As of the last chapter, this story surpassed 50,000 views, more than any other story of mine so thank you for that.
I know there was a huge delay. I went to America for a while. And started my master's degree. So that hasn't helped my writing. We'll see.
It hasn't been an amazing year, hopefully 2018 will be better. I am sorry this took me so long to update, and I have to admit, it will probably be a long time before I update again. (My Snowing fic/ my degree is more important at the moment) but I have not given up on it. I will finish it at some point.
I am sorry about the long AN. Emotions happen at this time of year, (hence why this story was started at all) so I write. Hope you enjoy this chapter that is shorter than this note, a filler chapter if anything.
Nothing belongs to me. See bottom note.
May 27th 2017
The next Friday was the earliest time Emma and Regina could get an appointment with the wedding planner. By then, while Regina had been working, the blonde had been annotating the list she made with her own ideas, planning to add some things she wanted keeping a surprise to give to the planner.
Best day of my life:
DATE! – as soon as possible!
Venue – Beach? Would Gina hate that?
Reception - Town Hall? Ask Gina, cos she knows SB
Flowers – Sunflowers for Gina. But if it's on the beach, lillies.
Cake – PERFECT IDEA!
Dresses – obviously Gina will chose her own dress. White?
Bridesmaids – Belle/Red/Ella… Gina's? – See if we can get Zelena back for Gina.
- What do I do with mom? – Let her look after Buddy.
Music – First dance either Power of Love or Eternal Flame. Wait… is that too cheesy? Gina hates cheesy. Let her pick. Wait will she hate that? Does she want me to take control? Can the planner choose the music?
Idea – Should we just elope?
She sighed as she realised everything she was thinking about was really cliché and would not suit her fiancée at all. She sighed again as she thought about the love of her life, and the tension that seemed to be growing between them that week.
Emma had managed to talk her way out of showing her diary to Regina, explaining that it was a surprise for their wedding, but it seemed the brunette somehow knew something was going on that Emma was not sharing. They were bickering more that week than they had in a long time, though Emma partly chalked that up to their relationship getting back to normal, and she had to admit Regina bickering was adorable.
One argument they had had that wasn't so adorable was when Emma informed her she was ready to go back to work the next week, trying to 'prove' it by demonstrating her magic that had been getting stronger every day. She'd caused a mini fire in the study when she had a mishap by overexerting herself, and had caused some minor first degree burns on her hands (which Regina had quickly healed), which the brunette used as clear evidence Emma was not fully back to her old self yet and needed a little more time to heal.
Emma had then clearly demonstrated that she was healed enough for certain things when their argument had turned physical and they had finished their argument in the bedroom.
When the pair had woken the next morning, they had argued again before Regina dragged herself from the bed to go to work, two hours later than usual. Her schedule had changed over the past number of weeks and she had been spending less time at the office to be with her fiancée and son, working in her study for a few hours a day over the weekend to allow her to leave work earlier sometimes.
Due to her being late for work the day before she had returned later, and Emma had already been asleep, but when she had woken up that morning, she had relaxed to see Regina curled up in a ball beside her. She had gone downstairs to make Regina breakfast in bed, and they spent an hour cuddled up together watching a movie before Regina's phone rang and she had to get up and go to work.
Hearing the phone ring from Regina's study pulled Emma out of her daydream and she looked again at the list she had been creating before glancing at the clock. It was 1pm, the time she had told the brunette she would pull her away from work for a lunch break, and she ambled into the kitchen, looking through the fridge for ingredients. With a huff she closed her eyes, waving her hands as a goat's cheese salad and a caeser salad appeared before her. She turned her nose up at the cheese, pinching a slice of beetroot that had not touched the dairy product, before picking up two forks and the plates, carrying them to the study. She planned to place them down and go and get them some drinks, but when she pushed the door open and saw Regina with her eyes closed, moving gracefully to the quiet song that was playing through the speakers, singing along to the lyrics at the hook.
"I'll carry the weight, I'll do anything for you, my bones may break, but I'll never be untrue…"
Quietly, before she was noticed, the blonde stepped out of the room, placing the plates on the coffee table as she googled the lyrics she had heard Regina singing in the most beautiful melodic voice she had ever heard.
She found the song quickly and read through the rest of the lyrics, reopening her list of wedding plans to change a note. She put a line through the already written note, adding the one song she knew would be perfect for their first dance.
Music – First dance either Power of Love or Eternal Flame. Wait… is that too cheesy? Gina hates cheesy. Let her pick. Wait will she hate that? Does she want me to take control? Can the planner choose the music?
Serena Ryder – What I Wouldn't Do.
She beamed at the list as it stood, closing her eyes as she pictured her true love dancing so elegantly on her own, and she knew that the day they stood together and said their vows, the day she got to dance to that song beside her, the day she would finally get to call her her wife, would be one of the best days of her life.
NOTE, stole the song idea from… can't remember now, as soon as I remember I will give credit, I did not mean to copy her work or whatever, but I listened to the song when she used it and it just fit perfectly. So thank you, in the unlikely event you're reading this, I loved the story you used this song in and I'm sorry I don't remember who you are atm.
Ok, I must admit it was difficult to get back into this, so I just wrote whatever came into my head. If it contradicts something from previous chapters, I don't really care, I just finished an 11 hour shift at work and I am exhausted and in constant pain after my recent surgery. If I have a spare few (30/120) minutes over the next few weeks, I'll try and add more but you know… priorities…
HAPPY NEW YEAR KIDS.
