John and Ellie

Ellie stared wistfully out the window as the snow softly fell to the ground. On any other day she'd watch in delight, feeling peaceful to see the tiny snowflakes pile up one by one, but today was different. It was much too cold for her to even think about going out for her date with her one and only. She glared at every little snowflake as it came falling to the road in front of her apartment.
"Not the roads, not the roads..." she whispered to no one but herself. Her own voice was the first sound she had heard for almost ten minutes. Ellie had the television on in the background, the weather channel coming out in a soft hum, but she had tuned it out. "Why does it have to be today? Today...of all days!"
Finally, she picked herself up from her chair by the window only to pace her cold wood floors. The bottoms of her bare feet felt as if they were burning from the chilling touch, almost going numb, but she didn't feel a thing otherwise. A million solutions raced through her mind to the snowy weather. Even if the roads were covered in snow, they had to be cleared sooner or later, one of them could drive! No. Neither of them knew how... They could get a taxi! No. Neither of them had enough money... And, well, they certainly couldn't go stomping through the snow themselves without any form of transportation but their feet. Could they? No. Too cold...
"Well. This is crap. Everything is crap. Everything is-" Ellie got distracted by the news report that she had suddenly realized she had left on. "You..." She started, pointing a menacing finger at her TV screen. "You said that today was supposed to be SUNNY. That's exactly why John and I planned our date for today! For the SUNNY weather! Well. You can just go f-" The frustration inside of her had bubbled up too high and she let out a loud groan of anger before she could finish the sentence.  
But then, just like that, her mood changed when she spotted a note tacked up to her wall from John. Her favorite note at that. It was one of the notes he had passed to her during one of their classes together at the art school they attended. Along with her anger, her heart melted when she spotted the note. She slowly made her way across the room to get a closer look.
"Oh, John. John, John, John..." she said softly. "I'm sorry this had to happen to our date. It's not my fault, but I mean...maybe it is..? I don't know. I'm just upset. I was really looking forward to-" There was a knock. A gasp escaped her lips but she quickly stopped it before it could go any farther. Maybe it was an intruder. Maybe they could tell she was home by that very slight gasp. Her heart began to pound faster than lightning. She didn't dare call to ask who it was. If they really wanted her attention, they'd knock again. And they did, but no one spoke a word and no one moved. Ellie's eyes darted around the room before she closed them tightly and said a silent prayer.
"Come ON, Ellie! Didn't you just beg me for this date?" It was John's nasally voice that sounded through her thin apartment walls. Ellie sighed a deep sigh of relief, almost falling to the ground even, before calling in a shaky voice, "oh yes, John! Of course! I wouldn't miss it for the world."
She ran to the door, though every inch of her body was still shaking including her heart. But she found her heart smiling after opening the door to see a snow covered John Lennon, a big goofy grin spread across his face.
"Hey, Ellie babe. Are you-" His smile disappeared, and so did her heart's. What could be wrong? Why is he frowning? "El...why aren't you ready? Get your coat!"
"Oh!" She put a shaky hand to her heart. "Oh. Well, I thought that it was too cold for us to even go outside so I-"
"Ellie, sweetheart, it's never too cold to go on a date with you." Then he smiled one of those crooked Lennon smiles before waiting at the door for her to get her coat.

"It actually is kind of...nice out here..." Ellie said softly as she got a better view of the snowfall. Little flakes nipped at her nose one by one causing it to turn red. She shuddered. "Though people should make something about a cold nose! My nose is about to fall off," she laughed. John smiled softly at her before leaning in to kiss the tip of her nose.
"Is that better?" he asked, slipping his warm hand into hers. It was only then that she realized how cold her hands were even with gloves on. The redness of her nose soon consumed her whole face. "You look absolutely gorgeous covered in snow." With his free hand, he moved a piece of stray hair out of her face, tucking it behind her ear. "Absolutely gorgeous..." Ellie giggled.
"Well. You don't look too bad yourself, even with that new haircut of yours." As a member of his band, they had all decided to get these silly, new, bowl style haircuts.
"Wow. Gee, thanks, El."
"You know I'm only kidding, Johnny."
"Oh you better be..." A crazy laugh came tumbling out of him as he pulled both himself and Ellie into the snow. Ellie sputtered for air as John rolled around with her, but he just continued to laugh which happened to echo through the air.
"John!" She gasped, sitting straight up in fear of being rolled about one last time. "You're insane! Has anyone ever told you that!"
"Yeah! And you're beautiful! Has anyone ever told you that?"
"I-" John's words slowly set in. "I, uh..." The sun chose the perfect moment to shine down on John, causing his eyes to look, in Ellie's opinion, more beautiful than they ever had. He smiled one of those sweet smiles at her before asking, "you what?" But Ellie couldn't speak. She shrugged instead because she was too captivated by John's beauty.
"Ellie."
"John."
"You look beautiful."
"So do you."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"Oh, you better." He propped himself up by one of his arms, the same smile pressed onto his face, before pulling a ring out of his coat pocket. "Will you marry me?"