I did have trouble sleeping last night. Half of it not being next to Alex and the other half being the excitement for today. I wake up kind of early since I can't sleep anymore, and since Aly's sleeping I stay laying in the bed, but just messing around on my phone. Also updating people of what's going on today. I'm doing that when I feel the bed move a little and a loud sigh. I look over to find Aly awake, still curled up with her new pregnancy support pillow.
"Morning."
"Morning." She replies.
"Too excited to sleep any more?" She adds.
"Yeah."
"Awww." She teases.
"The months just flew on by, which turned to weeks, then turned to days. All just flew on by."
"Mmhmm." She agrees, sitting up and rubbing her stomach.
"There's still a long day ahead...booo."
"You better enjoy it, its going to fly by before you know it too." She points out.
"If I keep myself occupied it will."
"Right."
"Well since I can't sleep anymore, I'm getting dressed." I say, getting out of bed with the excitement just showing.
Aly laughs and does the same. We both change fairly quickly, since my hair is gonna be done later, I just brush it the way it is and leave it that way. Then I walk out of the bathroom after finishing that. Aly throws hers up in a messay bun and adds a double banded headband to keep stray pieces out of her eyes.
"Just think you have tonight until Monday with him."
"You'll be somewhere beautiful..." She adds.
"And you'll finally have his last name...well names I should say." She continues.
I have a big smile on my face. She laughs and hugs me.
"Oh I'm happy for you."
"I know you are, thank you."
"You're welcome." She smiles.
"I'm gonna feel the same exact way next month for you." I add.
"Yeah...I can't wait."
"Married twice in one year...go you." I laugh.
"Married twice and pregnant to boot." She laughs too.
"It's because he loves you."
"I know." She smiles softly, her hands on her stomach.
"And this is gonna be you soon, I just know it." She adds, referring to her stomach.
"We'll see, it may be a while." I say.
"I dunno, I think it'll be pretty soon. I know Alex is thinking about it, I've seen a thoughtful look in his eyes sometimes when he looks at my stomach." Aly adds.
"Really...huh...must be when I'm not paying attention."
She nods lightly.
"Well all I know is that now all that torture I gave him is gonna definitely be made up for."
"Oh yes. You probably won't leave that room for a while." She laughs.
"Nope, not at all."
She keeps laughing.
"Gonna get me back for every ounce of torture. I guess it doesn't help that he was on the verge of losing control. Had to stop me so many times, so he wouldn't end up doing that."
"Nice." She snickers.
Then my phone beeps signaling a text message.
"Well I guess someone else can't sleep anymore."
"And so it begins." Aly laughs.
"What? He's gonna be talking to me all day through texts?" I laugh.
"You know he will."
"And Mike will do the same thing."
"Mmhmm." She nods.
"I think I'm going to walk down to the vending machines. You want anything?" She asks as she pulls on her shoes.
"I'm good for now."
"Alright." She stands up and goes to make sure the connecting door is locked.
"Whatever you do...don't let him in here. Remember, bad luck." She adds.
"I know, I know." I laugh.
After making sure the door was locked, she leaves the room and heads down to the vending machines. She studies the machines, trying to decide what she wants. After studying the machines for a while, she decides on something and puts the money in before pressing the buttons to get what she picked out. As she gets her things out, she doesn't notice a door open and close down the hall. When she goes back and goes to head back to the room, she looks up and sees Mike standing there.
"Hey you." She smiles.
"Hey." He greets back, then wraps her in a hug.
"Mmm...I missed you last night."
"I missed you too."
She smiles as his lips press against her head repeatedly.
"How's DC coping with all this?"
"Anxious and excited." Mike chuckles.
"Dolce too." She giggles.
"But you know we only have this short time together before she and I have to leave for a very busy day, until later."
Mike groans.
"Once that's over though, you get me all to yourself for a few days." She soothes him.
"I know. If I just think about that, I should make it through the day." He nods.
"Good. You know you can text me too."
"Right, I know."
"How are you feeling?" He asks, looking down at her.
"I'm fine. A little hungry, but that isn't new." She giggles softly.
"Right, that's why you're out here by the vending machines." He chuckles.
"Mmhmm." She nods, nuzzling his neck as she cuddles into him.
"This is gonna be us next month..." He comments.
"I know, I can't wait."
