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Chapter 16: The Big Day, Part 1
St. Anthony's Church, Angel Grove
12 pm
June 6, 2002
The girls were in the bride's room at the church getting ready for what's going to be the best day of their lives, especially for Carrie and Kim.
Carrie and Kim were wearing matching white gowns, the one difference being that Carrie's had short sleeves and Kim's had spaghetti straps. The trains were of equal length. Carrie's colors were red, white, and black and Kim's were pink, white, and black and since Carrie and Kim were standing up for each other as each other's maid of honor Carrie would wear a pink sash around her middle and Kim would wear a red sash around her middle while the two of them would carry white flowers in their bouquets with pink and red ribbons around them.
Trini and Aisha were also maids of honor and would wear red dresses and carry pink flowers in their bouquets while Tanya, Kat, Ashley, and Cassie wore pink dresses and would carry red flowers in their bouquets.
Tanya was sitting in the corner and she was awful quiet until Aisha went over to her.
"Hey, Tanya, why are you so quiet? You're usually not," Aisha said.
Tanya got close to her cousin's ear and started to speak.
"Aisha, I don't know if it's the right time to say this, but I missed my period," Tanya said.
"Wait…what?" Aisha asked.
"I think I might be pregnant," Tanya said.
"Okay…when did you miss it?" Aisha asked.
"Monday. Look, I don't want to spoil this day for Carrie and Kim so let's just keep it between ourselves, okay?" Tanya asked.
"Okay, but the rest of the girls are going to find out eventually. You can't keep this a secret for too long," Aisha said as she went back to getting ready. Tanya started getting ready herself.
Just then the lights started to flicker, and the room began to shake.
"Earthquake! Everybody down!" Trini shouted as the girls got down and tucked their heads in.
"Everybody relax! It's probably a small one!" Aisha said.
"I don't think it is. It's shaking pretty hard," Kim said hugging Amelia close to her.
Then suddenly, a few beams started crashing down somewhere in the church. Amelia screamed.
"Mommy, I'm scared!" Amelia cried.
"Shush, it's all right, sweetheart. It'll be over soon!" Kim reassured her.
Five minutes later, the shaking stopped, then sirens started to wail.
"Okay girls stay put while I try the door," Aisha said as she tried the door. It was jammed.
"Great! Just great! Looks like we're stuck until the Fire Department gets here," Aisha said.
"Well, I guess we're not going to have a wedding after all," Carrie said.
"I'm sure we'll still have some kind of wedding," Kim said.
"Didn't you hear those beams come crashing down? This church is as old as my grandparents', there's no way it could've survived," Carrie said.
Soon the fire department came and unwedged the door.
"Oh, thank God we can get some air!" Aisha said as she stepped out of the room and got a shocked look on her face.
There was a hallway, but no church.
"You ladies and the men are lucky they reinforced the parish center to make it stronger, or you all would've been goners. The church is a total disaster. They didn't quite have the money to reinforce it," one of the firefighters said.
"Hey, they got the girls out!" Rocky's voice rung out.
"Now if only they would get us out!" Adam said.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about them," the firefighter said as he and another firefighter unwedged the door to the room the guys were in.
Soon, the guys walked out one by one.
"Hey, where's the church?!" Rocky said, surprised.
"It came crashing down. I told you it was too old," Carrie said.
"Were there any guests in the church?" Jason asked.
"No, they were evacuated downstairs to the fellowship hall. They're all right, just shaken up," the firefighter said.
"Good, are you guys all right?" Aisha asked the guys.
"We're fine. Are you girls all right?" Rocky asked.
"Yes, Amelia was really scared but she's fine now," Kim said, her arm around Amelia's shoulders.
"Hey, where's Tommy and JT?" Jason asked.
"Right here," Tommy said, his arm wrapped tightly around JT, who was crying.
"Mommy!" JT cried, running to Kim, who gave Amelia over to Trini and hugged JT tightly.
"Are you okay, JT? Is he okay, Tommy?" Kim said looking her son over.
"He's fine, just scared to death. How's Amelia?" Tommy said walking over to Amelia and Trini.
"She was as scared as JT was, but she's fine," Kim said.
Tommy picked Amelia up and held her close. Kim did the same with JT.
"Well, there goes everything. What're we going to do now?" Kim asked Tommy.
"We'll figure out something," Tommy said.
"Tanya, you don't look so good…" Aisha said.
"I don't…" Tanya said as she passed out.
Angel Grove Community Hospital, Angel Grove
1 pm
Instead of having the perfect wedding, Kim, Tommy, Carrie, Rocky, and their entire wedding party were sitting in the ER waiting room waiting for any news about Tanya. Then Adam came out.
"How is she, Adam?" Aisha asked.
"She's fine, just a little dehydrated, due to her condition," Adam said.
"What condition?" Carrie asked.
"She won't let me say, she's not ready to say anything yet," Adam said.
"Can we see her?" Kim asked.
"She's sleeping, so not right now," Adam said.
"You two are hiding something, and we want to know what it is," Aisha said.
"She's having complications, we might lose the baby, okay?! Happy now?!" Adam said as he stormed off towards Tanya's room.
"Baby…" Carrie said quietly.
"Yeah, Tanya told me in confidence. She didn't want to spoil this day for you and Kim, so I didn't tell you girls," Aisha said.
"You know, how about we go back to mine and Tommy's house, eat something, drink something, and try to process everything that happened this afternoon, okay?" Kim said as everyone agreed.
Kim and Tommy's House, Reefside
4 pm
Rocky finally calmed down enough to join the others on the trip back to Reefside. The twins were tired, so they went to their bedrooms to take a nap.
"Well, that was a wild wedding," Carrie said.
"What wedding? It never happened," Rocky said.
"Let's not think about that now. We have to think positive thoughts," Kim said.
"About what?" Rocky asked.
"About rescheduling the wedding, about hoping that Tanya and Adam's baby is okay."
"She's right. We can't be mad at what happened, we have to move forward," Tommy said.
"I agree, bro. Isn't there anyplace else that we can have the wedding? Carrie, what was your favorite state to live in when you were moving around?" Jason asked.
"Wisconsin. Green Bay because I'm a huge Packers fan," Carrie said.
"Wisconsin? Why would you want to get married there? It's boring," Rocky said.
"Either that or the courthouse," Carrie said.
"We have to think about Tanya though. If we don't include her, she'll be pissed," Aisha said.
Suddenly the phone rang. Tommy answered it.
"Oh hey, Adam. Yeah, I'll put you on speaker," Tommy said as he put Adam on the speakerphone.
"Hey Adam," everyone said.
"Hey, I just want to apologize for how I behaved at the hospital. I'm sorry I blew you all off, I didn't want to say anything in case we lost the baby. Tanya was bleeding off and on since early this morning and when the doctor told us we thought we lost the baby for sure. They just did an ultrasound and there was a heartbeat so the baby's still alive. The bleeding was due to stress along with the dehydration."
"So, everything's fine, right?" Aisha asked.
"Yes, for now. They want to keep her for a few days, just to make sure she doesn't have any more complications," Adam said.
"Tell Tanya we said hi and that we're praying for her and the baby," Carrie said.
"I sure will," Adam said as he hung up.
Aisha breathed a sigh of relief, followed by the others.
"Now we know that Tanya is going to be all right, we need a plan," Aisha said.
"Before we plan anything let's wait a couple of weeks, so Tanya can get back to normal, then we'll plan," Kim said.
"Sounds good to me," Tommy said as Carrie and Rocky agreed.
