AJ's pov

Tuesday 19th March – 8:02am

I refused to bring it up. I refused to be the one to remind him that it was his girlfriend's birthday today. He should have remembered on his own. I mean, it's not like I haven't told him before. Quite a few weeks back now, we were talking about birthdays, anniversaries and all things like that, so surely if he cared enough about me, he would remember the date that I was born. I should probably stop being silly by suggesting that he doesn't care about me enough, because obviously I know that he does, it's just.. Why didn't he remember?

We've both been awake for about an hour now. I'm still lying in bed, browsing through all the text messages and tweets sending birthday wishes. My fans remembered. Kaitlyn remembered. My god damn colleague from the spa that I used to work at who I had spoken to once had remembered. But not Dolph. No, he hasn't even hinted that he knows. I had hoped that I would wake up and he'd surprise me and everything would be amazing, but nope. Instead, he got out of bed, kissed me a few times, and then went to starbucks to get us a few drinks.

I hear the door handle move and I watch him make his way back through the door with two starbucks cups in his hand. He makes his way over to me and smiles that gleaming flawless smile. "Babe, I got us both vanilla spice latte's, I hope that's okay with you." He hands me the drink and then quickly bends down to kiss my cheek. The drink is perfectly fine by me, the fact that he hasn't remembered what date it is today is the thing that is ticking me off.

I glare at him the whole time he makes his way around to the other side of the bed. Once he's settled in next to me, without even thinking I pick up the nearest pillow and launch it at his head, almost causing him to spill the latte. "AJ, what the hell was that for?!"

"I don't know, maybe because you're the biggest jerk on the planet!"

"Going out of my way to go to starbucks for you is being a jerk now?"

"No, going to get me this makes you a great boyfriend, but forgetting my damn birthday makes you a total douchebag!"

His face softens and I can tell that he's finally twigged on as to why I'm upset. In that moment he starts to chuckle, and then he's in full hysterics. This man is really pushing his luck with me.

"Oh AJ, babe. Did you really think I forgot your birthday? Is that what kind of man you think I am?"

..What? "Are you trying to tell me you didn't forget? But you haven't mentioned it at all and I've hinted at it plenty of times."

"I know you've hinted at it, I honestly didn't think I was going to be able to keep it up, but I figured you'd be pissed at me for not remembering. You throwing a cushion at me was the perfect response that I wanted from you!"

"You mean to tell me that you wanted me to be mad at you on my birthday of all days. Why didn't you just tell me you knew? You had me thinking that you didn't care enough to remember!"

At this point he'd sneaked his arm around my shoulder, so I pushed it away from my body. I'm happy that he did have the decency to remember, but I can't help but be mad at him for making me mad at him. Wait, does that even make sense? "AJ, don't be like that. I've got a surprise for you, you know, but you're going to have to wait until later to get it. I wanted to keep the whole 'I didn't know it was your birthday' thing up until then, but I couldn't control my laughter when you threw the pillow. I'm sorry babe."

Great, now he's throwing me the puppy dog eyes after apologising. He knows I can't resist when he does that. His mesmerising blue eyes will forever be my kryptonite. I shake my head at him but melt into his side as my way of showing him I'm not really that mad with him anymore.

"Does this mean you've let me off the hook?"

"I still think you're a jerk."

"Thanks, I love you too. Happy birthday beautiful."

1:15pm

Dolph's pov

I don't think I appreciate the fact that as soon as I walk through the doors of the arena, I am met with a punch to my arm by my girlfriend's best friend. There clearly is no need for that kind of behaviour.

"Woah, what is it with WWE divas and attacking me today? It's like you're all on the warpath or something."

"If you're referring to AJ and myself then yes, we are on the warpath because you forgot her birthday Dolph! How could you?"

I try to contain the laughter that so desperately wants to escape my lips, because I had Kaitlyn fooled as well as AJ. Kait can usually see through all of my tricks, but even she of all people thought that I didn't remember the date of birth of the most important woman in my life. I genuinely find this whole saga laughable. "Didn't AJ tell you? Of course I remembered Kait, I ain't that cruel of a guy."

"She called me up not that long ago and told me about the whole thing, but I don't believe it. My guess is that you did forget and you haven't planned anything, so you told her that you have a surprise for her later."

