Ch. 37 Big Bro's, Wedding Plans and the Ex Oh My!
(OWEN)
"Dude if you look this nervous before just a dinner you're gonna be a wreck on Sunday." Adam says to me as I pace anxiously near the front door.
"Sunday is the easy part tonight is the hard part. On Sunday all I have to do is getting married to Clare and I've wanted to do that since before we were even dating, tonight I'm asking permission to do so from her three sort of adoptive older brothers. Clare and I weren't even friends a few months ago and now we're getting married. Granted the circumstances are fairly extreme but still. I barely know Peter and I've only met Spinner once and I kind of know Jay but the last time I saw Jay we were hunting down some guys that had plied Clare with alcohol hoping to sleep with her. What if he doesn't think I can take care of her or…"
"Dude!" Adam cuts me off. "Chill will you it's going to be fine you don't need their permission to marry Clare."
"No but they're kinda the only family Clare has left and I'd like to start out my life with Clare without them all hating me." I reply.
"I really doubt they're going to hate you and we're all here, besides you're making a good impression having the dinner at your house and sending a limo to pick them up." Adam says.
"You sent a limo?" Clare's soft voice echoes down from the stairway.
Adam and I turn to look at her and my breath catches in my throat at the sight of her. Bianca and Tris did her hair and makeup; it's subtle but extraordinary and only enhances her natural exquisite beauty. She's wearing a lavender dress that simply flows over her curves and comes to her mid-shins, it has those really thin straps as sleeves and two layers, the top layer is see through and the bottom layer solid and she looks amazing. Like a princess or some ethereal fairy and I just think how incredibly lucky I am to have her in my life at all. Drew comes over from the kitchen and Bianca comes down the stairs with Tris. All of us guys are dressed in suits and Bianca's wearing a red dress. Clare comes over to me, I take her in my arms and kiss her softly until the doorbell rings and I jump breaking us apart. After straightening my suit jacket I open the door and smile nervously at Jay, Paige, Emma, Spinner and Peter. Everyone comes in and hugs Clare then we walk them into the great room before introductions begin.
"Peter, Emma this is Owen." Clare introduces us, Emma hugs me and I shake Peter's hand. "The rest of you know Owen, Adam, Bianca and Drew this is Owen's brother Tristan, his parents Wendy and Eric and Adam and Drew's parents Omar and Audra." Clare finishes the introductions and everyone hugs or shakes hands.
Mom has appetizers out and the girls start eating and talking, I get some help from Drew and Adam to get Jay, Spinner and Peter into the family room. Bianca says she'll help Clare tell Emma and Paige why they're here while I talk to the guys and Drew and Adam say they'll wait nearby in case things turn bad which doesn't exactly instill me with confidence.
"Nice house you have here Owen, you put us up in a nice hotel, send a limo for us so what's going on?" Spinner inquires in a harsh tone when the three of them are seated on the sofa.
"What's up is I'm in love with Clare, deeply in love with her, I care about her more than anything and I would do anything for her. Clare means the world to me and I asked you all here tonight because you're all very important to Clare and you're like her family, really the only family she has now. I would like to ask for your permission to marry her." I tell them managing to hold my composure but inside I'm shaking.
"Don't you mean our permission to ask her?" Jay queries with a cocked eyebrow and a protective tone.
"No I mean your permission to marry her, like on Sunday because it's happening." I tell them.
For a minute they just all stare at me shocked speechless, eyes wide but their mouths in thin hard lines. The thought occurs to me that they might just stand and start hitting me or storm out to the great room and take Clare away with them.
"MARRIED?!" Peter exclaims.
"ON SUNDAY?!" Jay yells.
"SHE'S ONLY SIXTEEN!" Spinner hollers.
"If you got her pregnant…" Peter starts and I cut him off.
