Authors Note: So I was going through the folder I have for this story... And I found an old chapter. Beginning of the story d. So I kinda worked in the main part of the chapter into this one... Because I really liked the old chapter meep.

'What are you doing?' Meg came over with an empty beer bottle plus a few not empty bottles, and sat down next to Erik, Jane, Miley and I.

'We gotta be teenagers and play spin the bottle!'

'Dude it's one guy for four girls!' Apparently sober Meg sucked at math.

'So? That's every guys dream!'

'I'm not gonna play.' Erik scooted out of the half circle and I joined him since I wasn't at that moment into the idea of kissing a girl... Especially Meg.

'Oh come on!' She gave us beers and encouraged us to drink up.

'This isn't going to change our minds.' I took a sip before setting it down next to me, and she groaned.

'Fine!'

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Three more hot guys and seven shots later Meg was kissing some guy named Joseph for twenty five seconds, no more and no less. Spin the bottle with her was weird. 'When she said party I didn't think it'd be a stereotypical high school party.'

'I've been to worse.' I giggled and took another drink of my vodka and redbull thing that I decided was delicious. 'However Meg does have a really good booze stash so it's amazing.'

'That she does. I don't know where she gets it.' Her and that dude finally broke off for air and she squealed white taking a drink of her whatever.

'You two have to play!' We shook our heads and she raspberried us before turning her attention back to the bottle that was spinning on the ground.

'She has the attention span of a two year old.' Erik laughed while standing up, and he took my drink and his before heading outside. 'Bruh give me my drink back.' I followed him out there and he didn't give it back until he was sitting on the diving board. 'Why'd you move out here?' I sat next to him and he shrugged his shoulders.

'Meg was loud- Taylor Swifts music makes me want to vomit and she was going to keep asking us to play so hiding sounded nice.'

'Good decision.' I started nibbling on my straw while I looked up at the sky which was cloudy. 'It's nice out. Cold but nice.'

'Mhm.' He was staring down into his drink, then a couple seconds later he took a drink from his glass. It was quiet, but he started laughing to himself which made me worry for his sanity for a few seconds. 'Watch Anne walk in on them.'

'Ha that'll be funny to watch.' I sneezed which came on without warning and was so hard that I dropped my drink in the pool and Erik got a little off balance. With my hand still shaped as if I was holding my glass I frowned and looked at my cup which was bobbing in the pool. 'Aw.' I leaned forward in attempt to grab the glass from out of the water.

'No lay on your stomach ac-'

'I got it don't worry.'

'You're gonna fall in.' I laughed and shook my head as I continued reaching for the glass, and before I could scream I was in the pool as well. I swam up for air and Erik was laughing while getting off the diving board. 'I told you!'

'Shut up and get me a towel please.' I swam to the edge and started working on getting out of the pool, but my arms were too wobbly. 'And help me out.' He continued inside and tripped a few times on his way in while I managed to forget about the stairs less than ten seconds away from me.

He came back out with towels and a drink in hand. If the drink wasn't for me I was gonna be pissed. 'Why didn't you get out?' He set everything on the edge of the diving board and I frowned.

'Because I can't climb out of the pool.'

'There's stairs like right over there.' I looked to where he was pointing and decided to splash him instead of saying anything. 'Get your ass over here so I can help you out.' He put his hands down low enough for me to grab them and I swam over then took them. He lifted and once I could get my knees over the edge I put some effort into getting out. 'You're pathetic.' I smiled and nodded while laying on the ground, but when I started to get cold I got up so I could dry off. Erik wrapped a towel around me and I thanked him while tightening it.

'I think I might be wet. I can't tell.'

'Just a little bit.' I smiled when he had a second towel and used it to dry my hair off. 'Okay let's go steal some of Meg's clothes.' I dropped the towel so I could take my shirt off and lay it across the diving board to dry, and did the same with my jeans, and since it wasn't the first time Erik saw me in my underwear I didn't think much of it. 'What are you doing?' I looked at him as I resecured the towel around me and his eyes were closed.

