Ten Minutes: Three Reasons
Flash Fiction 365 prompt: three reasons.
Daily Post prompt: Set a timer for ten minutes. Open a new post. Start the timer, and start writing. When the timer goes off, publish.
“Rachel, will you marry me?” Will said from the one knee he was leaning on.
“Why would I do that?” came the unexpected reply.
Will obviously hadn’t thought that far ahead. He should have. Rachel was a lawyer. This would have to be a negotiation.
Cary Grant in Arsenic And Old Lace.
Will stood up and began pacing like Cary Grant in Arsenic And Old Lace. “OK,” he said, “reason one.” Rachel sat down on the sofa. “Um,” Will was just full of pregnant pauses today. “OK, reason one. You love me.”
“Well, of course, I do, Will. Otherwise I wouldn’t have spent the latter half of my twenties with you. But is that a good enough reason? My parents loved each other, too. They divorced only three years later.”
“OK, Rachel, I still think it’s a valid reason though. People who love each other and spend seven years dating should get married. It’s what humans do. And for the record, I love you very much. Reason two. We would have beautiful children.”
“Yes, that’s true,” Rachel said, “But we haven’t decided to have children yet.”
“Well, it’s an important part of marriage. Reason three. Financially, emotionally, socially, culturally, educationally and in every other -ally way, we are a good match. We could each support the other if one of us lost our job. We believe in the same things. We have the same core values. Your parents didn’t. He wanted to be a rock star and she wanted a house in the suburbs and three kids.”
“Now you’re speaking some sense. That is an excellent point. Alright, Will, I will marry you if that’s what you really want, but don’t expect me to get all sentimental about it and I am certainly not planning a wedding.”
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Why does this feel like something that actually happened?
It may have happened to someone somewhere at some point in history, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s purely make-believe.
Lol. Okay.
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Since Rachel is a lawyer, it seems like she would be able to afford to hire one of those people that plan weddings for a living. Problem solved. Aside from some day of drama, my wife and I actually had a lot of fun planning our wedding – but, we were getting married at Mammoth so there wasn’t much not to like about it all. We “had” to make several trips up there to make sure we were getting it all planned out right.
You did that in 10 minutes! (bows down at feet)
Well, the writing took ten minutes, but it took a little longer to add the pictures and links.
Still, 10 minutes to a whole story. Start, middle, ending. Very well done. You blew this prompt out of the water.
Thanky kindly. I was rushing towards the end. :)
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I like it – to make the man the romantic, the woman the pragmatist – and their personalities are drawn pretty well considering the brevity. Good job Foggy :)
Thanks! Rachel is a little autobiographical. I’m not a lawyer though.
I guess it’s hard for a Goldfish to remember all that precedent!
“Financially, emotionally, socially, culturally, educationally and in every other -ally way, we are a good match.” Great argument there. A pragmatist definition of soul mate. Might have to steal this from you and use it on my wife. :)
Steal away, my friend. :)