Challenge - "Hey...Will you marry me?"

"Hey...Will you marry me?"

Chris Kirkpatrick looked up at his boyfriend of two years Joey Fatone.

"Gee hun...That really swept me off my feet. Could you been more romantic?" Chris asked, rolling his eyes.

"Hey...I'm serious. Will you?"

Chris looked at his boyfriend. He did love Joey, but that's not what you say to someone you want to marry.

"What...With the great line of 'Hey..Will you marry me?'"

"Well...yeah."

Chirs rolled his eyes and went back to his designs.

That made Joey mad.

"Hey! I just asked you to marry me. You could at least give me an answer."

"That's all your gonna tell me...'Hey...Will you marry me?' Thanks for showing me how much you love me Joey."

Chris got up and started to walk to their room.

"What's that supost to mean?"

Chris looked up at Joey with sad brown eyes. With a shake of his head he went to their room.

Joey sat on the couch and reached for his cell-phone.

" I need to talk to someone."

He dialed Lance.

"Hello?"

"Hey Lance. It's Joey."

"Joey! How'd it go?"

"Well..."

"What did you do?"

"Me? HE'S the one that told me no."

"Did he?"

"Well...not in so many words. But I got the impression."

"Well...What did you say?"

"Hey...Will you marry me?"

"Oh god Joey...no wonder he didn't say yes."

"Hey! I ment it!"

"Did you?"

"Well...It's not what I wanted to say...That just came out."

"Oh Joey..."

"What do I do? How do I fix this?"

"Tell him what you wanted to say. Tell Chris how much you love him and how much he means to you."

"Thanks Lance. I'll wait until the morning."

"Tell him now Joey...or you might loose him."

With that, Lance hung up the phone.

Joey went to his and Chris's room and opened the door. Chris was lying on th bed.

"Chris? Honey...are you awake?"

Chris didn't answer and Joey began to cry.

He sat down on the bed, hoping his crying didn't wake up Chris.

"He hates me...oh god I've lost him."

"Joey?"

Joey quickly wiped his eyes.

"Yeah Chris."

"Were you crying?"

"Yes."

Chris wrapped one arm around Joey's waiste and put his chin on Joey's neck.

"Why?"

"I thought I lost you."

"Why?"

"Because of what I said."

Chris was silent for a few minutes and that caused Joey to tense up. But Chris leaned down and kissed Joey's neck.

"Say it again."

"What?"

"Asked me what you asked me downstairs again. Exactly how you asked me before."

Joey looked at Chris for a few minutes before he spoke again.

"Hey...Will you marry me?"

Chris tilted Joey's mouth towards his and kissed him.

"Yes."

"Yes?"

"Yes. I will marry you Joey. I love you."

Joey's face broke out in a huge grin before he grabbed Chris and kissed him again.

"I thought you told me that was a bad proposal."

"Baby...Any proposal from you is the best one."

Joey smiled and kissed his fiancee again.

What Joey thought was the worst thing he had ever said turned out to be the best. And he wouldn't want to change a single word of it.

* The End *