pressingpauseonmyheartbeat

Nathan squeezed my hand and smiled at me. We were stood on the balcony of our hotel room, which had a perfect view of the Eiffel Tour and all the major attractions in Paris.

I flicked a lock of straight blonde hair out of my eyes and went back into the hotel room. 

Nathan frowned, turning to watch me from the balcony. I searched through my bag, and pulled out my camera.

Moving back to the balcony quickly, I turned the camera on and held it in position. I captured a picture of the Eiffel tower, all lit up and beautiful. And then, when he wasn’t looking, I took a picture of Nathan, wanting to take a picture of yet another beautiful thing.

Unfortuntely, i’d left the flash on.

“Oi!” He laughed, grabbing th camera off me and falling back into the room. 

I followed him, jumping on him. “Give me it back!”

He laughed, falling on to the bed. I grabbed the camera, still lying on top of him, and checked to see whether he’d deleted the photo.

I lay the camera on the bed, and turned back to Nathan. 

He smiled, his face inches from mine. I smiled back, and he brought his lips up to mine to kiss me. I kissed him back, and he pulled away, smiling.

“I love you.” he said.

Part 1:

I looked up at the clock on the wall, two more minutes till the bell went. Then we were free, forever. I looked across the room to my two best friends Chloe and Bethany, i could see them getting more and more excited. This was our last day of sixth form, 7 years at this school and now we were leaving for good. The bell rang and i jumped out of my seat and ran over too Bethany and Chloe.

“We are finally free” i said, feeling really happy.

“I know this year has went so quick” Chloe replied, as we walked out of the room and headed for the exit.

“Come on, slow coaches you do want to leave this school don’t you?” said Bethany as she turned round and looked at us.

We nodded in reply and walked out the building and walked in the direction of the metro. 

“Just think, in a few hours time we will be arriving in London” I said, we had been waiting for this day for ages. Not only was it our final day of sixth but we were going to London for a week. A whole week!

I arrived at home and ran up the stairs to finish packing. I pushed my suitcase down the stairs,as i couldn’t be bothered to carry it.I walked down after it and waited for Bethany and Chloe to arrive. We were all meeting at mine then going to Central to get the three hour train journey.There was a banging on the day. I got up and answered it.

“Oh my god, its freezing outside!” said Bethany pushing past me and sitting down. I just laughed. Chloe just stood outside the door.

I still couldn't believe we were in Paris. Paris the city of romance of love and of dreams. I stood out on the balcony looking over the city. You could see the Eiffel tower from our hotel room. It was incredible, just like a dream. My boyfriend Martin had surprised with the trip a couple of days ago. I had argued that I had a job but he said he would sort it out. I heard the  balcony door open. I turned to see Martin standing in the doorway with a sad look on his face.

"hey, there you are. where did you go?" I asked as I made my wayover to him.I put my arm round his waist and looked up at him. Even though I was quite tall, he still towered over me. He didn't reply to me.

"Babe, what's wrong?" I asked becoming slightly concerned. He was never like this.

"Um, there's something we need to talk about." He said quietly, he removed my arms from round his waist. He looked into my eyes. They were filled with sadness. Now I was becoming more worried.

"What is it? what do we need to talk about?" I questioned my voice becoming higher with every word I said.

"Look, the thing is..............um, Myrna I dont think this is working out anymore, I mean us being just boyfriend and girlfriend." He said.

I felt my whole world crumple around me. How? How could he do this to me? We had been together for a 1 and a half. He had been my whole world. I had been there for him when he was going through the ranks at liverpool. I had been there through it all. Now he was breaking up with in the city of dreams of romance.

"How......why......we can sort it out" I said, the tears now slowly falling down my face.

"Whatever's not working, we can make it work, please" 

"I said I didn't want to be boyfriend and girlfriend," He started to say, he grabbed my hands and pulled me towards the hotel room. We stepped into the room. I was speechless. It was covered in rose petals, there were candles lit around the room and two champagne bottles on ice in the corner.

"What the...." I began.

He then went down on one knee and pulled a box out of his pocket. He slowly opened it, revealing a diamond ring.

"Myrna, I dont want you to be my girlfriend anymore, I want you to be my wife. So, will you marry me?"

"Yes! Of course I will!" I said feeling more tears form in my eyes. He grinned from ear to ear and gently placed the ring on my finger.

"It's beautiful" I exclaimed.

I couldn't believe he was doing this. He was breaking up with her over a text message, I stood in the doorway of the sitting room. I had to say something but what? Why have you been distance the past couple of weeks? why did you break up with Grace? why are you being a general twat? I just had to ask him. 

"Nathan" I said sitting down next to him. He grunted in response.

"Nathan, why did you break up with her?" I asked. "I thought she made you happy"

He still didn't reply. I grabbed a cushion of the sofa and hit him across the head with it.

"What did you do that for?" He shouted, standing up in the process.

"Well, you were ignoring me. Just like you've been ignoring me for the past couple of weeks!" I shouted back at him. I'd had enough of his attitude.

"I wasn't ignoring you!" He shot back.

That was it. All the feelings I had been hiding for the past couple of weeks suddenly came spilling out.

"Yes, yes you have Nathan. Ever since you got with Grace, you have been avoiding me! You didn't return my calls or texts. I'm supposed to be your best friend but you've been treating me like crap," I had tears streaming down my face at this point. " And you've all of a sudden gotten an attitude. You always shout or yell at me."

"Laura" he said, stopping me in my tracks. I looked up at his face and saw that sparkle in his eyes which had made me fall in love with him in the beginning.

"What" I snapped. He looked quite hurt at the resentment. He lifted my chin up and placed his lips onto mine. It was perfect. Just like I'd imagined. He pulled away and looked for a reaction.

"I'm so sorry" He whispered " I'm sorry for ignoring you and having an attitude but over the past couple of weeks, I've seemed to notice that your perfect in everyway. the way your blue eyes sparkle and your just gorgeous"

I stood there not knowing what to say. I was speechless. I tried to speak but couldn't make anything come out. He laughed and pulled me in for a hug. I pushed him back.

"Is that why you broke up with Grace?" I asked. He nodded. I couldn't help but smile.