It was a long day for me. I had class starting at 9am, only to go to work at my retail job. The customers were pretty rude that day and kept asking me where things were. Like, who does that? Find it yourself! Needless to say, I just wanted to go home and take a load off.

When I got home, I ate some of my favorite pasta: penne pasta with some $4 alfredo sauce from Food Lion. I swear even Gordon Ramsay himself couldn’t cook a meal that great. I put my dishes in the sink and headed upstairs for my nightly shower and laid in bed in my satin bathrobe until I felt like getting up. Spoiler alert: I never feel like getting up.

I pulled out my phone that was on 14% battery life and plugged it into my wall charger. Carefully, I rolled over to where the plug wouldn’t fall out of the wall like on the infomercials. I pulled up the Words with Friends app. Unbeknownst to me, that is when my life would change forever.

I had been in a long-standing winning streak with my boyfriend of three years. We have actually been nonstop playing this app for at least two of those three years. We frequently joke that our relationship’s foundation is Words with Friends. I had been winning for the past three games, a fact which he was not happy about.

This game was no different. I had a 30 point lead that he was catching up. I had just played the word “qi,” a favorite of mine in which I don’t even know the meaning of it but hey, it gets me 11 points minimum. He played “will.” A word that did not give a necessarily bad score, but not the best.

I played “lie.”

He played “you.”

I played “yogurt,” a move I am justly proud about.

He played “marry.”

At this point, I felt butterflies in my stomach. That is a weird combination of words to play one after another. Also, I’m pretty sure we had already used up all of the Rs. I passed to see if the last word was going to be what I thought.

He seamlessly found a place to play “you.”

I didn’t want to assume anything. Maybe this was just a coincidence. Maybe he just happened to have all the right letters and it was innocent.

Next thing I know, I get a message. It said, “Will you marry me?” I couldn’t believe it. My shock overtook my entire body. I didn’t have the right tiles to play “yes” so I just resigned from the game.

Looking back now, that was a really bad decision. He probably misconstrued it as a no.

I called him up and told him that I would gladly marry him.

To this day, I am convinced that is the best proposal ever.