-Joe- We eventually went outside and looked around Winter Wonderland. As we walked past some stalls, Dianne stopped at one and looked up at one of the prizes in awe. It was a big brown teddy bear.
"Joe, look at the size of that bear!" She grinned.
"You want me to win it for you?" I smiled to her. She nodded like a big kid. I chuckled. "Okay."
I walked over to the guy running the stall and handed him the money. He handed me three balls. I just needed to knock over all ten of the tin cans to win the bear.
I threw the first ball and knocked two off of the top. I threw the next one and knocked off four from the left side leaving a row of three on the bottom and one on top.
I sighed and threw the last one. I hit the one in the middle on the bottom row. That pushed the one on the right away. The can on top fell and knocked the end can off too.
"Joe! You did it!" Dianne cheered as she hugged me. I grinned and hugged her back tightly.
"Of course I did. I needed to win it for you! Go on, pick which one you want, Di!" I told her as she let good me. I watched her as she went over and picked one out.
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We finished our hot chocolates and stood up from the benches.
"That's warmed me right up!" Dianne grinned as she picked up her huge bear and held it close.
"You won't wanna cuddle me tonight, you've got the bear!" I chuckled.
"You're very right, Joseph." She laughed.
"Yeah whatever." I smiled more. "Would you fancy joining me up on the Ferris wheel, Miss Buswell?"
"I'd love to, Mr. Sugg." She grinned as she ran towards it. I couldn't help but laugh as I watched her try to run with the bear in her arms. I walked along behind her as she waited for me at the entrance.
I paid what we needed to pay in order to get on then we got into the next available seat. The owner let us leave the bear with the bags at the bottom so we sat down happily.
As we started going up, I wrapped my arm around her and pulled her close.
"It's nice for it to just be us again." I smiled down to her as I kissed the top of her head.
"I know what you mean. Your friends are lovely but I feel like we need to hold back on what we do around them."
"Yeah. I know. Don't worry, we're probably just not used to being public with everything yet. It'll feel normal in the end." I reassured her. She looked up at me and smiled softly. I smiled back and kissed her. I felt her kiss me back so we kept kissing.
We eventually stopped as we reached the top.
"I don't know what's more beautiful, Di. It's a real problem." I smiled down to her. I pulled out my phone and took a picture of her with the Winter Wonderland lights around her. "It is definitely you." I saw her blush and try to hide her face.
"Come on. Let's get one of both us and the lights." She suggested. We both managed to turn our bodies so the lights were behind us. I held my phone out and she rested her head on my shoulder. I rested my head on top of hers, made sure the lighting was good and that we were in focus then took the picture. "Let's see it."
I opened the picture and fell in love it straight away.
"These two, the one of you and the one of both of us, are definitely my two favourite pictures ever." I grinned to her.
"Can you send me the one of us? I want it to be my lock screen." She smiled.
"Aren't you gonna take one of me for your home screen too?" I grinned cheekily.
"I've already got one. And I already love that one so much." She replied as she unlocked her phone and showed me. It was me asleep on her. It must have been taken earlier this evening. "But I want one for Instagram anyway. Do your pouty thing so I can take a picture." She chuckled.
"Pouty thing?" I laughed.
"That thing where you look out into the distance. You know what I mean." She laughed and nudged me. I knew what she meant so I did it.
[pouty thing: 😂]
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I heard her phone make the noise as she took the picture. I turned to her and looked at the screen.
"Ooh, that's actually really good." I grinned. "I wanna post that on Instagram."
"We can't post the same picture, Joe!" She told me. I frowned softly as I thought, then an idea came.
"How about I post the picture of me and you post the picture of you?" I chuckled.
"But Joe, I-" she protested.
"I know you wanted to post a picture of me. And what I'm about to say may sound horrible, but if we post two similar pictures of ourselves, with similar backgrounds, it will tease the fans. They don't know for sure that we are here, together." I smiled.
"Joe! That's horrible. You can't do that to them. They've been waiting months for this news." Dianne said seriously to me.
"And we've given them the news. I just don't want to be too public about us because every time I do that, it ends badly." I replied with a frown.
"Yeah we've confirmed it, but I've also waited months to be public with you, Joe. I know that I'm affectionate and you know how I've struggled these past months to hide it from the media and your fans."
"I know, Di. But I don't want to lose you because of the media." I told her. She sighed and stayed silent. As the wheel went round and got to the bottom, she got straight off and walked away. "Dianne!" I called after her.
I grabbed the bear I'd won for her and tried to run after her. I was a couple of metres behind her when I saw her stop and talk to someone.
My heart started racing as I ran over.
"Di, who's this?" I panted and looked up to him, instantly recognising who it was.
