It was supposed to be a perfect Friday night. A guy I had been seeing for a few weeks asked me out to the movies \u2014 casual, simple, sweet. He went to get the tickets while I stood in line for snacks. When I asked the girl at the counter for some candy, she handed me a large tub of popcorn instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before I could say anything, she leaned in slightly and whispered, \u201cCareful.\u201d I frowned, confused, but she gave me a quick look that made me pause. I took the popcorn and met him inside the theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we sat down and the lights dimmed, I reached into the tub. My hand brushed against something cold and metallic. I froze. Pulling my hand out slowly, I realized what it was \u2014 a ring box.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My heart raced. I turned toward him, and there he was \u2014 already on one knee, with the biggest grin on his face. The girl at the counter was in on it all along. The whisper, the look, the strange switch \u2014 it was part of his plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I never expected a movie date to turn into our love story\u2019s opening scene.<\/em> And yes, I said yes<\/strong> \u2014 right there between the previews and the popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was supposed to be a perfect Friday night. A guy I had been seeing for a few weeks asked me out to the movies \u2014 casual,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}