"I'll Walk" Sequel:
The Wedding Duet
Finally the Sequel you have all been waiting for! Sorry it took so long! I've taken about 7 songs and mixed them together to make this. Eddie and Loren will both be singing this song. Loren's will be BOLD and Italicizes, Eddie's will be BOLD and Underlined, and when they both sing it will just be BOLD. This was really hard to write so I hope you all like it. Also just know, I had to change some words in a few of the songs.
Dedication to: Lovely- you were the first person who wanted me to keep writing and that's what inspired me to find out if others did too
Dedication to: Marirosa1979- you were the first review and it made my day! thank you so much!
Dedication to: HollywoodHeights1Fan- didn't mean to make you cry, but im glad it spoke to you
Dedication to: Christina- thank you so much for you review! really made me feel better about the story
Loren is holding onto Max and walking down the aisle. These are the thoughts running through their mind. The song is an afterthought, they, basically, write down their thoughts and it becomes a duet. They are not singing the song, just like the last one.
Loren: Eddie and I have been together so long, but even when we just met he had already changed my ways. And maybe I've changed his too.
Eddie:Loren and I have both defiantly changed each other. From the day I met her I changed! I stopped hanging out as much with bad influences; like Chloe and Ian. Ian is still my best friend, but I just don't let him influence me as much.
Loren:Eddie makes me forget everything. The past with my Dad is hardly ever remembered, and the shy kid I used to be is gone. Sometimes I don't even realize it.
When you feel it in your body
You found somebody who makes you change your ways
Like hanging with your crew
Said you act like you're ready
But you don't really know
And everything in your past - you wanna let it go
Eddie: I can remember Loren when she was just 18. She was always so shy and never spoke up for herself. She was always so accepting. Even when I did things wrong, like go to the Bungalow and lie to her about where I was going. She still accepted me!
Loren: Even when I was just a little 18 year old, Eddie always helped me out. From the day at his concert when I was inspired to write the song that allowed me to win his contest. He has changed my life and I will always be so thankful.
Beauty queen of only eighteen
She had some trouble with herself
He's always there to help her
Eddie: No matter what happens in our lives just looking into Loren's eyes makes me feel better. Looking into her eyes right now as she walks down the aisle I am just melting, I don't know if I can take it much longer.
Loren: Our eyes have been locked into one another's since I made my way out of my wheelchair. After what felt like hours I'm finally standing with the man I love. He takes my hand, every time he has ever taken my hand I can always tell how much he loves me and I'm blown away.
Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
Loren: He becomes my support. It's hard to stand, but I just keep pushing through. My legs are so wobbly, just like they are in therapy. I truly feel like I'm being blown around by something as strong as a hurricane, and I'm just this week little candle.
Eddie: I can tell Loren is uncomfortable, like a picture that has a broken frame. I have to be strong for her, if she wants to stand then I will let her stand. I will fight for her!
Loren: If Eddie wasn't here right now, I know I would feel so alone and helpless. Sometimes I feel that way even when he is there, but right now he is fighting for me to stand.
Eddie: Loren is fighting with her legs to stand strong. She might bend till she breaks, because it's all she can take. But she doesn't care, I can tell she is going to push through this!
Loren: I can feel myself getting sluggish, but I don't care. Even if I fell to my knees right now, it wouldn't be enough to keep me down. I've already decided, I've had enough of feeling so helpless. My hands are sweating and I wipe them off on my dress and then grab back a hold of Eddie…
Eddie: She wiped her hands and then she stood strong!
Loren: …Then I continue to stand!
You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless
Like you've lost your fight
But you'll be alright, you'll be alright
Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break
Cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong
Wipe your hands shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand
Priest: "We are gathered together on this beautiful afternoon to share with Loren and Eddie as they exchange vows of their everlasting love." Everyone sits down. "As Loren and Eddie say their vows today, we are privileged to witness the joyous love of a new family…"
Loren: I felt through Eddie's hand how he was thinking when the priest brought up family. I've never felt like this around anyone. I've never been able to hear their thoughts through their touch. Eddie has told me about this feeling he gets with me, but I've only really felt it once, until now.
I've never been this close to anyone,
Or anything
I can hear your thoughts, I can see your dreams
Eddie: As the priest began to speak I was lost in my thoughts again. He started to talk about how a new family was being started. I couldn't help but wonder about our family. First thing that popped in my head was a little boy. And then I was overwhelmed with bad thoughts, "What would I do if something went wrong when Loren was giving birth?" If a doctor came and told me that my son's mother was fading fast, I would hit my knees. I would pray to God to let us trade places. Loren had a great support system without me. And I know my Dad will be around if she ever needs a man to help her with something.
Loren: Eddie was thinking bad. I could see in my mind the bad thoughts that were running through his. He was thinking about us having a kid and a doctor telling him that I was fading fast. And how he would pray to God and make it his last request, don't take MY GIRL!
