Grow As We Go

Drunk in Love

Standing and posing with her National Player of the Year Award, Azzi smiled on at the photographers as they fired off a round of snapshots to capture the moment. While her iphone camera couldn't compare, Paige stood amongst the photographers with her phone to get an up close picture as well of her girlfriend. Shaking the President of the NCAA hand, Azzi made her way back to her table as she was quickly greeted by her mom and dad. While she enjoyed the moment, Azzi was more than prepared to get out of her dress and slip into some more comfortable attire. But for the most part, Azzi had to grin and bear it for the next hour or so at the awards ceremony. Walking over towards her seat at the table, Paige met her girlfriend as the two hugged briefly before taking their seat.

After the awards ceremony, The Fudd clan had made plans to gather back at the cottage house that Azzi's grandparents own in Storrs. Gathering back the house, an array of food was put out along with free flowing drinks as the family gathered to celebrate Azzi. While Paige and Azzi couldn't have too much affection towards each other at the awards ceremony, as they both weren't eager to be photographed outside of Azzi receiving her award, but amongst her family, the two felt more than comfortable to act like the couple that they were. They were free and comfortable to be themselves, no judgement or questions. Azzi sat in Paige's lap, while Paige had arm wrapped around Azzi's waist as they intertwined their fingers together, looking on at the craziness of Azzi's family as the games portion of the night got everyone riled up.

Deciding to spend the night at her grandparents house, Paige and Azzi retired to their room as everyone else had slowly went off to their own rooms. Once she put her pajamas on, Azzi made her way out of the bathroom and headed towards the bed. Quickly pulling back the cover on her side of the bed, Azzi hopped into the bed as Paige just sat up looking on at her girlfriend. Pausing for a moment as she could only feel Paige's stare upon her, Azzi looked on at Paige with a bit of confusion as to what she was staring at. Motioning for her to look ahead, Paige smiled as Azzi glanced over to see the two small boxes on the bed. Once again glancing back at Paige, Azzi was confused as to what to make of the small boxes.

"What is this?" Azzi asked with a bit of a laugh.

"It's your present for your award" Paige smiled.

"I don't need a present for an award, the present is the award" Azzi replied.

"Well this present is from me, to say congrats on the award...." Paige began to say.

"It's not really common to give presents for an..." Azzi began to say as Paige just rolled her eyes at the banter they were having.

"Azzi, open the damn box" Paige snapped as Azzi laughed as she reached forward to grab one of the small boxes.

"Well by the size, I can already conclude that its jewelry" Azzi said as she opened the box to see that another box was inside of the small cardboard box. Grabbing the small jewelry, Azzi opened it up to see the black band. Looking over at Paige, Azzi just laughed as she couldn't believe how unreal this moment was. "Is this a wedding band?" she questioned.

"It is" Paige smiled as she reached for the other box, taking out the jewelry box to show the matching wedding band that went along with Azzi's.

"Wait, wait. Did you like secretly get us married or something online?" Azzi teased as she asked Paige.

"No, I know we talked about it back in Dallas, how our goal was to be married in the future. So it just stuck with me, and I figured we needed something to hold us to those promises we made to each other that day. It's our prospective wedding bands for what's to come, because while it is a band, I do intend to buy you a diamond ring when it's the real thing. Until then, I got these bands for us so that whenever shit gets hard or when they're amazing, we remember the promise we made to each other about our future" Paige said as Azzi was amazed on how sweet and thoughtful Paige was. Leaning forward, Paige held up the wedding band to show her the engraving on the inside of the ring. "And if you look closely, we'll always have these three words to remind us what really matters when things get crazy" she said as Azzi looked on at very engraving in her band.