[the whole idea of a proposal embarrasses robbie just by thinking of it, so what he did - which he thought was brilliant, by the way - was leave messages in erik's book so he doesn't have to do the traditional, kneel-on-one-knee kind of thing. and since erik had a stack of post-its, unused, why robbie thought it was high time for them to be of use.
so he started by leaving a note on erik's cel phone (good morning erik, and then on the bathroom door (i hope you forgive me for this roundabout way of talking to you), on the dresser door (but this is much easier), on his laptop screen (well perhaps not for you but i prefer this anyway), on the back of the door just before he walks out (i'm sorry, i'm not making any sense), on the wall on his right (i'm wasting your post-it as well. i'll buy you a new one i promise), on the door of the fridge (oh, there was a point to all of this but i forgot), on the coffee maker (i remember now: i'm sorry), on the cabinet drawer just where the coffee mugs are (i am horrible at communicating well enough to people who i like very much and so i figured - the message was continued on his coffee mug, where robbie wrote in cramped writing, you would appreciate my thoughts no matter how messy they are), on the package for coffee filters (did i just write tha oh no), on the package for the loaf of bread before he even thinks of getting out a slice for toast (what i mean to say is that i like you), on the toaster (in my dreams i i really like you).
and on the kitchen wall, somewhat a surrender, perhaps a hint of despair: this is quite addicting but i'm doing really bad at expressing myself, i hope you don't mind if i go into hiding now.
(he's not actually hiding, but he'd decided to go out and pick up some eggs from the store because they ran out, but he figured he'd tell erik that he did anyway, because that's what caused him to go out in the first place.]
5 /crawls
so he started by leaving a note on erik's cel phone (good morning erik, and then on the bathroom door (i hope you forgive me for this roundabout way of talking to you), on the dresser door (but this is much easier), on his laptop screen (well perhaps not for you but i prefer this anyway), on the back of the door just before he walks out (i'm sorry, i'm not making any sense), on the wall on his right (i'm wasting your post-it as well. i'll buy you a new one i promise), on the door of the fridge (oh, there was a point to all of this but i forgot), on the coffee maker (i remember now: i'm sorry), on the cabinet drawer just where the coffee mugs are (i am horrible at communicating well enough to people who i like very much and so i figured - the message was continued on his coffee mug, where robbie wrote in cramped writing, you would appreciate my thoughts no matter how messy they are), on the package for coffee filters (
did i just write thaoh no), on the package for the loaf of bread before he even thinks of getting out a slice for toast (what i mean to say is that i like you), on the toaster (in my dreams ii really like you).and on the kitchen wall, somewhat a surrender, perhaps a hint of despair: this is quite addicting but i'm doing really bad at expressing myself, i hope you don't mind if i go into hiding now.
(he's not actually hiding, but he'd decided to go out and pick up some eggs from the store because they ran out, but he figured he'd tell erik that he did anyway, because that's what caused him to go out in the first place.]