Hi, this chapter was suppose to be about the trip but it won't be, I just don't have much time to do research about Alaska, Washington and Vegas so I'm going to skip the trip and the story will start with them going back to NK, sorry if this upsets anyone, I just prefer to skip it than do a bad job with the places and I realize It was going to take me forever if I added each place. So here is chapter 12 Unexpected.
Tom's jet
Everyone was getting in Toms jet, they were heading back to NK. They all had a great time. Tom controlled his temper with Galvin and they got along just fine during the trip. They arrive in NK airport when Galvin decided to talk to Tom.
"Hey Tom can I talk to ye for a second?" Galvin asked. Tom looked at him suspiciously but accepted.
"Listen, I'm very sorry about what happen with ye and Kim, I didn't mean to cause problems between ye two." Galvin apologized honestly.
"Don't worry about that, I can be really stupid sometimes and I don't blame you for liking Kim, she is amazing, who wouldn't fall for her?" Tom said.
"You really are a lucky guy ye know? So don't be stupid and don't ever let her go, cause I'm always ready for an opportunity." Galvin joked.
"That won't happen, you can be sure about that." Tom said.
"I was hoping ye say the contrary, well I guess this is the end for me, I can see she really loves ye, I have no hope, never really had it but I'm still sexier than you with my accent and all." Galvin said.
"Yeah well, lucky charm, I'm half Greek and half Indian, that makes me some kind of hot Greek warrior god or something, you on the contrary can only be, I don't know, maybe a dwarf or something." Tom said.
"Lucky charm and dwarf? That's the best ye got? I cannot be a dwarf I'm too tall. Hot god? please! I'm more like a Celtic god; I think I'll stick with Celtic god." Galvin said.
"Celtic god? Still not as hot as a Greek god." Tom replied.
"Hey guys what are you talking about?" Kim approached them cautiously she wanted to see If they were getting along.
"Oh just chatting you know." Tom said.
"Yeah just chatting, having fun, so ye guys should come visit us in Ireland." Galvin said.
"You know I always go in the summer, so you'll see me at least in a couple of months." Kim said.
"Great you have to come and hang glide this time." Galvin said "Ye too Tom, ye know Kim? He's a fast learner, master it in one day."
"Galvin don't tell him that, it goes all to his head." Kim said.
"Hey is not my fault I'm good at almost everything." Tom said "I'm coming too and this time I will fly by myself with help from no one."
"See what you did?" Kim said looking at Galvin "Now he'll probably kill himself.
"Well give him credit he had never escalated before and he did pretty good." Galvin said
"I did, didn't I?" Tom said.
"What are you? best friends now?" Kim asked confuse.
"No, I'm just recognizing he is not a chicken like most of us thought at first." Galvin said.
"Well being arrogant has nothing to do with being a chicken." Tom said.
"Hey guys we are going to Britannia to eat." Rocky yell from the other side.
"Ok" Kim screamed back "let's go" she said walking the other way, Tom and Galvin followed.
Britania
They all arrive at Kim's parent's restaurant, Evelyn, Kim's mother, decided to let them use the salon they had for private parties since they were 12 in total and more were coming.
"Hey guys so how did the trip go?" Evelyn asked them.
"It was great, we had a lot of fun." Aidan replied.
"Well I hope you guys enjoy your stay here in the states, I'm very happy to see you all again it's been 3 years since I went to Ireland." Evelyn said.
Galvin got up and gave Evelyn a big hug "Ev ye and Alec have to come back this year, Colleen and Patrick miss ye like ye have no idea."
"We'll try; we have been busy with the restaurant." While Evelyn said this an old couple entered the restaurant, they saw her standing on the door and walk to her, They were Kim grandparents.
"Good morning Evelyn." Mrs. Hart said.
"Oh Mr. and Mrs. Heart come in, Kim is here and Ken will probably come later." Evelyn said.
"Evelyn please you can call us by our names." Mr. Hart said.
"Sorry I'm just getting use to this. I'll go get Alec." She said and went to the kitchen leaving them in the room with the others.
"Hey Grandma, grandpa" Kim said kissing and hugging them both. "These are my friends Aidan, Regan and Galvin they all live in Ireland they are here visiting and these are Trini, Aisha, Rocky and Billy, they are my roommates and you already know Zack, Jason and Tom, everyone these are my grandparents Helena and Richard."
