A New Beginning (One-Shot)
Title: A New Beginning
Author: Charlotte (altogingenting )
Beta: None, if there are any mistakes they are my own
Pairing: Belldom
Rating: G
Summary: The last thirty minutes of 2010 and the first five minutes of 2011
Warnings: None… There is a bit of fluff if that counts
Feedback: Highly appreciated
Disclaimer: I don’t own Muse or anyone/anything related to them, this is pure fiction
Notes: This is my very late Christmas present/early New Year’s gift to all the lovely people here at MuseSlash :D I love you guys! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I shoot a quick glare at my watch; there is thirty minutes left of 2010. In half an hour this year will be history. In thirty minutes it will be too late to reach the goals I sat for this year but didn’t achieve. In half an hour I can brag about all the goals I did achieved this year.
For the first time in ages I’m spending the last minutes of a year and going to spend the first minutes of a year sober. I’m not out in a fancy club partying and getting drunk, I’m in a couch and the only alcohol that my lips have touched is a glass of wine with dinner. I’m not surrounded by strangers, but by the people who truly mean something to me. I’m not surrounded by material values; I’m surrounded by the true value in life: love.
There is only twenty-five minutes left of this year. There is a comfortable atmosphere in the room. Calm conversation is hold between the adults and the children are playing with the new toys they got for Christmas. I’m a part of the conversation, but my thoughts are else where. Tom is sitting on my right side. He is smiling and has a camera in his hand. I’ve known him for ages and he is one of my closest mates. I heard a couple of fans say that Muse wouldn’t be the same without him and that is true. Tom was just a party organizer back in the days before he became our media manager, but still an important member of Muse. He was a part of our group of friends back in Teignmouth and still is. We wouldn’t be where we are without him.
Twenty more minutes and this year is over, my thoughts wanderers to Kelly and the Wolstenholme children. The children are playing nicely with each other and little Buster is sleeping. They all share a kind and loving aura, when you know their parents it is not surprising. Kelly rests her head on her husband’s shoulder and smiles. She is truly a beautiful woman, both on the outside and inside. I don’t think there is anyone else but her that could accept that the man she has married stays on the road for the most of the year. She never complains and is happy for her husband being able to live out his childhood dream.
It is only fifteen minutes left of this year as my thoughts reach Chris, who perhaps is the luckiest member of the band. All his dreams have come true. He has a big loving family and Muse has more success than we ever dared to dream about. I sometimes envy him. At the end of each tour he always have a wonderful home to come home to, that is something I’d give a lot to have.
As there is nothing more than ten minutes left of 2010 my thoughts are focused on the man sitting on my left: Dom. Dom means everything to me. He means a lot more than he knows. Not only is he my best mate, but he is also the man I’ve secretly been in love with for years. The problem is just that I can’t find the strength to tell him. I’m of scared ruining our friendship and I’m scared of love. I say that the reason I use space-words to describe emotions are because normal word aren’t big enough, that’s a lie. The normal words are more than big enough, but I’m scared of them. It is silly, I know that, but I can’t help it. Dom laughs at a joke I didn’t catch. Dom’s laughter is contagious and I can’t help but laugh myself without knowing what I’m laughing at. If he only knew what he means to me.
There is five minutes left of this year. It has been a wonderful year. A year filled with arena gigs, festivals and stadium shows. It has been a year of dreams coming true. As I turn left and lay my eyes on the man sitting there I decide my New Year’s resolution, to tell him how I feel about him. It has been my New Year’s resolution for years, but I’m never able to fulfill it.
With three minutes left of the year we all head out to see the fireworks. Tom is sending up our fireworks this year. He looks ridiculous with the safety glasses and has a happy grin spread a cross his face, just like he had back in Teignmouth when we fooled around with fireworks at New Year’s Eve.
Kelly, Chris and the children are standing slightly in front of Dom and me. Fireworks in all the colours of the rainbow are filling the skies as the last seconds of the year passes by. We all break out in “Happy New Year!” as the new year starts.
After the hugs have been given we all stand and admire the fireworks. Tom is lifting the youngest children to allow them to see the fireworks a bit better and Chris holds Kelly in a tight embrace, which leaves Dom and I a bit to ourselves in the back.
“Have you got any New Year’s resolutions?” Dom asks with a smile.
“Only one,” I answer.
“And what is it?” he asks.
“Just the usual one,” I answer. It is the answer I have given him for years, hoping he believes I once told him what it is and that he just has forgotten it.
“Come on! I don’t know what the usual one is, you know that. To be honest I don’t think you’ve ever told me what it is. Please Matt, it can’t be that bad,” Dom begs.
“It isn’t bad, but forget about that… Do you have a New Year’s resolution?” I ask.
“Only one,” he smiles in answer.
“Which is?” I ask.
“This,” Dom answers and presses his lips against mine, before he whispers: “I love you.”
I can’t believe what just happened. Dom just said the words that have scared me for years.
“I… I love you too,” I say. I pull Dom closer to me and let my lips meet his once more.
We are five minutes into the new year and I don’t have a New Year’s resolution any more. Only five minutes of the year has passed and my life has already changed more than it normally changes through a whole year. Dom rests his head against my shoulder and smiles. This New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day is different from all the ones in the past, it is a new beginning, a beginning of something better.