A/N: I am really thankful to all the readers following this story and extremely grateful to the reviewers GrayFox786 and Shirahane Aikawa for sharing their views about the last chapter.
Note: Context in Italics is Kate's flashback.
Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil or any of its characters, they all belong to Capcom.
Chapter 37
(Kate's POV)
I got out of shower and unlike everyday it wasn't interrupted by Leon, this morning. In past five years, it happened really very rarely if Leon was at home. I walked back to bedroom and found Leon still fast asleep. I looked at the clock it was 7:00 in the morning, if he didn't wake up now, he would be late for work. I walked to his side of the bed and sat by his side. I lifted my hand to shake him out of sleep but instead my hand went to check his temperature. I was very much relieved to find everything fine and then almost involuntary I ran my hand in his hair, and he smiled in sleep, making me smile as well.
"Leon!", I called out shaking him a bit, speaking softly and he hummed, "Wake up or you'll be late for work."
"Sunday… no… work", he mumbled in sleep and that meant one thing he's going to spend the Sunday sleeping. I got up and moved to dressing table and brushed my hair and Leon woke up, "Good Morning", he said stretching.
"Good Morning", I said suspicious about him getting up early for no reason, then maybe I was the one who disturbed his sleep, "I thought you would be sleeping all day", I said looking at him through the mirror.
"I have to meet someone today", he told me getting off the bed.
(Leon's POV)
"Okay", Kate said and left the bedroom, and I smiled after her. I never really understood what she felt for me but I wanted to know what I meant to her. Okay yeah she cared for me but she cared for everybody. It was a universal fact Kate never held grudges against anyone or at least I don't know anyone who is hated by my wife. Keeping those thoughts aside I moved to the wardrobe.
I took my clothes and headed to shower, got out, got dressed and headed downstairs. As I was descending the steps my phone buzzed and I picked it up but I couldn't hear a thing due to static noises. I moved to get out of the house saying, "Hello?"
"Leon, breakfast is ready", Kate called out to me and I looked back she was standing by the dining table, "Have your breakfast and then you can go", she almost commanded.
"I… ", I stopped myself from telling her that I was just moving out to get better reception, but instead I said, "They just called have to go, honey", I lied smiling at her keeping the phone back since the caller already disconnected.
"Okay go then", she said sitting down, "Shadow will eat your Cheese omelet, fully roasted toast with butter and jam", she took a sip from her cup, "Black coffee tastes great!", she muttered audibly setting the cup down.
'Cheese omelet, fully roasted toast with butter and jam', just hearing those names made my mouth water. I moved towards the table and saw a smug smile on Kate's face, 'Hold it Kennedy, its just a trap. Be in your form', I tried to resist. I wouldn't get a good enough opportunity to know what she feels for me, "I am going", I said to her.
"Hmm… okay", she said buttering her toast, "I understand it's important." I turned so I could not watch her eat and then I heard a clunk noise, "Can you pick that up please", Kate said.
I turned and looked where the cutlery was; it was lying at her feet. I bent down to pick the buttering knife and couldn't help but stare at her sexy legs. She cleared her throat and I gave her the knife, "Here", and stood up.
"Thanks", she said smiling, "Aren't you getting late?"
"Hell yes I am", I said but I didn't moved and just watched her eat a buttered toast. She held up the last bite to me and I couldn't help but eat it, and it tasted way better than any toast I have had before.
Kate winked at me smiling seductively and jerked her head to the untouched plate of omelets and the a couple of toasts; she slid the plate towards me, "Why don't you stop pretending and have breakfast, I played your game long enough", Kate said.
"You knew I wasn't going anywhere?!", I asked her in surprise, taking a seat next to her since my act was already busted.
"From the minute you opened your mouth to lie", she said sipping her coffee.
"I always wonder how you do that?", I asked her enjoying my tasty breakfast.
"Do what?", she said pouring me coffee.
"Read me like a book", I replied.
"I am your wife", she only said.
(Kate's POV)
"I have spent five years with you, it's enough to read anybody", Leon mocked me, "I know, I know."
