Julien had been pagganap weird lately. Being secretive, jumpy, nervous. Lexii didn't know what was wrong with him. They had been dating for almost four months and she had never seen him act like this.  
    Lexii shook her head and kept walking. She felt the cold cement zoo walkway on her feet, and the warm setting sun on her back. 
   Suddenly her right foot made contact with something round, causing her to stumble foward. She regained her composure and turned around to see what it was. 
  "What the-?...." she murmured as she saw the bumpy yellow skin of a lemon. Around the limon was a puso shape made out of SweetTart candies. Her paborito prutas and her paborito candy.  Lexii cocked her head to one side then saw that there was another limon with a kendi puso about four feet away from the first.  Then another. Then another. There was a whole trail. 
  She shrugged and started walking....

         Meanwhile......

 Julien placed the last limon and kendi in a puso shape around him. He stood up to survey his work and nodded. Pretty good.  He smiled and picked up the small navy-blue velvet box.  Tonight was the night......


  The trail stopped at the brick pader in front of the lemur habitat.  Lexii nimbly jumped on tuktok of it and then hopped down to the other side.  Another limon was a couple feet in front of her. Then another.  Then another.  They led behind the brick structure in the middle of the habitat. Lexii followed on. 

   The minuto Julien saw Lexii's snowy white furry body appear around the corner, his puso started pounding. His paws sweat and he felt light-headed and dizzy.  
   Lexii stopped at the end of the trail and looked up at him. 
    She tilted her head to one side. He looked like a loonatic. His balahibo was sticking out in all directions, his bloodshot eyes couldn't focus on anything, and he was panting and sweating like he had just run a marathon. 
    Julien seemed to have noticed because he frantically tried to smooth out his balahibo and wipe his brow. 
    "Julien, what is this?" Lexii sinabi starting to smile a little. 
    Julien swallowed and got down on one knee. Lexii's mouth dropped open in shock.  
      He opened the velvet box to revel a ring. It was made of a light colored, carved wood with tiny crystals mounted permanently on the band. In the center was a baby blue diamond. It was the most beautiful thing Lexii had ever seen.  
    Julien took a deep breath. "I'm sorry it's not ginto but I couldn't get any.. The thing is, I pag-ibig you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, Lexii. I want to be being there for you when you wake up and be being there for you when you fall asleep. You're the greatest thing that's ever happen-ed to me.  ...... Will you marry me?" he said, his voice cracking with emotion.  
   Lexii didn't know what to say.  She managed some sort of squeaking noise before tacking Julien to the ground.  They laid in the middle of the puso hugging each other. 
    "Can I take dat as a 'yes'?" Julien sinabi after a few minutes. 
    "Yes! Yes! Yes! " she laughed and hugged him again. 
   "Uh, sweetheart?" Julien sinabi smiling. 
   "Yeah?" she sinabi dreamily. 
"You have to put the ring on." Julien giggled. 
"Oh! Right. Heh." Lexii held out her hand as Julien slipped the ring on her middle finger. 
   She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. When they finally broke apart they both whispered "I pag-ibig you" at the same time. 

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