If You Were Mine

XVIII. Nowhere without you

S: Hey baby!

You turn around to see Shawn, your boyfriend, coming towards the table.
He's wearing a grey suit and shiny black shoes, his messy hair placed in a fancy hairstyle and his dashing personality

Y/N: You look dashing honey!

S: thank you darling so do you! That baby pink suits you so much!

You look down and smile...

Y/N: thanks

It has been almost 5 years since you guys are together and still his little compliments make you blush and his touch makes you freeze.

Shawn knows how much you like romantic dinners, so he often takes you in one, but he said there was gonna be something special today...

Y/N: So...what's the surprise?!

S: uhm lets order first?

Y/N: Oki:)

You're looking through the menu when you realise Shawn's hand on the table...it's shaking...
You gently place your hand on his...

Y/N: Baby are you ok?

S: Yeah yeah I'm great! Do you know what you're gonna eat? I guess I'll go with spaghetti

Y/N: Yeah I'll get that too

W: Have you decided what to order sir?

S: Yeah two pastas and chocolate chip icecreams

Y/N: You really know me don't you ahahha

S: Oh yeah I do ahahahha

After looking at the menu for another while Shawn puts his hand on yours and looks straight into your eyes...

S: Y/N as you know...today is a very special and important day for me, you, well, for us...
You look at him and smile, then nod to ask him to go on

S: So what I wanted to ask you is if-

W: Here's your champagne, sir

Y/N: Thank you!

W: My pleasure ma'am, anything else you'd like to have while waiting?

Y/N: No we're good, thanks

When the waiter leaves you see Shawn whispering something to himself while running his hands into his hair, he seems mad...

Y/N: Yes babe, what were you saying?

S: Ok so...Y/N, it has been 5 years, 5 years of your relationship, of our love and of our forever...but the truth is that 5 years is not actually enough to me, I want to live every single while of my life with you, I want you to be by my side and me to be by your side forever, in all the joys and sorrows, ups and downs, highs and lows...
His words suddenly brings you back to the old days, to the time when you first met, the while you fell for him and the day he came to you and said how much in love he was with you...

S: Baby...

He stands up, you stare at him totally confused about what's going on...

You see him sitting on his knees and taking out a little box out of the pocket of his jacket. When he opens it and a little shiny thing blings in your eyes...

S: Will you be my forever? Will you be the sun to my day and the moon to my night? The person I'll argue with every morning for waking me up at 6am, the person I'll kiss when I get home after a long day at work, the person who'll love for the rest of my life knowing that she'll never leave me? You already are my life so...will you be my wife now?

Your sight gets blurred and it doesn't clear up even when the tears you were holding fall, cause new ones keep coming and your heart keeps bombing...

Y/N: Yes yes yesss!

You get onto your knees as well and hug him, you hug him so tight that your chest starts hurting and you feel out of breath, but you don't gare cause that's the moment you've been dreaming about since you got to know what a relationship is and what husband means and now that it's actually happening, it all feels so unrealistic, what if when you leave him everything fades away and all this turns out to be a dream?
At the thought of that nightmare you hug him even tighter...

S: Baby...

Shawn whispers in your left ear

Y/N: Hmm?!

S: I ain't going nowhere without you honey!

You loosen the grip and look into his eyes, the lashes are wet but the joy in the pupils shine brigher than a star...

Shawn gently takes your hand from his shoulder and puts the ring in the ring finger, he proudly stares at it for a while and then looks at you and smiles, as a kid when he realises that the toy is now his and no one can take it away from his...

You run your fingers in the hair behind Shawn's ears and place a soft kiss onto his maple sweet lips...

Y/N: I love you!

He rubs your cheek with his big thumb and then kisses you even more softly and smoothly...

S: I love you!