It has been a year since little Mackenzie Skylar's birth. Patrick, Robin, Taylor, and Mackenzie are one big, happy family. Can Patrick and Robin really handle being married, as well as being parents to two children? How will this baby affect young Taylor Elijah's life? What kind of interesting things will baby Mackenzie find out in this crazy world?

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So, I have never ever finished a story where I have decided to do a sequel. I am really hoping that you guys will like it this time around. So, since I don't want to copy anyone, I have decided to start this story with the wedding. So you guys can input of what Mackenzie's life was like growing up the first year, I have thought about doing lots of flashbacks just like the flashback of Robert & Anna's surprise marriage. That scene will happen in chapter two most likely.

If you haven't read Don't Hate Me, you should read it. There might be parts in this story that you might not get if you haven't, but hopefully, there won't be that many. So, I posted Don't Hate Me almost everyday, right? Well, that won't happen since I am moving at the end of the month, and I will be job hunting, which means less updated chapters. Anyways, enjoy this chapter. I did snag the ceremony from .

Oh yeah, in this chapter, this should give you a clue to who are together. You'll find out who else is together in the chapter.

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One Year Later

Here they were, standing next to each other at the altar of their verbena flower garden with bright smiles on their faces. The verbenas were from the quartz burgundy selection, which they had seen about a year ago at Lowe's when they had been looking for some paint. Patrick had even bought a white gazebo, which he had planted verbena's around the poles of the gazebo.

It took them days to decide who was going to be in the wedding party but they had finally limited it down. They selected Brenda as their maid of honor and Noah as Patrick's best man. The bridesmaids were Liz, Lainey, and Kelly. The groomsmen were Lucky, Ian, and Andy. It made it so easier because Liz was with Lucky, Lainey and Ian had just started dating two months ago, and Kelly and Andy were still crushing on each other.

Patrick, Noah, Ian, Andy and Lucky wore matching suits. Brenda, Lainey, Kelly and Liz were in burgundy colored dresses with a halter top effect. At the midsection of the dresses, there was an ivory silk sash which came around the front of the dress and tied into a bow on the left side right below the bust. The girls wore burgundy colored heels adorned with ivory colored straps.

Robin was wearing an ivory color strapless taffeta wedding dress. Taffeta is a medium weight fabric with varying sheen substance. The dress had a side drape with a metallic beaded lace bodice and mermaid-like skirt with a sweep train that basically just brushed against the ground. On her head, she was wearing an elbow length scalloped edged veil trimmed with pearls and crystals, rhinestone and pearl metallic. To complete her wedding attire, the beautiful bride was wearing a pair of ivory color sandal-like pumps with rhinestones along the heel.

Patrick, on the other hand, was wearing a black tuxedo and a white collared buttoned-down shirt with a pair of gold cufflinks to match it as well. The tuxedo jacket had one button and flap pockets and lined up to the knee of the pants. Underneath the black jacket Patrick was wearing a burgundy colored vest with five buttons but the vest was hidden by his tuxedo jacket. To finalize the picture, the incredible handsome groom was wearing a pair of black round-toed dress shoes.

Occasionally, Robin and Patrick would look over at Mackenzie, who was sitting on her grandmother's lap in between Robert and their son, Taylor. Everyone then began to listen to Pastor Wieckberg as he initiated the marriage ceremony of Robin Scorpio and Patrick Drake.

"Friends, we have been invited here to share with Patrick and Robin in a most important time in their lives. In the time they have been together, their love for and understanding of each other has grown and matured. Now they have decided to live their lives together as husband and wife."

"Our Father in heaven, Creator, Savior, and Designer of marriage, we turn to you this afternoon, asking that you be glorified by what takes place. That this ceremony would honor you, and reflect the seriousness of the vows to be spoken. Might this service be a reminder to us who have spoken similar vows to our spouses in the past. Might it be instructive to those yet considering such a commitment in their future. Might this ceremony be a fitting beginning for Patrick and Robin as they commit themselves before this company to pursue a Christ-centered life together. We ask it in Jesus' name, Amen. Thank you. You may be seated."

