Hello everyone! So hopefully this story reaches your expectations! I love all of you and if you have ideas let me know and if I use them I will credit you! Also this chapter is going to be really long. Thanks and I don't own PJO, I wish I did like most of the fandom!
"Your highness, the Chef has prepared...oh my gosh what is going on!" I heard then both Max and I sat straight up to find one of my maids with a confused look on her face carrying in my breakfast.
"It's not what it looks like. Well actually it is." I said to her.
"I won't mention this um fling to Alexander." she said then slowly walked over to me with the tray.
"Thanks." I said.
"Uh-huh." she said then quietly walked out.
"Sorry if I made you feel embarrassed." Max said.
"I told you to stay. It was my fault not yours. It's just not proper to be found sleeping with someone else the morning of your wedding. Oh my gods I'm getting married!" I said to him.
"Sadly yes. I'll just go to my room since I know you are going to be really busy today and I just want to say, that was the best night of my life. Glad to know we ended on a good note." he said.
"I'm glad too. Max wait..." he turned his head to face me.
"What?"
"I'm really grateful that I had you. I hope you find someone just as amazing as you." I said to him. Then he kissed me.
"Take that as a good luck today kiss. No girl compares to you but I'll find someone. Good luck today Carter and with your marriage." he said then walked out. I couldn't believe today was the day. Most girls wake up on their wedding day and are really happy and excited. I feel terrible inside. Today is the worst day of my life.
Sadria's POV
I walked out of Connor and my bedroom over to Percy and Annabeth's room. They had their door open and were sitting on the bed talking.
"Happy Birthday!" I said to Percy then walked over and gave him a hug.
"Thanks. I think Kat forgot but I didn't expect she would remember." Percy said then Kat walked in.
"Happy Birthday Percy!" she said then gave him a hug.
"You remembered?" he asked.
"Spencer reminded me. Oh and its Carter's birthday too." she said.
"And she is getting married today." I said.
"Max is probably crying right now so I should comfort him." Percy said.
"I heard the maids talking this morning and they said that Max spent the night in Carter's room last night. I wonder how that will go down with Alexander and Callista." I said.
"We should go over and talk to Carter." Annabeth said.
"We should. I'll get the other girls." I said then walked to each room telling the girls to meet at Carter's room. As we all walked to her room the guys went to Max's. Then Penelope, Alexander's annoying sister came up.
"Where do you think your going?" she asked us all.
"To talk to Carter. "Annabeth said about to open the door.
"I don't think so." she said.
"Why not?" I asked.
"All of you will just convince her that she is making a mistake and we don't need that now do we? As her maid of honor I should speak with her." she said.
"She made you her maid of honor? I don't know why, she doesn't even like you." Thalia said.
"Well I am going to be her sister-in-law. Plus she wanted someone with class." Penelope said. Thalia looked like she was going to kill Penelope.
"I'm sorry that you have a stick shoved up your ass but in case you didn't know, I'm her half-sister so that trumps sister-in-law any day." Thalia said.
"My point is that its sweet all of you actually thought that your kind could be with our kind."
"Sorry but your species is the species of bitches in which Carter does not fall under. You and your brother do however." Thalia said and we laughed.
"Mixing with social classes only happens in movies. I have to get ready so move out of my way." Penelope said. We were all pissed at her. Annabeth and Thalia were about to wring her neck. Hazel and Kat don't really fight back they are sweet. I rarely fight back but Annabeth, Thalia, Piper and especially Clarisse would kill her in a heartbeat. Alexander walked towards our way.
"Hello ladies." he said and we all gave him a dirty look.
"Move along." Thalia said.
"Look I find it somewhat important that I get along with all of you since I'm marrying your best friend." he said.
"We don't support your relationship with Carter. We support Carter and Max. He actually cares about her unlike you." Annabeth said.
"Has it ever occurred to any of you that I might actually love her?" Alexander said.
