Responses
When you plan to do something that scares you (accepting a marriage proposal that had already been withdrawn) and you use alcohol as liquid courage it's unlikely you'll forget and even if you do you'll still recall the plan to do it while you were still sober. This will work out. The story is essentially over and now the creator is tying up loose ends.
He's drunk and he might forget it in the morning! I hate cliches like that ᕕ(˵•෴•˵)ᕗ