Kai Moretti

I opened my eyes when I felt Deandra's hand trailing my naked chest. I turned to her and she's already looking at me with those eyes. She turned on the nightstand and laid on my chest.

"It's Christmas." She said and I turned to the clock to see it's 2 in the morning. I kissed the top of her head.

"Merry christmas, love." I said and she looked up to me.

"Merry christmas." She smiled and I held her hand. Suddenly she got up and got off the bed completely naked. She put on my shirt and walked towards the window. She opened the curtains and it's snowing.

I got up and put my pants on. I walked to her and hugged her from behind.

"I have a gift for you." I said whispering it to her ear. She turned around and raised her eyebrows.

"A gift?" I nodded and I grabbed her hand making her sit down on the edge of the bed. I pulled out my drawer and grabbed the black velvet box. I sat beside her and put the box in front of her.

"Can I open it?" She asked and I nodded. She opened it and her eyes widen. She looked up to me and I smiled.

"Do you like it?"

"It's beautiful." She said as she looked at it. Last month, I visited a jeweler to customized a necklace for her. I want this necklace to be a symbol as my promise to her.

I grabbed the necklace and put it on her. She hugged me and kissed me.

"Thank you." She said and I gave peck on her lips.

"Glad that you like it.. it's like a promise ring but a necklace that you're tied to me forever." I said and she chuckled.

"I have a gift too." She said.

"Really? I think I told you not go get me anything." I said and she gestured me to sit on the bed. I sat on the bed leaning my back to the headboard. She told me to close my eyes.

I could hear her grabbing something and then She sat on my lap. She put both of my hands out and I could feel something on my hand.

"Open." I opened my eyes and saw a small photoalbum on my hand. I looked up to her and smiled. I opened the first page and it was a photo of us in Paris where I made a small photo studio for her.

Then as the page goes.. it filled with a lot of photos for us throughout the photoalbum but then.. it stopped on a empty white frame. Behind those white frame pages, there's a lot of empty slots for photos.

I turned to her and she took out a polaroid.

"I really want to have this memory because today would be a special day for you and me." She said as she turned on the camera. She laid her back to me and she took a selfie of us. She pulled out the photo and gave it to me.

"Did I plan something today?" I asked as I looked at the result that's slowly showing. She took the picture away from me and she already have a black marker on her hand. She wrote something on it. She then put the polaroid and the marker on the nightstand. She sat back on my lap and she looked at me straight into my eyes.

She gave it to me and I looked at it. I could feel my whole body froze and I even looked at it again and again to see if I'm reading it right. I turned to Deandra and smiled.

I put the polaroid into the photoalbum with a special white frame on it. I looked at it again and again.

"I love you, Kai Moretti." I could feel my heart stopped for a split second when she said that. I looked up to her and she moved closer to me.

"I know.. it took me a long time to say it but I just want to be sure of my feelings before saying it to you." She said as she put her hands on my chest. I could feel the emotions within me and I just.. can't believe she said it.

I've been waiting for it for almost a year since we got together and I'm just over the moon for this. I never expected her to choose this day to say it to me.

"I'm- I'm speechless." I said and with that she crashed her lips to mine. She circled her arms around my neck and I pulled her closer leaving no gap between us.

Suddenly I could feel her body shaking as she hugged me tightly. I was shocked to see it because shouldn't it be me who cry after she said I love you.

"Deandra." I said as I patted her back.

"Hmm?"

"Are you crying?"

"No." Her voice can't lie. Instead of forcing to see her face, I let her calm down and pretend it didn't happen. Deandra has always been difficult to say her feelings out loud. She either use her actions or just stay silent most of the time.

Suddenly something within me just snapped, I really want to marry her. I mean when I said I love her for the first time, I always thought about marrying her but I know I will wait for the right to do so but now.. the urge to marry her if so big that I couldn't hold it anymore.

"Deandra."

"Hmm?"

"What do you think about marriage?" I asked and with that she pulled back. She wiped all her tears and she looked at me completely shocked.

"Marry me." I said.

"Kai, I'm-"

"It's okay. You don't have to answer me right away." I smiled.

"How about we go outside? I want to walk in the snow." She said as she turned to the window.

"It's cold, are you okay with that?"

"We can take a hot bath after that."

"Okay."