Now I really can't prevent the laughter, which causes Kait to punch me in the arm yet again. Kaitlyn is one of the strongest women I've ever met. I would even consider her to be stronger than someone like Beth Phoenix. So yes, I feel like I should be crying right now. "Stop it with the punches! If you don't believe me, fine, that's your problem. But, I swear to you I did remember! You can even ask Zack because I told him of the surprise I had planned for AJ weeks ago!"

I can see the wheels turning inside Kaitlyn's head. She's processing what I'm saying, and I guess it isn't sitting too well with her that Zack hasn't let her in on my little plan. "So Zack knew about this? Why wasn't I in on your surprise for AJ?"

"I know what you're thinking Kait, and stop it right now. I bet you're thinking I don't trust you or something but come on, you know that I do. It's just, you are her best friend. I didn't want there to be a risk of her finding out, so I didn't tell you just in case you let it slip to her."

"So you told Zack instead? You know that he can be one of the biggest gossips in the entire company!"

"You're right on that one, but when it's about something serious he knows how to keep his trap shut."

She scrunches up her eyes and digests what I've just told her. "Something serious? What do you mean by th.."

"Hey guys, what's going on?"

Crap. AJ. I glance at her and then back to Kait, and before even hinting to her that we need to change the subject, she catches on. "Oh hey birthday girl! We were just talking about how I've arranged a little party here at the arena with everyone. You've got quite a few gifts!"

"Really? Wow, thanks Kait. I didn't want anything much."

"I know you didn't seeing as you didn't tell me what you wanted to do on this special occasion like I asked you to. Anyway, come on you two, everyone's waiting for you!"

I watch as Kaitlyn loops her arm through AJ's and they walk off to her little party. I am going to make sure that this day is one of the greatest days in my girl's life.

11:49 pm

AJ's pov

"Dolph sweetheart, may I ask where on earth are you taking me?"

"That's the point of a surprise; you're not supposed to find out until we get there."

I've been patiently waiting for Dolph's big surprise all day. Well, I haven't really been that patient. I must have asked him at least twenty times to give me some clues, but shockingly enough he hasn't even given me one solitary hint. If I'm being truthful with myself, a part of me believes that maybe he didn't know it was my birthday, and has planned this 'surprise' at the last minute. I didn't even think about that until I called Kaitlyn up earlier and she had her doubts. That thought has been racking my brain ever since.

He's also placed a blindfold around my eyes, and considering that I'm wearing a lot of makeup due to being on the smackdown tapings, I'm scared I'm gonna end up looking like a damn clown once it has been removed. "Are we there yet? I know we're still in the arena so how much longer can we walk through this place?"

Dolph didn't reply and still we continued to walk around. He then grabbed onto my shoulders as a way of stopping me in a particular spot. "Okay babe, now you can take the blindfold off."

I loosen the knot of the black piece of material, and once it's removed, in front of me I can see a mirror. It's a full length mirror, and oddly enough it looks kind of familiar.

"What is.. Is this the surprise?"

"Yeah, well kind of. Don't you know where we are?"

I look back in the mirror and finally, it hits me. We're standing in the same spot where we met just over two years ago. I turn around to him and he has a nervous smile on his face, just in case I wasn't happy with where he had taken me. "You remembered where we first met?"

"How could I forget? Like I've told you before, you looked amazing on that day and I couldn't stop myself from coming over to talk to you. I guess that was the moment where my life changed forever, right?"

I giggle at him and pull him into a tender embrace. "I love that you remembered. This is perfect."

He pushes me away from his body, but threads his fingers through mine. "You don't think that this is the actual surprise, do you? No, this is just the place where I wanted to give you your gift."

He is going to give me more than this? Just sharing this moment with him at this particular spot after having a day full of gifts and working in my dream job is more than enough. Before I can reply to him, he silences me by speaking over me. "So first of all, I need to say a few things to you."

I nervously take in a deep breath in preparation for what he's going to say. Whenever he feels he needs to say something, it's usually profound and meaningful.

"I need to say that I love you. I love you way more than I ever expected to love anyone, and I sincerely mean that. You're quite honestly the best thing that has ever happened to me, and to know that you feel the same way about me after two and a half years filled with arguments, pain, laughter and love it just.. you will never understand what that means to me. When we met in this exact spot, I was in a bad place and.."

