Taco Bell High School: A Short Story

I’m parked in the Taco Bell parking lot. I’m about to make a greatly significant decision. My girlfriend is inside, and it’s just around the time for her lunch break. I took the key out of my ignition and walked in, preparing for the trouble I was about to get myself into. I walked just outside of the car and admired it’s redesign for a moment. Just then, Carly, my girlfriend, peeks out of the door. “Jennifer! Come on, I have something to show you.” I nodded my head and quickly made my way inside. She was standing just by the door when I walked in. “Hi. What was it that you wanted to show me?” She grabbed my hands with a worried look on her face. All of her co-workers were lined up by the front counter. ‘Oh dear god, I’m really letting
this happen.’ I thought. She shouted something to a guy with a nametag that said ‘Justin,’ who pressed a button on a his phone before the song Love At First Sight by the Brobecks, a song I recognized immediately, quietly plays from his phone. I stopped paying attention to what was going on in that moment because I knew what was happening next. “I want you to spend the rest of my life with me. So, riddle me this, Jennifer Grove.” She bent down on one knee. This is it. “Will you marry me?” It was so quiet, you could cut the silence in the room with a knife. Everyone there was staring directly the petrified expression on my face. After what felt like hours, I had enough courage to break the news. “No.”