Here it is, fight #2. I don't think I'm all that good at writing fights like this, but I know that they are needed, I just hope, for you all, that I didn't do too badly here. :/

Just so you all know, I did a little looking into it, and the prices for renting tents for a wedding are real and the website I found had some really cool ones that were like giant tipis. They were pretty awesome...anyhoo, pricing is correct. :)


Charlie stood in the living room and listened to the door slam shut behind him, and she wondered if this was how he felt when she was the one to walk out.

She sat down heavily on the couch and let her head drop into her hands. In movies, sometimes the characters have fights and it only shows a fast forward montage as they argue and you think it's really to save time or because the writers didn't really want to flesh it all out. But as Charlie sat and thought back over the last few minutes, she realizes that's really how it feels.

She has no idea how they got from talking about tents for the wedding, to him walking out, leaving her to wonder what will happen when he comes back.

….

Bass was sitting in the living room, playing a video game, when Charlie walked in with her wedding notebook, talking on the phone to her mother. "Yeah I'm going to talk to him about it now…yeah I'll call you back tomorrow…bye"

Bass glanced up from the TV and raised his brows. "What's going on?" he asked as he looked back at the screen, shooting the cartoon man on the screen.

Charlie rolled her eyes as she sat down beside him. "What is it with boys and stupid games?" she asked and Bass scoffed.

"Oh please, like you don't play when I'm not home." He said.

Charlie rolled her eyes again and pointed to the screen. "There's more ammo behind that shed." She said gaining a grin from him.

Bass picked up the ammo and paused the game. "You wanted to talk to me about something?" he asked motioning to the notebook in her lap.

Charlie nodded and smiled. "Yeah, I was talking to mom about the wedding and how we thought that party tents might be a good idea." She said and he nodded. "Well we've been calling around and she found a good deal for us, and she talked to Miles about it and they are willing to split the cost with us if we want to rent them."

Bass nodded. "OK, how much are we talking?" he asked, knowing they were getting close to the end of their wedding budget. Miles and Rachel were helping of course, but he wanted to pay for as much of this wedding as he could, for Charlie.

Charlie smiled a little nervously and scrunched up her nose. "About three thousand." She said.

Bass laughed. "You want to pay three thousand dollars to rent a couple of tents for one day?" he asked.

Charlie frowned slightly. "Actually that would just be what we pay, mom and Miles would also pay about that same amount, and it's more than just a couple of tents, we would need at least four of them and it's for a day and a half so we could set up the day before." She explained.

Bass couldn't believe she was serious. She wanted to spend six thousand dollars on tents, that they wouldn't even get to keep.

"Do you realize how much we've already spent on this wedding? Between the flowers you ordered and the cake and the chair rentals, and paying to use the field and your dress and my tux, not to mention how much we're going to have to shell out for food for all the people that are coming?" he asked her.

"And that's not even everything, every day it seems like you're coming to me with something else that you or your mother say we just have to have." Bass said.

Charlie furrowed her brows and tossed the notebook on the coffee table. "Yeah actually, I do know, I know how much it's costing us and how much mom and Miles are paying." She crossed her arms. "You don't have to talk to me like I'm stupid you know, I am keeping track of everything and I'm sticking really close to the budget we made up."

Bass nodded. "Yeah ok, but staying in budget and going a little over on quite a few things adds up to a lot over budget." He said. "I get that you want to have this big beautiful wedding, but it's ridiculous to want to spend all of our money on one day." He said, his voice rising slightly.

Charlie narrowed her eyes. "I'm not spending "all our money" I'm spending what we decided was a reasonable amount, and it's not just me that wanted a big fancy wedding, I think I remember you being in on that conversation as well." She said, her voice rising now too. "I've made sure to include you on everything, not just because I honestly want your input, but to make sure that you're on board with everything."

Charlie stood up and Bass followed her. "If there's been anything that you didn't like, or didn't want, or thought was too much money, all you had to do was tell me." She said, her voice still raised.

Bass laughed, without humor. "Oh, right, just tell you that I didn't like your idea." He said sarcastically. "I'm sure that would have gone over well about anything in here." He said as he picked up her notebook and waved it in front of her.

"I don't care about a big wedding, most guys never do, I only said that to make you happy." He yelled as he tossed the notebook down on the table.

Charlie rolled her eyes. "Right, because it makes me really happy to find out that you don't really like the plans, or apparently have any money, by you standing here yelling it at me." She yelled back.