I looked at him, he seemed a bit sad or maybe disappointed, "I don't know", I shrugged, "it's really easy to read you and it always has been. Spending five years with you just made me better at that", I told him staring at my coffee cup, "People say you don't have emotions, you're cold and many things but I know it's not like that. I have seen so many faces of you in past years of our marriage that I wish I could show them."
"Thank You!", Leon whispered in my ear and I turned to look at him, and the peck that was meant for my cheek was received by lips.
Both Leon and I were in deep shock, especially me, since I never saw that coming; he knew that he was kissing me just that he got my lips instead of cheek. We looked at each other for a bit a little lost at words; it was not for the first time that our lips were touching each other's but whenever that happened we just couldn't look at each other and now we couldn't look away from each other. Does this means something changed between us? If it did then the funny thing was I never noticed that, I wonder if Leon noticed that.
Leon leaned a bit and placed a kiss on my forehead and I welcomed that, his love was always welcomed but I wanted him to love me not because I was beautiful, not because I am a good person and definitely not because I am his wife. I wanted him to love me just because he loved me. I was the first one to look away; I knew he didn't love me. I got up, picked up my plate and headed to kitchen saying, "Put your plate in the sink once you're finished."
I spent the morning doing my usual routine cleaning, dusting, giving Shadow a bath, doing laundry and tidying up the house while Leon just watched TV. Finally sometime around noon I moved to do the dishes. I put the pots and pans in the dishwasher and started to clean the plate, cups and glasses manually, just to kill some time. Then dried them up and put them in their proper places. I tried to remember if I was forgetting something, or if there was something else to do, or something else that I should or could do whilst drying my hands on a kitchen towel.
"I am leaving", Leon said from behind me but he didn't move, "You want to come?"
I turned look at him, "What would I do there?", I replied.
"I am going to meet my old friend, we can…", he was saying when the home phone rang, we both looked at the phone. Leon sighed and moved to get the phone, "Hello?", he waited a bit, "Hello?"
(Leon's POV)
"Who is it?", Kate asked filling Shadow's bowl.
"Nobody is answering", I told her.
"Keep it back, must have got disconnected", she said with a casual tone.
"Yeah", I said and was about to put it back when I heard something from the receiver, "Yes", I said keeping it back on my ear.
"Is this Leon S. Kennedy?", a woman asked.
"Yeah speaking", I told her and then I heard a dead tone and I couldn't help but look at the phone a little puzzled at that odd behavior.
"What happened?", Kate asked me looking back.
"The woman wanted to speak to me, but when I told her it was me only, she hung up", I told her keeping the phone back.
"It's Sunday", Kate only said in a tone of realization.
"So what it has to do with her", I asked her confused.
"Well it's nothing unusual, women call every Saturday or Sunday wanting to talk to you and when I tell them you are working or sleeping they just disconnect", she told me walking out to the living room.
"Just like that", I asked her.
"Uh huh…", she said making herself comfortable on the couch.
"Since when we've been receiving these blank calls for me", I asked her sitting by her side as she opened her novel to read.
"Since we got married", she replied casually, "Now if you don't mind I want to know who the killer is."
"It's the neighbor", I spoiled it for her on purpose and she glared at me.
"Leon, this is the second novel which you spoiled", she said closing it and setting it back on the side table.
"I saved you the trouble of reading a couple of 100 pages", I said to her.
"Well those 100 pages were supposed be my time pass for the day", she sort of huffed.
"I can do that", I said and she raised one of her brows at me questioningly, "I mean I am going to meet this friend of mine, come with me, and then I'll take you somewhere."
"Where?", she asked narrowing her eyes.
"Anywhere you want museum, park, movie, zoo…", I said to her.
"The animals would protest the next day when they see that you're out and they're in", Kate said sarcastically getting up and moving towards the stairs.
"Well it's better than being here spending a boring day reading the boring novel", I said following her.
"I hate to admit but I agree with you", she said climbing the stairs.
"Then where are you going? Come with me", I called out to her from the foot of stairs.
