Day 5

“Virtual Diva” by Don Omar always makes me think of the nights we have gone out together, the ones filled with drinks, dancing, laughter, and that happy kind of exhaustion that only comes after a really good night. The kind of nights where we come home late, completely tired but completely satisfied, and then end up sleeping in way too long the next day like the world can wait a little longer for us.

This song feels so much like you because it is one of those songs you always know to play at exactly the right moment. You have this gift for choosing the perfect soundtrack for whatever we are living. You know how to set a mood, how to turn an ordinary drive into a memory, how to make the night feel like it is already sparkling before we have even arrived. And this song is so you when you are getting ready to go out, when you are hyping yourself up on the way to the club, already carrying that energy that makes the whole night feel alive before it has even begun.

I still remember the first time you played it for me. We were driving back after spending the day in Solvang and watching the sunset by the beach. It was part of that very first weekend we met, a weekend that still feels suspended in this golden light in my memory. Everything about it felt new, exciting, and strangely easy, like the beginning of something beautiful neither of us fully understood yet. The day had already been perfect, and then there we were, driving together with the sky still lingering in soft colors, and you put on this song. Suddenly the whole moment shifted. It felt playful, electric, alive. Like the night was calling us forward and we were already learning each other through music, through glances, through the way a song can say things words have not said yet.

Now every time I hear it, I do not just hear a song to get ready for a night out. I hear us. I hear the laughter, the late nights, the music filling the car, the tired smiles at the end of the night, and the way being with you makes even the smallest moments feel like part of a story worth remembering. It reminds me that with you, fun feels fuller, nights feel brighter, and even the drive there becomes something I want to hold onto.