"She's not pregnant, we've been very safe. I know we've only been dating a short time and before this summer we weren't even friends but I am so in love with Clare that it hurts and I have been since long before we were dating. I'm not perfect but I would die for her and I will always treat her like a princess, you can see that my family has money and I'll give her the life she deserves and anything she wants. I love her more than anything and will do anything in my power to keep her from pain. Clare is the most amazing person and I am grateful to even have her in my life and I promise you I will work very hard to make her happy every day." I profess to the three older boys.
"I know that you love her but if she's not pregnant then why the rush to get married, why not wait until say after Clare graduates from University?" Spinner asks.
"Dude you got married to Emma during a drunken night in Niagara Falls you can't exactly throw stones here." Peter points out and I smile a little.
"You guys know about her parents?" I ask.
"Yeah Jay's been keeping us up to date," Peter says and Spinner nods in agreement.
"Well after her dad totally gave up on her and moved to Australia her mom decided Clare should move back in with her. She didn't ask Clare she just decided, sort of demanded and Clare wasn't ready to move back in with her mom. Clare doesn't completely trust her mom yet and she's afraid of her mom slipping again. Clare tried to talk to her mom, tried to reason with her and make her see that Clare needs to be here with us, with me but her mom didn't listen she just flipped out. Helen went to see a lawyer and she's trying to get my parents custody revoked and she's trying to sue them. Helen expects Clare to be back in her home by Monday and we could take her to court and try to get Helen declared as an unfit parent but more likely than not the judge would rule in Helen's favor and if Clare is forced to live with her mom again…" my sentence trails off into horrible possibilities that I have in my mind, I take a deep breath before continuing. "The only way we can be a hundred percent certain that she won't is for us to get married. Clare's sixteen she won't need her parent's permission and she becomes emancipated. I know it's kind of a shotgun wedding, that it seems like we're rushing things but I promise you all that every day of my life will be about making her happy and I am so very very in love with Clare and that's what makes me so sure that marrying her will be the best thing to ever happen to me."
There's silence again for a minute as the three of them look at me, then exchange a look with each other and then back at me. Jay stands up putting his hand on my shoulder and looking in my eyes.
"Well I've seen you guys together and I know how in love the two of you are and I know you will do anything to protect her. You have my permission but take good care of her and if she ever shows up on my door step because you hurt her know that I will hunt you down." Jay tells me and shakes my hand.
"I know and thanks Jay," I smile.
"Peter's right I married Emma during a drunken night and we weren't exactly friends in school either, of course we'd graduated by then too. Anyway I don't know you very well but I've seen how much you love her. Just be good to her and make her happy and like Jay said if you ever hurt her the three of us will kill you." Spinner tells me standing up to shake my hand.
"Well I haven't seen you and Clare around each other much but I have seen the way she looks at you and the way you look at her so if you make her happy and you take care of her then you have my blessing. And just remember when you have that first big fight and you're stubbornly trying to get your way that if her heart gets broken or you make her life hard and full of pain then the three of us will personally kill you." Peter says as he stands and shakes my hand.
"I swear to all of you I will never personally do anything to cause her pain or bring tears to her eyes and if anyone else does I will hurt them. We should probably get back out there I think dinners almost ready." I tell them quickly as I really don't want any more threats on my life.
The four of us walk out, Drew and Adam are still waiting for us and Drew and I fall behind the others by a few steps as he pats my back.
"Man that was the sweetest, most romantic proclamation of true love I've ever heard. Brought tears to my eyes, really man it was beautiful." Drew teases pretending to wipe tears from his eyes.
"Dude shut up!" I shoot back shoving him playfully.
We enter the great room, Clare is being hugged by her brothers, Emma and Paige come over to me hugging me at the same time.
"Congratulations we're happy for you guys, shocked but happy and Clare told us how in love you are and she's happier than I've ever seen her." Emma tells me.
"I've seen how in love you are and Clare went on and on about how much you mean to her." Paige smiles.
"Thanks it means a lot to us to have you guys here." I reply.
