“You Really Thought This Was Serious？ We Were Just Having Fun” My Girlfriend Laughed When I Prop

She said it laughing, like it was nothing. I was still holding the small ring box on the table, half-open, the room too quiet for her tone. “You really thought this was serious? We were just having fun,” she said, and I heard it break in my head more than in the air. Serious? she repeated, like testing it. Just having fun, she whispered again while looking at her phone. I didn’t question it at first… something in her smile felt rehearsed. Later, the words came back again: serious?, just having fun, like it never meant anything.