New York Countdown

Ellen POV

Snuggled up with Portia in my arms watching tv I wonder off in my mind, random thoughts coming to me and I was thinking that after spending Thanksgiving and Christmas home I want to get away from here for the New Year. I want to spend it alone with Portia away from everyone who knows us, I’ve always wanted to go to New York for the ball drop but I can’t do that because of who I am. Everyone would be all over me and I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it like any other normal person would.

“Baby I have an idea” I turn to face her on the sofa when the tv goes to commercials.

“What is it this time Ellen?” she cocks an eyebrow.

“Let’s go to New York for the New Year”

“Are you crazy baby?” she sits up and I can see she is clearly surprised.

“A little bit but I want to spend it with you only, just you and me in Times Square”

“In case you forgot who you are darling no one will leave us alone, we will be hounded down by thousands of people. We won’t be able to-” I cut her off with a kiss, I move on top of her straddling her lap and stare into her beautiful eyes cupping her cheek with my hand lightly caressing under her eye.

“I love you” I whisper leaning in to kiss her neck I could feel her pulse under my tongue. Moving my hands around her back I pull her body closer to me, I need to feel her body pressed against mine. Her hands sneak under my hoodie tickling me as she runs them up and down my stomach. Tugging at it I pull back so she pulls it over my head she kisses my chest reaching behind me to unclasp my bra and I throw my head back when she cups my breasts taking my right nipple into her mouth.

“Let’s do it baby, let’s go to New York” she looks up at me with excitement in her eyes.

“Yeah?”

“I go anywhere you want me to darling” she rests her chin on my chest while I run my fingers through her hair.

“Then we leave tomorrow honey, now where were we?” I push her back and try to take off her sweater. She delicately enters her hand into my sweatpants making me groan when she rubs me over my boxers.

“You’re so wet-”

“That’s what you do to me Portia” I take off her bra massaging her breasts paying closer attention to her nipples and I roll them between my fingers earning myself a moan.

“Fuck Ellen” she breathes out leaning back against the sofa.

“Oh I intend to baby” I lean again and take her lips forcing my tongue to play with hers, she hissed when I bit lightly on her lip. Her eyes stare into mine as she tries to flip us over so we are laying with her on top of me, sitting up she hooks her fingers on the waistband of my pants taking them off with my boxers leaving me naked in front of her.

“You’re so sexy” she hovers above me placing light kisses all over my body as she goes down smiling mischievously. Before I know it she has me squirming under her as she pushes into me faster rubbing my clit with her thumb. I pull her down so she is on me and I wrap my legs around her applying pressure on her hips.

“Port- baby I'm-” I can't finish the sentence before I explode around her fingers. Letting my head fall back against the cushion of the sofa she lays on me, her whole body covering mine.

“I love to listen to your heart beat”

“It only beats for you baby” I pull her face to kiss her soft lips my arms holding her tight against me.

“We're going to New York huh?”

“We don't have to if you don't want to”

“I want to I just hope no one recognizes us” giving me one last kiss she gets up and I do the same. We have to get things ready for our little trip.

“Baby, we will be in huge coats and scarves. We'll wear those New Year hats and glasses, who would know it's us when everybody will be dressed like that?”

“Maybe you are right. You better be otherwise you're not getting any for New Year” she looks me up and down as I'm still naked “that would be such a shame” she grins and I'm sure my face is red.

“I better be right then” her laugh fills the room as the tries to pick up our clothes since it's time to sleep but I can't do that yet. I have to make some calls to have the airplane ready for tomorrow in the afternoon. Luckily we don't have to pack many things since it's only for a day or two.

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“Ready baby?” I take her hand in mine before we walk out of the car to get in the airplane. I doubled check we had our coats, I don't think stores are open today to buy new ones. I'm not a big fan of flights but with Portia by my side I have nothing to worry about.

“Always darling” we get inside taking our seats strapping our seat belts on. As we are taking off I grasp the armrest tight my knuckles turning white. Portia notices and she places her hand over mine, I instantly start to relax.

Once we are allowed to move more freely I pull on her hand so she comes and joins me in my seat. Her hands go around my neck as mine instinctively go to her waist holding her close.

I take the small bag Portia brought with her on the plane and take out the iPad I saved some episodes of our favorite show to pass the five hour flight. I plug the earphones giving her one as I put the spare one in my ear.

