Happily Ever After, a History; Part 4: Rumors of Marriage and the Dishroom of Love

The couple continued to date and have ridiculous amounts of fun. They were inseparable. Allison was having a wonderful time with it all. Her good friend Casey was convinced that any day now Corey was going to propose. Allison scoffed at him. Of course Corey wasn't going to propose. It had only been a month and a half!

Then Corey started making strange comments. One day while they were driving home from a party, Corey said, "You know, my patriarchal blessing says I'm going to marry a girl named Allison." Allison was embarrassed, but intelligently responded, "Oh, is that so? That's weird." then Corey laughed and said of course it didn't. Allison knew he was joking, but didn't know why he was joking about such things. So, a few nights later, she asked him where he thought things were going with them. He said, "Oh, I don't know, but I think we'll be together a long time." That was good enough for her and she figured that was the end of it for a while.

However, the next Friday night she discovered that was not the end of it. After a very romantic evening, Corey asked Allie, "So, do you think we'll ever break up?" Allie thought about it and said, "No, I really don't think we will." So, from that point on, our protagonists were happily unofficially engaged.

A few weeks later, Allison was mad. She was mad because Corey was suddenly working 5 nights a week instead of three and he wasn't getting home until midnight or later. She wasn't mad at Corey because he was just trying to help out his place of employment. No, she was mad at the Cougareat. Obviously, they should hire more people to replace those that quit so she could spend more time with her beloved. One day, it occurred to Corey to ask Allie to leave her beloved Teriyaki Stix and hated Freschetta to work with him in the dishroom. After all, she had already helped him close the dishroom a few times and she had claimed to not mind it (she had lied). At first Allie was hesitant. She hated washing dishes. A lot. But, with Corey's persistence she finally agreed because she loved him so dearly. The promise of a 50 cent raise didn't hurt either...

At first Allison was only planning on working three nights a week in the dishroom, but she has a difficult time saying no. When the student manager asked her, "So, are you working 5 days a week?" she automatically said yes. She regretted it immediately. She's dumb sometimes. Then she talked Katie into working 2 nights a week with them.

So, Allison and Corey started working together for 20 hours every week. Believe it or not, they look back on that time with fondness. They had numerous water fights. They even had one whipped cream fight. They learned to work together and deal with stress together. They learned how to have fun even in the most mundane circumstances. And, most importantly, they learned how to get the most from their Cougareat coupons.