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“Oh God, you aren’t in pain, are you?” Ben asks as he spots me wincing. “The baby isn’t coming?”
“Nope, not in this big dress, that’s for sure. No baby can come today. Let’s get going…”
Ben doesn’t look convinced as he takes me down the stairs. He keeps darting me strange panicked looks as if he thinks that he might have to be the one to deliver this child, but that isn’t going to happen, I won’t let it.
“Ah, is that Dad?” I ask as a car horn beeps outside. “Good, that means it’s time to go.”
What I don’t add on is that I need this distraction to take my mind off the twinges. Definite twinges and not contractions but pain all the same. I really don’t need that right now, I want my vows to be perfect, for this day to be everything I want and more. I have been waiting for this day forever and I need it to be good.
Ben and my father help me in to the car and drive me towards the church. I stare out the window as we go, thinking about every story that Lance told me about his life growing up here. I like to think of him that way, before LA, to see another layer to the man who I have loved for a long time now. It just makes him even more perfect for me. Every layer of him, every part of him, it all just makes him even more special to me.
“Here we are.” My father turns to face me as we pull up outside the church. “Are you ready?”
“I sure am.” I nod hard and fast. “I can’t wait, so no jokes about cold feet, thank you very much.”
Dad snaps his lips closed, showing me that he was probably about to make that predictable joke, so thank goodness I shut him up before he could even go down that route. The twinges are starting to get a bit worse now, so I want to get in that church before the agony is the only thing that I can think of.
Not long, baby, I think as I rub my stomach. Please, just wait for a little bit longer…
I can’t control when my child comes, I can’t exactly squeeze my legs together and hope that everything turns out alright, but I’d have power over when I get married and I want to get in that church immediately.
“Come on, help me out here.” I extend my arms to Ben. “Please. I really am ready.”
He looks fearful, the poor man can sense that I’m about to lose my shit, so he does exactly as I want. Once I’m out the car, I smile thinly at my father and take his arm for him to lead me inside once Ben has gone.
“Are you sure you’re alright?” he asks me quietly. “You look a little like you are in pain.”
“I’m good,” I interrupt through gritted teeth. “Come on, I want to be Mrs. Wilson already.”
Finally, we make our way inside the church and all eyes spin around to meet mine. Thank God it’s just family, thank goodness Lance isn’t the sort of celebrity who wants a big wedding with a magazine deal. Then there would be too many people watching me, too many eyes up on me, I probably would freak out right now.
But I’m good. There aren’t many people, which means that I can focus on Lance’s eyes only. He looks heart stoppingly handsome there at the other end of the aisle in his local church in his home town. Like a God, or maybe like the movie star he really is. He is utterly incredible, and he is mine. All mine.
“I love you,” I mouth as I move just about in time with the music down the aisle towards him. “So much.”
My father keeps a better pace than me. He stops me from rushing down the aisle to greet my man because of the pain in my stomach. I want to run as he tells me that he loves me too, but I can’t. I have to keep my cool.
Dad kisses me on the cheek as soon as I get to the end of the aisle and he lets me go, happily in to the man of my dreams’ arms. He definitely wouldn’t have been so willing to set me free to a man like Dante who he hated, which only confirms what I already know. That Lance Wilson is the one forever.
“Are you okay?” Lance asks me as my hands fall in to his. “You look like…”
“I’m fine.” I’m starting to get annoyed with people asking me that question now. “I’m okay…”
“So, you aren’t in pain because of our baby? You aren’t struggling? You don’t need…”
“I’m fine.” I nod emphatically. “I just want to be your wife, that’s all.”
