The day finally came, it was the day I was meant to drink all the things I wanted in years and party how long I wanted to. No excuses, no excess, no barriers to overcome, just me and a lot of choices from Garret's bar. Eva was with me too, but she was used to these nights, I was the youngest friend of the group so she was the only one who wanted to go to a party with me, the rest of the group was already looking for apartments and dealing with adult life.

"So, what's the name of this again?" I asked for the third time in the same minute.

"I don't remember. Ask the bartender!" she whispered later "He is so hot."

"I heard it. And there's not a name for it yet. Unusual, I know. You can call it Thomas, because I made it. Or you can call it whatever you want, I don't care." the bartender said, he looked a bit emo.

"He is so confusing. There's another one you would like me to talk to? I'm all about taking risks today, baby!"

"Let me see...How about that one?" she said, and pointed right at the person I couldn't stop wondering about from the second I entered that karaoke bar. My only thought was that I had to sing a song, I just had to.

I almost took the woman who was singing the second song in a row and got on the stage. It shocked me when he looked at me. I was wondering if he remembered me or if he was just intrigued by what song that woman would choose. I still think I made it clean like polished glass when the song from The Little Mermaid movie started to play throughout the entire place. I sang looking at him.

"Wouldn't you think I'm the girl, the girl who has everything?" I kept singing, and some people were singing with me too, probably all drunk. "What would I give if I could live out of these waters, what would I pay to spend a day warm on the saaaaand?"

When I finished, I got out of the stage and walked past the guy I was hesitant to meet some minutes ago, now I was a little more relaxed about it. That day was the day I would let all go, the past is in the past, and I was excited with my future.

"I almost forgot you were obsessed with Disney." Tyler said, looking at me. Eva was signing that I was doing great, and turned around to talk to an actually hot guy. I realised I probably was going to be stuck with Tyler till the end of the night.

"Stop already, okay? I'm not in the mood for your silly jokes."

"I think you should just drink more, maybe you can find your prince today."

"I agree with more alcohol, but stop joking, all right?"

"Agreed."

We were silent for some minutes that seemed like an eternity. He was going to say something, but he stopped.

"Another joke?"

"No, I need to ask you something."

"And the question is?"

"Are you seeing someone?"

"Are you serious?"

"I just want to know, curiosity can kill the cat."

"No, I'm not seeing anyone." and I couldn't believe I was having that conversation. "And you're not a cat."

Why didn't I chose a place with somewhere to dance? Next time it'll be so different.

"Shall we sing a song together?"

"What are you talking about?" that was or wasn't that person I met in high school?

"Sing, it's a karaoke, you already forgot where you are?"

"But why would you sing a song with me?"

"Because today is your birthday, and I don't have anything prepared, the only thing I can offer is the possibility of not being ashamed alone in that stage. And I want to sing one song at least today."

"If I say no you are going to keep saying that until I agree with you, right?"

"You can choose whichever song you want."

"A Whole New World is an option?"

"If I say yes you'll go?"

"Yes."

"So yes."

What was I thinking? What was he thinking? Why was he so different? I hope he's not planning something.

We got on the stage and sang together, Tyler's voice is great, mine is bearable. We looked at each other through the entire song. When the song was over, we could hear people screaming for him to kiss me.

We kept looking at each other. And we got closer and closer. Our lips touched, and the shock of what I was doing wasn't enough to let me stop it. We were kissing, and it was good, better than all the ones before. The kiss my prince should have, but that wasn't my prince, that couldn't be him. But why did his hands seemed to fit perfectly in my back? The kiss was over and we couldn't look at each other.

The next singer was already waiting so we got out of the stage and one of his hands was still in my back. When we got back to our seats at the bar, we got to look at each other. At the time our eyes met, we ordered the next drink and I couldn't remember anything else from that night.

I woke up and I stared at the ceiling for what seemed like some minutes, maybe it was more than some minutes. My mind was trying to put the pieces together. That wasn't my room, and I became pretty sure I wasn't alone when something moved in my bed and someone mumbled.

"What time is it?" The voice brought me back to the other night, and I was shocked, and all I could remember was us singing and what we drank after it.

"Hey, Tyler?" I said. "I think I should go." I couldn't look at his face. Why was he so cool with me being beside him on his bed at 6 am?

"Why, Jasmine?" He knew it was me, but he remembered the fatidic night?

"Do you remember something about yesterday?" I asked not looking at him.

"Yes, don't you?" His voice was weird, but I chose to be honest.

"That's the problem, I don't really remember anything." I said slowly.

"That's not a problem" he turned to me and hugged me "I can make you remember if you want." How did we pass from that thing at the bar to this thing here?

"It's complicated, I'm ashamed to look at you right now" I looked up.

"Don't be. It's okay, I'm going to get some medicine because I think it is the first time you drank so much alcohol." He kissed the side of my mouth out of nowhere and got up the bed "And then we'll talk about all that happened yesterday."

I waited for some time, but the bed seemed too cold for some reason, so I took the first thing I could find, that was his shirt, and put it on, then went to find him. Found him reading some medicine leaflet with glasses on.

"Aren't you a little dizzy?" he asked "I just wanted to see if this would make you feel better or would just make you sleep. Maybe this one works" he handed me a pill.

