Cassie was completely and totally oblivious to everything really. Sure he had said something about a surprise, but honestly she'd kind of forgotten about it, at least when she was at work and had things to do. No one told her that Harrison had come in, she was busy talking to some customer, and giving them their medicine when she heard his voice.
"Harri?" she blinked a little, looking confused. He was there at her work? "A bad time? No.. I mean I don't think so.. have a good afternoon Miss Reynolds.." she told the woman who had been in her line. "Come in.. don't just stand in the door way," she teased. "Is everything okay?" because really, she didn't know why he'd be there unless there was something wrong.
Harrison's hands were now shaking. Neil told him that nervousness was normal because it was 'a big step'. Boy, did he believe him now. He smiled at Miss Reynolds and gave her a polite nod in greeting. "Hello there." Stepping out of the doorway, he brought his uke in front of him and placed a finger to his lips so Cassie's coworkers and customers would remain calm. He didn't want anything to spoil this moment.
"Everything's fine, sweetheart," he said sweetly, doing a good job of keeping his voice steady and unsuspicious. "Don't worry..." He started softly strumming his ukulele and slowly walked toward the counter. "I told you I had a surprise. Are you ready for the surprise? You already look surprised." He smiled.
Everyone was being eerily quiet, which was a little disturbing. Was he doing something that she didn't know about? It was entirely possible, she supposed. She looked a a little relieved that nothing was wrong of course. "Okay.." she gave a little laugh.
When he started to play, she looked even more surprised and confused. "Yeah.. I'm.. ready for my surprise?" she couldn't help but giggle a bit, already blushing just a bit. "I am surprised.. at least I'm guessing that's you playing right?" he was getting closer to her, which made her smile.
Gazing at Cassie, Harri continued to smile. He cleared his throat softly and began playing a pretty tune on his ukulele. Although his voice was always pretty, it had never sounded quite as angelic as it did now:
"She works so hard making people feel good. She fills the prescriptions like she knows she should. Every second she’s away, she knows she’s missed. She’s my sweet Cassiopeia, Cassie the pharmacist..."
As he sang, he looked around at everyone smiling at them and his confidence grew. He continued to slowly approach Cassie, smiling as he sang. "Well, I don’t know about this fancy stuff. I don’t know which prescriptions are enough. She’s been my only drug since the first time we kissed. She’s my sweet Cassiopeia, Cassie the pharmacist..."
He stood right in front of the counter and his voice rose a bit in a rock star like chorus. "My sweet Cassiopeia! Organization is a great skill. My Cassiopeia, will you care for me when I’m ill?"
The tune slowed a bit and his amber eyes gazed intensely at Cassie as his song came to its conclusion. "Now we come to the point of this silly song. I didn’t really expect it would be this long. It’s time for me to get down on my knee…"
He slowly knelt onto one knee as he softly strummed, the tears welling up in his shining eyes. His voice was both heartfelt and earnest. "Cassie, my darling, will you marry me?"
Her blush only increased as he started to sing for her, the song was making her giggle and blush a bit because it was so cute and sweet and perfect. And she was sure that everyone was staring at her and her boyfriend, but she really didn't care. In fact all she could really focus on was him, and everyone else was pretty much forgotten.
When he sang about getting down on his knee, she heard his voice move and then get lower, as if he was actually getting down onto his knee. That's where his voice was coming from anyways. She stared at him a little in surprise, and there were definitely tears in her eyes when he asked her to marry him.
She almost wanted to make sure that he was actually singing to her, but well of course he was. Her name was in the song. And she didn't want to say something really stupid, but it seemed like if she was going to open her mouth, she'd say something silly, or perhaps just blubber. So finally she just nodded her head a little.
Then she took a deep breath and willed herself to actually speak, "You really wanna.. marry me? Oh Harri.." she reached forward to touch him, or where she thought he was supposed to be. "Of course I'll marry you.. yes.. yes please..." ah well, so maybe not totally dumb.
