The proposal

Standing up from my seat and glancing over the people around me, I walked towards mom.

She was smiling while Rein was confused by the sudden thing that was happening.

She didn't know anything about this announcement stuff. Not at least my announcement.

She was confused. But only she was the confused one among the people in this room.

As she looked around, she found most of them smiling. Especially Anna, who was sitting beside her.

She was the easiest to read, so she grasped that something special related to her was going to happen.

Something special. Something related to her. On my birthday when I 'officially' became an adult. And she was dressed too well today…

She was smart, so she didn't need more to grasp what this announcement might be, and if it was something that she was thinking it was, then…