After a moment of silence, Pastor Wieckberg addressed the wedding guests, "Who is giving this woman to be joined to this man?"

Noah, Mac and Anna looked at each other before Mac's voice could be heard, "Her parents and I do."

"Will the Bride's and Groom's parents please stand?" Pastor Wieckberg asked, as he watched Mac Scorpio, Robert Scorpio, Anna Devane-Scorpio, and Noah Drake stand on their feet. "Mac, Robert, and Anna, are you willing, now and always, to support and strengthen this marriage, by upholding both Patrick and Robin, with your love, your concern, your counsel, and your prayers?"

The three parents just smiled at one another, as Anna continued to hold baby Mackenzie in her arms, who was also smiling. The three could only respond with two words, "We are."

Pastor Wieckberg then turned his attention to Patrick's father. "Noah, are you willing, now and always, to support and strengthen this marriage, by upholding both Patrick and Robin with your love, your concern, your counsel, and your prayers?"

Noah nodded his head at Pastor Wieckberg and happily responded, "I do".

A few seconds later, the organ begins to play. Anna hands Mackenzie to Robert, smiling as her granddaughter rests her head against her grandfather's chest. Both Noah and Anna grab a candle and simply light two single candles when they approached Pastor Wieckberg. Soon after they return to their seats with the lit candles.

Patrick and Robin then approach pastor on platform.

"Our God of love has established marriage as the symbol of Christ's perfect relationship to His Body, the Church. We have come to bring you as one before Him."

Pastor Wieckberg then turned his head away from the crowd and looked at the handsome groom, Patrick.. "God has ordained the man as the spiritual head, as the responsible provider, and as the initiator of love in this human relationship. By His enablement, your strength must be your wife's protection, your character her boast and pride, and you must so live that she will find in you the haven for which the heart of a woman truly longs. "

Pastor Wieckberg then directed his head towards Robin, the beautiful bride. "It is God's purpose that you will be a loving wife, that you respond to your husband's love in tenderness with a deep sense of understanding, through a great faith in Christ who brought you together. It is His desire that you have that inner beauty of soul that never fades; that eternal youth that is found in holding fast the things that never age."

Looking in between the couple, he flashed them both a warm smile over his features. "Christian marriage is not living merely for each other; it is two persons, uniting and joining hands to serve God. Seek His kingdom first, and His righteousness, and He will add all other things to you. Do not expect perfection from each other--that belongs solely to God. You need not minimize each other's weaknesses, but always be swift to praise and magnify each other's points of comeliness and strength, and see each other through kind and patient eyes."

"God will lead you into such situations as will bless you, and those which will develop your character as you walk together. That's another way of saying there will be difficult times you share as well. As you look to Him, He will give you enough tears to keep you tender, enough hurts to keep you compassionate, enough of failure to keep your hands clenched tightly in His, and enough of success to make you certain that you do walk with Him."

"May He remain the central figure in your relationship together. May you never take each other's love for granted, but always experience that wonder that exclaims "Out of all in this world, you have chosen me!" When life is done, may you be found, then as now, hand in hand, still thanking God for each other. May you ever serve Him happily, faithfully, together, until Christ returns in Glory, or until at last one shall lay the other to rest in the arms of the Savior. And all this, through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Pastor Wieckberg then turns to Patrick once again, "Patrick, have you in the quiet hours of your companionship considered what is your Christian duty as a husband?"

Patrick just grinned happily, his eyes never leaving Robin's. "I have."

Pastor Wieckberg then gave Robin a steady look, "Robin, have you in the quiet hours of your companionship considered what is your Christian duty as a wife?"

Robin smiled sweetly at her husband-to-be. "I have."

"You both stand before us as children of God, redeemed by Jesus Christ through your trust in Him, and His substitutionary death for your sin. Is it your purpose to establish a home that is truly Christ-centered, where the Word of God is read and obeyed; a home that is welded together by prayer, in which the Holy Spirit is your constant Guide?" Pastor Wieckberg said, as he then turned to the couple in front of him.

Robin and Patrick nod their heads. They glance at their friends and family for a moment and then turned their attention back to each other. "It is."

"Will you please, as an expression that your hearts are joined together in love, please join your hands?"

