First going away

"Andy, you know how much I hate surprises. Just tell me where we`re going", Sam demanded sitting on the wrong side of the car. The passenger side. That is not how he operates.

"No, I`m not telling you. And, you love surprises... remember the night I surprised you last month? the night we-"

Sam chuckled. Oh, he remembers alright. Quite vividly in fact.

"Andy, you were naked. Course I remember that night", he grumped.

"Well, who knows what`s in store for you when we get there. So, behave! Stop whining. I`m not telling you".

From her sided wiev, she watched him settle back into the seat, closing his eyes and pretending to be tired.

He wasn`t.

Taking a sip of his blue travel mug that she bought him yesterday along with a pink one for herself, she smiled and felt her stomach bubble with excitement over the weekend ahead. First get away and all.

Andy was pumped.

"You`re allowed to nap you know... unless you want to play two truths and a lie...", Andy suggested noticing Sam`s eyes started to flutter a little.

"Nope, I`m good... on both sides. I can`t sleep while you're driving, and... I hate car games".

"Fine... It`s still an hour left before we`re there, so you keep fidgeting your fingers and be a grouch Sam".

Five minutes later, she hear soft snoring from the passenger side.

An hour and some later, Andy pulled up on a small, private pebbled road. The crushing sounds from the tires is what woke Sam up.

He rubbed a hand across his face. "Where are we?"

Andy shut off the engine and opened the door. The soothing sounds of birds, and leafs flowing free from the cold breeze made her climb out of the car just to embrace the sudden feel of autumn nature she literally drove into.

Closing her eyes, she let the cold breeze touch her face as she took in the smell of crisp, cold and fresh all at once.

A couple of familiar and safe arms found their way around her waist and he kissed the back of her head. "This is really great Andy. How did you find this very spot?", Sam asked tightening his hold of his girlfriend.

"Dad used to take me here when I was younger... I loved this place, I still do, but I haven`t been here in almost ten years. It looks exactly the same, just like I remembered it", she explained.

"See that swing down by the water? I could sit there for hours, just looking at the water, listening to the sounds, dream about living here, away from everything else... Then my mom left and we stopped coming here. Dad started drinking, and we didn`t come here for several years... On my seventeenth birthday, I told dad that all I wanted was for the two of us to come here for the weekend. And we did. He was sober the whole time, and I was the happiest in a long time".

He turned her around so he could look at her. Pulling her against his chest, he kissed her head and said "Thank you for sharing that. I love you, and I want us to start our own tradition by coming here".

Andy smiled and looked up at him. "I would really like that Sam. Thank you".

They turned around again. Back to chest and hands and fingers tangled, resting on Andy`s stomach.

"See that swing down by the water? In a few years, our daughter will sit there for hours, just looking and listening to the nature until we tell her to come inside for bedtime", Sam said, waiting for the reaction she might throw at him. They never talked about this kind of stuff. Not the first time they were together, and not now. Not yet, but Sam Swarek had no doubts about what kind of life he wanted with Andy.

"Really? You see that?", she asked happy and scared at the same time.

"I do. Whenever you're ready that is", he assured her.

Turning around, she let their lips meet in a way that felt new to both of them. If it was the surroundings they were standing in, or the shared dreams that they both wanted, she didn`t know. What she did know, was that she wouldn`t want to be anywhere else, and what Sam just told her, made her surten that they would make it to their fiftieth anniversary and then some.

"What if I`m ready soon?"

Sam pulled his lips into the biggest and silliest smile she had ever seen on him. "Then we make it happen soon".

Hours later, they sat in front of the fireplace that Andy proudly had gotten into full life. Sitting on his lap, her back to his chest, she let her fingers run up and down his arm.

"What I said about hating surprises... I don`t actually hate them", Sam admitted.

"I know you don`t", Andy chuckled as she guided his hands to the band of her bathrobe. "You want another one then?"

"Depends"

"On what exactly?", she asked as she opened her robe and placed his hands on her naked skin, letting him feel how wet she actually was.

"You going to surprise me like this in the future as well?"

"If you want me too", she breathed against his lips with her tilted head.

He flipped them over and climbed on top of her. "Love you", he said unbuckling his jeans.

That was all the answer she needed. "I love you too".

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