'They need to dry. Okay I'm gonna go out some dry clothes on now.' I picked the drink he had brought out with him up and took a sip, and smiled when it was sparkling fruit punch and vodka. 'Yummy thank you.'

'You're welcome.'

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I was pulling a fresh bra over my head when the door opened making me jump and turn around so whoever it was couldn't see. 'Learn to knock!'

'Oh- sorry. I didn't, you're right I should've knocked.' I finished putting the bra on then turned around so I could look at Erik and he had our drinks.

'It's all good.' I walked over and took my drink from him so I could sip on it while looking through Meg's closet to find something to wear. 'Sweats or jeans?'

'Sweats.'

'Kaaaay. Hold this.' I gave him my drink back so I could pull a pair of sweats out of Meg's closet and put them on, then just put on a black tanktop to match the dark grey sweats. 'So what brings you up here?' I took my drink from him and sat down on Meg's bed.

'I wanted to talk.'

'About?' I watched him over the rim of my cup and I felt my brain slipping into stupid drunk the more I drank.

'Stuff.' He sat down next to me and swallowed more booze.

'You're way too descriptive for me.' I covered my mouth after burping and I tried not to laugh but ended up laughing. 'Scuse me.'

'That was impressive.' I blushed and moved my hands around so my entire face was covered up. I hiccuped as Erik moved my hands down from my face and held them for a few seconds. I stared at our hands and he must of realized he was holding them because he quickly set them in my lap and cleared his throat. 'I'm drunk so it makes this easy.'

'If you say one more vague statement I'm going to punch your dick.' He nodded in acceptance and licked his lips.

'...I'm in love with you.' My throat tightened up and I sat flat on my butt as my heart quickened.

'Well that was rather straight forward.' He nodded and I bit my lip. I wasn't sure why I was like... Shocked or anything since the feeling was mutual. 'Are you feeling alright?' I felt his neck to see if he was warm but remembered he was drinking so of course he was going to be warm.

'I'm fine. I mean besides having to put twenty times more effort into speaking okay than usual.' I started chewing on my lip as I tried to figure out if he was messing with me or not.

'You're serious?'

'Yes.' I downed the rest of my drink and set the empty glass on the floor so I could lean over and kiss him. What was there to lose? I smiled the longer the kiss went and felt his hands land on my sides so he could move me closer to him. Finally I moved back and looked at his eyes while rubbing his left cheek.

'I love you too.' He smiled and kissed me this time, except with more urgency than before. He moved me into his lap and I squeaked when he pulled me into his lap so he could fall back onto the bed. I ran my fingers through his hair as his tongue grazed mine which made my body warm up more. 'Wait hang on.' My chest was heaving as I tried to get my brain to work. 'How long- how long have you known you loved me?'

'A while. What about you?'

'Same.' He smiled and pulled me down against his body then ran his hands down to the top of my butt. I opened my eyes to look at him, but instead of seeing him below me in Meg's room I saw white bright ceiling, and I was laying on Erik and I's couch in our apartment and Erik was staring at me. I cleared my throat before talking. '... Hi.' I must of been blushing because wow my cheeks and ears were warm.

'Hey. What were you dreaming about?' He seemed mad almost and I couldn't figure out why.

'Uh- we were at a party and you told me you loved me and we were kissing.'

'Really?' He seemed surprised more than anything at that point.

'Yeah.'

'That's amazing. That happened like two years ago and you just now remember it.' I sat up at the news that- that had happened and he neglected to tell me.

'What? We actually- that day happened? Why didn't I remember it?'

'I was scared to remind you. You were drunk when it happened and I didn't know what I was expecting to happen when I told you three hours into drinking heavy booze, but I was scared you'd laugh and say you didn't actually mean it or something since those types of things are known to ruin friendships...'

'Oh. Well that makes sense...' He got up and sat down next to me then put his arm around my shoulder. 'So the night we were yelling at each other wasn't the first time we kissed or told each other how we felt.'

'Technically.' I slowly nodded while sighing since I was happy to know a couple of our firsts weren't as shitty as I thought they were.

