Chapter 4 – Special Feelings
To get things off my mind, Alan surprised me with a trip to a river cruise and a trip to the ferris wheel.
“Hey Alan, aren’t you afraid of these things?” I asked with a shocked expression.
“Yeah, but you love them. And I’ll be safe with you I guess.” He attempted using the most romantic voice he had but failed.
“Awhs, that’s so sweet. But you don’t really have to you know. I’m fine with being on the ground.” I said blushing.
“Yeah, but well, it is a special date tonight.” He said with a wink.
“Huh??” I said puzzled.
“It’s okay. You’ll see as we finish the date.” He said with a smile.
I gave up asking and just went with it. We went first to a rather popular carnival around the area and killed our time playing the games.
Alan, being the “I need to win” type, managed to swoop in tons of prizes for me. Of course, when I tried, he laughed at my failures and continued getting prizes. I think the carnival people were quite sad to see their prizes depleting so fast.
As sunset came, we hurried on to the ferris wheel, not wanting to miss the beautiful scenery. Luckily enough, I brought my DSLR and we took a fantastic picture with the sunset behind us.
Behind the carnival, there was a river and they were offering river rides. As I mentioned before, he brought me there, braving himself to stay on the boat and not think about his motion sickness.
After that, we had our dinner at the restaurants nearby and took at walk next to the river.
The best thing was, the riverside was well decorated with beautiful neon lights and the reflection of the moon shone perfectly on the river.
“Hey, you wanna know why I did all this?” He suddenly asked, facing me.
“You’re not gonna dump me here are you?” I asked.
“No, after what I did? I feel as if that’d be a waste of money. If I really were to dump you, I’d dump you next to a garbage disposal.” He said bursting out with laughter.
“You jerk!” I shouted playfully, slapping his arm in the process.
“Hey! That hurt!” he replied, rubbing his arm.
“Anyways, the reason is that, today is a special day. Have you forgotten?” He said with a smile.
“Really?” I said thinking.
“I can’t believe you forgot!” he said pretending to be sad.
“Read the card I gave you. In that package.”
I opened the package he gave me. It wrote:
“Heh, I was pretty sure you’d forget. It’s our 100th day today. And I can’t believe that I remembered. I just wanted to let you know that, I love you from my heart and my love has never changed ever since I liked you. You’re still that funny, joyful and kind girl that I know.
I know you think a lot and often hide from the rest of the world. And even if I may not know everything, I understand and hope that in time, I will get to know the full you. I will always support and love you.
By the way, you owe me a kiss. And sorry for the sandwich. I hope this will replace it. =)
Happy 100th Day. I love you forever and always.
Alan.”
I closed the card hoping that he wouldn’t see my red face. I stood there for a while, staring at his face.
“Aren’t you going to open the present?” he asked.
“Oh yeah” I snapped into reality.
Slowly, I took out the box that came with the card. It was quite a big one and honestly, I didn’t know what to expect.
With caution, fearing something popping up in my face, I slowly opened the box with curiousity, and inside laid a beautiful white dress. I took it out admiring it’s beauty. To my realisation, it was that dress that I wanted when I went out shopping with him once. Sadly, I didn’t manage to buy it cause I was at a loss of cash.
“Like it?” his face popped up behind the dress.
“I love it… Oh my gosh Alan, I love you so much…” I said almost bursting into tears.
Almost immediately, I put the dress back and hugged him.
“I take it that you’re really happy then.” His face started to gleam.
I let go and was blushing red, speechless. He laughed.
“You’re really cute when you blush.” He said out loud.
And that made me blush more.
“Oh yeah, I almost forgot. This is also for you.” He took out a small box.
“Wait, you’re not going to ask me to marry you right?” I asked in shock.
“Of course not. I’m too young. But I do feel bad about not giving you this earlier.” He passed the box to me.
When I opened it, the content was a necklace, with a ring as a pendant. The ring was almost identical to the pendant he wore around his neck.
“I remember you wanting the same necklace. So I tried to find an identical one. If you look at it closely, you can see your name” he pointed to the ring.
Indeed, my name was engraved there, with a beautiful font too. I blushed again.
“You are really full of surprises. Thank you for cheering me up. And making my day” I said with the best tone I could get seeing as I was about to burst into tears.
“And, I’ve got something for you too. Close your eyes.” I said.
He listened, trying to peek but to no avail. And I did my end of the bargain, I gave him a kiss.
His eyes opened, with a shocked expression which then turned into a really relaxed and happy expression. He kissed me back.
“I love you” he said.
“Me too.”