"I hate to do this, but I'm gonna have to head back to the room. I think we're leaving soon to start our busy busy day." She adds, and he whines.
"I know babe, I know." She sighs, leaning back and cupping his cheeks before placing a soft kiss on his mouth.
"Just remember...you and me...by ourselves for a few days." She reminds him after pulling away.
He sighs and nods. His hands slip down to her stomach, rubbing gently until she steps back.
"I'll see you later. Love you."
"Love you too."
She reluctantly heads back to the room where I am. She walks into the room and sees that I'm talking to Alex through the locked connecting door. I notice her and I wave.
"Talking through the door huh?" She smiles a tiny bit.
"Yep." I laugh.
"Oh by the way...I think Mike was being a sneak again..." I add.
She looks at me curiously. I go onto my Twitter on my phone and pull up his tweet and read it outloud.
"I've apparently married a Batman nerd."
She puts a hand over her face and shakes her head.
"He would."
"Yes he would...and Alex would also try to sneak in here. Too bad you LOCKED THE DOOR." I say the last three words loud enough for him to hear and laugh.
Aly snickers.
"I wasn't gonna sneak in..." We hear him say.
"Riiiight and I'm not pregnant." Aly says loud enough for him to hear.
"Your plans were thwarted." I laugh.
"So not cool." He says.
"Sorry. But the last thing we need is bad luck."
"I know...but I miss you." Alex whines.
"It'll all be worth it later."
He groans.
"Say goodbye DC, we have to get going here in a second."
"I'll see you later okay?" I say.
"Yeah...I love you." Alex replies.
"Love you too."
Aly and I grab what we need before heading downstairs to meet up with the other girls and the moms. Aly's eating the snack she got from the vending machine as we get down to the lobby.
"Cravings kicked in huh?"
"Not exactly. I was just hungry." She shrugs.
"Ah, I see."
We find the group. As soon as they notice us walking over, all the moms besides Alex's mom basically rush over and attack Aly. She laughs at their enthusiasm.
"We're all so glad to see you..." Mike's mom says.
"It's good to see you too." She smiles.
"How's everything going with the baby?" She asks once they all let her go.
"Everything is good. The baby doesn't like oranges but other than that, its been fairly smooth."
"Well, that's good." She smiles.
Aly ruffles through her purse and pulls out the ultrasound pictures.
"Here's the rest of the ultrasound pictures. These are from 7 weeks but I have another appointment next week and I'll be sure to send you those pictures when we get them."
"We can all look at them while we're at breakfast." She says, taking them from her.
The rest of the group huddles in and we talk about the agenda before we head out.
"And one last request, please don't order oranges or orange juice or anything that smells like those when we're at breakfast. I'd like to avoid getting sick." Aly adds afterwards.
"Got it." They all nod.
She smiles and thanks them. Then we all go out to the cars and drive off to the restaurant. Aly and I do get the occasional texts from Mike and Alex as we make our way to the restaurant. Once we all pull up, we get out and walk inside and we're seated. We all order and while we're waiting, everybody else gushes over the ultrasound pictures. Aly and I watch in amusement.
"We can't wait to see the next pictures." Her mom says.
"I know. I'm looking forward to that." She smiles rubbing her belly gently.
Then once the food arrives, they set the pictures down so that they could eat. We all eat and talk, chatting mostly about the wedding and Aly's pregnancy. After we finish eating, we hang around for a while before deciding to get up and leave, heading to our next destination. We get to a spa and salon. We're spoiled with massages, mani-pedi's, and then we get our hair done. Aly's hair and everyone elses got done first, before I had got mine done. Mike kind of took the longest, but the end result was worth it.
"Ohhh, Dolce you look so pretty."
"Thank you." I smile.
Our makeup is the final touch. After that was all done, we headed out and off to wherever we were going next. Once we're done there, we head back to the hotel.
"Now the hard part...waiting around." I comment as we get back and head up to our foor and to our room.
"Mmhmm." She sighs, sitting on the bed after we walk in. I sit at the table, staring out the doorway to the balcony before looking ahead of me and just staring at the dress which I had left hanging up on the closet door after it was brought to me yesterday by Mike.
"Can't wait to put it on huh?"
"Yep."
She smiles and then lays her arms across her stomach, leaning back against the headboard with a sigh.
"Why must time go by so fast, then just go as slow as it possibly can when you have nothing to do?"
