"Gilbirt, wake up. You smell like terrible beer." Matthew felt like a parent trying to wake his child for school.
Gilbirt flailed his arm. "Five more minutes."
"You've been saying that for the past hour. Do you even know what day it is?"
Gilbirt rolled over. The bed sheets tangled around his waist and he let out a muffled form of no. "My head hurts too much."
Matthew rolled his eyes. He learned forward to whisper to the half-asleep albino, "It's our anniversary."
Gilbirt immediately shot out of bed.
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"Has it really been three years?"
Matthew nodded. He sat at the base of a tree covered in orange leaves.
"Man, time goes by so fast sometimes." Gilbirt said, mostly to himself, as he sat next to Matthew.
Matthew raised an eyebrow. "Should I be offended?"
Gilbirt smiled. "It's a good thing. I'm having fun with you."
Matthew chuckled. "I know."
Around them, birds chirped and the cool breeze felt nice on their skin. Matthew closed his eyes to listen to the colorful forest. Coming here was an annual ritual for the couple, yet it was never a boring visit. Something interesting always came from it.
"Didn't you propose under this tree?" Matthew asked. Gilbirt didn't respond. "Gil?"
Matthew opened his eyes to find Gilbirt sitting in front of him. He didn't try to question how his husband had moved so quickly and so quietly too.
"Gil?"
Gilbirt placed a finger on his mouth and looked around. Matthew moved to look behind him. With his back turned to Gilbirt, the other pulled a silver item from behind himself and played on it.
The man hadn't played that lovely piece in three years. It was a soft and slow piece that built in the middle then settled into silence at the end. It calmed the mind. Gilbirt played it like he'd been practicing it to perfection for decades. At the end of it, Matthew was crying with the biggest smile on his face.
"You played this one that day." Matthew said through his tears. "You told everyone to be quiet because you had something important to do."
"I also played the day I proposed to you under this tree."
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This is really really last minute. Literally I started and finished it last night.