Harrison smiled up at Cassie and sniffled softly, taking her hand. He set the uke on the floor beside him and reached into his pocket, pulling out a little red ring box. "Of course I really want to marry you." He kissed her hand and opened the box. Her response made him giggle softly and the happy tears started to fall.
"I know that we've really only been together for three months, but sometimes you just know. I knew from our first lunch together that we had something special. You knew it too." He chuckled. "Zeus even knew it. And I know I'm not perfect... I'm far from perfect. But I promise to protect you and make you happy. As close as possible to the happy that you make me feel."
He pulled the sparkling blue Cassiopeia topaz ring out of the box and gently slid it onto her left-hand ring finger. "This is a special ring," he explained. "It's a Cassiopeia topaz ring. And, not only that, but I bought it in England, where Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice and Wonderland..."
He figured that this bit might confuse the onlookers, but he hoped Cassie would understand the sentiment. Standing back up, he wrapped his arms around Cassie and kissed her. He smiled and cupped his hands around her cheeks. "I love you, Cassandra," he said softly, before kissing her again.
Letting him have her hand, she felt herself start to cry too, unable to help it. But she didn't make any move to wipe them up either, at least not yet. "Oh Harri.. it's so.. really? That's.. amazing.. and I'm sure it's perfect and beautiful.." she swallowed the lump down in her throat.
"I love you too Harrison.." she was blushing so bad, but in a very good way. She felt his arms around her, and immediately put her arms up around his neck and kissed him soundly. Wow, she so hadn't been expecting this as her surprise, and she was all but speechless really. "I love you so much.." she really did.
She giggled and kept kissing his face, happier then she'd felt ever in her whole life. And her mother was going to be ecstatic. "Oh my god I'm getting married.." she giggled. And then everyone she worked with started to clap and cheer.
"Almost as perfect and beautiful as you. Almost." He cuddled her in his arms, crying softly into her hair. He couldn't help it. "I'm so glad you said 'yes'. Thank you for saying 'yes'." A sob escaped him. "I love you more than anything."
Continuing to hold her, he rubbed her back and kissed her happily, unable to stop smiling and crying. "I'm getting married too!" he giggled back, rocking her in his arms a bit. He took her in his arms and gently lifted her, spinning her around and bringing her in for another kiss.
"I'll let you get back to work now," he said sweetly. "I'll be at home waiting for you...Future Mrs. Tweed." He kissed her again.
Cassie was definitely not going to let go until she had to, and she wasn't quite sure she wanted him to go. She laughed when she was picked up and spun around, kissing him back eagerly. Everyone seemed so happy for them, it was great.
"You think I can just concentrate on the rest of my day now?" she teased. "I guess I'll have to try. Maybe I can leave early.. I'll see you soon.." she kept kissing him over and over again and finally let him go. "I'll see you when I get home, Mr. Tweed." she giggled. Mrs Tweed, oh yeah that was funny.
Harrison giggled. "Yeah, I kind of cheated. I took the day off. I didn't think anyone wanted Nigel the explorer singing The Happy Song of Happiness at Jekyll & Hyde. It's not very scary."
He kissed her over and over eagerly. "Don't worry about leaving too early. No rush." He winked at her coworkers. "I'll make you dinner. Anything you'd like."
He picked up his ukulele and wrapped his arm around Cassie's waist for one more kiss. "Okay, leaving here is difficult," he said, chuckling. "I'll see you at home!" Strumming his ukulele once more, he left the pharmacy to the applause of Cassie's coworkers and customers, singing "Cassie, Cassio, Cassiopeia, Cassie the pharmacist..."
She giggled a bit, "You're probably right. I'll see if I can't come home soon okay? Because I totally don't think i'm going to be any good to anyone at the moment.." because she was so not going to be able to concentrate.
"Actually Cassie," her boss spoke up from the back, "If you want to go home now, be my guest.. you deserve it.." he told her.
"Really? Thank you.. that's very nice of you.. thank you sir.." she went and tried to catch Harri before he left, "Harri! Harri wait.." she called, trying to grab up her stuff and hope he had heard her.
