Tina sat the twin's bags at the bottom of the stair case and put the bottles that she had just filled in the fridge then picked up the phone and order a pizza for dinner, since Dave was coming in less then an hour she figured they could sit and talk over pizza. After ordering the pizza she sat down on the couch with her newest mystery novel and began to reading to only have to put the book down after two pages when she heard the doorbell. Hoping that the noise didn't wake the twins she stood and walked to the front door, a little surprised to see Dave standing on the other side of the door since he wasn't due for another twenty minutes.
"I know I'm early." Dave smiled as he stepped in the house. "My plane got here a little earlier then expected, so I thought that I would take you and twins out for dinner before we took off. That way you don't have to eat by yourself tonight."
"That's sweet Dave, but I just ordered pizza. I was hoping that you and I could talk tonight." Tina started walking in the living room with Dave following.
"Is everything okay?" Dave asked concerned.
"Yeah everything's fine." Tina checked on the twins then turned to Dave. "Would you mind if we talked in the kitchen I don't want to wake the twins just yet I just got them to sleep?" Dave turned and followed Tina out of the living room and down to the kitchen; Tina grabbed a couple of sodas out of the fridge and sat down at the table with Dave sitting across from her.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Dave asked wrapping his hands around the cold can sitting in front of him.
"I just wanted to know how you were doing." Tina started not really sure what to say now that she had him sitting in front of her, she had gone over this conversation a hundred times but now she couldn't find the words to say.
"I'm doing pretty good, not great but good." Dave answered looking down at the can he held. "The truth, I haven't slept a good night's sleep since you told me about you and Paul. I know I said I was okay with you two being together but I'm not, when you told me I died inside I can't stand the thought of you with him. I hate the idea of you living here with him and sleeping in the same bed and him holding you at night as you fall asleep. I'm supposed to be the one that holds you at night while you go to sleep; I'm supposed to be the only person that kisses you on all of your sensitive spots." Dave paused and looked up at Tina. "Tina I miss you, I love you and I want, need, you back. I can't live without you any longer."
"Dave I love you too, even though I tried so hard to make myself stop loving you and fall in love with Paul I just couldn't do it, you are the one that holds my heart and you are the only one that will hold my heart. But I can't go back to you and risk having my heart broken again, I can't do it. I'm finally the person that I was when I first met you and I don't want to go back to the person you made me."
"I know that, I have to tell you Tina that I have changed I'm not the same person that I was when you left me. I haven't been with any one since that night you left." Dave paused. "Right after you left that night I call Kate, the one that I was with, and I asked her to come over. I was all for having sex with her in our bed and forgetting all about you but when she walked in the house and started to kiss me and take her clothes off the only thing that I could think of was you and how much I wished she was you. I pushed her away told her to give me the key to the house and for her not to call me ever again, because I was in love with you and you were the only person that I want to be with in our bed. I swear to you that was the last time that I saw her or talked to her. I sat down that night and tried to figure out what my problem was, but I couldn't so I called a counselor the next day, I went and talked to him and figured out that I was scared to death of commitment to one woman. I kept going back to him and we worked through different things and after almost two months I have finally realized what I have always known but have been scared to death to say out loud. You are the only person that I want to be with and not just sexually, but emotionally and any other way that you can be with a person." Tina laughed a little as Dave stood from his chair and sat in the one next to her. "I love you Tina Marie Adkins. I love with all my heart and soul, you are the only person there is for me." Dave paused and pulled Tina from her chair. "With all of that said there is something I want to ask you." Dave got down on one knee in front of her. "Tina will you marry me?" Tina could believe what he had just asked her, she had been waiting for so long for him to ask her that. "I know I said that there would be tons of roses and soft music and all that other romantic stuff…" Tina silenced him by pressing her lips to his.
"I don't care about all the romantic things all that matters is you asked me." Tina kissed him again. "You have no idea how long I have waited for you to ask me that question." Tina wiped a tear away that had fallen. "I love you so much Dave of course I will marry you." Dave pulled Tina to him and held her tight against him as he softly cried into her stomach. Tina dropped to her knees and wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him in for the most passionate kiss the two had shared in a very long time.
"I love you." Dave whispered as he moved his kisses down the side of her neck.
"I love you." Tina moaned as he moved his kisses to her collarbone. Dave began to lean her back against the cold tile floor when the doorbell rang. Dave pulled back and looked at Tina. "That would be the pizza." Dave smiled and stood pulling Tina up from the floor with him Tina grabbed the money she had laying on the counter and headed towards the front door after paying for the pizza she walked back in the kitchen and sat the pizza on the table. Dave stepped behind her wrapping his arms around her from behind.
"I guess it's a good thing that it came now before we went any further. I don't think I could have looked Paul in the face again if we had sex on his kitchen floor and I don't think that he would really appropriate us having sex on the kitchen floor." Dave kissed her neck as she opened the pizza box.
"After we eat I say you help me pack my things and we can head home." Tina said before she took a bite of her pizza. "I guess I should call Paul and tell him what's going on." Tina suddenly felt sadness in her heart, she knew she was going to kill him no matter what or how she sad it.
"Why don't you try and give him a call while I go take care of Seheria." Dave kissed her forehead and walked out of the room. Once he was out of sight Tina picked up the phone and dialed Paul's cell phone number, she got his voice mail after four rings, knowing that what she needed to say didn't need to be put in a voice mail she just left a short message asking him to call her when he got the chance then hung up and walked in the living room taking her pizza with her.
