S.S Queen’s Holiday Cruise

Chance

I smile wider and squeeze her hand back, patting my lap for her to sit instead.

Katie

I Sit across his lap and smile and wrap one of my around his neck and I hold his hand with another. "See, you already have your prince charming. You are a real princess." His sister says, smiling.

Chance

I smile and chuckle at what my sister says, unable to find anything wrong with it. I kiss Katie's cheek and shrug in agreement with my sister, "S'a pretty good fairytale to me."

Katie

I smile and nod. "I think so too. " I say.

Chance

I smile wider and nod back, resting my forehead against hers.

Katie

I smile fully and run my fingers over his hair.

Chance

I smile and almost get lost in her eyes before my mother clears her throat and hands over a gift for me. I open it to find a journal. Inside the front cover, the words Make your own memories are engraved in the leather in silver ink. Flashing a smile, I thank them.

Katie

I smile and lay my head on his shoulder as I watch everything.

Chance

My father hands over another gift, mumbling something about it being "much more useful than the expensive excuse for a notepad my mother picked out". Smiling lightly, I open the box and find a waterproof, black chrome watch.

"You used to always complain you never had a good watch," he says. "Kind of like me. 'Cept... you'd go diving with them, forgetting you were wearing them, and well that'd be the end of the watch. That one's waterproof, in the case you feel like getting back into that adventure streak you were going through before your accident."

Katie

I smile and nod, knowing what he is talking about. Mountain climbing was the best, but every moment with him is wonderful.

Chance

I smile and thank him, watching as my sister comes over and hands me one last gift.

"It's for both of you," she smiles at Katie and I.

Katie

I smile at her and watch as Chance opens it.

Chance

I open it to find a pair of beaded bracelets, one with Katie's name on it and one with mine.

"You wear this one," she takes the one with my name on it and gives it to Katie. "And you wear the one with her name on it, Chancey."

Katie

"Aw, thank you honey." I say. I slip it on my wrist and smile. "How does it look?" I ask her, holding out my arm.

Chance

"Beautiful!" she smiles, giggling.

I smile and kiss her forehead in thanks, slipping mine on.