Will sighed, but he was still smiling when he said, "I was wondering when you were going to ask me that." They took a few more steps, then joined the line for the hamburger stall, a couple in front of them, and then small family at the head of the queue.

"I'm thirty-four," he told her. There was a large part of him that didn't think the nine years between them was going to be a deal breaker, but there was also just enough doubt to cause a thread of worry to run through him.