Harrison smiled. He should've known that Cassie wouldn't be able to concentrate for the rest of the day. That was the only thing he hadn't really planned. He'd planned the song and dinner and the flailing outside the pharmacy after she said 'yes', if she said 'yes', but he hadn't planned this.
He was in still in mid-song when he heard Cassie call him. "Ca- Yes?" he asked, reappearing in the doorway with a big grin on his face.
"I can go home!" she announced happily as he came back inside, "Hold on one second!" and then she gathered up the rest of her things and then went over to go find him at the door. "Hi." she greeted, grinning from ear to ear.
"He told me I can go home.. so do you want to take me home?" she asked happily.
Harri leaned diagonally in the doorway, strumming his uke some more. "She's getting her stuff," he sang hilariously, making a funny face as he grinned. "She's collecting her things while her fiance sings... She's getting her stuff...Ba ba ba bo..." He did his Bing Crosby impression for effect.
He was so silly.
When Cassie came back over, he stood up straight and laughed. "Oh, I suppose I could take you home. Would you like me to carry anything?" he asked, taking her hand.
"Well considering your home is my home now, I suppose it's just as easy, though I was going to walk home of course.." she giggled at him. He was silly, but that's why she loved him. "I've got it all, thank you though.." she really just had her bag and that was it.
She put her hand in his and gave a wave to everyone else and headed out of the pharmacy with him. "That was.. so.. amazing and I .. I don't even know what to say Harri.. I'm so.. I'm speechless.. you know the kind of speechless that comes with words."
"I walked here," Harri giggled. "I was too nervous to drive. My hands were shaking." He accidentally struck one of the strings on his uke. "Oop, I guess they still are a bit." He giggled again. Giggling was a sign of Harri happiness.
He waved to everyone as well and shouted a "See you again!" over his shoulder as they left. He beamed at Cassie as they strolled together. "Speechless with words. Yeah, I think I know what you mean. You liked it, then?" He gently stroked her ring on her finger, feeling so proud and overjoyed.
Cassie was completely and totally oblivious to everything really. Sure he had said something about a surprise, but honestly she'd kind of forgotten about it, at least when she was at work and had things to do. No one told her that Harrison had come in, she was busy talking to some customer, and giving them their medicine when she heard his voice.
"Harri?" she blinked a little, looking confused. He was there at her work? "A bad time? No.. I mean I don't think so.. have a good afternoon Miss Reynolds.." she told the woman who had been in her line. "Come in.. don't just stand in the door way," she teased. "Is everything okay?" because really, she didn't know why he'd be there unless there was something wrong.
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Harrison's hands were now shaking. Neil told him that nervousness was normal because it was 'a big step'. Boy, did he believe him now. He smiled at Miss Reynolds and gave her a polite nod in greeting. "Hello there." Stepping out of the doorway, he brought his uke in front of him and placed a finger to his lips so Cassie's coworkers and customers would remain calm. He didn't want anything to spoil this moment.
"Everything's fine, sweetheart," he said sweetly, doing a good job of keeping his voice steady and unsuspicious. "Don't worry..." He started softly strumming his ukulele and slowly walked toward the counter. "I told you I had a surprise. Are you ready for the surprise? You already look surprised." He smiled.
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Everyone was being eerily quiet, which was a little disturbing. Was he doing something that she didn't know about? It was entirely possible, she supposed. She looked a a little relieved that nothing was wrong of course. "Okay.." she gave a little laugh.
When he started to play, she looked even more surprised and confused. "Yeah.. I'm.. ready for my surprise?" she couldn't help but giggle a bit, already blushing just a bit. "I am surprised.. at least I'm guessing that's you playing right?" he was getting closer to her, which made her smile.
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Gazing at Cassie, Harri continued to smile. He cleared his throat softly and began playing a pretty tune on his ukulele. Although his voice was always pretty, it had never sounded quite as angelic as it did now:
"She works so hard making people feel good. She fills the prescriptions like she knows she should. Every second she’s away, she knows she’s missed. She’s my sweet Cassiopeia, Cassie the pharmacist..."