"Nice to meet you all." Helena said "Is nice to see you 3 again." She said looking at Zack, Jason and Tom.
"Mom, dad!" Alec greeted them enthusiastically. "Hey everyone, pumpkin!" he said picking Kim and giving her a bear hug.
"Dad you are embarrassing me!" Kim complains.
"Oh come on munchkin, you know you'll always be my little girl." Kim's father said pinching her cheeks while she turned red while the others laugh.
"Tom, are you treating her right? Remember I'm watching you." Alec said.
"You know I am." Tom assured.
"Mom, dad you already know Tom right? He is Delias and Roberts son after all." Alec said.
"Yes we do, we have know him since he was in his mother's womb." Helena said.
"Alec do you know my parents?" Tom asked him.
"As a matter of fact I do, I haven't spoken to them in years. I went to college with your father and then he met your mother and you know your mother, always the society girl, when I started going out with Evelyn she started telling your father all kinds of stories about how I was going against the rules of society so she told your grandparents what a bad influence I was to Robert, he was so scared of losing his inheritance and your mother, he was head over heels about her, so he decided to stop talking to me and we lost contact." Alec replied sadly.
Richard continues "Unfortunately, we also were like your mother. We did everything in our power to keep him away from Evelyn, at the end we threaten to take away his inheritance, but he was madly in love with her, he ended choosing her and we ended losing him for our own stupidity and selfishness. We have regretted our decision ever since and we are extremely sorry all this happen, we could have seen our grandchildren grow up but instead we were too proud, we ended losing precious time." Richard added.
"Tom, I know your mother doesn't want you to be with Kim, just don't let her get to you, do what you really want, don't let her dictate your life. I know she is a good woman and I know she loves you she is only blinded by her beliefs; I know even if years go by that she will come around." Helena said.
"I don't know about that, society is all she cares about." Tom said. He looked at Alec and said "I can't believe she manipulated my father like that, I can't believe he was so weak that he just followed her, I feel so ashamed!" Tom said.
"He was in love, just like I was in love with Evelyn, just like you are in love with Kim, we all had to make sacrifices, I sacrificed money, I had to work very hard for what I have know, I don't regret any of it because she was with me all the way, your father sacrifice our friendship for your mother, it was his choice and the fruit of his choice was you and your sister. Just like ours are Kim and Ken. I knew your mother you know? She is a good woman but like my mother says she is blinded." Alec said
"I know you are scared of losing your family and all of the things you have, what's happening to you, it's the same thing that happened to me and I was so scared! I was use to having it all! I could do whatever I wanted, have whatever I wanted, do as I please but my love for her was so big, I couldn't stand the thought of losing her, the idea made me so sad! Money cannot afford that feeling of utterly happiness, never in my life did I feel so happy, I simply knew that if I let her go, I was going to be miserable for the rest of my life." Alec continued.
"Plus Tom you have us 3" Zack said signaling Jason, Adam and him "you know we will always be your friends and your sister, you know she adores you and Kim, she won't leave you either.'
"And I won't leave you either." Kim said holding his hand. "Besides your father seems like he supports you too, so I think this time, things will fall in you favor."
"I'm never leaving you either." Tom said looking at her with love. "All I need in my life is you, I have known that since you insulted me that first time in Wicklow."
"Hey guys I'm so sorry that I'm so late!" Kendrew interrupted abruptly; he was holding a canvas in his hand. Milena arrived behind him with her husband and daughter.
"Uncle Tom!" she went running to him and hugged him "Kim!" she expressed and hugged her too.
"I hope we are not too late!" Milena exclaimed.
"No, not at all um guys, this is Milena, Toms sister and this are David her husband and their daughter Adriana." Kim introduced them. They all greeted them
"I'll introduce you properly later." Kim said.
"Don't worry about that." Milena said.
"Well come on sit-down." Kim said motioning them to take a seat next to Tom and her.
"So Kendrew what do you have there?" Kim asked her brother.
"Oh this is for the restaurant, I went to Ireland last week decided to pay a visit to gramps and nana, anyway while I was there I went to the Giants causeway and took the most amazing picture. I knew instantly that this was the place for it." Ken said.
"Can we see it?" Kim asked excited.
"Sure, um, to those of you that don't know the Giants Causeway, The place is in the north coast of Ireland and this is the result of an ancient volcanic eruption." he show them the breathtaking picture."