Emma and Paige walk away from me and back to their men, Clare comes to my arms, I embrace her as her arms go around my neck. She smiles up at me, her eyes sparkling and our lips meet.
"I love you," she says softly.
"I love you too," I reply.
"Dinner's ready," Mom announces.
I keep an arm around Clare and we walk to the dining table Dad and I put the extensions in earlier and brought in the extra dining chairs. Everyone sits and begins serving themselves, dinner is entirely taken up by the wedding on Sunday and the bachelor and bachelorette parties for me and Clare that apparently Drew, Adam and Bianca have been planning for tomorrow night. After dinner we all go out to the yard to relax before dessert, the night is warm, Paige, Jay, Peter, Spinner and Emma sit around the pool with me and the rest of The Fab Five.
"So how'd you two get together anyway?" Paige asks.
"We've gone to DeGrassi together for a couple of years but we weren't friends. A week into summer I was at this party in a bad neighborhood and I was surprised to see Clare there. She was getting pestered by this drunk idiot wearing a bright pink wig so I pretended to be her boyfriend and made the guy vanish. I took her out for pizza and offered her a deal, her parents had gone insane and they didn't care at all what happened to her but they didn't want her to spend all summer in her room so I offered to take her to parties and events and keep her safe. If anyone bugged her I could pretend to be her boyfriend again and her part of the deal was to pretended to be my girlfriend at a family dinner and some other family obligations that summer. My family still doesn't know she and I weren't really dating when they met her." I inform them as my family is inside with Mr. and Mrs. Torres cleaning up.
"That's the oddest cutest story I've ever heard." Emma smiles.
Clare smiles at me and we share a kiss as Mom brings dessert out to the deck. We all stand and go up to the deck, by the time we're done with dessert it's pretty late and three of the people here have spent most of the day driving. We all say goodnight; Emma & Paige make plans to go dress shopping tomorrow while Jay, Spinner, Peter, Adam, Drew, Tris and I are going to rent tuxedos. Bianca, Mom and Clare already have their dresses although Clare hasn't let me see hers. After saying goodbye to the Torres family and Bianca Clare and I retreat to our room and get ready for bed.
"Well that went better than I could have hoped," Clare says as she gets in bed and cuddles up to me.
"Yeah your brothers didn't murder me although they threatened to if I ever hurt you, which of course I won't and we have their blessing," I comment wrapping her in my arms.
"Their blessing? Is that what you were doing when you took Jay, Spin and Peter to the family room?" She asks.
"We're doing this fast but we're going to do it right and I wanted to get their permission." I tell her.
She props her head up on her hand and smiles at me. "I love you."
"I love you," I smile just before our lips meet. She pulls away to yawn and lies her head back on my shoulder. "Get to sleep we have a long weekend ahead of us." I tell her kissing the top of her head.
She yawns again, her arm drapes across my chest and within a few minutes we're both asleep.
(CLARE)
I wake up before it's even light outside, I should still be sleeping but I have way too much on my mind to sleep. I'm excited and happy, anxious, nervous and scared to death all at the same time. The excited happy feelings are because tomorrow I'm going to be marrying Owen. The anxious part is worried, fretting actually that in so short a time to plan we've forgotten something. I'm nervous that something will go wrong and scared to death that my mom, Eli or even Alli might try and stop the wedding.
Carefully and quietly I slip out of Owen's arms and the room, tiptoeing out to the kitchen where I turn on some lights so I can see and make myself a cup of coffee. Then I go up to Wendy's office and get the basket that she's keeping all of the papers and everything else concerning the wedding in. I take it down to the dining table, fix my coffee and sit down to go over everything, again. Halfway through my cup of coffee and while going over the list of things we need for the hall we're getting married in hands caress down my arms and lips are pressed against my cheek.
"It's five in the morning what are you doing up?" Owen yawns as he sits down next to me.
