NBK: Different Story

Chapter 12: Wedding Bells

Author: Jaycee

*All needed formalities are in the fist chapters!

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Sam paced around nervously around his apartment. It was three hours until the wedding, and he couldn't calm down. He knows that Maria is a great woman and that he should feel lucky that he's going to marry her.

But he can't get Josie's face out of his mind. He imagined that she's the one that he's about to marry and that thought made him feel happy.

He looked at the table and saw the package containing the Showcase Feature that Josie did for him and Maria.

He had received it yesterday but he couldn't get the nerve to open and read something that Josie did. The newspaper was already distributed that morning.

Thinking that it would frazzle his nerves, he opened it and skimmed through it. It was very good, the layout, the pictures, everything.

All that was lacking was the article about the wedding ceremony itself.

At the last page, an article caught his eye. It was entitled simply, "Farewell" He found out that it was written by Josie herself. Even though he knows that he shouldn't read it, something inside him told him to read it.

And he did, he took a deep breath and started to read:

Farewell
By Josie Geller, Chicago Sun Times Showcase Feature Editor

Someone once told me that to write well, you have to write what you know. This is what I know. I am twenty-seven years old, but I have never ever really kissed a guy. Sounds familiar? Well, it should, since I wrote the same opening to the article that I wrote two years ago. Except for the age, I was twenty-five years old then. It has been a long time since I waited for my mystery man at the pitcher's mound two years ago. You were all with me there, when stood there for more than five minutes and that he didn't come. Now, you guys don't feel sorry for me. I have moved on from that happening in my life and I have accepted the fact that he didn't come. Or, at least I thought I did.

A year after that, convinced that I moved on from that incident, I got into a relationship. He was nice man, sweet and he obviously loves me. I love him too. But not the kind of love that I was hoping that I would feel. The love I felt for him was not the kind of love that great poets write about. And from then on, I knew that he wasn't the one.

Two years from the pitcher's mound, the man that I was waiting for that day, came back. And even though I told myself that I was over him, my heart told me a totally different story. I was still in love with him. But, he wasn't free anymore. He was engaged. To be married within three weeks from the day that I saw him again. He apologized for not showing up two years ago, and that gave my heart the hope that he was indeed in love with me. But when I told him my feelings, he thought that I was in love with someone else. Through this article, I hope that this man would know that I'm still crazy in love with him. For so many years, I have tried to forget about you, but I couldn't. I know in my heart that you're the one for me. And even if you don't return my affections, it just makes me feel good that I finally have the courage to tell everyone that: I am in love with you. I'm sorry if I have hurt your feelings once again, but please do know that I didn't do that on purpose. I hope that you will be happy in your chosen life, and I wish you all the best and all the luck in the world.

As an ending to this article, and perhaps a beginning to another chapter in my life. I, Josie Geller, am resigning from my post as Editor of Sun Times' Showcase Feature. I'll be going to New York City, to get a new job and to forget about everything that has happened in the past. To tell you the truth, I am heartbroken, and I know that I can't continue to live in a city knowing that the man I love is in the same place with someone else. I'll try to look for another man who would make me feel the kind of love that I want to feel. Goodbye everyone. I really am happy that I got to serve you people of Chicago, even though it was just in a small way as writing in a newspaper for you.

Sam was trembling as he finished her article. It was sweet, and Sam could feel all the hurt that she felt over a span of two years since he left her.

He has to get to her and tell her that he does love her and that she doesn't have to look for another man and that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

He ran out of his apartment, his car keys held tightly on his hand. Riding his jeep, he went directly to Maria's apartment.

He knocked on her door, hoping that she'll understand what he's about to do. She opened the door, and to Sam's surprise she was crying. "Maria? Why are you crying?" he asked as he stepped in.

"Sam what are you doing here? We shouldn't see each other remember? It's bad luck."

"I know but I have something to tell you." He said, nervously. "I know that this is the wrong time, since the wedding is supposed to start in less than three hours, but, I have to tell you this…. Or our lives would become miserable. I just…. " He started to speak but Maria cut him off.

"You want to back out from the wedding, don't you?" she asked incredulously.

"Yes…." He whispered as he took a peek at her face. To his surprise, she was smiling.

Grinning in fact, from ear to ear. She hugged him, "Oh, God Sam! You don't know how happy I am? I love someone else, but I just couldn't tell you, thinking that you might be hurt."

Sam smiled as he realized what Maria was telling him. "You too? You mean, you really do have another guy?" he asked, disbelievingly.

"How did you know about that?" she asked.

"Um… Josie told me." He said sheepishly as he remembered how he rebuffed her when she told me that.

"And, I'm willing to bet that she's the reason why you're backing out… am I right?" she asked.

He nodded. "How did you know?" "Well, I read between the lines of her article. It was obvious that you're the one she's talking about. And the way you two look at each other as if you two are the only people in the world. But, she's going to New York, today I believe. Run after her!" she urged him as she propelled him to his feet and practically dragged him to the front door.

"But, your dad…."

"Don't worry about him. Just hurry and get to her!"

"Okay! Thanks Maria!" he called out as he ran to his jeep. "The man you love is very lucky to have you in his life!"

"The same goes for Josie!" she answered, as she smiled at him and turned to tell her father the bad/good news.