'That's good.' I shifted in my seat so I was hugging Erik's arm and had my legs over his and my head on his shoulder. 'I'd like to think some of our firsts weren't due to anger.'

'Yeah. I probably should've told you once we started dating but I didn't think it was all that relevant anymore, plus I had sorta forgotten.'

'Oh well. Can't change the past.'

'No you cannot... so I found a couple venues that I left up on the computer for you to look at if you'd like.'

'I will. I'm enjoying the cuddling right now though.' He took my hand and put it across his chest so he could start rubbing my arm.

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'This venue comes with four buildings, two are commonly used for the bride and groom to get ready along with their parties, the third is usually used as an area for guest to get out of heat depending on the time of year the wedding is, and the fourth for the cake, desserts and if dinner is a serve yourself that as well. There's plenty of outdoor space as you can see for the reception, dancing, children to play, pictures and the ceremony.' We followed Cheryl over to the right side of the place and I looked at all the green and space as we did. 'Here's the dance floor area, or whatever you'd like to do with it. We have a movable bar in case you're interested in having an open bar, we, the venue do not have any restrictions when it comes to you having to use our catering services or things like that, and the grounds are rented for the entire day.'

'How much?' I rubbed Alli's back through the slings fabric when she started grunting and kicking around. I glanced down and realized she had spit her binkie out so I grabbed it from her side and slipped it back into her mouth, and she was content again for the moment.

'Ten thousand for eight am to two am. That does include a clean up crew for once the wedding is over.' I nodded and looked at Erik who was looking around.

'What do you think?' He finished looking at something before turning to me and nodding.

'I like it. It's quiet, nice and grassy and there's plenty of room for everyone. It's outside though and we're going to be having a December wedding so we may want to have an early morning or afternoon wedding if we pick this one.'

'Yeah, but if the party goes till later it'll be fine. We can also get heaters if need be. This is so much prettier than the indoor venue we just looked at, plus it's half the cost.'

'True but if we get heaters it's not that much cheaper.'

'So? At least this is actually like visually stimulating. I think it'll be fine.' He looked around one last time before nodding.

'Aright. Let's book it. We do need to find some heaters though.'

'I'll get on it when we get home.' We looked at Cheryl and I smiled. 'We love it, how do we book it?'

'Follow me and we'll go to my office.' She walked over to a gate and held it open for us, and we both thanked her then waited to see where she was going. When she turned right we followed, and after a few turns and a couple minutes of walking we got to a tan building. 'We accept everything but credit, and the booking is available to cancel until three months prior to the event. If the owners decide to lower the payment you will get a refund for the difference, and there will be a five hundred dollar damage protection fee which will be given back once the wedding is over if there's nothing damaged.' We went into the building and she guided us over to a desk and had us sit down.

'What date are you hoping to book?'

'December twenty second.' I was happy to know Erik was okay with the date change and also understood why I changed it.

After flipping through the colander on her desk she smiled. 'And that day is available.' She wrote something down on the day the grabbed a piece of paper out of her desk and slid it over to Erik. 'So here's the contract that states everything I just said along with a few other things, I'll need both your signatures and initials before you pay.' She gave Erik a pen and he did the reading for me because I was pretty lazy.

'What's the misc fee?' He looked up at her with curiosity.

'It basically covers anything you and I don't think about. If it's not used it'll be refunded.' He nodded and continued reading, but it didn't take long.

'So with all the fees and everything it's ten thousand?'

'Correct.' He signed the paper then dated and initialed it, then handed me the pen and moved the paper over for me. I signed, dated and initialed the paper and gave him the pen back. 'Alright so how will you be paying?' She smiled as she took the pen and paper from Erik and set the paper in a file and the pen on the desk.

'Debit.' I looked down to check on Alli while Erik got his wallet out and she was looking around sucking on her binkie. She loved those things I swear.

