Carolyn Barek, Mike Logan and Their Life
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Chapter VI: Marriage Bells and Marriage Problems
TWO WEEKS LATER
Standing with the judge, priest and her parents, Mike and Carolyn exchanged vows. Both smiling as they placed rings on each other's hands. After the kiss, they signed papers and they were married. Having dinner at Carolyn's brownstone, which they agreed Mike would move into within the next week, the four enjoyed it.
"So...Carolyn, are you sure you aren't jumping into anything? Sweetheart this sudden."
"Papa, Im sure."
That wouldn't be the case three weeks later when they had their first fight, what over was soon forgotten.
THREE WEEKS LATER
"I don't give a damn Mike, this was all a mistake, everything. Us, the baby and the marriage."
She took off her wedding band and engagement ring, throwing them across the room. She left the brownstone and Mike heard the car drive off. He picked up her wedding band and engagement ring. He had began it, he sat on the floor and looked at the rings, he read the engraving inside her wedding band.
1 Corinthians 13:4-6, I will always love you Caro, my partner till death.
The same engraving was inside her engagement ring as well. He placed a hand on his head and ran it through his hair. She was right, it had been a mistake, the only thing that hadn't been a mistake was the fact that he loved her. He loved her with all that he was, he would always love her. Sitting there, he starred at her wedding band, only looking up at the sound of the front door. Carolyn came back in the room, she sat down infront of him on the floor.
"I'm sorry Mike, I didn't mean what I said."
"No Caro, all of this was a mistake. The marriage, us and the baby...we were never meant to have this happen. The only thing that isn't a mistake is the fact that I love you."
She shook her head and looked at him, she took his hands in hers.
"No Mike, none of this was a mistake, most of all is our little girl. She isn't a mistake, she will never be a mistake. Our marriage isn't a mistake, I was mad. I say things I don't mean when I'm mad, I love you and I want this marriage, I want our daughter, I want us to be together. Can you forgive me?"
He placed her wedding band and engagementring on her left hand, she took it was an 'I forgive you'. Mike pulled her into a hug and kissed her head.
"I love you Baby, both of you."
"I love you too Mike, so much."
They sat there for a few minutes, in each other's arms, silently apologizing to each other without words. After a while, Mike pulled back, standing up and helpped her up. They started to the kitchen, it was a complete mess, it was hard to see the floor.
"I'll start cleaning up."
"No Baby, I have it. I started the fight, let me clean up."
"You sure?"
He nodded and stepped around the mess they had made, they had been cooking breakfast when Mike made a comment, Carolyn took it as offensive. Being pregnant, her hormones weren't stable and she started yelling, that started the yelling and throwing. He looked at the mess; eggs, toast, jelly and glass plates laid on the floor. It would be a long clean up mess but he wanted to do it.