Chapter 4 ~~~A locket~~~

~~Lloyd and Sheena~~

Lloyd was spending another afternoon planning the upcoming wedding. Although he grew to loathe every aspect of the wedding because of the precise attention to every detail, he knew that when the actual wedding happens he will enjoy the turn out. It is, after all, these decisions that can make or break the wedding. So he decided to just drag himself along for the rest of the wedding planning ride, not like Sheena gave him much of a choice anyway.

"Hey, Sheena, could I see the invite list," he asked. "I just wanna check who is on it."

"Really," she questioned. "You actually WANT to look something over. Well, here," she said as she handed him the list.

The list was, as Sheena decided, alphabetized by attendee's last name, which, fortunately for Lloyd, made finding Colette much easier. He quickly looked through the B's but, to his dismay, Sheena hadn't decided to invite Colette, which means that he now has to ask.

"Uhh, Sheena," Lloyd started off nervously. "I noticed that Colette isn't on the list. Are we not inviting her?"

"Well, considering what happened, I didn't think you wanted her to come," she responded.

"But, she is the reason you and I met, and I don't think it would be right if we didn't invite her after all we went through," he said. "I mean, sure something bad happened, but that doesn't mean that she wasn't once my friend."

"O-kay then," Sheena whispered back. "I'll make sure to send her an invite, as well."

~~Colette and Presea~~

It was a little after noon when Presea went out to get the mail. Colette stayed inside and began making lunch in the kitchen. Presea returned with a smile on her face.

"What is it, no bills," Colette joked.

"No, even better," Presea responded. "We were invited to a wedding."

"A wedding," Colette whispered to herself. "Whose?"

"Lloyd and Sheena's," the she said. "I'm so happy for them. What should we get them?"

"Oh, Lloyd and Sheena are getting married," Colette replied with a little more than a tinge of sadness in her voice. "I don't know. Ill pick something out for them when I go shopping later today."

After lunch, Colette went into her room and went through one of her jewelry boxes and took out a locket. It heavily resembled Kratos's locket, but instead had a picture of Lloyd and Kratos taken during the Journey of Regeneration in it. She had planned to give this to him the night that they broke up, but now seemed like the best time to do it. Actually the only time. She knew that she couldn't live in Meltokio if it meant that she would see Lloyd and Sheena together all the time. So she planned to move to Izlood and live a quiet life. Although, being the chosen that saved the world would make a quiet life difficult, it was what she wanted.

A/N: I know this is short compared to the others but it is what it is. It kind of feels like fluff and a waste of a chapter, but it isn't because it sets the story up for the final chapter of this installment of the Sheena Irving Chronicles. Hurray, I made it this far.

The only thing left is the actual wedding itself (and the pain of the official separation of two lovers). What will happen when Lloyd and Colette see each other at the wedding?