She turned at that, "I can't go like this, can I?", she said showing me the dress she was wearing, "I need to get dressed and you too, change your clothes if you're coming with me", she said turning and heading towards the bedroom.
"Yes ma'am", I said and followed her taking two steps at a time.
"So who's this friend of yours?", Kate asked as she picked clothes for herself and I waited for my turn.
"You'd know once we get there", I told her as she sided her dresses to get something, "That one doesn't suit you, you look fat", I told her as she stopped and looked at this light green knee length dress.
Kate turned sharply to look at me, "You notice me?", she asked shocked to hell.
"Well yeah sometimes", I sort of lied since I noticed her every time, well couldn't help it really she dressed so beautifully and always looked gorgeous.
"So which dress looks nice on me", she asked me and I scratched the back of my head, she looked nice in almost everything but then I remembered the dress, which she wore to her mother's birthday party, "leave it", she turned and withdrew a random dress and headed for the bathroom to change, "Please choose something that doesn't look like you're back from work or something. You don't have to tell people you're workaholic they already know that."
I smiled and took out something that doesn't make me look that I am back from work although I don't really know what she meant by that. I changed clothes in bedroom while Kate changed clothes in bathroom. She came out as I was buttoning up my shirt and she spared me a look and picked the clothes I had left on the floor that I was wearing previously and put them back in the cupboard with the dress she was wearing earlier. Her hair were again down, when she went in the bathroom they were up in a messy bun but now they were down.
Kate moved towards the dressing table to style her hair but kept them lose, as I put on my holster and jacket, "Ready?", I asked her pocketing my wallet.
"Yeah", she replied and dumped her cell phone in her handbag, "let's go", she looked at me and then glared.
"What?", I asked her, not having any idea what I did wrong this time.
"I told you not to look like as if you're back from work", she said eyeing my handguns and now I understood what she meant, "Can't you lose them for one minute, you even sleep with them", and before I could answer her she added sighing, "It's okay let's go."
We decided to take Shadow along as always since Kate never felt good leaving him alone, she had to take him everywhere. She loved him more than I loved him maybe. We stopped at a signal and I took my chance to spare her a look, pure white mid thigh length dress having a golden flowery print, sleeveless and having a deep neckline, you can say it was designed to enhance her upper curves. I tore my eyes off her body and looked at her face, she was looking outside thinking something involuntary playing with the heart shaped locket she always had around her neck.
I looked back at the signal and it turned green and I headed for the place, where I am supposed to meet my friend. It was then, when my phone rang and I pulled it out and gave it to Kate saying, "Twins."
"Hello?", she answered on my behalf.
(Kate's POV)
"Kate?!", I heard a confused Leslie on the other side.
"Yes", I told her.
"Oh Leon left his phone and you at home all alone?", Leslie said in fake disappointment, "but fear not sister we'd rescue you from the evil loneliness."
"How very thoughtful of you but Leon is here", I told her looking at him briefly.
"Huh what do you mean? If he's there why didn't pick his phone? What're you two doing exactly that he couldn't pick up his phone?", Leslie asked me teasingly.
"He's driving, we're going somewhere", I informed her, "He gave his phone to me to answer you on his behalf."
"Like on a date?", Leslie asked me and then almost yelled to Jessica, "Jes, Kate's going on a date with Leon!"
"Put it on speaker mode", I heard Jessica say in a tone of excitement.
"We're going to meet his friend", I told them speaking emphatically.
"It's a Date!", they yelled on a phone and began yelling something or the other.
"What're you guys saying?", I asked them; I could hear them say something but it wasn't making sense since they were saying it fast and together not chorusing like usual.
"What happened?", Leon asked sparing me a look.
"They are shouting non-sense on the phone", I told him letting out a confused laugh.
"It's not non-sense!", they chorused together.
"You were saying so randomly I couldn't make a thing", I said to them in a matter-of-fact tone.
"We were giving you dating tips", Jessica said to me.
"Yeah knowing you it's probably your first date", Leslie said.
"It's not", I said to her.
"Ah hah… you are going on a date", they said together.
"Will you two just stop annoying me, please", I said giving up now.
