Ready for it? (Joost Klein)

19

That evening, Joost comes over to my hotel room.

"Hey, I brought food!"

He's holding a bag that has sushi in it.

"Oh my god, I love sushi! Thank you!"

Joost kisses me. "I love how happy I can make you with food." We sit down on my bed. "What were you doing?"

"Watching the videos from my rehearsals. Elio sent them to us so we can practice."

Joost takes the sushi out of the bag. "Can I watch them?" I nod and take out my phone. Joos watches the entire video.

"I could watch this for hours. Please send me this."

I airdrop him the video and we start eating.

"Do you want to have children?", Joost asks.

I look at him. "No, not now." 

Joost shakes his head. "Later. With me."

"If we're still together then, of course."

Joost throws a sushi at me. "Of course we'll still be together then. Do you think I'll ever let you go?"

"Joost, you can't throw with sushi! My whole bed is full of rice."

Joost laughs. "Then you'll just have to lie close to me tonight."

I roll my eyes. "You're so weird."

All evening we are together in my hotel room. We watch movies, laugh with memes, cuddle and talk a lot.

"Honey, do you want to watch the episode of our escape room?"

"Oh my god, is the episode aired?"

I grab my laptop and Joost looks up the episode. I come and lie in his arms while we watch. Throughout the episode we laugh.

"And to think we had a fight before this filming."

At the end of the episode, we find out who won. I squeeze Joost's arm with excitement. 

A picture of Joost and me comes up big in the frame with the word "WINNER! Next to it.

"Yes!" Joost and I hug each other. "I knew it!" he says proudly.

He pulls me out of bed with him and stands on my balcony. We have a beautiful view of Malmö.

It is already evening and it is beginning to dusk. Joost takes my hand.

"Livia, I want you to listen to me."

I look at him and he slaps his arm around me.

"I love you."

There is silence for a few seconds.

"It's okay if you can't say it back yet. But I want you to know that I am madly in love with you. I truly believe that my parents sent you to me, to give me a purpose in life again. I am so grateful to them that I found you."

I almost get tears in my eyes.

"Joost, I love you too."

At first he is surprised, then I see the most adorable smiles on his face "Really?"

I nod. "I want to do everything with you. I want to travel with you, find an apartment on the border of the Netherlands and Belgium and grow old with you. I want to be a mom who thinks how much her son is like his father. And all that just with you."

He kisses me long and soft and everything seems to fall into place.

What the outcome of Eurovision Song Contest will be doesn't even matter to me anymore. I've already won by finding this man.

"After the contest, come with me to Belgium. I'll show you everything and you can stay in my apartment as long as you want. I'll cook for you."

Joost nods with a smile. "Sounds like a plan. But please don't poison me."

I giggle. "I can't promise that."

He takes me in the thickest hug I've ever felt. "I'm already looking forward to the day when your name is Livia Klein." 

Guys, I think this is the end of the story. Joost and Livia have found each other. And it feels like this is the right time to end. I'll probably upload another epilogue about their future together because I really fell in love with Livia and Joost.

This was also the first book I ever wrote so thanks for hanging in there :)

I want to thank you guys for your love and votes for this book. My heart hurts a little to let this go

I love you all!