Second Chance (Anthony Rizzo)

(57) Please Forget Me Not

Jessica

It comes the day before the wedding and everything was ready to go. I decided to go against the whole spending the night somewhere away from your partner and stayed home with Anthony. We spent enough nights apart, I think we deserve to be together the night before we get married.

And Anthony was a little nervous. Keeps asking is everything is ready and if I'm happy. If he offered to rub my feet one more time I don't know what I'm going to do. But I thought it was cute how much he cared about this. He put in just as much work as I have for this wedding and both of us were excited to finally say I do tomorrow.

"Okay one more song" Anthony begs as I let out a sigh.

"Don't you want to save some for tomorrow" I ask.

"Yeah but I also want to practice dancing with you. One more song" he pleads.

"Alright, one more song" I assure him.

He goes over to his phone before typing some things in and changing the song. This one was faster pace and not at all what we had been practicing or what we had learned in dance class. Neither of us were much dancers, so much so we had to take lessons. And not once did we dance to a song like this.

"What is this" I ask him as he grabs my hands. He pulls me into him with the biggest smile on his face.

"It's a song I think you will like, just listen" he tells me.

"Sending you forget me nots
To help me to remember
Baby please forget me not
I want you to remember

Those were the times we had
Sharing the joy that we thought would last
Memories of love and affection
Never really was just like a dream

Was it the simple things
That made me so crazy about you?
Was it your charm or your passion?
It's not hard to believe
I love you and I need you so I'm

Sending you forget me nots
To help me to remember
Baby please forget me not
I want you to remember."

I smile to myself because of course there was a song about these flowers. I'm honestly surprised this is the first I'm hearing this song considering there isn't many moments in this house Anthony isn't playing music. The man has a playlist for playing with the dog for crying out loud.

"How did you find this song" I ask him.

"Honestly I just typed in "forget me nots" into the search bar to buy some for the garden out back but the song popped up first. So naturally instead of getting on the internet to do what I wanted to I ended up on YouTube instead" he explains as I roll my eyes.

"This isn't our first dance song, is it" I accuse.

"No but a slowed down version of this would be pretty cool" he insists. He was not budging on this first dance song.

"Well I like it" I smile.

"And I like you" he smiles back.

"Sending you forget me nots
To help me to remember
Baby please forget me not
I want you to remember

Did we give up too soon?
Maybe we needed just a little room
Wondering how it all happened
Maybe we just need a little time

Though we did end as friends
Given the chance we could love again
She'll always love you forever
It's not hard to believe
I want you and I need you so I'm

Sending you forget me nots
To help me to remember
Baby please forget me not
I want you to remember."

Anthony let's go of me and does his little dance just to make me laugh. I watch as he jumps around like an idiot, I have no doubt he'll pull these moves out tomorrow at some point. Sadly I think he's been practicing these ones too though it doesn't look like it.

"You look ridiculous" I chuckle as I try to hide my laughter.

"Yeah but you're smiling so it's working" he claims.

He dances back over to me before grabbing my hand. He spins me around before pulling me against his chest. I play along and wrap my arms around his neck. His hands rest on my lower back and I keep him close.

"The more I think about it the more I believe I could never forget you. Because I forgot what we did and your face and your voice but I remember how you made me feel. I remember you, the you that no one else would be able to identify. I had dreams in our times apart and there was always a man. He never had a face or a name or the same voice. He would always be facing away from me and he never touched me. But being around him in those dream gave me this sense of love and comfort, the same feeling you give me now and I'm sure you gave me before. I felt you and I always knew it was you. And I guess I'll will always remember what it's like to be in your presence. I'll remember you" I explain.

He suddenly pulls me into a soft kiss that got deeper with each passing second. That feeling he gives me that I know only to be from him comes up and I just knew we were ready for this wedding tomorrow.

"Sending you forget me nots (forget me nots)
To help me to remember
Baby please forget me not (forget me not)
I want you to remember

Sending you forget me nots
Baby please forget me not
Good times we had (sending you forget me nots)
They weren't so bad
What a life we shared (baby please forget me not)
Pretty baby I still care
Sending you forget me nots
To help me to remember
Baby please forget me not."

The song comes to a end and we slowly break apart. I look into Anthony's eyes and I knew I was right where I needed to be. I couldn't imagine not spending this last night away from him. I needed him in the worst ways and like always he was here for me.

"I cannot wait to marry you" he whispers on my lips and I smile.

"Me neither" I assure him.