"Can we talk to Leon? After all we called him", they said to me.
"Yeah", I said to them, "Twins want to talk to you", I told Leon.
"Put it on speaker I don't have the headset, right now", he said and I did as I was told, and set his cell phone on the dashboard of car and looked out of the car window.
"Leon, where are you going?", Leslie asked him.
"I am taking your sister on a date", Leon replied and I looked back at him surprised, as the girls laughed like hell on the other end.
"Didn't we tell you Kate", they chorused mischievously.
"Please don't encourage them", I said to Leon annoyed.
"Jokes apart we are just going to meet a friend right now", Leon said parking his car, "And we are here already."
"Aw…", they said disappointed and Leon picked his phone as we released ourselves from the seat belts.
(Leon's POV)
"So tell me, how can I help you?", I asked the twins, switching back to handset mode.
"Well we just wanted to lecture you about leaving Kate all alone during weekend but I guess all those other times of berating is finally worth something", Leslie said sounding hopeful as we both got out.
"Maybe", I tried to be a bit mysterious on the topic.
"Are you really on a date?", Leslie asked sounding as serious as she could.
"No, we are really here to meet a friend of mine", I told her looking at Kate, "but after that we might hang out like a couple", I added in a low voice, so that Kate does not hear it.
"Yay!", they yelled on the other side, "All the best! We won't disturb you now, bye bye", they said together.
"Bye", I said and they disconnected and I kept my phone back in my pocket.
I moved by Kate's side to lead her to the place where I would be meeting my friend, "So who is this friend?", Kate asked me digging in her purse, searching for something.
"You'll know have patience", I told her smiling. We took an outside table of an café, "She could be here any minute."
"She?", Kate asked raising her brow, "So your friend is a woman", she said conclusively.
"Yeah, a really good friend", I tried to poke her possessive side a little.
"So why you brought me along", she asked confused.
"Because twins were not around and you were bored", I replied to her smiling.
"I wasn't bored. I had lots of work to do at home but since you insisted me on meeting this friend so I came along", She said to me, "But since I am not needed I should head home."
"What?! Who said you were not needed?", I asked her confused.
"Look I feel inexistent when we are with your female friends and I don't like that", she said softly and maybe sadly standing up, "I should take a cab home, see you later."
I grabbed her hand made her sit back again, "About that time, I didn't call her… it was just a coincidence", I said to her, "If I would have known Hayley would be there, I would have never ever visited that shop with you", I understood why she was saying all this.
This one time we were out to shop a present for twins' birthday and we had a run in with my one of my ex-girlfriends, who didn't like the fact that I was married. She played to be friendly with us for a bit but she told Kate stories behind my back, almost hinting that she and I are having affair and I was the one who called her there. I didn't come to know that until Kate and I had an argument later, when Kate lost her temper and told me to run to Hayley and even though I cleared everything, of course carrying it in the argument, but because like every argument it ended with the silent treatment and I never knew if Kate believed me or not.
"I know, I am sorry for that day", she said sighing closing her eyes, "I said too much…"
"Hey, I always say too much", I said smiling to her.
(Kate's POV)
"Hey guys sorry to keep you waiting", Leon looked up and I looked back at the familiar sound, it was Claire, "Leon you didn't say, you were bringing Kate."
"He didn't even tell me that we were meeting you", I told Claire, glaring at Leon.
"Well I wanted to give both of you a surprise", Leon said smiling.
It had been quite long since Leon and Claire last saw each other, so they fixed a lunch meet to catch up with each other. We ordered ourselves lunch and talked about a lot of things as we helped ourselves to it. The main topic of discussion remained to be Claire's upcoming birthday, which was falling on Saturday this coming week, "Don't worry, I will definitely be there", I assured Claire.
"Hmm… I know you will be but it's not you I am worried about", she said looking at Leon, who had his PDA out. All throughout the meet Hunnigan kept calling him or he kept himself occupied with his PDA.
"Does he behave like that every time when you guys meet", I asked Claire.
"Umm hmm…", Claire nodded looking bored at Leon, "Is he like that when he's at home."
