Missed yesterday due to brain non-function... and I blame The Tudors as well. It shouldn't be so damn addictive! But now I'm caught up, and back to writing. Pretty cheesy today, but hopefully it works.

Penname: kyla713
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Prompt: Word Challenge: Use the following words: waterfall, droplets, piece, dedicate.

His hands moved from my eyes to reveal the most amazing waterfall I had ever seen, even in the most extravagant of pictures, and his arms circled around my waist.

In the entire time we'd been married, there had never been a single moment that I'd felt anything but thoroughly blessed, even in the roughest of times. I had an incredible husband who was still as in love with me as I was with him after all this time and three beautiful children.

Who ever said that high school romances never work out? Actually, a lot of people had predicted that we wouldn't survive past the first year when we had gotten married the week after graduation. And now, here we stood on the tenth anniversary of that day, celebrating our love in Hawaii on the honeymoon we never got to take.

"It's so beautiful," I whispered in awe, staring at the sight in front of me.

"As are you, love," he replied, brushing his lips against my neck.

I rolled my eyes and lightly slapped his arm as he laughed against my skin. "Flattery will get you nowhere, honey."

"Okay, then how about this," he replied, turning me in his arms to face him and I linked my arms around his neck. "Do you remember what you told me when we first got married? What you wanted to do if we ever got the chance to take our honeymoon?"

I gasped softly as tears came to my eyes. "How do you remember that?"

His lips lowered slowly to mine, kissing me gently and smiling as he pulled away. "What kind of husband would I be if I didn't remember my wife's ultimate dream?"

I bit back my own smile but could not suppress the excited giggle as he brushed a stray strand of hair behind my ear. I pulled him back down to meet my lips, resting my hand on the back of his head to hold him against me. There was a reason why the piece of my heart that he possessed had grown, not diminished, with the passage of time. It was simple things like never once forgetting my birthday, picking up the kids from school when I was sick, and this… remembering something I had told him on our wedding night, ten long years ago.

I smiled up at him as we pulled apart and he took my hand, guiding me along the path toward the waterfall until we stood beneath it, feeling the light spray of the water on our faces. Turning back to face me, rested his hands on my waist and pulled me closer.

"I promised you the day we got married that I would do my best to give you everything you ever wanted. And some, I'm still working on," he started, resting his forehead against mine. "But this was one thing I absolutely could fulfill… mostly."

He smirked slightly, sliding his hand into his pocket and pulling out a beautiful diamond ring. "This may not have been exactly what you had in mind when you said you wanted to renew our vows under a waterfall, but I hope this will do. I brought you here to give you this and dedicate myself to you again."

My tears of happiness mingled with the mist from the waterfall, watching the droplets collecting at the tips of his hair as he slid the ring onto my finger above my wedding band. "Just when I think I can't possibly love you more."

We smiled at each other for a moment before our lips met in a gentle, passionate kiss with soft whispers of love in-between.

This was the best anniversary ever.