CHAPTER THREE:: THIS KISS-FAITH HILL

Are ya ready?" Lindsey asked as Jo was standing in front of a full length mirror. Her white A-line tulle wedding dress was beyond perfect.

"What are you staring at? The dress is gorgeous!" Ellie said popping her head inside.

Jo laughed, "I have a zit!"

"Ugh" Ellie and Lindsey both sighed

I don't want another heartbreak
I don't need another turn to cry, no
I don't want to learn the hard way
Baby hello, oh no, goodbye
But you got me like a rocket
Shooting straight across the sky

"Mac won't even care or notice for that matter Mom" Ellie said shaking her head

"But I'll know it's there!" Jo said scrutinizing her chin in the mirror

"C'mon let's go Jo" Lindsey said taking her hand and leading her out of the room.

It' s the way you love me
It's a feeling like this
It's centrifugal motion
It's perpetual bliss
It's that pivotal moment
It's, ah, impossible
This kiss, this kiss
Unstoppable
This kiss, this kiss

Standing right in front of the door Jo took a deep breath before Ellie and Lindsey opened the door.

Ellie stared in awe at her Mom. She flashbacked to first meeting Mac. She was on a mission to leave New York for good, so she didn't even see Mac before plowing right into him at the crime lab.

"Woah slow down young lady. Who are you?"

"Ellie. Who are you?

"I'm Mac Taylor head of the Crime Lab"

Just then Jo had walked around the corner, "Ellie! What are you doing here?"

That was the first time Ellie had met Mac, she knew she would see him again. She was right two years later Mac Taylor was showing up at the door taking her Mom out for dinner dates, movies in the park, etc. Mac made her Mom happy and that's all that mattered to her.

Ellie was so lost in thought she almost missed her own cue to walk down the aisle.

Cinderella said to Snow White
"How does love get so off course
All I wanted was a white knight
With a good heart, soft touch, fast horse
Ride me off into the sunset
Baby I'm forever yours"

Mac is beaming as he watches Lucy throw flowers down the aisle as Lindsey walks behind her followed by Ellie. Mac smiles at each of them, Ellie gives Mac a thumbs up for standing in her spot. Don and Danny accompany Mac at the altar, they all keep exchanging grins.

Then Jo appears in his line of sight.

It's the way you love me
It's a feeling like this
It's centrifugal motion
It's perpetual bliss
It's that pivotal moment
It's, ah unthinkable
This kiss, this kiss
Unsinkable
This kiss, this kiss

As Mac watches Jo slowly walk down the aisle his breath is taken away. He recalls their first date, it was ice skating after window shopping. This time with no murder in the window. The first time he kissed her, on the rooftop of the crime lab because he couldn't hold it in any longer how he felt about her. Pretty cliché if you ask him with the beautiful city lights in the background. His jaw dropped as he took in her full wedding gown, it brought back the memory of finally asking her to marry him. He set up a romantic picnic in central park, right along the shore line with a view of the city (her favorite). It almost didn't happen as he had temporarily lost the ring he designed himself.

You can kiss me in the moonlight
On the rooftop under the sky, oh
You can kiss me with the windows open
While the rain comes pouring inside, oh
Kiss me in sweet slow motion
Let's let everything slide
You got me floating
You got me flying

Once Jo reached the altar her smile couldn't get any bigger.

"You look radiantly gorgeous" Mac whispered in her ear. She blushed

"Thank you. You clean up alright as well" She said smirking.

Mac was staring right into Jo's eyes are she recited her vows to him. He noticed the scar that was only visible if you really looked at her. Right above her eyebrow, John Curtis. A moment that had brought them closer. During Mac's vows Jo kept remembering Mac fighting for his life after he was shot in the drug store. How he almost didn't make it, how close she came to actually losing him.

It's the way you love me
It's a feeling like this
It's centrifugal motion
It's perpetual bliss
It's that pivotal moment
It's (ah) subliminal
This kiss, this kiss
It's criminal
This kiss, this kiss

"Do you Josephine Danville take Mac Taylor to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

It's the way you love me baby
It's the way you love me, darlin'

"I do"

"Do you Mac Taylor take Josephine Danville to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

It' s the way you love me
It's a feeling like this
It's centrifugal motion
It's perpetual bliss
It's that pivotal moment
It's (ah) subliminal
This kiss, this kiss
It's criminal
This kiss, this kiss

"I do"

"I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride"

It's the way you love me baby
It's the way you love me darlin'

Mac and Jo beamed at each other and then hand in hand walked down the aisle and out the door.