Author's Note: Yay! Off to a running start, um, anyway, enjoy this chapter, the Ducks will actually get down to Florida in the next one and we'll get some of the awesome Duck shenanigans (Yes, I said shenanigans) but the set up was longer than I thought it would be so I split it into two chapters! Review Please!
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Chapter 2: Oops
"Oh my God!" Aimee screamed.
"What?" Luis ran out of the bathroom, pants still around his knees. "What's wrong?"
"Our wedding planner," she started hyperventilating, "Just left, with all the money. Police say might not find her." His eyes got huge, they'd been scrimping and saving the money for the wedding for two years now. It hadn't been much, but now they had nothing. "Oh my God."
"OK," Luis said, "It's fine, we can fix this."
"Fix it?" Aimee said, "How?"
"Well," he thought and then it came to him, "We don't need a wedding planner, we have Julie."
"JULIE?" She shouted, "We don't even know if she's coming!"
"She'll come for this." He assured her, "This is right up her ally, she'd get to micro manage a whole wedding, and do all kinds of last minute planning stuff. She loves crap like that."
"But the money Luis!" Aimee said, "We can't pay for anything."
"We'll work it out!" He rubbed her arms, "I promise OK? You will get your dream wedding Princess!" He stood up and went to the phone and dialed.
"Hello?" Julie answered.
"Jules," He said, "It's Luis,"
"Listen," she cut him off, "I already told Connie, I'm thinking about it OK? I'm just not sure that I'm ready to be back there,"
"What?" He said, "No this isn't about you and your stupid reasons for not wanting to come to my wedding. I need you and your sick management skills Julie. Have you ever planned a wedding?"
"The wedding is in less than a month," Julie laughed, "Even I can't pull that off."
"Yes you can," He smiled, "Come on, everyone still talks about that Christmas, or Connie and Guy's wedding, or Eric's christening. This is your job now Jules! You're an event planner!"
"Fine," She sighed, "What's the budget?"
"Um, no budget," He said.
"Like I can spend whatever I want no budget?" She said excitedly.
"Uh, no," He said, "More like, we don't have any more money no budget."
"You are so lucky I don't have a boyfriend anymore and I need something to do with my time," She sighed and hung up the phone and groaned pulling a pillow over her face. The last thing she wanted to do right know was wrangle the Ducks into Orlando!
"Come on baby," Connie sighed bouncing her seventeen month old son Eric against her shoulder as he cried. It seemed like all he did was cry. Whenever she mentioned it to Julie, she always joked that it was punishment for all the sex she and Guy had had over the past ten years.
"Hey," Guy walked in and took him, "Eric!" He said, shaking the toddler in front of him, "What's the deal buddy? What's the deal?"
"Dada!" Eric laughed.
"Sure, for you he shuts up," Connie laughed. Guy smiled sitting down on the couch and laying Eric down in front of him and rasberrying his stomach. "You're encouraging this behavior, I'll have you know!"
"Uh Oh, Eric," Guy sat him up, "Mommy's crabby!"
"Mommy has to go try on her bridesmaid's dress before the store closes," She sighed, "You gonna be OK?"
"Yeah," Guy said, "We'll be fine. Have we mentioned to Eric about the whole M-I-C-K-E-Y business yet."
"Mm, because I really want to deal with him shouting about all day for the next four weeks," Connie nodded, "No, maybe we'll tell him on the plane. Maybe!"
"Alright," Guy laughed.
"Dada, Abam!" Eric pointed at the TV.
"Yeah," Guy laughed, "That's Adam. He knows the Ducks Cons!"
"Yes, he's very smart," Connie said, "See if he can transfer some of that intelligence to the potty tonight?"
"Eric hate the potty!" The little boy crossed his arms.
"From the horse's mouth," Guy said.
"Well, unless the horse starts using the potty he won't get to meet M-I-C-K-E-Y, because I'm not changing diapers every four hours in D-I-S-N-E-Y," Connie laughed and kissed her husband. "I'll be back. Don't forget to call Adam to congratulate him!"
Adam looked at his computer, and checked his email. Between the congratulations from the Ducks and his agent's office was the one he was really looking for.
Hey Superstar!
Great game (Or well, great ESPN highlights, I was working so I couldn't actually watch it) Super proud of you and I can't wait to see you in a few weeks. Aimee actually managed to pick an extremely non heinous bridesmaid's dress. Anyway, congratulations, I hope you'll let me kiss your ring when you get down here!
Love you,
Sherry
He smiled. Hearing from Sherry always made him happy, they'd stayed in touch and become the best of friends, actually he'd fallen in love with her. He had a feeling that she felt the same way, although she stayed with Derek.