"I know." She agrees and picks up her phone as it goes off with another text.
"I know who that is..." I laugh.
"Yeah." She smiles softly.
"Let me guess, he says he misses you...again."
"Mmhmm. He's adding little love notes too. He isn't making this easy." She sighs, her lower lip wobbling a little.
"Awwww. Hey, don't cry."
She puts her phone down and fans her eyes.
"I'm trying no to. I don't want to be a downer."
I get up from where I'm sitting at the table, and walk over to her and then hug her.
"Just a few more hours or so and we can get ready and you'll see him before you know it."
"I know. I just really miss him right now."
"I know you do."
She hugs me, sighing quietly. The next few hours pass by awfully slow, and felt like the day was dragging on forever. I looked at the time and saw that it was finally time to start getting ready.
"Thank god." I sigh.
Aly nods in agreement, reaching for her dress. I walk over to my dress and take it out of the bag. I head into bathroom to get ready, grabbing whatever else I would need. I leave the door open a crack before starting to get out of my regular clothes and into the dress. Aly gets into hers and slips in to help me with mine. After helping me, we walk out of the bathroom so that I could sit on the bed and put my shoes on. After I had put them on I stood back up and Aly was trying so hard not to cry once she looked at me, because that would ruin her makeup.
"You look so beautiful Dolce, oh my goodness." She says, fanning her eyes again.
"I so hope I don't end up almost crying." I add.
"I probably will, yay for being preggo."
"Even if you weren't, you probably would end up anyway."
"More than likely." She laughs.
"You look pretty." I smile.
"Thanks. I'm just glad this fits."
"We picked out the right one then."
"Yeah."
"So I'm assuming we have to go downstairs for group pictures before we head off to the beach..."
"Mmhmm. Mike's going to be sad this dress covers the mini-bump."
"Awwww."
"His hand will still be on it anyway. I swear his hand has a magnet in it." She laughs.
"Well his hand will be after the wedding and when you're on the way to the reception, and when you're there." I add, also laughing.
"Right."
"Well I guess we should get going..."
"Right. Do we have everything?"
"Yeah I think so."
"Alright, out we go then."
I nod and then we leave the room and head downstairs to the lobby where everyone from earlier is waiting with the photographer. The photographer directs us outside to the garden area where we take some pictures. We take a bit of time taking pictures. Lots of group pictures. Then some taken with just me and my mom, and Alex's mom, etc.
"Time to head out." Gwen declares after checking the time.
We all walk over to the cars and get in, then make our way to the beach. Once we're there, we park and we all walk inside the building that was there where I would be waiting out in until it was time for the start of the wedding. We sit and talk while waiting for everyone to get seated and what not. I look out of the window of the room we're in, watching as people show up and take their seats on the beach as Aly talks to the moms. Aly lays her head against her mom's shoulder.
"I want my husband." She mumbles.
"You'll see him soon."
She sighs.
"Knock knock." They suddenly hear a voice and look up to see Mike in the doorway.
She shoots up off the couch and throws herself at him, clinging tightly.
"I missed you all day..."
"Really bad." She adds.
"I know, I missed you really bad too."
She lays her head against his shoulder, still holding him tightly. I tear myself away from the window and smile as I see her holding him tightly. I mentally say 'awwww'.
"Carls, you look amazing." Mike says as he looks up.
"Thank you." I smile.
"I have something for you." Mike tells me, pulling one arm away from me to take something out of his pocket.
I walk over curious as to what he has for me. He pulls out a box and hands it to me. I open it to see a bracelet. But it's not just any bracelet, it's a charm bracelet with an 'awesome' charm, and 'R' charm and then a trouble charm.
"Awwww." I laugh.
"You would make 'awesome' as a charm representing you."
"Well duh. I am awesome." He smirks.
"As you say all the time. Well wait it's not awesome, it's aweeeesooome." I laugh.
"Exactly." He laughs.
"And let's see, I'm assuming Alex went with you to get this because I see an 'R' on this. And oh look a trouble charm representing you Aly."
"Aha, nice." She says, moving her head to look.
"Now look out, I have to hug him." I laugh.
She only moves to his side, still not letting go.
"Thank you. When you go back out there tell Alex I said thank you too." I smile, hugging him.
"I will." Mike says, hugging me back with one arm.