"Wow Ken, its amazing!" Aisha said.
"Thanks! What do you think mom, dad?" Ken asked his parents.
"It's really beautiful thanks!" Evelyn said and hugged him.
"Oh I still have another one, this one was more of a petition really and it's for you Kim." Ken said.
"For me?" Kim asked confuse.
"Yeah, here you go." he gave her a smaller canvas that was wrapped.
She unwrapped it; it was a beautiful artistic picture of the Eiffel tower. She instantly knew who the petition came from, so she looked at Tom.
"I wanted to give you a present and I was driving myself crazy thinking what could I possibly give you that you enjoy, so I asked your brother if he could go to Paris and take a particular picture for you. I remember our first date and how amazing it was, so now I want to go back with all of us."
"Tom is beautiful! Thanks! You too Ken, I love it! And we will all go someday together."
"Actually we are going today." Tom said.
"What?" She asked surprise.
"Yeah, we all are going to Paris right now, the jet is waiting in the airport." Tom said.
"Wait, are you for real?" Aisha asked perplexed. "All of us?"
"Yeah all of us, including Rocky." Tom said giving Rocky a look while this one gave him one of the many looks he reserved for Tom "So we should get going."
"But Tom we haven't packed. The stuff we have is dirty and is not good for Paris." Trini said.
"Don't worry about clothes or anything; everything will be provided once we get there." Tom said.
"Is this really happening?" Galvin asked. "I need more rich friends in my life." He joked, they all laughed.
"You really are something." Kim said following Tom.
"Take this as a big apology for my behavior." Tom said.
"I told you, you were already forgiven." Kim said.
"I know but it wasn't enough for me." Tom said.
They arrive at the airport and took off in the jet. They were 19 in total, Kim parents, grandparents and brother, Tom sister, husband and daughter, Galvin, Regan, Aidan, Jason, Adam, Zack, Aisha, Trini, Billy and Rocky.
"Well Tom, I have to eat my pride and say thanks for bringing me along, even if you know, we don't get along." Rocky said.
"The only reason we don't get along, is because you don't want to get along with me you are obsess with hating me." Tom said.
"I'm not obsessed with hating you." Rocky said.
"How many times are we going to have this conversation? I have already accepted that you will always hold a vendetta against me and I'm not going to keep fighting with you, you just come with the package, you are like a thorn in my eye that I will never be able to remove." Tom said.
"I guess is true, I'm going to leave you for now until then, thanks again." Rocky said.
Tom rolled his eyes "You're welcome."
Paris
They arrived in Paris, Kim was surprise to see her grandparents, Colleen and Patrick, waiting in the gate for them
"Nana! Gramps! What are you guys doing here?" Kim asked surprise and hug them.
Evelyn was also excited she had not seen her parents in 3 years "Mum, dad, I haven't seen you in ages!" Evelyn looked at Tom "Thank you so much Tom." she went and hugged him too.
"I'm glad you guys like the surprise." Tom said.
"Aidan your vacations are almost over." Patrick says looking at him.
"I know boss now with ye here, I have to behave." Aidan said.
"Helena, Richard what a lovely surprise." Colleen said honestly.
"Colleen, I think we have to start over." Helena said.
"There is always time to start over." Colleen said and Helena smiled.
"There are 3 limos waiting for us outside, they will take us to the place we will be staying." Tom said. They all got in separate limos. They arrive at a hotel that belonged to Jason's family; the hotel was in the heart of Paris. Since they had eaten a good meal in the jet, they decided to just walk around Paris the first day but since they were tired from the fly they went early back to the hotel. The day passed and the second day was full of promise. They went to have breakfast in a café near the hotel and as Tom promised they were all provided with clothes, stylist came with different wardrobes of all sizes so they could have the advantage of choosing a style that suited each. They decided to visit Montmartre and le Marais on the second day, after they were done with that they went to les Tuileries to take a stroll through the garden.
"So I think I want to see how Paris looks like during the night this time, I have never been on the top of the Eiffel tower during the night." Tom said.
"Sure we can do that, I think is going to be a bit chilly." Kim said. Since they were near the Louvre they went in and looked at the paintings and sculptures for a while, then they took the metro and arrived at Trocadero. The tower was in front of them so they all started walking towards it. They arrive at the tower and Tom purchased tickets for all of them to the top floor. They got in the elevator and went straight to the second floor and then to the last one. From there they could observe all of Paris by night, with all the little lights.
