Jude watched Gideon who frittered with his suit buttons and looked like he was ready escape from the situation at any minute. Jude had never seen him so nervous before. They were standing in front of the church Laura was getting married in. The guests walked past them in a regular flow, but they didn't recognize any of them.

Jude leaned slightly over to Gideon and whispered to his ear. "You look handsome."

"What?" Gideon looked at him, truly confused. He hadn't understood a word Jude just said. He was wearing a white suit with dark blue shirt underneath.

"I said you look handsome." Jude said again, a little too loudly since an old lady who walked past them looked at him in shock. Jude tried his sweetest smile on her but the woman just shook her head in disbelief.

Gideon laughed to the woman's reaction. "I could say the same thing about you." He whispered to Jude, keeping his eyes in front of himself. Jude could see his plan working, since Gideon visibly relaxed.

"Are you Gideon?" They both jumped when they heard woman's voice behind them.

It took them a moment to realize that they were in a wedding where Jude wasn't the only one who knew Zero's real name.

"Yes, I am." Zero looked at Jude, back being nervous again.

"I'm Helen, the bridesmaid. Laura did say you look handsome." The woman smiled and looked Zero up and down. It reminded Jude of the first wedding they had attended to and it didn't make him feel very good. "She wished to see you."

Instead of eyeing her like Zero used to do with pretty women, he turned to look at Jude. "You coming with me?"

Jude smiled, feeling a little flattered but didn't have time to answer when the bridesmaid interrupted them.

"She wanted to see you alone." She said and looked at Jude with the same hungry eyes.

This time Zero stared at her with narrowed eyes. "You'll be okay by yourself, babe?" Zero asked as he looked back at Jude, leaning a little bit closer.

"Sure." Jude couldn't hide the amused smile to hear Gideon say that. They had never called each other by any ridiculous pet names. Helen's face was worth it though when her smile disappeared and she motioned for Zero to follow her.

Jude waited a little longer outside, enjoying the cool evening breeze before entering the church where the air conditioning seemed to be the work of a devil. Jude was a little anxious to sit to the front row since he hadn't even met the wedded couple. He noticed that there weren't many people sitting on Laura's side, mainly young people, probably her friends. The groom's side however, was stuffed with relatives. Jude was glad that Gideon was able to attend his sister's wedding and be the only relative there.

"What do you mean you don't want to get married?" Gideon couldn't believe his ears as Laura told him that. Just a few weeks ago she had seemed incredibly happy about the wedding and now she was freaking out.

"I mean how can I be sure that he's right for me?" Laura walked around the room, stopping only to correct the wedding dress before continuing to pace around. Gideon had never seen her that pretty. She had been more like the tomboy, always wearing jeans and t-shirts and picking up fights with neighborhood boys. Luckily, she had also been a good runner, which managed her escape from the fights she got herself into. Zero had been more of a scheming type. If he got into a fight, he managed to also talk himself out of it. That's how they differed from each other.

"Calm down." Zero sat down to a wooden chest, feeling somehow relaxed to see his older sister so nervous.

"Calm down?" Laura stopped to take her heel from her left foot and threw it towards Gideon who dodged it easily and the shoe hit the wall behind him. "I'm supposed to get married in…" She checked the clock. "…nine minutes and you ask me to calm down." She took a deep breath and looked at her brother with apologized look. "Sorry."

Zero knew women often had trouble handling with stress during marriage preparations but this was getting out of hands. "Look, if you don't want to get married then don't. It shouldn't be that hard." He took the shoe from behind himself and dropped it to the floor.

"I'm not going to listen to you about this one." Laura huffed in disappointment. Zero wondered why she even asked him there if she didn't even listen to him. "You have no idea what its like."

"You're just freaking out." Gideon wished Jude had come with him. He would've known what to say to her. "You do love the guy, don't you?"

"Of course I do!" Laura seemed a little offended by his words. "I'm not marrying him for the money, just so you know."

