"Sure, that divorce decree's bound to have my signature. It was my divorce decree with Gerard!"
"What! Are serious?" Jeremy asked couldn't quite believing what Kat had just said.
"Would I be kidding at time like this?"
"What was your divorce decree with Gerard doing there anyway?" Jeremy asked feeling foolish.
"You see, for 2 years, I couldn't bring myself to look at those papers. I had it sent to me last week so that I could do a test on myself. That morning, I felt strong enough to give it a look and you know what? It didn't have any effect or whatsoever on me," Kat explained. "And at that moment I knew I was ready to move on …with you. And then you acted like total jerk!"
"Well right now I'm feeling like a total jerk…" Jeremy mumbled silently. "But at least I didn't drink a poisonous vial. I mean my mistake can still be corrected."
"Well thankfully," Kat said heaving a sigh.
Both Jeremy and Kat were so caught up with their discoveries that they didn't notice the people who started gathering around them to watch.
"Well then, let me make things right," Jeremy said moving closer to Kat. "I know all about your fear of falling in love again and getting hurt in the process. And it also doesn't help that I don't exactly have an ideal history when it comes to women and serious relationships. But this I can assure you, inevitably there will be pain...but the pain can never outweigh the joy. Kat, you've heard me say this to you a thousand times only this time I mean it. I am here asking for the exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine." And then he asked, "Do you still have our wedding ring?"
Kat nodded.
"That would have to do for the moment," Jeremy then kneeled down.
"Now this I pray,
That thou consent to marry me
Not just for a week
But until I breathe my final day
Here kneels a husband to make you a wife."
The commitment in Jeremy's words moved Kat to tears.
"I am before thou didst request it," Kat said as she affectionately held Jeremy up.
"What do you mean?"
"I haven't filed the papers. I haven't put our divorce into the record and until I do, which I totally wouldn't, we are every bit a husband and wife," Kat said smiling.
"But you know what? I would really be honored to marry you at a church," Jeremy said. "With all our families and friends and Mr. Bailey…"
"Too bad we couldn't invite Shakespeare," Kat said.
"Oh, I'm sure he'll be there in spirit."
Jeremy and Kat smiled at each other and tasted the bliss of their first kiss as "real" husband and wife.
"Hey, I think I know why Shakespeare ended Romeo and Juliet that way," Jeremy said after their lips parted.
"Wherefore?"
"So that we can continue Romeo and Juliet's story and lead them to a happy ending," Jeremy said. "You see, Shakespeare was trying to bring us together all along."
"I couldn't agree more."
Jeremy and Kat kissed once again. They were so caught up in the moment that neither noticed the marvelous display of fireworks in the evening sky nor Mundy and his band that started playing the song "To You I Bestow"
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The following day, everyone received e-mail from Sheryl Ventura with the subject title:
"And never was a story just so meant to be
than this of Kat and Jeremy"