Miraculously, we made it. I couldn't believe it. We were sitting on the back seat of a limo as we were getting swept away to our secluded honeymoon destination in the beautiful California hills. We were trying to charge our batteries for the upcoming two weeks, so I was tucked in your arms and we were both lost in thought.
We had been best friends for over a decade and had been in a relationship for the last two years. We knew all of the intimate facets of each other's personalities. For the longest time we were both too afraid of risking the friendship to consider entering into a relationship with one another. We never even told the other how we felt.
I was madly in love with you, for as long as I could remember but until that fateful truth or dare game one night about two years prior you had never known that. You wouldn't have found out that night if I hadn't drank as much as I had, and if you hadn't dared me to put aside all my censoring mechanisms and do the thing that I found the scariest at that moment.
I walked over to you, straddled your lap, and engaged you in the most passionate kiss my tipsy self could muster. I felt you come alive underneath me and as soon as you overcame the shock of my actions, you soon had me pinned against the couch and were kissing me earnestly in return.
Finally we wore ourselves out, and you set me up in the guest bedroom like you usually did when I was over and we had been drinking. You were in better shape than I was so you grabbed one of your t-shirts and sent me off in the direction of your bathroom to get ready for bed while you got the room ready for me. You turned down the bed, and picked out an outfit for me for the next day out of the closet and hung it on the back of the private bathroom door; it was just one of the little rituals that we had come to live by when we were together.
You woke me up the next morning with breakfast in bed. You sat on the edge of the bed as I ate and delicately brought up the subject of what happened the night before. You looked me in the eye, and said, "Hun, I know I haven't told you this before, but I have been madly in love with you since the day I met you, and all the time that we have spent together over the years has just helped to reaffirm it. I am happiest when I am around you and I would have told you a lot sooner if I thought you felt the same way. I am sorry I coerced you into it, but I felt like it was my one chance and I didn't want to lose it. Will you give me the honor of being my girlfriend and giving a relationship between us a chance?"
I had been tearing up as you spoke, mostly from the realization that everything that had happened the night before was real and wasn't just a dream. Up until the moment you breathed the words, I never would have thought you would ask me to be your girlfriend I never let myself even begin to hope that you felt the same way about me as I felt about you, so when you asked all I could do was nod. I was speechless.
I agreed and you wrapped me up in your arms, just holding me close to you. Then you got up, moved the tray of food from the bed and tackled me to the bed. You began tickling me mercilessly and my only recourse was to grab your face and kiss you. Your hands tangled in my hair and I gained the upper hand, before you knew it I had rolled us over and I was straddling you once again. You knew you were in trouble but figured you would see what I would do with the situation.
You were much more experienced than I was. I dabbled, you delved. So when you realized that I hadn't put anything on underneath your t-shirt, you were beginning to wonder how far I would let it go. As I began to trace squiggly lines all over your chest that began to slowly creep their way lower, you decided that enough was enough.