Nothings bigger than love: Chapter two
She could hear the ocean from where she lay but she didn't want to open her eyes because the pictures in her mind were the most beautiful things, she felt this sudden weight be placed upon her but she didn't panic she just continued to picture the amazing setting that waited for her when she did eventually open those eyes of hers, she felt a prodding at her face and she knew Lucas was trying to wake her so just to spite him she continued to ignore him, going into her own little zone. But he was good the prodding continued and then she felt this cold liquid on her nose, she opened her eyes as fast as possible and when she did two baby blues were looking straight back at her and she did her magical Peyton Sawyer now Scott laugh. As her little five month old daughter who had recently discovered her giggle did her big slobbery smile which lead to Peyton getting a wetter nose, Peyton quickly lifted the girl off with a grossed out look on her face, wiping the slobber off her nose and turning to her laughing husband.
"If anyone else would have slobbered on my nose I would have hurt them, but you're just so gorgeous"
"What happened to you Peyton Sawyer you have turned all mushy on me woman?" he said watching as his wife held their daughter up in the air above her "It would be really funny if she threw up right now" he said with a smirk looking to Peyton
"Ha, ha you are way too hilarious" Peyton said pulling Sawyer back down and placing her between the two of them on her stomach.
They lay there for a while with Sawyer on her stomach squirming around like crazy, laughing and watching on at their beautiful baby girl that had the uncanny ability to make them smile and not make them stop. Eventually Sawyer fell asleep and they put her into her crib, both standing over it watching as she her chest heaved and then relaxed with each breath, watching as her little face sighed as she slept, It seemed as though every moment they looked at her they fell more and more in love with her and with each other because they had created that gorgeous baby in the crib in front of them. Lucas moved closer to his wife putting his arm around her waist. Peyton continued to look at the little girl "I know what you are doing" she said with a smile
"I'm not doing anything" he said with a cheeky grin plastered across his face before moving in and kissing Peyton's neck
"It's not going to work" she said as he moved further up his neck, he made it to her lips and she latched on kissing him, he pushed her up against the crib and it shifted, she looked at him with a 'whoops' look on her face, she laughed as Lucas brought her face back into his. This time instead of pushing her up against the crib he leant down and picked her up wrapping her legs around his waist and attempting to walk backwards as they kissed. They had nearly made it to the bed when the door swung open, both in shock unlatched lips and looked to the person standing in the doorway, the look they were receiving from the doorway made Lucas put Peyton back down on her feet, Lucas looked awkwardly away from the person in the doorway, he knew that obviously his mother had known that he had had sex before he obviously had considering he had a baby girl that his mother absolutely doted on but he didn't want his mother to know he was having sex, no matter how old he was he had always dreaded the birds and the bees conversation that came with having sex. Lucas separated himself from Peyton walking to the doorway but not giving eye contact "Hey Andy" he said with an awkward cough as his step father looked at him with a smirk
"You're mum and I need to talk to you" he said waving to a laughing Peyton who had retaken her position in front of Sawyer's crib. "Just come out when you are ready" he said going to turn
"Hey Andy…"
"I'm not going to tell your mum" he said with a wave walking up the hallway.
Peyton and Lucas had gotten changed and walked up to the kitchen where Karen was standing pouring coffee while Andy sat down at the table reading a newspaper, next to him was Lily who sat drawing a picture. Lucas went and stood next to his mother hoping that she would sense his desperation and make him a cup of coffee too, while Peyton sat down next to Lily
"What are you drawing Lil?"
"A whale" the little girl responded without looking up at well her sister in law, who looked at the drawing at every angle possible trying to see the whale, but she appreciated Lily's artistic talent and stood up kissing the little girls cheek "It's great darling" she said walking over to her husband and taking his mug of coffee before he could take a sip, the look she got afterwards was enough to assign private detail to protect you.
Karen sensed the anger in his sons eyes about his lack of coffee she slapped his arm and passed him another cup, she then looked to Andy and grinned widely "Okay Andy and I really need to tell you something" she said as all eyes looked at her and then to Andy before resting back at her. Karen held up her hand showing off a glistering rock, Peyton screamed running up to Karen and hugging her senseless as Lucas laughed patting Andy on the back, Lily looked at her family confused as her mother crossed the room and kneeled down next to the little girl as Andy took the other side "dad and I are getting married darling"
"Cool" the little girl said with a smile before looking back down and continuing her drawing
"Welcome to the family man!" Lucas said shaking his soon to be legalised step father
"Run while you still can" Peyton whispered not so quietly to Andy before excusing herself to get her awoken daughter at the end of the hallway, she returned five minutes later with a smiling refreshed baby.