Then I let go and move so that Aly can go back to holding onto him tightly. Mike chuckles as she does so.
"Well it looks like everyone's here." I say, looking out at all the seats filled up.
"I better go then." Mike sighs.
"It's okay, I'll be seeing you shortly." Aly says.
"Right." He kisses her forehead.
"Love you."
"Love you too."
He kisses her one last time before disappearing out the doorway, making his way down the beach to wait. The moms get taken out to their seats and the rest of the bridesmaids go line up. My dad pops in.
"Ready to get married?" He smiles at me.
"As ready as I'll ever be." I say, grabbing the bouquet that was laying on a nearby table.
Aly picks up hers and hugs me and my dad before going to take her spot in line. My dad and I make our way out and wait as we watch as Aly and the rest of the bridesmaids walk down the aisle first. The music changes to the bridal march and everyone stands up, turning so they can watch me walk down the aisle. We reach the beginning of the aisle and I take a deep breath before we start to walk down it. On the way down I see BSB, and BTR, John...who smiles when he sees me. Then I see Zack and Charity, and Zack silent goes 'woo woo woo'. I can't help but giggle. Then I look up and see Alex watching me with a look of pure awe and amazement. I smile as we keep walking, and when we reach the end, my dad lets me go and goes to sit down. Then I walk up and stand in front of Alex.
"You look gorgeous." He says quietly.
"Worth the wait?" I ask quietly.
"Very."
The minister then starts the ceremony. After starting the ceremony, he tells everyone in attendance that we have our own vows to tell each other. Alex goes first, holding my hands in his.
"I love you, Carly. I know that you are the only one for me, my one true love. I am happy and I am grateful that you came into my life, that where others have spent their entire lives looking for the one, I have found you. And now that I have found you, I shall never let you go. I promise you, Carly, that I shall hold you and cherish you and give you my heart, that I shall support you and care for you. Faithfully, I shall always stand steadfast at your side with your hand in mine, regardless of what life would bring to us. I take you now as my wife, and I shall remain so for the rest of my life."
Aly's holding her bouquet and mine in one hand and a tissue in the other, dabbing at her eyes and trying not to totally ruin her makeup. I smile before saying mine.
"Alex, I take you as my husband to say I love you is not enough. To try to condense the depth of my feelings into a few words is impossible. It doesn´t tell of the respect I have for you as an individual, nor how I appreciate how tender and caring you are, nor the joy I find in your laughter, nor the tears I hold back for your pain, nor the strength you give when I need it, nor the pleasure I feel in your touch. But if to say I love you means all these things, then let me say I love you more each day."
The moms are all crying. Then the rings are presented and we slip them on each other's fingers. Then the minister explains the meaning of the Unity Ceremony, and points to 3 glasses. Two of them were filled up with two different colors of Sand and the 3rd one was empty. He tells me to pour a bit of my sand in the empty one, and Alex does the same. Then we both pour what we have into the 3rd glass together. The minister then takes some of the sand from the beach we're on and puts that in the glass as well. All that leaves now is for the kiss to complete everything.
"...I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride." The minister finishes.
Alex grins before leaning in and pressing his lips to mine. I put my arms around his neck and kiss him back. We hear 'awwwws' and then clapping before we pull away. I take my arms back down and Aly hands me my bouquet. I thank her before telling her to make sure to grab the sand thing for us, so that we don't forget it. She nods, and we turn around, hand in hand and then after hearing my name with Alex's, we walk down the aisle while everyone stands and claps. Aly picks up the three sand glasses and puts them inside the special box we brought for them. She seals the box and hands it off to someone who is going to be handling the wedding gifts and what not. Everyone starts to get up and leave to head to the reception, while Alex and I walk down the beach, heading to get some pictures taken.
The first picture we take, we're both standing. Alex puts an arm around me and pulls me close smiling. I'm looking at the camera smiling while his face is turned to mine and smiling. After that one is done we move onto the next one, where we were still standing. We turned to each other, and I wrapped my arms around his neck while his were around my waist, and we're smiling at each other. The third picture we took, the photographer had us sit down in the sand. So we carefully sat down and Alex sat behind me. I moved to sit in between his legs and he pulled me close. I had my face turned slightly and he leaned down and was kissing my cheek. The next one we took after we stood back up and brushed off a bit from sitting in the sand. This picture we were standing close, his hand was resting on my side, mine was wrapped around his back, while we were hold each other's other hands. We then leaned in as if to kiss, but stopped mere inches before each other's lips. After that picture was over though, he did steal a kiss from me, before we moved onto the next. In this one, he had a hand resting on my back and on my side, while mine were around his neck. We then leaned in and pressed our lips against each other's and held it for a few shots until the photographer wanted to move onto the last one.
