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I glanced back at the window. The amusement park, once eerie and dead quiet, was now lit up like a dream. Cheers from outside drifted in, muffled but unmistakable.

"It's back," Wayne muttered, eyes glued to the glowing scene beyond the glass.

"Ms. Kay, Mr. Johnston, look..." One of the tech guys pointed at the monitor, voice

tight.

I followed his gaze. The lights on the screen weren't stable anymore. They'd warped into messy, zigzagging streaks.

"There's still an issue," Wayne said, frowning hard.

For a beat, I just stared, heart pounding. Then, without thinking, I bolted for the door. I didn't stop running until I was outside. The noise hit me like a wall- screams, gasps, and excited chatter. A crowd was gathered, all pointing at the lights. "There are words up there!" someone shouted.

I tilted my head back, and my breath caught. The shifting lights sparked a memory-Hayden's proposal. My chest squeezed as I remembered the streamers, the words floating around me: [Kiki, marry me.]

"It says 'Kiki, marry me!""

"It's a proposal!"

""Who's Kiki?!"

wish someone would do this for

Tears blurred my vision as the lights overhead pulsed with the same words, Kiki, marry me, over and over again, glowing steady against the chaos. It

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had his name written all over it. Nobody else could pull off something like this with the lights.

at me for being reckless. So, he staged all this to make

point.

punch to the chest. I started

answer. Just the crowd, losing their minds, chanting, "Say yes!

God, I wanted to. But...

Boom-total darkness. The cheers cut out like someone had

split second, everything felt frozen, suspended

brighter and more colorful than before, flooding the park in

my world? It

Hayden had left behind-it was gone, just like

Wayne's voice jolted me. He was next to

concern.

was closing in on itself,

to say.

earlier... they were probably something Hayden programmed before, "Wayne said quietly. "The glitch must've triggered it to play again."

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