Nouveau

Chapter 73: Mine

"May you find the one who speaks your language so you don't have to spend an entire life trying to translate your soul"- Unknown

Flashback, Happy Birthday

Laive lied through her teeth for damn near a month. Subtly gathering ideas to put together for Tremaine's birthday and the evening was finally here.

She was dishonest about not being able to come along with him. Blatantly told a tale of her schedule having her all over the place. And even though it was a half truth, Laive prioritized his day amongst all her favorites. It was now within the company of her birthday, Christmas, and New Year's.

L observed enough to understand that Tremaine didn't really want to celebrate his birthday with tons of people. He had been in a pretty reflective and alienating head space lately and wanted to chart a yacht to relax and relish leisurely into his new age.

Boarding the yacht hours ahead of sail, Laive made way to the master stateroom located on the upper deck. It featured 280 degree views courtesy of ten huge floor to ceiling windows surrounding the space. Surely designed that way to display breath taking sunsets and sunrises fading along the horizon. The stateroom's walk-around king size bed faced in the forward direction of the yacht and accessed a private stairwell to the  main deck below. With the room being furnished in luxury and high end amenities, an 80-inch flatscreen, Apple TV,  surround sound, and a lounge area that ported an exquisite en-suite bathroom...L wasn't surprised to find a private European rain shower encased within glass walls.

The room was covered in masculine opulence. Laive concerned herself with every detail from the layout to the gift set up. Even questioning if decor for men should include roses outside of organic balloon garlands. But her love had a deep affinity for the particular flower. An appreciation he'd kept with him since being a child pruning roses in his grandma's garden, and now his own. She'd chosen the variations Black Bacarra and Scarlett Ohara red roses and petals to cover the master stateroom. Both were medium cup sized blooms displaying hues of a sophisticated combination of deep rich burgundy with a hint of black along the edge of their velvety petals.

A color scheme of those deep burgundy's, black, and gold were the pallet of the evening. A black velvet chiara backdrop panel with a deep red neon light in its top center that read Happy Birthday. A twenty foot burgundy organic balloon garland composed of multiple sized and double stuffed balloons from mini to massive. Accessorized with roses within its gaps and spaces. The florals also covered the space in plentiful arrangements, bouquets, and petals. There were ten black gift boxes with gold acrylic lettering arranged on the area of the king size bed. Each labeled with one of the five senses and five love languages. Laive wasn't ashamed to admit she ran across the idea on Pinterest and TikTok. However, she'd never seen someone do both gestures simultaneously. Gifts of the senses covered all Tremaine's favorite things. Sight contained an eighteen inch 10mm Cuban link necklace, a pair of Santal 26 candles and room spray for Smell, a 1984 Graham tawny port wine matured in seasoned oak casks until its peak of maturity, a pair of Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT2 wireless headphones for Hearing, and Touch was composed of a liter sized bottle of his favorite Kiehl's Creme de Corps moisturizer paired with its refill because he always seemed to be running out.

Baby girl had slightly been worried about the headphones. Tremaine was an audio snob when it came to music and preferred headphones that plugged directly into the aux jack with no converter or adapter. These were the same brand and model of headphones he preferred to listen to tracks on while they were being mixed and mastered, but they were Bluetooth. L prayed the sound quality was still the same because she didn't want to buy him another pair of the plug-in ones. Tremaine already had like 5 pair at home that were still in great condition.