Rove: Holiday Short Stories

New Years: One-Shot

We just got off set and it's early morning. We had to film pretty much all night and I spent all my off camera time sleeping. Ryan has to carry me inside because I literally cannot walk. He opens the door and I bury my face in his chest. He carries me upstairs to my bedroom and lays me down.

"Go to sleep, Chloe. I'll wake you up later." he promises. I nod and burrow down in my blankets and giant fluffy pillows. Pretty soon I'm fast asleep. Later that day when I wake up, I realize it's almost five at night. I slept all day. Wow, I won't be sleeping tonight. I go downstairs and find Ryan at the counter on his laptop. He's probably surfing the web or checking emails.

"Why didn't you wake me up sooner?" I ask. He shrugs.

"Because it's New Years Eve and I assumed you wanted to stay up for New Years." Ryan answers. I nod because that explains why he let me sleep. I wouldn't have made it to midnight if I hadn't. "Oh, Olivia invited us over for a party tonight. You wanna go?"

"Sure." I reply. I grab food out of the kitchen because I am starving. I eat and then grab my laptop and surf through emails and other random things until six o'clock. I'm assuming we're leaving at seven thirty or eight o'clock so I go up to my bedroom and take a shower. I wrap myself up in my fuzzy robe and dry my hair before grabbing a dress and changing (dress pictured). After getting dressed, I look for my tights for maybe twenty minutes before finding them. I pull my on then go back into the bathroom to curl my hair. I finish at about seven thirty so I find my gold heels and gold bracelets. I put heart earrings in then work on makeup. I guess we're not leaving until eight which is in ten minutes. I go downstairs, carrying my heels in my hand, and find Ryan is changed, showered, and ready.

"You take forever. Come on, let's go." he says. We walk out to his car and I get in the passenger seat. As we drive to Olivia's house, I slip my heels on. We arrive at 8:05pm and go inside to see only a few other people are here. We chat and hang out for hours and eventually there are many other people here. Some I don't know but I know most of them. After three hours, it's two minutes until midnight. That means only two more minutes of 2015 and then it's a new year with new adventures. Pretty soon, Olivia starts the thirty second countdown and everybody starts counting down at ten seconds.

"Five, four, three, two, one!" everyone yells. People cheer and Ryan pulls me to him and kisses me. A few other couples kiss too and when I pull away from Ryan, I smile at him.

"Happy New Year, tiger." I say. He kisses me quickly then smiles as well.

"Happy New Year, baby girl." he replies.