"I know, I know." Gideon lifted his arms up in defeat. "Look, I'm getting married with Jude at some point." He hadn't planned to tell about that to Laura at her wedding day. They hadn't even wore the rings they bought since they didn't want to get any attention to themselves.

"Really?" Laura looked at him little wearily.

"Really." Gideon confirmed and looked straight at her. "I've been freaking out many times after I asked him to marry me. But those times has happened only when I'm alone and start to think about it too much. But when I'm with Jude, I don't doubt about our decision at all." He paused for a moment to think how much he wanted to open up to her. "I mean, Jude's the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. It doesn't matter if we get married or not. I still want it to be him beside me."

Laura studied her brother's face carefully. There were something new in there she had never seen before.

"Laura, are you ready?" Helen peeked from the doorway.

Laura looked at her best friend and then at Gideon before nodding. "I'm ready."

"You sure?" Zero narrowed his eyes.

Laura took the shoe she had thrown at him and put it back on. "I think I've found my Jude." She then said and winked at Gideon who just laughed at her.

Jude watched with a proud smile as Gideon walked beside Laura to the groom. He said something to him before letting go of Laura's arm and walking to Jude.

"How did it go?" Jude asked silently when Gideon sat down.

"She freaked out a little, but you helped her through with it." Gideon winked at him and Jude frowned, but didn't have the change ask what he was talking about when the priest started to speak.

Laura glanced at Gideon before turning her gaze to Jude. Gideon watched as Jude smiled at his sister shyly and Laura nodded at him. He didn't know why but for some reason he waited anxiously of those two meeting each other.

The ceremony after the church was held in a five star hotel close by. Jude and Gideon were seated to a round table with four other guests they didn't know. None of the others had found their chairs yet and Jude took the opportunity to check who accompanied their table.

"This one says: Jake Dundy." Jude read out loud before placing the nametag back to its place. "Next to him is Samantha Dundy. Does they ring any bells?"

"Who cares? I'm not going to small talk with them through the whole night. I don't even know them." Gideon wished they could've shared a private table with no additional talk with unknown people. Especially if they weren't able to advance his sports career.

"I care." Jude said as he read the rest of the tags and sat down beside Gideon. "Who knows if they were your long lost siblings or something?" Jude smirked as Gideon looked at him with lifted eyebrows.

"You must be Jude." Laura had emerged behind them.

"Yes, I am." Jude quickly stood up and shook her hand. "Nice to meet you."

"The pleasure is all mine, I've heard so much about you." Laura looked at Gideon who just shook his head. Jude glanced at him also, but Gideon managed to avoid eye contact with him.

"I'd like you to meet my husband: Jeff Houston." Laura stepped aside to let them shake hands with him. "Jeff, this is my long lost brother, Gideon and his fiancée Jude."

Jude managed to catch eye contact with Gideon now and lifted his eyebrows in question.

"He told because of me. Sorry, should I've kept quiet about it?" Laura looked a little scared between the two.

"No, it's okay. I was just… caught by surprise." Jude smiled wearily.

"She does that… many times." Jeff said playfully. "Excuse me, but I think my mother's going to lose her patience if I don't go see her right away. Nice meeting you two."

Gideon nodded at the man who hurried away towards the old lady they had seen earlier. Jude seemed to notice her as well and they smiled to each other.

"Laura, you look so beautiful!" A middle aged woman walked towards them and gave Laura a big hug.

"Aunt Samantha." Laura patted her arm fondly before turning towards them. "Samantha, I'd like you to meet Gideon. Gideon, this is Jeff's aunt." Gideon didn't seem at least bit of exicted to meet Jeff's family members.

"So tell me: what do you do for a living?" Samantha sat down to the seat reserved for her.

"Actually I'm a basketball player in L.A." Gideon and Jude sat down as well. Laura disappeared to greet her friends to another table. She seemed overly pleased with herself.

"Really? Then my son must recognize you. He's a big fan of basketball." Samantha looked at Jude a little curiously, obviously wanting to know who he was.

"This is Jude Kinkade." Gideon pointed to him. "He's my…"

"Of course! He's your fiancée!" Samantha smiled widely. Gideon realized he shouldn't have been surprised to know that Laura had already told her about Jude.

