daily drabble

He'd known from that moment on that they would be together forever, and had worked diligently for the next four years to convince her of the same. He was still working at it, really, terrified in the secret places of his mind he let no one see that she might wake up one morning, see him for the fraud he really was, and be gone forever.

But the idea of marriage had never really crossed his mind. It was a terribly Grown Up and Responsible thing to do -- and really rather contrary to everything he believed. That sort of Responsibility was most definitely best left to other people.

Or so he had thought.