Diamonds Are Forever After
For every diamond that dances in your eyes, Brittany, I will share something beautiful that I love about you...
¨ I love the way you always wear a cap.
¨ I love the way you give the people special to you a nickname.
¨ I love the way you talk to animals.
¨ I love the way you look at me when I giggle.
¨ I love the way your nose crinkles up when you frown because someone said something you don’t understand.
¨ I love the way you are fascinated by accents.
¨ I love the way you call people, “Woman.”
¨ I love the way you lean back when you walk, as if simply moving isn’t a big deal for you.
¨ I love the way you get a little closer when you’ve had a beer or two.
¨ I love the way your skin goes from glistening gold to whispering white.
¨ I love the way you lick your lips and swallow so delicately when you wake up in the mornings.
¨ I love the way you have a lopsided grin.
¨ I love the way you smile.
¨ I love the way you tell me you love me.
¨ I love the way you whisper.
¨ I love, love, love the way you whisper.
¨ I love your arms and the way I feel invincible when I’m wrapped up in them.
¨ I love the way you always want to protect me.
¨ I love the thousands of cute noises you make when you’re falling asleep.
¨ I love the way you call me, “your gorgeous baby.”
¨ I love the way your eyes sparkle.
¨ I love the way your hair falls all over your face when you’re trying to get to sleep.
¨ I love the shape of your handwriting.
¨ I love when you speak to me in Afrikaans.
¨ I love how when you’re tired, your eyes droop in some sort of slow motion.
¨ I love the cute little way you talk to my brother.
¨ I love the way you wrap yourself all up in your covers like a Little Caterpillar.
¨ I love the way you laugh.
¨ I love how you always wear a belt with everything.
¨ I love how I cannot stop smiling whilst I’m writing this.
¨ I love the way your legs look when you wear your Sunday pants.
¨ I love the way you mumble absolutely nothing to Meuw-Meuw.
¨ I love the way you whisper sweet nothings to me every single night.
¨ I love how our pillow talk makes me feel like you’re always right next to me.
¨ I love that little “really?” look you give me when you raise your eyebrow and smirk.
¨ I love how you’re not afraid to tell me how you feel.
¨ I love that you can be vulnerable with me.
¨ I love that you are my Prince.
¨ I love that you will also always be my Princess.
¨ I love the way you say, “Oh my God, woman.” (So much.)
¨ I love the colour of your hands.
¨ I love the little Daisy earrings you nearly always wear.
¨ I love how perfect you are.
¨ I love how you always want to wait until we are together to tell me about yourself.
¨ I love how you tell me you want to whisper everything against my lips and into my mouth.
¨ I love that you get on with everybody.
¨ I love the way you can be an absolute bitch and freaking pain in the ass sometimes.
¨ I love that I love you even more for that.
¨ I love that you still watch the Disney channel.
¨ I love that you love Hannah Montana and Selena Gomez.
¨ I love that you drink beer.
¨ I love the way I can be totally stupid with you and how I feel like I can ask you how to open a damn gate.
¨ I love how you would draw little baby smiley faces on my arms and you didn’t even know that’s where my scars are.
¨ I love the way we haven’t been out of a conversation for five months.
¨ I love the way your eyes shine even brighter when you’re under the stars.
¨ I love the way you push your hair back every time you put your cap back on.
¨ I love the way you rest your hand on the gearstick when you’re driving.
¨ I love the way you steal everyone else’s clothes.
¨ I love the way you can read me like a book.
¨ I love how brave you are.
¨ I love how strong you are.
¨ I love that you know you don’t have to be strong with me – or for me. (It’s just you who makes me strong.)
¨ I love the way you tell me I can be anything I want to be.
¨ I love how beautiful you look in the mornings.
¨ I love your little daydreams.
¨ I love how every time I look at your chest I have to physically hold back from groaning. (This is a daily battle.)
¨ I love the way you say ‘millions’.
¨ I love how I make you speechless.
¨ I love how you make me speechless.
¨ I love the way you talk to Joshi.
¨ I love the ‘way’ you spell ‘why’.
¨ I love the way you hugged me the morning we said goodbye.
¨ I love how you don’t try to understand, you just accept me.
¨ I love the way you talk about your dad.
¨ I love the way you talk about your memories.
¨ I love how you put stars after you’ve said something sappy**
¨ I love that you love making me feel good.
¨ I love that even though I have big dreams, you still dream with me.
¨ I love the way you drive with just your left hand.
¨ I love how you are absolutely terrified of bugs.
¨ I love how you are the neatest person ever.
¨ I love the way you are one of the very few people that live every day like it’s your last.
¨ I love how you sometimes get mixed up with your words.
¨ I love how brilliant you are at speaking English.
¨ I love that you spend hours watching series after series on your laptop.
¨ I love how insanely awesome you are at your job.
¨ I love the way you swing your legs when you sit on the food prep counter.
¨ I love how when you smile, your right eye crinkles in the corner just the tiniest bit.
¨ I love that you have a crazy amount of hoodies.
¨ I love your little sock marks.
¨ In fact, I love all your different tan lines.
¨ I love the way you stick your hands in your pockets when you’re standing around.
¨ I love the way you concentrate so hard when you’re pouring Springbok Shots.
¨ I love the way you keep your eyes on me when you take a sip of your beer.
¨ I love the way you chew your earphones.
¨ I love the way you snuggle with Cubby.
¨ I love the way you stare at me.
¨ I love how cold your feet get. (but I love even more how I’m gonna warm them up one day).
¨ I love the way you want to know everything about me.
¨ I love how you always ask me for songs on my iPod.
¨ I love how you remembered when the last night of my show was.
¨ I love how much you love Avril Lavigne.
¨ I love the way you say “hello” when you’re talking to the baboons.
¨ I love how big and beautiful your eyes are.
¨ I love all the different shorts you wear.
¨ I love your little pink sunglasses, with the tiny flowers on.
¨ I love how I’m gonna be able to big spoon you one day.
¨ I love the way your hair looks when you’ve had a shower. (so hot).
¨ I love the gorgeous, soft, nude colour of your lips. (my absolute favourite).
¨ I love all the little freckles scattered all over your cute little nose.
¨ I love the way you say my name.
¨ I love how far we’ve come, even though it doesn’t feel that far at all.
¨ I love how I completely believe you and I together are written in the stars.
¨ I love how absolutely madly in love with each other we are.
¨ Baby.... I just love you.
¨ So much.
¨ So, so, so much.
¨ More than I think I will ever be able to tell you.
¨ I love you.
There are only 120 things I love about you written here.
There are thousands more.
And there are thousands more diamonds in your eyes.
But one day, when you’re with me, I will hide every single reason absolutely anywhere and everywhere, all over this beautifully broken world, for you to find and for you to keep.
I hope you’ll keep finding them after Forever, my baby girl.
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