As he sang, he looked around at everyone smiling at them and his confidence grew. He continued to slowly approach Cassie, smiling as he sang. "Well, I don’t know about this fancy stuff. I don’t know which prescriptions are enough. She’s been my only drug since the first time we kissed. She’s my sweet Cassiopeia, Cassie the pharmacist..."
He stood right in front of the counter and his voice rose a bit in a rock star like chorus. "My sweet Cassiopeia! Organization is a great skill. My Cassiopeia, will you care for me when I’m ill?"
The tune slowed a bit and his amber eyes gazed intensely at Cassie as his song came to its conclusion. "Now we come to the point of this silly song. I didn’t really expect it would be this long. It’s time for me to get down on my knee…"
He slowly knelt onto one knee as he softly strummed, the tears welling up in his shining eyes. His voice was both heartfelt and earnest. "Cassie, my darling, will you marry me?"
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Her blush only increased as he started to sing for her, the song was making her giggle and blush a bit because it was so cute and sweet and perfect. And she was sure that everyone was staring at her and her boyfriend, but she really didn't care. In fact all she could really focus on was him, and everyone else was pretty much forgotten.
When he sang about getting down on his knee, she heard his voice move and then get lower, as if he was actually getting down onto his knee. That's where his voice was coming from anyways. She stared at him a little in surprise, and there were definitely tears in her eyes when he asked her to marry him.
She almost wanted to make sure that he was actually singing to her, but well of course he was. Her name was in the song. And she didn't want to say something really stupid, but it seemed like if she was going to open her mouth, she'd say something silly, or perhaps just blubber. So finally she just nodded her head a little.
Then she took a deep breath and willed herself to actually speak, "You really wanna.. marry me? Oh Harri.." she reached forward to touch him, or where she thought he was supposed to be. "Of course I'll marry you.. yes.. yes please..." ah well, so maybe not totally dumb.
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Harrison smiled up at Cassie and sniffled softly, taking her hand. He set the uke on the floor beside him and reached into his pocket, pulling out a little red ring box. "Of course I really want to marry you." He kissed her hand and opened the box. Her response made him giggle softly and the happy tears started to fall.
"I know that we've really only been together for three months, but sometimes you just know. I knew from our first lunch together that we had something special. You knew it too." He chuckled. "Zeus even knew it. And I know I'm not perfect... I'm far from perfect. But I promise to protect you and make you happy. As close as possible to the happy that you make me feel."
He pulled the sparkling blue Cassiopeia topaz ring out of the box and gently slid it onto her left-hand ring finger. "This is a special ring," he explained. "It's a Cassiopeia topaz ring. And, not only that, but I bought it in England, where Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice and Wonderland..."
He figured that this bit might confuse the onlookers, but he hoped Cassie would understand the sentiment. Standing back up, he wrapped his arms around Cassie and kissed her. He smiled and cupped his hands around her cheeks. "I love you, Cassandra," he said softly, before kissing her again.
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Letting him have her hand, she felt herself start to cry too, unable to help it. But she didn't make any move to wipe them up either, at least not yet. "Oh Harri.. it's so.. really? That's.. amazing.. and I'm sure it's perfect and beautiful.." she swallowed the lump down in her throat.
"I love you too Harrison.." she was blushing so bad, but in a very good way. She felt his arms around her, and immediately put her arms up around his neck and kissed him soundly. Wow, she so hadn't been expecting this as her surprise, and she was all but speechless really. "I love you so much.." she really did.
She giggled and kept kissing his face, happier then she'd felt ever in her whole life. And her mother was going to be ecstatic. "Oh my god I'm getting married.." she giggled. And then everyone she worked with started to clap and cheer.
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"Almost as perfect and beautiful as you. Almost." He cuddled her in his arms, crying softly into her hair. He couldn't help it. "I'm so glad you said 'yes'. Thank you for saying 'yes'." A sob escaped him. "I love you more than anything."