"We're getting married tomorrow, what if we missed something or forgot something? What if my mom finds out? Or Eli? They ruin the wedding; they'll try and stop us. What if they succeed? What if my mom does something or…"
Owen puts his hand behind my head and compresses his lips to mine, silencing me and forcing me to take a breath. Since proposing to him a few days ago he's been doing this a lot lately, pretty much every time I start rambling or going neurotic. Not that I'm complaining, of all the ways to calm me down this is my favorite. When I'm fully relaxed he pulls his lips away and brushes a curl behind my ear as he smiles at me.
"Sweetness relax, you, my mom, Tris, Bianca and me have been going over every detail of this wedding for the last two days and I know it's not a lot of time but I promise you the wedding will be nothing but perfect. Anything you want you just ask and I will do everything I can to make it happen you know that so please stop fretting so much Sweetness you're going to make yourself sick before the wedding." He insists to me.
"I know I'm sorry but we've had just a few days to plan an entire wedding and most people have months. My family isn't going to be there and we're lying and hiding it from most of our friends and I know I want to marry you but I just feel like there's so much to do and plan and thi…"
He cuts me off with his lips again and I take deep breath relaxing into the kiss.
"Breathe Sweetness," he reminds me.
"Sorry I know I'm being a little crazy," I say and he raises his eyebrows at me, "okay a lot crazy are you sure you want to marry me? I mean this could just be a taste of what's to come I may go completely and totally insane one day."
"I'm very sure, never been more sure of anything in my entire life and I will still be madly deeply in love with you even if you do go totally insane one day. I'll be sure to get you into the best nut house and bring the kids to visit you every week." Owen jokes.
I smile and link my arms around his neck. "Kids huh?"
"Oh yes tons, I want lots of little Owen's running around and they're all going to be just as protective of their mom as I am. And of course lots of little Clare's that are just as gorgeous and sweet as their mom with her beautifully angelic blue eyes, cherub face and heart shaped lips and of course no boys will be allowed near them because their brothers and me will kill any male set of eyes that even look at them." Owen tells me.
I bite my lip and move a little closer to him. "And just when are we going to have all these kids because I'm fairly certain that if I get pregnant before I graduate from University Peter, Jay and Spinner will murder you." I point out.
"After University of course when we're both successful in our own careers and not mooching off my parents," he tells me and I sigh thinking about how much this wedding is costing Wendy and Eric.
"Maybe it's too much I mean the caterer and the flowers, the hall we don't need all of it. There's only going to be fifteen people at the wedding including us we…"
Yet again he silences me with a kiss, I melt into him, taking a deep breath and the anxiety washes away again.
"Does this wedding make you happy? I know it's quick and not the wedding you've been dreaming about since you were a little girl but does it make you happy?" He asks me.
"Yes," I nod.
"Then don't worry about it okay my parents are happy to pay for the wedding because it makes you happy and I'm happy if you're happy." Owen assures me before taking my lips.
"That's right sweetie we are happy to pay for the wedding so don't worry about it. Given the early hour you two are up I'd say you're worried enough as it is." Wendy says coming down the stairs and ending our kiss.
Eric comes down a few minutes later and we make pancakes for breakfast which brings Tris down the stairs. Wendy, Tris and I spend breakfast going over every detail again and then again just to satisfy my neurotic brain. Owen leaves the table to go shower as soon as he eats and as soon as I'm reasonably certain everything is in place for the wedding I go shower myself especially since we're meeting the girls at the mall in a few hours and we still have to go to the bakery, jewelry store and florist.
"I was thinking roses and lilies or maybe dahlias with…" I'm saying to Owen while getting dressed when he cuts me off with a kiss again.
"I don't care what flowers we have, get anything you want the only thing I care about is that you're happy and I'm marrying you." He tells me.
"I know but this is your wedding too and I don't want you to feel like I'm making all the decisions. I mean I know this isn't going to be my perfect vision of a wedding but you've done a lot to make it as perfect as possible for me and I…"
My ranting goes silent again when he catches my lips once more, he pulls away and smiles at me.
