30 Hours With You [Completed]

*BONUS CHAPTER*

Ellis

"So we're really going to do this?" I ask Thea gripping her hand tightly in mine as we walk into the lobby of the apartment building.

"Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, are you getting cold feet?" She asks smiling in her goofy way that always puts me in a good mood.

"When have I ever had cold feet with you?" I ask. Thea laughs and shakes her head.

"How about when you freaked out about our wedding and begged me to elope with you?" She pauses her brown eyes widening, "in Japan."

"That wasn't cold feet towards you, that was cold feet towards having a wedding. A wedding with hundreds of people and my family that doesn't really play nice," I explain.

"I know," she wraps her arms around my waist, "I guess eloping made more sense for us anyway. I'm just glad we didn't do it in Japan."

"Yeah,  Venice was a good choice."

"Can we please go inside now?" Thea asks leading me into the building, her arms still wrapped around me.

Even in the five years we've been together and the six months we've been married we still can't stop touching each other. We don't notice anymore. Our friends point it out constantly and we just smile because this is how it's always been for us.

We walk onto the elevator and watch the numbers go up to floor seven and we walk towards our new home.

"Can you believe we're back here?" Thea asks looking around the unfamiliar space bombarded with our boxes of things.

"In New York City?" I ask beginning to look through the box closest to the kitchen.

"Yeah," Thea still has this dreamy look on her face like she can't believe this is happening.

"I never thought you'd move here. I think you actually said that multiple times. The rats, the subway, the puking guys outside of bars. Do you remember this because I do," I say.

Thea laughs her obnoxious laugh that I love so much, "I don't remember any of that. I love rats and subways and don't forget how much I love riding through the city on a motorcycle."

"Ahh, yes, how could I forget that?"

Thea shrugs, "being away for so long and being in a new situation every other week has been fun but this is where it all started. I can't imagine us anywhere else and we've tried everywhere else."

"That was our plan. We went everywhere we wanted in Europe and then we went to as many states as we could here. New York is our best fit," I say.

"Michigan was a definite no," Thea says referring to our disastrous trip for me to meet her parents for the very first time. I broke my leg walking their giant golden retriever.

"I guess that wasn't really Michigan's fault," I tell her.

"Ehh, that was bad luck. We couldn't stay somewhere with bad luck. We didn't have any accidents here and we spent 30 hours together. You drove a motorcycle half asleep!" Thea says laughing again.

She walks over to me and sits right on my lap, ignoring the boxes and the mess we have to clean up, "I'm so excited to have a home with you," she kisses me.

"Me too," I say in between kisses, "we have to unpack."

"After we unpack can we get a dog?"

"What?" I ask.

"I want a dog, please!"

"Now?" I ask.

She nods eagerly, "I know you had a bad experience with Marcus but not all dogs are that crazy. We will train our guy to be a good walker. You know what? I'll just walk the dog."