Your anniversary was just last week. You and your husband, Genya, have officially been married for a year now, even though it feels like it’s been forever. You’d known each other since junior high and started dating in your first year of high school. You spent high school together and then college, and now you were a real married couple.

It’s honestly hard to imagine your lives before each other. What would be considered a “new chapter in life” feels natural, like you’ve been doing it forever. The cozy apartment you’ve had together for a year now feels like you’ve been sharing it for a decade.

Speaking of your apartment, the weather’s gotten warmer and flowers are beginning to bloom. The month is April, which means spring cleaning!The event that most people dread is actually something you’ve been looking forward to.

As silly as it seems, you love doing domestic chores with your husband. It makes you feel like what you have is real, like you’re really married and going through life side by side. It sends a warm feeling to your chest. You hope you’ll always feel young like this.

You woke up slowly this morning, and made breakfast together. After the peaceful start to the day, you started working. With your hair pulled back, you dug through a cluttered closet while Genya dusted the living room bookshelf, an old record playing in the background. After some organizing, you found a shoebox. With your insatiable curiosity, you opened it. The shoebox was full of Polaroid photos and photobooth pictures of you and Genya in high school and college.