It's been a great One Shot Week and I got 8 second chapters knocked off my list! Tonight is the last shot and I hope you enjoy this epilogue chapter!
Ch. 2 Married
"You look stunning, my son is very lucky," Mrs. Mason says to me with a smile as she puts the last flower in my hair.
"Thanks Robin," I grin hugging my very soon to be mother-in-law.
"Yeah I told Spinner not to let you go," Kendra smiles at me.
"You look beautiful Honey, I'll let the guys know you're almost ready and make sure Adam is ready," Mom tells me.
It's been exactly four years since the day Spinner unexpectedly kissed me in The Dot, a kiss that began our wonderful relationship. We've been together the entire four years, sure there have been fights and rocky times but we always come out stronger. He even moved to New York to be with me when I was accepted to Columbia. He got a job managing a restaurant and we got a small apartment together. Last year on my birthday he proposed and I said yes.
When we first began dating my mom was not happy when she found out Spinner's age or when she remembered he had dated Darcy. We had a fight about it but as I was seventeen she couldn't do anything about it. She did threaten to kick me out and I told her I'd move in with Spinner. After Glen and Jake calmed her down and Spinner talked to her she reluctantly accepted our relationship. The more she saw us together the more she grew to love him and our relationship.
"Can I come in?" Adam asks knocking on the dressing room door. Adam I have remained best friends and he is my Man of Honor while Kendra is my bridesmaid. Jay is Spinner's best man and he has no grooms man because he only wanted Jay by his side.
We decided to get married in Toronto instead of New York and since I have school we're only here for a few days. It's a fairly small wedding, family and close friends on a rooftop terrace at sunset.
"Yes we're all decent," I reply.
"And you all look beautiful," he smiles coming in the room. He looks at me and grins, kissing my cheek and his whiskers scratch my chin. He's been through the therapy and operation and you'd never be able to tell he was ever a girl.
Adam and Kendra leave the room to walk down the aisle and stand before the officiator. Jay walks down with them and my mom leaves to take her seat. Robin escorts Spinner down the aisle and then Dad knocks on the dressing room door.
"Are you ready to be Mrs. Gavin Mason?" Dad smiles.
"I'm very ready," I grin walking over and taking his arm.
He escorts me down the aisle and Spinner has the biggest smile when he sees me. Dad stops at the end of the aisle and kisses my cheek then Spinner takes my hand and our eyes lock. The officiator begins the ceremony welcoming everyone and talking about love and marriage and your typical wedding stuff and then it's time for Spin and I to say our vows, we chose to write our own.
"Gavin expressing how much I love you with mere words is simply not feasible because there are no words to accurately describe how incredible you make me feel, or how much I love you. Still I will try to put those feelings into words on this day we are bonded together. You've always made me smile even when we're fighting. You comfort me and make me feel safe like no one ever has before. Your smile makes my heart flutter, the way you look at me makes me feel like the most beautiful and most loved woman on the planet. When I'm in your arms I feel nurtured and protected and your kisses send a rushing tingle all the way through me. I have loved every moment I've spent with you in these last four years and I'm excited for whatever will come next in our life together. I love you Gavin, my love for you grows every day, you are my best friend, my confidant, my biggest supporter and my partner in everything and today I am so happy and proud to call you Husband."
"Clare, love of my life, my goddess of beauty, nurturing, loving, intelligent, sexy and sensual woman like no other. I am the luckiest man to be with you. No one else could have enriched my life the way you do. I am grateful for the gift that is you. Every morning I wake up next to you is a good day. Every time our eyes lock I fall in love with you all over again and remember how lucky I am to have you in my life. I can't imagine a life without you in it and I look forward to spending the rest of my life with you, because you are my life. Life may not be easy, we'll have struggles and fights, we'll have hard days and disagreements but as long as I have you and your love every struggle will be worth it. I promise to always keep you smiling and to put our love first. I promise do everything I can to give you everything but if I can't give you everything you always have my heart and my deepest love."
Spinner finishes and I have joyous tears in my eyes. I'm smiling as wide as my lips will go and feel my cheeks aching because of it. The officiator says a few more words and then we exchange rings and he tells us to share our first kiss as man and wife. I loop my arms around Spinner's neck and our lips join together in a loving and euphoric kiss. Our friends and family cheer for us and after a moment we break apart. The reception is here in the same space, while we take pictures the event coordinators set up the food and the tables leaving room for a dance floor and the DJ sets up. After wedding pictures Spinner and I share our first dance as a married couple. We sit down to eat and Jay taps his glass.
"When I first heard that Spin and Clare first got together I thought he was nuts. I remembered this skinny, gawky little girl with glasses and braids. I couldn't believe when I saw her again, she had matured and blossomed into an incredible woman that Spinner was very lucky to snatch. Watching their love grow and their effect on each other has been inspiring. Here's to Clare and Spinner an amazing couple with an amazing love story and an inspiring love," Jay says and everyone raises their glasses and I get up to hug him.
Others make speeches including Adam and our moms. As people finish eating they go to the dance floor. We dance a lot and then Spinner and I cut the cake. We dance some more, laugh and talk, I throw the bouquet which is caught by Kendra and Spinner throws my garter which is caught by Adam. We're not going on our honeymoon until summer when I'm off school and we're flying back to tomorrow night so we bid all our guests goodbye at the end of the night.
"Let's have one last dance before we go back to the hotel," Spinner says holding his hand out to me. I smile taking his hand and walking to the middle of the dance floor with my husband. The event planners have begun cleaning up but they dim the lights and put a spotlight on us. The DJ puts on a slow song and Spin and I dance together. "I love you Wife," Spinner whispers.
"I love you Husband," I smile laying my head on his chest.
I hold him tight, dancing happily and thinking back to that moment when I got a kiss I didn't expect and how it brought us to this moment right now of married bliss.
I hope you enjoyed this epilogue chapter and the end of One Shot Week. Tomorrow begins Short Story Month starting with the premier of a new short story!