It's both heart-warming and heart breaking to see him this way. To have an insight into his pure vulnerability, and be able to see him be so open about his feelings makes me love him so much more. But to see him stumble on his words, a man who is naturally confident, it honestly just makes me want to tell him that no words are needed and I can understand how he feels. Regardless of that last part, I nod at him to let him know it is okay to continue.

"I had been in an on and off relationship with Nikki for quite a while, and when I met you and we became close, you took my mind off of her and make me focus on my friendship with you. I should have realised then that you were so much better for me than her, in more ways than one, but I didn't and for that, I'm sorry. But now I'm glad that we're here and.. well.. I just love you so damn much!"

I giggle at his last remark and realise that a tear has rolled down my cheek. These are not tears of sadness though, these are one hundred percent tears of happiness and love. Hell, I'm not the only one who's crying, even Dolph's eyes are water filled!

"There's not much more to say than that to express my feelings, so before we both end up bawling our eyes out, I think it's time to give you the gift."

He lets go of my hands so whilst he looks behind the mirror to seemingly pick up whatever he has for me, I wipe away my tears and quickly check in the mirror to see if my makeup is ruined. The last thing I want is to look ugly when Dolph is being the sweetest boyfriend in the world. I take a look at what is now in his hands, and my own fly up to my face in shock.

He is holding a black box. A small, velvet black box. If that is what I think it is, I have no idea how to react.

"I've been spending the past month or so trying my hardest to figure out what to get you for your 26th birthday, and I couldn't come up with anything to justify how much you mean to me. And then, I fake proposed to you in front of my parents, and I think I knew in my heart that I'd found the perfect gift for this day. I knew in that specific moment that I didn't want to fake propose to you. I wanted to do the real thing."

There goes my ability to hold back the waterworks. Could this moment be any more perfect? My heart is beating so fast it feels like it's going to burst straight through my chest. Much like the night in Cleveland, he takes a deep breath and slowly gets down on bended knee. I have no idea what to do with myself.

"AJ Lee. We may have only been together legitimately for a few months now, but this has been two and a half years in the making. I love you more than anything, or anyone, so could you please make me the happiest man alive and marry me?"

Every single moment that we have spent together has led up to this night. I couldn't have dreamed of a place more fitting for this milestone in our relationship. The fights about Nikki, the confusion about our feelings, the heartache, the laughs, the romance, the kisses, the surprises and the goofy times. All of it will be engraved on my heart forever and holy hell, I am being sappy right now, but the man in front of me, who has now opened the box to show off the most gorgeous ring in the world, is asking me to marry him. This is definitely the best birthday of my life.

I look over to the clock behind Dolph's head and notice that there are a few minutes left of my birthday. A smile now graces my lips and I close my eyes to savour this memory that I'm going to end up telling our kids and grandkids about. My eyes flutter open, and Dolph is now up off the floor, probably because he's nervous I am going to say no.

"Yes. I will marry you."

Before he could even take in my acceptance of his proposal, I jump in his arms, now a trademark of ours, and press my lips against his so fast and hard. I can feel his confusion at what I'm doing, but it doesn't matter. This man is now my fiancé. He's everything I've ever wanted, but everything I never expected. And now I know for a fact that we're going to be together for the rest of our lives, because there is no way I'm letting him go.

I take a break from kissing him, and when I finally move my face away from his, he laughs at me. "Babe, that's the best reaction I could have expected from you! But, I think I need to put the ring on your finger first to make our engagement official."

"Please, be my guest Ziggy."

He lifts the box up to take the ring out of it, all the while I still have my legs wrapped around his waist. He grabs hold of my left hand which was situated around his neck, and then he slides the piece of jewellery that has three stunning diamonds on to my finger. I stare at the ring in awe of its beauty, and then lean in for another kiss off of the man I love, but this time with so much more emotion behind it.

"We're going to get married!"

"Yes we are babe. I'm just glad you said yes, I'm not sure what I would have done if you had rejected me."

"As if I would have rejected you! You've made this the best birthday ever. I love you."

"Me and you. Forever. Yeah?"

Another smile graces my lips as his words sound all too familiar to another moment in our relationship.

"Yes. Me and you forever."

That's it readers! That was the final chapter, and I tried to make it as cute as possible! Thank you so much to everyone who has been reading and reviewing, but just to let you all know I am starting yet another AJ and Dolph story that involves the pair back from when AJ was general manager, so make sure that you check that one out. I was extremely nervous about posting this chapter, so reviews would be amazing. Thanks again! :)