for christmas, ben decided to splurge and buy the entire group annual passes to walt disney world. the group planned to go and spend a late night at magic kingdom tonight.
the group was staying at the polynesian resort tonight, booked by the one and only organized freak on vacation, olive stone. you were sharing a bed with your boyfriend, zeke. you woke up to the sun splashing onto your face. you groan and roll over, wanting at least 5 more minutes of sleep.
you feel a sleepy zeke wrap an arm around your waist, and you can't help but smile. your eyes are greeted by hawaiian themed wallpapers and paintings all around the room.
"what time is it?" zeke asks you in his groggy morning voice.
"8:30" you murmur to him. "our reservation to breakfast is in an hour." you reply.
you try to sit up to get out of bed, but you're pulled back down by zeke's arm. "a few more minutes?" he asks.
you struggle out of his grip, giggling. you knew olive and cal were gonna come knocking in a few minutes, waiting to go downstairs to see the gift shops like you'd promised them.
you began getting ready, zeke smirking over at you and admiring you every once in a while.
30 minutes later, just as you predicted, olive, cal, and eden were at the door.
you open the door to the three of them. it was hard to believe sometimes that cal and olive had gotten so big. it felt like just yesterday that the two of them were 8 years old. eden was being held in olives arms.
"c'mon! are you guys done yet?" cal asked, jokingly whining. "i wanna buy my mom the stitch plushie downstairs as a suprise, you know how much she loves stitch." he says, leaning against the doorway.
a few seconds later, micheala appears next to them, smiling. "good morning!" she calls into the room.
"good morning!" zeke calls out from the bed as you adjusted your hair.
"let me just finish getting ready." you say, smiling at your nieces and nephew. the four of them come in the room and sit down next to zeke on the bed.
as you finish your makeup and finishing touches, ben and grace join the 5 of you in your room. "ready to rock 'n' roll?" ben asks in his dad voice, just as you grab your purse off the rack.
olive rolls her eyes playfully and heads for the door, with zeke's hand resting on your lower back as you follow.
the eight of you head downstairs, meeting up with jared and saanvi, who were staying in other rooms at the magical resort. you gave them a simple wave as you saw them, and headed towards the gift shop cal was talking about.
all of you looked around the gift shop, looking and observing all the trinkets and fun items they had. cal went over and grabbed the big stitch to buy for his mom, and you settled for a disney pin that says "the polynesian resort" to add to your collection.
"our reservations ready." ben said smiling, taking little eden by the hand. you walk over to our table, and are immediately greeted by a stitch mascot and a lilo one. eden starts smiling and giggling.
during breakfast, zeke rests a hand on your leg as he continues to talk to you and the rest of the family.
"i booked us all lightning lanes tonight for the seven dwarfs mine train and space mountain." zeke says to the family, smiling.
"aww, my favorites!" you reply to him. you reach down towards his hand on your thigh and squeeze his hand gently.
"hell yeah, space mountain!" cal says, reaching over the table to fist bump zeke, who happily obliges.
jared looked scared, he wasn't a rollercoaster person, but he knew you and saanvi were going to make him ride it regardless. saanvi picked up on his facial expression. "jared, you'll be fine." she says with a laugh.
as the group of you cover the check, you all make the mutual descion to go and sit around the pools and chill for a while, before heading for magic kingdom around sunset, and staying until after closing.
around the pool, you watch eden play on the splash pad, as well as tanning with a book in hand. the hours passed by quickly, and before you knew it, you were back up in your hotel room, changing and getting ready to spend the night at magic kingdom.
as you straightened out your outfit, zeke walks up behind you and wraps his two arms around your waist, peppering your neck in light kisses.
"what's all this for?" you ask, giggling.
"just wanted you to know that i love you." he whispers, leaving a final kiss on your collarbone.
you giggle at his words and grab your purse off the counter, responding to the texts from saanvi and grace saying to meet them down in the lobby.
as you walk out from the elevator, with zeke's hand in yours, you see saanvi and olive talking, both wearing mickey mouse ears perched on their heads.
"oh yeah! i have one for you too!" saanvi says when she sees you, reaching into her purse and grabbing a matching pair.
you smile sweetly at her. "awh, thank you saanvi, i love them."
you see jared and zeke break out into a conversation, the two of them laughing at each others jokes. it was a nice thing to see, you loved when they were able to get along.
on the monorail ride over to the park, zeke stood up and wrapped his arms around your waist, leaning against one of the handrails.
"wow, someone's feeling touchy today." you joke.
zeke doesn't respond, but you can feel a smile creep onto his face from behind you. you see jared and saanvi exchange a look, but you don't think much of it.
as you exit the train, you and olive run ahead together, excited to go in.
