( I hope everyone continues to read, enjoy & review Thanks psion53 for the reviews. As for no one confronting Tiffany it is one of those 'Sometimes the simplest things are not thought of')

12/26/09

'Morning mo chroí.'
'Morning mo chroí, How are you?'
'Honestly, sad & scared.'
'You will be fine.'
'No I won't. Sunset it all changes. It doesn't even feel real, I have not had a single say in anything these last few days. You are the only soul to wish me a happy birthday yesterday.'
'Sorry'
'You have no reason to be sorry, but instead of being happy I am getting married today I feel like I am counting the time till I am walking to the gallows instead of down the aisle.'
'Mo chroí please don't talk like that. Remember I'll be seeing you shortly after the new year.'
'Yes mo chroí a week that can not pass fast enough even if it can't be as before, just to see your face again.'
'I know. You still contact me tomorrow?'
'Somehow'
'Stay safe mo chroí'
'I shall try mo chroí till next.'

Adam places his phone away heading down to breakfast even if hunger seems to allude him. He just made a cup of coffee sitting at the counter of his kitchen. His doorbell jars his thoughts & he goes to answer it almost shuffling his feet.
"Jay? Nise?"
"Damn Adam…no offence man you look like crap." Jason's wife standing next to him hits him in the arm. "OUCH….sorry dear."
"Might as well come in." Adam grumbled moving for them.

They walk past him into the house as he shuts the door. "So why so glum?" Jason asked him looking.
Adam looked at him in shock. "Damn it Jay do you listen to anything I talk about anymore."
"Of course man. I listen to you plenty."
"Yeah could fool the heck out of me…I swear ever since you came to work down here years ago you like tuned everyone the fuck out unless it involved you. Even when your ass came back to WWE. You just don't a fuck unless it centers the hell around you!" Adam bit coldly at his once best friend. He turned walking towards the kitchen picking up his coffee. "What you want anyways?"
"Dude what the hell is your problem! The three of us always go out the day after Christmas." Jason bit back at him faintly confused.

"OK both of you need to stop it before I need to go mommy mode & place you both in corners." Jason's wife Denise tells the two of them. "You two been friends for how long…Adam." She sighs walking over to where he was standing holding the mug of coffee. She puts a light hand over his knowing the blank stare of his when he wants to escape. Her touch his eyes faint move towards her. "I don't know what is going on so why don't you tell me? What has you so down?"

Adam gives a sigh taking his hand from hers as he lifts the mug sipping it. "My heart is slowly being ripped from my chest & there is nothing I can do about it."
"What you mean?"
"There is a girl…no a woman I fell for at work." Adam takes a deep breath leaning on the counter. "She is getting married today, she is being forced into it. She doesn't love the guy, she doesn't even really tolerate him. She loves me…but her family is forcing her to marry this other guy."
"She told you she loves you.."
"Maybe not the actually words 'I love you', but she admits she finally knew what love was the first time I kissed her."
"Hold did you kiss her before or after she was promised to another."
"After."
"ADAM!"
"Nise I didn't even meet her till after she was already promised. That is all we ever did was kiss…I stayed a gentleman in that aspect. Plus she taught me a word…well a tiny phrase you use for each other. mo chroí it means my heart in Gaelic, It is what we called each other…we some how became each others hearts. Now mine is being forced to another guy."

"Oh give me a frickin break." Jason groaned behind his wife.
"WILLIAM RESO!" Jason cringed looking down hating when anyone & more so his wife pulled out the birth name…only a handful of people even knew it. If he wasn't Christian he was either Jason or Jay…almost never William… "You best friend, a man you have even called you brother is hurting & he is right you are just thinking of you damned self!"
"Sorry Nise…sorry Adam."
"Adam I know it won't stop you feeling like you do, but how about you go get cleaned up & we three will still go out & try to cheer you some & maybe help my husband stop being so self absorbed."
"HEY!"
"SHUT UP WILLIAM!"
Jason sort of growls looking down as Adam nods heading upstairs.

Later that day back in Scotland Patty sat alone in a room, servants of Drew's family coming in & out checking on her helping her to get ready. She may of dressed the part of a lovely bride, but she didn't feeling it & was fall from a blushing one. The only thing that remotely made her smile would be when she would raise her hand near her ears brushing the earrings Adam gave her. Everything about her attire was simple. The dress was white, but a plain sheath of a gown. It showed her curves but was not adorned at all. She wore no jewelry except for the earrings, her shoes were plain white heels. She knew hardly any thought went into this day & part of her did not care. But her manner of dress made her feel colder then she already did in that place. Scotland in December was frigid at best, more so once the sun went down. The manor house Drew lived in was centuries old. While of course renovated over the years it was still a cold feeling place.

She was not sure how long she sat alone the last time when there was a knock in the door before Stephen entered a with a faint smile to his lips dressed in a suit. "So ya ready."
"Would it matter if I say no."
"And why ye say that?"
"Ya ask as though everything I eve said these last few years mean non to ya…I don't love him…"
"It comes with time."
"No…no it won't…I don't & won't love him…please Stephen ye can end this…please don make me go threw with it."
"Tis for ya own good."
"That a load & we both know it…before ya say bout he provide well for me…Ye make almost as much as he do in the states, even I can start making a good buck myself. Before ye put me down saying I be lucky to have he as me spouse cause no one else would have me…ye wrong…I know there be others who think I pretty…why tie me to a man I do not love?"
"A deal a deal Patty & if ya think I be looking for ya the rest of my life ye sorely mistaken on that one."

Her eyes looked down not wishing to show her brother the tears in them. "Ya know what Stephen…one thing I will be glad for about this wedding."
"What be that?" A prideful tone that she seems to be coming around even after her last ditch plea.
"That after I am wed I will be free of ya & renounce the name you so graciously tarnished. That I will be able to renounce ye as my blood…good riddance." She brushes past him out of the room heading down the halls to the main hall.

Stephen stood there a few moments, he always thought leading up to this day…even this moment he would be glad to be free of being Patty's caretaker. So how come the words leaving her mouth of her desire to renounce all that was their family hitting a spot deep inside he didn't even know he still had or felt. He shook his head pushing it away as he left after her.