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Chapter 32

Natalie held her stomach and looked up at John.

"What is it Babe? Is it the baby?" John asked concern growing inside of him till he saw her smile

"Yeah, it's the baby, I think.. I think I just felt her move, not really a movement but a flutter"

" A what? "

" A flutter, it's sort like a movement but not real strong of one yet, not sure if you'll be able to feel anything, wanna try and feel your daughter" she asked him and he put his hand on her stomach

"You mean my son" John said with a smirk

"What ever" she said with a smile, John continued to hold his hand on her stomach for a few minutes, not being able to feel anything yet.

" Nothing, huh? It won't be long now thou, soon, you should be able to feel her move soon"

"Him" John said with a smile and took her hand, he lead her to the bedroom us they could officially make up.

The next day went by fast, it was Saturday morning, the morning that they would be married at Llanview, John had stayed at the cottage last night and Jessica had insisted that Nat stay with her at the carriage house. Nash had stayed taken Alissa and stayed somewhere else for the night, so the girls could have some alone time together, something they hadn't had in along time.

John had arrived at Llanfair about an hour before the ceremony; he and Michael were getting ready in one of the spare bedrooms.

Natalie was getting dressed in the Carriage house, Jessica had just finished helping to put her hair up and Natalie was finishing her make up, she smiled at herself as she looked at herself in the full length mirror, she touched her baby gently and continued to smile as Jessica walked back in the room.

"Hey" Jess said and she smiled

"What?" Natalie said and she looked back at her thru the mirror.

" You look beautiful, I don't thing I've ever seen you look this good before"

"Thanks, are you trying to tell me I always look bad" Natalie told her joking

"You know what I mean, this is good Nat, you've finally found it"

"Found what"

"The part of you that you've been missing"

"Your heart" Jessica told her and Natalie smiled

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Inside Llanfair

John was walking into the living room a few minutes ahead of schedule, he saw Alissa with her coat on as she came running toward him.

"Hey" John said to Alissa as she ran almost into him

"Hi, Uncle John, I can start right? It's okay?" she said to him

"Yup, it's almost official so you can start calling me that, when did the snow start?" John asked the little girl as he saw she had snow on her shoes and then he walked closer to the French doors and noticed it was really coming down a lot.

"Awhile ago uncle Johnny" she said and smiled at him, he smiled back at the use of her again saying uncle and this time Johnny instead of John, he preferred that, it just sounded better to him. After a few minutes of them looking at the snow Alissa remembered.

" I've gotta go get Mommy, grand says she needs help with the flowers" Alissa said as she started to skip off towards the terrace

"Wait honey, wait, are you going to the carriage house?" he asked and she nodded her head yes

"Can you give Aunt Natalie a message from me" He asked her, she again nodded and he whispered it in her ear. Alissa smiled at first but then got a goofy look on her face.

"Yuck!" she said and she was off skipping out onto the terrace headed towards the carriage house.

John met up with Michael and they both stood in front of the room and spoke with the priest about the ceremony as family and friends began to take their seats.

Carriage House

" Mommy, Grandma needs you" Alissa said as she entered the Carriage House, she looked and saw Natalie and her mom finishing up with Nat's zipper on her dress.

"Wow! Your look nice Aunt Natalie, real nice" Alissa said and Natalie smiled

"So do you sweetie, so do you" Nat said as she continued to smile at the girl

"Nat you're just about ready, I'll meet you in the kitchen by the back door as we planned." Jess told her and then she grabbed Alissa hand before putting on her coat.

" Alissa honey lets get you all set with your flowers at the house" Jess said and she and Alissa left the room to go to the House.

A few minutes later on the path to the house Alissa remembered she had to give her Aunt the message from John, she told her mom she'd catch back up to her and headed towards the carriage house.

Natalie was again watching herself in the mirror, trying to imagine how handsome John must be looking in his tux, she laughed a little remembering how she thought he'd give her a hard time about wearing one but he surprised her and didn't. She was continuing with her thoughts as this time she did really think she felt the baby move, she leaned her head down and looked at her stomach as her hand tried to feel the kick, she didn't even realize it when someone put their hand over her mouth with a rag, a rag that obviously had something on it to make her sleep, Natalie feel limp into his arms, she was being carried out thru the back French doors of the carriage house.

Fifteen minutes later the ceremony was going to be starting and Jessica had just finished helping with the flower problem, she headed back towards the Carriage house surprised that Natalie wasn't at the back door yet as she should have been by now.

Jessica entered the carriage house and didn't see anyone

"Nat, Natalie" she called out and she looked all around the house but couldn't find her, she didn't even see Alissa, they were probably at the house somewhere and she just missed them. She walked back up to the house.

Jessica entered the house thru the kitchen again, she opened the door slightly and saw John standing in the front of the living room looking around, they were ten minutes behind schedule, Jessica went up the kitchen stairs to look for Natalie and even Alissa, but they were no where to be found, finally she came down the stairs in the foyer and she saw Alissa sitting on the bench kicking her feet around kicking off the snow from her shoes.

"Alissa Honey, were have you been? Do your know where your aunt is?" Jessica asked the girl as the girl paused for a few minutes. Alissa just looked down to her shoes.

In the living room

John was curious to what was going on, he was getting a little bit nervous, Natalie should have been down the aisle and holding his arm by now, something didn't feel right. He excused himself from the priest and walked into the foyer to hear Alissa finally tell her mom about Natalie.

"She left with Uncle Chris" The kid said upset when Jessica turned to see John standing behind her.