For six years, one woman's April Fools' Day has gone the same way. Her boyfriend and his childhood friend stage a proposal, let her believe it, and laugh when she finds out it was never real. She keeps forgiving him, because each year she is sure this is the one that counts.
This year he shoves cake in her face in front of a laughing crowd, and something in her finally goes quiet. She does not cry or argue. She leaves, certain she is done. He is just as certain she will come back, and that confidence is about to cost him everything he took for granted.