'Okay let me run this through and we'll be good to go.' I heard the card swipe which made my ears perk for some reason. 'Enter your pin and sign there please.' I stuck my tongue out at Alli which got her attention for a few seconds so I waved at her, but she was already staring at something new at that point. 'And that's that. Thank you so very much, and if you have anymore questions feel free to call me. Here's my card and if I don't pick up just leave a message and I'll call you back as soon as possible.' She put the card in a new folder she pulled from her desk at some point then stood up, and Erik and I did as well. 'This is for you two, and have a good rest of your day.' She smiled again before shaking my hand then Erik's.

'You as well.' Erik took my hand and we walked out of the office, and after double checking he had the folder and his wallet I moved up to his side. 'So that's done. Now we need to work on tuxes and decorations. Food, things like that.'

'Yep. Let's grab some lunch I'm starving.' I squinched his stomach when he started to stretch and yawn and he grunted. 'I am immune to your evil ways.' I giggled when he hugged my neck and kissed my head.

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'Y'know if you don't wanna do a big wedding we could always go to the courthouse and get it over with.' I bit off the edge of one of my chips and he shook his head.

'No I'm excited about the wedding. And I want to make this wedding special for you. I want you to have fun with the planning and everything that goes along with it. You deserve it.' He leaned across the table and set his hand over mine.

'How do I deserve it?'

'Well you got pregnant because of me, you were kidnapped because of me, you got cut open because of me and I just want to try and make up for all the pain I've caused you.'

'Erik, I did not get pregnant because of you. I chose to have sex with you when I could've said no. The being kidnapped thing I-' okay so that was his fault, but it's not like he did it on purpose. 'You didn't cause it to happen and the C-Section was going to happen if it were with you or with Joe so don't blame yourself for that.'

'I caused the worst event in your life to occur, I want to try and start making it up, and it's starting with this wedding and honeymoon.'

'But you didn't cause it. Sure he wouldn't of kidnapped me had we never become friends but that was my choice. To befriend you I mean. It didn't happen because we started dating, it happened because we became friends, and our first round of dating happened because I decided it would, not you.'

'But it didn't happen-'

'He knew we were dating in January. He had been watching us since then, so by my own choice did it happen. You're not to blame for it. I don't even care about whether I deserve the wedding or not, I just want you to get the idea that it was your fault out of your head. So stop thinking that before I punch you your dick.' He didn't say anything but started rubbing my hand with his thumb.

'I love you.'

'I love you too.' I grabbed another chip and dipped it in the cheese dip before taking a bite. 'We need to get more diapers, and I'm out of milk bags so we need to go to Target.'

'Alrighty. We're almost out of her scentless soap too.' He let go of my hand and grabbed his phone so he could start doing something. 'Soap, milk bags, diapers and what else?'

'Wipes wouldn't kill us, formula... Uh I wanna get a couple more pair of warmer pajamas for her and I need to get tampons so I have them when it starts.'

'Are you allowed to use tampons?'

'Right now, no, but I'm planning to be able to once it starts.' He nodded and looked back at his phone. 'Chocolate something and Funions.'

'Alright so I have a list made. Do you need leakage pad things?'

'No I'm good. I have tons of them.'

'Kay.' He set his phone down and grabbed a few chips and set them on his mini plate. 'John called and your six week appointment is February twenty eighth at eight. We have an appointment for her tomorrow at nine and you have a dentist appointment tomorrow at two. Would you like us to go or would you like to go alone?'

'Alone. I won't make you two sit in a waiting room for a cleaning. That would be silly.'

'Okay that works. We need to leave the house tomorrow by eight thirty so we get there early in case there's paperwork we need to fill out.'

'I'll be ready.'

'Oh also you have a mammogram March twentieth and a follow up for the surgery March third at this place in the same building as John's.'

'Good lord where did you find all the time to schedule these appointments?'

'While you two slept.'

'Oh well that does leave free time.' He smiled and nodded while biting a chip.

'What's she doing?' I checked under the blanket I had covering Alli's car seat and lowered it again when she was sleeping.

'Sleeping. Why even ask anymore?' He chuckled and stole a sip of my strawberry lemonade.