"No not at all, he just eats, sleeps and if he's early or something then either watches news or some creepy horror movie", I told her and she laughed.
"So he treats home like a hotel", Claire asked although she knew Leon indeed does that.
"Yeah", I told her and both of us looked at Leon, who was sending an email from his phone.
"I know I look cool while working but you ladies can stop staring at me", Leon said looking up at us and just then his phone rang, "Have to get this, excuse me ladies."
"Does he flirt with you too?", Claire asked a bit hesitantly, "I mean I know you and him are not that close but you know…"
"Yes he does", I replied without making her feel more awkward about it.
"Really?", Claire said surprised and I nodded, "Don't you mind him flirting with other woman then?"
"Not really", I told her shaking my head, looking briefly at my husband.
"I am not talking about me when I say other woman. He did flirt with that Miller you know and now she's after him", Claire said in hopes of clearing her question to me.
"Miller?", I questioned I have had heard that name before but I didn't remember where and when.
"Oh yeah right you don't know her", Claire said slapping her head, "Never mind that, just answer my question."
"Well I don't mind really, it's not like there's something between us", I sighed, "plus it's not like he'd cheat on me or anything."
"Well you give him a lot of reasons to do that, you know", Claire said crossing her arms, "I mean it's been five years and I haven't seen you guys even hug, then I guess kissing and sex is a distant thought. He's a man and he has needs; I am surprised he hasn't cheated on you already, if I were him I would have definitely cheated on you or maybe even divorced you. You know before you his girlfriends changed within months or sometimes even weeks sometimes?"
"I know that", I couldn't help but say, everything she said I was aware of them and somewhere deep down I feared for them to happen too, just thinking about them made my eyes water.
"Sorry took so long", Leon said joining us still doing something on his phone, "What are you guys talking about?", he asked looking up from his phone to us one by one.
(Leon's POV)
"We umm…", Claire fumbled a bit but my eyes were fixed to Kate, she seemed upset.
Just then Kate's phone rang, "Excuse for me a moment", she said looking down on her phone and then got up and walked away answering her phone.
"Was she upset about something?", I asked Claire, still keeping my eyes of Kate.
"No I don't think so", Claire said with wave of her hand, "So anyways who do you think is calling her?", she asked noticing that my eyes were still glued to my wife.
"Her boyfriend?", I joked looking at Claire.
"Ha Ha, very funny! Wait till she really has boyfriend", Claire said to me faking a glare, "You both are the same."
"Who?", I asked her.
"You and her", she said nodding her head in Kate's direction.
"Why you say that?", I asked her with an amused laugh.
"Well she doesn't care if you have an affair and same thing for you", Claire said clearly revolted by the idea.
"Isn't that good for me", I joked again and Claire punched my arm.
"Be serious, I am trying to be serious here", Claire said to me, "If it goes on like this you guys might…"
"Did you have the same talk with her?", I asked Claire, with the sudden realization.
"Well I am trying to fix things between you two, you both are my friends and I don't want to see you split up", Claire said concerned.
"Why do you thing, we'd split up?", I asked her back a bit confused. Claire was aware of the situation from the start but she didn't really try to fix things between us like this before.
"Well Miller got me thinking", Claire said a bit annoyed.
"How does Miller come in the picture?", I asked her even more confused than before.
"She came home yesterday to drop off a file to Chris, but he wasn't there so I received her and she recognized me obviously from the Havardville incident and then started asking me all about you", Claire told me and she even more infuriated than before.
"So what, it's not the first time, is it?", I couldn't see what was so unique about Miller.
"Well you kissed her and she's totally into you now", Claire said half scolding me.
"What?!", I almost yelled that Kate looked in our direction, "I didn't kiss her", I defended myself in not more than a whisper.
"Well she said 'the moment his lips touched mine I knew he was the one'", Claire repeated Angela's words.
"What?! That's totally ridiculous", I couldn't help but say revolted at the thought.
"What else does 'touching of lips' here refer to then, you tell me?", Claire asked me a little furiously for the moment and then let out a surprised gasp as if remembering something, "Oh my god! You even took up, her offer of going to diving with her."