….

That was the beginning of the whole argument, everything that they had both been holding back, came out after that. And not just about the wedding, but about their lives together in general. Every time Bass went along with something just to make her happy, or every time Charlie did the same for him. All of that and more was brought up now.

"I hate that after every little argument, your first thought is to run home to Miles and have him fix it." Bass said.

Charlie raised her brows and laughed as she said, "Me!? Please, I'm surprised you're not on the phone with him right now, you can barely make it through the day without him holding you hand." She spat at him.

"I'm so glad to finally know what you really think of me, thank you so much." Bass said, once again the sarcasm clear in his voice.

It went on like that for a while, until finally Charlie was done, she didn't want to yell anymore. "If this is how you really feel about everything, maybe we just shouldn't be getting married." She said with a shrug of her shoulders and defeat in her voice.

Bass furrowed his brow and looked at her in silence for a moment, before shaking his head and heading for the front door.

It slammed shut behind him, leaving Charlie standing in the living room alone.

Charlie was laying asleep on the couch when Bass got home later that night. He stood and watched her for a few moments before grabbing a throw blanket and draping it over her. He brushed her hair out of her face and softly kissed her forehead before sitting down on the floor and leaning against the front of the couch, letting his head drop back to rest by hers and closing his eyes.

Charlie woke up the next morning with Bass' hair tickling her nose. She opened her eyes to find and realized she was on the couch and his neck was bent at an uncomfortable angel and she wondered how long he had slept like that.

"Hey." She said softly as she lightly shook his shoulder after she sat up.

Bass sat up with a groan and stretched his neck as he turned to look at her. "Morning." He said.

Charlie didn't know what to say. The last thing she had said to him was maybe they shouldn't get married, that wasn't a great preface to a breezy morning chat.

"So last night." Bass said as he got off the floor and sat beside her on the couch.

Charlie closed her eyes, not knowing what he was going to say, but dreading it all the same. "Yeah?"

"You said the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say."

Charlie's eyes popped open. "Excuse me?" she asked, her brows raising.

Bass shrugged and smiled a little. "Charlie, sometimes people fight and argue and yell at each other." He said as he reached for her hand. "That doesn't mean they should just throw it all away because they don't always agree on everything." He said.

Charlie shook her head. "But everything we said…"

Bass chuckled. "Needed to be said." He shrugged a little. "Maybe not so loudly, but it needed to be said non the less."

He scooted a little closer to her. "Charlie, this is all as new to me as it is to you, I've never been here before." He said. "But I know that what we have? This is it, this is the real deal right here. I wouldn't dream of going anywhere." He chuckled a little again. "Being with you, that's the smartest thing I've ever done, hands down."

Charlie sighed. "I just hate fighting with you." She said.

Bass smiled. "No you don't, you just hate after the fighting stops, but you love a good fight." He chuckled lightly. "You loved throwing that Miles dig in my face." He said.

Charlie laughed. "Ok fine, I hate the after math of a fight with you." She sobered. "Especially when it ends with you walking out like that."

Bass sighed. "Sometimes, I just need to walk away and take a breath, because I know that I'm stupid and stubborn and I don't want to say something that I will regret later on." He said. "But you have to know that I will always come back.

"We're going to fight Charlie, it's what people do." He said. "But I love you, and I'm not going anywhere."

Charlie looked at him a moment, seeing that he really meant what he was saying, and she nodded. "OK, good, because I love you too and I don't think I could ever really just walk away from you."

Bass smiled. "Good." He said and Charlie smiled in return. He reached forward and picked up the notebook from the table where it laid all night. "Now," he said. "we're going to go through this and figure out what we really want, not what we think the other wants, but what we can really agree on, and we'll work through this, and we'll fix it." He shrugged. "Because I've heard that's what adults do, so I guess we should give it a try."

Charlie smiled and nodded. "Alright." She said as she took the book from him. "Let's get to work."

They both know they will have more fights. Being as stubborn, strong willed, and opinionated as they both are, it's inevitable. But now they both know that no matter what challenges life throws at them, or whatever challenges they make up in their own crazy heads, they are in this together, and if they work together they will come out stronger on the other side.


Ok so that was May. Man going back over everything and changing plans for a September wedding in May? They are going to have a lot of work cut out for them, thankfully we're going to be skipping over that and won't have to deal with that crazy mess...lol

Hope you liked this chapter. :)

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