ENGAGEMENT

SAMANTHA - 27, a young professional but watches too many movies.

ALLIE - 26, college grad who is looking to settle down.

INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT.

SAMANTHA and ALLIE are laying on their old hand me down couch. They are laying down with their heads on opposite sides of the couch and their legs tangled in the middle. The throw blanket they share is being taken over by ALLIE and SAMANTHA gets the good pillow. The t.v. is on low volume, they watch a movie they've seen before - a favorite of their but they know it well enough that audio is not really required.

ALLIE

You know, the director of the movie encouraged everyone to live in France 1 month before filming this?

SAMANTHA

Yeah, I think you mentioned something like that before.

BEAT as they watch the movie.

ALLIE

And that this scene was actually an accident and that the camera wasn't even supposed to be rolling, but the director liked it so much that he kept it?

SAMANTHA

Yeah.

ALLIE

Oh-

BEAT.

ALLIE(CONT'D)

And that the only person who actually made a profit on set was -

SAMANTHA ALLIE

The key grip. The key grip.

SAMANTHA

You may have mentioned it once before.

ALLIE.

Sorry.

SAMANTHA

It's okay.

An uncomfortable pause.

ALLIE

Do I annoy you?

SAMANTHA

Excuse me?

ALLIE

It's just that I've noticed that you've been kind of distant lately and sometimes you seem uninterested in the things I say.

ALLIE sits up.

ALLIE (CONT'D)

So if I did something wrong or if I hurt you in some way just let me know. Because if I did, I promise that it was not intentional.

SAMANTHA removes herself from the couch and begins to walk towards the kitchen.

ALLIE

Sam?

SAMANTHA(from the kitchen)

You know, it's not something that you've done.

ALLIE

Then what is it?

SAMANTHA makes her way back from the kitchen and sits back down on the couch. She is now holding a small black box.

SAMANTHA

It's something that you have't done.

ALLIE(nervous/excited)

Samantha Jane, you better explain that fucking box.

SAMANTHA(happily)

You haven't proposed yet.

SAMANTHA opens the small black box to reveal a small diamond ring.

ALLIE

Are you shittin' me right now?

SAMANTHA

Allie, I've been looking for the right time to ask you and this felt right. It also felt right at the Applebee's but I refused to let that shit go viral. I can already see the Facebook clickbait title, "TWO QUEER HERO'S FIND LOVE IN A APPLEBEE'S IN MICHIGAN. FREE LAVA CAKE FOR LIFE."

ALLIE

If it got us free lava cake, you should have done it.

SAMANTHA

My point is that it has always felt like the right time to ask you to be my partner. So, will you marry me?

ALLIE(happily)

Yes. But you have to ask me again at Applebee's.

SAMANTHA

Deal.

THE END