"Caleb!" Hanna squealed, her voice echoing around the church. She threw herself at him over the bench, he reached out to hold her in his arms. "Make things awkward why don't you?" Spencer asked, walking past Hanna. "Here Caleb you can take my seat."
She stood back to let Caleb pass before sitting down on the seat next to Toby, she wrapped both of her arms around one of his.
"Do you get why I couldn't tell you?" Toby asked, leaning his head on hers. "I get it, admittedly I was a little worried. I thought you might of gone off me." She said, a little embarrassed.
"I could never go off you, you're the most important thing in this world to me." Spencer squeezed him a little tighter.
Hanna and Caleb stayed arm by arm, leg by leg and foot by foot during the ceremony, every so often he would squeeze her leg.
I will trust you and honor you I will laugh with you and cry with you.
Toby slid his hand down to hold Spencer's.
What may come I will always be there. As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep.
Their hands grew tighter around each other, as if they couldn't quite get close enough.
These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes, tears of sorrow and tears of joy.
Spencer felt a lump in her throat.
These are the hands that will hold you tight as you struggle through difficult times.
He began to softly stroke her knuckles with his thumb.
They are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, for a lifetime of happiness.
That was the moment she knew he was the one, he was something really special.
They were back standing outside the door after the ceremony, apart from Hanna and Caleb who were still outside.
"Caleb's flight was delayed, that's why were late." Toby explained, leaning against the heavy door, her moved as it was pushed open.
"Caleb! Hey!" Spencer grinned, pulling him in for a hug, Aria and Emily did the same.
"You're back!" Emily exclaimed.
"Yeah, you're not going to get rid of me that easily." He joked, Hanna had really perked up, it was amazing the effect he had on her.
"So where's this reception?" Aria asked, looking at Hanna, even she couldn't help smiling, it was so good to see her happy.
Considering the way the day had started, it had turned out perfectly.
Apart from the fact Hanna now had an evil step-sister, but what did that matter if she had Caleb, right?
"Um, follow our car? Unfortunately I have to go with my dad, Isabelle and Kate." She looked up at Caleb, "Come with me?"
"Of course," he smiled, letting her lead him to a flash looking car parked near the church.
"There's no point of you bringing the truck, leave it here and we'll pick it up on the way back, we'll use my car," Spencer said, looking up at Toby. "Fine, if you let me drive." He smiled down at her.
"Guys, it's freezing can we like get in now?" Aria said, rubbing her arms, the cold, nipping at her skin.
They all walked over to Spencer's car, jumping in quickly.
"How long do we have to stay?" Emily asked as they walked through the hotel doors.
"I don't know, how long until it's not rude to leave anymore?" Aria asked, glancing round at the muddle of people surrounding her.
"Guys, we need to be here for Hanna." Spencer said, walking towards the sign on one of the doors, pushing it open, the room was dark, dimly lit by fairy lights draped around the place. There was a dancefloor layed out, surrounding by tons of round tables, lit only by candles.
"Wow, it's beautiful!" Aria gushed.
Emily screamed a little, they all turned around to look at her. Hanna stood behind her laughing.
"Sorry, couldn't resist scaring her," she said, Caleb appeared out of the darkness grinning. "We're all at this table," she said, walking over to a" table close to the side of the dancefloor. They all sat in their assigned seats, glancing around them.
"Say Han, shouldn't you be at the head table?" Spencer asked, playing with the fork infront of her.
"I did a little switching around of namecards," she said, looking extremely happy with herself.
"Thanks," Emily said to the waiter as he cleared their plates away. Hanna hadn't said much since dinner, the first dance had been and gone and she had just stared numbly at her dad and Isabelle. "Hanna. Hanna's friends," Kate said, standing behind Caleb.
"Which hole did you just crawl out of?" Spencer asked, everyone turned to look at her. Caleb snorted with laughter, desperately trying to turn it into a cough. Kate glared at him, then threw Spencer an icy look.
After a while Spencer decided to speak up again, "No offence but you are terrible at comebacks, looking at me like that won't upset me. So why don't you turn your ass round and walk back into whatever cave you came out of."
She stormed off, the table was left in silence.
That was until Caleb started his slow clapping, the candles lighting up his face showed he was crying with laughter.
"Spencer, I bow down to you." He commented, she grinned at him. The other girls were staring at her, along with Toby who couldn't quite believe the outburst that had come out of her.
"She is going to get you back for that," Hanna stated.
"I couldn't care less, I wasn't having her come over here and make this day any harder for you."
