I reached for his hand, squeezing it. "Stop selling yourself short. You've been a wonderful partner, Thomas."
He winced a little, the old guilt flickering in his expression, but he didn't pull away. Instead, he lifted my hand and kissed it, slowly, like he was afraid of rushing this moment.
Then I noticed where we were. I glanced around, heart catching in my chest. We'd parked in front of our tree. The one from all those years ago. The tree we'd once carved our initials into. The one he brought me to when we were trying to rebuild, after everything had nearly fallen apart.
It had grown taller, broader. Wiser, maybe. Just like us. I touched the necklace resting over my heart, the one he gave me from that tree that matched the carving on the plaque beneath it. I'd never taken it off.
"Thomas..."
He gave me a small, almost boyish smile. "Come with me."
We stepped out of the car, shoes crunching over gravel and grass, his fingers laced tightly with mine. The air smelled like earth and pine and summer fading. When we reached the base of the tree, we both stood silently for a moment.
Then he moved in front of the plaque and faced me.
"This is where it all began," he said, voice rough. "Where I asked you out when we were just kids with nothing but dreams. It's also where I came back—years later—hoping you'd still have a little faith in me."
I didn't speak. I couldn't. He reached out, brushing a strand of hair behind my ear, the way he always used to. His thumb lingered on my cheek.
"and now," he whispered, "this is where we stand, stronger than ever, real and rooted like this tree. I've made mistakes—God, I've made enough to last a lifetime—but my love for you? October, it never changed. It's like this tree. Deep roots. Enormous. Wild. Still growing."
I felt my chest tighten as tears welled in my eyes. He took a slow breath.
"I've loved you since I was fifteen, and somehow, I love you more now than I did then. So I'm asking..."
He dropped to one knee, "October, love. Will you renew your vows with me? Officially. In front of the kids. The tree. Our whole messy, beautiful 온라인카지노게임?"
I laughed through the tears, covering my mouth, then nodding hard.
"Yes. Of course, yes."
He stood and pulled me into his arms, then he reached for his phone, pressed play, and "Je te promets" began to fill the air, low and full of longing. That gravelly voice, that old French soul, wrapping around us like silk worn soft with time.
We started to dance, slow, unhurried, the way people move when they know every corner of each other's hearts. His hand at the small of my back, mine resting over his heartbeat.
Every now and then, he'd lean in to whisper a translation in my ear. 

"Je te promets la clé des secrets de mon âme... Je te promets la vie de mes rires à mes larmes"

 "I promise you the key to the secrets of my soul...I promise you a life from my laughter to my tears"
Just like that, the song became more than a song. It became a vow. A memory. A quiet testimony to everything we had survived, everything we had chosen again and again. It was about promises. Not the shiny kind made in easy seasons, but the weathered ones, the ones made when staying meant work, when love meant effort, when enduring meant everything.
And in his arms, as the lyrics washed over us, I realized he wasn't just dancing with me.
He was promising me again and I believed him. All over again.


༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔*:･༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ🦋་༘࿐𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ🦋་༘࿐༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔*:･༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔*:･
My name is October, and I met the love of my life before I even understood what love really was. I was just a teenager then—wide-eyed, hopeful, believing that forever was something simple and inevitable. I fell for him with a kind of recklessness that only youth allows, with the blind trust that love, once found, would never break.
But it did.
Our 온라인카지노게임 wasn't smooth. There were years that bruised us, days that hollowed us out. We walked through fire and silence, through betrayal and doubt.
And yet, here we are.
Because after the fall came the climb. We didn't just survive, we rebuilt. Brick by brick, truth by painful truth.  We stitched our lives back together with forgiveness and effort, with morning coffees and small apologies, with space to breathe and promises remade in silence.
I've learned to live like the season I'm named after. I've learned to let go like autumn leaves, and to burn brightly when the moment asks for it. I've learned that beauty isn't in perfection; it's in persistence. In staying. In trying. In choosing love when it would be easier to walk away.
My name is October. I carry the ache and the awe of what we've endured and I will carry it proudly, always.
As I sit beside him now, Thomas, the boy who once made me blush, the man who once broke my heart, the one who stayed and did the work, I look down at our hands. Fingers interlaced. Familiar, weathered, steady.
Our hands don't tremble anymore. We've already held each other through storms.
This isn't the love of teenagers who dreamed in absolutes, who mistook passion for permanence and silence for peace. This is the love of people who nearly lost everything. Who stood at the edge of collapse and chose, again and again, to rebuild. To return. To listen. To stay.

Love, we've learned, isn't something you ride like a wave. It's something you tend, like a garden. Some days it blooms. Some days it needs pruning, and some days, you're just pulling weeds in the dark hoping the sun comes up again.
But we're doing it. Together, and I've never loved him more than I do now because now, he's not just the man I fell in love with.
He's the man who stayed. Who changed. Who chose me again, and again, and again.
༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔*:･༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ🦋་༘࿐𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ🦋་༘࿐༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔*:･༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔*:･
Author's Note:

Thank you so much for reading this 온라인카지노게임. I really hope it gave you something to feel, whether it made you laugh, cry, ache a little, or just feel seen.
These characters mean a lot to me, and knowing you spent time with them means the world. Thanks for being here, for reading, and for caring even a little bit.
We will meet soon in another month and another 온라인카지노게임,
Until then, much love!