"It's so big," Brian said as he inched closer to me.
"I can't believe this is finally happening," I said smiling at him.
"After all this time. Are you ready for this?" He asked, knowing the answer.
"I still can't believe I own my own apartment." After living with Babz for the first 25 years of my life I decided to look at apartments, and I found the perfect one. And it also just so happens to be in New York. When you walk in the door the living room sits to your right while the left side contains the kitchen and dining room. Standing at the front doors you can look through the whole place to the back door, which leads to the small fenced in backyard. My room is in the back left corner, past the dining table, and is nice and roomy. Across the hall is the bathroom and spare bedroom; which I turned into an office to do all of my editing and gaming.
Before our New Year's trip to New York I checked out apartments online. I didn't want to spoil the surprise so I kept this a secret from Brian for a couple months as I shopped online. I eventually narrowed it down to two places. Once I got to New York I checked out the two apartments, signed a lease, and then went back to the train station to get picked up by Brian. He had no clue I had already been there for hours.
"Well as a welcome home present, why don't we break it in?" Brian asked as he ran his hands down my torso.
"Because I don't want to break anything." He let out a mischievous laugh and proceeded to plant a soft kiss on my lips.
"So…" I said as I walked toward the couch, near a hidden camera currently recording. As I suspected he followed me over and his eyes started asking questions.
"What?" He glanced around the room and back at me. "Why do you only have a tissue box on the table by the couch?" This random question confused me for only a quarter of a second. "What's the camera for?" He asked with a small smile. I was hoping I would be able to get away with the hidden camera but Brian is very observant.
"Brian," I pause choosing my words carefully. "I love you, and I'd drive over to your house every day just to see you. But I want more of you. I want to wake up next to you every morning, and I want to cuddle with you every night. Unless it's really hot, in that case you're on the couch." He smiled at the ground and laughed for a couple seconds, then returned his eyes to mine. I held his hand as I finally said, "Brian, will you live with me?" He gave me the biggest smile I have ever seen, grabbed me by the neck and pressed his lips against mine.
"Yes. A million times yes," he glanced at my unsuccessful hidden camera, "I recommend turning the camera off now, because you probably don't want your viewers to see what I'm about to do." I turned off the camera and returned to Brian.
"So what are you about to do?" I asked with a lust filled voice and loving eyes. In that instant he picked me up like a man would carry his wife to their honeymoon suite and took me to my bedroom. Correction, our bedroom.
Hours later, a little before midnight, we finished unpacking all of Brian's things. "So what are we going to do tomorrow?" I asked, excited that I had Brian all to myself.
"Well I have to work," I made a sad face and he added, "at least the commute isn't quite as long now. Living here cuts it down by about thirty minutes."
"So you'll be home around 6:30."
"We can make dinner together when I get home. It's pretty late so I'm going to head to bed. Are you going to stay up editing your video, or are you coming to bed?"
"I think it's bed time." I laid on the right side of the bed and Brian took his place on the left, but it didn't take him long to join me on my side. Our bodies fit together perfectly as he spooned me and draped his left arm over me. With the comfort of my boyfriend sleeping next to me I quickly fell asleep.
I awoke to Brian's lips on my forehead. "Have a good day at work," I mumble, still half asleep. I give him a kiss and add, "Love you."
"I love you too," he says, then leaves for work. I fall back asleep and wake up around 10am. I get around then head for Starbucks for my Americano to start my day. The first thing I decide to do is look for a job. In my search for an apartment I also searched for job openings and career opportunities so I followed up on that by meeting up with some companies and trying to secure some interviews. An insurance company I had been communicating with happily agreed to arrange an interview for me on Friday at 9am. After the job hunt I went to the grocery store to get stuff for vodka cream pasta, a meal I saw on Rachael Ray. I know Brian said he wants to cook together when he gets home but I decided to surprise him and have dinner ready when he walks in. When I get home with my groceries I put them away and go to edit my new video. When 6 o'clock rolls around I call Brian to get an idea of how much time I have before he returns home.
"Hey, are you almost home?"
"Yeah, about half an hour away," he responds. "Why?"
"Just wondering. So how was work?" We chatted for a few minutes as Brian told me about his day. After I got off the phone I went straight to cooking. While the pasta cooks I throw the garlic bread in the oven and chop up some squash and zucchini to sauté. I'm pulling the garlic bread out of the oven when I hear Brian open the door. "Dinner's ready," I say as I add the sauce to the penne noodles. "I know you said we should cook together but I wanted to surprise you."
"This actually works well, I'm starving," He says as he takes off his jacket and shoes. He walks into the kitchen and looks at my concoction. He gives me a kiss and says, "You're the best boyfriend ever."
"I know," I say jokingly. We each grab a plate and sit across from each other at the table.
"This is delicious," he says as he takes a bite of the pasta. "So what did you do all day?"
"I got my video done. There's going to be some crazy comments."
"Oh because of the kiss?" Brian asks, stabbing his fork into his veggies. "Maybe we should read them after dinner."
"That's what I was planning on doing. Oh, so guess what's happening Friday?"
"Hmm?" He says, chewing his garlic bread.
"I have a job interview with an insurance company."
"Nice. You'll be making bank if you get the job." I tell him about the rest of my job hunt as we finish our meal. As I'm putting the dishes in the dishwasher Brian says, "So are you ready to check on your crazy fans?"
"Oh yeah, this should be fun." We sat at the computer and I brought up my video of me asking Brian to move in. "Let's see, top comment goes to Chexican137, 'Omg! That is like the cutest thing I've ever seen! Omg love you guys. You should get married.' Exittricks says 'and then they had crazy monkey sex.'" Brian chuckled at this comment, recalling the event. We continued reading but Brian eventually fell asleep on me and went to bed, so naturally I stayed up reading the comments for hours. If they like this they should see what else I have planned.