"You can use my ideas as yours. In the future, when you have a good idea, share it with me. And then we will be even." he cracked a joke, swallowing the words, " I do not care if you use me because I love you."
He knew that she would only grow a shell around her, if he proposed to her right now. He needed a perfect chance and he would find it today.
"I am sure you have other ideas, right?" she blinked and looked away from her reflection, the face she had come to hate so much.