Hanna had to smile at that, "Thanks, Spence."
"I'm going to the bathroom to freshen up," Hanna said, Aria stood up too.
"Yeah, I need to go anyway," Emily added, leaving Caleb, Toby and Spencer at the table.
"You guys want something to drink?" Caleb offered.
"A coke," Spencer shrugged, Caleb looked at Toby.
"Make that two," he grinned. Caleb nodded, walking off in the direction of the bar. Spencer turned her chair to face Toby full on.
"So, when are we going to dance?"
"I cant...dance I mean." Toby said, amused.
"So? Neither can I, doesn't mean we can't try."
"I don't know..."
"Please!" Spencer persisted, "For me?" She pulled a sad face.
"Don't do that."
"Why?"
"Because you know I can't say no to that face," he sighed, shaking his head.
She jumped up, tugging him along with her until they were out onto the dance floor.
Their next movements came very naturally, her arms made their way to his shoulder, while his hands found her waist, pulling her in closer.
"I thought you said you couldn't dance," she said, looking up at him, her chin resting on his chest.
"I can't."
"You look pretty good to me," she smiled, tightening her grip around his shoulders, closing her eyes and leaning into him.
He moves his hands to the small of her back, pushing her against him. After a couple of songs, the music got faster, so they edged their way off the dancefloor, still in the same position until they reached the table.
Hanna was waving about what looked like a key card.
"What's that?" Spencer asked, sitting down on the chair beside her.
"It's the key to our room."
"Oh you guys are staying here tonight?"
"We all are." Caleb butted in.
"What?" Spencer asked, looking around, Emily and Aria seemed to know about it.
"We're all staying in a delux room!" Hanna squealed.
"How did you get that?"
"Dad, he got one for me and one for Kate."
"What are we waiting for then?" Spencer exclaimed.
The six of them crammed into the lift, the room was on the top floor. There were hoots and fits of laughter as they ran down to the room, unpatiently waiting for the key card to unlock the door.
"Oh my God," Aria exclaimed as they all practically fell into the room. They all took a moment to look around, it was extremely impressive. One massive bed that they all probably would of been able to fit on, was in the cente of the room, there was a huge bathroom, hot tub and all, back in the bedroom there was a huge flat-screen TV. There was a knock on the door Hanna ran to answer it, coming back in with six bottles of champagne, struggling to hold them she threw them onto the bed.
"Jeez Hanna," Emily cried.
"What? It's meant to be a celebration." She said, crossing her arms.
"Thought you weren't happy about this union?" Aria said, picking up a bottle and looking at it.
"Even more reason to get drunk." Hanna grinned, uncorking a bottle with little effort.
"Spencer do you not have anything to say about this?" Emily asked, turning to her as if she would be able to make Hanna see sense.
"How much harm can it do?" Spencer shrugged, taking a drink from the bottle Hanna had handed her. Emily shook her head, grinning but still took a drink when Spencer handed it to her.
"Catch me!" Hanna squealed, jumping off the bed and into Caleb's arms. "Oh my God!" Aria screamed, pulling opening the mini fridge and taking out a bottle of whipped cream, she instantly squirted it all over Spencer, who just laughed.
Spencer was less intense, less serious after some alcohol. She swung around, wrapping her body around Toby, taking some cream from her cheek and wiping it across his lips. Before he could lick it off she reached up, pressing her mouth over his, he didn't stop her, sure she was a little tipsy, but he wasn't exactly completely sober at this stage. Aria crept up behind her spraying more cream, in her hair this time and all over Toby. He pulled away from Spencer, grabbing the bottle out of Aria's hands and spraying her back. She yelped, running over to the other side of the room and grabbing a pillow.
A while later, the six of them were covered in cream from the bottle, and feathers from the pillows. They had all collapsed at this time, Emily and Hanna were on the bed, Spencer and Aria were on the floor, Toby was lying on his back on the table and Caleb had taken comfort in the empty hot tub.
Spencer reached up onto the table, pushing Toby's leg out of the way, she grabbed the phone. Ordering six black coffees.
Only moments later they arrived, Aria crawled towards the door, standing up with great effort. She accepted the tray and brought it back in for the others. They all gathered on the bed, drinking their coffees, that was until Emily started choking. Caleb walloped her on the back, something came flying out of her mouth. "What the..?" Caleb muttered.
Toby looked down at where the object had landed by his knee, holding it up the girls gasped.
It was a red plastic A.
I adored writing this chapter, has to be one of my favourites.
Even though I can never re-read my own writing, I find it a little cringy.
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