Six Sentence Sunday #10

Rock musician Neal has finally managed to pop the question to his girlfriend April, onstage in front of several thousand people. He's kind of frozen there on one knee, not really sure of her answer.
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April stood there looking toward the other band members, drawing it out, Neal supposed, just to make him crazy. Was this torture really necessary?

She leaned toward him and said, quietly but clear as a bell, “Yes.”

A electric shockwave flashed through him; not the high kind he got while playing, but the kind somebody would get if slapped by a live wire.

Maybe he should sit.

She added, “On one condition.”
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