Achilles was out on the beach with his cousin Patrick. They were walking along the water. They felt the soft wet sand sink in with each step they took.
"Are you scared cousin?" Patrick asked
"You know nothing scares me" Achilles answered
"Briseis says otherwise, she says when her water broke she saw fear for the first time in your eyes"
"That is the only time"
"You don't have to pretend to be so strong all the time"
"Who's pretending? I wanted to talk to you about next year"
"What about it?"
"You'll be going off to college, going to find your own way in life. You've been staying at the warehouse this whole time, because you thought you'd get in the way with the baby and Briseis. But you are my family"
"You are starting your own family. I don't want to burden you anymore"
"You were never a burden. But you can stay at the warehouse as long as you like. I have no intentions of selling it, being that the club is doing so well. But you are always welcome to stay with me and Briseis"
"I'd love to visit you guys, but not live there. No offense or anything."
"Are you bringing girls to the warehouse?"
"What? No. I haven't found any that can play video games as well as I can"
" Patrick, what am I going to do with you?" Achilles reached out and put his arm around his cousin and pulled him closer.
Paris and Helen were on the airplane heading to Greece. The two started to act like love struck teenagers.
"So tell me how you came to marry Mathew" Paris asked
"My parent's business wasn't doing so well. My father was in debt. Huge debt. He was about to loose his restaurant, a restaurant that has been in our family for generations. And so Mathew tried to buy it from him, and he refused. He knew that the banks were going to foreclose on us. He made me an offer. I married him to save the restaurant and my family. I married him for the money. You must think I'm a gold digger"
"No. Just a woman that loves her family very much"
"So I married him and became a ghost. A ghost that lived each day wanting to die. But that doesn't matter now"
"I'm sorry to hear that you went through all that"
"It's over now. And I will never be his again. I will never be controlled by a man again. And apparently because my husband and his brother met with unfortunate death, it leaves me the sole controller of Agamemnon Shipping"
"Lucky you"
"I really don't want the money, but at least I won't have to worry about it"
Briseis was in her room changing into her wedding dress. There was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Briseis asked
"It is your uncle"
Briseis opened the door and Priam gasped at her beauty.
"If only your parents were here to see you"
Briseis smiled as he wheeled himself in.
"I have a gift for you my dear"Priam said as he turned himself around
"A gift?"
"Yes, it belonged to your mother," Priam handed her a small box.
Briseis opened it slowly, and inside was a small gold heart shaped locket on a delicate chain. She took it out carefully and opened it. Inside was a picture of her mother and father in their youth. She smiled.
"Your mother wore it on her wedding day as well. She would have wanted you to have it"
"Thank you uncle!" she bent down and hugged him, "You have been both a mother and father to me all these years"
"And you are the daughter I never had"
"Thank you uncle for everything"
"Now child you must get ready for your big day. Hector will be walking you down the aisle as I cannot. The sand does not work well with my wheelchair. Is there a reason why you are having it on the beach?"
"Achilles wanted it. His mother was ill and asked him to take her here to Greece, her homeland. But the doctors would not let him, and so she died and Achilles brought her ashes here and scattered them into the sea. He wanted to be somewhere close to her, somewhere he felt she could watch"
"He's just full of surprises."
Paris and Helen were running through the airport. They pushed through everyone and hoped to get to the wedding before it was too late. They flagged down a cab and Paris tried to remember which hotel they were staying at.
Will Paris and Helen get there in time? Will they ruin the wedding? Will there be another open display of insanity? We still haven 't named the baby either! What will happen next?
