Chapter 10
The night before the wedding was upon us before we knew it. Anya spent the night at Maddies. I found it impossible to sleep that night. I tried every trick in the book to fall asleep but nothing worked. When I was just about to fall asleep, Davanee came in.
"What's wrong, baby?" I asked.
"Can't sleep. I sleep in here?"
"Yeah, you can sleep in here" I said.
"I have bad dream" said Davanee as she crawled into bed with her teddy bear.
"What was it about?" I asked.
"The bad people. They hurt me again" she said. I had told Maddie the day after the first dream that I didn't want Davanee watching the news anymore. She said that she was guilty about letting them watch it but Davanee hadn't been over to Maddie's house since.
"How come you not sleep?" asked Davanee.
"I'm too excited" I said.
"About what?"
"The wedding."
"I excited too" said Davanee, "I get new mommy. I never had one before."
"I know" I said.
"How come I not have one?" she asked.
I thought about my answer for a minute. I couldn't tell her that her mom had abandoned her. You don't tell a 2 year old something like that.
"I'll tell you when you're older" I said.
"Ok" said Davanee, "what we do after wedding?"
"Well, you're going to stay here with Uncle Darry while I take Anya by the new apartment" I said.
"Where dat?"
"Its downtown. It's the one that we went to the other day" I said.
"Oh yeah, I wike that one" she said. I know it may sound like that I went behind Anya's back and bought an apartment without her looking at it first but the truth is I didn't. We looked at it a couple of weeks before and she loved it but I acted like I hated it and it was way out of our price range. Actually, I liked it just as much as she did and it was well into our price range. We already had everything planned out. Anya would go to school during the day and to work in the afternoon while I stayed home with Davanee. Then, at night I would go to school and she would stay home. That way, we could both go to school, keep our jobs, and Davanee wouldn't be home alone.
After a couple of minutes, both Davanee and I fell asleep. Davanee woke me up early that morning. The first thing we did was clean the house. That didn't take too long since we did most of it the day before. This was more making sure everything was in place then cleaning. After, Darry dropped Davanee off at Maddie's house along with her dress. I stayed at the house and got dressed. I must admit, I didn't look too bad. Once Darry was done getting ready, we headed down to the church. From what I understand Maddie, Davanee, and Anya were already there dressing room was all the way on the other side of the church.
I stood in the sanctuary and waited for people to arrive. While I was waiting, Davanee came running out the dressing with her dress on and her hair done. She looked so pretty. Her hair was pulled back with little curls in the back.
"Daddy, look" she said, climbing up on my lap.
"I see. You look very pretty. Who did your hair?"
"Maddie. She give me lollypop 'cause I sat still" she said, holding up the lollypop.
"I can see that" I said.
"And look at all the flowers" she said, showing her basket of flowers.
"I see and what are you suppose to do with all those flowers?" I asked. I knew what she was suppose to do but I wanted to see if she knew.
"I do dis." She got off my lap and started walking down the isle, throwing the flowers as she went.
"That's good" I said.
"Maddie show me" she said, picking up the flowers. She was the only two year old I knew who actually picked up after herself. A couple of minutes after, people started showing up. The first person to come was Two-Bit. He was actually wearing something that looked nice.
"Nice place" said Two-Bit as he walked in.
"Uncle Two-Bit" said Davanee, running up to him and giving him a big hug like she hadn't seen him in years.
"Hey, kid" he said, picking her up.
"Look at my dress. It's pretty" she said.
"Oh yeah, it's very pretty" he said, "So where is everyone?"
"Anya and Maddie are still getting ready. Darry's in the back somewhere and the rest aren't here yet" I said.
"Well, Johnny and Dallas should be here any minute. They were right behind me. What about Anya parents? I thought they we're coming" said Two-Bit.
"They are. They flew in last night. They called and said they would be here soon" I said, taking Davanee from Two-Bit.
"Daddy, I wanna go pway wid Dillon" said Davanee.
I said "ok" and put her down. She ran off in the direction of the dressing room.
"Don't get your dress dirty!" I shouted.
"I won't" said Davanee.
I sort of had a feeling she would anyways. It's a good thing that dress wasn't white. About an hour or so later, I found myself standing at the front of the church, with everyone's eyes on me, waiting for Anya. I could feel my palms getting sweaty. Then I heard the music start. I could see Davanee and Dillon standing at the other end of the isle. Davanee waved at me and I blew her a kiss. Maddie came up behind her and told Davanee and Dillon to start walking. Davanee threw the flowers ever where and once she got to the other end of the isle, shed dumped the rest of them out in a pile.
I couldn't help but laugh with every one else. Davanee just stood there and smiled. She then ran to join Dillon.
I could see Anya coming down the isle. She looked so pretty. She was about half way down the isle when she stopped. She had a nervous look on her face. She started to turn around but her mom stopped her. She talked to her a little while before Anya turned back around. She smiled at me and continued to walk. I just smiled back at her. The whole ceremony seemed to go by pretty slowly but I was ok with that. I wanted that moment to last forever. Well, maybe not forever.
After the ceremony, everybody went to our house. I surprise Anya by taking her over to the apartment before we went home.
"Where are we going?" she asked.
"You'll see. It's a surprise" I said.
"Will I like this surprise?"
"I think so" I said.
We pulled into the parking lot a couple of minutes later. I lead Anya up to the fourth floor, were the apartment was.
"I love it" she said, taking a look around. Darry and I had already moved some furniture in there. The rest was coming later.
"Can we afford this?" she asked.
"Of course we can" I said, "I wouldn't have bought it if we couldn't."
"When can we move in?" she asked.
"Whenever you want" I said.
"Tonight?" she asked.
"If you want."
Anya went and looked around the rest of the apartment.
"I don't know if we can do this" said Anya.
"What? Why?" I asked.
"Well think about it. We're just kids. What are the chances of us actually making it? We don't even have a car" said Anya.
"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure about that" I said, pulling out a little box and handing it to Anya.
"You didn't" she said.
"No but you're parents did. Look outside" I said. Anya practically ran to the window.
"I know it's not much" I said, joining her at the window and putting my arm her, "but it works."
"That's ok. I love trucks anyways" she said, giving me a kiss.
"We better get back to the house. Everyone will be wonderin' about us" I said.
"Yeah. Can I drive the new truck?" she asked.
"Be my guest" I said, tossing her the keys. So while she was driving the new truck, I got stuck with the old one. It's ok though.