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Virginie's Point Of View

A YEAR LATER

August 4th

Fourteen months ago, my life changed drastically. I've worked hard to maintain a good and happy life with all the changes I had to face. Now, another chapter begins as I'm heading back where it all started.

I graduated from College, finally. I have my degree and I couldn't feel more mature and accomplished than I do right now. I'm beginning my future with bright intentions. I have a lot to prove and a beautiful city to inspire me like it has before. I'm ready for my next journey.

I made the decision to move to London, leaving my family behind for a while to get closer to Matt. Our relationship has grown so close so fast until we got to the point where he had to leave to go back home. We didn't break it off and I was happy to try and work this long distance relationship out with him. His confidence in us made me trust that we would be fine, even thousands of miles apart. It was hard work and it had lots of tears involved. I missed him so much and I still do with everything within me. My parents were incredibly supportive of our relationship, the distance and me moving across the world. I guess that they knew how in love I am with this city and it was a no-brainer for me to go back. Having now Matt more present in my life, pushed me to make it true.

The hardest part of our relationship was the time zones. The long distance wasn't that hard to deal with, even though not feeling his skin on mine, his kiss or his touch was tough, the hardest part was always scheduling Skype dates. It eventually became part of our routine, but it was hard at first to figure it out.

The souvenir of our 'wedding' constantly runs through my mind as it was the most beautiful and nerve wracking day of my life. It made me realise how real I wanted this relationship to be and turned out to be. He proved me right then that he was my best friend and my partner through any extraordinary, stupid stuff I get us into.

After our 'wedding', Matt's best man, Rico, invited his wife Regina to dance and we had a beautiful ceremony. It wasn't much, but it made us all very happy. It got Matt and I very caught up and, as I told him, I showed him the new bra I bought at Victoria's Secret. It didn't take long for Matt to lose interest and decide to take it off. We had a real honeymoon. It was amazing. I never though someone could make me feel a glimpse of what I felt with Harry, but Matt makes me hope that it could become something great.

I must admit that the rest of the road trip was more spent in the bedroom than sight seeing, but we don't regret a thing. I knew that, the second we would get back home, we wouldn't be as free as we were on the road. I was right. I never told my family about Matt and I, we kept it a secret for a while until his family showed up. Cindy, clever as she is, figured it out on the spot, by the sight of our faces. Her exact words to me were 'You, my slutty best friend, shagged up my brother, haven't you?'. I didn't reply anything, I just kept on smiling, feeling all the giddiness inside of me. It got obvious to everyone when Matt insisted on sharing my room at home instead of joining his family at the Inn.

They stayed for two weeks and we had the best time. My parents and his bonded instantly and Dad was fascinated with Sophie's history. Everybody almost always ended up at home for dinner and we had the best time.

Unfortunately, these two weeks went by too quickly. So, Matt decided to stay instead of going back with his family. He talked about staying for another month, but he literally spent the whole summer with me.

September got closer and closer and I got back to school. I dragged him to some of my classes to get a taste of my University in Montreal. It was in French, he struggled a bit, but it was so nice to have somebody by my side and to talk to in the subway. He wanted to stay until my birthday and that's what he stubbornly did, even though it was a few days away from his first day of school.