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Marriage is the union of two people who will stick with each other until the very end...
That morning was an emotional one. Arnold Roberts was no longer in this world and his brother Asher was arrested for his assistance in the attempt to murder Declan Knight. The way that Asher fell apart of seeing his brother's lifeless body was too much for Desiree. There was no way that she can clear her eyes from what she saw—even though, it was her worst enemy's body. She was never the one to wish death with anyone, not even Arnold. However, it was her decision to continue the wedding. She felt like she owed something to her friends and family that even came from miles to see her walk down the aisle. Desiree had put on her wedding dress—the one that she picked was a Strapless Cinderella Princess Tulle Ball Gown Wedding Dress that her mother helped her put on. Saraya Jade-Bevis helped Desiree put on the Louis Vuitton Cinderella heels that she had gotten a few weeks back. Leighla Lopez had helped with her makeup and hair, which was done natural and beautiful with browns, champagne colors and maybe a little black here and there.
Let's just say—Desiree looked like a Disney Princess.
"I'm getting married," Desiree said, while she looked into the mirror and Leighla place the vail on top of her head, making sure that her hair remained perfect, "I mean, I'm going to be marrying my best friend—not Declan or Brad, but Jon. Jonathan Good, Dean Ambrose, Jon Moxley. I'm going to be marrying him." when she had a chance to think about it, she could not believe it at all. What were the chances of that happened? She thought it would have been slim to none, but apparently, anything is possible if you put your mind to it.
Everything was perfect. Her dress was perfect. Her hair and makeup were perfect. Her shoes were perfect. Even her bridesmaids were perfect. Leighla looked like Princess Jasmine from Aladdin, while Saraya looked like Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. April Brooks looked like Mulan from Mulan—even though, she wasn't really considered a princess. JoJo looked like Tiana from the Princess and the Frog, Amber looked like Rapunzel from Tangled and Estelle looked like Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Hell, Brad even got involved and he dressed like Baileywick from Sofia the First—even though, he is not a prince at all.
"Kiddo," Brad placed his hands on her shoulders, "Today is your shining moment! I mean, I have known you for a long time and it's a true honor that you went with me when it comes to being Man of Honor and I hoped that I lived up to your expectations. I have done my best to make sure that this wedding was the best wedding that anyone can have."
Desiree gave one of her heartwarming smiles, "This wedding is perfect and I haven't even looked outside. This wedding is a dream come true. I have always envisioned a wedding like this and I am getting it now. Thank you, Brad." she gave him a hug as the hug made him feel a little uncomfortable. Was she just saying that or was she really thankful for how the wedding turned out?
"You're welcome, Princess Desiree," he bowed to her, "I tried my best for making this wedding the best it has ever been—"
"Not for the wedding," she realized her hug as Brad raised a brow, "For being my friend, when no one else wanted to. For accepting me for my weirdness and joining along, when you felt like you were not being judged at all," she giggled, "I told you that us weirdoes will take over the world one day and now look at us," she made Brad think about it as it seemed to be true. Brad had good momentum going for him as he could possibly be in line for an Intercontinental Championship match, while Desiree was getting married, "I mean, I may not be going back to work, but I feel like we are still taking over the world."
"Desiree," her mother Lauren Harper spoke, "Jon is already walking down the aisle, while the groomsmen are waiting behind the door for all of the bridesmaids. Sami is already with Jon, so Desiree, we need you out there." she instructed her daughter as she checked the hem of her dress, making sure that there wasn't anything that needed to be done last minute to it. Personally, she thought that Desiree looked like a princess and one of the most beautiful women in the world. Her baby girl is now a woman and she disliked to admit that but, Desiree was grown up and suppose, she can let her make her own decisions.
Desiree nodded as she spotted her father in his tux, "You're going to walk me down the aisle," she whispered feel a little emotional, but tried to fight back the tears, knowing that she did not want Leighla doing her makeup, "I didn't think you'd come after everything that has happened between us and Jon."
"I could never stay angry at the both of you," Dustin Harper told his daughter, "I realized that you have finally seen that it was not me that wanted to do those harsh things, but Arnold and I wanted to tell you that for the longest time, but I couldn't because I didn't want to risk your life, but I never realized that I was taking you away from a man that loved you as much as I do. I know, I not the biggest fan of Jon, but he has earned my respect. Now, my job is to give you away to him and hope that I never get you back." he chuckled as Desiree wiped the tear that streamed out of her eyes.
"He won't give me back to you," Desiree responded as she patted her stomach, "He'll give you a lot more than you ever expected."
