-Planning for Wedding Number One-

(Sorya and Matt)

A/n: Ok guys I am really sorry the last one was so short I will try to make these chapters way longer. And another thing, I am not good with summaries, so plz hang with me. Oh yes and another thing, I am not trying to copy rainpaint , the name of the story had been something I had been thinking about for a long time. Also where it is italicized, Amy is remembering. And if some of these names are wrong please feel free to tell me, I finished the books some while ago.

Amy sighed as she leaned back into the barn wall. It had been a really long day. She was glad to be home. But since returning earlier that day she had tried to avoid Ty. She just couldn't handle it.

Looking down at her hand she noticed the ring that Ty had given her several years back. She remembered being parked on that back road before Ashley's Christmas dance, Ty had told her about the ring when he gave it to her. Even though they were broke up Amy wore it on her finger to this day.

She sniffled quietly using the back of her hand to wipe away her tears. Sundance had lain down in his stall so Amy now used his back as a pillow. Only a few minutes ago she had let the tears run freely down her face.

She could hear the barn radio playing quietly in the distance. It was almost a soothing sound until the song she probably didn't want to hear most, began to play.

She said...
I was seven and you were nine
I looked at you like the stars that shined
In the sky, the pretty lights
And our daddies used to joke about the two of us,
Growing up and fallin' in love
And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyes
And said, "Oh, my, my, my"

That was how it had been. Jack, Amy's grandfather, had always joked about how when they would grow up and get married. That now seemed like so long ago. She could reach back in her memory and remember the time when standing in the barn, the radio was playing away, her and Ty the only ones in the barn at that moment.

Ty reached out and grabbed Amy by the hand. Amy was startled by his actions but as he pulled her into the middle of the barn isle she didn't hesitate to put down her pitchfork and follow him.

He proceeded to drawl him into her and they swayed to the quiet music. His emerald eyes stared into her grey ones and she could feel herself slowly drifting away, becoming lost in the moment.

Ty pulled her closer. Amy simply relaxed, leaning her body fully into Ty's. Her head lying on his chest, she could feel his heart beating steadily.

"Amy?" Ty whispered quietly.

"Yes?" she said trying to find her voice.

"I love you." He said.

Amy wished she could speak clearly, but it seemed as if her voice wouldn't allow it. "I love you too." She said, surprising herself at how wonderful and clear those words were.

Took me back to the house in the backyard tree
Said you'd beat me up you were bigger than me
You never did, you never did
Took me back when our world was one block wide
I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried
Just two kids, you and I
Oh, my, my, my, my

Ty pushed her away gently, but only long enough to look her directly in the eye, before pulling her face towards his. Slowly their heads inclined and their mouths met gently in the middle.

Well I was sixteen when suddenly
I wasn't that little girl you used to see
But your eyes still shined, like pretty lights
And our daddies used to joke about the two of us,
They never believed we'd really fall in love
And our mamas smiled, and rolled their eyes
And said, "Oh, my, my, my"

Amy felt another tear sting her face. She quickly wiped it away, trying at the same time to wash away her memories.

Took me back to the creek beds we turned up
Two A.M. ridin' in your truck
And all I need, is you next to me
Took me back to the time we had our very first fight
Slammin' of doors 'stead of kissin' goodnight
You stayed outside, 'till the morning light
Oh, my, my, my, my

Amy could clearly remember some of their fights. Looking back now they all seemed so dumb.

A few years had gone and come around
We were sittin' at our favorite spot in town
And you looked at me, got down on one knee

Took me back to the time when we walked down the isle
Our whole town came and our mamas cried
You said I do, and I did too
Take me home where we met so many years before
We'll rock our babies on the very front porch
After all this time, you and I
in the sky
Oh, my, my, my

And I'll be eighty-seven, you'll be eighty-nine
I'll still look at you like the stars that shine A few years had gone and come around
We were sittin' at our favorite spot in town
And you looked at me, got down on one knee

This was how she had hoped her life with Ty would have turned out.

A few minutes later she heard footsteps in the barn; she quickly wiped her eyes again, but remained seated. It was Sorya who popped her head over the stall door.

"I thought I would find y…" she trailed off, "Are you ok?" she asked stepping inside the stall as quickly as she could. Sorya crouched down next to her friend, her eyes demanding a clear answer.

"Sure I'm fine." Amy said hurriedly.

"Amy," she paused for a moment. "I know you well, you don't get upset over anything." She said.

"No really I'm fine." But Amy's mind was yelling something else. "It's just that I'm so happy to be home, it has been so long."

Sorya eyed her skeptically, but she seemed to give her the ok. She stood up stretching her legs. "C'mon lets go inside."

Amy reluctantly stood up and followed her friend inside.

A few moments later Amy sneaked past all of the guests and made her way upstairs. Walking into her room she saw all of her pictures she hadn't seen in so long, everything in her room looked like how she had left it.

Looking in the mirror she saw that her eyes were red.

