Once Brennan dropped the question, I looked up from the delicious green gloop and spoke "What have you two been up to?"

None of them looked in a rush to reply.

"Let me guess." I tapped my chin and lore tended to think "It is Brennan so no doubt he took you to get a candy apple to reminisce on how you two met."

"You know me so well, Little Ella." Brennan replied, "That was my plan after we left here."

Lana had not spoken since we first arrived.

The place we sat together was where Lana and Brennan met back when it was all rainbows and butterflies. What was left was an awkward silence.

The pier and the ice cream place were also where I met him.

Things had changed from back then, but they had also stayed the same. Everything had been heightened since then.

When I peered at him now, I realised that the feeling I had when I looked at him was the same feeling that I had the night of our meeting and every time with him since. It was just a lot more obvious.

I guess it took me a while to address the big elephant in the room or more appropriately the big Lurch in the room.

I had meant every word when I told him that I had liked him from the start. What I lied about was how much.

Eating the remaining spoonful of ice cream and staring at him, I was not paying attention to anything else.

That is why Lana felt the need to kick me under the table to gain it.

I jolted in my seat and looked to her, telepathically asking What is it?

She communicated back We need to talk.

I nodded my head at her in understanding before we both got up from the booth.

Stone's gaze remained on me the same as it was a minute ago but one of his dark eyebrows had raised.

Brennan's expression was similar, but he voiced what he was thinking "Where are you going?"

The person who he wanted to answer did not and that left me to quickly think on my feet.

I ended up blurting out "We are away to powder our nose."

"Powder your nose?" Stone chuckled at my pathetic excuse of an excuse "Are you also away to travel back to the nineteenth century?"

I rolled my eyes "Would you rather I say I was away to urinate?"

Lana and I scurried away from the boys to the bathroom. As soon as the door to the bathroom closed, she looked around for a sign of anyone else being there. She confirmed that there was nobody in the cubicles before she let out a small breath.

"What is going on, Lana?" I asked while putting a hand on her arm to stop her from pacing.

She closed her eyes for a few seconds and then told me "I don't know. I am confused."

"About Brennan?"