Our Happy Ending ¬ 8BitRyan x Reader

Chapter 12

1 YEAR LATER

This was the day of Ryan and I's one year anniversary. We didn't ever celebrate one month or six months anniversary as we thought that was a bit stupid. As I would put it, I had bottles of water in my bedroom for longer than that.

Ryan had told me that for our one year mark, he would take me on a special date. A unique one. I loved surprises, but for this particular surprise, I really wanted to know what it was. I could hold on just a few more hours though. It was two o'clock and he was going to take me out at five. I didn't really need three hours to get ready but it made the time pass; at least I would definitely be ready to go by five.

I found myself in the shower, washing my hair. The warm water pounding against my back whilst i lathered on the conditioner onto my hair. Ryan had left to go do something important and said he would be back at half four. 

Once I had fully washed my hair and my body, I turned the shower off then cautiously clambering out of the snow white bathtub as to not slip: that would do it if I slipped, it would ruin our date! Grabbing myself a towel that was placed on the radiator next to the bath, I quickly dried myself followed by going into my bedroom to pick out my clothes. Ryan had told me to wear something not to fancy but to wear a dress, so I picked out my favorite simple black laced dress. I didn't really like wearing dresses if I was being honest, hence why I had a rather large choice of two dresses; A black dress or a dark blue navy dress. I slipped on the black dress before then walking to the large mirror on my wardrobe. 

I picked up my brush that was sat on my vanity unit and began brushing my hair. I wasn't going to do anything fancy with my hair as if you knew me by then, you would know that I was extremely lazy. I left my hair down, only parting it to the left side of my face slightly. I didn't bother drying it, as again... I was lazy. It would end up looking pretty curly because I hadn't done so but at least that meant I wouldn't have to curl it later... great life hacks you should learn.

 Lucy was great at life hacks because she too was lazy, trying to get out of anything she could. We were freakishly too alike. Lucy hadn't come back to visit us since last year, her career in cheer had really took off and she was there practically full time, she had even managed to persuade Dan to do cheer with her. She had her own team now. She was the head coach and she liked to call Dan the 'assistant coach', which I don't think he appreciated that much. The other day she had said that she was trying to teach Dan how to do a handstand and that he wasn't very good at it but with practice he would get there. Dan who was sat next to her had an expression on his face as if trying to say 'what the fuck are you talking about', again, I don't think he was too pleased to hear that. He wasn't really pissed off at her because he would laugh afterwards. When he would leave the room to go and film a YouTube video, Lucy would start obsessing over him. They had been together for only slightly longer than Ryan and I had been, but it was clear that she still loved him as much as she loved him the first day he had asked her out, if not more. 

Lucy and I would still call a lot, just instead of calling each other on Whatsapp everyday (or nearly everyday), we called just once a week... on Saturdays, as she didn't work on that day and nor did I. Over the past year I had gotten two jobs. I didn't enjoy the first one I had managed to obtain, so I left. I was now working at Waitrose. Yes, I worked at the till. I didn't get paid much, but I loved my job and it was paid enough along with Ryan's YouTube money to pay for our apartment and stuff. 

I had fully finished brushing my hair, I didn't do any makeup. I was now what I thought 'ready'. It was also no longer two o'clock but half four. I was glad that I had decided to get ready just that little bit earlier. Getting ready always took me longer than I usually thought it would.