Lessons on Love (L.O.L.) {Watty Awards 2012}

Chapter Thirteen: Modeling for true love

Part III

“Happy anniversary!” I said as I gave Darion a gift wrapped in blue paper with a blue bow. 

I just sat there with a smile on my face as I watched Darion open his gift. Once Darion realized what it was he just stared at the picture in a frame of us kissing for the first time. That was also the day we made it official, which happen to be the day we were celebrating. 

“What do you think?” I asked.

“I think we should become models.” He replied. 

We both began laughing and then Darion became serious.

“I think we both found our true love. Just by looking at this picture anyone could tell that we were meant to be together. This picture looks like something you would see in a romantic movie or something.” 

We both observed the picture of us on the beach kissing with the fireworks going on above us. 

“I love it, and I love you.” 

“I love you too.” I said. 

We kissed. 

“I’m going to put this on the table next to my bed at home.” 

“That’s where I put mines, but what are we going to put in here?” I asked. 

We looked around the bedroom of the beach house and then looked at each other.

I had a thought of marriage in my head and I like to think Darion did too. 

“We’ll figure it out when the time is right.” I said. 

“Well until then, here’s my gift.” He said as he gave me a box. 

I opened the box and saw a silver ring with our initials D.J. engraved on the inside of the ring. 

“After searching and searching for the first promise ring I finally decided to just get you a new one because you’re worth it. As you can see it has our initials engraved on there.” 

“Yeah I noticed that and I love it.” I said staring at the ring. 

I put the ring on and gave him a hug and a kiss.

We both began to get a little excited as we continued to kiss. By this time we had gotten used to expressing our love for one another, but tonight seemed extra special because it was our anniversary. We spent the whole summer together living in the beach house, so we had all the privacy we needed. Though this would be the last night we would spend together in the house because we would be going down to Indiana for college.

The next morning I woke up from hearing my phone ring. 

“Hello.” 

“Hey sweetie. Where are you?” My mother asked. 

I looked at the time before answering the question. 

“I just woke up. I’ll be there soon.” 

“Ok, but don’t take too long or you two will fall behind schedule.” 

“Okay.” 

I hung up the phone and looked over at my love sleeping with his mouth open. I decided to take a few pictures of him sleeping with my phone. I forgot to turn down the volume on my phone, so every time I took a picture I would hear a clicking sound.

After taking a couple of pictures Darion began to wake up. Once he had fully awakened and realized what I was doing he quickly got up, grabbed me, threw me on the bed playfully and then jumped on top of me.