He sat partially reclined back in his chair, his fingers laced with his wife of fifteen years. His eyes went from watching their 12 year old son dancing awkwardly with their 9 year old daughter to the face of his smiling wife. After fifteen years he had finally came through on his promise and given her a big wedding that she deserved. His parents both made it this time along with Tina's mom and her new husband, well not technically new since they had been married nearly ten years now. Ryan was an okay dude in Steve's book, he was an awesome grandpa to his and Tina's two kids. So maybe he had been a bit wrong to judge every guy given the title as 'step dad'.
As for Mitch, he did leave and never come back as far as Steve knew. Once him and Tina had returned from their impromptu wedding, much to the shock of Tina's mother, Steve's dad already had a good idea about it just from his actions, he sat down with Tina and let her tell her mom about what she had been dealing with all these years. Her finally opening up that damn of emotions seemed to bridge together mother and daughter, plus it helped with him being gone. Cops were eventually called and it all reported though thankfully it was kept quiet for the most part. Mitch was long gone though and as far as he knew, the man had laid low and never caught and punished for what he had done. Steve still held out the hope all these years that the bastard would be found and held responsible for what he had done.
Tugging his wife's hand he lead her back down onto the dance floor, her pretty white gown hugging her body as it flared out around her feet, the material swishing as he spun her around. Along with family, friends were here this time around too. People from their jobs and even some faces from high school were here as well. As he dipped Tina, doing a much better job than he had done fifteen years ago, he looked up in time to see Park over there across the dance floor, dancing with Eleanor. It'd of been impossible to of missed them in the first place with her riot of red hair wavering around, the thick bouncy curls having failed to change since high school. Only with age did they seem to have been tamed down a bit, losing their wild frizz aspect.
Park's eyes met Steve's who shot the smaller man a wolfish grin along with a wink. Steve found himself happy that Red's step dad hadn't fucked her life completely up either, that only after three months of him marrying Tina that she came back and actually moved in with Park's family giving the neighborhood gossips something to chat about. She had came back a week after her stupid step father, Richie, had been sent to jail for attacking the bar owner that he so frequently visited. With no jail around them he had been sent away to serve out his time never to return once he was released.
Park's kid was going to school with his oldest, the daughter built like the father but sporting her mother's features and wild mass of red hair, her eyes, if he remembered, looked like Park's. If Steve were to look away he'd see that his son had moved from dancing with his sister to dancing with Eleanor and Park's daughter trying to dip her, failing too and dropping her, as well much to his own embarrassment.
Park returned Steve's grin before focusing all of his attention back onto Eleanor, who he spun around causing her hair to flow out behind her like flames. Steve's own attention dropped back down to Tina who was smiling at him, arching her back to give him a small peck on the lips. He tugged her closer to him, letting their bodies press just a bit closer together as they danced letting the happiness of their lives and this moment wash over them both. Content and happy as they shared one more kiss before the pair of them both whispered for only the other to hear, "I love you."