Chapter 25

Gasp! i know i updated within 24 hours... odd.

Today was the day of the wedding. The day that Alex and Charlie had waited for, for 3 long months. Today was finally the day that Alex and Charlie could finally tie the knot and make everything official. Today was the beginning of the rest of their lives.

Alex lay there, not wanting to move. She was staring at Charlie playing with her hair a little. She was perfect. The way the sun hit her face, how peaceful she looked when she slept. How even when she wasn't awake she looked so loving. Alex gave Charlie a soft kiss on the cheek and silently got out of bed. She took a shower and got dressed into some comfortable clothes seeing as she would soon change into her wedding dress. She wrote Charlie a note and left it on the her own pillow. She gave Charlie one last look and walked out her bedroom door. In the hallway outside of the apartment Alex had a few things delivered and moved it all into their bedroom. Afterwards Alex got her stuff and quietly walked out of her apartment and walked outside to see Paige already waiting in her car for Alex.

"good morning bride to be" Paige said. Alex smiled and got into the passenger seat of the car. "you ready?" Paige asked.

"more than ever" Alex said with a smile and they drove off.

Charlie woke up just a few minutes after Paige and Alex had driven off. She half expected Alex to be beside her, because she loved waking up to Alex's face. But Charlie stretched out her arm to touch her, but hit nothing but the bed. She opened her eyes to see an empty bed and a note on a pillow. She was about to open the note and read it when she noticed a plethora of colourful flowers spread out amongst her room. There must have been 15 bouquets of multi-coloured flowers. Charlie smiled, she always knew Alex was a romantic. Charlie took in the beautiful view and smell of the flowers then turned her attention back to the note and opened it.

Charlie,

Today is our day, today is the day that you and I finally get married… not to mention we also get to have some sex tonight. FINALLY! But most of all, I'm looking forward to seeing your beautiful face as we walk down the aisle. I can't wait to hold you in my arms.

Loving you more and more every second,

-Alex

Charlie put the note down on the bedside table and smiled for a second. She knew everything would go perfect today. She slowly got out of bed and made her way over to the guest bedroom. Since it was her wedding day she woke up extra early, sun barely even up yet. She walked into the room to see her sisters all sprawled about the bed, limbs weaving in between each other. She smiled and slowly stood up on the bed, careful not to step on anyone, then started jumping.

"I'm getting married! I'm getting married!" Charlie repeated over and over in a sing song voice. Quickly all three sisters jumped up due to the noise and extreme movement.

"tiny?" Chris asked in a groggy voice.

"I'm getting married today!" Charlie sang out. The three sisters smiled at Charlie's happiness. All of a sudden Chris, Terry and Darcy all pulled Charlie down on the bed and held her down so she couldn't jump around.

"I'm getting married today" Charlie said once again, only this time in a more calm voice.

"we know" they all said.

With Alex…

"so what we'll do is we'll all go get our hair and make up done now, and then we'll go get the dresses and then we'll come back to my place and wait for the limo and do whatever else we need to do, okay?" Paige said to Alex, Ellie and Ashley who were all in the car with her. Ellie and Ashley were half asleep seeing as it was not even 6:00am yet.

"yeah" Ellie and Ashley mumbled out, they were both leaning on each other for support. Paige and Alex turned around to see the girls barely awake. They smiled a little, then carried on with their plans. They immediately went down to the hair stylist, who had opened extra early this morning just for Alex and her bride's maids, and had gotten to work on their hair right away. The hair took about an hour to do, and 2 hours in Alex's case. The make up only took about half an hour and soon the girls were already out the door. Seeing as it was almost 9:00am Alex and Paige went into the Best for Bride wedding dress store to pick up Alex's dress, while Ellie and Ashley waited in the car.

Alex walked in, looking a little weird. From her neck up she looked gorgeous, but her clothes didn't seem to match her style.

"Hi, I'm here to pick up my wedding dress" Alex said to the sales woman behind the desk.

"name?"

"Alex Nunez" Alex said. The woman nodded and went to the back room to pick up her dress. Alex and Paige waited patiently, with out a problem. Soon the lady came back, with a large bag to hold dresses in her hands. Immediately Alex started to smile.

"here you go" the woman said happily.

Alex smiled even bigger. She unzipped the bag just to check her dress, but when she saw it she started to panic. "umm, this isn't my dress" Alex said pointing to the ugly dress in her hands.

"are you sure?"

"yeah… I'm sure. It's definitely not mine" Alex said.

"What?" Paige asked

"well, this dress has your name marked on it"

"that may be, but this isn't my dress" Alex said again.

