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The bright sun has been looking down at the glittery snow on the ground, no matter how much is the sun smiling, there's no way the snow will melt in this freezing weather. Two young men are sitting on a bench on the older one's garden. It has been some time since they've seen each due to one of them being in uni, but the sparkle in between them has never changed. Just sitting and enjoying the company may be boring, but that's fine with them, it's not something they aren't used to, the right opposite, actually. They may be young, but old blood rises through their veins.
The silence is real and the only audible sounds are their own breaths and the wind. They're holding hands and as the real soulmates, they currently share the same kind of nostalgia just thinking about the time in the snow back then when they were fourteen and sixteen. The memories have never faded away and the vision of them playing with Nellie brings them smiles to their faces. If they would just decide to do the same as the years back it probably wouldn't feel the exact same, but the emotions would be back and the light blue memory as well. Blue, blue, blue. So much blue around them. The cozy and nostalgic blue that hurts when you remember that it might not be the same, even if it would better now, it just wouldn't be the same. The bench is cold, but the warm memories are outbalancing the freezing cold.
This feeling of being together just makes them so unbearably happy and sometimes a bit unserious about their surrounding. They can't wait to spend the rest of their lives together. To grow old and still be all in for some drama stories, for waking up together becoming the most normal daily thing, for their own family holidays, to maybe have some children. It all just feels so domestic and right for them. They don't want anything to change, the right opposite, everything better stay the way it is between them. Neither the sparkle nor the memories should fade away.
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They live together now. Nothing has changed, the surrounding is different, the world a bit as well, but it feels the same for them, because they are together. No matter whether it's a day or night. Whether they're having a film night with their friends. Nothing has changed even when their friends, Tara and Darcy got engaged and were already hiring the wedding venue, everything stayed the same, they're just happier.
Dancing in the kitchen before calling it the night, became their new norm, but it never changed. All the clumsy steps stayed the same. Neither of them knew how to dance, not even after Tara and Darcy's wedding, it felt right. Stepping on the square tiles the same way as if that silly little dance was a need to remember. The dance got a bit more certain and their confidence grew with the same steps, but it never changed, never felt wrong, just silly little steps to non-existing music in their head.
The domestic feeling when Nick got home from work and the loud "I'm home!" was heard from downstairs when Charlie was on his laptop working from home. "Home" was their favourite word because it felt right with them. They could move wherever, but it would still feel like home when they're together. No long time ago they have heard from Tao and Elle that they're getting married soon. It all feels unreal. Everything is changing, but the feeling is the same. Things have changed, they don't see their friends as often as they used to, they are still close and have their movie night from time to time.
Nothing has changed after the wedding. It was a very stylish one and looked like it was straight out of a movie. Tao's mum cried the most. She was so happy seeing the most perfect girl marrying her most perfect son. The domestic feeling just like it was on Tara and Darcy's wedding, where it was the most suitable for dance lovers and people who like little silly games. On Tao and Elle's it was mostly elegant, but it still felt like home with all the close people.
Nothing has really changed. The two of them has got a dog Daisy, but it didn't change a single thing. They finally felt more like a family. Daisy was their little child. It all was the same routine. Nick made breakfast, Charlie walked Daisy, Nick washed the dishes, Charlie did the laundry, Nick swooped the floor, Charlie tidied in the bathroom. They both had tasks and chores to do, but they always crossed the path together. Took Daisy for walkies together in their free time and giving her the attention she needs. The weekends were always like this.
Normal weeks were busy. Nick always took Daisy for morning walkies before he had to go to work and teach. Charlie had the throughout the day walkies with Daisy due to him having home office. Others would say it's boring to live like this, but they both absolutely adored those days. There were bad days as well, of course, but they got through them no matter the difficulty.
Isaac managed to write a book and it became a bestseller. It was young adult book about platonic love and people got really invested in it. He's currently writing a sequel with a "absolutely unexpected plot twist that would twist with people's mind more than the party game twister" as were his own words.
Nothing has changed till they both proposed with Charlie being the first one on his knee. It just felt the same, it felt right.
