A.N - I'm updating in honour of me getting my purple belt in Kickboxing - 8 more belts then I'm black. xD

Lol, anyway. Thanks for the reviews last chapter. I really wasn't expecting that big of a response.

Chapter 24

Suze's eyes widened, but that was the only sign that the sight of Craig bothered her.

Paul was staring at the ghost with a blank expression while Jesse was desperately thinking of how they could get the ghost to move on. They did not need him ruining things, as he would probably do.

"So let me get this straight," Craig carried on, "you two," he pointed his fingers at Jesse and Suze, "are married?"

Then he started laughing.

"Idiot," he directed towards Jesse. "Why the hell would you settle down with one person now, and have to spend the rest of your life with her?"

"I love you," was all Jesse said to Susannah, so as to tell Craig why he'd married her without appearing like he was insane to the rest of Susannah's family.

Craig rolled his eyes, "Yeah." He said. "Like anybody marries for love anymore."

Suze's eyes narrowed.

"Hey, Paul," she called to the boy who had been sitting alone in the corner of the room since he'd walked in. "Join us in the kitchen would you."

And bring Craig.

Her unsaid words lay hanging between the three.

This time Paul rolled his eyes as he stood up and discretely knocked Craig in the direction that they were headed in.

"Hey!" The ghost exclaimed. "You can't treat me like this! Do you know who my parents are? They own a number of restaurants in Carmel alone-"

He was cut off when Jesse snapped at Paul.

"Sort him out, would you?" He questioned the other boy angrily.

"What do you think I'm going to do about it?" Paul wanted to know.

Jesse shrugged and walked up behind Susannah, wrapping his arms around so that they were both facing Paul.

"Isn't it obvious?" He said. "You're going to do something you never have done before."

"Oh, yeah?" Paul raised his eyebrow in amusement. "And what's that?"

"Shift."

Paul's face dropped and went pale with fear.

"But, but," he stuttered. "You said that it was horrible. And that you had the biggest headache afterwards."

Jesse shrugged again.

"Wait a minute," Paul demanded, covering his fear with anger. "Why am I going to be the one to do this?"

"Think of it," Suze piped up from her position in her husbands arms, "as a wedding present. From you, to us."

Paul glared at the both of them.

"And what do I do when I get up there?"

"Show Craig the door," Jesse's sentence was cryptic to everyone except him and Paul.

When Jesse had shifted up into shadow land, the only thing Paul had warned him about was the doors - and of course 'don't walk into the light' - and how he should never open one.

"And if I don't?" Paul demanded.

"I'll tell everybody it was you that kidnapped me," Suze offered. "And Jesse came to save me - which, by the way, is true."

"Fine," Paul snapped. "I'll go."

He snatched Craig's shirt - the ghost himself had been banging various pots and pans together trying to be noticed by the three mediators - and disappeared.

Suze span around and kissed her husband happily.

No more Craig to worry about. And no more Paul either, unless he wanted to be sent to jail for kidnapping.

"Come on," Jesse whispered. "Let's get back to your mom."

Suze nodded and they walked back into the living room.

"Susie," her mom said when she saw the two of them. "What was all that noise about?"

"Oh, nothing," she replied.

"We just had an argument with Paul," Jesse chipped in. "It's alright now though. We settled it, and he's gone."

Suze's mom nodded and then turned to Andy who was smiling and nodding encouragingly.

"We were talking about it," she began. "And we've decided that we want you to have a proper wedding. One that everyone can be involved in."

Suze smiled widely.

"That sounds great!" She admitted and Jesse nodded his head yes as well.

He had been planning on giving her a real wedding anyway, once he had save up enough to afford it.

"Thank you so much, Mom," Suze exclaimed. "And you Andy."

She turned back to Jesse.

"We can have a real wedding!" She said excitedly. "With CeeCee as my maid of honour and Adam can be your best man!"

Him and Adam had become better friends in the months that Jesse and Susannah had been going out.

Then his wife's face fell.

"What about CeeCee and Adam?" She asked. "They haven't see us since the dance."

"It's okay, querida," Jesse told her. "We can call them, arrange to meet up and then tell them everything."

"Everything?" She quirked a brow at him and he laughed.

"Alright, not everything, but we'll tell them our story."

They kissed quickly, remembering the presence of Susannah's family, and then broke apart to join in the festivities.

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Two days later, Jesse and Susannah de Silva sat side by side in the local coffee place, waiting for CeeCee and Adam to join them.

"It'll be okay," Jesse squeezed his wife's hand. "They'll understand."

Susannah nodded and looked down at her rings - wedding and engagement. They were both so beautiful. She could hardly believe that they were actually married. As in 'Till Death Do Us Part'.

"I don't regret it," she whispered bringing her gaze to rest on Jesse warm, brown eyes. "Getting married."

"Good, because neither do I."

He was leaning in to kiss her when they heard a cough behind them.

Looking around, Susannah spotted CeeCee and Adam looking at them with shocked expressions on their faces.

"Did we just hear correctly?" Adam wanted to know. "Did we hear you say that you're married?"

"Um, yes." Suze said quietly.

"Oh. My. God." CeeCee said. "I cannot believe that you got married without your best friend there!"

"Best friends," Adam added with a smile on his face.

Jesse let go of Susannah's hand and she ran around the booth to hug CeeCee.

"I'm sorry," she apologised. "It just all happened so quickly, we were going to tell you here. All of it."

"Girl, I don't care about that," she stated. "Show me the rings!"

Susannah laughed and showed CeeCee her left hand.

"Oh my," Adam said after getting a look at the jewellery. "Hey, Big Spender!"

Jesse laughed and allowed Adam to pull him into a manly, congratulatory hug.

"Congratulations, man." He said when they broke apart.

"Thanks."

Susannah came back down to sit by him while Adam and CeeCee slid into the seats opposite.

"Now," CeeCee began. "Would someone care to tell me the whole story?"