"Now one more thing!" Karen said getting the group's attention back again "We are getting married on Sunday"
"What?" Lucas asked confused looking from his mother to Andy back and forth "This Sunday as in two days Sunday?" he asked as his mother nodded
"What about all the wedding planning?" Peyton said looking at Karen while hoisting Sawyer up on her waist
"All covered" she said with a smile on her face as she sipped her coffee
"What about all the people you want to invite?" Lucas asked
"All the people we need there are standing right in this very room" she said with a smile looking on at her smiling family.
The wedding day first approached and to Lucas and Peyton's shock it seemed as though everything was planned: Lucas would be Andy's groomsmen as well as having the duty of walking his mother down the aisle, Peyton would be Karen's bridesmaid while the two little girls would be flower girls, and Karen would obviously be the bride with Andy the groom. The wedding would take place on the boat, they would wait till the minister arrived and then dock out for the day to a nice serene spot on the ocean, they would spend the would dock at the nearest jetty, let the minister off cause he had other commitments and party the night away before dropping Lucas, Peyton and the girls back on dry land where Lucas would babysit his little sister for three nights while Karen and Andy honey mooned on the water, it was all planned and it was all sorted now the day just had to come and they had to enjoy it.
Karen woke up with a smile plastered upon her face and she didn't doubt the fact that it would remain on her face throughout the day, the house was seemingly quite, she didn't realise how loud the boys must actually be considering how silent it was now. Her daughter wasn't loud until she had properly waken in the morning, it wasn't that little Lily was cranky in the mornings it was just that she was so in her shell and shy when it came to first thing in the morning which was weird considering that she was so loud and unspoken the second she snapped out of her shell. Also surprisingly even though it was nine o'clock she hadn't been woken up by the cries of her granddaughter even though the beach house was quite small in its self, Sawyer wasn't much of a crier herself plus Peyton tried her hardest to not disturb the other residents in the house.
Karen had a quick pre-bride shower and did her morning beauty routine before walking out onto the deck and finding three sets of eyes land on her, big grins involved in all cases, one set excited about the wedding, one excited about the possibility of a pancake breakfast and the third little smile may have been the recognition of grandma but it also could have been gas. There was no way to be one hundred per cent sure.
"You ready to get married Miss Roe soon to be Mrs Hargrove?" Peyton said sliding a fresh cup of coffee across the table towards Karen who quickly took the cup and took a sip.
"More than ever Peyton, more than ever" she said taking a seat on the step next to her daughter and stroking her ultra-jet black silky hair as she continued to draw, momentarily looking up to her mum
"Are you going to put on the pretty dress soon mama?" she said with her big eyes
"Yes darling I am" Karen said with a smile
"Can we have pancakes?" the little girl said looking on with the look she knew her mother couldn't say no to while Peyton laughed behind them
"We definitely can" she said with a massive grin, stepping up and taking the girls hand before heading inside indicating that Peyton should come too.
The boys were staying on the boat for the night before the wedding, considering the bathroom was half the size of the one at the beach house and there was no way the girls were giving up that bathroom to prepare. The boys had promised that they would help decorate for the wedding and make sure it was all prepared for the ceremony and all stocked up alcohol wise for the reception, plus Lucas had to make sure the sound system was in working order for Peyton's magical wedding playlist. Peyton had laughed when Andy and Karen had assigned Lucas with decorations, as far as she was concerned he couldn't decorate a cardboard box in kinder. It had been a less than calm evening the night before for the bachelor boys on the boat compared to the women with children less than ten minutes away, the last thing Lucas remembered before bed was swinging off the sides of the boat singing songs really loudly until their other sea folk neighbours yelled at them to be quite but that wasn't the last straw, the last straw was when Lucas nearly lost drunk Andy overboard. Thank god they had the sea breeze to clear out the musty alcohol smell.
"Hair of the dog" Andy said handing Lucas a concoction he had made out of everything that Karen had left in the fridge when they moved out.
"How have you gotten off so lightly?" Lucas asked stroking his temple referring to the sunny demeanour that his soon to be legalised step father was presenting compared to his "please kill me now" demeanour.
"Let's just say I've had more practice!" he said "Actually probably not" Andy said with a chuckle in his New Zealand accent. Before Lucas could make a snappy retort and before Andy could stop laughing his phone rang and he turned into serious wedding planning dude. Andy left the room as Lucas took a reluctant sip of his drink as his wife walked in to deliver the suits on behalf of Karen. Sawyer was on her hip and she looked at the face of her husband "Whoa dude! What happened to your face?" she asked hitching her daughter a little bit.