“Baby why don't we just watch without the earphones?” she unplugs it and I don't say anything she is probably right, as usual. We only get through two episodes before her hands start wandering around my body and it's hard to focus when she is building up the fire within me.

“Portia- baby what-”

“Don't you want to join the mile high club?” she whispers in my ear sending a shiver down my back.

“I- they'll hear or see us” she gets off of me walking through the small door that separates the crew from the passengers. Five minutes later she comes back wearing a sly smile and I swallow hard as she starts to take her shirt off.

“We're alone for an hour” she licks the shell of my ear giving me goosebumps everywhere. “And I plan to use that time efficiently” lost for words all I do is nod. She runs her hands through my hair pulling it back lightly she attacks my neck with kisses and starts to nibble on it, I could feel the hickey she was giving me.

Soon we are naked with Portia straddling me my senses kick in and I run my hands all over her body. I grab her ass and give it a squeeze as she moans into my neck, I kiss her perfect breasts taking her nipples into my mouth I bite and suck on them. She pulls my head back by my hair forcing her tongue into my mouth and we both moan as we kiss.

She slides her hand down my stomach teasing me, her finger slips between my folds rubbing my clit hard and I almost come at her touch. I guide my right hand to her clit and roll it between my fingers as a response she pushes her fingers into me making me gasp for air.

“I'm close baby” I breathe out, her lips inches away from mine I nibble on her bottom lip as we rock together.

“Come with me-” her voice hitched as she came hard, seconds later I come my orgasm rupturing through my whole body. I rest my head on her chest trying to get my breathing under control.

“I hope we weren't that loud” she giggles as her fingers caress my face lightly. I look up at her pecking her lips “I love you baby.”

“I love you darling. How are we going to get to the hotel? There will be so much traffic”

“Let me worry about that and you just enjoy our time there alright?” We both get dressed before the flight attendant comes and finds us still naked.

“We will land in the next ten minutes, please take a seat and strap on the seat belt” she says politely. I again hold onto the armrest as we start to descend, much like before Portia holds my hand and I forget about my fear for a few seconds.

Getting in the car my nerves set it, what if we do get recognized, what if we can't make it to the hotel, what if- Portia interrupts my train of thought.

“I can't believe we're actually here baby”

“Believe it darling, it'll be an amazing night” I grab her hand and kiss the back of it giving her a wink.

Surprisingly the traffic was not bad considering the fact that they closed up some of the main roads. We make it under an hour to the hotel and the weather has made a significant change, it has started to snow lightly. Since we hadn't had dinner I call up room service, soon we have to make our way through the huge crowd that will gather in Times Square.

“Honey it's time to go, you sure you want to go? We can just spend it here you and I-”

“Now why would we do that when we're in a city like New York?” I shrug “we will go baby, I don't think we will be doing this any other time so let's go have fun” about that she is right, this is a one time thing and I want to enjoy it as much as possible with her.

“In that case let's go, I brought our coats and all that winter clothes so let's hurry” I open the suitcase that is packed with them, we put them on and I grab her hand as we make our way down to the lobby for the car that will take us or at least try to take us as close as possible, it's freezing to even walk five blocks.

“I have never seen so many people together in my life” she says shocked at the huge crowd that soon we will be walking through. We get out of the car and I go buy us a pair of glasses and hats with the numbers of the New Year, we will be less likely to be recognized with these on. I hope.

“Here put them on, we will seem a little more like normal people with those” once we are, I guess disguised, we walk hand in hand to the middle on Times Square. In just under half an hour we will be celebrating the New Year.

It's so hard to walk when people keep pushing against us but we finally make it close enough to where they drop the ball, my legs are freezing cold, I should have worn double pants.

“This is amazing, I can't believe we will get away with this” Portia says close to my ear so no one hears and discover us.

“Me neither” I giggle “it's so cold baby” I start to complain and she rolls her eyes at me.

“Don't start Ellen it's not that bad” she tried so hard to be serious but fails and her lips form a cheeky grin.

“Look” I point to the big screen just a few feet away from us “one minute left” a few seconds later the ball starts to go down. I take her hand in mine pulling both inside my jacket pocket, her hand is so warm and mine is freezing.