For this last picture the photographer told us that we could do anything we wanted. I was busy thinking about what we could possibly do and that's when Alex grabbed me and dipped me suddenly, and presses his lips against mine.
"Oh, that's perfect!" The photographer exclaims.
I rest a hand on Alex's chest and my other arm rests on his side. After a few shots he brings me back up and pulls from my lips. The photographer thanked us and said that he should have the pictures for us soon. We thanked him and we headed off to the limo and got in to head to the reception. Alex and I relax in the back of the limo.
"My wife." Alex grins, pressing a kiss to my head.
"And you're my husband." I smile.
"That sounds so good."
"It does, doesn't it. And now after having fun we have tonight through Monday alone."
"Yes we do." Alex smirks.
"We're heading to wherever you chose to go for the honeymoon after the reception aren't we?"
"Yup."
"I'm excited to see what you picked."
"I know you are." He chuckles.
I lean my head on his shoulder, our fingers still tangled with each other's, and I happily sigh. Alex smiles and presses another kiss to my head and then leans his head against mine.
"Now I'm stuck with you." I laugh.
"Forever." He laughs too.
"Forever." I repeat.
Then after a while of driving along, we arrive at the reception. The limo driver gets out and opens the door for us. Alex gets out first and then he helps me out. Then we make our way into the reception area outside. We wait where we're directed and then th dj announces us. We walk in to people clapping and cheering, and Zack was fist pumping of course. I laugh when I see him, and then we go to our table and sit down. Dinner gets served and after that some speeches are made. Mike of course has to make the first speech, using 'awesome' as much as he can, without talking about himself. Aly's sitting next to him, just laughing.
"...and if you all didn't already know. I'm responsible for these two getting together. Thank you." He grins.
Everyone's laughing and clapping as he sits down.
"At least he didn't talk about it being on NXT..." I mutter to Alex.
Alex laughs and agrees. Then Mike nudges Aly and tells her that she should make the next speech.
"Oh god." She sighs.
"It's okay, I'm right here. You'll do fine."
She gets up and takes the microphone. She talks about what a great person I am and how she always knew that Alex and I would be perfect for each other. Then she also mentions about how if it wasn't for me then she and Mike wouldn't be together.
"I love you guys and I wish you the best." She finishes, blowing a kiss at me.
"Good job." Mike mumbles to her as she sits back down.
"Thanks." She kisses his cheek.
A few other people make speeches, including Alex and myself. Once that was over, it was time for the dancing. Alex and I go out for our first dance. The song that we picked out a long time before today was played and we started to dance, and others eventually came out onto the floor and joined around us. Mike hugs Aly to him as they dance along.
"Mmm..." She hums faintly, snuggling into him.
She leans her head on his shoulder and he leans his head against hers. She kisses his neck gently. He smiles and kisses her head.
"Love you babe."
"Love you too."
After a while of dancing she goes and sits down while Mike dances with his mom and some other people. I do the same as Alex does the same as Mike, and I go over and sit next to Aly.
"Hey Mrs. Riley." She teases lightly.
"Oh it's gonna take some time getting used to that."
"I know."
"I can't wait until this is over, because after all this, we're leaving for the honeymoon.*
"Ooooh." She giggles.
"Oh shut up..." I laugh.
"I'm just excited about where we're going. I wanna find out."
"I know. I just love teasing you."
That's when Nick, AJ, Howie and Brian walk up to us, one reason being to congratulate me of course, and the other because we haven't seen them in forever.
"Hi guys." We greet them with smiles.
"Haven't seen you guys in a long long time." I add.
"We know." Brian says as they all take turns hugging us.
"Nick has a special gift for you." AJ nudges him.
"Oh really." I look at him.
"Not giving away any secrets. You'll have to wait and see." He replies.
"Okay then." I laugh.
"So, how does it feel to be a Mrs. now?"
"It hasn't sunk in yet, I don't think." I reply.