If 5 years down the road,
And a doctor comes in and says the baby's fine,
But you'll have to leave
'Cause their momma's fading fast
I would hit my knees
And there he prayed
"Take the very breath you gave me
Take the heart from my chest
I'll gladly take her place if you'll let me"
Make this my last request
"Take me out of this world
God, please don't take the girl"
Priest: "…A family that will be nourished and nurtured through the devotion of two separate individuals growing together through the common bonds of love"
Loren: Eddie's thoughts disappeared from my mind as the priest kept talking. My mind was taken over by my own thoughts. "-Devotion of two separate individuals growing together through the common bonds of love," said the priest. "We have already grown together," I thought. I never mind spending time with him, even if we were standing in the pouring rain.
Eddie: As the priest continued to talk I began to have more faith. The bad thoughts were erased from my mind as Loren's became more apparent. I held onto her tightly and thought about how I never mind spending time with her. I could be with her for 6 weeks straight and never be tired of her. We could stand in the pouring rain and I still wouldn't be mad, because I was with her!
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Priest: "May their marriage bring them the peace, joy, comfort and contentment that is known in the hearts of all God's children. And may Eddie and Loren both look forward to each new season of their marriage; just as the world looks forward to each new season of the year. For all seasons bring with them their own special moments and memories."
Eddie: "…own special moments and memories," said the priest. Memories were instantly flooded into my mind. I began to reflect on the times when I made life hard for us. These past few years of life together with Loren have meant the world to me. But I just can't seem to understand why she stuck with me. I'm always thinking about our careers and how to make us go farther, sometimes I just don't realize what's important.
Loren: We've had so many memories, but I can't help to think of the times when we've messed up. It's like Eddie thinks, sometimes, more about our careers then he does the more important things. And when I bring it up, he overreacts a bit. That's when his old habits kick in and he drinks, but it's not a lot. If he drinks I leave, I don't like him when he drinks. He knows that so he's stopping. But I also know that leaving is testing his trust, because he doesn't know where I could go. We are both hard to love, we both have are faults. I still don't know why he stays with me.
Eddie: I drink too much and I know it. My younger days with Ian still sometimes control me, and when I was with Chloe I drank. But I've come to realize that with Loren I don't need that. I may be hard to love, but I'm trying to make it easier.
I have a tendency to pay more attention to the things that I need.
Sometimes I drink too much,
Sometimes I test your trust,
Sometimes I don't know why you're staying with me?
I'm hard to love,
Hard to love,
We don't make it easy
Priest: "An essential requirement of a good marriage is a strong bond of real friendship and trust. Loren and Eddie, your love for each other will grow deeper with every passing day, but it's important to remember that your love stands on a foundation of genuine, mutual affection and respect for each other. To truly LOVE another person is to be willing to accept both their strong points, and their weak points, with equal measures of understanding and respect."
Loren: "…willing to accept both their strong points, and their weak points, with equal measures of understanding and respect," spoke the priest. Every word the priest spoke, spoke to us. I don't know how we do it, but we have so much respect for each other. Our careers may be separate, but we still find a way to love each other and be with each other.
Melisa: The priest words were even speaking to me, they are both so different. "I could never do it if I stood where they stand. They are both so hard to love, but I guess that's what makes them perfect for each other." I whispered to Adriana. She smiled and we went back to listing. (After the wedding everyone talked about their thoughts, while the priest was talking, to help Loren and Eddie out with their song.)
I couldn't do it if I stood where you stood
We're hard to love,
Hard to love
Priest: "The vows you are about to exchange, will serve as a verbal representation of the non-verbal emotions that are as real as anything that can be seen, heard or touched. For it is not the words that you will speak today that will bond you together as one, but the strength of the love and commitment found deep within your souls."
Eddie: Again as the priest spoke I was bombarded with thoughts, "…serve as a verbal representation of the non-verbal emotions that are as real as anything that can be seen, heard or touched." Loren is a short fuse, she's always letting things get to her.
Loren: "…serve as a verbal representation of the non-verbal emotions that are as real as anything that can be seen, heard or touched," were the next words spoken by the priest. Eddie is a wrecking ball, he always finds a way to break into my heart and blow out my short fuse. Sometimes I wish to be more like him, I wanna be able to stop him before he lets the bad things get to him.
Eddie: Loren is like a Sunday morning, she is so graceful and full of love. I wish that I could be more like her and be so full of Jesus, that I don't need anything else, but her, to help me make it through. She's always giving me chance after chance to make up for the little things I do wrong, even if she is being sarcastic about something I say I still don't ever want to take those chances for granted. But sometimes I can't help it, I'm just a man.
Loren: Eddie gives me so many chances to do things right. And when I don't wanna do something, he understands. I never wanna take that for granted, but I'm just a girl, I can't help it.
I am a short fuse,
I am a wrecking ball
Crashing into your heart like I do
You're like a Sunday morning full of grace and full of Jesus
I wish that I could be more like you.