'True. You miss the fun screaming and crying in the morning. Then she also screams and cries but not as much as me.' I giggled which made him smile. 'You're cute.'

'Thank you. You're pretty darn cute yourself.' I regretted our seating choices when I wanted to kiss him, but I settled with kissing his hand instead.

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The doctor walked into the room and I was excited when it was my old doctor that I went to up until I turned sixteen, and she looked up from her clipboard and smiled. 'Well hey there Christine. How are you?'

'I'm good and you?'

'I'm doing great. Fully booked but after today I'm going to Vegas so I can't complain.'

'Nope.'

'So is this Alli?' Tommy came over to the car seat, and lifted the blanket up so she could look at her. 'Well isn't she beautiful. How is everything going with her?'

'Good. She sleeps a lot, is that normal? Like a lot. We feed her, change her and play with her for ten minutes then she's ready for a nap.'

'I think she'll be fine.' I watched Tommy pick Alli out of the car seat and carry her over to a table. 'I'm Doctor Mick by the way. Sorry I got caught up in the baby.' She went over to Erik and shook his hand.

'Nice to meet you.'

'I was Christine's doctor as well. But uh- her mom had the same question so I won't worry about it unless something comes up.' She went back to Alli and started typing something in her laptop.

'She's gained three ounces, and grew two centimeters. That's good, not too fast and not too slow.' She picked Alli up and brought her over to the examining table. 'So I haven't seen you in a while, Christine. How are you doing?'

'Good. I wasn't allowed to come after sixteen so that's why I've not been in.'

'Whaaaat? No you're allowed to come here until you're eighteen.' I frowned as she sighed and rolled her eyes. 'Our receptionists aren't the brightest. I'll give you a physical once I'm done with Alli.'

'I'm eighteen.'

'I don't care.' She smiled and started bending and stretching Alli's legs.

'I just gave birth, my body is fucked up and broken. My bladder doesn't work and I need a drink.'

'You just did my job. Rude.' I laughed as I slid my fingers between Erik's and pulled his hand into my lap. 'So how'd you two meet?'

'School.'

'Ah. How'd you guys start dating?'

'Lots of denial then post fight sex.' I couldn't say Erik was wrong with that story.

'That sounds like a nice way to get together.' Erik and I nodded while she continued checking Alli. 'How'd you ask Christine to marry you?'

'On the ferris wheel in California Adventure during the firework show.' Before she could ask to see my ring I held my hand out so she could see.

'Oh wow that's beautiful. Cute way to propose too.'

'It was the best and most realistic way to do it. At that point we didn't have too much money and Disneyland was a gift from my uncle.'

'Well you work with what you have. I wouldn't complain about being proposed to at Disneyland.' She sat Alli up and I nearly screamed but Tommy supported her head which made me less likely to kill her. 'So she's looking good. growth is normal, her range of mobility is good, her response time is fantastic and she seems rather interactive when she's awake so honestly I wouldn't worry about how much she sleeps.'

'Okay. Do we need to start feeding her more or is the four ounces okay still?'

'Four is still good unless she's still hungry after the four, then give her another ounce and so on. You will have to come back in when she's two months so we can do her next rounds of shots but next time it'll just be another appointment like this.'

'Okay sounds good. So are we done?'

'No I'm giving you one last physical.'

'But-'

'It's free so get your butt over here!' She set Alli in her car seat as I got up and sat down on the table she patted on. 'Okay let me change my gloves and we'll get this done.'

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'What is it with you and your weight?'

'I don't know. Am I overweight now?' I itched my leg and it wouldn't freaking stop.

'No that's the thing. You're disturbingly light for just being pregnant. Do you eat three meals a day?'

'Sometimes four.' I scratched my nose as she focused on her computer.

'The most you've ever weighed that I have recorded is one thirty and that's when you were fifteen. Did you have any issues when you were pregnant?'

'Low blood sugar, I was anemic and I had an abruption when I was seven centimeters dilated.'

'Okay. I might want to do some blood tests to check your thyroid. It could be working too fast and it could help cause some of the issues you had with her.'

'Thyroid? I'm not overweight though.'