“Oh god this is crazy!” Portia says loud as everyone has started to cheer and I could barely hear her. The ball is halfway it's descend and the clock reads it's just a few more seconds before 2016. Thousands of people start to chant the countdown and we both join them.

“Six”

“Five”

“Four” I tighten my grip around Portia's hand, she turns to look at me with so much joy. Her smile said everything she was feeling at that moment.

“Three”

“Two” confetti falls down like rain on us. I wrap my arms around Portia smiling wildly at her I lean closer to her lips and capture them as everyone around us chant “Happy New Year!” Not caring we were in public we continued to make out until I open my eyes slightly to find a camera in front of us. I could see us on the big screen from the corner of my eye as we were being broadcasted to millions of people across the country. My panic sets in and wonder if they will know it’s us, the famous Ellen and Portia.

“Baby relax, we are unrecognizable thanks to these” she points to the hat and glasses I bought earlier. I start to relax as she said when her lips are back on mine.

“So am I getting any?” I bite my lip hoping she will say yes.

“If you are lucky enough-”

“You bet I am, come on let’s go. I have a great idea to start this year with” I tug at her hand making my way back to where we were dropped off earlier. I was expecting that we would have to wait a few minutes for the driver to get here but I am surprised when we find him waiting for us.

“I love you Ellen, thanks for this amazing adventure”

“Thank you for joining me, I love you baby” her hands go around my waist pulling me closer to her, I rest my head on hers which is on my shoulder. I sigh as I kiss her forehead. This trip really was worth it.

New Year Girl

Ellen POV

Who knew college could be this stressful? All I want to do is curl up in bed and sleep for a whole week with no one to interrupt or annoy me. I barely have time for myself, I would love to have someone to kiss for the New Year but the one I like doesn’t seem interested in me, I don’t even think she is gay.

“Ellen will you come down with us to the club for New Year?” Matthew, one of my good friends asks while we walk out of the auditorium for a class meeting.

“No I don’t have anyone to go with, what am I going to do by myself while all of you have someone?” my nerves are on peak because of my exams, even if they are over I can’t seem to be able to relax with anything that use to relax me in the past, well maybe one thing but I can’t always do it. I should have gone home for the holidays but who would travel on the busiest dates of the year, certainly not me.

“Chill out El, you should come maybe we find you a girl” I shake my head, I’m not in a mood to be set up with a stranger right now “come on you’ll have fun.”

“I’ll think about it”

“No you know you won’t so tell me now, come on don’t be an ass and come with us”

“Mat I said I’ll think about it, I’ve got to go” I could feel my temper rising every time he kept insisting, I feel I’m about to explode and I walk away before that happens. I make my way to the same path I walk two times a week, I don’t do it often in case I get caught and she thinks I’m stalking her.

Rounding the corner of the building I finally see her engrossed in the book she is holding. Every time that I’ve come to see her she is always reading a book which makes me curious about her. I don’t know nothing about her except that her name is Portia De Rossi, she must be from abroad to have such an exuberant name.

I make sure she can’t see me where I am and sit down on the ground crossing my legs under me. I take out my notebook and pencil and I start to sketch her, I love to do it, it’s a hobby I’ve always had. It doesn’t relax me but it takes things out of my head helping me think clearer.

Once I’m done with my sketch I rip off the paper from the notebook and place it with other ones in a folder I keep with me at all times. I try to listen when a girl comes to her but I’m too far away to make out anything they say, after a few seconds Portia gets up following the girl, I guess it’s time for me to leave too.

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“Ellen are you in there?!” I hear Mat banging on the door, I try to ignore him but I know he won’t leave until I open the damn door.

“What the hell do you want?” I open it and I walk back to my bed getting under the warm covers again. I already know why he is here I just don’t want to acknowledge it.

“Get dressed, I won’t let you mop around on the last day of the year. Come on Ellen”

“I’m ok where I am” he pulls the covers off of me, that’s it I had it with him “fuck off Mat! I said I’m not going anywhere!” I pull them back but he doesn’t let me so I curl up in a ball facing the wall.

“El” he sighs and sits on my bed “please come, I don’t want you to be alone. If you don’t go I don’t either, I’ll stay here with you” I could hear him taking his shoes off laying beside me, I ignore him either way he will end up leaving sooner or later.