Pastor Wieckberg looks away from Robin and looks at Patrick. "Patrick, this woman whom you hold by the hand is to be your wife. She has given you one of the most sacred things under heaven: a woman's life, and a woman's love. You may bring her great joy or cause her deep sorrow. It is not what you bring her in a material way that will make true happiness--riches without love are nothing. The gift without the giver is bare. The practice of those virtues as husband that you have shown as lover, will keep her heart won to your heart. Do you vow here, as you have promised Robin, that you will be true and loyal, patient in sickness, comforting in sorrow, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her, so long as you both shall live?"

"I do."

Looking away from Patrick, his eyes turned to the bride. "Robin, this man whom you hold by the hand is to be your husband. Upon your life, your love, and your devotion he will lean for strength and inspiration. He is going to look to you for encouragement, for cheerfulness, and for confidence. No matter what the world may say or think, people may forget him, lose confidence in him, or turn their backs upon him, but you must not. May your life and love be the inspiration that will constantly lead him to greater dependence upon our Lord. Do you vow here, as you have promised Patrick, that you will be loyal in adversity, ministering to him in affliction, comforting him in sorrow, and forsaking all others, keeping yourself only unto him so long as you both shall live?"

"I do."

"What token do you give as a pledge of the sincerity of your vows?" Pastor Wieckberg asked, as he looked towards the groom.

"A ring," Patrick simply states with a nod of his head.

"What token do you give as a pledge of the sincerity of your vows?" Pastor Wieckberg asked Robin, as he looked away from Patrick.

"A ring."

"A ring is a fitting symbol to represent the covenant you are making today. Not only are these made out of the finest of metals, reminding you of the purity of your relationship. They are also a circle, a line unending, reminding you that your love, devotion, and commitment to one another are to be unending."

The maid of honor, Liz, and the best man, Noah, hands the rings to Patrick and Robin.

"Now, I want you to repeat after me."

"I, Patrick, take you, Robin, to be my wife, before God who brought us together, to love and cherish you, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, to lead you, and share all of life's experiences with you, by following God through them. That through His grace we might grow together into the likeness of Jesus, our Savior and Lord," Patrick stated, as he smiled at Robin, while he slide on the ring on her finger of her left hand.

"Robin, would you repeat after me?"

"I, Robin, take you, Patrick, to be my wedded husband, before God who brought us together, to love you and to cherish you, to submit myself to you in all things, and to follow you through all of life's experiences as you follow God, that through His grace we might grow together into the likeness of Jesus, our Savior and Lord," Robin said with a smile, as she slid the ring on her love's finger.

After a while, two candles have been lit when the rings were on each of their fingers.

"The two outside candles on the table have been lighted to represent your lives up to this moment. They are two distinct lights, each capable of going their separate ways. To bring the happiness God designed for your home, there must be the merging of these two lights into one light. This is what the Lord meant when He said, "On this account a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh." From now on, your thoughts shall be for each other, rather than for your individual selves. Your plans shall be mutual, your joys and sorrows shall be shared. As you each take a candle, and together light the center one, and extinguish your own candles, you will be letting the center candle represent the union of your lives into one flesh. As this one light cannot be divided, neither shall your lives be divided, but a united testimony in a Christian home. May the radiance of this one light be a testimony of your unity in the Lord Jesus Christ."

Patrick and Robin then each take a candle and light the unity candle where they then kneel.

After a few minutes have passed, Patrick and Robin stand in front of Pastor Wieckberg, and then take hold of each other's hands.

"In as much as you have each pledged to the other your lifelong commitment, love, and devotion, by the authority committed to me as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and according to the laws of the State of New York, I now declare you to be husband and wife, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen. And what God hath joined together, let no man put asunder."

"You may now kiss your bride."

Patrick smiled at Robin and he lifted her veil back. He saw the happy tears shining in her eyes and he thumbed her tears away that had fallen. He then lightly pressed his lips against Robin's lips. After a moment, he pulled away with a grin on his handsome face, his dimples in full bloom.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to be the first to introduce to you, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Noah Drake," Pastor Wieckberg said with a smile on his face and everyone began to clap.