Aslan Werner.
Present.
"Let's eat something. I am hungry."
Arnold says after a long silence as we lie next to one another looking at the sky.
Arden wipes off the remainder of the tears from the corner of his eyes as we all stand up to head inside the house and confesses,
"That was the most fun I had confesses."
"I agree."
I chuckle while dusting off my clothes.
And I do, coming from extremely wealthy families people often think that our definition of fun is spending weekends at some high-end club or in a yacht throwing parties or hooking up with girls left and right but that's not us.
A shocker.
I know.
Don't get me wrong we are grateful to be born into a well-off family and we do enjoy having the privilege to go to whichever clubs we want and eat in whatever restaurants we like. Regardless that's not a part of our everyday lives.
We were raised by some amazing and lovely parents who have taught us how to respect women and shown us the meaning of love and affection.
We have all realised early on that sometimes people don't want to be your friends because they simply like you, but because of the family you come from, the connections that your parents have, and the money that you will inherit in the future.
Goofing around in the backyard of my house or having a barbeque night at Arden's or simply having a sleepover at the twins' place is how we spend our weekends.
We are all that we have since the beginning of our lives and I hope and pray that we remain like this till the end of time.
And the reason why my friends and I don't fool around with girls is that we have grown up witnessing our parents set the standard for love so high.
That you can't help but pray to have someone you can call your person.
My mother always says,
"Love is not a single emotion.
Love is a mixture of many emotions like
Care, Trust, Kindness, Compassion, Attention, Forgiveness, Understanding,
Commitment, Loyalty and Love itself."
And call me a fool or whatever you want, but the thought of wasting my time doing meaningless hookups feels like cheating even though I don't know who she is or where she is.
If she has already appeared in my life and I just don't know it yet.
I wish to remain faithful to my future wife.
My parents were one another's firsts and they will be one another's last.
My mother was the first woman my father loved and he proposed and asked her to be his wife just six months after they met. And she agreed because my father was also my mom's first love.
They were just twenty years old and still in college when they got married two months after dad proposed.
And once when I asked my father why didn't he wait for a little while longer, graduate college and build their own life as individuals and then get married.
He replied,
"You may know someone your whole life and not have any romantic feelings for them but then one moment is all it takes to fall in love. A kind gesture, a smile, a normal conversation, a thoughtful text message, a gift, any kind of situation. It could be anything and in that one moment, you just know. I knew your mom was "it" for me. Life is precious but at the same time, it's unpredictable. I didn't want to waste a single second of it because you never know what the future has in store for you. I wanted to make Delilah mine and be hers not just as boyfriend/girlfriend but in holy matrimony, in a bond that is sacred and pure, that binds us till eternity and beyond. So I popped the question right at that moment and lucky for me, your mom said "yes." and 20 years later, here we are!"
And call me stupid or whatever you want
But I want what my parents have.
I want my first love to be my last love.
I want someone who I can call my person,
my best friend, my love, my ride and die, my one and only.