"You cheated on her when you dated her. That really shows you love her." I said.
"Yes I cheated on her five years ago. I won't bad mouth my future wife but she hasn't been the angel all of you think she is. I do love her and care about her. I've changed my ways. I am going to make her happy. So if you didn't support this wedding why did you come?" he asked.
"We're here to support Carter through this and we tried to change her mind. She still is in love with Max." Thalia said.
"Right yeah I heard about her little fling last night. Glad she got it out of her system because in four hours, she will be my wife." Alexnader said then walked away.
"What an asshole." Thalia said.
"Yep." we all said in unison. We wish Carter the best, hopefully she makes the right decision.
Carter's POV
After I took a bath a sat on my bed waiting for my long curly hair to dry. Penelope, who I had to make my maid of honor, came into my room.
"Carter, how are you doing?" she asked.
"Terrible since this day sucks but why do you care?" I asked her.
"We're going to be sisters-in-law so I figure we should be nice to each other." she said.
"Penelope, we have always hated each other. You tried to blame me for everything that went wrong."
"Carter that's when we were kids."
"That was last week."
"You are going to be apart of my family and I want to welcome you. You finally get to have a sibling!" she said.
"Actually I have three siblings. Well more but the three that are living right now." I said.
"You mean that goth chick?" she asked.
"Yes, her name is Thalia and I have two half-brothers, Spencer and Jason." I said.
"Oh. So have you dated any of the other guys in your friend group?" Penelope asked. I knew she was trying to find out more to use against me.
"No. Percy loves Annabeth and Annabeth is my best friend so I would never steal her boyfriend. Nico is like a brother to me and he is also dating Thalia. Spencer is my brother ew, Chris is a guy friend who I talk to, Connor is just no, Leo is more of a guy friend that I can talk to, Frank is also really into Hazel and I don't know him that well, and Jason is my brother so ew again. The only guy I dated was Max." I said to her.
"Interesting. Aren't you going to take that off?" she asked pointing to my promise ring that Max gave me.
"No I love this ring and I still love Max. It's not coming off until I get married." I said.
"Carter it wouldn't have worked out anyway. He is from a different class then you. We don't mix with them." Penelope said.
"Max was the best boyfriend I have ever had in my life. I would give up being royal any day to be with him. He loves me for me and treats me with respect. If you loved someone and then later found out that he wasn't rich, wouldn't you stay with him because you loved him?" I asked her.
"No. It goes against everything I believe in. Carter your making the right choice by marrying my brother. I should go get my hair and make-up done. They should be up any minute to do your hair and make-up." Penelope said then left.
I have no idea what I've gotten myself into. My hairstylist came in and out my curly hair into a bun on my head and then the person in charge of my make-up put on my mascara and eyeshadow which complemented my electric blue eyes. Then she put my signature red lipstick on. I have to admit, I look pretty damn good, even if I am marrying a douche wait then why do I want to look good? Anyway there has been one problem all day, I have been having a terrible stomach ache. I usually don't get sick but my stomach had sharp pains poking me. It doesn't feel like when I'm nervous it feels just like I want to throw-up. I walked into my bathroom and opened my cabinet and grabbed a box, not just any box, but the box that could change my life forever. The box contained a pregnancy test. I have only once have I used one but the relief from that was a weight off my shoulders. After I took the test, I paced around my room for the longest five minutes of my life. I walked over and read it, a big fat positive sign. Just to make sure I took two more, both were positive as well.
"Oh shit." I said to myself out loud. What am I going to do? I am getting married to a guy who is not the father of my child. I don't know what to do. Should I tell someone? I should tell Max soon because its his child but no I can't. I am getting married to Alexander. I should tell Annabeth or Thalia because they can help me through this. But they are both busy getting ready. I am officially the most irresponsible Queen in the world. I can't sell myself short. Ok think Carter think what should I do? Then a knock on my door. I threw the pregnancy tests into the trashcan and answered it. It was the maids to help me into my dress.