"Hey that was a total reflex", I spoke fast keeping my voice.
"Oh really?!", Claire said not believing me, "Who hell says 'love to' in reflex?", she almost screamed.
"Is everything alright?", Kate asked rejoining us.
"Everything's fine", I replied signaling Claire to cut out the controversial conversation here. I didn't want Kate knowing anything about Miller now. I don't know how she'd react to this kiss or diving thing but I don't want to take any risks and make things any worse between us.
"Who was it?", Claire asked her trying to divert her attention.
"Twins", she replied with a sigh, "They think Leon and I are on a date, giving me their advices about the date", she rolled her eyes.
"I didn't know", Claire said smiling at her and looking happily at me, "I am so sorry for ruining your date. I should be leaving now."
"It's nothing like that", Kate said and looked at me briefly, "You know we can't…" she paused to think and then said, "He just brought me along because then I would have been lonely."
Claire looked at me and I nodded in agreement, "Well whatever the case guys, I have to leave now", Claire said standing up, "I have this report pending then other stuff around the house, you know. Thanks for the lunch, Leon and it was really a treat to meet you, Kate."
"You're welcome", I said and she hugged me goodbye and then she moved to give Kate a parting hug and went on her way.
(Kate's POV)
Leon and I both sat down looking at each and I started wondering, 'was it really a date?'
He smiled mischievously as if saying, 'What do you think?'
I gave him a furious look silently saying, 'Don't you play with me.'
He rested his elbow on the table and supported his head on the back of his hand and gave me another mischievous look silently telling me, 'I am not playing.'
'Then stop staring at me', I yelled mentally shooting him with a serious look.
He gave me another smile, 'I am just looking', he told me with a slight tilt of his head.
'Flirt', I said mentally relaxing back on the chair and he relaxed too his smile widened and I tried to ignore that by looking around but the fact that his eyes were on me made me smile.
"Your bill", the waiter startled me a little and we both turned our heads to look at him.
"Thank you", Leon said taking the bill. Leon cleared the bill and we walked away from the café.
I had no idea where we were going so I asked, "So what now?"
"Um… there is a park around here, let's take Shadow there", Leon said smiling.
"Okay", I agreed giving him a suspicious look. I wanted to know what was going up in his mind.
"Shall we walk there?", he asked and I nodded, a little walk never hurt somebody. So we walked through the busy shopping district towards the park. I couldn't help but look at some of the displays as Leon lead the way silently and then I saw something that made me stop dead in my tracks, the jewelry shop where I got my wedding ring and I couldn't stop the memories from flooding my mind.
"What you're looking at?", I literally jumped when Leon had asked me this as I looked at the beautiful wedding rings in the display.
"Umm… nothing much, just looking", I said smiling at him; we were out again with Diana and Max this time they were shopping for their wedding rings.
"This one is so beautiful", Diana said from my side referring to this really beautiful ring, platinum-diamond ring. The rim of the ring was platinum and a five-petal flower was the main attraction of that ring, each petal having a small diamond and another small diamond in the centre, "Gosh, it's really expensive ", she said putting it back, of course with diamonds in it, it must have cost more than 10,000$. She walked away to her fiancé who was browsing other rings.
"So decided to marry some idiot?", Leon asked me casually.
"First I have to find that idiot", I told him and he gave me a shocked expression.
"You don't have a boyfriend?!", he asked surprised and I shook my head, "So there is nobody buying you a ring?"
"No", I said to him and he picked the box of a dummy rings that were used to see if the design looked good or not and placed it in front of me.
"Pick one", he said smiling and I gave him a weird look.
"Yeah pick one", I turned and was greeted by Dad, I had not seen him since my accident so I couldn't help but be more than happy to see him.
"DAD!", I said surprised and hugged him, "How have you been? How's mum, twins and everything?"
"Everything's fine dear", he replied and then he turned to Leon, "how are you Leon?"
"I am fine sir", he replied smiling.
"So Kate, did you pick up one ring?", Dad asked.
