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The stupid star I'm wishing on doesn't like me very much.
Katie
Katie had that nervous lump in her throat.
Kind of like the feeling you get when you hit the big drop on a rollar coaster, when your stomach goes to a place it should not be. Or when you lied to your parents, and were afraid you were going to get caught. The feeling that made you bite your lip or do something like, oh I don't know, fiddle with your wedding dress.
Yes, the day had finally come, it was Katie's wedding day. So suffice to say, Katie was fidgety, very fidgety. Butterflies in her stomach. That really is a bad metaphor.
It was more like an angry swarm killer bees.
As her friend Annabeth zipped up her wedding dress, Katie's stomach lurched. She was beyond terrified, she was sweating in her black Chuck Taylor's. Part of her wanted to bolt out of the room, up the stairs, lock the door, and hide under her bed. But another part, a larger part had wanted to see what it looked like. Piper had it made special for her.
Katie took a deep breath and turned to face a full length mirror. As soon as she saw herself, she was too scared to even breathe, riskining the slightest chance she'd mess up the picture. She truely felt like Cinderella in her slightly poofed dress. She couldn't believe the image in the mirror was her.
Katie slowly walked towards the mirror, and touched it with the tips of her fingers to ensure it was real. Piper was amazing with make-up and clothing, it was like her savvy. Katie's eyes were only done with a light tannish color, very close to her own skin color. Her lips were enhanced with a pink gloss, but even one knew Katie would somehow wipe it off before the day was done. And that was it, as Piper had said once, "you don't need it."
Katie turned to the room, and smiled at them. Piper was there, of course, Annabeth, Thalia, Mary Lou, Juniper, Silena and Silena's six-year old daughter Jane Belle. Jane Belle insisted it was solely to be Janie, not Jane, not Belle, not Bella, simply Janie, and if you got it wrong be prepared for the scolding of a lifetime. Katie smiled at Janie, fighting against the lily her mother tried to put in her hair. Katie slowly walked to the two.
"You know, Janie." Katie smiled. "I think you'd look absolutely beautiful with that flower in your hair."
Janie's eyes lit up, "You think so?"
"I know so."
Janie smiled up at her mother, who then put the lovely white flower into her hair. Katie grinned even wider, everything was perfect. The color, the exact blue Katie had worn to Lilah's failed wedding, where she had finally won over Travis, was the color of the dresses. Piper nodded, in her Maid of Honor dress, special as it was the only dress with a diamond studded strap, knowing that Katie would love the inside reference.
Katie walked over to the open window, and took a breath of fresh air. She wondered what Travis was doing now. Knowing Travis, someone was probably covered in cheese puff dust.
Katie smiled and sighed, that was her fiance.
Travis
Travis straightened out his tux and glanced in the mirror.
Travis smirked, cockily, at his reflection. He would definitely describe himself as devilishly handsome. Then he noticed something wrong with his reflection. He licked his thumb and whipped away a bit a cheese puff dust from the side of his mouth.
There. Perfect. Now he was devilishly handsome.
Travis turned to his support party.
Nico: Shaking the cheese dust out of his black hair, that now looked as if he had streaked his hair a bright orange.
Jason: Brushing off the last bit of the orange powder off his black tux.
Grover: His face was entirely orange, and he was having trouble licking off all the deliciousness.
Percy: Trying to clean off his son, Logan. He sliently swore, under his breath, knowing that Annabeth would kill him if their son showed up orange to a royal wedding.
Conner: Laughing at it all, and he was supposed to be the Best Man.
Beckondorf: Giving Conner the evil, I-am-so-going-to-kill-you-when-this-is-all-over, glare as he whipped off the artifical cheese flavoring.
There was a knocking at the door, and all the boys froze in their cheesy tracks. The Queen, Conner and Travis' mother, opened the door. When she saw the orange powder on the boys, she sighed heavily towards Conner and then smiled at Travis.
"Travis, dear, it's time." She chattered, excitedly.
Travis swallowed nervously and followed everyone out the door, soon he would take his place at the alter.
Katie
Katie stood outside the doors, watching everyone pair up.
Janie and Logan took the front as the ring bearer and flower girl.
Mary Lou and Conner.
Piper and Jason.
Annabeth and Percy.
Beckondorf and Silena.
Grover and Juniper.
Thalia and Nico.
Everyone seemed happy with their pairs, as most of them were either dating or married. Mary Lou and Conner were making the best of it, as he told her a very corny joke, causing her to giggle anyways.
But Thalia took one look at Nico and said, "I'm maiden, okay?"
Poor Nico, "Uh, okay?"
Katie's father walked up behind her and tapped her shoulder. She gasped in surprise and threw her arms around him.
"Dad! I thought you weren't going to be able to come!" She said, smiling.
"There was no way I was going to miss walking my daughter down the asile." He replied, with tears in his eyes. "You look so beautiful."
Katie blushed, and was about to respond when the doors swung open and the wedding had begun. Katie took a deep breath and took her father's arm.
He smiled at her nerves, "It's all right, Kate. I'm right here, everything will be fine."
Katie smiled back at him, thankful that he was here. She slowly strode down the aisle, following the defined blue carpet. And when she looked at Travis standing up there, she knew that she loved him.
And after that, she wasn't nervous anymore.
Travis
Katie took his breath away.
He no longer saw, a small six-year old girl yelling at him to play her game right. He no longer saw twelve year old, smartie pants Katie. He no longer saw a best friend, he enlisted to help win back a girl.
No he saw much more than that, he saw the girl he loved.
As soon as they both said those two words and sealed it with a kiss, Travis couldn't have been happier. As they turned back to the crowd and walked down the aisle, everything else seemed to disappear. He could do nothing but stare at her, and vice versa. Anyone who would've have walked in right there, could've taken one look at the pair and said that they were infinitely in love with each other.
And they would've have won the million dollar question, right there.
They slowly moved together in their first dance as a married couple. Everyone watched them, occasionally tapping their friend in the arm and talking about how they came together. None of that mattered to Katie and Travis. They were together and that was all that mattered, and that was all that would ever matter.
As Travis spun Katie around, her skirt slowly lifted just above her knees. He smiled, keeping what he saw a secret. It really wasn't a secret, it was classic Katie. She looked up and smiled at him, he raised an eyebrow at her. She seemed confused as to why he didn't smile back.
When he spun her out of his arms again, she returned to him, backwards. Katie leaned into his chest as they swayed to the song, one of Katie's favorites. L-O-V-E by Nat King Kole
L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore and
Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you
L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore and
Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you
Katie closed her eyes as they swayed along to the music. Travis smiled happily at her, love was really made for them, and he'd never break her heart.
Travis bent down to whisper into her ear, "Hey, Katie Kat?"
She opened her eyes and whispered back, "Yes?"
"Lovin' the sneakers."
When you love you feel alive.
But when you love and are loved in return,
that, my friend, is when you truely start living.
I'm sorry if you guys thought this was too fluffy or drabbling or something, but I really wanted a chapter just dedicated to how much they care for each other. Weddings are supposed to be that way right? I didn't want to make it seem too much fluff and romance, and I still incorporated the fact Katie is anti-high heels. But the next chapter is the twist, so stay tuned! (FYI: I DO NOT OWN L-O-V-E by Nat King Kole, if you hadn't heard this song, it's really sweet and you should youtube it or something)
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