Pawnshops and Carousels

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A/N: Well what we have here is a cute little chapter but it's a short one. Hopefully you guys enjoy it. As always, don't forget to leave a review, I'd love to hear how you guys are enjoying the story and then I'll see you guys next week.

Chapter 19

It was universally understood that my father had forgiven me for whatever argument we were having after I almost got shot. There was no real talk about it, where he said those words in that order, but it was basically a given. Sabrina had a gun held to her head, both of us could have gotten shot, I was forgiven.

He gave me the time off as a sign of peace and because he really couldn't say no, plus I was only gone three days. Not enough for a honeymoon, if you ask me, but Sabrina didn't mind and neither did I.

It's been a week since we got back and no one's figured it out yet. I'm pretty sure that Ashley is onto us though, just by the way she glares at Sabrina and me, and the questions she asks about our trip. She's surprised we don't have more pictures and that's a valid point, but most of our pictures are wedding pictures and we haven't told them yet. Therefore we can't show them pictures

So, I am both half surprised and not surprised when my dad calls me into the office. And I'm not surprised to see Ashley in there with him.

"What's going on?"

"Something with you and Sabrina apparently," Les says. "Is there something you're not telling us?"

"I unno, did I tell you guys we got engaged?"

"ENGAGED?!" erupts out of my father so loud and so fast it almost knocks me over. "You two got ENGAGED?!"

"Yes, before we left. I had her engagement ring in the safe in my office, that's why we were here. I swore I told you…"

"Wait… so going to Vegas was…"

"To get a few days away," I tell Ashley as sternly as I can. "I just happened to propose before we left, that's all. Sorry if it slipped my mind, but we had a lot going on the day we left, if you guys remember."

My father is already pulling the phone to him, no doubt to call my mom. "No problem, we're going to have party. Engagement party. Tonight. No Tomorrow. No tonight. Let me call Lilli and we'll figure out."

"I can't believe you proposed and didn't tell us."

Yeah Ashley's surprised and judging by the look on her face she's pretty pissed too. But this is better than them figuring out that we actually got married. But hey, if we have this engagement dinner my parents are now planning, that would be a good time to tell them. Maybe set up a camera to capture their response when we do. I bet it will make for a hilarious picture.

Sabrina: Seth comes out of his dad's office and immediately pulls me into his and locks the door. The conversation is short, but it sums up to his father and sister figuring out that there was something off and him admitting that he proposed to me and I accepted. He has a plan to announce that we're married at whatever engagement party his parents throw for us and I'm sort of okay with that, except it might kill Les with the shock. But I'm distracted pretty quickly. You see, the conversation is short because we can't keep our hands off one another and as soon as Seth kisses me, I forget all about being worried about announcing our elopement and loose myself in his arms.

The following day I'm out on the floor with Ashley. She was a little miffed with me yesterday and chose to give me the silent treatment for the rest of the day. All because she felt that I should have told her about the engagement. She was going to shit bricks when she found out that me and Seth were actually married.

Les and Lilli had called us last night to tell us that this weekend we were to attend an engagement party that they would be throwing at their house. They were going to invite everyone we had ever known and there they we would be expected to tell everyone how Seth proposed, why they needed to go to Vegas to celebrate without telling the family what had transpired and when our wedding would be.

Seth is super excited for this party, he can't wait to drop this bombshell on his family and his friends. I on the other hand am very nervous about it, I don't like the idea of this trick being how I re-enter the Gold family.

Ashley has decided she's talking to me today so we stand beside one another on the floor, mostly dealing with customers, and sometimes talking to on another. I'm not supposed to be dealing with customers, Seth wants me safe in the back, but it gets boring answering phones all day.

"So… show me this ring," Ashley suddenly asks.

I'm startled by the sudden question, but it's a question that every girl who just got an engagement ring is prepared for. I show her my hand, and the sparkly ring residing there. Ashley takes my hand to look at it, even going as far as to pull her Jeweller's Loupe out to take a look at it.

"Damn girl, it's a real diamond, chill!" I say to her, hopefully in a teasing manner.

"It's nice, I'm guessing you picked it out, not him. My brother's taste is questionable."

"Uh… yeah I did, like a long time ago… back when we were first together…" I go to pull my hand away but Ashley's grip on me tightens.

"Uh… excuse me, but what… is that!"

I look down to my hand and my heart stops. Our promise rings, the rings that were now our wedding bands, the ring that sits right under my engagement ring.

"He uh… he saved our promise rings," I tell her.

"But why are you wearing it on that hand?" It's a valid question and unfortunately, I don't have an answer for her. I have not prepared a lie for this. Ashley's face drops in shock. "Oh My God… this is a… this is a wedding band isn't it!"

"Ashley come on…"

She cuts me off almost immediately. "No, no, I remember, you and Seth picked out matching promise rings, but instead of him buying a diamond you asked for a band so that you could use it as a wedding band. I remember cause he bitched for months about how he wanted to buy you a proper ring, but he felt like you were trying to double dip and now he had to buy you two rings!"

"Aw come on, you really think that we'd get married without the family!"

But it's the look on her face that tells me she does think that and I've just proved it. Seth must have sensed my distress because he's suddenly beside me on the other side of the glass showcase.

"What the hell are you squawking about over here, you're not giving her a hard time are?" he asks his eyes narrowed clearly not trusting his sister to be nice to me or me to be able to take care of myself. Though I do love that he's so adamant on being my white knight in shining armour.

"You two got married in Vegas!" Ashley practically shouts at him and Seth turns unimpressed eyes onto me.

"You told her?!"

"OH MY GOD!" Ashley shrieks causing both of us to wince.

"No, she guessed but I hadn't admitted it yet," I tell him as Ashley continues to freak out and Seth sighs. I'm very glad that its him who's let the cat out of the bag and not me.

"I knew it! I knew it!" she crows and then her mouth drops into a happy smile of shock. She's silent for two seconds before she moves past me and shouts: "DAD!" on the top of her lungs.

As soon as she's gone, I turn to him and say: "We should have just told them in the first place."

Seth sighs, takes my hand and then presses a kiss to the palm. "Brace for it."

And even though we were both braced, neither of us were really truly prepared for what was coming at us.