"Give it a few days, it will." Aly assures me.
"Well once you aren't being totally distracted by Alex that is." She laughs.
I lightly hit her arm and give her a look.
"Sorry." She snickers.
"TMI Alyssa, TMI." Nick laughs.
"Sorry, couldn't help it."
"Couldn't help what?" Alex asks, walking over and kissing my cheek before he sits down next to me.
"Nothing!" I say for her, clapping her hand over her mouth.
"All we're gonna say is that it was too much information." Howie laughs and then they walk off.
Aly pushes my hand away from her mouth and reaches for her phone. She selects the ultrasound picture she has stored on her phone and sends it to Nick, Howie, AJ, and Brian all at once with the message title being 'Oh btw...'. Then she gets 4 text messages back with all of them saying 'no way!'. She laughs and looks up at them, nodding. Then they all send a 'congratulations' with smiley faces. She thanks them and then puts down her phone.
"Having fun DC?" Aly asks.
"Yes I am, thank you for asking."
"Good." She smiles.
"So...what couldn't you help?" Alex asks again.
I pin Aly with a glare.
"Can't tell you..."
"She'll hurt me." She laughs.
"CareBear..."
"Nope." I say.
"Sworn to secrecy."
"Dang." He sighs.
After a bit, we hear the familiar tune of BTR's song Worldwide.
"Ohhh no way."
"Awww!" Aly exclaims.
But then we see them standing in front of the dj with mics in hand.
"They're gonna sing it."
"Aw how sweet."
"Let's go..." I trail off, getting up and dragging Alex with me.
"Alright alright." He laughs.
We go out onto the floor to dance to the song, and then Mike comes over to join Aly at the table.
"Hey you." She smiles at him.
"Hey." He greets back, kissing her before sitting down.
"Having fun?"
"I am."
"Its better when I'm with you." He adds.
"I'm conserving energy. I don't want to wear myself out too early." She says, leaning into him.
He smiles and wraps an arm around her shoulders.
"We wouldn't want that to happen."
"Right." She kisses his jaw.
"In a few hours after this is over. We'll be all alone."
"I know you're oh so excited about that." She giggles.
"Yes, yes I am."
He squeezes her and she giggles harder. BTR ends the song and everyone claps. After that it was time for the cake.
"Oooooh cake."
Alex and I walk over to the cake, and cut the first piece together. But being the sneak I am, I take some frosting and end up putting it on his nose.
"Heyyy." He laughs.
"Oops."
He swipes some frosting and puts it on my lips and then kisses me. Then the room erupts into 'ooooooohs' and then laughter. Alex pulls away and grins at me, wiping the frosting off his nose.
"Wait, you didn't get it all." I say, getting the rest.
"Okay all gone."
He chuckles. The cake is passed out and everyone eats. After everyone's done, the first thing to happen was the throwing of the bouquet.
"I'm glad I don't have to go out there." Aly laughs, still snuggles into Mike's side.
"Me too, can't risk getting hurt. Plus you're already married."
"Exactly."
I count to three in my head, before throwing the bouquet behind me and one of the girls catches it. Next is the garter toss and I sit on the chair while Alex kneels in front of me. My cheeks are red. I turn my attention away from him for a moment and look over at Aly, and give her a 'help me' look, jokingly of course. She just laughs. Just as my attention is brought back to him, he's moving under the bottom of the dress, trying to find the garter. I'm sitting there getting more embarassed by the minute as he finds it and pulls it off. Aly leans against Mike, laughing. Once he has it in his hands, he throws that and one of the guys catches it. Then it's back to dancing. After a while of dancing. After a while of dancing it didn't seem possible that everything was ending soon. But before it could end, Nick went up and grabbed a mic to reveal the special gift he has for me. He tells everyone he's going to sing his song 'Just One Kiss'.
"Awww." Aly says.
"I've heard this song, I love it." She adds.
"Well we can go out and dance to it if you want, seeing as everything is almost over." Mike suggests.
She nods eagerly. He chuckes before standing up and grabing her hand. Then they both head out onto the floor to dance to the song along with everyone else. She wraps her arms around Mike's nexk and dances happily, mouthing the words to the song. Once he had finished singing the song, everyone clapped, and then he walked over to me and gave me another hug.
"That was amazing, thank you." I tell him, smiling.
