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It’s beautiful.
When he’s happy with our location, Cove kills the engine and lets us float, then unpacks the picnic. There’s a selection of cold meats and cheese and crackers, which I tuck into. Everything tastes amazing and the conversation is light and easy.
When we’ve finished and Cove passes me a bottle of water, he packs away the leftovers and rubbish, and then we settle back onto a pile of cushions.
Cove pulls me close, covers us in a blanket and wraps his arms around me. My heart stutters in my chest and I have to bite my lips to keep my girlish squeal from coming out.
It’s perfect. Everything is perfect. He is perfect.
After a few minutes of silence, watching the shooting stars and listening to the waves lapping at the boat, a voice booms across the ocean announcing the lineup for the night. It’s a firework competition and the three competitors will have ten minutes each to carry out their display.
I’m too excited to listen to the ins and outs of the voting system, I just want them to get on with it. Sensing my excitement, Cove chuckles. His breath tickles my ear.
“I’m so glad you’re going to enjoy this.”
“I think I’d enjoy anything you planned, but this is going to be amazing.”
“I wanted to do something really special for our first proper date.”
“Isn’t it our second?” I ask with a smile, alluding to before.
“It can be whatever number you want it to be, so long as it’s not the last.”
I grin way too wide at that but my face is hidden by the blankets so I don’t think he notices.
The opening bars of London Grammar’s ‘Bones of Ribbon’ reach us across the water and the fireworks begin in perfect sync with the haunting harmonies.
I love this song. It’s beautiful. Even the colours match the lyrics perfectly and I lose myself in the story being told. By the time the final beats fade out, I’m captivated. I’ve never seen fireworks like this before.
The music shifts to something edgier, darker, and the sky lights up in red.
“What’s this song?” I whisper to Cove.
“It’s called ‘Intruder’,” he whispers back. I don’t know why we’re whispering, it’s not like we’re around anyone else to spoil their experience by being too loud. All I can think of is that it feels like we’re wrapped in a magical cocoon and I don’t want to spoil it.
This song definitely tells a more sinister story. It’s a commentary on war. All of the fireworks are shades of red, menacing and deadly. I find myself holding my breath towards the end as the battle between good and evil reaches its climax.
Who will win?
The sky falls dark once more and silence descends.
‘A Moment Apart’ by Odesza breaks out and beautiful white lights dance to the gentle opening beats.
The good side won!
Fireworks in colours I’ve never even seen before light up the sky and steal my breath. Because we’re lying in the boat, it feels like the sparks are falling down on us and sucking us up into the display at the same time. This is everything. Pure magic.
Before the song even finishes, I’m turning towards Cove and kissing him passionately, trying to pour all of my huge, overwhelming emotions into the press of my lips against his.
I’m trying to tell him everything…I feel everything…I’m…falling.
I don’t know what love looks like. I don’t know how it feels. I’ve never seen it in real life. I’ve certainly never experienced it.
But this?
This feeling like my heart is too big to fit in my chest, like it wants to burst right out and fill the space around us, like I can’t breathe or I might die if I don’t kiss Cove right now life my life depends on it…if this isn’t love, I don’t know what is.
It has to be love.
Nothing in the world could feel better, could be more than this.
