These teens faked a proposal because free food is everything

All for a crème brûlée.

The lengths some people will go to in order to get free food.

These Texan teenagers came up with a cheeky but brilliant idea to get free dessert in a fancy restaurant, where they planned to spend Saturday evening after a rough week.

Cati Domitrovich, 19, and her best friend Alex Nagle, 17, staged a proposal after acting like a couple for the whole time in the restaurant.

Domitrovich went to the bathroom and Nagle told the server he was going to propose and asked her to take photos.

Then this happened:

"Everyone believed us and everyone clapped," Domitrovich told BuzzFeed News.

(If you ask me, tbh that crème brûlée was totally worth it).

People on Twitter thought this was no less than the work of a genius:

Not everyone agreed though:

Later Cati had a message for all the haters:

🔥🔥🔥

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