Emerald Eyes

56 - Lucky One

After two more hours in Martijn's studio, I had enough: "Martiiiijn... I'm tired. Can't you continue this tomorrow please?", I said and hugged him from behind. "Baby, I'm sorry, I just had so many ideas I wanted to get to work on while they are fresh... Maybe you get ready for bed now and I'll be there in... Give me half an hour? Pleeease?", he begged. "Okay, idiot. Love you.", I answered and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Love you too, baby.", he answered without even looking up. Then I walked downstairs to get ready for bed. I took my make-up off, brushed my teeth and changed into some shorts and one of Martijn's t-shirts that I loved to sleep in. After that, I cuddled up in his bed already and while I was waiting for him to come down, I scrolled through my phone a little, texting Anna and my dad. Another half an hour passed without Martijn showing up, so I decided to take things into my own hands and made my way back to his studio. As I entered the room, he was still sitting there, tweaking the kick-drum of the track. "Honeeey...", I begged, "I'm waitiiiiiing. You promised to come down and cuddle with me." Martijn turned around and said: "Oh is it that late already? I didn't even realize..." "It is... Are you coming now? Please?", I asked. "Sorry, love. I'll be there in five, this time for sure!", he promised. "I'm counting on you, Garrix.", I answered and Martijn gave me a little kiss. "Five minutes. I swear.", he smiled. "Alright.", I said and walked back down to the bedroom. And really, five minutes later Martijn showed up. "Here I am, baby.", he said and quickly started to change for bed. Then he laid down next to me and wrapped me in a big hug: "I'm sorry you had to wait so long, beautiful." "It's okay, now that I have you here, honey.", I said. It was dark outside already and soon, we also turned the lights off for the night and enjoyed being close to each other. The next morning, I woke up to a kiss from Martijn: "Good morning, beautiful.", he smiled. "Hey, honey. Good morning.", I answered. "I've made breakfast for you out on the balcony in the sunshine. Ready to start the day?", he asked and gave me another kiss. "Aww, thank you Martijn. That is so nice!", I smiled. I got up, got ready as fast as possible and then joined him on the balcony in the sunshine. Martijn had made his favourite breakfast dish, scrambled eggs and toast, as well as some coffee for both of us. We enjoyed our breakfast and as always, I admired the view we had over Amsterdam. "Martijn?", I asked. "What's up, love?", he wanted to know. "I just wanted to say how much I enjoy all of this. I know the circumstances weren't the best, but I do enjoy having you home just so much.", I explained. Martijn leaned over the table to give me a little but very passionate kiss: "I know how much it means to you, baby. And I enjoy it too! I promise, when I go back on tour, we'll find a way to have breakfast in the sunshine together as often as possible no matter where we have a show scheduled. Okay?" "I'd love that.", I smiled. We continued talking and talking and I even persuaded him to do a little walk through the park during noon. Before we had to get ready for Julian's birthday party, we picked up my car from the university parking lot. As we got back to the apartment, we both took a shower and then started to get dressed. Julian had wished for the dress code to be a little more fancy than for a usual birthday party, so I dressed up in a peach skirt and combined it with a white blouse. "I hate dress codes like that. I don't even know what to wear...", Martijn sighed from somewhere in his closet. I peeked my head in and pointed towards one of his nice button down shirts: "What about this one? I mean you don't need to combine it with suit pants, just wear like a black jeans or something.", I suggested. "Are you sure?", he asked. "Absolutely. You look stunning when you dress up like that, Martijn.", I assured him. "But I am gonna wear sneakers.", he laughed, "Nobody can take that from me." "Deal.", I smiled and he agreed to wear the nice shirt. Only then he suddenly stopped and looked at me: "Wow, girl, you're looking gorgeous today. Can you believe how lucky I got with you, little one?", he said and pecked a little kiss on my forehead before he continued getting ready. As he was done, I returned the compliment: "I'm the lucky one here.", I said, "Look at you, handsome. You should dress up like that a lot more often!" "Don't you love me in my hoodies, girlfriend?", he started to mock me. "Of course I do.", I laughed and gave him another kiss. We then headed downstairs to the lobby, where Jacob greeted us from the reception: "Have a great night!", he said, "You two look stunning today." "Thank you, Jacob!", we both said and then made our way to the parking garage. We then drove over to Julian's house. Martijn and I had agreed to arrive a little earlier to help him and Anna with the party preparations. I changed back into my heels, before we walked up to the door hand in hand. Julian opened the door and Martijn gave him a hug: "Happy birthday, brother! Love you!" "Thank you, man!", Julian answered. Martijn then stepped aside and it was my turn to give Julian a hug: "Hey, Julian! Happy happy birthday!" "Thank you, Line! It's good to see you!", he answered, "Come on in you two. Anna's already in the middle of the preparations somewhere in the kitchen, I'm sure she'll be happy to see you as well!" We both headed in and started to look for Anna, so we could give our shared birthday present to Julian...