A/N: Okay here's the epilogue. The sequel will be called Feel the rain. I'll post an announcement here when I post the first chapter which should be before Friday.
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Epilogue- Me and You
I was standing around in a crowd of people I had never met. While wearing a skirt. And high heels. Not my favourite thing in the world to do. I was hanging around waiting for this crazy wedding to start. Iggy and the Flock was a part of the wedding party. I had spent all day just hanging around looking for something to do because Iggy was busy helping Total or cooking. As the only non member of wedding party in the house, I had absolutely nothing to do. I was so bored I actually curled my hair. Nudge had left a hair curler on in the bathroom and out of boredom I curled one bit of hair, then another, then another until my whole hair was in dark ringlets. It didn't look all that bad.
The wedding was being held in a wide open park. The Arizonian sun was beating down on me. I was anxiously waiting for Iggy to arrive. I hadn't seen him in his tux yet and I was very curious to how he would look. And kind of missing him. A young red headed woman came up to me.
"Hi, you must be Fang's sister. You look so similar. I'm Bridget Dwyer. I work for the CSM." She introduced herself extending a hand to me. I shook it hesitantly. There was something untrustworthy about her.
"Um yeah, I'm Violet." Thankfully a car arrived then so I didn't have to talk to her. Iggy, Gazzy, Fang and Total stepped out. Iggy looked amazing. He looked kind of like a secret agent. All dressed up in a black suit and white shirt plus he was wearing sunglasses. I had never seen him dressed up nicely and I liked what I was seeing. We started getting ushered into seats as the four of them made their way to the front. I watched Iggy while we waited for the wedding to start. He was laughing around with Gazzy about something. I loved how he looked when he laughed, so carefree and happy.
Another car pulled up and Max, Nudge, Angel and Akila came out. They all looked lovely, but even I could tell that Max was annoyed about having to wear a dress. The ceremony was beautiful, but it was all in barks except for what the celebrant was saying so I couldn't really follow as I didn't speak dog – sorry Canine-American. It was so obvious that the celebrant was weirded out by having to perform a dog wedding.
At the end of the wedding after Akila and Total had been pronounced husband and wife and ran off down the aisle into one of the cars, I started walking up to where Iggy was standing. He heard my footsteps and started walking over to me.
"It's creepy how you can do that, identifying me by my footsteps." I said lacing my fingers through his.
"I know you footsteps better than anyone else's." I tripped because of the high heels. Iggy caught me by the arm.
"Alright there?"
"Yeah, it's the high heels." He wrapped his arms around my waist. He ran his fingers through my hair and frowned.
"Your hair feels different."
"Yeah, I um curled it." he laughed.
"I can't imagine you curling your hair."
"I was so bored; you were too busy to spend time with."
"Okay, I'm sure it looks beautiful." He kissed me.
"So, should we head to this reception thing?" Iggy kissed me again, harder this time.
"No, let's skip it and stay here and do this."
"But you're a groomsman. You've gotta make a speech don't you. Come on we'll walk together."
"Walk?"
"I am so not flying in a skirt. I can't get my wings out of this, and I don't think you can do that with your suit."
"Okay, let's go. Better than taking a car."
"Oh hold on." I took off the heels. I didn't want to trip again. I held Iggy's hand in one hand and my shoes in other. We wandered through the streets talking and laughing together. When we got to the hall where the reception was being held. I put my shoes back on and took Iggy's sunglasses off him.
"Why are you taking them off?" he moaned.
"Because, even though it makes no difference to you, you're going to look like a bit of an idiot, wearing sunglasses inside. Well more of an idiot than usual." I teased putting the sunglasses in the inside of his jacket.
"Oh you're so kind." He said this sarcastically but he slung an arm around me, so I knew he wasn't too annoyed with me. We walked inside together. The party had already started. Humans were eating finger foods and the dogs were eating... well dog food. I lead Iggy over to a plate of food and we grabbed some. We stood around chatting to the flock while we waited for the speeches to start. Finally the emcee asked everyone to be seated. Iggy had to go sit at the main table so he kissed me goodbye and followed the others up to the front table and I sat at a table with more people whom I had never met before. I was glad to find that the red headed scientist Bridget Dwyer was sitting far away from me. As I said before I just didn't like her for some reason. To avoid talking to the strangers I pretended to be very interested in the speeches. I ended up having not to fake my interest. They were quite entertaining.
"I hope you guys have lots and lots of puppies." Angel said. Then as an afterthought she tacked on, "Max, where do babies come from?" Laughter rang throughout the hall. Iggy kept with that kind of theme by using a whole lot of innuendoes. He finished his speech by saying.
"Seriously all jokes aside I'm happy for you guys. Good luck and I hope the honeymoon is filled with hotdogs if you know what I mean." He ducked off the stage chuckling to himself while Total glared at him. I shook my head and laughed. I wasn't shocked at all. It was exactly what I expected from him. Fang delivered the shortest speech in known history.
"Congratulations." He said simply and sat down. There were murmurs of confusion and some awkward claps. Max's speech was one of the nicest.
"Total, I used to think you were so annoying and a massive burden to carry from place to place but you grew on me. I speak for everyone when I say I'm happy for you. Both of you." There were lots of awws after that. I may or not have done one. After the speeches came the food. Because the fact that there were seven avian-Americans here who needed like three times the amount of food that other people do, meant that they was a lot of food. And it was good food. There wasn't enough room on my plate. Iggy ditched the top table after his first helping and came to sit in a seat beside me, whose owner had just vacated. He had an overflowing plate with him.
"Did you like my speech?" He asked grinning widely.
"I loved it. I don't think Total did though." I replied.
"Really? Well that means mission accomplished. Are you having a good time?"
"All the much better now that you're here." We ate and talked until Akila and Total had their first dance. It was kind of funny seeing to dogs dancing. The kind of thing you'd want to put on YouTube. Like keyboard cat. I saw Nudge and Angel trying to persuade Max and Fang to dance together. Good luck to them.
"Come on you, let's dance." Iggy told me. He pulled me to my feet.
"What the hell Iggy?" I asked.
"You see Violet, if we dance I've got an excuse to make out with you so..."
"Is that the only thing on your mind?"
"What do you think?"
"Of course it is. Sorry, I must of forgotten who you were for a moment." I lead him onto the dance floor. We kept to our own little section of the dance floor not moving that far. Nudge and Angel were eventually successful on their endeavours to get Max and Fang to dance and they waltz past us once or twice. They were actually quite good. I told Iggy this.
"Excellent, I can use that against Fang or by his new name twinkle-toes later." he said happily.
"Do you enjoy making fun of people?"
"Violet. This is me we're talking about right? I mean first you ask if the only thing on my mind is making out with you, when clearly it is all I ever think about. And now you question my enjoyment of making fun of people. Do you even know me?"
"I love this."
"What do you love?"
"I love that we have such I strong relationship that we can make fun of each other and to get offended."
"Well that's the secret to life isn't it being able to laugh about yourself."
"I've been in love before and it was nothing like the joking relationship we have."
"That's why we are going to last. It's always going to be a me and you. No matter what."
"No matter what." I agreed. Iggy leaned down and kissed me as we danced together. Despite all that had happened in my life, I trusted him enough to know that his words were true. There always would be a me and him.