"Dave instead of telling him over the phone I think I need to talk to him in person about what's going on. I wouldn't feel right telling him over the phone." Dave turned around to face.
"If you feel that you need to talk to him in person then you should go talk to him." Dave paused and handed her his car keys. "His plane has been delayed a couple hours; he should still be at the airport."
"How do you know?"
"I called his cell phone to get a hold of you earlier and he told me." Dave kissed her lips. "Now go." Tina smiled and turned around walking out of the house. The whole drive to the airport Tina thought about what she was going to say, this was going to be the hardest conversation that she had with anyone in her entire life. Paul was the one person that was always there and after everything that they had done together here she was getting ready to rip his heart out of his chest. Since there was hardly any traffic out on the road Tina made it to the airport within a half hour, she parked the car and headed in the airport.
It didn't take her long to find Paul sitting by on the many windows flipping through a magazine. Tina slowed her pace and quietly stepped up beside him taking the empty seat to his right. Paul looked up from the article that he was reading and looked at Tina surprised.
"Before you say anything, everything is fine. But you and I need to talk, I tired to call your cell but I got your voice mail and then I thought that this was something that I needed to do in person." Tina took a breath and looked down at the floor trying to gather her thoughts and praying to God that he didn't flip out on her or anything like that. "After you left I took sometime while I was packing the twins' things to think about my feeling for you, it's actually something I've been thinking about ever since I brought up the subject with you. Then Dave came over and him and I sat down and talked about what he has done to change and what his problems were, and he told me that he loved me and that he would never stop loving me and that's when I realized that I love him too." Tina paused and looked at Paul through the tears that were starting to form in her eyes. "Paul I love Dave, I always have loved him and I always will love him. I have tired to make myself love you and I do but it's not the type of love I have Dave." Paul reached his hand out and wiped away the tears that were falling, he was hurt yes, but he always knew deep down that this day would come. "Dave has changed I can tell in the way he looks at me and talks to me and kisses me, it's exactly how it was when we first met. I know that he has changed and that he is not going back to his cheating ways." Tina took Paul's hand in her. "Dave asked me to marry him tonight and I said yes. I'm so sorry Paul I know that I have just hurt you in so many ways and that you probably don't want to see me again, but I have to follow my heart and it has been telling me everyday since the day I left Dave that I'm suppose to be with him and no one else." Paul wrapped his arms around Tina's crying body and held her close for a minute as he rubbed her back lightly.
"All I want is for you to be happy Tina, that's all I've ever wanted weather you're with me or with Dave; all I want is for you to be happy." Paul pulled Tina back and wiped the tears away from her face. "I'm not mad at you and noting you could ever do would make me mad at you, Tina you and I will always be friends no matter what." He kissed her cheek softly. "I wish you luck with your marriage and I hope that Dave has changed for your, Seheria and Xavier's sake, you three deserve some one that will treat you good. And remember I'm always around if you need someone to talk to even if you need to just vent about that happened on your show." Tina let out a little laugh, she was good about yelling at the TV if something didn't go the way she wanted and then she would turn and tell Paul all about it. "I all I want to say is when you go on you're honeymoon you better leave them babies with me after all I am their God father."
"You are the only person that I trust with my babies." Tina said as they called for Paul's plane to start boarding, Paul stood taking his carry on bag and Tina with him. "I'm going to head back and pack my stuff, if you don't mind I'll leave a few of the baby things behind that way you have a few things when they come to visit."
"That's fine. You had better call me when they learn how to crawl and walk and talk and all that good stuff."
"You will be the first person on the list." Paul leaned in and kissed her on the lips one last time then walked off. Tina watched as he got on the plane then turned and headed back to his house to pack her things and then head back to her home with Dave and their babies.
Once Tina and Dave got home they wasted no time planning their wedding here they were five months later standing in front of their closet family and friends out side in a beautiful Japanese garden that sat behind a very well known hotel in the middle of spring. They decided that they didn't need anything big and fancy just something simple, so with Xavier as the ring bear dressed in the cutest little white tux with a blue tie being carried down the make shift aisle by Randy Orton, Dave's best man, and Seheria as the flower girl dressed in a very pretty light blue frilly dress being carried down the aisle by Stacy, Tina's newest and close friend. The soft orchestra music to the bridal march as everyone stood and turned to the back and watched as Tina and her closest and best friend stepped into view. Dave had not been surprised when Tina asked Paul to give her away at their wedding.
Dave watched as his soon to be wife walked down the aisle dressed in a simple yet very elegant white dress with her curls blowing lightly in the wind as she walked closer to him. Paul turned to Tina and kissed her on the cheek once they reached the end then gave her hand over to Dave and took a seat in the front row.
Tina turned to Dave and smiled through her tears as she recited the vows to love, honor and cherish Dave until death do they part, and then slipped the gold wedding band on his finger. Then listened as Dave recited those same vows to her as he fought the tears that were about to fall and finally did fall once he slipped her gold wedding band on her finger and the Preacher said that favorite line at the end of the ceremony.
"You may now kiss your bride." With everyone standing Dave pulled Tina to him and gave her the softest and most passionate kiss that he had ever given anyone before.
The End
Thank you to everyone, i know it's kind of sudden but i feel that this was the best way to end it, i hope you all agree with me. I have a few other ideas for another story, if i get time within the next couple of weeks i may sit down and start writing that one. Again i want to say a big thanks to every one who read this story and to those of you who have reviewed, and i hope that i did not disappoint anyone with the ending of this story.