"What is wrong with me?" she whispered. "I should be happy for Ty and move on, I can't live like this." She said letting her last tear fall.

Amy grabbed a pop as she headed into the living room where several people were gathered, including Ty and Reagan. Sorya and Matt sat nearby talking to them.

Amy walked over and sat down next to Sorya. "There you are she said."

"Yeah, we haven't seen much of you." Matt chimed in.

Amy just shrugged. They began to talk about her vetting, and where she would work, and how things had been when she was gone.

By the end of the night Amy was tired out, most of the guests had gone home except for Sorya, Matt, Reagan, Ty, and a few others.

"Oh…" Matt groaned as he stood up to stretch his legs, "We better get going chick-a-dee." He said with a smile in Sorya's direction.

Sorya groaned at the use at that nickname, "Yeah we better run, my parents might be wondering where I am." She said lightly. "Hey Amy, you wanna go for a ride tomorrow so we can catch up." She said her eyes gleaming.

"Oh sure, then we can talk." Amy said using her fingers to make bunny ears around the talk.

"Girls." Ty said.

"Yes and you are about to marry one of them." Reagan said grinning.

Amy gritted her teeth, looking down at her empty pop can. She gasped hopping Ty hadn't seen the ring that she was still wearing. When he looked away she quickly slipped it off her finger and pocketed it before he noticed.

"Well we better go too." Ty pointed out.

Amy got up and followed them to the door. Amy reached out to give Sorya and Matt a hug, and again thanking them for coming. Sorya smiled as she and Matt made their way out the door.

"Reagan, why don't you go get in the truck, I have to grab a few things." Ty stated.

"Ok." she said before reaching up to kiss him lightly on the cheek.

Amy winced and looked down as she did so.

Reagan left leaving Ty and Amy standing in the entry way all alone. Amy looked up but wasn't able to meet his gaze.

"I..." Ty and Amy both said at the same time.

"No you go ahead." Amy said.

"No you." he said.

"I..." they both said again at the same time.

"Ok I'm gonna talk first,"Ty said with a grin before either could say something again at the same tiime.

Amy could now meet his gaze. They had both grown up alot.

"Amy, it is so good to have you back, I really missed you." he said looking down at her.

"Ty it's good to see you too. I am happy for you and Reagan." the words left her mouth like a robot, they felt so bitter to her toung it was hard to show her untrue happieness for them. She had been trying for the last half hour to convince herself that she was happy fo the two of them, but when she said she was, the words still didn't sound true. Amy hopped that Ty hadn't noticed.

Ty reached out and wrapped her in a hug. Amy couldn't help but notice how easily their bodys fit together, like the peices of a puzzel.

"Goddbye Amy." he said. But before he left he bent down to kiss her lightly on the cheek. " I'm glad your home." he said and then he walked out the door.

Amy reached up and touched the place where he had kissed her, she wished it was she who were marrying him instead.

Ty climbed into the truck and turned to his fiancee' "Ready?" he asked.

"Absolutely." Reagan said sliding to the middle seat by Ty.

They drove in silence until they were nearing Reagan's house. Ty was the first to break the silence.

"Reagan?" he said looking down at the girl who had her head on his shoulder, his fiancee', he liked the sound of the words.

"Yes?" she said quietly.

"I need you to know something." Ty said struggeling with his words.

"Yes?" she said again, now sitting up to face him.

"Well I need you to know that me and Amy, well...we have had a history together...I just don't that to bother you..." he said trailing off.

"Well it is over now isn't it?" she asked.

"Yes..." he said "We are just really good friends now."

"Ok then there is nothing to worry about is there?"

"No." Ty said with a sigh of relief.

Ty stopped the truck in front of the little appartment home that Reagan owned in the middle of town. "Well I guess I will call you." he said.

"You better." Reagan stated.

"I will." he said.

They leaned into each other sharing one long kiss before Reagan climbed out of his truck. "Goodbye my husband-to-be." she said as she waved goodbye.

"Three more months." Ty said after her.

"And counting." Reagan hollered as he pulled away.

Amy walked out of the barn early the next day, pushing the wheel barrow in front of her. She hadn't even been home for 24 hours yet. She covered her hand to hide a yawn as she dumped the wheel barrow. As she pushed it back inside she could here the quite vroom of a vehicle pulling into the drive, supposing it was Ty she went on about her work. But a familar voice behind her interupted her thoughts causing her to turn around.

"Well it's about time for you to come home." Joni said.

Amy turned and ran to her friend, "Joni!" she said wrapping her in a warm embrace.

"How are you doing?" Joni asked her.

"Oh I'm ok." Amy said stepping back. "So how has life treated you?"

"Pretty good actually!" she said.

"So hows the husband?" Amy asked getting a sly look on her face.

Joni had been married a week after Nancy and Amy's grandfather had been married, but thankfully both weddings had been planned on Amy's break so she could attend both. Nancy and Joni were both going on being married for three years.