Desiree
My heart began to beat out of my chest. I stood behind the door as my mother, Brad stood behind me as they checked on the train of my dress. They wanted the whole moment to go better than anticipated and I could not blame them at all. I looked to my side and spotted my father as I linked my arm onto his. I haven't been more nervous in my life, well...ever since this morning, where I thought that my life would end. I was so nervous that I wanted to throw up. Well, I assumed it was me or the little bundle of joy that I still have with me. Jon knew about my pregnancy, but he still yet knew the fate of our child. I figured that I would tell him, during the wedding that our baby is still with us that Arnold did add taking away someone's life to the list of awful things that he done.
"This is the first day of the rest of your life," my mother, Lauren said to me with a bright red smile on her face, "I remembered when I married your father. I was a nervous and emotional wreck. Now, it is your turn to be that, but unlike me, you are handling everything with such beauty and elegance. I knew that your dad and I did a fantastic job with raising you to become like that. It's your turn to raise your own children with beauty and elegance or whatever way you and Jon intend to raise them."
"As of right now, I don't know how to raise our child, but I got about nine months to think about that." I admitted to my parents it as the organ began to play the wedding music loudly as my mother's jaw dropped. I smirked at the thought that I just informed my mother that I was expecting a child, but there was no time to get all the pats on the back because it was now my time to get married!
With my father's arm linked to mine, I walked down the aisle as the seating of people from both sides stood up, getting a better look at me. The whole place was beautiful as it was inside Sleeping Beauty's castle. It looked like a traditional church that anyone would attend every Sunday, but it had the graphics of the movie in the glass. Then, I looked down and there was my handsome groom in a black tux. Sami was stood next to him as the groomsmen were on his side and my bridesmaids were on the opposite side. Jon stood there as calm as possible, even though, I believed that he was shaking on the inside. I loved the fact that he pretended that he was confident about the whole wedding because out of the two of us, there needed to be a brave soul and that was him. I was going to probably be the one that ended up crying in front of everyone. I stood on my side as I looked across from Jon. I mouthed hello to him as he did the same thing as we looked at the priest that was going to marry us.
The priest began,"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today in the presence of these witnesses, to join Jon and Desiree in matrimony commended to be honorable among all; and therefore is not to be entered into lightly but reverently, passionately, lovingly and solemnly. Into this - these two persons present now come to be joined. If any person can show just cause why they may not be joined together - let them speak now or forever hold their peace."
The whole castle was quiet as the priest knew that it was okay to continue, "Who gives this woman to be wed?" he asked as Dustin stepped forward and handed Desiree's hand to Jon's.
"I do." Dustin responded.
The priest said, "I am going to read a passage from 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 and it says: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
I could not take my eyes off of Jon as he did not do the same for me. This was a moment that we would love to remember for as long as we live. We wanted to remember the moment, where everything in our lives was so perfect and so in unity that nothing else mattered, but each other. Jon was my whole world; he was the one man that I could not live my life without. He was the one that had been through it all and I was going to let him know that.
"Now, Jon, Desiree, the two of you have written your own vows?" the priest asked as I shook my head no. What was going to come out of my mouth was coming from my heart and not a piece of paper.
"I'm actually going to speak it from my heart," I said as I held Jon's hands and gazed into his eyes, "Jon, I met you at such a young age. I was so lost in my life and I had no confidence at all. I couldn't even talk to you, but there was a part of me that wanted to know you. However, we ended up getting at the wrong foot, but you regretted the way that you have treated me and you promised that you wouldn't make anyone treat me like that. The way you were with me during the first months we met was a way that I never envisioned a guy treating me. I never had a guy treat me that you have treat me before. I was always overlooked and never to their standards, but you showed me that it was never about appearance, but the human within me. Jon, you never treated me like a monster; you treated me like a human being and then, you treated me like a princess. I thought I had a friend for life with you, but when I came back to intern for The Shield for a second time, it wasn't until you kissed me that I realized that a friendship was not a strong enough word to define our friendship, that there was something that could happen between the two of us. It wasn't until you kissed me the second time that I realized that I was in love with you, but just like any love, you have your setbacks and those killed me. If you would have never came for me at that night in Minneapolis that I wouldn't be standing there talking to you, " the tears were already falling down my face as this was a time that I considered myself to be an open book: exposed and with so much vulnerability, "You went for your heart that night and I loved you for much for it. I loved that you fought for us, when I have already given up. You have given me the best five years of this relationship and now, we have an opportunity to be husband and wife and have a child. A nice, healthy, baby and with two parents that want the world for it. Jonathan Good, I promise that I will be the best wife, friend and mother and make you the happiest man in the world. I love you so much." I wiped the tears away from my face as I was getting emotional.