"come on, you guys are being slow!" olive complains next to you, specifically shouting at her brother, cal.
"alright, we get it ol, you're excited." cal says with a chuckle.
as the group scans their tickets, you walk ahead into the park, taking in the view. main street was so beautiful at night, you thought to yourself.
"so when's our lightning lane for space mountain?" jared asks, the nervous look still evident on his face.
saanvi glances down at the watch on her wrist. "right now." she says, giggling.
"lord help me." jared says, putting his hands together and looking at the sky, pleadingly joking.
you head over to space mountain, leaving grace, ben, and eden, outside the ride. you hand ben your bag, telling him to keep it safe.
"that was an expensive bag, ben! i swear!" you shout, laughing as you walk through the doors to space mountain.
in line, olive gets the idea to pull out her phone and play heads up.
"yes! i'm so good at this game!" jared says to himself.
"sure you are, j." you say, laughing at him.
"do 80's songs, they're my speciality." jared says. olive taps on the 80's music category and hands it to jared, who puts the phone up to his forehead.
the words "we didn't start the fire by billy joel" flash onto the screen. you start moving your hands humming the main lyrics, and then saying, "it was always burning since the world's been turning."
"we didn't start the fire!" jared says quickly. you nod your head yes and he flips the phone down. "easy." he affirms himself.
next, the words "don't stop believing by journey". pop onto the screen. zeke's eyes lit up. "oh! oh! i got this one."
zeke mimics a fake microphone in his hands with his water bottle as he starts to sing "just a small town girl-" and before he can even get to the next line, jared shouts "don't stop believing, journey! yes!" causing other guests in line to look at your group.
you couldn't help but laugh at the two boys. it was great.
as you were the next ones to board, olive started laughing. you turned around to see what she was laughing at, and cal was giving jared a pep talk. saanvi saw the sight too and began to giggle as well.
"cmon dude, you got this." cal says to jared, patting him on the shoulder.
"yeah, yeah. you're right, man." jared says.
"you're literally a cop for the new york police department, and you're scared of a disney rollercoaster." you say to jared, laughing.
"she's got a point, man." zeke backs you up, him too laughing.
"okay, i think we get it!" jared says, waving a hand off at you.
the cast member sends you over and the six of you sit down in the cars, locking yourselves in.
"too late to back out now, j." you say, turning your head slightly so jared, behind you, could hear.
"yeah, you're a real help y/n, you know that?" jared says with a fake annoyed tone.
zeke, in front of you, reaches his hand behind you to hold for a minute. you squeeze gently, before letting go when the ride goes into motion.
as the ride begins up the ramp, you hear zeke laughing in front of you, jared murmuring silent swear words under his breath, and olive and cal making jokes. saanvi was in the back yelling "wooo"
as the coaster shot down, zeke laughed and so did you. jared let out a high-pitched, girl like scream and the other three shouted different versions of excitement.
a photo was shot along the way, and as you got off the ride, you see jared's white face, and break out laughing. you couldn't wait to see this photo.
the six of you walk over to the photo wall, and when everyone sees jared's photo, no one can help but burst out laughing, including jared. his face was white as a ghost and he was terrified.
zeke was smiling and you were laughing. the other three had a mix of delight and fear on their faces.
"that's a keeper." saanvi says through laughs. zeke puts his magic band down on the glowing mickey, saving the photo to your virtual memory book.
as you walk outside the exit doors, you get a text message from grace, telling you to all meet them by the castle. you thought to yourself, that's weird, they said they'd wait for us out here.
zeke was being weird on the walk over to the castle, trailing behind and talking more to jared. you swear you saw him reach into his back pocket, but when you looked back, he took his hands out immediately.
when you get to the castle, fireworks began to shoot and fire off above from behind the castle. you look in awe, and when you turn around to show zeke and point out the pretty ones to him, you see him on the ground behind you, down on one knee, and a beauitful ring in a velvet box in his hand.
the group was gathered around, watching, and a disney photographer was capturing the moment. you cupped your hands over your mouth in shock, tears forming in your eyes.
"y/n l/n, the past two years of my life with you have been some of the best i could've ever asked for. you've changed me in so many ways for the better, in ways i didn't know possible until i met you. i want to be able to spend the rest of my life with you. will you make me the happiest man alive and marry me?" he says, tears forming in his own eyes.
the tears began to fall down your face in happiness, a smile breaking out over your face. you're barely able to get words out, but you manage a shakey "yes"
you reach out your hand, which is also shaking, and he has to hold it still to slide the ring over your finger. your friends and family around you burst into a crowd or happiness and cheer and clapping.
zeke lifts you up slightly, pressing a kiss to your lips in front of the castle. walt disney world really was the happiest place on earth, you thought.