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the first time he brings her to the rooftop, their budding relationship is still very new and very exciting. clementine looks out past the horizons and feels like she understands her new boyfriend better. wilbur looks at clementine and feels like he should have done this sooner.
this was his place at first, a place to soul-search for hours and leave with little answers and more questions.
but now it's their place.
clementine looks over the edge.
"bit tall to fall from, innit?" she points out. he doesn't have more to say than that other than a shrug. since living here, he hasn't felt particularly suicidal, and besides, he's incredibly distracted by the way the sunset's sinking rays reflect upon clem's skin.
"don't look down," wilbur mumbles. "just look at me."
and she does.
and she looks ethereal.
he tells her this and she just looks away with a huff, but he can still see the skin on her face flush a very pretty pink.
-
it's on one of these rooftop escapades that clem tells him she loves him for the first time, and it's yelling that declaration across the city skyline. wilbur swears those three little words makes his heart skip a beat, because ohmygod, she loves him.
clem isn't even looking at him, just staring out across the distance. if he didn't know any better, he'd think she was just distracted, but clem has always been awkward and anxiety-ridden off-camera.
he just smiles -- or maybe he doesn't, because this smile is probably permanently etched onto his face. he responds with a yell of, "she's the reason i'm in love with being alive!"
and neither of them know it, not until much, much later... but both of them wonder if it's possible to make this moment last forever.
-
"i'm his girlfriend, forever and always!" is what she yells out this time, and what he responds with is, "maybe. i don't know about that. maybe i want you to be my wife someday."
and clem's entire world falls apart and comes back together within the span of two seconds.
she's short-circuiting at the thought, because oh, that means a real forever, and oh, that means wilbur isn't with her just because, and oh, that means he doesn't think she's annoying, and oh--
"that better be a promise," she chokes out. "that better be, wilbur motherfucking soot, or i'll fucking end you right here and now, you prick."
the corners of wilbur's lip twitch upwards in amusement. clem wants to both kiss him and slap him.
"it's a promise, sweetheart," he responds. "as long as you say yes, you'll never get rid of me."
-
he manages to acquire a ring and clem's parents' approval within a week.
how could she say anything but yes?