March 19th, 2004

Alex took hold of Jade's hands and propped her up on her legs. Ty smiled as he sat down in front of them but across the room. Jade giggled and bounced on her legs. She grinned exposing her brand new tooth.

"Come on, Lady bug." Ty said extending his arms towards his daughter. "Let go of her hands."

"She's going to hurt herself." Alex said.

"Good and then she'll learn." Ty said, "Let go." Alex nodded and let go of Jade's hands. Jade wobbled on her legs slightly. "Come to Daddy, Lady bug."

"Go Jade." Alex smiled as Jade lifted up her leg. "That's it." Shakily, Jade put her foot on the ground and lifted up her other leg.

"Very good!" Ty beamed. Jade took another step. Alex's eyes welled with tears. Her baby was walking. Jade wobbled and fell on her diapered butt.

"Oh! It's okay, Jade. You can do it." Alex said. Jade pushed herself up on her feet. "That's my girl." Jade giggled as she bean to take a few more steps to Ty and he caught her as she began to fall again.

"You did it!" Ty kissed her.

"My baby is walking." Alex said tearfully.

"Our baby." Ty corrected her. Jade giggled looking at her daddy as if she knew he was proud of her.

"I can't believe she just took her first step." Alex grinned.

"She's not a baby anymore." Ty said kissing Jade's cheek as they both got up, "That means we'll need to have another one." Alex laughed as she stood up.

"You're not going to give up are you until you get your way?" Alex smiled.

"You're right. I'm gonna badger you until you give in." Ty said.

"Okay. How about on January 1st, 2005 we'll start trying to conceive" Alex asked with a small smile on her face.

"That's a long way away." Ty said

"No it's not. It's like ten months away." Alex said, "I'm not going any sooner."

"January 1st, all right." Ty said. Alex giggled.

"I knew you'd agree." She said walking into the kitchen. "I've been thinking we should take a vacation somewhere."

"When and where?" He asked as he put Jade into her highchair. Alex shrugged.

"After Jade's birthday. Maybe the beginning of July and we can go to, I don't know, Italy."

"Italy?" Ty laughed. "That's a little far and it's expensive."

"All right. Maybe you're right." She chuckled as she stuck out her tongue, "How about California? We can go to the beach there and just have fun."

"California. Sure I can handle that. It's like a six hour flight though and we'll have a one year old." He said.

"I don't care." She smiled. "We need to have a family vacation. We need to do more family things." Ty nodded.

"Yeah we do." He said, "Jade deserves to have some fun."

"Yes she does." Alex smiled, "But first a family dinner tonight." TY chuckled at his fiancée.

"I'll go online and look up some tickets afterwards, okay?" Ty said.

"Sounds good to me." She smiled. Alex looked at her daughter, who was now being fed by her father. She was so proud of her. Jade just took her first steps to a new chapter in her life.

April 1st, 2004

"I want to go home." Ty said as he stopped the car at the red light. He felt like he had been at work for days. It seemed to him the April fools was a horrible day to work. It seemed a lot of pranks got out of hand.

"You can go home soon enough." Sully said, "We need to get to the station first."

"I know." Ty sighed. "Did you get your tux yet?"

"I got it last night ad it fits perfectly." Sully said. Ty smiled.

"Great." He said, "Alex will be glad to hear that. She's so stressed lately."

"Well, she has a right to be. You're getting married next month." Sully.

"Wow, yeah it really is next month." Ty said ran his hand over his head. His heart pounded in his chest. A month. In a month he would be a married man.

"Watch where you're driving, kid." Sully said.

"Oh. Sorry." Ty put his eyes back onto the road. They were close to the station anyway, but that was no reason to crash the car and kill them.

"We're here. Now you can go home." Sully said. Ty nodded slowly.

"Yeah thanks." He said, "I need to help Alex with a few things before bed time." Sully smiled.

"Go help her." He said.

* * *

Ty walked into the house. It was silent except for Alex's quiet sobs from the living room. Ty walked in with concern.

"Alex, what's wrong?" He asked.

"The florist c-called." She sobbed.

"And that's making you cry?" He asked as he sat down next to her.

"TH-They only ordered p-pink roses and th-that they w-wouldn't be here until late J-June." Alex cried.

"And you didn't want pink roses?" Ty asked.

"No!!" Alex cried, "I w-want p-peach ones." Ty wrapped his arms around Alex. He could now see exactly how stressed Alex was getting because of this whole wedding, "I h-hate p-pink r-roses."

"Then don't get pink roses." Ty said.

"Th-That's what they ordered!" She cried.

"Where did you order from?" Ty asked wiping away Alex's tears.

"Flowers by a Million." She said looking at him.

"Okay, we'll order from somewhere else." Ty said.

"There's not enough time." Alex said. Ty reached over and grabbed the yellow pages.

"Nonsense, Alex. Leave it to me and I'll take care of it all." He said as he found the floral section. He dialed the first number he saw. "Hello. I was wondering if someone there could help me on a large order?… great thanks. Well, I'm getting married next month and we had been working with another florist, but there was a snag and now we need a new one…Yes. We need about a hundred and two peach roses…Yes. They have to be peach…May 20th. Thank you…Saint Peter's church….Davis. Oh thank you. I will then. Take care." Ty hung up the phone.

"Well?" Alex whispered wiping her eyes.

"They are expecting their next shipment of roses to come in May 18th and they'll bring them to the church May 19th."

"Are you serious??" Alex grinned.

"I'm serious. See? I take care of the people I love." He said.

"Oh god!" She threw her arms around Ty, "Thank you! Thank you!" Alex was squealing with happiness.

"I wasn't about to let our day be ruined by the wrong colour roses." Ty said. Alex chuckled softly.

"You must think I'm an idiot." She said. Ty shook his head.

"You're not an idiot for wanting everything to be right." He said, "I want everything right so you better not think I'm an idiot."

"You're not crying over roses." She said. Ty chuckled.

"No, but I could." He said.

"You're making fun of me." Alex said. Ty chuckled and shook his head.

"I am not making fun of you." He said kissing her forehead, "Is Jade asleep?"

"Sound." She said.

"All right. Why don't we go to sleep and tomorrow we can worry about doilies and flower arrangements." Ty said. Alex chuckled softly as she stood up.

"Tomorrow." She said, "I am beat and I want to cuddle up in your arms." Ty winked taking her hand.

"Tomorrow." He whispered leading her upstairs. He hated that weddings were so stressful. He felt like he had no stress, but Alex had it all. Maybe it was because she was so stubborn; she wouldn't let him bear any of the responsibility. Maybe she just knew what she wanted and that was okay with Ty.