Happily Ever After?

Summary: Jack married Mary and now after the first year of marriage, it seems to be going all down hill. Jack seems to have caught klutz disease, dropping everything everywhere. And Mary? She was stuck in a library she felt no need to have anymore...will everything be all right and will they live happily ever after?

Prologue: Tripping Down the Aisle.

It was Fall the 26th ...only one week ago, Jack had proposed to Mary. She had accepted. He even had the heart to had used a blue feather for the proposal...

Mary was outside the church...waiting for one of the biggest moments of a young lady's life, the day she was going to be married. It wasn't only marriage...it was the day she was going to move to Jack's farm, and unbeknownst to Jack, she had a very constant fear of cows, or more specifically, cow fodder. She still remembered the time Gray had offered her some and the look of sheer horror on his face when she turned it down.

People might think she was a bit weird liking poisonous mushrooms and the whatnot, but Animal Fodder?

And why was she here thinking about it, when she should be inside the church now, doing the biggest moment of her life.

Now it was Mary's turn to get a look of sheer horror on her face. She walked briskly to the church door, and yanked it open.

She was now walking down the aisle, blushing furiously. It was one thing to be late for someone else's wedding, but to your own?

But her face resumed her normal colour when she saw Jack. He was waiting at the end of the aisle, quite anxiously, but his face shone like a beacon when he saw Mary.

Mary took this most inopportune moment to stumble on the hem of her wedding dress. She lost her balance and fell flat on her face. There was a hearty laugh going through the church, and Mary could feel her face burning up. She had never tripped in four years...so why now?

"Why not now?" another part of her brain said, "It really adds volume to tripping down the aisle!"

She fumbled to her feet, her face had attained the tomato colour again, but she walked slowly forwards, making sure not to trip again.

After what seemed like an eternity, she had finally reached Jack.

Carter was doing his thing, saying the vows while occasionally mopping his brow.

"Psssst, Mary." Jack whispered to Mary. "What's with the tiara?"

"Why, don't you like it?" asked Mary curiously

"No...I love it."

"You have the same weird tastes as I do then!" Mary exclaimed, "We have more in common then I thought."

"All the better to love you with."

It had come to end of the vows, which Mary had barely paid any attention to, and she clearly heard Carter's last sentence.

"You may now...kiss the bride!"

It was now Jack who had the look of sheer horror on his face. Since he was just standing there with his mouth slightly agape, Mary had assumed he had never even kissed someone before. She would have to remedy that later.

For now, she just grabbed Jack in a rather awkward hug, smiling like she would never be sad again.

"Hey Mary..." Jack whispered into her ear, "Will you let me kiss you later...I just wanted...our first kiss to be private, if you know what I mean."

"Yes Jack...thanks to you I'll never be lonely again." Replied Mary, and she changed the awkward hug to a loving one.

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Frozen-Lake