"This is so beautiful." Aisha said.
"Even though I'm so close to France this is the first time I come here and I love it." Regan said.
"Kim come on, let's see the Champ de Mars." Tom said.
"Ok" Kim said not caring much since she had seen it lots of times.
"Do you remember the last time we were here? You made me lay there!" Tom said
"I know, you thought that it was stupid." Kim said laughing.
"Yeah but like you said, I will never forget that I lay there with a beautiful unattainable brunette." Tom said quoting her, Kim giggled.
"Look! It seems like they are lighting little lights down there in the champ." Kim said and they all went to see, even the people that weren't with them went to see.
"You are right and the little lights are spelling something." Trini said.
Kim started reading the letters that covered almost the entire camp. "All I can see is you, Kimberly Hart will you marry me?" she read and then it struck her.
Tom was behind her holding a ring, she turned around "Tom?" she said in shock.
"Kim I love you more than anything in this world, I can't see myself without you, I know we haven't been together for that long but I just know, I simply know that you are the one. I know now that going to Wicklow wasn't just a coincidence, I was meant to meet you, Will you marry me?" Tom said nervous and expectantly.
"Tom" tears started streaming down her face. "Yes, I will marry you." She started nodding, he smiled like he had never smiled before and hug her and kissed her. He took her hand and put the ring on her finger.
"Do you like the ring? Cause if you don't I can change it." Tom asked anxious.
"No I love it! It's beautiful." Kim said looking at the ring. It was a vintage ring.
"Kendrew and Milena help me pick it up." Tom said, he looked at Trini and Aisha "I'm sorry I didn't go to you girls, I know you know Kim better than anyone but I was afraid you would accidentally say something, since you guys live together.
"Don't worry about it Tom, you are forgiven; besides is true we may have blurt it accidentally." Trini said.
"You guys knew?" Kim asked, looking at Milena and Ken They both smile at her.
Tom replied for them "They both knew, so did your parents and grandparents."
"Can we congratulate you guys now?" Aisha interrupted. "Oh my god! I can believe this I'm so happy for both of you, didn't I told you Kim? That you were going to end up marrying him?"
"I will never be able to top this." Rocky said. "Thanks a lot Tom." he said sarcastically "I could never do this for a woman I mean how much this cost you?"
"Don't ruin the moment Rocky or I promise I'll kill you." Aisha warned him "Come on let's take a stroll in the Champs." She said pulling him before he could say another stupidity.
"That was awkward." Galvin said.
"Yeah, he's special, you guys know him, he's only a bit different with me." Tom said.
After Rockys outburst the others congratulated Kim and Tom. Kims mother told them to go by themselves and spent some alone time together, so they left the others on the top of the tower and went to take a walk along the Seine.
Seine left bank
They were holding hands while walking through the left bank, Kim started the conversation "So when did you plan this? Or was it a spur of the moment thing? which I doubt cause you couldn't have seen my brother or Milena during this past week.
"I asked your brother if he could go to Paris a week before we left on that trip." Tom said.
"That was before the fight then." Kim said.
"Yeah, I almost went berserk when it happen, I knew by then that I was going to ask you to marry me and then we got to spend that time on the trip, honestly I didn't knew when I was going to propose until 3 days ago, I made my mind and call my sister and your brother so I flew them to las Vegas." Tom said.
"You did? How? How come we didn't saw them?" Kim said.
"You remember that day when I said there was a problem in the office and I had to take care of it?"
"Yeah you said you were going to the hotel and make some phone calls since you didn't want to ruin the trip." Kim said
"Yeah well that day I went to look for a ring with Milena and your brother. They were very helpful, your brother was a lot of help, he suggested going to an antiquarian where we found this ring." He said taking her hand and rubbing the ring with his thumb.
"Well you guys did a good job I mean, it's unlike any ring I have ever seen before." Kim said. "I can't believe you guys did that without us noticing."
"We tried to be very careful, it was really spontaneous, at the moment I call your brother he was still in Paris so he flew from there, the poor guy was exhausted, from Paris to Vegas Is a very long fly, plus how did he manage to finish his work in less than 2 day, I don't know, because he did both yours and your parents and now he's back here, I'm pretty sure he'll end up killing me, I offer to pay him for the job, he didn't took the money, when I practically try to force him to take it he practically runaway from the coffee shop we were in, it was really funny." Tom said laughing.
