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A/N: Happy Sunday my wonderful readers. We've got a short but very sweet chapter today. I'm hoping you guys enjoy this one too. As always don't forget to leave a review and I'll see you guys next week!

Chapter 32


Sabrina: The Gold's are up to something, but Seth and I are completely out of the loop. I'm not entirely surprised. It feels a little bit like revenge for not including them in the wedding. We kept apologizing but it was a sore point and we knew that. We're having our baby-shower, which is going to be a surprise gender reveal for our family and friends, at Seth's parent's place because it's bigger. At Lilli's request I've let her plan all the details, only I know about the gender reveal part because it's our surprise for the family. I just wish I knew what Lilli and Les were up to.


They day of the party, no one will let Sabrina stand up. Which makes sense because she's finally starting to balloon. Not even I am letting her stand. This is her baby shower, she's the one carrying the baby, she's not lifting a finger to help out, she's just to sit there and accept small talk and gifts. That's it.

The gender reveal is set and ready to go, and I've been told to guard the goddamn cupcakes to make sure no one touches them until it's time.

This is hard because I'm no where near Sabrina and my primal protective urges are in full swing now that she's pregnant and showing. On top of that she has my daughter in her arms, and Sierra wants me and she is making that known. So not only are my protective husband urges showing, my fatherly instincts are kicking into overdrive.

Every time she burps, or sneezes or makes any sort of sound of distress the urge to check on her takes over. And of course, every couple of minutes or so Sierra screeches for me and I go to pick her up but she get's bored at the snack table with me and I have to bring her back to her mom.

What's annoying me though is that every time I appear in the house and beside her she's immediately shooing me away. Which is not appreciated because I'm her husband and the father of her kids and I feel like she should love me and want me to be around her, instead of banishing me to the snack table to guard that stupid cupcake tree.

My dad has told me twice now that he has an announcement to make, which I keep telling him is fine so long it's after our announcement. But he pairs this reminder with a smug smirk and a so you better be ready, every time and it's making me nervous.

By the time all of guests arrive I'm a wreck. Normally I'm more sociable at these parties but I'm a big grumpy ball of nerves. I'm worried about making another announcement like this, so shortly after our wedding one. We've not even been married two years and we're on kid number two. And we're surprising them again with something, sooner or later our friends and family were going to get sick of our shenanigans.

We have the surprise planned for halfway through the party, and by then Sabrina is up and standing by my side. We've played all the important baby shower games, handed our daughter off my mom who is happily bouncing her up and down, and now it's time to hand out the cupcakes.

Sabrina has this large smile on her face as she instructs everyone to take a cupcake from the tree. Everyone does as requested and then the two of us are holding cupcakes in one hand and each other's hands in the other.

"Alright, so we have some news that we wanted to share…"

"It's a gender reveal!" Ashley cries I shoot a glare at her. Really? She had to hijack our gender reveal? You know, I never pulled this shit when Ashley was pregnant.

"Yes. So, let's have everyone take a bite and we'll see what color's inside!"

Everyone happily bit in, where the icing in the middle was revealed to be blue.

Loud chimes of: "It's a boy!" came from almost everyone as both Sabrina and I smiled. She had given me her cupcake at this point as she hadn't been able to stomach icing for a while, the baby was a fussy eater already.

"A boy!" my parents cry almost in sync as they come up to hug and congratulate us.

"Do you have a name picked?" my mom asks.

"Sebastian," Sabrina says immediately and I sigh because it's not the name I'd really like but I can't seem to talk her out of it and if we're going to be honest it's growing on me.

Without skipping a beat my dad has us pushed to the side to address the crowd in our backyard. "Alright folks, don't go anywhere yet, we have another surprise for everyone."

Sabrina glances to me and I just shrug.

"Well, we've all come to terms, essentially with never getting that real wedding we were promised almost a year and a half ago. So we've decided, since we have everyone here, that we'd fix that."

Okay, so yeah, we hadn't gotten around to renewing out wedding vows in a giant ceremony like my parents wanted, but… we hadn't even celebrated our wedding anniversary. Not really, not since the due date for Sierra was so close to that date. We had a nice dinner at home and watched her favourite movie.

But what the hell did his dad mean that they were going to fix the wedding thing right now?

"So, for all of our honored guests, please get ready for the next event, which will be a tasteful little wedding in our own back yard. If you would please go inside for refreshments, within the hour we will have the chairs set up, and the bride and groom ready to go."

Both Sabrina and I turned shocked eyes first to my dad and then one another. We were doing what now?


Les: Our announcement went about as well as I thought it would. At first Seth and Sabrina argued with us. They didn't want a big wedding, they didn't want to put us out. But once they realized that we had everything set and ready to go, and most importantly already paid for, they stopped. Lilli took Sierra again, Ashley got Sabrina into her white summer dress and helped with her make up and hair, not that she needed much help. And Ashley's husband got Seth into his suit. I made sure that the chairs were set up and the priest was in our gazebo. When we were set, with Set waiting in the gazebo in a nice light grey suit with a pink tie, and the music cued, it was time for us to get what we wanted. To see my son marry the woman he loved.


I'm walking down the aisle again. This time, Les is walking me and not Elvis. Behind me is Ashley and Lili, both of which are acting as brides' maids, and with them is Sierra. Seth is standing with Ashley's husband, and no doubt, Les will be one of the groomsmen too.

I'm in a flowing white dress, short like my first wedding dress, though I'm a whale compared to our last wedding. Both women said they had picked a flowing white gown so it's somewhat hidden, but there's no hiding this massive baby bump. But when Seth turns to look at me and I stop worrying about how I look and all I see is him.

He looks so handsome standing there in a grey suit, and he looks like he's about to cry. So I know, even if I don't think so, he thinks I look absolutely beautiful and that is all I need.

Les hands me up to the make shift altar where Seth takes my hand and his grip is tight but shaky. I smile at him encouragingly and he smiles back, letting go of my hand only once only to wipe a manly tear away.

"Let's get this started, shall we?" the priest asks and I turn to him, more then ready to get this started. "And we'll make it quick, seeing as we have such a nice party to get back to."

At that everyone laughed and just like he said. He went right back into it.


Seth: It wasn't a wedding, per say, as it was a re-affirmation of our vows. In front of all our family and friends, just like my parents wanted. Les got to walk Sabrina down the aisle like he had always promised, and he got to give her away which was an added bonus. Having our daughter there to witness the wedding also made it special.

I never thought our baby shower would turn out like this but honestly, I wouldn't have had it any other way. Now we can finally put this to rest, and we can start the next chapter of our family without a single regret or mark against us.