"Clare we could be getting married at the Dot, in our pajamas with you holding a bouquet of red vines for all I care. All the little details are things that make you happy once again the only thing I care about, the only thing that makes me happy is that I am going to be marrying you. The best part about this wedding for me is that by tomorrow night you will be Mrs. Owen Milligan, my wife. I'm happy that my family, our closest friends and your adoptive brothers or whatever you want to call them will be there but the thing that makes me the most happy is that tomorrow evening somewhere around 7:30 I will say I do and you will say I do and from that minute on you will be my wife so please stop stressing Sweetness. My dad, Tris and I going by the hall to make sure everything is arranged, then we're going to talk to the officiator and the caterer. You and mom are taking care of the rest, the guys are renting their tux's today all the girls without dresses are getting them today everything is going to be ready for tomorrow night so do me a favor and just breathe." He instructs.
"Okay I know, I'm breathing and you're right everything's…wait what about the marriage license?" I question.
"The officiator handles that, it's under control so just relax. Now go with my mom to pick out flowers and whatever else and I will see you at the rehearsal dinner tonight." Owen says capturing my lips for one more quick but loving kiss and he leaves.
I finish getting ready and meet Wendy in the great room, she has a clipboard and binder and we go out to her car. To my surprise our first stop is the bank but I follow Wendy inside.
"Mrs. Milligan how nice to see you," A tall man in a suit greets us; his shiny name tag says he's called Chance.
"Hello Chance I want you to meet Clare, she is marrying Owen on Sunday and Eric and I want to add her to the family account and order a credit and debit card in her name." Wendy announces with her hand on my back in a motherly gesture.
"It's very nice to meet you Clare you must be quite a girl to have tamed Owen. Please come into my office and we'll get this all set up." Chance says shaking my hand.
"Wendy are you sure about this?" I whisper to her as we follow Chance.
"Of course we are dear you're a part of this family," Wendy replies taking my hand and I smile at her.
After I'm added to the family account and they order me my own cards we leave the bank and drive to the Bakery, I decide on a cake with alternating layers of vanilla and dark chocolate cake, with whipped cream and strawberries in between the layers and cream cheese frosting because I detest butter cream. Simple round stacked cake since it has to be ready by tomorrow night but they promise me to make it beautiful. After the bakery it's on to the florist and after much debate and talk with Wendy I decide on roses, primroses and violets which are the flowers for mine and Owen's birth months. The archway under which the wedding party will stand will be decorated with ivy and the flowers, my bouquet will be red and white roses with violets and the men's boutonnieres will be white roses with ivy and babies breath.
Finally we stop at the jewelry store so I can pick out Owen's wedding band. We talked a lot about wedding rings, we couldn't wear them at school and we considered not even getting wedding rings until after everyone knows that we got married. But we decided we wanted them anyway and each of us agreed to trust the other in picking out our rings and making sure we had each other's ring size. We both agreed that we didn't want yellow gold or large stones but anything else was fine. After looking over the selection I decide on a simple platinum band.
We leave the jewelry store and finally meet the other girls at the mall for lunch at the Italian restaurant; thankfully Paige and Emma shop quite well together and already have their dresses. Bianca's maid of honor dress is sapphire blue and Emma found the same style of dress a shade lighter. Paige opted for a light pink dress and tomorrow all of us girls would be getting our hair and makeup done before the wedding. After lunch Paige and Emma take me to lingerie store to get something for the wedding night while Bianca and Wendy leave to make sure everything is set for the bachelorette party.
"How about this," Emma smiles pulling a red teddy from the rack.
"Even that couldn't make you sexy enough to attract Owen's attention." Comes the nasty nasally voice of my former female best friend Alli.
We briefed everybody last night on how this wedding was a secret so I know Paige and Emma won't say anything. We also briefed everyone on Eli and Alli's behavior and hateful attitude toward us now that Owen and I are dating. Emma and Paige both stand a little taller and stiffer when Alli insults me.