"You're welcome."
There's a few more songs and then the dj announces the last song.
"So do we have to worry about going back to the hotel and packing before leaving?" I ask Alex.
"Nope, that's all taken care of. Our stuff is actually in the limo already." He explains.
"That's why my stuff wasn't in the room besides what I needed." I laugh.
"Yup." He grins.
"Then from here, we go to the airport and get on a private plane." He adds.
"Oooh."
"I'll explain what happens after that, when we land."
"Okay."
After the last song was over, there was one last congratulations for us. We start saying goodbye to certain people, leaving Mike and Aly for last.
"Well I guess we'll see you next Monday."
"Have a good time, take some pictures." She smiles.
"I will, definitely. Once I find where we're going." I laugh.
Alex smirks while Mike and Aly laugh.
"So just making sure of things before we head off. All the gifts will be sent down to my place right?"
"Yup." She nods.
"And don't worry about them being left outside, that'll be taken care of." She adds.
"Okay good." I say.
Then I reach out and hug her.
"I'm gonna miss you these next few days."
"I'll miss you too." She hugs me tightly.
"That goes for you too Mike, I'll miss you as well."
"I'll miss you too Carls." Mike chuckles.
"DC...huh." Aly laughs, holding out her arms for him to hug her, while I go over to Mike and hug him.
Alex laughs and hugs her. Once I let go of Mike and Alex lets go of her, we say goodbye to them both and we leave, getting back into the limo and heading off to the airport.
"Back to the hotel for us." Aly looks at Mike and squeezes his hand.
"Yep." He grins.
Mike and her go back to the hotel, getting to now their room in decent time. She kicks off her shoes and stretches.
"I know, it was a long day for you."
"Mmhmm."
"You know I can help you relax if you want."
"That would be nice..." She smiles softly.
"Anything specific you need to help you relax?"
"Hmm...let me change out of this dress and then we can figure that out."
"Alright." He smiles, then kisses her quickly.
She smiles and walks over to her things, pulling off her dress and hanging that up before putting on what she's sleeping in. After he had finished getting ready for bed himself, he turned around and saw what she had changed into, and then walked over and snaked his arms around her waist.
"Hi." She giggles.
"Are you trying to kill me?" He asks, placing a kiss on her shoulder.
"Why not? It's fun." She laughs.
"Of course it is."
She turns her head and kisses his cheek.
"So now to figure out how I can help you relax..."
"Right..."
"What about your back? I can use the magic fingers of mine. Seemed to work Monday night."
"Oooh."
"I'll take that as a yes then."
"Please and thank you." She smiles, kissing his cheek again.
"Of course, and you're very welcome." He says as she walks over to the bed.
She lays on the bed, half laying on her body pillow. He walks over and sits next to her for now, doing what he did Monday night, and starts to rub her lower back. She sighs contentedly.
"Feeling better?"
"Uh-huh."
"Good."
"Love you." She smiles at him over her shoulder.
"I love you too, and I always will."
"I'll always love you too."
"Just be sure to tell me if you start to fall asleep, then I'll stop."
"Okay." She agrees.
He continues to rub her back to help her relax, and she soon feels herself falling asleep, managing to get Mike's attention to stop.
"...Mike? I feel like I'm falling asleep."
He stops and she whines involuntarily.
"You were falling asleep..."
"I know..."
He shifts and lays down next to her, wrapping an arm around her as well. She moves away from her pillow to lay on him instead. He smiles before kissing her forehead.
"Goodnight."
"Night...love you."
"Love you too."
He and Aly cuddle and drift off to sleep. Then in the meantime Alex and I have just landed from our long flight.
"Oookay, care to tell me where we are now?"
"We're in Fiji." Alex grins.
"It looks amazing with the sunset."
"Yes it does." He agrees.
Once we're all set to get off the plane, we do so and grab our things, heading off in a different direction than the airport itself.
"So where are we going from here?"
"That is a surprise. All I will say is that we're getting on a boat."
"Ooookay."
"Trust me...you're gonna like where we're going."
"I trust you. I'm just curious."
We reach the docks and Alex points out the boat that's waiting for us. We carefully get on, with our things and make our way through the water. I'm looking around, taking in the sights. The boat ride wasn't quite as long as the plane ride here. When we stopped at another dock on a completely different island, I'm in awe.