"Carter are you ok? You look a little on edge?" one of them asked.
"Yeah maybe its the corset." I said.
"Is it too tight?" they asked. Well with my stomach aches yes it was but no body needed to know I'm pregnant.
"Nope that's just right." I said then they finished lacing up my dress.
"You look gorgeous." they said.
"Thank you." I said. I twirled around in my dress. I really loved it. It was a strapless, gold-embroidered dress that flowed on the ground. I would love this dress more if it was the dress I was wearing to Max and my wedding. I heard yet another knock. I grabbed my dress, as not to trip on it, and got the door. Spencer and Jason stood there.
"Wow sis you look beautiful." Spencer said. I gave him a hug.
"You really do." Jason said.
"Thank you both. Do you want to come in?" I asked them and they walked into my bedroom.
"So you're doing this." Spencer said looking at my dress.
"yep." I said then a sharp pain shot through my body again. I tried to hide my morning sickness.
"Carter are you ok?" Jason asked both of them were dressed in tuxedos. They looked really handsome.
"Um yeah I am." I said.
"I've known you for five years and I can totally tell your lying." Spencer said.
"Maybe I am but I don't really know if I should talk about it." I said.
"Carter come on we're your brothers." Jason said.
"Ok...well I don't really know how to tell you this. So um you know Max and I um yeah anyway I woke up this morning felling sick to my stomach. I thought it was just my nerves but I took a pregnancy test and it was...positive." I said. Both of them got wide-eyed then smiled. Then they looked at each other. "Why are you two smiling? I'm freaking out!" I said.
"Wait you mean you're not going to marry Max? Your still marrying Alexander?" Spencer asked.
"I'm marrying Alexander still. Max doesn't even know yet. You two are the only ones and you can't tell anyone." I said and they nodded.
"You are going to tell Max, right?" Jason asked.
"I'm not sure. I mean I want to but I'm marrying some one else and I can easily pull it off as Alexander's." I said.
"You need to tell him." Spencer said.
"I will I just need to give it time." I said.
"As long as it isn't in nine months." Jason said.
"I will tell him soon. Can we move on with this." I said.
"Sure. What we originally came here to do was to give you our brotherly support." Spencer said.
"You two are the best brothers I could ever ask for. I'm really glad to have both. I want both of you to know and this goes for everyone but I want to be apart of your lives still. I hope to come to your graduations then eventually your weddings and then the birth of your children and you really mean a lot to me. I didn't think that I would want you two or any of the guys here for my wedding but I'm really glad you came." I said then they both hugged me.
"Carter you mean a lot to us two." Spencer said.
"I was happy to find out that Thalia was my full sister then to figure out that I not only had a sister but a brother and another sister." Jason said.
"Thanks you two. I love you both so much we just need Thalia right now and we would have our sibling bond." I said to them. They both smiled. Another person knocked on my door. I walked over and opened it to see my mother.
"Oh Demitra you look so beautiful!" She said then hugged me then spotted Spencer and Jason.
"We'll let you two have mother daughter bonding time." they said then walked out.
"Darling I'm so happy. This is a day I have been looking forward to since the day you were born." she said then looked at me.
"Mom I don't think I'm making the right decision." I said to her.
"Honey you are. Trust me. When I was getting married to Armand, I didn't think that I was making the right decision but he turned out to be a wonderful husband and father to you even if you weren't his daughter. He loved you darling and he would be so happy right now." she said.
"Thanks mom but there is something I need to tell you." I said.
"What is it dear?" she asked.
"I'm pregnant with Max's child." I said to her.
"Honey..."
"I know what you're going to say..."
"It's ok."
"What?"
"Demitra, the same thing happened to me. I had an affair but the result was a beautiful, amazing daughter." she said.
"Thanks mom. So you're not disappointed with me?"
"No honey. I know that you and Alexander will make wonderful parents."