The woman looked at Alex and Paige then back down at her organizer in front of her. "ah, okay here's the problem" the woman said. Alex soon relaxed because she thought the woman had solved the problem "… we accidentally gave your dress out already…" the woman said hesitantly.

"what?!" Paige and Alex yelled at the same time. The woman flinched, thinking the two girls were going to hit her or something.

"what do you mean you gave it out?" Paige asked.

"well, it seems there is another Alexandra Nunez who already picked up her dress… which is yours"

"how could you give it away?!" Alex yelled.

"look, I'm terribly sorry… maybe we can get you another dress quickly"

"that dress was tailored specially to fit me" Alex said. The woman didn't reply.

"do you have the address of the woman who has the dress?" Paige asked thinking rationally.

"yes, um here we go" the woman said. She copied down the address on a piece of paper and gave it to an angry Alex. Alex snatched it out of her hands and she and Paige walked away. They speed walked to the car and got in, obviously very angry.

"what's with you two?" Ashley asked seeing their anger.

"the fucking woman gave away my fucking dress!" Alex yelled. Alex didn't swear that much, only when she was super angry. And she was super angry.

"are you kidding me?" Ellie yelled.

"look, it's no big deal, we're going to go all the way down to…" Paige said as she got out the address. "332 Salinger Avenue… Mississauga?!" Paige yelled realizing just how far it was.

"that's going to set us back like an hour and a half" Ashley said.

"well, we're going to drive fast" Paige said as she started the car and sped off towards their destination.

With Charlie…

Instead of going out to get their hair and makeup done, Charlie had 4 stylists come to the apartment to work on them. One stylist per Barker sister. As they were putting the final touches on the girls Marco stopped by with Dylan.

"good morning ladies" he said happily as he walked in holding Dylan's hand. They were both dressed up very nicely wearing suave black suits.

"well don't you look two handsome" Charlie said as she got up to hug them both.

"that we do" Marco said fixing Dylan's tie. "Alex, asked us to stop by today to make sure everything was okay"

"Hey Marco!" Terry yelled out. "who's the man candy?" she asked referring to Dylan.

"oh guys, this is Dylan, my boyfriend" Marco said introducing him. "Dylan, this is Terry, Darcy and Chris, Charlie's sisters"

"nice to meet you all, ladies" Dylan said politely waving to them.

"are you guys coming in the limo with us?" Charlie asked.

"no, we're taking Dylan's car down to the wedding" Marco said.

"yeah, we just came to make sure there were no disasters like Alex's thing" Dylan said giving away too much information.

"sorry, what?" Charlie asked catching on. Marco hit Dylan in the stomach.

"nothing" Marco said. Charlie just stared him down, she had a knack for doing that. "okay well Alex had a little problem with her dress, but don't worry, everything's going to be fine"

"what do you mean she had a problem with her dress?!"

"Charlie, don't worry. She said everything is fine"

"I'd ask more questions, but we have to go get the bride's maids dresses. Unlike some people I already have my wedding dress all ready" Charlie said and with that everyone walked out the door of the apartment with all their stuff.

Back with Alex…

Alex climbed back into the car and had the right wedding dress in hand. "got it" she said.

"alright, we're really behind right now. So we're going to go back to the wedding place and we'll get ready there. The manicurist said she would meet us there."

"alright" Alex said. But just then her phone rang, she was expecting Charlie to call panicking about her dress and what not… she never could tell Marco and Dylan a secret. But instead it was an unknown caller.

"hello?" Alex answered. Just then Paige's phone started ringing and she answered it. After a few minutes of yelling and constant talking the two girls hung up their phones.

"bad news" they both said to each other at the same time.

"The catering service said that they had a problem with the refrigerators last night… most of the food went bad, so they had to make some more, and they're not sure if they can get it down in time or not" Paige said.

"the photographers said they lost their second best camera and only video camera they have broke" Alex said.

"jeez, what else could go wrong?" Ellie asked, not realizing how she was adding to all the negative aspects.

On the way back to downtown Toronto Alex got a call from Charlie. "hey fiancée"

"Alex? Oh my god! I'm freaking out!" Charlie yelled through the phone.

"what's wrong?"

"okay well the limo hasn't shown up yet, and I got a call from the minister saying he's sick and won't be able to make it. Alex, what do we do!?"

"okay don't worry, first things first, breathe slowly, second, give the phone to Chris" Alex said knowing Charlie shouldn't handle all this pressure, especially since she used to get all those panic attacks.

"hello?" Chris said into the phone.

"alright Chris, um can you call the limo company and tell them that your limo didn't show up, they'll send another one. And I'll take care of the minister okay?"

