Jasmine POV
I woke up to see Anthony's face right next to mine.
I checked my watch. 9:00.
Two hours until our last performance Off Broadway.
I decided to wake Anthony up.
I slowly unraveled myself from his arms and tried shaking him awake first.
"Anthony. Anthony" I whispered, shaking his arm.
Nothing.
I smiled and decided to attack his forehead with kisses.
He woke up; wailing, that is, because I don't think he saw me in front of him.
"Hey!" he whispered, laughing.
"Wake up, sleepy pants!"
"He rolled his eyes, and then I said, "Come on, we have to get ready for our last performance"
"Okay"
Time flew.
Just before the curtain closed, Anthony ran up to me and kissed me.
(While my heartbeat rapidly increased in .2 seconds)
A lot of "AWWW"'s spread throughout the audience. I even heard just about everyone backstage, as well.
When the curtain did close, Lin peeked out and said, "Oh, and may I introduce to everyone's favorite couple? Jasmine and Anthony. They just kissed a minute ago"
Cheers spread throughout the audience.
I blushed, although no one except Anthony saw me.
Later on, when I went to retrieve my luggage from my room, for the final time, I was surprised by Anthony hugging me around my waist.
"Anthony, you almost gave me a heart attack!" I exclaimed.
Instead of answering, he attacked me with kisses on my face.
We laughed so much that I started snorting, which only made me laugh more.
After a few minutes, after the laughter died down, he said, "We better head to the stage"
"Okay"
We walked together slowly towards the stage, but of course I tripped.
"My last trip. Quite literally..."
Anthony laughed and helped me up from the floor.
Once at the stage, Lin made us form a circle and hold hands again.
"Ready, guys?"
"Yup"
"Off to Broadway?" he said, not quite asking a question.
"OFF TO BROADWAY!!!"
There was a loud cheer as everyone started hugging, saying goodbye.
"I'm going to miss you constantly making hearts with your hands when I'm near Anthony" I whispered to Pippa.
"Bahaha! Just because I won't see you guys being canon all the time anymore, doesn't mean I'm going to stop shipping it" she squealed in reply.
But she said this in a devilish voice that made me wonder if Pippa was secretly a murderer.
Soon enough, everyone started leaving.
Anthony offered to take me to my, newly rented, apartment.
When we were in his car, he said, smirking, "I have a surprise for you"
I smiled.
His ideas of surprises scared me.
One time his "surprise" entailed of him pulling a plastic spider out of my ear.
"What is it?"
"If I tell you then it's not a surprise"
I rolled my eyes and said, "Really?"
"Yes" he replied, reaching over for my hand.
Eventually we arrived, and before I could say anything else, Anthony said, "May I suggest that you don't unpack?"
I frowned.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm going to give you my surprise. Close your eyes"
When I didn't, he walked over to me and tickled me.
"Hey!" I screeched, laughing. "Fine! I'll close my eyes"
Reluctantly, I closed my eyes and Anthony stopped tickling me.
A few seconds later, I had a paper in my hand and I felt Anthony in front of me.
"You can look now"
I opened my eyes and saw a plane ticket. Along with tickets for cruises.
To... Key West, and Cozumel? Plus a pit stop in Cuba.
I gasped and looked up at Anthony, who was smiling.
Then I plopped the tickets on the, still covered with plastic, couch and hugged Anthony so hard I might've made him puke the Sun Chips he ate earlier.
"Thank you so much! I love you!"
He hugged me harder and said, "I love you too"
I pulled away from the tight embrace and started jumping up and down, the way Pippa did when I talked about Anthony way too long.
"When do we leave?" I squealed.
"Tomorrow!"
"I'm so excited! And.. I better get my clothes ready. And I better brush my hair, it's messy!"
"You are too excited. But anyway, let me help you"
He helped me pick out my clothes, which happened to be a black knot-front top and jeans. Along with my Off-white sweater, just in case.
Then he helped me find my brush. (that was, very conveniently, placed all the way at the bottom of my luggage)
And then he kidnapped my brush.
Anthony insisted on brushing my hair although I whammed him with a pillow that I happened to find.
"Let me brush your hair!"
"No! I can do it!" I exclaimed, trying to steal my brush back from him. (And since I'm ten feet tall, I can totally reach it!)
"Anthony Martinez Ramos!"
"Jasmine Cephas Jones, my princess, what do you need?"
"I want you to give me my brush back!"
"Please let me brush it!"
Noticing I wasn't going to get my brush back due to his stubbornness, I said, "Fine! But you're buying me cookies tomorrow!"
"That's okay with me!"
Then I sat down, reluctantly, on the couch so he could be my hairdresser.
And let me say, he does it better than I do.
He divided my hair in four sections and brushed it out by section.
"You do this better than I do myself"
"Hmph" was all he responded, biting his lip, trying not to smile.
After the brush fiasco, he sat down next to me and tried to make me fall asleep.
Mission impossible! I was too hype and I wailed my feet like a little girl.
"Go to sleep, Jasmine" he said while laughing at my squirmy-ness.
"I can't!"
He kissed my forehead and said, "How about I sing to you?"
Without waiting for my answer, he began singing,
"I know I stand in line
Until you think you have the time
To spend an evening with me
And if we go someplace to dance
I know that there's a chance
You won't be leaving with me
Then afterwards we drop into a quiet little place
And have a drink or two
And then I go and spoil it all
By saying something stupid
Like I love you"
His sweet voice soothed me and calmed me down a bit. How, I don't know.
I started feeling drowsy.
"I can see it in your eyes
You still despise the same old lines
You heard the night before
And though it's just a line to you
For me it's true
And never seemed so right before
I practice every day to find some clever lines to say
To make the meaning come true
But then I think I'll wait until the evening
gets late
And I'm alone with you
The time is right
Your perfume fills my head
The stars get red
And oh the night's so blue
And then I go and spoil it all
By saying something stupid
Like I love you"
He kissed my forehead again and whispered, "Shh. Go to sleep"
Sleep overwhelmed me and I fell asleep, next to Anthony, in his arms.
The next morning was frantic, mainly because we woke up late.
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I literally squealed writing this WHOLE chapter.
But anyway, the next one? Zeus, save me.
I have no idea in what order they traveled, or wether they took only planes and cruises, or just one plane and the rest was cruises.
But I'm assuming they went to Miami first, then took a cruise to Key West, (an island near Florida) stopped at Cuba for a bit, and then went to Cozumel, Mexico. (Also an island)
That's the order I'm going by.
Little side note, the song up there is "Something Stupid" by Frank Sinatra. I like the version that Jennifer Lawrence and Edgar Ramirez sing over the original one.
Hammy out 💙