Girl you've given me a million second chances
And I don't ever wanna take you for granted,
I'm just a man, I'm just a man
Boy you've given me a million second chances
And I don't ever wanna take you for granted,
I'm just a girl, I'm just a girl
Priest: "At this time, I'll ask you, Eddie, and you, Loren, to face each other & take each other's hands." They turned and Eddie reach for Loren's other hand, she was now standing with no problem with the support of Eddie. "Eddie has prepared his own vowels, so Eddie look Loren in the eyes and read aloud the way you feel."
Eddie: "Loren, you mean the world to me. Sometimes I can feel what you are thinking. You have put me on this pedestal and it makes me feel amazing. You may think I walk on water, you may think I hung the moon, and you may tell me every morning: "They just don't make men like you." You may think I've got it together, and swear I'm as tough as nails. But now is my time, to tell you what I don't have the heart to tell you: You don't know me that well, you don't know I much I truly need you. You don't know I'd fall apart without your kiss, without you touch, without your faithful loving arms. You still don't know that it's all about you and that I can't live without you. You are my world, Loren, you are my everything, and when you cry on my shoulder I may be holding you, but you are really holding me. I love you Loren."
She thinks I walk on water
She thinks I hung the moon
She tells me every morning
"They just don't make men like you"
I think he's got it together
She swears I'm as tough as nails
But I don't have the heart to tell her
That she don't know me that well
She don't know how much I need her
She don't know I'd fall apart
Without her kiss, without her touch
Without her faithful, loving arms
She don't know that it's all about her
She don't know I can't live without her
She's my world,
He's my everything
Sometimes I cry on his shoulder
But she don't know that when I hold her
That she's really holding me, holding me
Loren: What Eddie doesn't know is that I need him that much too. He doesn't know how much I truly need him, or how I'd fall apart without his kiss, without his touch, without his faithful loving arms. He doesn't know that it's all about him and that I can't live without him. But what he does know is that he is my word, and my everything.
He don't know how much I need him
He don't know I'd fall apart
Without his kiss, without his touch
Without his faithful, loving arms
He don't know that it's all about him
He don't know I can't live without him
He's my world,
She's my everything
Priest: "Loren has also prepared her own vowels, so Loren look Eddie in the eyes and read aloud the way you feel."
Loren: "I don't know how you do what you do. Eddie, I'm so in love with you. Every day and every night you are the one thing on my mind and every day and every night it just gets better and better. I want to spend my whole life with you by my side. All the little things that you do amaze me. Eddie, baby, I'm amazed by you."
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I want to spend the rest of my life,
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do,
Baby I'm amazed by you.
Eddie: Loren is so sweet. It just makes me want to spend the whole night in her eyes because I'm so amazed by her, too.
I want to spend the whole night
In your eyes
Baby I'm amazed by you.
Priest: "May we have the rings?" The rings were brought to Eddie and Loren by Melissa and Ian. "Eddie, place this ring on Loren's finger if you can say "I do" as an answer to all these questions. Do you take Loren to be your wife, your partner in life and your one true love? Do you cherish her friendship and love her today, tomorrow and forever? Do you trust and honor her, laugh with her and cry with her? Do you have faith that you will be faithful through good times and bad, in sickness and in health as long as you both shall live?
Eddie: "I do." I cried and placed the ring on Loren's finger. I can't believe I am actually married to this amazing woman!
Priest: "Loren, place this ring on Eddie's finger if you can say "I do" as an answer to all these questions. Do you take Eddie to be your husband, your partner in life and your one true love? Doo cherish his friendship and love him today, tomorrow and forever? Do you trust and honor him, laugh with him and cry with him? Do you have faith that you will be faithful through good times and bad, in sickness and in health as long as you both shall live?
Loren: "I do." I cried and placed the ring on Eddie's finger. I can't believe I actually married him!
Priest: "You may now kiss the bride."
Eddie: I lightly grabbed a hold of Loren's veil and threw it over her head. She was smiling from ear to ear, as was I. I put one hand on her cheek and the other on her waste. She placed her arms behind my head. I leaned in and then she followed. After what seems like years, but has only been two days, I kissed MY GIRL again. The kiss was so warm and passionate. The crowd clapped and whistled, and Ian broke us apart by yelling out that it was party time. Everyone laughed as Loren and I both pulled away laughing. I picked her up and headed to the dance floor. This night was just going to keep getting better and it's all because God gave me her.
Loren: God really gave me Eddie! As he was carrying me in his arms I went to whisper in his ear as he moved his head to whisper in mine, and we both pulled away to just say it together.
To be continued…
I decided to make one last part to this amazing love story. Please let me know what you think! Again sorry it took so long.
Songs:
"You got it bad"- Usher
"She will be loved"- Maroon 5
"Baby I'm amazed by you"- Lonestar
"Stand"- Rascal Flats
"Don't take the girl"- Tim McGraw
"Hard to love"- Lee Brice
"She thinks she needs me"- Andy Griggs
M.L. #14 Jordan G.