Chapter 10
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Jade waited patiently literally counting every second that past. Every second that went by made her grow more and more anxious. It was hard to believe that this single white strip sitting on the bathroom counter could determine the fate of her life, but not only hers, but Roy's as well. 'Roy,' she sneered at the name for the past weeks he had been very sneaky. Making phone calls and busy lately, it was driving her nuts. She began to question their relationship as a couple. She feared maybe he had found someone else.
The timer on her phone went off.
Picking up the strip she held it next to the first response pregnancy test box matching it next to the color on the box, the Vietnamese beauty released a sigh of relief.
Not pregnant.
Dinah's golden long hair draped over her shoulder as she watched her lover sleeping. Today was his birthday and she was determined to make it a day he'd always remember. "Happy Birthday, Ollie," Dinah kissed the side of her lover's face.
"Good morning," Ollie smiled brushing a stray hair off of Dinah's face behind her ear.
"Now, that you're up, we can handle some business stuff before your party tonight,' Dinah said as she started to pull off the blankets.
"No," Ollie groaned pulling the blankets back up to cover him and his long time girlfriend's bodies. "A little longer," he just wanted to stay in bed all day after all it was his birthday.
"So what did you get me for my birthday," Ollie raised his eyebrows suggestively.
"Wouldn't you like to know," Dinah smirked kissing him straddling over him. Oliver's hands snaked around her cupping her bottom, "Ollie, behave."
"I can tell today is going to be a great day. I have my girlfriend here with me and Jade and Artemis are coming over"-
"Actually," Dinah interrupted Ollie, "We're taking you to your favorite restaurant today and Roy is coming over to meet with you in another hour and Artemis is bringing her boyfriend for you to meet so be nice."
"Boyfriend?!" Ollie sat up. "How come this is the first time I'm hearing about this?"
Wally stood in front of the mirror looking at himself for the 20th time in the past 5 minutes. Just like his girlfriend he was determined to make a good impression. The ringing of his phone earned his attention.
Roy pulled up to Queen Estates, he couldn't believe what he was about to do. Taking of his sun glasses he sprinted to the porch to knock on the front door.
Ollie looked at the kitchen T.V as he ate his breakfast. He was so caught up in the news that he didn't realize that Dinah had snuck into the kitchen. She wrapped her arms around him planting kisses along his neck. "Dinah," Ollie chuckled as he tangled his fingers in her golden locks.
"Do you want your present now or later," she asked as she moved his bowl over and sat on the counter wrapping her legs around Ollie whose lips now molded against hers.
Knock knock
The two separated from each other while Ollie went to answer the door.
"Roy," Ollie said which caused the younger man to jump.
"Happy Birthday, Ollie," Roy said.
"Thank you, Roy, would you like to join us for breakfast?" Ollie asked thinking 'please no.'
"Actually, I just wanted to talk to you for a moment," Roy said.
Oliver moved over to allow Roy to enter.
"Good morning, Roy, would you like some breakfast?" Dinah asked with a welcoming smile.
Just the sound of food made Roy's stomach turn from how nervous he was, "No thank you, Ollie, Dinah, I just want to ask y'all something really important." Roy paused to take a breath. Dinah and Ollie looked at each other and then at Roy pondering what exactly Roy was going to ask them.
"Ollie, Dinah, I love your daughter. I-I love Jade so much and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I just wanted to let y'all know that I will always honor her and respect her," Roy said.
As Roy continued with his speech Dinah could feel tears wanting to form in her eyes, she could tell where this was going. Ollie feared what Roy was about to ask.
"I would like to have y'all's blessing. Dinah, Oliver, I would like to have your daughter's hand in marriage?"
Ollie stepped back for a second. He turned away from Roy to look at the family pictures that surrounded the living room, but the main picture that caught his eye was a photograph of him dancing with Jade at her 16th birthday.
"I'm going to miss you," Artemis said snuggled against her boyfriend on the couch.
"I'm going to miss you too," Wally said rubbing up and down her back.
An hour ago Wally had gotten a phone call from his coach telling him that he was going to have to leave to Rome, Italy for training. This was going to be the longest the couple would be away from each other.
"We can skype, babe," Wally said pulling her closer receiving a nod from Artemis.
"I know. It's just your birthday is coming up and I wanted to throw you a small party with just our friends and"- she paused. Wally agreed his birthday was coming soon November 11 wasn't too far away.
