[ "It's... it can be a wedding dance. For the new king and queen."
"You did dance it perfectly. I'm sure you'd do amazing."
Is this practice, for the real thing? She's trying to curb her hopes, but he's making it so very difficult. It's easier to settle back on old insecurities that such traditions are not meant for the likes of her, or that she isn't worth a place formally at his side. What exactly would change if they were engaged and married? They would still be themselves, they would spend time with each other no more or less than they do already.
(She would get to call him husband.)
But these insecurities are always trumped by what she does have, and that is a life currently spent with him in the present, together. That's enough. That's more than enough.
And so she relaxes her anxieties as she looks up at him, swaying against his form as they continue a idle, slow dance. Wistfully, ]
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"You did dance it perfectly. I'm sure you'd do amazing."
Is this practice, for the real thing? She's trying to curb her hopes, but he's making it so very difficult. It's easier to settle back on old insecurities that such traditions are not meant for the likes of her, or that she isn't worth a place formally at his side. What exactly would change if they were engaged and married? They would still be themselves, they would spend time with each other no more or less than they do already.
(She would get to call him husband.)
But these insecurities are always trumped by what she does have, and that is a life currently spent with him in the present, together. That's enough. That's more than enough.
And so she relaxes her anxieties as she looks up at him, swaying against his form as they continue a idle, slow dance. Wistfully, ]
Is this your way of proposing to me?