Yes, I Do

Few days ago, our relationship turned 2 years old. In our busy hectic schedule, we still managed to get through in these years. To my worse luck, this year we weren't able to celebrate our anniversary together because I was out of country for an important conference. 

On my return flight, there was an older couple sitting just to my adjacent seats. It seemed that even after all these years, they have retained their love and admiration for each other.

Seeing this I suddenly started feeling sour, definitely not on them but on myself because that made me realize that how I was unable to give him time, affection, admiration and love all these years. It is needless to say that I always become a coward when it comes to expressing love.

I started thinking that all these years how he and I were in relationship, I started thinking that how less I am involved in our relationship.

Feeling woeful, I started scrolling through our pictures and to my disappointment today I realized that in these two long years I have never taken his stolen shots and candid's at all.

Suddenly I heard the older man say, "Remember when we were like that?'

I looked at the picture, it was the picture of our first date in historical museum (what a place for a date) but we are still looking so in love with each other. I just looked at the couple & smiled. We did have a small chat after that just for knowing each other superfluously.

After a while, hot tears started falling my eyes because of all the realization I had today. At the same time, I got angry on myself as well as at him because all these years he never complained to me about my irrational behavior and so much dissociation from our relationship. But what can I do, at the end of the day it's all my fault.

After landing, on the way out I expected him to be sulking about me being working on our anniversary but there he is standing with his honey dripping smile with crescent yet sultry eyes and that cute nose scrunch with bunny teeth peeking out. He was looking so adorable while waving his hands. I felt like I am falling in love with him all over again.

He bears hugged me and started asking me about my flight, my work, my journey and everything. His voice was smooth like velvet and addicting like s’mores without any tinge of sulking or aggression or mocking. 

At that time I realized that there are some persons in this world whom you meet in your entire lifetime, you can fall in love with very few of them but there are even lesser of them whom you both fall in love and want to spend an eternity with.

On the way to parking lot, we laughed and giggled all the way. In between all this I told him about my meeting with the old couple on the plane and emphasized on the statement he said and slowly asked him while casually talking that Do you want to be like that.

I suddenly felt that he had stopped walking, at that time my heart skipped a beat not in love but in fear, in fear of losing him.

I turned back around and before I could say something he looked seriously straight in my eyes and said," Crackers, this is the one of the worst places for proposal and I don't want to excavate my heart for you in front of cars of anonymous person with lots of annoying horns blaring around." At that very moment a car pressed horn behind us and me bursted out laughing.

This adorable piece of human just laid his entire heart and feelings in front of me in the most beautiful way I can ever imagine.

I literally got wheezed during laughing, after taking deep breaths I noticed he had a ring box in his hand, and said, "I can't wait until we're like that!"

I got spellbound, being an idiot in expressing myself I just snogged him pouring all my feelings in it until I got out of breath.

Taking long breaths, I just simply told him, Yes, I do.