"Wait you mean that I shouldn't tell Max?" I asked her.
"No I don't think so. Honey you are getting married no one needs to know that your carrying Max's child. Just move on." she said. Oh my gods. I'm turning into my mother. I became Queen at age eighteen, I got engaged to someone I didn't love, I had an affair and now I'm getting married. If this pattern continues, oh I cannot become my mother.
"But mother..."
"Honey lets just move on because I have a gift for you." she said then pulled out a box. She pulled out a diamond clip.
"This was my grandmothers which she wore on her wedding, my mother's which she wore on her wedding and mine in which I wore it on my wedding. I want to give this to you so you can wear it on your wedding day. Think of it as something old." she said. She grabbed my veil and attached it with the clip. It was gorgeous.
"Thanks mom. I have something new, my dress and something old with my clip and now I just need something borrowed and something blue." I said.
"Hmm well you have blue flowers." she said.
"Ok something borrowed." I said.
"I'm sure one of your friends has something." she said. Thalia came in.
"Hey so you need something borrowed. Have I got something for you." she said. She pulled off her bracelet.
"Thalia that's so sweet of you." I said to her.
"It looks nice on you. So you ready for this?" she asked.
"Um I'm not really sure. I guess but I'm so nervous." I said.
"Carter you're a much better person than I am. I would never do something like this for my country. Well I mean I did help save the world but what your doing is col too." she said. I gave her a hug.
"Thanks for everything." I said to her.
"Anything. I need to go take my seat. See you out there." she said. This was it. I'm getting married in a matter of minutes. After about thirty minutes of final preparations, I walked down the stairs and prepared to walk down the aisle. My wedding was outside on a hill that to the left has the sea. Its really beautiful. The music started to play and Penelope walked down the aisle. Just a matter of minutes. Then my music began to play. I walked towards the aisle gracefully and everyone stood. I recognized all the other country ambassadors. I saw my friends and Max. Oh my gods he was more handsome than ever. He looked at me and smiled. I finally reached Alexander and he smiled.
"You look stunning." he whispered to me. I turned to face him. I then looked over at my friends. Nico and Annabeth were restraining Thalia from doing anything stupid. I faced Alexander again.
"I can't do this." I said.
"What, Carter are you serious?" he asked.
"Alexander this isn't right. I can't marry you for money and I love Max. You understand right?" I asked him.
"I guess but..." I kissed him on the cheek and told the officiant what my thoughts were and he nodded.
I faced my guests. Then I handed Penelope my bouquet.
"Um I have something to say. I'm not getting married. I was only going to marry Alexander because I thought that it was best for my country because it would boost the Greek economy. I really care about my country and my citizens but I just cant do this. I still love my ex-boyfriend and I don't care that he isn't in the same social class as me. That shouldn't be whats important, I mean we live in the twenty-first century not the sixteenth. I hope that you can support me with my decision and I thank all you for coming." I said. My friends smiled and Max came up to me.
"I love you." he said and I just kissed him. I talked to my mother who was still in shock after my decision. Then I talked to my friends. They all said that they were happy that I chose not to marry Alexander, who looked very upset. I walked up to my room with Max and we sat on the bed.
"I don't know why they were restraining Thalia, I mean I was about to burst up there and punch Alexander in the face."
"Glad you didn't. I tried to give my speech on how class doesn't matter and if my boyfriend punched a guy in the face, that would have looked bad." I said. We both laughed. My stomach had yet another pain. Now was a better time then ever.
"Something else made my decision easier." I said.
"What?" Max asked smiling.
"Max, I'm pregnant."
Longest chapter I have ever written! Wow so what did you think? Hopefully you liked it. Probably pretty predictable but whatevs. I want to thank Thalia Di Angelo for the idea of Carter's pregnancy and my bff I-am-too-outrageous-4u for the wedding idea. As usual I have Carter's wedding dress on my profile and her shoes. Thanks everyone and please review :)
