Of course something had to go wrong.

When I woke up, it was already morning. It took a while for me to remember where I was, then I looked down and saw Anne sleeping there, with her hand on my chest. Yeah, she had to sleep by MY side, now everything was right. I just looked at her for a while, gently caressing her hair not to wake her up… I didn't regret what I had done, I loved her and really felt this time things could work out between us. All the bad things that could happen with us already did, so we could handle anything now. I felt I was meant to be with her, we belong together and I couldn't escape from that. I resisted the urge to wake her up and repeat the scene from the previous night, instead I gently took her hand off my chest, got up and went to the living room to call my brother and give him the good news.

"Hi Drew, Happy New Year!"

"DAVE! Did you make it on time? Did you find the building? Did you talk to Anne? Where are you?"

I laughed.

"Right now, I'm on Anne's couch... in my underwear."

I looked through the window to make sure nobody was looking...

"YOU GO MY BROTHER! That's what I wanted to hear... are you in good terms then?"

"Well... considering what happened last night, I wouldn't say things are bad..."

"That's amazing David... I feel less guilty now... I'm so happy for you! I really am!"

"I know Drew, thanks… and don't blame yourself anymore, it's over… I'm gonna go now, try to make some coffee…"

"But I thought you said you were not mad at her anymore..."

"Why are you saying this?"

"Are you gonna poison her?"

He laughed, and so did I.

"Bye, Drew."

I hang up and remembered my pants were still in Anne's room, so I went back there to get them, and took another look at her, still sleeping. I went to the kitchen and tried to make a decent coffee, but I was not doing very well. I was almost giving up when Anne showed up at the door, I smiled.

"Good morning! Happy New Year."

She seemed shy.

"You too..."

I went to her and give her a kiss. She gave me a weird look.

"What? Why are you looking at me like this?"

"This dream never ends?"

What?

"What dream?"

She looked at me as if it was obvious.

"This is a dream, right? You can't be here for real!"

So she was thinking it was a dream? Always hilarious... I laughed.

"You know this isn't a dream. Look, I didn't want to wake you up, I'm trying to make breakfast with some stuff I found…"

Ela riu também.

"I'll help you."

That was the idea. We made coffee (actually, SHE made coffee, she just told me not be in her way) and sat down to have breakfast. While we were eating, she was kinda weird, I don't know if she wanted to ask something, maybe… when we finished, she took a deep breath and asked what was all that, if I had forgiven her or if I'd leave, as a way of punishment. I was already expecting this question, after all, the situation had changed completely and she had no explanation for it.

When she finished talking, a tear roll down her face, she was really afraid I was gonna leave her. I held her face and stared at her for a few moments. That was a long talk, I still had to go to the hotel to get my stuff and change clothes, I was very smelly. I decided to have that conversation when I came back.

I got my shirt from the floor and put it on, and told Anne I'd go to the hotel to change and get my stuff, and then would come back. She was confused.

"Okay, if that's what you want..."

I smiled at her.

"You wait for me?"

"Of course... you know I always wait for you, Bro..."

She hadn't called me that in so long...

"And you promise to come back?"

I could see in her eyes she was really scared.

"I promise I'll come back, Sis..."

She knew I always kept my promises.

"I'm waiting for you then."

I kissed her on the forehead and left. When I got to the street, I had to stop for a second to remember where the hotel was. Everything was so confusing yesterday, I didn't even bother writing down the address… I had to stop at a newsstand to ask for directions… after wandering around for a while, I finally got there. I gathered my stuff and decided to call Kelly to thank her, and tell everything went well. But I couldn't reach her, her cell phone was off, so I texted her.

"Kel, thanks for "waking me up". I'm in NY, everything is fine now (so far). Take care, Dave."

I put on some dry clothes and got my stuff. When I looked at the guitar, I made a decision. I checked out and decided to take the subway to get to Anne's faster. But o course, Murphy's law was there. When I was inside it, I guess the power went out or whatever, it stopped inside the tunnel. That couldn't be happening. At least there were only a few people in there… I got my cell to tell Anne, but (Murphy again) it had no signal, since we were in the tunnel. You've got to be kidding me.

Half an hour later, nothing happened, I was going insane, walking around, sweating. This CANNOT be happening, Anne must be going crazy too... she must be thinking I didn't keep my promise and left… MY GOD please let this subway work again!

5 minutes later, lights went on and the subway started working, THANK GOD! I got to the station and ran off, holding everything, I was looking ridiculous, for sure. I didn't stop until I got to the building, by the time I got to her door I was breathless, I took a few deep breaths.

I put my stuff on the floor and opened the door, I guess I didn't have to knock... she had her back to me, talking on the phone, I heard her saying Matt's name. But when she saw me, she dropped the phone and when I realized it, she was all over me.

"You're back!"