"Nothing, Andy and I just had some celebratory drinks to you know celebrate the fact that he is marrying my mum last night"
"It looks like you drank a whole liquor store" she said now standing quite close to him dragging her fingers across his face "It looks like you have permanent red eye liner on"
"I'm going for the rocker look"
"I've already dated one rock star! And I would like to remember you that you are about as musically talented as my left shoe"
"Harsh" he said acting hurt
"And my right shoe combined" she said with a chuckle as he scooped his daughter out of his wives arms and putting Sawyer up in the air as he looked up on her, they were all laughing when Andy stormed in in a huff. "What's wrong?" Peyton asked recognising first that something was wrong
"The minister pulled out, his wife forgot to inform him that he got violently sea-sick plus it's his daughter's birthday. I think It is a pretty pour effort to forget that in the first place, What are we going to do now?" he said sitting down putting his head in his hands, sunny demeanour seemingly disappearing.
"Okay be calm be calm we will brain storm" Peyton said beginning to pace the boat before sitting down and then quickly jumping up again "3-minute "
"I can't believe I didn't think of that"
"Okay guys I know you are having a 'oh you're so smart that's why I love you moment' I really would like it if you filled me in on the situation before I have to call Karen"
"On our wedding day the minister couldn't make it so we went onto this website and got Haley to do the ceremony for us"
In about twenty minutes it was all set up and everyone on the boat was pretty pumped for the ceremony, and at that time Peyton had to go back to the beach house and get ready herself for the wedding she said goodbye as Andy informed her not to tell Karen what had gone on with the whole minister thing, thinking it would be sort of cool to surprise Mama Bear.
When Peyton walked in ready to throw on her dress as quick as ever she stopped in the kitchen grabbing her phone and taking a picture of the sight in front of her, Karen sat in her dressing gown her black hair spread to one side of her shoulder with a piece of paper in front of her and a red pencil In her hand next to her daughter who looked exactly the same. Karen looked up at the click and smiled.
"How are my boys?" she said with a smile on her face
"Let's just say full of surprises" Peyton said full of mystery and as Karen looked at her intrigued Peyton interrupted "Let's get you ready to walk down the aisle"
By the time they had gotten ready and decorated it was time for the main event of the day and as an indication that the bride had arrived Lily ran in onto the boat smiling at her smiling technically step father yet the only father Lily had ever known, Lily ran into Andy's arms and he lifted her up kissing her cheek and asking her how she was and how the night previously had been and her response was "Mama looks really pretty and guess what?"
"What?" he said feigning exaggerated excitement
"We had pancakes for breakfast"
"That is so cool, I'm making mum make me pancakes for breakfast" he said before indicating to Lucas that he should inform the girls that it was go time, he made it outside and his mother burst into tears
"Whoa mum what's wrong?" he said walking over to her and bringing her into a hug
"the last half an hour she has been pretty emotional" Peyton said before walking towards the boat leaving mother and son for a little pre-wedding moment
" Lucas I am so proud of you, of the man you are becoming. I know Keith would be so proud of you"
"You too ma" he said leaning down a little so that he could actually look into his mothers eyes
"Gorgeous boy" she said bringing him in for another hug and kissing his cheek
"Okay I better go in so we can get this party started" he said letting go of his mum and heading in the direction of the boat before she reached out and grabbed his hand tightly as he turned to look at her
"I'm so nervous Luke! Can you walk with me? I think I might fall over if you don't" she said as Lucas smiled at her
"Sure mum"
The music was cued and Andy stood nervously alone at the other end of the make-shift aisle, it seemed as though everyone had left him. Peyton walked in and he smiled as she walked hand in hand with Lily who was co flower girl with Sawyer who was In her mother the bridesmaids arms, as the approached Andy, Lily let go of Peyton's hand and took Andy's. he looked down and smiled at her before looking back up and seeing a glimmer of the bride walking into the main wedding room.
Karen looked at the front to Andy before turning back to Lucas who held her hand "Where is the minster?" she asked as Lucas ignored the question which he knew he couldn't avoid forever, they reached the spot and Karen looked curiously but happily at everyone before Lucas let go of her arm
"Who gives this woman to this man?" he said crossing to in front of the room and then crossing back "I do" Lucas said before crossing again "Good" as the family surrounded him.
Karen turned to Andy as she took the other hand that wasn't be leased out by their daughter, "How does this look to you?" Karen asked referring to what Andy had asked that night at Tric.
"Perfect" he said gripping on tighter to his soon to be wife's hand.
Chapter done!