'There's hypo and hyper. Hypo is slowed and hyper is too fast.'

'Oh... Well besides my weight, stomach and boob I'm doing great?'

'Yes. I'll order those blood tests, and I'll give you the prescription for it before you leave.' She picked her laptop up after shaking Erik's hand again. 'It was nice to meet you, Erik.'

'Ditto.' She backed out of the room, and after the door was closed Erik stood up. 'Ready to go? Those chairs make my butt hurt.' I took the opportunity to slap his butt while he was stretching making him smile.

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'How are you doing, Christine?' I nodded as the nurse and I walked back to the X-ray room, and I sat down in the chair after hanging my purse on the hook they had on the wall.

'I'm good. Sorry- slow response time I was up all night.' I covered my mouth and yawned as she grabbed the big heavy oversized bib to put on me.

'It's all good. So what's new? We haven't seen you for a while.'

'Yeah I know. I've been busy or gone, but uh I got a new job, I got engaged, I had a baby and moved into an apartment with my fiancé.'

'Oh wow you've been busy then.' I nodded and she grabbed the thing that was supposed to go in my mouth to prep it.

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'Hey, Christine are you awake?' I cracked my eyes open and looked at the person standing over me.

'I told them to leave me sitting up but obviously they didn't listen.' She laughed and sat me up for some reason, but I wasn't complaining.

'Alright my names Hazel, I'm the new assistant to Doctor Lomenda and so I'll be cleaning and checking your teeth today.'

'Nice to meet you Hazel... Okay can I sleep during this? I'm exhausted.'

'No sorry, but if you want to we have a bean bag in the break room that is to die for. It's so comfortable.'

'As tempting as the offer is I have to get home after this.' She hooked a drool bib around my neck before lowering me back down.

'Well the offer is on the table. Now open up please.' I opened my mouth as wide as possible as she grabbed a scraper tool, and just the idea of her using it on my teeth made my skin crawl. 'So how's school?' I looked at her in confusion since I didn't understand how I was supposed to respond. I hated going to the Dentist.

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'So how was the Dentist?' Erik had me step on his feet before taking my hands so we could attempt to actually dance.

'I hate the Dentist. They scrape on your teeth for hours and it hurts me.'

'Yeah that does kinda suck.' He started moving us around the room and I smiled at his attempt. 'I'm such shit at dancing it's not even funny.'

'No you're great.' He stared at me until I gave up and giggled. 'You're not the worst I've seen.'

'Thanks I'll take that as a compliment.'

'You should.'

'Well I'm in the mood for making a fool of myself so prom is in May. Want to go with me?' That was the last thing I expected Erik to ever ask me. Like I would've found him asking me to put a diaper on him less shocking.

'Uh I'd love to. You know what prom is right?' He smiled and nodded.

'Yes. I went and bought two tickets while you were at the Dentist and also picked more school work up. You also don't have to catch up on your AIMS tests because now you don't have to take them to graduate. So you just need to work on the ACT or SAT.'

'Gross okay. How much work do we have now?'

'Not too much thankfully.' I nodded and realized we were back in our default rocking side to side thing.

'Good. I'm coming to hate school.'

'We're almost done so just keep your head up.' I smiled when I felt his hands move down to my butt.

'Sir, your hands are on my butt.'

'Yes they are.' I giggled when he squeezed instead of letting go. 'I like your butt.'

'You always like it.' He nodded and kissed my forehead. 'So are you a butt or boob dude?'

'Usually boobs, but with you I can't pick.'

'I'll take that as a compliment.' He laughed and nodded.

'You should... Who is this?' He looked over at my phone where the music was coming from.

'Maroon Five. You've never heard of them?'

'No no no I've heard them I just couldn't remember their name. I kinda like them.'

'I've been into them lately.' He turned us around and he plopped me down on the bed, and I smiled as he moved on top of me. 'Not six weeks yet.'

'I know but I wanna kiss you and this seemed like the best way to do it.'

'It definitely is.' He moved down and started slowly kissing me while he moved one of his hands to my side.