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PART 3

Her face is plastered with a smile. It actually hurts to smile this much. But Allie is happy, she is, though she knows she could be happier with Noah. She is happy enough, as she sits next to Lon at the head table, smiling. Everyone looks so amazing today…her wedding day. They are all so happy for her, the paper was there for a while and took some pictures of her smiling so brightly. Lon has been amazing, not to mention amazingly forgiving.

"Allie honey you look beautiful" Mrs. Baker her mothers good friend comes up smiling. She leans in and kisses Allie's cheek.

"Oh thank you" She smiles up at the older woman.

"Allie, hi Mary" Anne Hamilton says with a smile as she approaches her daughter. "Lon, Allie" She makes a face. "You two need to get out on the dance floor"

Lon clears his throat and smiles, he wipes his mouth on the cloth napkin. "Shall we?" He stands holding his hand out to Allie.

She smiles, taking his hand, standing. She moves with him he leads her onto the dance floor.

Noah sits in his truck outside the Hamilton's summer home, right now it is the wedding location. He has only been inside once before, when he last saw Allie 7 years ago. He looks at the house wondering if the wedding party is out back where he went to lunch once all those summers ago. Noah licks his lips. The next thing he knows he is walking up to the front of the house. His ears listen to the music which is playing softly somewhere. He knows if he follows it he will find Allie, and her husband and their many guests. Entering the Hamilton summer home it looks the same. The greatness of each room is somewhat overwhelming even as a man. He lives in a large home but at the same time it is very modest, very plain on the inside. There is not large chandelier in the ceiling or grand rug covering the hardwood. Noah sees people busying themselves in the kitchen. Walking towards the back with trays.

"Can I help you?" A man dressed in a very fine suit, though he is the help. "Noah?"

Noah looks at the man and frowns wondering who this is.

"It's me Mitch, hey" Mitch grabs him into a hold, a firm manly hold.

"Oh hey" Noah pats the other mans back firmly, when they part he smiles a bit and looks at him. Mitch worked with him at the lumber yard years ago. They fell out of touch, as he did with most of his worker friends when he and Fin left for the army. "You are working here?" Noah asks pointing down indicating the house the party.

"Just for the day…your girl Allie is married" Mitch tells him, knowing he already knows but just to say something, because Noah looks different, aside from older.

"She is not my girl" Noah says with a little nod. "Is the party out back?"

"Yeah" Mitch says watching him, nodding a bit. "Do you want me to get her?"

Noah's eyes widen and he frowns at the same time, trying to remember if he and Mitch were ever really that close for him to do this for him. "Would she come?"

"I'll think of something, go out to the front" Mitch pats Noah's shoulder and heads off towards the soft music.

Allie holds her gown up a little as she walks with Mitch. She remembers him for ages ago, and he seems like a very nice guy. "It's not a problem Mitch" Allie smiles. "We just won't tell my mother" She laughs a bit. She stops her step when he opens the screen front door for her.

"Thank you Miss. Allie, it's right out there" He leans out holding it open and letting her step out first. He doesn't follow her.

Allie gets out and turns quickly when the screen shuts as does the large wooden door. She frowns and moves to open it.

Noah looks at her from one end of the porch and his heart breaks just a bit more. Seeing her like that, so beautiful, but married to someone else. Noah clears his throat as she has her body half way back inside the house. He watches her pause and lean back outside in the bright summer air.

"Noah" She whispers his name. Her eyes trace over his body his hands are shoved deep into his slacks and he looks like he tried to dress up but just didn't quite get it. She moves away from the door her eyes still locked on him. Allie pulls the large wooden door shut again letting the screen door fall and gently close after her, careful not to get her dress caught in it.

Noah looks at her walk over to him slowly, holding her dress, and she looks so beautiful. He has never really gotten to see her as a woman looking so elegant. Being the elegant woman she was raised to be. "Hi" He whispers softly.

"You're here" Her eyes scan over his face, back and forward, so very quickly. Allie licks her red lips and she looks at him, wanting him to speak. She hasn't seen or spoken to him in a month and a week. "Say something"

"You look beautiful" He says what he has thought from the moment he saw her. He watches her chest heave as she sucks in a large breath and lets it out. "Don't cry" He tells her, knowing her, how her emotions are always all over the place. He loves that about her, loves that she is happy one minute and in devastation the next. He loves how her tears flow touching him deep in his heart when he watches her.

Allie shakes her head a bit her veil which hangs down the back of her head moves with her. "I'm married" She tells him.

"You wore a veil" He says looking over her dress again, from her feet to her head.

Allie turns her back on him and shuts her eyes tightly, resting her face into her hands and she feels like she is going into another panic attack. Her emotions for him, for Lon, the day, what she knows she is expected to do are all over the place, in a mass heap. There just isn't the time to sort through them all. She left it up to her mother, father and Lon, their expectations. Now Noah is here behind her and she feels her own personal wants mixed with what she knows he wants from her, and she can't cope.

Noah watches her with a frown on his face as he hears her ragged quick breathes. "I just came to tell you congratulations"

"Thank you" She mumbles out, her hands over her face make her words muffled.

Noah touches his cheek and rubs it for a moment, he turns to walk off, down the steps towards his truck, parked in a way where he just has to go forward, there is no point in going back now.

"Noah wait" She shouts not loud but it is a shout, she watches him stop and she carefully goes down the steps stopping on the 2nd before the bottom. "That's it?" She wonders looking at him. He turned around and is standing at the very bottom on the gravel, looking back at her. "That's it?"

He doesn't speak just nods, because she is married and there is nothing else for him to say to her, nothing more which can be said between them. Her height is now his as she stands looking at him, there is some distance between them, two steps worth but they are still close. Noah looks over her face and he takes the back of her head pulling her into a crushing kiss. Noah moves his lips over hers, he hears her whimper into his mouth. He feels her hands and nail tips against his bearded skin as she holds him to enjoy the kiss with great passion, as he is.

Allie pulls back when she needs oxygen, she lifts her eyes to his, resting her forehead on his nose, breathing him in. "I'm sorry" She whispers. She didn't start the kiss but she didn't stop it either. She should have been the one to stop it before it started, its her wedding day.

"I know" He says. He knows she is saying sorry for more than just the kiss even though he kissed her. She is saying sorry for last month in his bed, and the way things went. He isn't sorry for being with her like that. Noah shuts his eyes and rubs his nose against her forehead making their moment last longer. "I should go"

"Okay" Allie pulls back and looks at him she feels weak, weakened by that kiss. She bites her lip and she watches him turn and head to his truck. She wills herself to stay put on that step and not run after him, going wherever he goes. She knows that she can't always act on impulse now.