Three of A Kind

3rd installment of the Lucky 13 Series

Chap. 1

The sun shown in brightly through the lobby of the Vegas court house and as I drew in a shallow breath I watched a single ray of sunlight dance across my mom's face.

"Look at your hair, the wind must have messed it up…" She frowned and brushed a strayed strand of hair away from my eye.

"Mom, relax. It's not like this is a big deal. Come on, I'm wearing a sundress the size of a freaking moo-moo." I laughed. "Besides, if the baby has it her way I'll be lucky if I can last through the paper signing without barfing up my breakfast."

My mom's forehead wrinkled into a worried expression that I knew all too well. "Did you speak with the doctor yet?"

"I've been trying to hold off until my next check-up but I think I should call her soon. This whole throwing up after every time I eat doesn't seem like anything normal to me…"

"If you don't call, I will. We need to get that taken care of as soon as possible." She replied anxiously.

"Well, can I at least get married first?" I stood up off of the wooden bench I had been sitting on and spotted Criss walking into the large hallway.

My mom nodded, her eyes still filled with anxiety.

"There's the blushing bride!" Costa whistled trailing behind Criss.

My eyes rolled slightly, "Blushing and blossoming."

"Blossoming quite beautifully I might add!" Criss planted a soft kiss on my right cheek and I felt Costa's hand pat against my bloated belly.

"Hey, where's J.D. at?" I questioned as I glanced around the room.

"He's outside with your dad and my mom. They should be in shortly." Criss replied. "I think he wanted Linda to come in and talk to you first for awhile."

I nodded. "Gotcha, it's probably better that way, seeing as how they'll probably start a ruckus otherwise."

My mom heard me from the corner of the room and cleared her throat, "I'm not going to start a ruckus with your father, he'll start one with me… and Criss, I'm not Linda anymore honey, now you can officially call me mom."

Criss half smiled and leaned into my ear to whisper, "So now MOM has a crush on me…"

I laughed out loud and shoed him away from my ear. "Behave!"

"Hey, you know I'm just saying… that's awkward." He chuckled as he grabbed onto my hand. "By the way, you look nice today."

I smiled glancing down at my white sun dress of which I thought made me look like a beached whale. My mom was probably right about the wind getting a hold of my hair. I had taken the time out to straighten it all and pull it half back into a bump on the top but now it seemed as the sides were starting to fall down slightly.

"Thanks, sorry I don't look as stunning as the first go 'round."

Criss shook his head as if to object my words and before he could speak my dad walked into the hallway with Dimitra and J.D. following along beside him.

"Who's ready to get finally get married?" Dimitra grinned.

The court process took a little less the an hour and a half. The ceremony was fast and easy and the notary only needed us to show them 2 forms of personal I.D. to get the marriage license. After that we had to simply pay the license fee and wait in the mail for the document. I suppose the only thing I really needed to get used to was signing my name differently. That was going to take some practice, good thing I already had it memorized before hand. No wonder Criss went by the last name "Angel" instead of Sarantakos… Angel was so much easier to pronounce and spell. I was happy to be married finally but to be honest, nothing really felt that different. Nothing had really epically changed between Criss and I. I suppose now that we were married the only that had changed was that me spending the rest of my life with him felt a little bit more secure than it had before.

Once we were all done with the quiet court wedding the 7 of us headed back out into the parking lot where Criss had a limo waiting to take us all out to a nice family dinner.

"Excuse me, Mrs.?" The limo driver flagged me down.

My head spun around for a moment and I replied, "Yes?"

"Here, I was instructed to deliver these to you after the wedding…" He handed me a large bouquet of a dozen red roses and my eyes starred questionably at Criss for a moment before I took hold of them.

"Awww… babe, you didn't have to that." I smiled widely.

Criss bit onto his bottom lip and gave me an awkward glance, "But I didn't."

"Dad?" I grinned my fathers way who's eyes were still a bit glossed over from the ceremony.

"No, honey, they aren't from me either."

My fingers found a small white envelope tucked away inside the bouquet. The moment I read it my heart leapt instantly leapt into my throat.

Best Wishes

-Brandon-

"Does it say who they're from?" Criss peaked over my shoulder curiously.

My hand instantly crinkled the note in a tight ball.

"No, it doesn't. It didn't say anything at all." I replied sharply. "Come on, let's go eat, this baby is starving."

His eyes leveled mine for a moment trying to read my mind and I didn't care, professional mentalist or not, he wasn't getting inside.

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