"Oh Des, stop crying, you're going to make me cry," Jon joked around as he tried to hold back the tears, the audience laughing at the comment, "Man," he was speechless as he wondered, how he would be able to top my vows, "Before I met you, nothing made sense to me. You just had a way of lighting up my day in those dark moments of my life. When I first met you, I was an asshole, but you never stayed angry with me, you found a place in your heart to forgive me and I am forever thankful for that. I know I have never been an open book that you learned bits and pieces about me as life went on, but I appreciated that you never pressures me to open up about myself and that you were very patient about me. There was things about my life that I never opened up to my closest friends that you know about and you never judged me for one moment. During the first months that I met you, I tried my hardest to fight my feelings for you. I thought it was wrong for me to have an attraction towards you because I was thinking about my next stages in the WWE, while you were trying to graduate high school, but I gave into those emotions and I personally did not care what anyone thought about me. I stopped caring during that night in Minneapolis and I just wanted to be with you. I didn't want to be with the stellar beauty that I am looking at right now, I wanted to be with Desiree Harper and only Desiree Harper. Those next five years have been the best five years that I had ever spent with anyone. You have a way of making anyone feel comfortable and you had such of way of getting what you wanted out of people that I was glad that I had someone that wanted me to go wrestle every single day and win championships after championships. You ignited the fire in me in so many ways and I thank you for giving me a chance to chase my dreams, but I am no longer chasing because my dream is right here," Jon began to shed down to his cheeks as Desiree wiped them from his cheeks, "I promise that everything will be better as a married couple. I promise that our child will have a father that loves him or her and that I will tell stories about their beautiful mother and how she never cared about Jon Moxley or Dean Ambrose that she really cared about Jon Good, the man behind those characters. Desiree, I will promise to treat you like a queen and to make you the happiest woman in the world because it is safe to say you have the key to my heart. I love you to death."
I touched the key shaped necklace that Jon had given me about five years ago. I had the necklace and he had the heart, so when the two connected. It would be the key to his heart.
"Now, Jon," the priest said, "Repeat this: I Jon, take you Desiree to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before. I will trust you and respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live."
"I Jon, take you Desiree to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before. I will trust you and respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live." Jon repeated as I smiled at him and wiped my eyes.
"I Desiree, take you Jon to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before. I will trust you and respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live." I repeated confidently as it sounded so effortless coming out of my mouth.
"Now, who has the rings?" the priest asked as Sami Callihan stepped forward with the two rings on a black pillow.
"I have the rings." Sami responded as Jon and I took a ring.
"Jon, now repeat after me," the priest instructed, "I Jon give you Desiree this ring as an eternal symbol of my love and commitment to you." he slide the ring into my ring finger as I smiled.
"I Desiree, give you Jon this ring as an eternal symbol of my love and commitment to you." I said as Jon smiled at me.
"Now, let's join in prayer," the priest said as everyone bowed their heads in prayer, "Dear God, look mercifully upon your children, Jon and Desiree, and be generous with them. Give them a sense of joy, excitement, possibility, and challenge about what they are undertaking here, the ever-unfolding and beautiful work of refining their spirits in the presence of each other's witness, of becoming the bearers of your love. Give them peace of heart and strength of spirit so they may honor the vows they make here today. And may the promises they make here today inspire and instruct each of us who celebrates with them. Amen," the priest finished as everyone said Amen, "By the power vested in me by the State of California, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride."
The whole castle broke into applause as Jon and I had our first kiss as a married couple. Being married to this man was unbelievable to me. This was a moment that I never envisioned in my life, but it happened. For the first time in a long time, everything was great for me. There was nothing in the world that could ruin this moment, I present to you Mr. and Miss. Jonathan Good!" the whole castle broke into applause again as the two of them leaded the way outside of the castle. Finally, they were outside as the two of them connected with another kiss.
"You look so beautiful in that dress." Jon smiled at me as I rested her head on his chest.
"You look handsome in that tux, can't you believe it?" I asked him, not believing that the we are married. It seemed like almost half a decade of build up and the moment had finally arrived with us.
"It's going to take me a while to adjust to everything, but I ready to start my life with you two," he rubbed my stomach as I giggled, "I'm glad that our child is okay because I can't wait to see you!" he talked to my stomach.
"We can't wait to start our lives with you as well." I spoke as Jon and I connected with another kiss.
The feels of this chapter though! I wanted this chapter to be as emotional and beautiful as possible. I thought that making a majority of the chapter in Desiree's point of view would help you guys see things from her perspective. Sadly, the next chapter is the last one out of the Jon and Desiree story and it's going to be a flash forward with their little family. :) Thank you to FPK101, Guest, justkimmy and Angelica Herrera for your reviews! Please favorite, follow and review! :)