"Funny Alli because I not only have a boyfriend but share his bed every night and last time I checked you were still pathetic and lonely." I snap back at her.
Emma and Paige laugh while Alli glares at me with extreme hate.
"I bet you have to do it doggy style so he can't see your face. I'm sure that he doesn't think about you at all during sex, I bet you anything he thinks about me." Alli barks back, each of her words oozing with venom.
"You? Are you joking?" Paige scoffs. "Clare has more sex appeal in her little finger than you do in your entire body."
"Yeah dressing like a hooker is not attractive, especially when you dress like a ten dollar one." Emma retorts.
"Yeah well Owen will drop you when he sees what he could be having!" Alli growls sounding just slightly insane.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I inquire.
"You'll see or rather he will," Alli replies.
"You are super pathetic, we've seen some pathetic behavior in our time, hell Emma and I did our share but you take the cake. I mean pining over a guy that's not only taken but very obviously in love with Clare." Emma states.
"He is not, he's trying to make me jealous need I remind you he wanted me so bad he tried to pay me for a blow job?" Alli says in a haughty tone with a self satisfied grin.
"Once Alli, last year on Vegas night while you were fighting with Drew because he made a mistake and as I recall Owen gave up because you were too much trouble. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe he's even looked at you since then and Owen is not the same guy he was last year. You know nothing about Owen, his family; you don't even know where he lives. You only want him because I have him but he will never want you." I retaliate with matching venom in my words and my own smug smile.
"She just admitted to being a whore, one that the guy gave up on." Emma laughs at Alli.
"Listen you little snub nosed twat, Clare unlike you is a lady of class and grace and she got a great guy like Owen to fall in love with her because of it. I think Clare is right and you're only set on having Owen to steal him from Clare because in your pathetically twisted little head no guy could possibly fall for Clare over you. Honestly I don't see how any guys could fall for you at all. Although you're somewhat cosmetically pretty you're rotten on the inside, truly rotten and a terrible person and it makes you grotesquely unattractive and come off as petty and desperate. You need to get over yourself because honestly hun you are not that special." Paige states then puts her arm around me and we start walking out of the store with Emma. "Come on I know a much nicer lingerie shop and then we'll meet the others to change before dinner." Paige tells me.
(OWEN)
I was sitting on the outside patio of the restaurant at a long table, we'd reserved the patio to dine in private, we were going to eat hear and then walk down the street to the hall where the wedding was taking place tomorrow night for the rehearsal. All of us men, and I'm including my brother in that, were already here and waiting on the girls. Finally Mom, Bianca, Paige and Emma joined us at the table but my fiancé was missing.
"Where's Clare?" I question.
"Jenna called and Clare wanted to finish the conversation in the car she'll join us in a minute." Mom tells me.
The waiter comes over, we all order drinks, Adam and I argue a bit over what to order for Clare and finally we make a decision. The waiter we leaves the rest of us start talking about what we did today and what will happen tomorrow. Of course Drew and Spinner and Paige and Bianca were discussing the mutual parties tonight. I on the other hand am on the lookout for Clare because I'm certain she should have been off the phone with Jenna by now. I scan through the windows of the restaurant windows searching for her inside and then I see her, not inside but out front and not alone. A figure with dark clothes and dark hair is with her and I know immediately its Eli. I tense up, clench my fists and stand up from the table abruptly causing everyone else at the table to look at me.
"He is not fucking talking to her!" I state and start storming through the restaurant to the front. Drew, Adam, Spinner, Jay and Peter follow me out. "Eli get away from her I told you not to go near her again!" I bark at him.
Clare grabs my hand preventing me from pounding Eli's face into the ground. "Owen not now let's just go eat okay this weekend is very busy and not about him it's about us. Please don't fight with my ex and make any part of this about him." Clare pleads with me.