Thirty minutes have passed and he hasn’t moved a muscle. He probably fell asleep so I carefully turn over to make sure but I find him staring at the ceiling with his hand behind his head. I don’t want him to ruin his night because of my stubbornness.

“Mat go, go have fun with Amber”

“No I already sent her a text that I won’t be able to come”

“Fine I’ll come but don’t expect me to be all smiling and pretending to have fun” I walk to my closet and grab a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie. I don’t care if I’m dressed for the occasion or not, I don’t even want to go in the first place.

“I’ll make sure of that, come on walk faster we are late” I don’t really care about this so I keep walking at my own pace. He turns around waiting for me but he walks to me and picks me up throwing me over his back. Now this is the way to get to places.

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It’s impossible to walk through the packed building, it’s still about half an hour until midnight and there is already people passing out clearly drunk. I follow Mat trying not to lose him and after what seemed like hours we reach the table where the rest of the group is seated.

“Here drink this and have fun alright?” I take the shot glass from his hand a down it in one gulp, I could feel the burning in my throat down to my stomach, I almost choke on it. “Take it slow El, we don’t want you drunk already” he pats my back.

“I’m trying to have fun as you said, get me another one” he shakes his head disapprovingly but still hands me another glass and I down it fast again, now aware of the burning feeling. I decided I wouldn’t drink another one, I want to be able to walk out of here on my own two feet and if anything happens I want to be able to remember it.

Everyone was dancing to the music the DJ was playing, I’m not a dancer but I was moving slightly to the rhythm of the music, the alcohol was starting to take it’s effect and I was a bit dizzy.

Suddenly the music was cut off and a voice came through the speakers “alright everyone one minute until 2016!” everyone cheered trying to find their significant other for that traditional New Year’s kiss, I sigh.

“Ten” the voice came over the speakers again.

“Nine”

“Eight”

“Seven”

“Six”

“Five” I roll my eyes at how everyone has their girlfriend or boyfriend in their arms waiting patiently for the countdown to finish.

“Four”

“Three” I fold my arms over my chest with a glass in my hand ready to drink it.

“Two”

“Happy New Year everyone!” I felt a hand on my shoulder abruptly spinning me around and a pair of lips crashing against my own. I open my eyes slightly to see who was assaulting my mouth and find Portia with her eyes closed. Closing my eyes again I savor the kiss that I’ll never be able to forget in a million years. We both pull back at the same time resting our foreheads against each other, I pull her to me wrapping my arms around her waist while hers go to my neck.

“Happy New Year Ellen DeGeneres” she whispers her lips softly brushing over my own.

“Happy New Year Portia De Rossi” I kiss her again teasing her bottom lip, she lets me in and we both moan into the kiss. I feel someone tapping on my shoulder and I pull back to see who dares to bother me when I’m obviously busy.

“Get a room El” Mat teases me and I roll my eyes “and you didn’t want to come huh?” I smack his arm to wipe that grin he has on his face.

“You want to come with me?” I turn back to Portia whispering in her ear.

“I’ve waited so long already, don’t make me wait any longer” that’s all the encouragement I need. I pull Mat’s keys out of his pocket without him noticing and I try to drive back to my dorm as fast as I can without getting a speeding ticket. I had to be extra careful since Portia had her hands all over me, teasing me everywhere.

“Come on” I help her out pinning her against the car grinding my hips against hers to alleviate the pressure building up inside me “you don’t know how much I’ve wanted to kiss you” I say in her ear.

“Me too but right now I want you” she pushes me by my shoulders and I take a step back afraid she might leave me “take me to your bed Ellen” she mumbles pecking my lips.

Walking through the door she pins me against it as soon as it closes. Her hand slips inside my pants rubbing my clit with her fingers, she then slides them inside me causing me to moan her name out loud. It doesn’t take long before we are both naked laying on my bed with her on top of me. She takes my left nipple into her mouth while she teases the other one with her fingers. Going lower down my body she kisses my stomach making my muscles quiver at her touch. She stares deep into my eyes as she kisses me close to where I really want her.

“Portia stop teasing-” I let my head fall back onto the pillow when she sucks my clit into her mouth. Her tongue working it's magic make me dig my fingers into the sheets as I feel my orgasm build up. I guide my right hand over her head applying a bit of pressure encouraging her not to stop.

