New Beginning (Christian Yu) AMBW ™

Back In Time

"Good question, I forgot. But I will grab my phone from upstairs to find out, " I walked up the stairs to my bedroom and took my phone off the bed. As I walked down the stairs, my finger was scrolling through my notifications. Then I went to my calendar, checking the time and my flight.

"My flight will be leaving at 10:30 am," Once I entered the kitchen, Matthew looked up from his phone. "Okay," He nodded and I came next to him.

"What about you?" I turned off my phone to look at him.

"At 11:00 am," He put his phone down on the counter and faced me.

"So, we have to get out of here by nine." He nods in agreement.

"Yeah, in the meantime. Let me show you my creation so far while we wait for the cookies to finish." He says and I smiled.

"Okay," He takes my hand and we walk upstairs to the bedroom. When we entered the room, he took his camera from out of his backpack and turned it on.

"I can't wait for you to see it," He mumbled with a smile. As he scrolled through videos, I could tell that he was passionate about making films and that alone made me smile.

"Here it is," Once I grabbed the camera from his hands, he stood behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"I can press play?" I looked up at him and he nods.

"Go ahead, baby."

I pressed play on the video and it started off with me in the lobby at the resort waiting for the elevator. Judging by the outfit I was wearing, this was my first day in Hawaii. When I turned around, I looked at the camera and smiled but I didn't even realize Matthew was recording me the whole time. Because of Matthew's amazing editing skills, the video switches to when I was at the bar on the beach waiting for my drink, and the colors in the video changed from blue to purple. The music played in the video matching the mood and how the setting was.

"What's this song?" I whispered.

"Neon by DPR Live." He said as the video went from when Matthew and I went hiking in the forest. I smiled widely when he moved the angel of the camera to get a shot of us walking side by side together. He smiled and put up a piece sign quickly before I was to look at him. The video changed to me sleeping in bed, that was when he slept over in my room. When the song ended all you could hear was the sound of the rainstorm outside then he cupped my cheek and I moved my body on the bed but not too much. Matthew whispered lightly and said "I love you" to me, making my heart melt completely because I was sleeping and unaware of what was going. As the video faded to black, one thought was going through my mind.

𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

"So, what did you think?" I put the camera down on the bed and turned around to see him nervously waiting for my response.

"The video was perfect, I can't believe you were recording me all this time." My arms were wrapped his neck and he held me close.

"I just used my director skills. But I am glad that you liked the video because there will be more in the future." He says confidently.

"You really see us together?" I asked.

"Of course, the moment I land eyes on you. My life was never the same after that because you changed everything up."

"Oh, Matthew." I looked down because I didn't want him to see me get emotional but he brought his finger to my chin and lifted my head up to look into his eyes.

"If I could go back in time and do everything over, I would," He cups my face as tears started to form in his eyes. "Because I love you, baby." I cupped his face and kissed him on the lips.

It wasn't a regular kiss or any kiss that we had before. This kiss was the definition of love and passion altogether. This moment we were in, is a moment that I will cherish forever and never forget. Once we pulled away from each other and took deep breaths, we looked into each other's eyes and saw nothing but 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 in them. His timer went off from downstairs breaking up the moment and we laughed.

"Is that for the-

"Cookies? Yeah, come on." We walked down the stairs and he takes the cookies out from the oven. He places them on the counter next to the sink and I could just drool over the smell of chocolate chip cookies.

"Greedy, aren't cha?" He shakes his head at me and I playfully hit him on the back.

"Whatever,"

There were eight cookies and when it got warm enough to eat, Matthew and I ate all of them. Once we were done, we decided to brush our teeth and drink water for the rest of the night. We went upstairs and walked into the bedroom to go to the bathroom. Matthew grabbed the toothpaste before I did, beating me to it. He winked at me and I stuck my tongue out at him. He laughed before putting the toothpaste on his toothbrush and adding water to it then he gave me the toothpaste. I brushed my teeth for a minute or two before rinsing out my mouth and he did the same. After we were done wiping our mouths I decided to go ahead and take a shower since we were still in our bathing suits.

"Am going to take a shower," He looks at me.

"Okay, I will take one after you." He starts heading to the door. "Alright," I said.

"So don't take two hours." He stops to turn around and point at me.

"I won't," I chuckled and he walks out while closing the door behind him. I got undressed quickly and hopped in the shower. Once the water was on, I scrubbed my body with soap and let the warm temperature take away the tension in my shoulders. When I was done with the shower, I dried myself and wrapped the towel around my body before opening the door to see Matthew sitting on the chair by the balcony.

"Am done!" He gets up from the chair once he saw me.

"Damn, it's about time." I crossed my arms at him and he giggled quietly.

"Am just playing, babe." He walks up to me slowly and I squint my eyes at him.

"I know so well." He kisses me on the cheek before walking into the bathroom.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐲.

I put on brand new underwear and a black oversized shirt from my luggage before wrapping myself in the covers on the bed, watching the skies and listening to the waves of the beach. Everything was so peaceful. My mood, my mind, the silence, the room I was in, and Matthew. I could go to sleep with a smile on my face and without having stress or worry on my mind.

"You look sleepy, baby." I turned to his direction and saw him drying his hair with the towel. I laughed at the sight and he chuckles.

"I am but I want to stay up with you,"

"It's okay. I am not going anywhere, you know." He sits on the edge of the bed.

"I know but the time is,"

"Speaking of the time," He turns on his phone that was by me. "It's three in the morning." I looked at him with wide eyes.

"The time goes by fast." He gets up from the bed and puts on grey sweatpants.

"It does," We looked at each other for a second.

"Are you coming in the bed or what?" I asked and he hums as if it was a hard question to answer. I threw the pillow that was behind me at him and he caught it with ease before jumping on the bed.

"Your so extra,"

"You love me, tho." We both giggled as he got comfortable next to me under the covers. I faced him and he played with my hair.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Just how lucky I am...to have you." He says making me smile.

"I am lucky too." He kisses me on the forehead as we changed position. I put my head on his chest as he had his upper body against the headboard. We were now were facing the balcony, looking at the skies.

"I love you, Matthew." I closed my eyes.

"I love you, too. Goodnight, princess." His heartbeat started to slow down while I drifted off into sleep.