"alright Alex" Chris said and hung up the phone. As soon as Alex hung up the phone she called the original minister. She asked him for someone who could show up on short notice. After a few more phone calls she finally got everything back on track… at least for Charlie's problems.

"everything okay?" Ashley asked.

"it is now" Alex said.

About an half an hour later Alex finally arrived at the wedding place. It wasn't actually a chapel, it was actually this sort of large garden that Charlie and Alex absolutely fell in love with. Everyone got out of the car and Ellie and Ashley ventured towards the building while Alex just stood and looked at the garden where she was going to get married in.

"you okay hun?" Paige asked seeing Alex was lost in the sight.

"… yeah I'm fine. I'm just taking it all in. I don't want to be one of those people who can't enjoy their own wedding because of everything going on"

"well come on, just think… next time you see this place it will be filled with your friends and family" Paige said.

"can you believe I'm getting married?" Alex said.

"that I can… Charlie is one lucky girl"

Back with Charlie…

Charlie and her sisters had arrived at the wedding garden about half an hour before Alex had. She and her bride's maids were designated a room on the opposite side of the building from Alex.

"just think, my fiancée, soon to be wife, is on the other side of the building getting ready at this very moment…" Charlie said as she was changing into her wedding dress behind a curtain. Charlie's sisters all smiled at how excited Charlie was getting. "can you believe I'm getting married in just a few hours?!"

"yeah, who would have guess you'd get married to a girl at 22?"

"yeah that too, but what ever. I'm so happy right now"

Just then a knock came from the door. Paige peeked her head in to make sure she wasn't walking in on anybody getting naked. "knock knock" Paige said.

"hey Paige, come on in" Chris said.

"Paige! Can you believe I'm getting married today?" Charlie said still ecstatic. Paige laughed a little.

"you sound like Alex"

"Alex…" Charlie said letting her mind wander to her wonderful fiancée.

"yeah… anyways, I just wanted to let you know we're doing our best to get the photographers down here and the caterers are working over time to get this food in time"

"wait what?!" Charlie yelled.

"… didn't Alex tell you?"

"no!"

"oh well then I've got to go. Bye!" Paige said quickly and ran out the door. Charlie started chasing after her but was held back by Chris.

"hold on there tiny. Let Paige worry about that stuff, right now you have a wedding to get ready for"

"oh yeah, that's right! I'm getting married!" Charlie yelled again.

Chris was starting to get tired of her saying that "Charlie, if you say that you're getting married one more time… I swear to god…"

Charlie cracked a little smile "sorry… but I'm just so excited!"

Half an hour later Charlie, Chris, Terry and Darcy were all just putting the final touches on their outfits when Charlie got a phone call on her cell phone.

"hi Paige" Charlie said.

"hey char, listen. Alex needs to talk to you right now, in person" Paige said

"what? No, you guys know it bad luck for the bride to see the… bride before the wedding"

"I didn't say anything about seeing, I said talking"

"what do you mean?"

"give the phone to Chris" Paige said and Charlie handed the phone to Chris.

Chris a little confused grabbed the phone from Charlie's hand "hello?"

A few minutes later Chris hung up the phone and gave it back to Charlie. "so what's going on?" Charlie asked. Chris didn't say anything, she just turned Charlie around and put a blindfold on her from behind.

"what are you doing?"

"okay look, Alex needs to talk to you, so Paige is going to put a blindfold on Alex and we'll make sure you guys don't see each other"

"but-" Charlie started to protest but was stopped when Paige knocked on the door.

"come in" Chris yelled. Paige walked into the room with Alex in hand. She was already dressed, but she was also wearing a blindfold. Paige pushed Alex over to Charlie and made them turn around so they were back to back.

"no peeking you two" Darcy said as she and Terry, Chris and Paige started walking out of the room. Paige was the last one heading out, but instead of leaving she made it sound like she was leaving and instead shut the door and stayed in the room. Alex and Charlie were silent for a second, still back to back.

"get out Paige" Alex said knowing Paige would still be in the room.

"fine, but don't take those blindfolds off, and shout when you're done" Paige said as she finally walked out of the room and shut the door behind her. As soon as they were sure Paige was gone they started talking.

"so what's so important that you had to come talk to me before the wedding?" Charlie asked.

"okay, umm promise not to freak out, but…"

"but?"

"okay I got another minister to fill in, but the caterers said that the food is going to be an hour late, so we have to take our time…"

"but I want to marry you now" Charlie whined.

"I know, I know. But don't worry, oh and also…"

"also?!" Charlie asked.

