One Year Later
Danny leaned his back against the wall, thrust his hands in his pockets and watched as Martin paced nervously up and down
'Marty, relax.'
At the look Martin threw him he grinned 'Oh come on, it's not like you haven't done this before; it should be me getting all worked up'
Martin glared at him and then his face broke into a grin as he looked at his friend 'Yeh, you should be getting all worked up, so why aren't you?'
Danny shrugged carelessly 'after the year I've, well we've had, this is a walk in the park my friend'
Martin nodded looking thoughtfully at Danny 'Well you've had just about everything thrown at the two of you and you've come through OK so I guess this would rate pretty low on the stress scale'
Danny grinned 'Nothing stressful about it, all I have to do is turn up, smile a lot and then get on a plane out of here for two weeks'
Martin was laughing now 'You forgot the bit where you vow to love honour and cherish til death do you part'
Danny shrugged his shoulders again, 'I don't have any problem with that, in fact, I can't wait,'
They both looked up as the minister appeared next to them smiling 'If you gentlemen would like to take your places………………..'
Martin checked his watch in surprise '5 minutes early?'
Danny was laughing, 'She's trying to catch me out, she bet me that she'd be on time and I'd be late'
'Looks like you won the bet then' Martin understood now why Danny had insisted that he wanted them both to be ready a good 30 minutes ahead of when they needed to be, he glanced curiously at his friend, 'and I take it from your expression that it's a bet worth winning'
Danny grinned, 'You don't really expect me to answer that question do you?'
They were both laughing as they took their places in front of the minister and the music started…….