Chapter 16: Nice Room

Luke and Reid walk in the bridal suite that was paid for, for the wedding that never happened. They went in there to clean away all the treats that were lying around.

"This is a nice room" said Reid

Reid walks over to the bed and feels the texture.

"Nice firm bed. It's got cable right?" said Reid

"You want to hang out here?' asked Luke

"I think you need a breather"

"From what?"

"You must be tired, first you had to get Abigail calm down, then got the kids to their play over sleep date thingy" said Reid cute.

"Sleep over" said Luke

"What do you want to do pack all this stuff up and bring it back to the farm?" asked Reid looking at the huge basket of fruit and sparkling cider.

"Just take a breath" said Reid

"And what think about how upsetting all this was today for my father. No, no, I got to get home want to help pack those flowers."

Reid was still looking around the room and Luke put some grapes in his mouth.

"The room is paid for, this must be paid for right?' asked Reid

"Meaning?" asked Luke with a mouthful of grapes.

"Meaning, there's food and I know you don't drink champagne but there's this fancy sparkling water crap, we could make a toast to whatever"

"Is this your way of making me feel better" said Luke with a huge grin on his face.

"It's my way of trying to point out to you as thick headed as you seem to be that we are alone"

"In the bridal suite" said Luke

Reid just shook his head.

"So the wedding didn't happen but we did" said Reid

"Yeah we did finally" said Luke moving closer to Reid

"I didn't insult anybody as far as I know" said Reid

"No, no you were great. The kids had a great time with you"

"And I had a great time with the kids when they weren't screaming and acting like animals" said Reid then both men laughed and smiled.

"You were great thank you" said Luke softly

"You're welcome" said Reid just as softly as he moved in closer to Luke for a kiss.

Luke put his fingers through Reid's hair as they kissed gently but Luke deepened the kiss and pulled on Reid's hair and the back of his neck and it was red with Luke's finger prints.

Reid stopped the kiss. Luke licked his lips.

"So, what about that toast?" asked Reid

Luke just nodded his head.

"I'd like that"

Reid picked up the bottle of sparking cider and popped the cork off of it as Luke went to sit on the bed. Reid poured the cider into two glasses and sat next to Luke. Reid placed one knee on the bed and turned to face Luke and handed Luke one of glasses of cider.

"I'm not really good at this things, but I'll try" said Reid, Luke just smiled deeply.

"Well, here goes, to us may we have a happy long future together with whatever diversities come our way"

"Couldn't have said it better if I tried" said Luke

They clinked glasses and both downed the cider as if it were a shot.

"That's not bad" said Reid looking down at his empty glass.

Luke got up and poured there glasses with cider again.

"My turn" said Luke as he handed Reid his glass. Luke held on to one of Reid's hands.

"It's not really a toast, there's just some things I need to say."

"I'm all ears" said Reid with a grin.

"I just wanted to say even though you must have been really tired after a long shift at the hospital I'm grateful to you that you came here tonight, I really wasn't expecting it after said you wouldn't be here."

"Hey, I wanted to be with you, tired or not, it took us a long time to get to this point and I wasn't going to throw it away, I should be thanking you for wanting me to be here with all your family and friends."

"You're part of it now all of it"

They held hands and took their shot of cider.

They took their jackets off and laid them down nicely on the floor as well as their shoes. Reid got up and took a pear from the fruit basket and took a huge chunk out of it then sat down next to Luke.

"What a bite?" asked Reid

"Sure"

Luke took a bite and the juice from the pear went all over Luke's mouth.

Reid kissed the juice away from Luke's mouth.

"Yummy" said Reid with a wink of an eye.

Luke blushed and smiled.

They laid down with their heads against the head board and Reid put the TV on. Luke lowered his head onto Reid's chest and wrapped his arms around Reid's waist The last thing he felt before drifting off into a peaceful slumber was Reid kissing his head