Re: Addi and Phillip - post-party For months. Addi's face paled at that. They'd only been together for four months! That bit about his personal deadline brought the color back to her cheeks, and she narrowed her eyes at him, her ire rising when he stated that she knew all of that. "No, Phillip, I did not know. I had no idea you felt ready to propose to me or that your plans got delayed when we found out I was pregnant." Yes, he'd implied to her he was ready for them to move in together, but that didn't equate marriage in her mind. "And for god's sake, proposing shouldn't be on a schedule anyway! There shouldn't have been a deadline! It should have been when our relationship reached the point where we both were ready for that step."
She was trying her hardest not to yell or cry, though it was getting harder every moment. "We said I love you six weeks into things--that's not... we still had, have, so much to learn about each other! And I'm not going to get married because I should get married, because it's the proper or orderly thing to do. I do love you, Phillip, but right now I feel like you don't care one whit about my thoughts and feelings in this relationship." She deflated then, on the verge of losing the battle with her tears, and closed her eyes against them.