Did they get him a new car for his birthday or am I delusional? Doesn’t matter, ten years passed already so a response is quite pointless, but let me tell you one thing, Aline may have been gone, but she was there, and she and Lui managed to make the boy’s birthday better than he could even imagine, and it wasn’t the car, it was just in general, everything, they… okay there is no they. Luciano was just someone he knew he wanted to keep in his life, no matter what happens over the years, if there was one thing Gio promised to himself, it was to never let himself lose Luciano again. And all these years later, it paid off in the moment he asked the man to marry him.
Flashback
It wasn’t even anything fancy, they were never extravagant people. Well, Gio lowkey did like extravagance, but not this time.
New Years resolutions, stop biting your nails, exercise more, cut down the cookies a bit, read more books… that would be the usual for most people, but right before New Years that year, there was only one resolution in Gio’s mind (well, other than the books one) and that was him telling himself he doesn’t want to spend another year not married to the man he had loved for all these many years. Frankly, he already knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Luciano in their first year together, but there was nowhere to rush was there? Life may be fragile, but the two have passed so many obstacles and still managed to find there way back to each other and work their way through the storm.
People always try to explain true love, how does it work? What does it mean? Do soulmates exist?
They ask, but unlike them, Gio already knew the answer, because he experienced it. His love for Luciano was honestly unconditional, he just utterly loved him for who and what he was, no matter what happened in their lives, Gio knew he’d keep loving him at least until they died if not more. If soulmates existed, this was it. He had found his soulmate so early in his life and had the privilege of loving him for so long, might as well keep doing that forever innit?
”Luc” he whispered, the two cuddled up on a couch in the resort they were staying in on their Christmas vacation. A skyscraper hotel with floor to ceiling windows, looking outside the window the view was just endless, just like Gio’s love for the man next to him. ”Marry me” he added softly, a statement that was totally out of the blue which made him just ask “what?”, to which Gio smiled ever so lightly and looked at him ”Marry me” he repeated ”Wait no, I’ll do it more properly” he said and got up, taking one of his rings off his finger, the man went down on his knee ”I’m pretty sure by now you know I love you, and honestly I’ll probably never stop doing that. I look at my life, and I just, I know I want to spend the rest of them with you. Dammit, I almost died, more than once (different story), I forgot everything about my life and still at the end of the day, it was always you. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it, I wasn’t sure about anything, the only thing I was and still is sure about, is you.” he told him, looking in his eyes as he spoke, partially rambling at this point as he didn’t actually have this whole speech planned before. ”I know I don’t even have a ring or anything planned, but like, I know what I want, and I don’t need anything as long as I have you in my life. So… marry me…”
End of flashback
So at this point as their high school reunited, quite a lot of time has passed since that day, and the two have been through many different stages in their relationship since. They were happily married now, and had adopted a beautiful little girl called Mila, who Gio loved so much. But a high school reunion had a bittersweet feeling to it, yes, he was in a much better place in his life now, whether it was his little family or his flourishing career, but coming back to that high school group reminded him of harder times growing up, times where he was weak and clueless, hurt even. Not like it was relevant now, but with that reunion it lowkey felt like it somewhere deep down, at least a bit. But it was going to be alright wasn’t it?
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