The conversation went on about Gideon's career even more when Samantha's son and husband joined them.

Jude didn't like the way Samantha's son was eyeing Gideon. Why was it that everyone in this wedding seemed to flirt with Zero? Luckily Zero had seemed to notice that he was interested in more than his career. Samantha talked none stop and often praised her son who was going to be a pilot.

When the best man's speech started Gideon leaned towards Jude.

"I swear we're not telling her when we're getting married." He whispered and got a huge smile from Jude.

"Come on. She's not that bad." Jude whispered.

Gideon lifted his eyebrows at him. "Seriously? I'm surprised that she even stopped talking for a moment."

"Boys, please be quiet." Samantha whispered to them and they both suppressed a laugh.

After the deserts and official speeches, people started to scatter around. Jude and Gideon found themselves a quiet corner near the open bar. Jude started to feel extremely exhausted as he half leaned against Gideon's warm body.

"Wanna dance?" Gideon's question wiped all the tiredness away.

"Are you serious?" Jude turned to look at him doubtfully.

"Well, if you don't want to…" Gideon took a sip from his bourbon and looked around the hall.

"It's not that I don't want to." Jude said with a hint of a smile in his voice. "It's just that I think the groom's mother could have a heart attack."

Gideon spilled the bourbon back to the glass as he started to laugh. "That's even bigger reason for us to go." He said after he managed to collect himself and wipe the alcohol from his jaw.

Jude grinned widely as he followed Gideon to the dancefloor where almost every couple, including Samantha and her husband, were dancing slow. Neither of them had ever danced with a man before so it took them some time to decide where to put their hands and if Jude was honest with himself, he had never danced with anybody before. Eventually Jude found his left hand on Gideon's shoulder and another on the small of his back. Gideon rested his arms on Jude's hips, like he did many times when they were alone together. They both forgot to look at Jeff's mother's reaction as they slowly swayed together.

Zero went to fetch them more wine but when he got back Jude's was staring to a distance, deep in his thoughts. His solemn expression made Zero worried.

"Something wrong?" He asked as he offered the other glass to Jude.

"Jeff's surname seemed familiar to me. It kept on bugging me so I asked Lionel to check it." Jude said as he accepted the glass.

"So?" Zero didn't know what could be so depressing about that.

Jude took a deep breath before answering: "He's one of Oscar's lawyers."

Gideon was about to lift the glass to his lips but instead put it back down again. "You sure about that?" He looked wearily at Jude who nodded at him.

"There's no doubt about it." Jude fell silent for a moment. He knew Gideon would get mad if he asked the question which was troubling him. "Why did Laura came to see you?"

"What do you mean?" Jude avoided Zero's hard stare.

"I mean that it seems too much of a coincidence." Jude finally looked at Gideon again and hated the way he was looking at him.

Zero licked his lips and seemed to gather his thoughts for a moment before speaking out. "Are you claiming that Laura is somehow involved with Oscar?"

"Think about it, Gideon." Jude turned to face Zero properly and lowered his voice so no one around them overhear their conversation. "Doesn't it seem odd that she came to see you just after Oscar had ran away? You hadn't seen each other in ten years. Wasn't she the one who left you alone with them?" Jude was referring to Gideon's foster parents. For a moment he thought Gideon was about to consider the possibility but then his expression turner stern.

"No, I don't think she has anything to do with Oscar and I'm going to prove it." Zero turned his back on Jude and walked away to search his sister. Jude cursed silently. He hadn't meant to upset Gideon, but he felt in his guts that something was wrong with this arrangement.

Zero found Laura easily and asked her to join him to the balcony where they could talk in private. Laura noticed immediately that he was upset but she didn't question it until she closed the glass doors behind them.

"Is something wrong?" She asked as she turned towards her brother.

Zero leaned against the railing and watched the beautiful sea view for a moment before answering: "Is Jeff Oscar Kinkade's lawyer?" Zero waited for Laura to answer but when she didn't say anything, he turned around to face her. "Well?"

