Just so we're clear, what I'm about to tell you doesn't have a happy ending.

But to be fair, this story was happy at some point and just like every other fool, I thought it would last. Obviously, it didn't.

Well, you're still here. If you get hurt, you deserve it.

Let me start with this random moment that popped in my head because of a fricken McDonald's commercial that I saw by chance while having my afternoon coffee.

That morning, I didn't want to rush home even after long hours of work from a graveyard shift. I wanted to have breakfast which was essentially supper, with the man that I still called the greatest love of my life 11yrs later.

So we went to McDonald's.

Per usual we sat right across each other even though I liked sitting next to him because I was a koala in human form. But he said he liked it when he could see my face during conversations over meals because, for one I rambled a lot, and two, he was a bespectacled gentleman who had the eyesight of a 120 yr old grandma.

No wonder he found me pretty. Heh.

So back to my breakfast date. I was unwrapping my egg McMuffin while he was cutting up his pancakes. He always cut them in little square pieces after smothering them with butter and drenching them in syrup. It was adorable.

Then out of the blue he picked up a few pieces with his fork and fed me. Honestly, it wouldn't have been so surprising given how spontaneous he usually was with his acts of service. Yep. That was his love language. But he did it so absentmindedly while looking over my shoulder.

So with a mouthful of little pancake squares I turned to look at whatever he was staring at. And right at the table behind me sat an elderly couple, both grey haired and haunched with age, having their breakfast at McDonald's.

I was close enough to see the cut up pieces of pancakes on the old man's plate and I turned just in time to see him feeding his wife with a forkful of pancake pieces.

So I turned back to my bespectacled man and he had the most playful grin that immediately turned into the most adorable smile. Then he blurted—

"That's going to be us someday, right?"