"Adam?" A young woman with her blonde hair piled on top of her head peaked into the office. "Are you coming back to bed?"
"Yeah," He nodded, "I'll be right there." She walked over and wrapped her arms around him from behind and kissed him, "Hi."
"I had so much fun last night," She giggled, "The luxury box, and the party," She kissed him, "After the party."
"Yeah," He smiled, "I liked that part too." She giggled again and they kissed, "Listen Mel," He said as she settled into his lap and started to kiss his neck, "I've got kind of a busy day, with ESPN and team stuff, and, you're welcome to hang out, but I'm gonna be in and out."
"I can take a hint," She kissed him gently. "I'll get out of the way." She stood up.
"Um, Melissa," He said, she turned on her way out, "Are you at all interested in going to Florida in a month?"
"What?" She laughed.
"I'm going to Florida, next month, for this wedding," He said, "I could use a date."
"Yeah," She said, "That sounds fun."
"Great," He smiled, "I'll call you," She looked at him skeptically, "Or my assistant will call your assistant." She laughed and walked out. Melissa Rubens was an up and coming fashion designer who he'd been seeing since December, he liked her, she just, wasn't Sherry.
"I can't stand the son of a bitch!" Sherry shouted slamming Luis and Aimee's door. Luis popped his head out tentatively.
"Hey Sher," He said cautiously.
"You know I think she's like 19 this time," She sighed, "Hi, do you have anything alcoholic?"
"Beer in the fridge," He pointed, she nodded and got one. "Um, so how are things with Derek?"
"There's this new Cinderella," Sherry sighed, "She's like a total whore, and she's all over him and he's totally into it."
"You know, Banksie's going to be down here for the wedding," Luis smiled. Sherry rolled her eyes.
"Where's Aimee?" She said.
"Um, Aimee took a sleeping pill," He grimaced, "But she didn't exactly know she took it," Sherry looked at him, "She was freaking out, I mashed it up and put it in her water."
"You drugged your girlfriend?" She looked at him.
"She needed it," He shook his head, "Our wedding planner took off with our money."
"Told you, you should have just had Julie do it," Sherry laughed, "But nooo Aimee had to have a real wedding planner!"
"Well, Julie's in charge now," Luis shrugged, "You OK?"
"Yeah," Sherry sighed, "I should break up with him shouldn't I?"
"Yes," Luis nodded simply.
"Wow, Mendoza," She nodded, "Tell me how you really feel."
"Look, this has nothing to do with how I don't like Derek, which I don't," He explained, "This is about the he's a worthless asshole who cheats on you thing. And," He pointed out, "You have a Stanley Cup Champion in love with you."
"Adam's not in love with me," Sherry said, "We're just friends."
"Of course you are," Luis nodded.
"OK," Julie was talking to Aimee on the phone a few days later, "I went online and did some research, and I don't think you're going to love this,"
"I already don't love it since you said that," Aimee sighed, "But I'll take anything at this point."
"A Disney wedding," Julie said, "They give major price breaks to employees."
"I don't work there anymore," Aimee said, "And I'm not going back, I have a nice 9 to 5 job now."
"Will you let me finish?" Julie sighed, "I made a call, the woman who runs it remembers you, says they can still give it to you. If, and it's a big if Aimee," she stipulated, "You have to let them use the pictures for a brochure."
"WHAT?" Aimee said, "Are you kidding me?"
"You'd get everything free," Julie said, "And copies of everything."
"God, I gave them two and half years of my life," Aimee shook her head, "And now they're taking my wedding."
"I know," Julie said sympathetically, "I'm really sorry Aimee. I know it's not perfect, but I think it's the best bet."
"You're right," she sighed, "I don't have to dress up as Belle or anything right?"
"No," Julie said, "Although they'll need to,"
"Sign off of my dress," she finished, "I figured. Give me the info I need." Julie read off the numbers of the people Aimee needed to call. "OK, so now we talk about you."
"Goody," Julie said sarcastically.
"You need to come down now Jules," Aimee said, "there's no getting around it. But what I don't get is why you didn't want to come down in the first place. I was under the impression that you love it here."
"Loved," Julie said, "Past tense, as in I loved Orlando when someone loved me."
"Too many memories?" Aimee said.
"Pretty much," Julie sighed. "I'm not ready to talk to him, let alone talk to him in the same city where,"
"You for some reason had every defining moment in your relationship?" Aimee laughed.
"Yeah," Julie sighed.
"I'll uninvite him!" Aimee said, "I like you better anyway."
"No," Julie sighed, "I'll deal. I have to talk to him eventually."
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