"So this is Eli the ex, he looks like a punk." Spinner remarks.
"Who the hell are you two and how the fuck do you know Clare? And why is Dot guy back and eating with you?" Eli questions.
"Uh Eli these are Clare's adoptive brothers so I'd watch your mouth." Adam warns him.
"So why are you all here, what's going on?" Eli inquires.
"Dinner Eli we're all having dinner now go away so we can enjoy it." Clare insists and pulls me by the hand back into the restaurant.
The other guys slowly follow and we all sit down again, Clare puts my arm around her and is holding my hand tightly so I know something's up.
"What's wrong?" I whisper to her.
"We encountered Alli today too although between Paige, Emma and I we bit her head off pretty well. Did you guys get all your errands done?" She asks me.
"Yep everything's done, relax and enjoy the dinner and no one is going to ruin our wedding." I insist kissing her gently.
She smiles and is much calmer for the rest of dinner. After dinner we walk down the street to the hall with my arm around her and holding hands.
"Did you know your parents added me to the family bank account and they're ordering me credit and debit cards?" She remarks in a low voice as we're walking.
"My parents love you; they are thrilled to have you in the family and want to make sure that you and we are provided for." I reply.
"But they've already done so much for me," she responds.
"Clare you're part of this family everything my parents do for you is because they love, because I love you and you make me happy." I remind her.
She smiles and bites her lip as we enter the hall, the hall is pretty big and we won't need all the space however the hall is on the harbor overlooking the water and we will be getting married at sunset all of which Clare told me was part of her perfect vision for a wedding. The officiator is here and it's the first time Clare is meeting him. The guests for the wedding sit down including my parents while me, Drew, Adam and Tris take our places under the archway.
"Are you going down the aisle alone or is someone giving you away?" The officiator asks Clare.
"We will," Spinner, Jay and Peter say at once.
"Okay then bridesmaid first, maid of honor next, then you three arrange yourselves to escort the bride down the aisle." He says.
Emma walks down the aisle standing across from Adam, Bianca follows a few paces behind and stands across from Drew and finally Clare's brothers pick her up and carry her down the aisle, they hand her to me and I gently put her down. The officiator waits for Clare to stop giggling before he begins. He goes through the whole we've gathered here speech and then says it's time for the vows; believe it or not even with all the stress of us having two days to plan a wedding we've actually written our own vows. But since we don't want to reveal the vows until tomorrow we don't say them during the rehearsal and just say blah blah blah. Now it's time to exchange rings and as we both got our rings today I have yet to see my ring and Clare has yet to see hers. My ring is a very nice platinum band and I smile at her because it's exactly what I would have picked out.
"Oh Owen it's beautiful," she exhales when she sees her platinum band with three .25 carat pink diamonds in it.
The clerk told me pink diamonds symbolize everlasting love so I thought it was appropriate. The officiator says this is when we kiss so I overtake her lips with mine, when we don't break apart after a few minutes Drew hits me on the back. The officiator goes over the last bits of the ceremony and then it's done.
"In 24 hours we're gonna be doing that for real." I tell her.
"I can't wait," she smiles and we kiss again.
"Okay you'll have lots of time for that tomorrow night; right now we have parties to get to." Drew says pulling me away by my jacket.
"Have fun," Clare tells me as she's being pulled away by Bianca, "but not too much." She warns me.
"Don't worry we got our own strippers Clare," Bianca tells her.
"You what? Hang on what do you mean you got strippers? Bianca!?" I call as Drew, Adam and Jay drag me into the car and are laughing.
"Dude you're going to marry the girl tomorrow and she'll be yours forever let her look at strippers tonight." Adam advises me.
I nod and smile just thinking that in less than 24 hours Clare Diana Edwards would become Mrs. Clare Diana Milligan.
Update soon with a Clowen wedding and wedding night!
Shout out to everyone that wanted Emma and Paige to insult Alli the way she's been insulting Clare