Honoured with love

Sixteen years of age...

Seven months + two weeks pregnant...

I'm standing under the window that belongs to my love. I look up to the sky and let my eyes feast on its natural beauty. The pitch-black ocean with speckles of light reflects how I feel. In a sea of darkness, there is a glimmer of hope. A slim chance that things may just work out and everything will be set right. I breathe in the cool summers night air, slowly exhaling it from my lungs. The slight pinching sensation it creates in the back of my throat. Reminds me I am only human and I can't control every hurdle I come across. 

I came here to see my Celeste, to tell her I love her and to show her, I will be here for as long as she will have me. I start to whistle our favourite song.

~Just the way you are~ By Bruno Mars. 

Moments later, she opens her window and looks down at me with a sweet smile on her beautiful face. I continue to whistle the whole song just for her. Being held captive under her deep blue eyes. My heart sings for her and my eyes bleed to feast on her. 

" Ti amo!" I say loud enough for her ears only. 

"I love you too Gio." Her smile grows bigger. 

I get on one knee like a man would to propose to his lifetime lover. 

"Be mine always and forever." I reach into my back pocket. Pulling out a Lockett pendant on a silver chain. 

She gasps with shock. 

pay packet on this very necklace. My beautiful Celeste will one day have a ring when the time is right. I promise to never buy her a ring unworthy for her to proudly display

much more Gio!"

looks at the heart-shaped locket and opens it, inside exhibits two miniature pictures. One side frames our baby scan photo and the other side frames a picture of the two of us on our first date at the ice cream

skateboard and she rode past me on her baby blue bicycle with a basket in the front. She looked at me and did

to her

at me

I help you?" There was a tinge of venom

Caro mio?" I was blown away by her self confidence.

bag over

"Giovanni Venturi." I chuckled, watching the sway of her

devilish smile playing on her pink lips. It was at that moment I vowed to make her mine no matter how hard she played to get. It took me a shockingly two months to get her to tell me her name. And that was through gritted teeth. Slowly I was able to bust down those walls she put up and niggled my way into her glorious heart. Never in my brightest days, did I ever think I'd fall so hard for her. Like

to my surprise, she handed it over with a smile on

I tell

rang her every night for two weeks straight before I built up

so long Gio?"

to ask?" I said trying to keep

annoyed. "I thought you would've asked weeks

late than never." I

in my defence, she was always hot one minute and cold the next. How was I