After showering Mr. And Mrs. David Smith with bags of rice I didn't help fill and tie I made my way to the reception in Jared's Jeep. That was after he found me in the crowd of my family, David's family, and a bunch of other people I didn't know.

"So um the dress…" Jared hedged, it wasn't that bad compared to what it could have been but it wasn't great either. It was lavender and frilly and not poufy or some strange shade of purple that doesn't even occur on a color wheel like I feared.

"Don't you start mister, today wasn't my day, and I didn't choose the dress…or the gloves for that matter." I muttered in distaste as I pulled off the lacy gloves I had been forced to wear.

"Don't be silly Kim! You look lovely." He chided softly and I blushed mumbling liar and other synonyms of the word. "You do!"

"Yeah well you look pretty sharp yourself." And it was true he was wearing a light gray suit with a tie to match my dress.

"Well thanks are to you milady." He replied in a very fake British accent.

"Wow Jared, that was really, pitiful."

"Yes but for some reason you still love me."

"Must be that amazing Australian accent you do."

"Ah yes, all the girls tell me it makes me irresistible." I smacked him playfully on the arm and then leaned over to kiss his cheek as he pulled into a parking space. "Mixed signals woman!" I chuckled and proceeded to slide out of the vehicle.

I walked into the reception hall, decorated extravagantly, and congratulated the newly weds seeing as Tibby agreed to let me sit at a different table with my friends and David's nephews and niece. We all ate our meals and then gathered for the cutting of the cake, a masterpiece, with the correct color of yellow roses. Apparently all that time on the phone had paid off. After cake the bride and groom finally had their first dance and soon Jared had talked me into joining him along with several other couples.

It truly was a night to remember.

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That night Jared drove my younger siblings and I home. The reception was still going on but Tibby had left and we were wiped. My parents had said Jared could stay as long as he stayed downstairs until we went to bed, him in the guest room, where he and only he would stay. So we were in his jeep pulling up to the house. We looked behind us and saw the two sleeping forms behind us. Jared threw Larry over his shoulder and I grabbed Libby, surprisingly neither of them woke up.

After the kids were in bed I ran to my room and pulled off the dress pulling on a pair of sweats and a cami, Jared had though to bring a pair of basketball shorts and a shirt just in case- like he didn't know I would ask him to stay with me. I really wasn't ready to see my mom alone.

After I washed the gunk off my face and pulled my hair back-once it was free of the million bobby pins stuck in- I joined Jared on the couch and we slipped in a movie. We had decided on the way home to watch Sixteen Candles after much persuasion on my part that is wasn't in fact a chick flick but a classic 80's movie everyone should see. I had to marvel at the fact that Molly Ringwald's character was awfully similar to me.

As the credits rolled over the screen I felt my eyes drooping in exhaustion, and why not? It had been a longs day. I felt Jared's warm body where he had been lying behind me squirm and barely registered the fact he had gotten up before he scooped me up into his arms.

"Jared, down please. I'll go up to my own on my bed." I slurred sleepily.

"Kim, your tired, you can barely talk and I refuse to take a chance and let you walk." He reasoned back, I could have argued but I was tired and he was just so warm…

As he tucked me into bed Jared brushed my fringe from my forehead and kissed the area below it. Before he could pull away I caught his hand and hugged it like one might hold an old stuffed bear. "Stay" I murmured and then felt him kneel beside the bed.

"Kim your parents would kill us if they found us in your room together, or at very least banish me forever. I plan on sticking around Hun and I don't want to have to do so through stealth. So as much as I would love, with all of my heart to stay with you I am going to the guest room instead and I shall see you in the morning." He kissed my forehead again and I sighed, scowling slightly.

"Fine then, go ahead…" I muttered as he walked to the door, but I called his name giggling sleepily so he would pause and turn around again. "You know you sound like a hallmark card sometimes. It really is cute. Like with my reasons." I yawned.

"Reasons?"

"Yeah," I yawned again before explaining. "The reasons you love me."

"Oh, yeah." Through my drooping lids I could see him grinning as he walked to the bed again. "I haven't given you one in some time have I? Kim I love you because you are my perfect fit, like the way you seem to be perfectly molded to fit into my arms when I carry you to bed." I smiled, even wider when he kissed me softly and muttered against my lips, "Sweet dreams." Before he went to bed himself.

I fell asleep that night completely content.

So unfortunately I am going to be spending a while at my aunts, oh the joy. I love her and my cousin and all but my cousin is seven and a morning person. So the point is this may be my last update in the next week or so, depending on how long I stay, but I will try and put up another chapter before I go to bed though I can't make any promises.

Also Kim will definitely be 'finding out' about Jared's "Furry Little Secret" in chapter twenty-seven. I know I drug it out for ages but that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

Please update anyway, cause I know you secretly love me bats eyelashes playfully.