I like to imagine that I am a pretty good girlfriend? I’m extremely comfortable with the fact that the majority of C’s friends are girls, I proudly promote his work when appropriate and I am always trying to think of new ways to make him happy. But no matter how hard I try he always manages to win the relationship game by being, well, just being him I guess. Now I know that no relationship should be a competition and ours isn’t really but out-romancing each other is something we have grown to love.
The other day was our semi-anniversary (or 6 month anniversary if you like) and I’d had the night planned for a very long time. I told C around a month back that if he didn’t mind I would love to plan our 6 month date myself as a surprise, and he happily, but nervously, said yes. As you can imagine, the past month has consisted of nothing but torture from me, poking him with a stick, making ominous statements about our impending date night to the point where I had him exactly where I wanted him, excited, and bloody terrified.
We began the night by exchanging gifts. I’d given him a personalised framed print of all of his favourite things which he seemed to love but his present was so much better! Going back about three months, we each wrote a set of letters to each other called “open when” letters, which are letters to be opened in certain situations in the relationship. One of the letters I wrote to C was entitled, “open when you want to buy me a gift but don’t know what to get me”. Well, when I opened my card from C before our date the letter was stuck to the inside and he proceeded to give me every item on the list. I got roses, chocolate, wine, a cuddly toy (which he sprayed with his aftershave so it smells like him), a beautiful necklace and so many more wonderful gifts including him quoting the entire prologue from “Beauty and the Beast” for me. For those who don’t know me well, “Beauty and the Beast” is my all time favourite film and the fact that he went out of his way to learn that made me break down in tears. And not cute tears, we’re talking full on snotty sobbing,
Once I had composed myself (a full 15 minutes later) we set off. Our first stop was the restaurant where we had our very first date, and I made sure that I booked the same booth we sat in 6 months ago. It was a glorious meal and afterwards we went for a drink in a nearby bar. Then, (here comes the main event), I told C that we had about half an hour to kill before his surprise and that we should go and take a walk together. What he didn’t know was that I had hired a whole cinema for a private midnight screening of our favourite film Before Sunrise!
He thought I had never been to this cinema before so as we walked past it I showed interest in checking it out and knocked the door. The guy who worked there (who was in on the whole thing) answered and I asked if we could look around. He directed us to the screen and as soon as we were alone, the lights dropped and the film started playing. Up until this point C had absolutely no idea what was going on, he just thought it was a little unusual, but when the film started playing he completely lost it! I have never seen him look so happy, in fact for the first 15 minutes of the film he couldn’t even concentrate he just kept looking at me and telling me how amazing I was (ego boost much!).
We cuddled up in a blanket with a bottle of wine I had brought and sat watching the film. It was truly one of the most magical nights of my life and C was completely blown away by it which is all I wanted, to make him happy. Overall I think my plan worked tremendously and neither of us have stopped talking about it since. I am so lucky to have somebody to share these moments in life with, somebody who makes every moment feel like you’re in a romantic movie.
Thank you for a wonderful night C, it may have been my plan but it was spending it with you that made the night special for me. Now it’s your turn to plan our next date and I can’t wait to see what you come up with. Game on!
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