Camera Girl

1:00am - Nightmares and Comforts (Epilogue)

Blair's POV

Eight Years Later

I woke up on my bed with Peter beside me. I'm glad that I woke up from an unspoken disturbance that had been going on after we were married 9 days ago. Looking at him, he would be hard to wake up from his deep sleep. So I went out of our burgundy covers and went downstairs to our zen style home kitchen.

I got to make Earl Grey Tea to calm my nerves. Every time this happens, I make tea. After many photo gigs such as weddings, birthdays, and many other events that required massive editing and printing, it only happens once in a while that I can't sleep either because I have thoughts that swirl around my head and they explode all over the place or I have nightmares that scare me awake, like a trumpet blasting through my ears and I'd go deaf later.

Right now, it's somehow both.

As I hear soft, bedroom slipper steps going down the stairs, I realized it was just Peter, looking through my eyes, my messy hair, and my disturbed glow from he could sense from afar.

"Is everything alright, honey?" he asked me, concern and sleepy mix with his voice as he sat beside me.

"Just another nightmare, but it'll pass," I said, declining the fact that his next question involves about it.

"Oh okay. Just checking up on you," he said thoughtfully as he had a sleepy yet genuine smile on his face.

"Ohh. I'll go upstairs in a while, okay honey?" I said as I gave him my gentle sleepy smile.

"Alright honey," he said sleepily as he gave me a kiss on the forhead and went upstairs.

As his footsteps began to sound softer by distance, I've been staring at the staricase and wondered how I've deserved that one guy that once annoyed me with a "prank" until he became the guy that filled beyond my expectations in a lot of ways. We balanced things out, even if it gets worse. I didn't know a lot would change from the time we've met, until now. I think about how attractive he is from the inside out. But, it's easy enough to say that I deserve him beyond the unexpected.

Peter's POV

As she came in to the room the moment I heard the door open, I turned around and thought of the beautiful girl I didn't deserve in the first place. From the time I texted her number by accident to meeting her in person to being married to her. Despite her hectic schedule, sleepless nights, and countless arguments, her beauty always radiates me even in the darkest hours of my life.

As I stare into her blue eyes, I remember the first time I saw her. She was so striking. So mesmerizing. So...

Beautiful.

I loved everything about her. Her smile, eyes, laughs, everything.

As she crawled up next to me, she whispered, "I love you, Peter Walls," while playing with her fingers on my chest.

I hugged her. And I whispered, "I love you too," into her soul and kissed her lips before sleeping next to each other in the burgundy covers.