"Oh pretty good." Joni said rolling her eyes. "What have you done already?"

"The haynets and the stalls have been filled and cleaned."

Joni's eyes widened "You just got home Amy why are you doing all of this?" she said getting almost a motherely look in her eyes.

"Because I miss it." Amy said.

Joni shook her head "Amy, Amy, Amy..." she said trailing off.

Amy grinned before turning around to finish her work.

"Oh and Amy." Joni said catching her in mid-stride.

Amy turned around again to face her friend.

"You need to help me come up with names." she said smiling.

Amy gasped in delight, running to give her friend another hug. "I am so happy for you!!" she said, before stepping back. "Now wait shouldn't I be asking you what you are doing here?"

"I'm finr for now." Joni said walking to the feed room, "Like you said I miss it..." she said grinning.

Amy laughed and both girls began to finish there chores.

Later Ty appeared walking down through the barn and began to help also with the everyday routine. "Hey Amy." he said walking to her, "What do you think you are doing in here, you are suppose to be taking a break."

"A break?" Amy said trying to dound as cheerful as possible "You want me to take a break right after I get back from being on about a 8 year break?"

"Yes, now I'm demanding you to leave, and plus the fact you prommised to go for a ride with Sorya and she just pulled in." he said with a smile. Ty started to shoo her out of the barn with his hands and then he took away the can of feed she was holding. "Now go! And no sneaking back in. I'll get two horses ready."

"But T..." she tried to say before he cut her off.

"No buts...go." he said grinning at her.

"Fine..." she said as she began to laugh. Amy turned and jogged to Sorya's car in the drive way, it had almost felt like old times.

Back in the barn Joni turned to Ty "How did you get her to leave?" she questioned him.

"It's magic." Ty said with a smile.

Amy and Sorya sat side by side in the kitchen. Amy's Dad and his wife and their daughter were gathered around the table with Nancy, Jack and Amy's niece who had spent the night, Kiley. Lou and Scott had planned to go into town early that morning and Kiley hated going to town so she had just stayed the night.

"Grandma?" Kiley asked. Nancy looked down Lou's daughter.

Amy could remember that when Nancy had married Jack the thought had never occured to call her Grandma, Amy had been the one to start the trend. Lou was gone and Nancy was the only one in the house but Amy hadn't known. She and Ty had just broke up, she had started telling herself how stupid she and yelling at herself when Nancy walked in to ask if she was ok. She had cried the whole story out to her, as of why she was upset anyway, and thats when she told her that how she really appreciated her. When she was ready to go back to Virginia Tech later that afternoon she hugged Nancy telling her how much of a Grandmother she had been to her. Kiley was four at the time and when she heard Amy saying Grandma she took delight in saying it to so every since then Amy, Lou, and Kiley had called her Grandma.

Amy smiled at her niece and continued to eat her breakfast.

Amy's father and Helena stood up grabbing there daughters they began to tell everyone goodbye.

"It was good to see you, Nancy." Tim said giving her a quick peck on the cheek.

"Oh...good to see you too. Now," she said. " You be careful and have a safe flight, call us soon!"

"We will." Helena said.

Amy followed them out the door. As they neered the corner of the house they could see the cab pulling up the long drive way.

"I guess this is goodbye?" Tim asked.

"Only if you make it that way." Amy said, repeating the lines that they had said to one another since the very first time they had met.

Tim grinned at his daughter, his smile covering most of his face.

"You will call won't you?" Amy said half leaping into his arms for a hug.

"Of courses we will." her father, Tim, said hugging her back. He released his daughter.

"You be good now girls." Amy said to her step sisters. She gave both of their little bodys a tight squeeze before standing up eye level with Helena. Amy reached out and hugged her, "I'm going to miss you." Even though Amy would probably never call her step mother mom, they were still friends.

"Take care of yourself, Amy, we love you." she released her step daughter giving her hand a final squeeze stepped back to get into the cab.

As the cab pulled away Amy saw Sorya walking out of the house. Walking over to her friend they both walked to the barn.

Soon Amy and Sorya were riding and talking like Amy had never been gone.

"It was a Saturday afternoon, " Sorya continued the story of how Matt had proposed.

Amy was so excited for her friends who would soon be marrried in 1 week.

"He took me riding on his brothers ranch, we stayed out really late and so he built a little fire, oh it was so romantic..." she sighed.

Amy rolled her eyes at her friend and nodded at her to continue her story.

"Anyways he got down on one knee and proposed!" Sorya half squeeled.

A little later the two girls were cantering up the ridge side by side. It felt so good to be back on Sundance's back again. She smiled as the sun began to set. The girls had stayed out riding all afternoon as if to make up for the time they had lost from being away from one another. Sorya had explained the reason Matt had waited so long was because he had wanted them both to have been out of college. They talked about how the school life had been to Amy and what England was like. But soon the two girls were tired out and with the sun setting in front of them they walke slowly home.