"I'll be back by Thanksgiving, babe," Wally suggested. A big part of him hurt he knew he would miss his girlfriend greatly.
At Ollie's Party, Jade sat at the table wearing a red sweater dress with leggings due to the coolness outside. Her dark hair was in it natural bottom spike, Megan ran up to her practically beaming with excitement.
"You will not believe what Barbra just told me," Megan said with a big smile.
"What?" Jade asked even though she didn't really care at the moment.
"I'm getting my own sitcom," Megan squealed jumping up and down like a teenager.
"Really," Jade said. She knew Megan had been waiting for a long time to get her big break. "So what's it going to be called?"
"Hello, Megan," Megan said, "the first episode will be premiering in December."
"December isn't that around the time of your wedding," Jade asked.
Megan nodded 'Yes.' "Isn't life wonderful," Megan gushed much to Jade's disgust.
"What's your deal?" Megan asked sensing the negativity around the dark haired beauty.
"I think Roy's going to break up with me," Jade blurted out.
"What!?" Megan practically yelled. 'This couldn't be true.'
Just then Oliver and Dinah arrived hand-in-hand paparazzi had followed them in just to get some pictures for the magazine. Little did they know that one took the opportunity to blend in with the crowd as a chance to cover any disaster that was possible to occur at the party and be used as a scandal.
Jade rose from the table to embrace her father figure, "Happy Birthday, Ollie."
"Thanks, Jade congr"-he was about to say congratulations to her, but Roy shook his head no, "Cannot believe Artemis is bring a boyfriend. Jade, did you know about this?"
Jade smirked recalling her last encounter with her sister's boyfriend, "That and more; do you know that his fans call him the Flash," With that said she walked away to say hello to Zatanna who had just arrived with Dick and Tim.
"What's that supposed to mean? The Flash? Is that some teen slang?" Ollie asked Garfield who was eating a cookie.
Garfield chuckled at the Mayor's curiosity, "The Flash is Wally West's nickname you know for the Olympics."
"Flash," Ollie recalled someone called the Flash back in his day, "Flash as in the fastest man alive."
'We'll see how fast he can run after I'm through with him,' Oliver thought silently to himself.
"Happy Birthday Oliver," Bruce Wayne greeted with a beautiful Diana Prince on his right arm.
"So let me get this straight you're waiting for the perfect moment to propose to Jade," Conner clarified while taking a sip of his drink receiving a nod 'yes' from Roy.
"Do you have any pointers?" Roy hoped the dark haired man had some advice that he could possibly use.
"Take her somewhere quiet, that way if she says no you won't have to worry about embarrassing yourself," Dick Grayson smirked standing next to Conner.
"What the hell Grayson, you scared the shit out of me," Roy placed his hand over his chest.
"You'll know when the time is right," Conner answered.
"Zatanna's right, Roy is totally not going to break up with you," Karen motioned over to where Jade's boyfriend stood. "I mean look he keeps looking over here at you."
"Yeah, he totally can't take his eyes off me," Jade sarcastically said.
"Do you want me to ask Conner to see what's up," Megan suggested.
"Yeah, I'll ask Dick," Zatanna said.
"No don't ask Roy," Jade said. Zatanna looked at the Vietnamese woman oddly. "Sorry, when you said dick I atomically thought you were referring to that dick my probably ex-boyfriend, Roy Harper."
"No, I meant my Dick," Zatanna said and then corrected herself, "I mean Richard Grayson."
"What on earth are y'all talking about?" Barbra asked with her hands on her hips.
"Nothing just drama," Raquel said.
"Spill," Barbra pulled up a chair so she could hear the latest gossip, "Say have any of you seen Artemis?"
"She's on her way right now," Jade answered, "Why?"
"Because there's a fashion show coming up in Rome, Italy and one of the designers have asked me to ask Artemis to model in it."
"Just take a breath, Wally," Artemis was amused by how nervous her boyfriend was about meeting her parents. He was so nervous that he accidentally put on her jacket instead of his. He was thankful that Artemis pointed out the mistake before he gave her parents the wrong idea.
"I know, babe, I'm just so tense," he said in a shaky tone.
The blonde pulled his face closer to hers, "Relax, West" she said in a smooth as silk voice. Her soft lips met his mouth in a passionate kiss. Wally fought the urge to sweep Artemis into his arms and carry her back into the car. Their kiss became more and more heated. It didn't take long for them to be spotted.