Kim laughed with him "Poor Ken, thanks for bringing my parents and grandparents, it was really nice of you to bring nana and gramps, my mother is so happy, but it still saddens me that your parents are not here."
Tom looked down "Yeah well at least my sister and Adriana are here, we are going to be more than ok, I mean look at your parents, we have more people that support us and like you said my father seems to be more on my side that on my mother's side."
"Yeah that's true." Kim said. They arrive at le Pont des Arts "Have you ever been in this bridge before?"
"No, I don't think so." Tom answered.
"Well this may sound a little bit ridiculous to you but there is something that I want to do" she let go of his hand and started looking through her purse "I bought this earlier today just in case the opportunity presented itself and it has."
"Is that a padlock?" Tom asked confused. He was starting to worry after all she sometimes went a little crazy.
"Yeah." Kim said.
"So you want me to chain you to the bridge or something?" Tom asked.
"No, I don't want you to chain me to the bridge!" she started walking to the other side of the bridge slowly "listen we will lock our love here, this is a declaration of our undying love and after we lock it, we will toss the keys into the Seine river and nobody will be able to unlock it."
"Yeah, are you drunk? Cause you are starting to sound crazy, where do you exactly plan to lock it?" Tom asked.
"In here" she signaled to a side of the bridge that was covered with a lot of padlocks with initials and declarations of love."
"Wow, there is a lot of people in love apparently, I wonder how many of them are still together." Tom said sarcastically.
"Oh come on this will be fun! Whenever we come back here we will search for our padlock." She found a sharpie in her bag and wrote her and Toms name and the date, she locked it in one of the railings "There! Now we will never forget the date of our engagement."
"Yeah, we will have to travel to Paris and come here to remember it." Tom said sarcastically.
"You are such a party pooper, here is your turn to do something" she handed him the keys "Now toss them as far as you can."
He looked at her like she was crazy "Fine, if it makes you happy but I don't really think it matters if I toss them very far, who is crazy enough to jump into the river to get the keys and try to find which lock it opens?" He took the keys and tossed them hard into the river.
"You never know." She said.
Tom just look at her and suddenly picked her up bridal style. She screamed in surprise. "Do you want me to toss you into the river too?"
"Oh come on put me down." Kim said laughing.
"How about no?" Tom said.
"Tom you are going to drop me accidentally and I will end up killing you." Kim said.
"That's not going to happen, you are not even heavy is like carrying a feather." He walked to one of the benches where he sat, sitting her on his lap and encircling his arms around her.
"I feel so happy right now, never in my life did I thought I could feel this way, my life has change so much since I met you, I mean before all I care about was my job, money, luxury, I worried every day about those things, I felt like I was chain or something and now I just simply don't care, I feel so relax and is all because of you, I love you so much Kim, I promise that as long as I live I'll take care of you; I'll do anything for you! I just want to let you know that I'll try my hardest to be what you need even if you are crazy." Tom said.
"You already are what I need and I love you so much too, the feeling is mutual, I have no idea how you did it but you simply knock down the wall I had been building for years, I can't not see myself loving someone else, I don't think I could." Kim said.
"I feel the same way, you know what? I want to get marry in Wicklow, It will be the perfect place for our wedding, after all there is where we met, I can't thank Jason and Zack enough for making me go there against my will." Tom said.
Kim laughed "Do you really want us to get marry there? You hate Wicklow."
"I was just being a prick; the place is absolutely stunning, there is no place in NK like that, of course that's only if you want to." Tom said
"Are you kidding me? Of course I want to get marry there, it's going to be such a beautiful wedding, only thing I don't know if it will bother you, I don't really want a luxurious wedding a rustic one will be lovely you know." Kim said.
"Your wish is my command, you can do whatever you want, if you only want to invite 20 people to the wedding so be it, I'm up for whatever you want." Tom said and then he kissed her.
"I'm the luckiest girl in the world." Kim said she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him before he could say anything else.
I was so nervous about this chapter it was unexpected for me the turn it took, i wasn't expecting to write an engagement so soon in their relationship but that's how it came to me so that's why I name the chapter like Unexpected. So people next chapter will probably be the last chapter, hope you enjoy this chapter and hopefully I won't take much time writing the last one.
