[Flashback]
"First Brother, when are you getting married?" Penny's lazy voice echoed through Atlas's office as she spun around in a swivel chair she'd borrowed from another room. "Renren and I want to have a grand wedding too, you know? You should propose now."
Atlas paused from his work and glanced at his sister. Penny had her head tipped back, her hair dangling over the chair's back. She spun lazily, the kind of spin that would definitely make her dizzy later.
"I did," he replied flatly, stopping her spinning with one hand. "She rejected me… countless times."
Penny and even Zoren — who was seated on the couch, enjoying tea — turned their heads toward him.
"What kind of proposal?" They asked in unison, knowing full well Atlas wasn't the romantic type. They both doubted whether those "proposals" even counted as proposals.
Atlas shrugged. "The kind where I asked her to be with me?"
"..."