"I wonder when Artemis is going to get here." Oliver asked his longtime girlfriend, who noticed their youngest canoodling with a lean muscular man. Ollie followed her gaze and saw the two. He felt his blood boil at the sight of his youngest kissing a man who had his arms wrapped tightly around her waist pulling her closer. Ollie stood up to go confront this guy, but Dinah placed her delicate hand on his shoulder.
After they ended their kiss Artemis spotted her father and mother staring at them, but she looked at her boyfriend, "Ready?"
Wally nodded, 'yes.' Walking hand-in-hand up to her parents, the red haired man couldn't help, but notice paparazzi taking pictures.
"Happy Birthday, Ollie," Artemis embraced him. Oliver still pictured her as a young teenager; he couldn't believe how fast she grew up. When she pulled away, "Ollie, Dinah, this Wally West my boyfriend," she said with a smile.
Wally extended his hand to shake with Dinah and Ollie's. 'I've seen this guy before,' he thought.
"Do you have an uncle?" Oliver asked enjoying how much he was intimidating the young man.
"Yes, sir, the Flash, Barry Allen is my uncle," Wally stated. Artemis opened her mouth to tell Wally he didn't have to call Ollie sir, but Dinah beat her to it, and before Artemis she was being pulled away by her sister.
"Jade," Artemis practically yelled as she tried to pull away from her older sister.
"I need to talk to you, in private," Jade said as she and Artemis entered inside the unisex restroom to avoid any awkward listeners in the girls' restroom.
Wally felt abandoned and terrified being alone with Dinah and Ollie. He wasn't scared of Dinah, because he had met her before despite it being an awkward situation when they first met, the older blonde didn't allow that get in the way of having a good conversation with him. But on the other hand Wally was scared shitless at the sight of Oliver.
"Dinah, can I talk to Wally in private," he asked.
'NO!' Wally thought don't go.
Dinah decided to talk to Roy.
"So when are you going to propose?" Dinah asked, "In thirty minutes we're going to do the cake."
"Okay this morning I took a pregnancy test," Jade said.
"A pregnancy test?!" Artemis yelled.
"Yes, that day when were with Megan and everybody that's what I wanted to talk to you about, because I felt sick and weak. You know I thought I could possibly be pregnant," Jade said.
"Are you?" Artemis asked her sister.
"I'm not I took six pregnancy tests and they all came back negative," Jade said as Artemis released a sigh of relief.
"But," Jade continued, "I think Roy is going to break up with me," she said with tears streaming down her face.
Artemis never liked to see Jade cry.
"So, Wally," Oliver took pleasure in manipulating Artemis's boyfriend, "I understand that you and my daughter are dating, but I promise you if you do anything that will tarnish her reputation in anyway or make her cry," Oliver approached the lean muscular man, "You will be known as the fastest man alive… with a limp."
Wally gulped.
Artemis and Jade exited out of the unisex bathroom, they both spotted their father interrogating Wally. Artemis was about to go save her lover, but Jade placed a hand on her shoulder, "I'll save Wally, and you go talk with Roy."
Artemis walked over to where Roy and Dinah stood. There was a group of waiter putting flower bouquets there little did anyone know that inside the bouquets was a microphone that the host had been using to get the party's attention.
"Roy, we need to talk," Artemis said. "What's up with you and my sister?"
"What?" Roy asked.
"She thinks you're going to break up with her," Artemis said. Roy was surprised.
"What?!" he asked again.
"Is that all you can ask is what?" Artemis demanded with her hands on her hips.
"Artemis, you don't know what you're talking about," Roy leaned over closer to the bouquet unaware of the microphone that was on, "I'm not going to break up with Jade, I'm going to ask her to marry me."
"I'm going to ask her to marry me," echoed across the restaurant aws and ohhs were hear all around. Both of Jade's hands covered her mouth. Roy looked over to find his beauty standing near Ollie. He jogged up to her, "Jade Nguyen, I love you so much. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife? Jade, will you marry me?"
Tears once again streamed down her olive colored skin, "Yes."
The crowd cheered and clapped for the young couple. Music started to play a song came in that led to couples dancing on the dance floor. The song playing was Etta James' At Last. Jade and Roy danced to the music reminiscing in the moment, while not too far Artemis and Wally slowly started to sway with each other taking in the moment. Enjoying the others company. Ollie looked upon the scene and couldn't help but feel like he was losing both of his daughters.
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