Laura let out a nervous laugh and fiddled with her wedding ring. The manners were so small that many would've missed them but Zero noticed them right away. Finally Laura walked beside him to the railing. "I don't know Jeff's customers. He might be. That Oscar… or whoever he was."

"Don't lie to me." Zero wasn't going to let this pass.

"Did Jude say something about me?" Laura asked, trying to sound casual but her tone rose a little too high.

"He suspected you have something to do with Oscar." Zero wanted to be honest with her.

Laura shook her head in disappointment. "Oh, Gideon, you shouldn't believe everything he says. I mean the poor man must've traumas if he thinks that his father shot him."

Zero narrowed his eyes. "If he thinks his father shot him? Laura, I know in a fact that Oscar did it and I also know that you have something to do with him."

"Gideon, please…" Laura huffed nervously.

"Then why would you believe otherwise?" Zero almost yelled the last words making Laura flinch. This time her nervous smile disappeared and was replaced by a hard stare and Zero knew she wasn't fooling around anymore.

"Okay, fine!" She shouted and straightened herself up as she used to do when one of the neighbor boys picked on her. "I happen to know that Oscar is Jeff's client. So what? Does that make me Jude's enemy or something?"

"Not necessarily." Zero snapped back at her. "It depends on how well you know him. Why did you came to see me last month?"

"You truly believe that I came to see you because of Oscar?" Laura looked genuinely hurt by the claim or maybe she was just good at acting. Zero wasn't sure which one to believe.

"Well, Jude was right in every other detail." Zero said.

"You really believe everything he says to you?" Laura lowered her voice and bemused smile appeared on her face. "Oscar said you were with him only to get the team to yourself which I didn't even doubt because that's the Gideon I know. But you truly love him, don't you?"

Zero couldn't do anything else than just to stare at his older sister. He heard her speak but it sounded like someone else were saying the words.

"You do know Jude's just after his father's fortune, don't you?" Laura looked straight into his eyes. "I mean, who honestly claims that his own father has shot him? Oscar's a kind, considering man and Jeff's just trying to keep him out of prison."

This time a suppressed laugh escaped Zero's mouth and he shook his head in disbelief. "They've really got you good, Laura. I can't believe it." With that Zero started to back away from her. He kept his eyes locked on her, to see if there was any doubt there but Laura stood by her words. "I can't believe it." Zero echoed his earlier words before turning around and starting to walk back inside.

"Thanks for ruining my wedding day."

Zero stopped as he heard her words. He pressed his lips together before turning around. "Your wedding day?" He stormed back at Laura and stopped only inches away from her. "It's always been about you. Hasn't it?" He couldn't help but shout but right at the moment all the anger he had felt during their conversation came pouring out.

"Yes, my wedding day!" Laura yelled back at him. "You could've asked me about your suspicions at any other time, but no! You had to do it now! Do you see how selfish that is?"

"You left me!" Zero took a step back as he screamed those words. Laura looked stunned. "You left me, Laura. You just turned your back and walked away, leaving me with them." Zero's eyesight blurred and he blinked furiously to keep the tears down. With that he left Laura standing there, staring at him with puzzled expression.

Even when the music hit his ears as he opened the glass doors, he heard Laura shout after him: "I didn't visit you because of that!"

Zero walked towards the place he had last seen Jude. All he wanted right now was to take hold of Jude's arm and get them home. But when he got there, Jude was nowhere in sight. He checked his phone and saw that Jude had tried to call him several times. Eventually he had left a text message: I know where Oscar is. I went to see him. Call me as soon as you get this.

Zero tried to call Jude, but there was no answer. He cursed as he made his way outside. As he had suspected, Jude had taken his car. It had been several day's drive to the wedding place but they had taken it as an opportunity to spend some time together instead of just flying back and forth in one day. Zero knew where Jude was heading but he had no idea what he was going to do when he got there. But one thing he did know was that it wasn't going to be good. So he needed to find a cab as soon as possible.