She opens my legs wider so she has more access to me, her hands go around my legs resting just below my bellybutton. I almost lose it when she slides her soft, wet tongue inside of me. I could feel her short nails digging into my skin trying to keep me still from her assault.

Replacing her tongue with two fingers she comes up back to me forcing her tongue to play with mine, I could taste myself on her. I follow her actions and guide my hand towards her sex making her sigh when my fingers slip inside her. We both move at a slow pace, with my free hand I bring her face closer to mine and kiss her biting lightly on her lip.

“I’m close-” she pants moving her fingers faster and I follow soon we both come hard. I wrap my arms around her, having her lay on me is the best feeling in the world well after what just happened but still one of the best feelings there is.

“Ellen” she hides her face in my neck and I get nervous that she might leave me tonight, that this was just a one time event. “I- I like you for some time now and-” I kiss her head and she looks at me with a smile that takes away my breath.

“I like you too, look” I manage to grab the folder that was on the nightstand giving it to her. She takes out one paper at a time slowly looking at them “do you like them?” I whisper.

“I do baby-” she covers her face with the papers and I giggle at her action “would you be my girlfriend?” she blurts out surprising me.

“Only if I get to call you baby too” again she blushes “you are cute when you blush, come here” I pull her on me again but soon flip us over so this time I’m on top of her.

“You didn’t have enough of me did you?”

“No and this is just the beginning baby, the best start to a New Year is to make love to your girlfriend” I lay between her legs as I nuzzle her neck biting and sucking for sure a hickey will form.

“I couldn’t agree more, Happy New Year darling”

“Happy New Year baby”

Up In The Sky

All Portia POV

It’s the last day of taping for Ellen’s show before Christmas break, I have been keen on trying to keep my gift a secret because this time it’s more than just a gift. I’m giving her my heart all over again.

“Ready to go home baby?” Ellen asks me while we walk out of her office holding hands.

“Give me your keys, honey” I tell her before we exit the building.

“What? Why?”

“Because as of right now you're on vacation. Which means we are going out of town. Please, your keys?” surprisingly she hands them with no hesitation.

“Where are we going?” Ellen asks me as soon as I enter the LAX parking lot.

“It's a surprise baby. I have everything we need packed don't worry about anything. Just enjoy our little get away” I peck her lips and we walk to the private jet I got to take us where we need to go. The good thing about this is that I can tell the flight crew to not say where we are going, which of course I had to take advantage of.

“Portia, baby what did you planned?”

“If I tell you it won't be a surprise anymore will it?” I knew she would ask, it's not easy to keep it a secret when my wife is just too curious.

“I guess not but I want to know. I’m really curious baby, a hint?”

“Nope” I give her a smirk and giggle at her facial expression, “relax honey, it won't be a long flight so try to rest for now.”

She let it go and snuggled next to me resting her head on my chest. I was playing with her hair when she asked “are we there yet?”

“No baby, shhh close your eyes and relax” I run my hand up and down her back while I fumble with her wedding ring with my other hand “I love you so much” I whisper before kissing her head.

When she didn’t reply I realized she fell asleep, taking a deep breath I begin to relax myself. I didn’t want to sleep, I want to enjoy this moment I have with Ellen in my arms asleep and just think how far my life has come. How much it has changed, for the best of course, since I fell for this silly wife of mine. She is all I have and all I’ll ever need to be truly happy.

The flight attendant comes and says we will land in about ten minutes, Ellen usually doesn’t sleep through a whole flight and I really didn’t have the heart to wake her up. A few minutes after landing she was still sleeping, she must have had a long day “baby” I shake her gently to wake her up “honey it’s time to go.”

Mumbling incoherently she looks up to me with her sleepy eyes and gives me one of those smiles that still takes my breath away. Leaning up she caresses her lips against mine and murmurs “I love you so much” kissing me with so much love. We get lost in each other that I forgot we had to get off of the airplane and head to the hotel. Tomorrow will be an exciting day, a little hard on Ellen but I am sure she will recover from it as soon as I present her with her gift in, I think, an original way.

“Ma’am, Mrs. DeGeneres” the flight attendant clears her throat trying to hide her embarrassment at what she is witnessing “we have to perform maintenance of the aircraft so you will need to please exit soon” she says politely. I blush and Ellen just laughs like if this is an everyday thing that happens.

