It All Started with a Tweet- Chapter 98
"To my beautiful girlfriend," Justin said, raising his glass after getting everyone's attention. "I am so happy you are home. And I am so grateful I get to spend the holidays with you. Even if they had to be delayed a little bit," everyone laughed. "I love you," everyone raised their glasses and then took a sip before returning to their conversations. I excused myself from the table and walked over to Justin.
"That was some speech Mr. Bieber," I said, smiling and wrapping my arms around his waist.
"Why thank you, Ms. O'Neill. I though of it all by myself," he kissed the top of my head.
"Aw, I'm so proud of you," I giggled. "Come here, I want to introduce you to someone." I grabbed his hand and walked over to where Katie was standing with Marie, James, and Katie's brother. "Justin, this is Andrew, Andrew, this is my boyfriend Justin," I said, letting go of his hand so he could shake Andrew's hand.
"It's nice to meet you," Justin said, "thank you for your service man, I really appreciate it."
"It's no problem, I enjoy it," Andrew said, pleased that Justin had acknowledged his rank. It was a very unformal conversation, seeing that Andrew was only a few years older than we were. Andrew turned back to me and smiled, "it's nice to see you again Elena, we missed you the other day," I walked over and gave him a hug. Andrew had been like a brother to me growing up.
"Haha, I missed you too," I said, smiling.
"I'll be right back," Justin said, holding up his empty glass. "Are you going to be okay?" He asked me.
"I don't think Andrew is going to kidnap me," I joked, and Andrew laughed.
"She's safe with me dude." Justin nodded, and left. "So, you two serious?" He asked, glancing around the room. It was his training, but it bothered me that he was always ready for an attack.
"Yeah, we are. We've been together for about seven months." I smiled at some people walking by.
"Does he treat you right?" Andrew asked me seriously. See? I told you he was like my older brother.
"Yes," I laughed, "will you chill out? I'm okay," I said, patting his arm. "I'm a big girl now," I laughed again, and he smiled.
"Yeah, sorry. I worry about you and Katie though. Just my brotherly instinct," he laughed.
"So how is work? Are you staying safe?"
"As safe as I can hun, but obviously it's hard." He shrugged. "It's what I want to do though."
"Well, once again, I appreciate it," I said, smiling sadly. It's always hard talking to him, because any day he could be gone forever. I was reminded of that constantly. As I sat in school complaining about how boring it was, or as I get my hair cut getting annoyed because it was taking so long, he was out there fighting for his life, and our freedom.
"I know," he said, hugging me. "I'm sorry Elena."
"No, don't be," I said, wiping my eyes. "It's just been really hard these past couple days. And then seeing you brought up a lot of stuff," I said.
"Haha, trust me, seeing you isn't easy either. I was so worried when Katie told me..." he shook his head. That's when Justin walked over to join the conversation again. He stopped short, looking at my face. I was still a litle teary eyed.
"So you said she was safe with you and you make her cry instead?" He joked, walking to my side. "You okay?" He whispered, and I nodded.
"Sorry," Andrew laughed. "I'm going to go say hi to some people, I'll catch up with you later?" Andrew said, and I nodded.
"It's almost midnight," Justin said, smiling. "Do you know what that means?"
"I get to go home with you?" I said, laughing.
"That," he laughed, "and it will be a brand new year. How awesome is that?"
"So awesome," I agreed, checking the time, it was 11:30. I hadn't realized how late it had gotten. "What happens after this?" I asked.
"What happens after what?"
"After we go home? Where are we going from here?"
"Like literally, or metaphorically?" He asked me, confused.
"Both, I guess."
"Well tomorrow we are flying back to Canada, if that's okay with you?" I nodded, it was okay. I needed a break from life.
"Metaphorically...I don't know. Where do you want to go from here?"
"I want to start our life. Stop sitting around. All the stuff that has happened lately, the car accident and getting basically kidnapped...it gave me a lot of time to think. Think about what I want. We keep getting ripped apart, I keep coming so close to never seeing you again...why wait for things to start? Why don't we start them on our own?"
"So do you want to get engaged? Married?" He asked.
"Yeah, of course. But things like that I want to happen on their own. I don't want you to go and buy me a ring just because I asked. I want that to be a surprise. I want you to propose when you feel the time is right. I want to go to school. I want to go to school for photography. Because that's what I like, and that's what I want to do."
"Okay, you can do that." Justin said. "You can do anything you want baby."
"I want to act like normal teenagers who are in love. Enough of this heavy stuff, let's have fun."
"Sounds good to me," he laughed. "Anything else?"
"Nope, I think that's it," I laughed. "Do you want anything?"
"Just for you to be happy," he said, hugging me. "That's all."
"Everyone! It's 11:58! Let's all get into the living room!" Katie yelled, and I smiled, taking his hand. We found a place near the window, and there were people walking around the room passing out flutes of champagne. "Picture of the happy couple!" Katie said, holding up her camera, and I wrapped my arm around his waist and he did the same. We smiled, a perfect picture capturing the perfect moment.
"10, 9, 8, 7..." Everyone started couting down. I turned to look into Justin's eyes, this was my moment. "Happy New Year!" They screamed, and I looked at Justin, smiling.
"Happy New Year hunny," I said, putting my hand on his cheek.
"Happy New Year my angel," he whispered, kissing me, pulling me tighter. This was it, the moment I had basically waited for my whole entire life. "It's a new year," he said, looking at me.
"It's going to be the best, most perfect year ever," I said, leaning up to kiss him again. And I really hope it was going to be. I had waited long enough to be happy.
Hello lovelies! Sorry it took so long, I was waiting for a good chapter to form :) Story is getting kinda slow...comment to end it soon? Or comment with new ideas :)