Russell Howard Fanfiction - Love At First Laugh

Chapter 20 - Tour Boat

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CHAPTER 20 WHOOP. I'm sorry that I haven't done loads about the holiday, I just thought it would be difficult to make interesting when it's only between two people. There's not a lot I could write about in large quantities so I decided to skip near the end.

3rd Person POV

Russell and Y/N had been enjoying Paris for 6 days and today was their last. They had gone to Disney land, they had been up the Eiffel tower, they had toured the city to see landmarks such as Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre. They had been to a different restaurant every night and had many romantic evenings. The time seemed to go quickly and now they just had to figure out what to do on their last day.
After taking 30 minuites to decide, they finally agreed on going on a boat trip around Paris after lunch. That way they could re-visit most of the things they'd seen.
After eating lunch at a small cafe, they walked to the dock where the tours were taking place.

Russell's POV

We walked hand in hand through Paris under the warm sun to the dock. I didn't want to leave Paris. I now considered it as one of my favourite cities and the holiday had been one of the best I had been on.
When we had reached the front desk for the tour, we paid for our tickets and walked down onto the dock. Standing by the boat was two men who were greeting people and helping them on the boat. One of them approached us and said "Salut! Bienvenue à Paris Croisières. (Hello! Welcome to Paris boat tours.) (I DO NOT SPEAK FRENCH I USED GOOGLE TRANSLATE). I wasn't fluent in French and I only knew the basics so I had been relying on Y/N who was a lot better than me. I looked at her, hoping she would answer because I had no clue what they had said. I might have done this a bit too obviously as the man raised an eyebrow at me.
"Salut! Je vous remercie" (Hello! Thank you) She responded.
The man smiled at her, glanced at me and looked back at Y/N and said "Est ce que votre petit ami parle français?" (Does your boyfriend speak French?)
She raised an eyebrow and replied "Non, pourquoi?" (No, why?)
The man then said with a grin, "Bon parce que je voulais dire que vous êtes magnifique." (Good because I wanted to say that you are gorgeous)
"Merci, mais j'ai un copain désolé." (Thanks but I have a boyfriend sorry) she said with a small smile.
She gestured to me that we should go and I followed behind her to the boat and we both climbed on. We went up the stairs and sat on the top of the boat which was outside.

Y/Ns POV

When we had taken our seats, Russell turned to me and asked "So what did he say?"
"He thinks I'm gorgeous" She said with a devilish smile.
"He what?"
"He asked if you spoke French and I said no, so he then said good because he wanted to tell me that I am gorgeous".
"You are gorgeous but I don't know whether to laugh or be jealous."
We then started to joke about the situation.
"You need to step up your game Russell cause right now the French man is winning."
"Right what do I have to do then."
"Well first you need to be french"
"I can do that! Je suis poisson!"
"You are a Fish?"
"Hey, I didn't say I was good at it!"
"Right I'll give you that. Secondly you need to be a gentleman"
Russell straightens his body and puts on a posh pouty face. "M'lady, may I be of assistance?"
"I could do with a massage?"
He turns me around so that my back is facing him and he starts to massage my shoulders and back. Let's just say that Russell is the best at massages. After about two minuites he stopped. "Hey!" I complained.
"I'll do it again later. Next one"
"Okay now finally you need to be gorgeous like me"
"Already Done!"
"Hmmm ... you could do with some improvement"
"Oi!" He shouts as he starts tickling me. "S...s..stop...sto....STOP" I shout between breaths. Finally he stops, leaving me gasping for air. We both start laughing at our stupidity.

Finally the tour started. There wasn't that many people on the boat so we had a bit more privacy. I was wrapped in Russell's arm while we sailed through Paris. I don't think we were paying attention to what the tour guide was saying, I was admiring the city instead. It was by far one of the best places I had been to ... perhaps with the best person.

Russell's POV

While looking around at the sights of Paris, my eyes moved to Y/N. She was a lot nicer to look at. Her silky hair floating in the air, her bright eyes looking like Y/C/E lights. Her pink lips forming a small smile.

I realised in that moment ...

This was the girl I wanted to marry.

And today was the day I needed to ask her.

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Sorry it's a bit of a short Chapter!