“Yes sorry, we were just on our way…” I tell her, I grab my purse, as that’s the only thing I had with me, and Ellen’s hand. Walking past the woman I smile “sorry about that…”

“About what? I didn’t see anything” she smiles and I nod my head.

“Thank you, that’s very nice of you” still holding Ellen’s hand we walk to the car that was waiting to take us to the hotel.

Inside the car Ellen just kept looking at me with a mischievous smile “what?”

“Nothing” she simply says but still gives me that look.

“Stop looking at me like that baby”

“I’m not doing anything” she laughs and I hit her arm playfully “I just like how she referred to you in the airplane Mrs. DeGeneres” she leans in and whispers close to my ear.

“Oh did you?”

“Very” out of nowhere she is full of passion and pulls me to her making me gasp in anticipation.

“No baby, wait not here” I try to push her but she is stronger than I am.

“I want you so bad baby, I’ll be fast I promise”

“Ellen no, in the hotel I promise” I almost give in at her attack on my neck and I try again to push her away again, this time succeeding.

“I intend to claim my reward in exchange for my waiting” she tells me in that husky voice that makes me want to take her right now but I compose myself and lean back on the car seat. Ellen kept drawing small circles on my thigh, her hand going more up with every circle she drew. We finally arrive at the hotel, we both rush to check in and into our room.

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I wake up wrapped in Ellen’s arms and glance at the clock on the nightstand. I jump out of bed instantly when I see the time.

“What? What happened?” Ellen mumbles sleepily.

“Nothing go back to sleep honey” I lay again to reassure her that she can continue her sleep. I need to go make sure everything is ready for when it's time to show her my gift.

“Ok…” soon her breathing slows and for the first time I hear her snore lightly, a smile forms on my lips at how cute this moment is. After a few minutes I get up slowly and get ready to go meet the person that will make this possible.

“Nice to meet you Mrs. DeGeneres. I'm Peter, how may I help you?” we shake hands.

“I had called a few weeks ago and I just wanted to make sure everything is in place for this noon”

“Yes there is nothing to worry about ma'am, I made sure personally”

“You will be the one going with us?”

“No there's someone who will take care of that. You will enjoy it. The view from there is mesmerizing ma'am” I shake his hand again and thank him for all his help. I don't think Ellen has realized where we are just yet, I have to get back to her before she gets suspicious.

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“Where have you been baby? I missed you…” she hugs and kisses me.

“I had to take care of something honey” not wanting to give anything away I change the subject. “Have you had your breakfast?”

“No I was waiting for you” she nuzzles my neck wrapping her arms around my waist.

“I wasn't gone that long baby” I kiss her head and run my hands up and down her back.

“Every second away from you feels like an eternity” I sigh internally at how romantic she is.

“I love you with all my heart Ellen, you are everything to me honey”

“I'm so lucky to have you Portia, you make me so happy. I love you.”

“No I'm the lucky one, you chose me among all the girls out there that they literally throw themselves at you. I'm proud to be your wife”

“They do? I don't notice honey, I only have eyes for you and only you” what's up with her today I wonder to myself.

“Enough of complementing each other, have breakfast with me baby?” I don't want to get more emotional hearing the cute things she has to say.

“Anything with you” how much can you love someone? Her eyes scream of the pure love she has for me, that's the look that still gives me butterflies after all this time together.

“Come on, we have a long day. Let me call room service and we can cuddle while we wait, how about that?”

“Perfect. What are we doing today? I don't even know where we are. Where did you abduct me to?”

“That is a surprise baby but I'm sure you will love it”

“I love anything that's from you. Come sit with me” I let her pull me to the couch and sit on her lap. While we wait I caress her cheek and peck her everywhere. We eat in silence just enjoying each other’s company.

“Baby we have to get ready” I get off her and walk to our suitcases to look for something warm to wear. While I was out I bought coats for both of us, it's freezing outside. I called down to the lobby to ask for a car which will be here in a few minutes so I go look for Ellen. “Honey are you ready?”

“Yeah, what's with you being so sneaky today?”

“Stop interrogating me and put this on” I pass her the coat and she looks at me confused. “Come on put it on, you will thank me later.”

“Are we in the North Pole or what?” She ask sarcastically.