"Are you serious?", I asked with a confused laugh.
"Yes I am, you need to get married that are the new orders", he said giving me my file.
"Good joke", I tried to laugh but Dad seemed serious, "Really?", and he nodded in reply and I looked at the file and it confirmed it.
"As you both know the attacks on them are increasing, and at this rate she cannot get married and her father don't want to upset her by cancelling her wedding. So you two act as decoy on their wedding day, so that their marriage can take place peacefully", Dad told me as I read the file.
"I can't do this", I said plainly, "I don't accept."
"Are you afraid of risking your life", Dad asked me.
"Risking life and playing with it is different", I said to him, "You are asking me to play with my life, marriage is no small thing what if something went wrong…"
"You just have to pretend", Dad said reasoning with me.
"I have a bad feeling about it", I said speaking out my fears to Dad, hoping as a father he'd understand.
"Agency have no place for Agents relying on intuitions, that too silly ones", Dad had said in a firm tone of a superior, "this is the new order, you have to get married whether you like it or not, you already accepted this mission so you can't back out now. As you already know Wedding is to take place a month and half from now, be prepared both of you. All things will be set you just have to show up."
With that dad left, "I'll just talk to him", Leon said and went after him. I saw him trying to reason with dad for hours but Dad was really stubborn to listen to anyone, at last Leon had to give up and we didn't talk until the next day when we were given the new heads up about the wedding and mission.
"Dad do we really have to do this?", I asked him on the day of the wedding.
"Yes Kate, the intelligence reported they'll be attacking during the wedding, so we can't risk the lives of civilians, just get ready it would be matter of few minutes before they attack", Dad replied. I sighed and changed into the white beautiful bridal gown. There were two makeup artist who did my makeup and I waited before the ceremony could begin. I walked to the mirror and looked at myself.
Every girl dreams big about her Wedding and here I was, playing with it. I looked really good I knew but I knew the guy I am fake-marrying won't say a thing, he had a girlfriend. I tried to tell myself that it was all a play but it all felt so real. A knock on the door pulled me back from my thoughts, "Come in", I said wiping my tears.
"It's me", Leon said getting in the room.
"I am here", I told him since I was hidden behind a room divider. His heavy footsteps moved in my directions, "Nervous?"
He shook his head, "Just wanted to see you, thought you'd be nervous", he said smiling and I turned and smiled at him.
"I am not nervous, it's just that… I am having this inevitable feeling that something is bound to get wrong", I said sighing.
"Liar", Leon said and I opened my eyes to look at him, "Calling intelligence report your intuition", he said taking it lightly.
"I am not talking about that attack", I said I tried to read him, he had the same fear in his eyes that I had in my heart, "I don't know I just keep having this feeling that something really bad is about to happen…"
"… and that something will ruin everything", Leon completed me and I nodded.
A tear streamed down my face ruining a bit of my makeup, "I ruined my makeup", I said getting rid of the tears and giving a touch up to my makeup, once again I stared in the mirror, "I wish mum could see me like this", I said to Leon trying to smile.
"Well she can", we turned and it was Dad standing there looking at both of us, "C'mon pose for your mom", he said and we both declined and then Dad tried to cheer me up and convince me that my fear will only be a fear and nothing's going to happen. In the end it was Leon who cheered me up.
"If we ended up marrying each other, it wouldn't be a total loss", Leon whispered to me when the pastor was giving his blessings, after we had taken our weddings vows..
"You have a girlfriend!", I reminded him.
"Not anymore", he replied, "broke up with her more than a month ago, she thought I was cheating."
"So sad", I mocked him. Then we put rings in each others' finger, fake rings not too expensive and I gave him a furious smile since he was not keeping his hand steady for me to put ring on his finger.
"I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride", the pastor said and we both gave each other a weird look, shaking our head in a no and then before I could know, he was again saving me.
A/N: Thanks for reading. I hope you liked the chapter and enjoyed it, even though it was really lengthy but I couldn't cut it short anywhere. I apologize for any sort of inconvenience caused due to my typos or poor grammar.