Love at First Sight

chapter 8

        It’s my birthday now I guess. Drew has been on the phone a lot lately, I wonder why. I just lay in bed quietly until Drew wakes up.

         “Good morning beautiful.” His voice is husky and sexy in the morning. He rolls over and kisses me. This is really all I need for my birthday, him right next to me all day long, forever. He kisses me on the forehead and asks for me to stay up here. I’m seventeen.

         He then comes into the room again and has his hands behind his back. I wonder what’s in his hands. He sits beside me and tells me to close my eyes. I’m sitting up on the bed now. I feel something pop onto my thighs. He says “Open.”

         I open my eyes. There’s a yellow box on my lap, the same type of yellow that I wore two days ago. I pick up the box and then I look at him smiling. The box is medium sized. I just look at it, I don’t open it until Drew nods at me. When I open the box, I see a book. The book is titled Forever and Always, but I looked at it closer and I realized it’s not just a book, it’s a photo album.

         “I hope you like it. I made it while you were out on the beach; I just sat on the porch watching the wind blow through your long blonde wavy hair. It calms me looking at you, you are  the best girlfriend anybody could ask for.” He smiles at me. I look through the pictures, even though we’ve only been dating for two and a half months, there are so many pictures of us. Finally I get to a part titled California. I see a bunch of seashells and starfish in the plastic cover of the album. I also see pictures of us kissing on the pier.  I start crying. Drew pats me on the back.

         “Happy birthday,” he says.

         “How did you know?” I say back still crying.

         “ I heard your sister say something about it while you were on the phone,” I hug him tightly to let him know that he means so much to me, and I’m so glad that he’s with me, “Hey you know I would do anything for you.” He pats me on the back. I eventually stop crying, and we kiss.

         It’s lunch time now, so Drew says that he will take me to any restaurant that I want, I told him that I definitely don’t want to go to Cool Sea’s again, and he agreed. We looked at the directory again and found another restaurant to go to.

        At lunch, we both ordered chicken parmesan.

         Later we went out to the beach again just to lie out. While we were at the beach we both took a nap, I dreamt about Drew again, and how we will both live happily ever after. While Drew is still sleeping, I take out a piece of paper and a pen, and I write a letter to him.

 Dear Drew,

         You have made this the best birthday I have ever had, I love you so much. I hope we don’t ever part, but we’ll stay together forever and always. I hope we will keep adding our life to the photo album. I hope we will get married and have children. I hope a lot with you Drew, but that’s all we can do right now, you have helped me get through the toughest things, and I love you for that. I love you for so many other things to. I never want you to leave me because if you do, I will be lost in life, I wouldn’t know what to do. You make my life shine so bright, and you keep me from being depressed. I know so many other people in my life and yet you’re my favorite. You keep my head held high. I want to be with you every single day of my life. I know tough times will come, and one of us might want to part, but I know we won’t. California was amazing, but it was beyond amazing since you were with me. This letter may not ever be delivered, but either way you need to know that I love you so much and I would do anything for you, as you would for me.