Their wedding was a tiny one. Just their closest family members and friends. The invite list itself was more difficult than anything else. They were scared to invite or not invite anybody. That's what didn't feel right. They also decided to have child free wedding, so the guests could freely drink and have fun celebrating their marriage.
Nick had a white suit while Charlie had a light grey one. The wedding day just felt right and dreamy. This time it was mama Nelson who cried the most with the grooms themselves. The after party lasted till three in the morning with Darcy giving them a little wink while wishing them a wonderful wedding night, although they had a bit different plans for the night, no matter how much they liked the idea of their first husband sex. Husband. Nothing has changed, but they could call each other husband now.
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The ride from their wedding venue was a long one to get to their destination. They knew the sun was about to rise and they were exhausted, but they couldn't just not accomplish their plan after everything. When they got there, nobody was nearby. They got out of the car, still wearing their suits, just a bit crumpled now. It was the beach. Their beach. The one where they became officially boyfriends. They knew it was cheesy, but they did not care. They sat on the sand just admiring each other till they saw the sunrise.
They stood up and held both of their hands while looking at each other's eyes with pure adoration and love. They both said a tiny speech they prepared just for the two of them, when suddenly Nick lifted Charlie, bridal style, and ran into the sea not caring about his now wet shoes and trousers, just yelling "You're my husband, I'm your husband. WE'RE HUSBANDS!" Charlie was giggling, and screaming at Nick to not dare to drop him. It felt like old times. Situation changed, but not the feeling. Everything stayed the same. Even with their matching rings.
After their little nostalgic moment they sat on sand again and began to talk. "I'd like to be a father. Like... soon." was said out loud by Nick, a bit nervous tone in his voice. It surprised Charlie a bit, but not in the bad way. They have already talked about the possibility of having children and they both agreed on that idea with the words "someday". Now it may be the right time to call it someday. Tao and Elle have two children, twins, and they're happy. Tara and Darcy are still considering whether they'd like to have some. The feeling of somebody looking up to him and needing his full attention gave Charlie his dimple smile when he answered "Me, too".
That one might be a change.
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It was the time when Nick and Charlie were saying goodbye to their third and youngest child Elliot. They were now moving away, just like their other children Emma and Lucas. It hurt them to see their children grow since they have been there during their best and worst times, it just felt unfair for their kids to grow that fast. They still remember when they were teaching them how to ride a bike, when their children always joined to dance with them in the kitchen,when the children refused to eat their veggies, when they lost their dog Daisy and had to deal with the loss. There were also the individual times when Charlie was helping Lucas with his maths homework, Nick teaching Elliot how to bake, watching Emma's dance performances, Lucas going with auntie Tori to uncle Michael's speedskating competitions, Elliot playing Mario kart with uncle Oliver, Emma's first period which was a battle, because she got it very young. And also the very significant memories. Lucas coming out as asexual, Elliot as nonbinary and the fight of Emma having her first boyfriend to just remembering the times at Grandma Nelson's, because she absolutely adored her grandchildren and would do anything for them.
Everything has changed, but it never changed Nick and Charlie when they grew old together and were visited by their grandchildren. There were no longer any movie nights with the squad, there were only wine meet ups to update each other once a month. With Isaac updating them about his books. They always talked about how the time slipped through their fingers, but they don't regret anything, because it all felt just right and made them the happiest people in the universe.
The dance in the kitchen has never changed. There were even little prints of foot on the tiles, because the steps have never changed. Now that they were old and wise, they knew that everything DOES change, but just so slowly that we won't even notice due to its slowness. It's the time when they slowly realise that the people around them won't be there for them forever and so won't Nick and Charlie be there for others, but they are here and all they want is for nothing to change. To still see their younger family members growing up, the wine meet ups to never stop and to dance their little kitchen dance, which reminded of all the weddings they've been to, even their own, because on every wedding they've danced their clumsy dance at least once and those steps will never ever change, because that's what they love, just to be in love forever and that's when they can say, that their everything stays.