
Yes, if I propose it should take her mind off of this......but it could also be another embarrassing moment. Or I would be making a day she wants to forget, very important. I focus my mind on opening and shutting the box holding her engagement ring, over and over again.
"What's the new plan," Mr. Evans whispers as he sits down next to me.
I don't know when he came back inside. I suppose I was too engrossed in my own mind to notice, when he did.
"I don't know sir " I mumble while not looking up at him.
He clasps my wide shoulder in his hand and sighs.
"I know this isn't what you had planned. And you are worried about how she will be feeling when she comes out of that restroom, so let me g
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