(Teenage Edition)

After years of close friendship, you and Stan realized you might have stronger feelings for each other than you should. Since you're both very open with each other, you talked about it and decided to start dating.

At first, it was strange for your friends, since he included you in his group of friends—two friends from the same group suddenly dating. On the other hand, it was also pretty expected.

Unfortunately, you started dating at the wrong time. While he's making more time to see you, you're constantly having to decline because of all the stress. It's exhausting because you know how much he means to you.

You're juggling studying, your part-time job, and getting your driver's license, then there's time to spend with family and friends, and somehow you have to fit Stan in.

This is giving you a huge headache, and you often find yourself feeling desperate or crying. You have absolutely no idea how you're managing, but somehow you're getting there.

You're standing in your kitchen, making yourself a quick bite to eat since your parents went out to eat without you. A schoolbook lies beside you, and your head is pounding. You have no idea when you last slept a full eight hours, and you have no idea when you last saw Stan, but you miss him so much.

When you hear the front door open, you wait for your parents, but then you catch a whiff of Stan's scent and suddenly feel his arms around you and a kiss on your shoulder.

"I missed you so much..." you hear him say, and you see a bouquet of flowers on your book.

"I have a really important question... You mean the world to me, and you're one of the few things that gets me out of bed every morning. I love you so much, and that's why... Will you be my girlfriend?" he asks you.

And even though it's really sweet and you just want to say yes, you also know what it all means and that it would only stress you out even more right now… Are you ready for that?