Continuing to hold her, he rubbed her back and kissed her happily, unable to stop smiling and crying. "I'm getting married too!" he giggled back, rocking her in his arms a bit. He took her in his arms and gently lifted her, spinning her around and bringing her in for another kiss.
"I'll let you get back to work now," he said sweetly. "I'll be at home waiting for you...Future Mrs. Tweed." He kissed her again.
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Cassie was definitely not going to let go until she had to, and she wasn't quite sure she wanted him to go. She laughed when she was picked up and spun around, kissing him back eagerly. Everyone seemed so happy for them, it was great.
"You think I can just concentrate on the rest of my day now?" she teased. "I guess I'll have to try. Maybe I can leave early.. I'll see you soon.." she kept kissing him over and over again and finally let him go. "I'll see you when I get home, Mr. Tweed." she giggled. Mrs Tweed, oh yeah that was funny.
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Harrison giggled. "Yeah, I kind of cheated. I took the day off. I didn't think anyone wanted Nigel the explorer singing The Happy Song of Happiness at Jekyll & Hyde. It's not very scary."
He kissed her over and over eagerly. "Don't worry about leaving too early. No rush." He winked at her coworkers. "I'll make you dinner. Anything you'd like."
He picked up his ukulele and wrapped his arm around Cassie's waist for one more kiss. "Okay, leaving here is difficult," he said, chuckling. "I'll see you at home!" Strumming his ukulele once more, he left the pharmacy to the applause of Cassie's coworkers and customers, singing "Cassie, Cassio, Cassiopeia, Cassie the pharmacist..."
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She giggled a bit, "You're probably right. I'll see if I can't come home soon okay? Because I totally don't think i'm going to be any good to anyone at the moment.." because she was so not going to be able to concentrate.
"Actually Cassie," her boss spoke up from the back, "If you want to go home now, be my guest.. you deserve it.." he told her.
"Really? Thank you.. that's very nice of you.. thank you sir.." she went and tried to catch Harri before he left, "Harri! Harri wait.." she called, trying to grab up her stuff and hope he had heard her.
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Harrison smiled. He should've known that Cassie wouldn't be able to concentrate for the rest of the day. That was the only thing he hadn't really planned. He'd planned the song and dinner and the flailing outside the pharmacy after she said 'yes', if she said 'yes', but he hadn't planned this.
He was in still in mid-song when he heard Cassie call him. "Ca- Yes?" he asked, reappearing in the doorway with a big grin on his face.
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"I can go home!" she announced happily as he came back inside, "Hold on one second!" and then she gathered up the rest of her things and then went over to go find him at the door. "Hi." she greeted, grinning from ear to ear.
"He told me I can go home.. so do you want to take me home?" she asked happily.
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Harri leaned diagonally in the doorway, strumming his uke some more. "She's getting her stuff," he sang hilariously, making a funny face as he grinned. "She's collecting her things while her fiance sings... She's getting her stuff...Ba ba ba bo..." He did his Bing Crosby impression for effect.
He was so silly.
When Cassie came back over, he stood up straight and laughed. "Oh, I suppose I could take you home. Would you like me to carry anything?" he asked, taking her hand.
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"Well considering your home is my home now, I suppose it's just as easy, though I was going to walk home of course.." she giggled at him. He was silly, but that's why she loved him. "I've got it all, thank you though.." she really just had her bag and that was it.
She put her hand in his and gave a wave to everyone else and headed out of the pharmacy with him. "That was.. so.. amazing and I .. I don't even know what to say Harri.. I'm so.. I'm speechless.. you know the kind of speechless that comes with words."
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"I walked here," Harri giggled. "I was too nervous to drive. My hands were shaking." He accidentally struck one of the strings on his uke. "Oop, I guess they still are a bit." He giggled again. Giggling was a sign of Harri happiness.
He waved to everyone as well and shouted a "See you again!" over his shoulder as they left. He beamed at Cassie as they strolled together. "Speechless with words. Yeah, I think I know what you mean. You liked it, then?" He gently stroked her ring on her finger, feeling so proud and overjoyed.
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