Luanna's POV

I had been looking forward to spending the holidays with Christian and my family in California. I knew a proposal was likely going to happen in 2023 but had absolutely no idea it would happen on this trip. We get to my parents house in Long Beach and start getting ready to meet up with my best friend McKenzey and her boyfriend Shaun. The plan was to have a sunset beach picnic in Newport Beach before meeting up with the rest of our friend group.

We are walking hand in hand on the beach and stop to take in the beautiful sunset. A few steps later, Christian gives me a hug and turns me so that we are facing each other. That's when he says, "so there's been a change of plans for tonight" and my heart starts to skip a beat. He tells me that he's known I was the one from that very first night in Charlestown. This is where things start to get a little fuzzy, I think I blacked out from excitement. He gets down on one knee and I say the easiest yes of my life. I am exploding with joy and jump into my FIANCE'S arms.

I finally gather that the beach picnic was all a cover up. As if one surprise wasn't enough, I walk into the restaurant where I think we are just meeting McKenzey and Shaun and find out that my entire family and friends are waiting to celebrate with us. Christian was so excited to propose he told nearly all our family, friends, neighbors, his coworkers, barber, chiropractor, and more about his plans. I was the only person completely in the dark and I am so happy it worked out the way it did. We had an incredibly special night celebrating this new chapter in our lives.