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It was a little after 4 when he picked me up that afternoon. We wasted hours at the grocery store shopping for ingredients and food to bring to the new year's party at Charles's apartment that night. We cooked, we cleaned, we drove, we cursed (though I did most of the job), we laughed and we spent every passing hour together.

The night was beautiful, the crescent moon so gorgeously glowing with the little stars that looked like shinny dots from where I was standing. As soon as we arrived at the apartment, I knew it was going to be an amazing night because everything felt right and I had nothing to worry about. I had my boys around and I had my man by me.

I sat down and the stupidest jokes started falling out of our mouths. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. For once, home actually felt like home. Amid the crazy voices and loud music filling up the night, he tugged my hair and offered me a spoonful of the pasta we cooked in the evening. I opened my mouth like a little brat and he, smiling back, as if he knew I was expecting him to feed me. The night went on. Perfectly. We ate like cows, then we swam, then we ate again, not realising how quickly the hours were passing by.

2 hours to go, and it'll be a year since I made you mine, he said.

I know right? I answered and went out of the pool to do something so unimportant, I can't even remember what it was.

10 more minutes bitches! Charles screamed. And the boys got all retarded with their bellies filled with beer and hearts filled with enthusiasm. The music got louder though I could hardly hear a thing, but my heart pounding behind my chest. My ear drums were drumming along to the fading sound from the radio and the boys' screaming voices. We all stood by the pool, on that very rooftop, hand by hand, side by side and waited eagerly for the fireworks.

There it is! Shit! Yaaaay! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh; I screamed. Shrieking and grabbing on Eddy's hands, pointing towards the set of fireworks from the right. Charles welcomed my excitement while pointing to those he saw on the left. And alltogether, we jumped into the pool like a bunch of monkeys. The huge splash of water that hit my face and almost drowned my body, told me it was a new year. It told me that everything that has happened now only live in my memories and whatever that was coming was the start of a whole new chapter in my life.

From the floor of the pool where I landed, I swam back up towards the surface of the water and immediately took in my first breath for the year. It felt relieving, literally. I rubbed my eyes and felt a grasp underwater, someone from behind, pulling me from the front of my stomach. The force made my head bang into his chest and with my great sense of reflexes, I elbowed him back. He hugged me. I could feel his warm arms around me as he rested his chin on my head, as usual. We were all still completely amazed by the fireworks, and he was randomly fiddling around with my fingers. Amid the chaos, he lifted my right hand and I then realised him sliding something between my fingers, so I glanced down. And saw a shinny piece of white-gold resting on my 4th finger.

I kept quite. Wordless. Speechless. While I felt his lips on the side of my head and along with a voice so soothing he said 'Happy Anniversary, Boo. It has your name on it'

I held his hands a little harder than I did, still quite as before. I could feel his hug growing tighter as if he was somehow waiting for me to say something back. 'I love you' he continued.

I told him I loved him too and we spent the next half an hour in the pool, together being thankful for the year that had past us and hopeful for the year to come.

Happy New Year baby. And Happy Anniversary. A year together, and Im still crazze over you.