“Close to that but not nearly” I grab my purse and her hand before we walk down to the car that's waiting for us.

“Snow?! Portia where are we?”

“Colorado” I simply say.

“Wh-what? What are we doing in Colorado?”

“I decided to give you your gift here. I'm sure you will enjoy our stay here and the next times that are to come” she is completely perplexed, she is out of words and just sits quietly. I snuggle closer and rest my head on her shoulder.

“Ma'am we arrived” the driver tells me. I get out of the car first then help Ellen and we walk hand in hand to the building.

“Ok baby you wait here and I'll be back in five minutes” I peck her lips and walk to the office I came to earlier.

“Glad you made it Mrs. DeGeneres please follow me” Peter says, we walk out and I go get Ellen and continue to follow him.

“Oh my god!” Ellen exclaims at the top of her lungs when she sees the hot air balloon.

“This is Thomas and he will be the one to ‘drive’ you around. Please enjoy” I shake Thomas's hand and thank Peter again for all his help today.

“I am not getting in that thing Portia. No way…” Ellen starts walking backwards away from me.

“It's not that bad baby come on” I beg her.

“You know I'm scared of heights. No, no, no...I can't do it…”

“Don't you trust me? I'll be right by your side. I'll hold you. I promise you will love it. I want to give you my gift...please?” I know she will give in as terrified as she is.

“Don't do that baby…you know I trust you with my life...it's just...”

“Please?” defeated she slumps her shoulders and reluctantly walks towards me.

“You won't regret it honey. It's only one time, never again will I put you through something like this and I'm willing to compensate your bravery” I give her a wink.

“Bravery? You're bribing me now? How low…” I laugh and peck her lips.

“Come on baby” she hesitates for a second then let's me pull her with me inside the basket.

“I'm so scared Portia. I don't want to do this…” I pull her close to me and kiss her lips. I lick her bottom lip begging for her to let me in. Her lips are trembling, I would guess it's because of the weather but I'm sure it's because she is afraid. I continue to kiss her while we gain more height, I really do feel sorry for her.

I pull away and look around us. We are really high but the view is breathtakingly beautiful. I look far into the horizon and see how the sky is different color signaling that the day is coming to an end. Ellen still refuses to see everywhere I point to. I take two steps and stand behind her and wrap my arms around her torso.

“Baby come see with me, the view is beautiful” I try to convince her.

“I'm- I’m scared…” I sigh and rest my chin on her shoulder.

“I'm here. I won't let anything happen to you. I'll hold you like this if you want me to but come see, at least before I give you my gift” I kiss her ear and she shudders. I turn to Thomas and ask how much time we have left before we have to go back down, half the time I’ve tried to convince Ellen to not be afraid.

“Ok…” she breaths out and leans her body on me. I take two steps so she has the perfect view “wow that is beautiful...wow…” I smile as I'm fully aware that her panic has temporarily disappeared.

“Didn't I tell you? Baby I have something to tell you…”

“What's that?” she turns around in my arms pecking my lips.

I get down on one knee and take out the little box from my jacket pocket. “You are the love of my life Ellen, my soulmate. Will you do me the honor of marrying me again?” I kiss her hand and tighten my grip around it.

“Oh Portia of course I would baby” a tear rolls down her cheek, I get up and wipe it away before we kiss. For the rest of the ‘ride’ I held her from behind and rested my head against hers.

“Did you like your gift?” I ask teasing her.

“Like it? I loved it” she turns around in my arms and kisses me forcing her tongue into my mouth making me moan. She pulls back for air and says “Colorado now will be a special place forever.”

“I was thinking we should get a little cabin for just the two of us to escape the hustle and bustle of the city” a smile spreads across her face telling me she likes the idea.

“That is a great idea baby”

“It is isn’t? For now we are staying here until you have to get back to work, just us here to no one to bother us” I tell her holding her close to me.

“Have I told you how much I love you?”

“Ummm a couple of times but not in the last hour…” I joke.

“I love you. I love you. I love you” she says in between kisses and I giggle “I plan on giving you part of your gift tonight Mrs. DeGeneres” she winks at me.

“I love you too baby, I can't wait for it Mrs. DeGeneres” I give her a smirk. We stay in the same position admiring our surroundings in silence. I breathe in and sigh at how unbelievably happy I am.