When In Paris

Chapter 14

CRYSTAL

I turn around to Justin and then back to the birthday surprise still surprised and wrapping my head around the fact that this is all for me.

"Is this really all for me?" I ask even though I know the answer to that.

He raises his eyebrow. "Who else?"

"Wow! This is so beautiful, Justin," I say to him. "I just don't know what to say"

He turns to me and smiles. "You don't have to say anything. I'm just glad you love it so much, Beautiful."

I smile at him. "I more than love it! This is just perfect and was beyond all my expectations on what you had planned. Thank you!" I say as I lean in to kiss him and then pulls away and smile. 

"Shall we," he says as he leads me down the rose petal pathway to the table.

"Thank you," I say to him as he pulls the chair out and then helps me to push me back in.

He smiles before he walks over to the other side of the table and sits down and shortly after Serena comes out holding two plates which I assume is our dinner. She smiles at us as she puts the down the plates on the table with my all-time favourite - Spag Bowl.

"Thank you Serena," Justin says. 

"Yeah, thank you so much Serena," I say. 

"My pleasure, enjoy you two," she says to us with a smile. 

Justin nods her head at her before she leaves and goes back into the house. 

I suddenly look down at the plate and then back up to Justin and shake my head with a smile. "You did not."

He just smiles at me.

"I can't believe you remembered."

"Beautiful, like I said before I remember everything about you," he says. "It also seemed pretty fitting to have this since this was the first dish, we were going to have all those years ago when I was going to ask you on date before everything happened."

I shake my head at him. "Oh, I see what's happening we are making up for lost time and also celebrating."

"You better believe it," he says in a low voice. "And we haven't even gotten to the best part."

We shake my head at him as we look at each other and smile for a moment before he grabs the champagne bottle that's in the bucket with ice on the side of the table.

He pops the champagne and then grabs the two glasses on the table and pours the champagne into them before handing one of the glasses to me.

"To you, Beautiful," he says as he raises his glass. "Happy Birthday, I hope you've had the best birthday today and I'm really glad I get to celebrate such a special milestone birthday with you."

I raise my glass too. "Thank you. I'm really glad I get to celebrate my birthday with you too. Lately birthdays for me haven't been very happy and worth celebrating but this birthday is different and that's all thanks to you and I know we have a long way to go in me trusting you fully." I pause and smile at him. "But I want you to understand I want all of this as much as you want, and I couldn't think of a better way to end my birthday than with you. I've been looking forward to tonight all day and now that's I'm here with you I don't want it to end." I say as we clink our glasses and take a sip.

He reaches for my hand. "Oh we are just getting started, Beautiful." He says with a smirk that makes me smile. "So how do you like your first glass." 

"Well, I'm no expect about champagne since I'm new to this world, but this is actually really good." I say as I take another sip, not getting enough of good it tastes.