Ch 19- Finally!!!!

Eight months later

"Paige!! Get into your dress! Spit out the gum, get in your dress and put on your shoes. You have forty five minutes," her mother exclaimed as she walked into the side room. Paige just sighed and looked around. She got up slowly and walked over to the window and looked at all the cars gathered outside. Today was her day. She walked back over to her clothes and picked up the white dress and stepped into it.
"Here, let me help you with that," Ashley's voice came from behind. Paige held up the dress and Ash zipped it up.
"Where's your veil?"
"No veil. I like to see where I'm going thank you," she said laughing.
"I can't believe you're really going to do this."
"I know. I can't believe he stuck with me this long!! I put him through hell and he still wants to marry me!!"
"He loves you," Ashley responded twirling her own ring around on her finger.
When they had gotten back into town, Craig had tried to make things work with Manny, but after seeing Ashley and almost having her gone, he couldn't take it. He broke it off with Manny and went back to Ashley, who had just started to get over Sean. They ended up together and this time, Craig proposed. It seemed as though the ping-pong game was officially over now.
"Paige!!!" Lisa hissed.
"What?"
"You best get your ass out here in like two minutes!!!"
Paige shrieked as she spit out her gum and jumped into her backless heels she insisted on wearing for comfort.
"How do I look?" she questioned.
"Great. You look beautiful," Ashley responded honestly. They gave each other a quick hug and then Ash ran to get in place.
"I hope you're ready for this," Dylan said as Paige took her place beside him.
"Totally," she responded with confidence.
The doors opened and Paige felt like she got the wind knocked out of her. It was gorgeous. She had seen the church quite like this before. It wasn't decorated or anything, just the feeling had that beauty in the air. She sucked in a deep breath and began walking down the aisle, past all the pews packed with people.

"Who gives this women away?" the preacher asked.
"I do," Dylan responded as he kissed his sister and then backed off to the side where his mother was. Paige put her hand in Spinners and just grinned. They had been engaged for about three years and now they were finally getting married.
"Do you Gavin Richard Mason take this women, Paige Renee Michaelchuck, to be your lawfully wedded wife; to love and to cherish as long as you both shall live?"
"I do."
"Do you Paige Renee Michaelchuck take this man, Gavin Richard Mason, to be your lawfully wedded husband; to love and to cherish as long as you both shall live?"
"I do."
"By the power invested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss your bride."
Spinner turned to Paige who was laughing and crying at the same time and just grabbed hold of her and kissed her.
"Now I have the pleasure of introducing Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Mason," the preacher concluded as the couple stepped off the alter and walked down the alter.

"Totally the best wedding ever!" Paige exclaimed later that night at the reception.
"Hun, it's your only wedding," Hazel said.
"Yeah...but it was the best."
They all just shook their heads and looked around at all the people in the hall.
"Oh Craig...looks Manny got over you quick!" Ben pointed out as Manny walked by the far end of the room.
"J.T.!!!???"
"What, like you thought nothing was there?" Paige asked skeptically as she gave him a pat on the back.
"And now, it's time for the newlyweds to have their first dance!" the D.J. announced from the booth. The beginning chords of "You Are" by Jimmy Wayne began to play and Paige melted.
"I love this song!!"
"I know. That's why I put it in here. Because now when you hear it, you can think of me," Spinner said in her ear. She looked at him and kissed her new husband square on the mouth.
"How did I ever get so lucky to have you stay with me?" she asked quietly.
"Easy. I didn't want to go through life old, alone and with six cats," he said jokingly using one of her lines.
"Shut up!!"
"No I'm serious; I don't like cats!" he protested as she playfully shoved him.

As the evening drew to a close, it was time to throw the garter and bouquet.
"Who do you think is going to get the garter?" Craig asked Ashley.
"Oh God...probably some young kid that doesn't even come up to my waist," she said. He smiled at her and then winked at Paige's little cousin Joey.
"Sorry buddy...all bets are off."
"Craig!!" she exclaimed.
"What?? I can't make a kid smile every now and then??"

Spinner threw Paige's garter and surprisingly, J.T. caught it.
"Oh God. I think I might hurl if Manny gets my bouquet," Paige remarked as she stood with her back towards the crowd. She tossed it and then turned around quick to look to see where it landed and laughed she saw Lisa holding it.
"Thanks Paige. Now's she going to want to get married!! We're going to have a long talk young lady..." he trialed off as Paige just shrugged playfully.
"Not my fault!!" she yelled back.
As Spinn and Paige moved towards the car, they got bombarded by handfuls of rice being thrown and shouts to call them when they got back into town. Once safely inside the car, he turned to his new wife.
"So?"
"What?"
"What'd you think??"
"Spinner this isn't a movie!!" she exclaimed. "We really just got married!"
"I know. I was asking about the whole thing..."
"Well all I can say is that I'm finally happy that it happened," she said as she sat back in his arms.

"This place is huge!" he exclaimed as they entered the hotel room. He took off to "explore" the bathroom and living room while Paige just stood there taking it all in. She walked slowly towards the bathroom but stopped when she saw Spinner sitting on the bed. She sat down next to him and asked," What are you thinking?"
"You know, we don't have to do this."
"Umm...hun we're already married. Sorry," she said confused.
"No! I mean this. Tonight. I know that you're probably not ready and I wanted you to know that it's fine with me."
"Ok," she said softly, moving off the bed. "I'm going to go check out the bathroom."
She left him sitting on the bed, unpacking as she walked in and shut and locked the door. She quickly stripped down to nothing and then put her coat back on. They had waited three years for this; there was no way she was going to have it any other way.
"Hey babe?" she said as he turned around. "Are we gonna do this or what?" she asked playfully as he just stared at her naked body.
"Paige..."
"We have waited too long to not do this."
He looked at with a questioning glance and when she gave the go ahead, he grabbed her and threw her down on the bed.
"Good. Because when you stand in front me like that...it puts bad thoughts in my head," he said as he reassumed tasting every inch of her body.
"That was the idea," she said unbuckling his pants.
"Last time...are you sure?"
"Totally," she answered feeling safe and unafraid for the first time with a man in her life.