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April & July

April & July

Okay, I have the capacity to think about this now…

What are you thinking?

I’m thinking… you’re gonna be here… you’re actually going to be here… and I won’t have classes… maybe you won’t arrive until Monday night… but we’ll have Tuesday, and Wednesday… and then… half-days… some times around my work shifts… we’ll still meet up and do stuff… whatever it is…

Uhuh… where am I staying?

At your own place?

You think I already have my own place?

… Yes…?

(Giggles)… Will I be taking you back to that place?

Not if you’re a Born Again Christian…

Uhuh… (smiles)…

We’re only allowed to hug, cuddle and kiss…

I don’t know if I can even hug or cuddle, it might be too much… I don’t know if I can control it…

(LOLOLOLOLOL) — well, too bad! Because I want you to hug and cuddle me!!! We’ll just have to control ourselves so that we don’t go that far

I don’t think… we’ll be able to…

WE HAVE TO! If you’re a Born Again Christian — we’ll have to do it!

I don’t know how you’re expecting me to control myself… I can’t imagine it right now —

Fine then. Don’t even kiss me at all. Kiss me on the forehead. Hold my hands. THAT’S IT.

(Deep sighs of bravery)… just for the April visit… just initially… I’m going to be a gentleman…

I don’t see why you can’t kiss me on the lips…

I do…. I know me…………….

Ughhhhhhh………………… so just hugs, holding hands, and a forehead kiss?!?!?!?!

Yeah… maybe… just for the April visit…

And then? By July?! Because I might not make it to New York. So maybe by July, you’re here again…

Then I’m going to propose.

Oh?!!??!! ALREADY!?!?!?!?!?

Yes. We’ve waited long enough. I’m going to propose in July. I’ll take you to dinner in Brisbane. It’s going to be very romantic.

What happened to glamping?!?!?!

Do you still want to go glamping?

Well now I don’t know… maybe you’ve already taken me to romantic dinners in Brisbane in April?!

Oh… okay… so glamping then… in July…

I’ll actually take time off — annual leave — we can go glamping.

Okay. Glamping. And then I’m going to propose.

You’re not even going to KISS ME until you’ve PROPOSED?!?!?!

I don’t want to take the risk. If we’re going to kiss, if we’re going to succumb to… urges… we might as well be engaged — officially. I want to do it properly.

Woah… okay, fine… if that’s what you really want…

It is… and then… by August, I’m still taking you to the Black Pink concert.

Oh?!?!?!

And then by September — we’re getting married.

THAT’S SO FAST — did we even have time to warn my MOTHER?!?!!?!?

You can just warn her whenever, right?!?! After April!?!?!?

Sigh — I hope so!

That’s it. That’s our timeline. I can do all my other stuff around it…

(Chuckles)… It’s so fast…

We already know we want this.

True…

You’re feeling more and more comfortable about it, each day?

Yes… I am…

Good.

What about Games Night? In March?!

I’ll be there in spirit…

Uhuh……

I can’t physically make it to Games Night in March, I’m sorry…

That’s okay… I’m not surprised…

April. I can be there. I’ll visit.

Okay… April it is…

You’re gonna see me on a livestream and then I’ll be there the next day.

(LOLOLOLOL)………… I’ll believe it when it happens………….

April is like, re-introducing ourselves, as friends… flirty friends… but by July — and we’ll have kept in touch since April — I’m going for it.

Going for what?!

Everything. You. Us. Everything. It’s all happening in July. The kiss. The proposal. Everything.

Oh… … …

Are you ready?!?!?!

Let’s see how April goes… at least it’s… less pressure? To promise that we’re not going that far…?!

(Deep sighs) Yes… April is a stepping stone… It’s not that I don’t have the courage — it’s that… I want to be a gentleman.

Okay. Yes. You’re going to be a gentleman. So in April, you’re very gentlemanly.

Yes.

By July — after you give me THE REAL RING — then you can be more loose with it.

Yes… then, I really want us to have our romantic getaway. Glamping. Etc. Whatever you want. Spending time together… physically together…

Yes… my darling…………..

What if I can’t come — at the start of July?

What if I chicken out of it? Because — I’d rather wait for… the tour to be fully over?

Umm… I guess that’s alright… I don’t mind, whatever you’re comfortable with…

I’m still worried that I’ll be too distracted if I do the proposal at the start of July… there’s still another continent…

Yes, that’s true…

But if I come towards the end, pretty much early August…

Aren’t we getting ready to go to the Black Pink concert?!

Yes… so then… I’ll propose on the plane!

Ummm?! Okay?!?!?!

Yes, let’s do that instead. Glamping can wait.

Yeah, I’m not that fussed about glamping… it was just a random suggestion…

I’ll work around your schedule. I can do anything around you schedule, after the World Tour.

Really?!

Yes — one of us has to free up our calendars for this to work.

Umm… well… after we’re legally married, I’m not even working with my current employer… so then that part of my life is “freed up”…

That’s true… we’re gonna see-saw this…

Okay…?

Anyway. April. For certain. My flights are already booked.

(Chuckles)… so we’re looking forward to April…

Yes, and I’m going to be a gentleman.

Okay… well… maybe I’m not going to write those kinds of poems anymore… maybe we need to change gears… maybe I need to have more visions of you — as a GENTLEMAN…

(Smiles) You can write whatever you want. I still love all your poems! Even if it’s about those moments… I LOVE THEM!!!

I know but “I” need to tame my own hormones… (LOLOLOLOLOLOL)……………

Okay… (sheepish grin)… if that’s what you think you need to do……….

Yes, yes I really do. If you’re a Born Again Christian — I need to shift gears…

(Shy smiles…) I really do love you.

I know! We say it every day!!! I love you too!!! ❤ ❤ ❤