Lillian's P.O.V.

I woke up the next morning in my own bed beside Cam just like every other day. I felt him kiss my cheek. "Morning" I mumbled groggily, rolling over to face him.

"Morning." I sat up and rubbed my eye with the back of my left hand. Something scraped up against my eyelid.

"Son of a-" I pulled my hand away and inspected the source of pain. A silver band wrapped around my ring finger, its pale blue stone glittering in the morning sun. It took my tired mind a minute to process my memories of last night. He pulled me back down to the bed, keeping me close to him. "Hi." I giggled, now fully awake. "How long had you been planning this?" I held my hand up, letting him know what I was referring to. His cheeks flushed.

"Let's just say I've had that since around new years."

"So two weeks ago had absolutely nothing to do with it?" I hated asking but I had to be sure that an unplanned pregnancy wasn't the deciding factor.

"Of course not." He assured me, his eyes not breaking contact with mine. I was fortunate that he was a terrible liar, it made it easy to be sure he was telling the truth. "Is it still a yes?" I pressed my lips to his.

"Of course it's a yes." I laughed. "Stop being dumb." I pulled him in closer, not wanting to let go of my fiancee.

"So." I rested my head in the crook of where his shoulder met his chest.

"So?" He asked curious, lifting his head up slightly from the pillows.

"So, you waited to tell Howard, don't you think you're going to pay the price?" He groaned.

"Don't remind me. It'll kill him to know that Laney knew about my plans before he did." I suppose he had to get me up to the mountain without raising suspicion and Laney and Georgia would've been the two most eager to do it.

"You're in trouble." I teased. He propped himself up on one elbow, looking up at me.

"So." He said this time.

"So, what?" I prompted.

"So, don't we have to plan things?"

"Oh, yeah." I muttered, not knowing where to begin. Every detail just seemed to be connected. Flowers, food, guests, location, music, theme, cake, and date. The actual date of the wedding would be the most pressing thing. It would have to be soon, but with enough time to plan. I didn't want to grow out of my dress. I groaned, pulling the sheets up over my face. "Not now. Just let me enjoy my engagement before giving me that chaos induced headache." He chuckled and pried the sheets away.

"How about this; we do one thing today." I arched an eyebrow, asking him to continue. "We just tell everyone." That didn't seem too hard, at least not for me.

"Everyone including: Howard, Vaughn, Chelsea, Phil and Ash?" He froze at the last name I listed. "Cam, you have to tell him. Don't be that guy." Ash had pissed me off but I had forgiven him a long time ago. I still tried to be kind to him in passing, even if he didn't feel like talking to me much. "If you don't talk to him now you'll never forgive one another."

"Fine." He groaned, clearly unhappy that I was right. Ever since Ash confronted us both he and Cam had avoided one another like the plague. I knew I had to be the one to tell Phil, which would be difficult as well, but that was my issue to tackle. Ash was all on him.


"You're what?" Howard slammed his hands down on the table. "When did this happen?" He looked at me, waiting for an answer.

"Last night." I admitted sheepishly.

"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" He whined.

"Congratulations. I'm so happy." Laney pulled me into a hug. "I knew this would happen."

"Yeah, it's almost like you two had this whole thing orchestrated." I said drily, teasing the blonde.

"Laney!" Her father chastised. "Did you know about this?" I saw the color drain from her face.

"Well. . .technically yes. But we were worried that you might spill the beans if you were in on it." She nervously explained.

"I would not!" Howard gasped.

"Howard," Cam interjected. ", you aren't the best at being discrete."

"That's not true!" Howard objected. Based on his expression change something told me we all shared a similar blank stare. "Well, fine." He pulled me away from Laney, lifting me up off the ground in a hug. "I'm just so happy for you two." His hug was tight enough that it started to restrict my breathing. "Cameron, if you make Lillian cry you're in big trouble." This wasn't the first time I had heard anyone use his full first name. It was still an odd thing to hear. The large man set me back down, just in time for me to be pulled into a third hug. This time I was safely back in Cam's arms.

"I'd never do anything to hurt her." I felt my face heat up.

"So, out with it. When's the wedding?" I looked over at my soon to be sister who was eagerly awaiting an answer.

"I," I my eyes flashed to Cam, hoping for an answer. I only received a small shrug. ", we don't really know."

"Do you need any help planning it?" I nodded. "Then dad and I will help with whatever you need us to."

"Thank you Laney." I smiled. "Thank you Howard." We chatted for a while before Cam spoke.

"I'll be back in a little while, okay?" He whispered to me. "I've gotta take care of something." He announced. I tightly squeezed my fiancee's hand, knowing what he was going to do.

Cam's P.O.V.

"Hey." Ash didn't turn to look at me. He just kept his eyes on his animals. It took him a minute to speak.

"Hey." His voice was cold.

"How have you been?" That probably wasn't the best thing to ask but it just slipped out. It was weird not having him in my life for so long. But talking to him like this was unpleasant.

"Good, not that you care too much."

"Why would you say that?" I knew the answer but I still asked.

"You haven't talked to me in six months. Clearly you didn't care." I could hear the anger in his voice.

"I haven't talked to you because you kept ignoring me." I had given him time to cool off but after that, any time I tried, he still wouldn't talk. Eventually I took the hint and gave up.

"I ignored you because I was hurt." He still kept his back to me.

"Are you still hurt?"

"Obviously." He added. "But not about Lillian." At least he was over that.

"I'm sorry I've been avoiding you, I was just, afraid." I left out the part about being hurt by his selfish behavior, realizing that it wouldn't help me any.

"Afraid?" He finally turned to face me. "Afraid of what?" His eyes narrowed.

"Afraid that you wouldn't forgive me." I scratched the back of my neck. "And that I'd lost my brother." We both made mistakes but I didn't want to lose my only sibling. My stomach churned more and more as the conversation went on.

"And ignoring me was going to prevent that?" He laughed bitterly. "Why'd you even come here?"

"To make sure that didn't happen." Although his expression changed slightly, I got no response. After a moment I spoke again. "I also wanted to invite you to my wedding." I said quietly, unsure of how he would take it.

"What?" His eyebrows disappeared under his hat and his face was blank. I couldn't figure out how he was feeling.

"Lillian and I are engaged. And I'd really appreciate it if you were there."

"Wow." He gave me a vacant look. "Seriously?" I nodded. "Well I'll be dammed." He took a seat on the fence. "So, you really are straight then?"

"God damn it." I cursed. I was not expecting a joke of all things. "So, are we. . ." My sentence trailed off, unsure if the joke meant he forgave me.

"Yeah, we're good." He punched my upper arm with a great deal of strength. I had forgotten how strong he was. "Well, good enough." I'd take it. There was a lot of work we both had to do, but being okay was a good starting point.

"Good." I smirked. "If you don't mind me asking, how did we get 'good'?"

"Laney helped me see how wrong I was. But you coming here, it made things a lot better." He gave me that same dopey grin he'd given me hundreds of times before. "Sorry I was a dick." He held his hand out.

"Sorry I was an ass." We shook, reaching a mutual agreement.

"Should I, uh, apologize to Lillian?"

"I'm pretty sure she understands, but if you want to you can. She's back at the café." I felt a little guilty leaving her alone with Howard and wedding plans.