Disclaimer: I only own Alexandria Noles (Alex) and a few other lesser characters. Any wrestlers mentioned do not belong to me (no matter how much I wish!!) the only belong to themselves.

Slight jump in time!

Alex moaned and squinted her eyes shut.

"What the hell were we thinking? I mean really..." She whined to Shannon. He was bouncing back and forth between playing with Destiny and looking over the pages in front of him.

"We were thinking that we are in love." He grinned, smuggly, as he shuffled the papers yet again. Alex simply rolled her eyes. The phone rang, breaking up the monotony of Alex's stresses and she rose to answer it.

"Hello?"

"Hey there. I was just wanting to check on ya'll" Gilbert's voice spoke over the line.

"Hey pops. We're fine." Her voice was weary, and he of course noticed it. He chuckled.

"Uh huh. You sure sound like it. Well, you just let me know if you need my help with anything okay? Love ya." With that he hung up, not waiting for her to respond. She hung up the phone and smiled. Still the same father in law she had grown to love 3 years ago. Returning to the coffee table, she sat back down.

"The wonderful world of flowers, colors and dresses. This is a second marriage for us both! Why are we making this a big deal?" Alex's whining resumed. Shannon smiled.

"Honey, I know you are worrying about this, but don't. It is up to you how big of a deal it is. I just want to marry you." Alex pulled her eyes away from the job in front of her and smiled at him. Destiny bounded back over to Shannon carrying a small, pink basketball he'd bought for her.

"Outside!" She demanded, her green eyes sparkling. Her soon to be step father shook his head in a defeated manner.

"You hear this?" He asked Alex, pointing to the small girl that was so bossy.

"Well I guess I am taking her outside. Take a break Princess, okay? We'll work on this after she's gone to sleep." The blonde man leaned over the table and kissed his fiance before heading out to the front yard.

Alex leaned back into the couch and rubbed her eyes, trying to take Shannon's advice. With her eyes closed, she allowed her mind to drift.

Shannon had shown up at the door looking out of sorts, his hands stuffed in his pockets. After a quick kiss, Alex had shot him a confused look.

"What's up?" Shannon only shook his head.

"I talked to Matt today."

"And?" Alex sucked her next breath in and held it, unaware.

"And to say he wasn't happy would be an understatement." He rubbed his hand over his face. Alex walked to him and wrapped her arms around his waist, and rested her head on his shoulder.

"It'll be okay. It's still worth it, right?" The question made Shannon look at her with such intensity, Alex began to squirm.

"Of course it's worth it. I love you."
"I love you too. Matt will get over it." With that, she engaged her not so secret boyfriend in a deep kiss. Pulling back for air, a pair of light green eyes met with blue ones.

"Marry me?"

Alex simply stared at Shannon for a moment.

"What?" Shannon gulped.

"Marry me. Please?"

Her face lit up suddenly.

"Of course!"

That had been over a year ago, and things had only gotten better. But with Shannon's traveling, the actual planning had been put off and put off. Which explained the deadline they had set. The wedding was less than two months away and nothing was planned yet. Not a place, guest list, dresses, tuxes, really nothing. But since he was supposed to have an entire week home this time, they planned on getting a big dent put in the plans. Alex really didn't want to do it all by herself.

She sighed as she stared out at all the papers littering the table. She didn't know when it had gotten so big. Of course, it really wasn't big, but it was bigger than her previous 'wedding'. She and Jeff had just gone to the courthouse.

So far, the two had really only been looking at places and flowers. Alex hoped the rest would fall into place.

A little voice in the back of her mind spoke up.

'It will.'

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