Joe and Dianne: My suicide saviour

Will the light ever die out...?

Joe's POV:

After getting into the house last night, Di and I didn't really do much. Jet lag hit us both like a truck at around 5 pm last night. Mark and Rina understood and told us to get some sleep. Because of the time zone though, Dianne and I were both wide eyed any bushy tailed at around 3:30 am. We laid in bed for a while, waiting for the sun to come up and greet us with another blistering hot summers day.

Eventually, Dianne and I got out of bed, got dressed and quietly wondered out of the house. It was still dark outside, but Dianne and I didn't care. We slowly walked down to the beach hand in hand. We didn't talk but we just walked along the sand, enjoying each other's company.  We walked about a kilometre down the sandy beach before Dianne stopped walking and sat down on the sand.

She looked out into the ocean, which was a vibrant orange as far as the eye could see. I sat down next to the love of my life. I placed my arm around her and let her gently rest her head on my shoulder. We still hadn't said anything, but we didn't need to. We both looked out into the beautiful ocean, and watched the sun slowly rise off in the distance. I decided to break the silence. 

"Thank you." It was the only thing I said. The only thing I needed to say

"What for Joe?" Dianne asked slightly confused.

"Everything. I know that I have told you this millions of times before but I think you deserve to know every day. Dianne you're amazing. You're so sweet. So funny. So talented at everything. So perfect. Before I met you, my life was a mess. I was ill. I was heartbroken. I was so close to giving up on life. But from the moment that I saw you in that make up room all those months ago, I was cured. You were the reason I got up. The reason I took risks and gave life one more shot. And now here we are 6 months later and you are still all those things. And so much more. Now you aren't just the reason I get up in the morning. You're the reason I get up and stay up. Because the longer i'm awake and living life, the longer I get too see you and live life along side of you.

Every heart brake, and every painful memory I have, I would go through every day back to back, if it meant that I could have what I have with you now. I used to cut myself to let out the pain of life. But now that I know you, I would only cut myself to bleed out everything I have and more if it meant that I could keep you safe. I used to see no purpose in living, but now when I wake up, it's the first thing I see every morning. It's you. It's always been you. And it will forever be you.

I love you so much that words can't even describe how lucky I am. You're my fire. My life. My saviour. And I can't thank you enough for that."

Throughout all of this, I was looking out into the ocean. Watching the waves slowly crash onto the beach. and slowly drift back again. I finally looked down at the gorgeous woman who was resting in my arms. She had tears in her eyes, and a smile on her face. That smile was a drug for me, and I could begin to feel the effects of that drug. My skin began to tingle and my heart rate increased. She reached up and placed her hand gently on my cheek.

She pulled me down to her and we kissed passionately. We moved in sync with each other. Sparks were flying and life was perfect. We continued to kiss as the sun rose slowly above us. Illuminating the world, giving it life. I could have stayed like this forever, and part of me wanted to. We stayed in the moment for roughly 5 minutes before both pulling away at the same time. We stood up and began to walk back to the house. Hand in hand in silence. Nothing more needed to be said. We were happy. Together.

Dianne's POV: 

As Joe and I walked back towards home, I couldn't help but think about my own life. I was here in Australia with the best family a girl could ask for. I had the best boyfriend in the world, and for the first time in roughly 10 years, my life felt complete and I has truly happy. 

I wondered up the drive way, with Joe's hand clasped in my own. Our fingers intertwined and our lives complete. We went through the front door to find everyone sat at the dinner table waiting for us. Not just mum and dad, but everyone. My brothers, my sister in law and my niece and nephew.

The two youngsters ran at me and I bent down to give them a huge hug. "Auntie Dot!" They screamed as they ran over to me. "Mia, Billy!" I replied "I missed you two sooo much." They both gave me two huge smiles and a little giggle. I pulled away from the hug. I walked round and gave everyone else a big hug. First was my oldest brother and his wife. Then I moved onto my other brother Andrew. I would never tell Brendan (Can't remember if that's his name or not, but we're going with it okay people) this but Andrew was definitely my favourite of the two. After all, he was the one to start my dancing career, and the one who I worked with for the first 6 years of my professional life.

After saying hello to everyone I almost completely forgot about Joe standing patiently in the door way. That was until Andrew spoke to him.

"So i'm guessing that you're the famous Joe that Di won't shut up about then." He said to him making Joe laugh again.

"I haven't constantly been talking about you Joe don't worry."

"Yeah right" Brendan chirped in,

"What do you mean?"

"Di a month ago I talked with you on the phone for 45 minutes. 43 of those I stayed quiet whilst you talked about Joe."

"I hope it's nothing bad." Joe said making everyone laugh.

I was proud of how well he was getting on with my family. I did realise though that now he was surrounded by Australian accents just how posh and British he really is. But that wasn't important. We all sat down round the table enjoying a breakfast of coffee and freshly made pancakes. Life was at its best and I never wanted things to change.