"the other photographers had some problems so I had to get some new ones on short notice which means I have no idea how good they are. And…"

"And? Are you kidding me? Should we just reschedule the wedding, because right now this is a disaster" Charlie said.

"don't worry baby, I promise to you that this will be a disaster wedding with a happy ending"

"okay" Charlie smiled. "so what was that 'and' thing?"

"okay I promise you this is the last thing" Alex said.

"okay, what is it?"

"do me a favour? Tell me a memory?" Alex asked innocently.

"now?"

"yeah"

Charlie sighed. "alright, let's see. Halloween 2 years ago, Marco held a costume party, and we went as Ozzy and Sharon…"

"ah, yes…"

"the whole night, all I could hear was 'Sharon!'" Charlie said impersonating Alex, impersonating Ozzy. Alex just laughed. "and whenever I finally came over you'd mumble something back to me and I'd just swear my ass off" Charlie and Alex were laughing pretty hard now.

"we were pretty good at acting like Ozzy and Sharon" Alex commented.

"well it wasn't really that hard, all you had to do was slur your words and all I had to do was swear"

"yeah to tell you the truth, I wasn't even trying that hard, I was pretty drunk that night" Alex said Charlie laughed a little.

"alright, your turn" Charlie said.

"okay um, it was the last few weeks of high school, and we were in that lovey dovey phase ever since you moved in with me. We were in Ms. Perkin's English class and I decided to pass you a note…"

"oh I remember this…" Charlie added.

FLASHBACK

Alex folded up the small piece of paper and drew a little heart on the outside of it. She was about to reach over and drop the note on Charlie's desk when Ms. Perkins came up from behind the two girls and grabbed the note out of Alex's hand.

"passing notes in class are we?" the teacher asked as she slowly opened the note. "care to explain to the class what was so important that you had to interrupt my class for, Ms. Nunez?"

"gladly…" Alex said. She turned and faced Charlie, but was still talking to the teacher. "it says 'Charlie, I can't wait to get out of this class and look into your deep hazel eyes and smell your sweet perfume and kiss your perfect lips. Because I can't imagine a day going by that I don't get to be with my amazing girlfriend" Alex said as she stared lovingly into Charlie's eyes. She swiftly turned her head back to the teacher.

"did I miss anything?" Alex asked.

"no that pretty much covers it" Ms. Perkins said with a sigh, folding the note back up. "Care to respond Ms. Barker?"

Charlie looked at the teacher, then smiled at Alex, she grabbed a hold of Alex's collar and pulled her into a soft kiss. Most of the girls in the class gave out a quiet "aww", and most of the boys started whistling.

"well I'll see you two ladies in detention after school then" Ms. Perkins said as she turned around and continued teaching. Alex smiled at Charlie who just mouthed the words "so worth it" back to Alex.

END OF FLASHBACK

Charlie smiled at the memory as Alex laced her fingers in between Charlie's even though they were back to back. "I love you" Alex whispered over her shoulder.

"I love you too" Charlie whispered back as she squeezed Alex hand.

"you know… since today is our wedding day… and we have a couple of blindfolds…" Alex started.

Charlie smiled and shook her head to herself. "Paige!" Charlie yelled. Alex rolled her eyes underneath the blindfold as she hear Paige and Chris walk into the room.

"okay you, let's get you back to your dressing room" Paige said taking Alex away.

"bye Nunez, can't wait to marry you" Charlie said as Alex was being pulled out of the room.

"Bye Barker, can't wait to sleep with you" Alex said.

"god, you're horny" Charlie said.

"love you too" Alex shouted before she was finally pulled out of the room. Charlie heard the door close and slowly pull the blindfold off of her eyes. She looked at Chris hopefully.

"alright, one last time…" Chris said giving in.

"I'm getting married!" Charlie yelled at the top of her lungs.

Alex and Paige were walking back to their dressing room, trying their best not to be seen by any of the guests that were already starting to show up. They quickly hustled into the room, closing the door behind them so quickly, not even noticing the figure already standing in the room. Alex turned around and stopped in her tracks.

"Hi Alex" the man said quietly in a slight accent. He was wearing a plain dark blue suit with a bright blue tie, and was holding a small bouquet of flowers in his hand.

Alex turned to Paige then back at the man, whom she didn't recognize. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

It was obvious the man was a little crushed by the question but shook it off. "you don't remember me?" he said in more of a statement than a question. "I certainly remember you… running around in your diapers, hair swinging back and forth, ready to conquer the world, and here you are now… getting married" he said.

"…dad?"

Okay, so how much do you hate me right now? lol. But this is where I am stuck, so please REVIEW AND GIVE ME IDEAS. I am totally blocked at this point. Anything and Everything would be great!