"I have to pretend I believe you are NOT trying to drug me for some reason?" he stared at me and said nothing "I'm just doing this because you seem to be a nice person right now." I took the pill and he took me by the hand to the sofa.

I looked around and it all was really organized and clean and it didn't looked like someone lived there. The only things that indicated that that apartment had someone there were the pictures framed in the walls. And then something scared me, not something that was supposed to be scary, but I felt the worst person in the world, I had to ask, and he knew I would.

"Are you married?"

"Well, don't you remember? We got married yesterday." He said, as serious as if he was in a court.

"You're kidding me, right?" I almost stop breathing but I still had to be certain about it. It couldn't be.

"Yes, I'm just kidding. But we almost did it."

"But I mean, not about us, about the picture."

"That's my sister and my niece." And because I wasn't saying anything, he continued "I went to visit them where they are living now."

"Some place far?" I asked.

"Well, it's far to go alone. I mean, it's possible to go alone. But sometimes I get sad from staying in a plane and not having anyone to talk to for hours and hours. I just choose to stay home, or go to grandma's house with them which is closer."

"I remember your grandma, she seemed very young at that time. I just remember the time she invited everyone to your birthday party and made that cake, I'll never forget the taste."

"No way you remember that." He lay in my lap and looked at me.

"It tasted like if I just opened a bar of chocolate with strawberries made by the gods. With little sugar drops inside. And I just put the entire bar in my mouth at once." I looked at him as if I could say 'I hope you understand me, this is an awkward situation for me. But I maybe kinda just a little bit like you like this so just let's keep making this work like this.' And I knew for sure he understood me.

"I love that cake, I'm gonna call her and ask her the recipe." I thought he was just joking, but he got the phone and dialed the number, then he got back to where he was before.

"You shouldn't bother her now, leave it for later." I tried to stop him, but he was just waiting for her to answer already.

"Hi, Ty here." he listened to what she said and continued "Everything is good here. Actually I just called to ask for the recipe to make that chocolate cake you made to my birthday." he continued, I couldn't hear her properly "It's not me who's gonna make it."

"You got a girl, Ty?!" the voice bursted from the speakers. "When will I meet her?!"

"We're working things out actually, and you already met her. Do you remember Jasmine?"

"Are you dating the Little Princess?" I could still hear her. My cheeks got red even though she couldn't see me.

"Can we not talk about this right now? She is listening too, grandma."

"Jasmine, darling, please take care of my baby for me, please!"

"I will, promise you!" I said as he handed me the phone, then I handed him back.

"And about the recipe." he asked.

"I won't give you. You have to come and eat here if you want." I could still hear.

"Ask her when." I said.

"When can we go?" he asked.

"I have something this week, but next week you can be here for the seven days."

" So we'll be there Monday evening next week. Love you." he said and put the phone down.

"Is this bad for you?" he asked "If you can't go it's okay, I don't know what I was thinking about."

"That's okay. I'll go, I have nothing to do anyway and I want to see your grandma again."

As soon as we stopped talking about how I was gonna meet his grandma, again. I wanted to enter the conversation about what we really had done the night before.

"So, Tyler..."

"You can call me Ty. You know that. But only if I can call you Jas."

"Okay. Ty, what did we do last night?"

"Wow, so direct. But I can't tell you if you don't tell me where I should begin."

"I forgot everything after that song we sang together."

"No wonder you're this way. We started drinking a lot, if I haven't drank anything ever before, I wouldn't be able to even wake up today. Anyways. Sorry, I'm nervous."

"It's alright. I just want to know what happened."

"We got out of that bar, 'cause they wouldn't sell water to us. We found a supermarket that was still open and got something to drink and something to eat, and since we were there, you wanted to get something special for your birthday, so we got one of those kinder eggs, the package with two."

"It's fun to know how I think when I'm drunk. But go on."

"We sat on a bench right out of that place, and we opened the kinder eggs, 'cause we wanted to see what was inside. You got a penguin little doll, and I got a ring. Well, you didn't like it, I guess, so you wanted mine. Then I gave it to you, I kneeled on the bench and gave it to you. And then, you just put it in your necklace, 'cause it kept falling every step we were taking."

I looked at my necklace, and there it was. A plastic blue ring. And then I looked at him. And I had this urge to kiss him, so I did. What could go wrong?

The thing that could go wrong is that he kissed back, and I couldn't stop. So we kept kissing till we needed to breathe again. And I looked at his face, from this close, it was...magical, the only way I would describe it.

"You're The Prince in my story." I looked at his eyes, he smiled at me, and those brown, with hints of green eyes, they were shinning, like I never saw before, and I felt like he was looking at me, really looking at me for the first time, not laughing about how I believed in fairy tails, because, even though at that time I had stopped, I went back to my old beliefs because of him.

"You don't know how much I waited for you to say that."

'But things are not this easy in real life' I thought but I didn't say, I wanted to stay that way for as long as I could, because it felt safe, being in his arms. Even though there was a past where he did things I didn't like, maybe he had changed, yes, I know he had changed, somehow, so I chose, at that second, to keep doing what brought me there, it felt somehow as a destiny, a fated encounter, and it was the first good thing in some time. The only thing I didn't know it would take so little to change it.