"Ohhh...wow." I say slowly.
"Now if you can wait here for a minute, I'll go check us in. I'll be back." Alex says, kissing me quickly before getting off the boat and walking away.
I decide to take some pictures and send Aly a text message to say where Alex has taken me. Since I would most likely be getting a message back tomorrow, I continued to take pictures while waiting for Alex to get back. Eventually he comes back with a key, and he helps me out of the boat and onto the dock. Since all our things were already sitting on the dock before Alex got back, after I got out of the boat, it left. We grab our things and Alex leads the way. We make our way along this path until we reach where we're staying.
"Oh my goodness." I say as I take it all in.
"Told you that you'd like it." He grins.
"I don't like it, I love it." I kiss him briefly.
He smiles before unlocking the door and opening it up.
"Ready?" He asks, getting ready to pick me up to carry me inside.
"Uh-huh."
He then picks me up and I wrap my arms around his neck as he walks inside.
"It's even better in here." I comment, looking around.
He gently sets me down.
"You explore, I'm going to bring our things inside."
I nod, turning on the lightswitch since it was dark with the sun setting. The first place I check out is the deck where there's the day bed and the plunge pool, with our own part of the beach below the deck. I look out there for a minute, half hearing Alex carrying the bags inside. Then I walk back inside to look around in there, seeing the 'Living' part of the room, the bed of course and desk is behind that. Then see the indoor shower and the vanities. Then open the back doors and walk out, seeing an outdoor shower. Alex has now begun to follow me, smiling as he watches me.
"Everything...is just perfect." I say, after turning around.
"I'm glad you think so."
"You and the great ideas." I smile, wrapping my arms around his neck.
"Just doing my job in making you happy." Alex smiles.
"Ever since we met you've made me happy, believe me."
"Good." He kisses me gently.
Then he pulls me back inside, closing the doors behind him. I giggles quietly. Then he pulls away and goes over to all the windows and closes the large blinds, before closing the doors that lead to the deck/beach. I watch in amusement. Alex makes sure all the windows and doors are closed and covered before turning back to me.
"Come here..."
"Hmmm, maybe I don't want to." I tease.
Alex starts to walk over. I just stand there grinning away as he gets closer, and look up at him once he's standing in front of me. He cups my face in his hands.
"I love you so much." He says quietly.
"And today was proof of that." I add.
"And I'm going to keep proving it to you." He remarks.
"I know you will. I wouldn't have it any other way."
He smiles and chuckles, kissing my forehead. He then suddenly picks me up again and I squeak, and he carries me the short distance over to the bed and drops me. I sit up and reach for him. He puts up a finger, signaling me to wait. First he takes his shoes off, then his suit jacket, then he helps with getting my shoes off. I take off my jewelry while he gets my shoes. I set it on the side table, before finally being able to reach for him and pull him down, his lips pressing against mine. He kisses back, cupping my face. I start working on getting the vest of his off first, getting each button and then he shrugs that off and tosses it away. I get his tie undone and taken off, tossing that away myself, before deciding to start the torture and move my hands down to his abs and drag my fingers along then through his shirt. He growls faintly against my lips. I smirk but move my hands back up and rest them on the back of his neck, dragging my nails against that now. He growls louder. I continue to do that and his grip tightens on my sides. But I stop suddenly and rest my hands on his shoulders. Alex breaks away from my lips to trail kisses across my jawline and over to my ear. He nibbles on my earlobe, earning a sharp gasp from me while my fingers dig into his shoulders. My hands move from his shoulders and I start fiddling with the buttons of his shirt, because that just needs to come off now. I pop the buttons free as fast as I can manage while he kisses down my neck. I had to stop at the last few that were left, because he was making his way to that favorite spot of his. He smirks against my skin and zeroes in on that spot. My hands grip his forearms tightly and I lean my head against his shoulder. It doesn't take long before the moan comes out and if muffled into his shoulder, as he starts to nip at the spot. He stays there a little longer and I clumsily fumble with the remaining buttons of his shirt. I finally get them, and I help him get the shirt off before tossing that away. I then take the opportunity to actually be able to torture for real this time. I move my hands back down to his abs like not too long ago and smirk to myself as I once again drag my fingers across, and I don't stop just to drive him crazy. I feel him tense up and growl against my neck. And since this time he doesn't have to resist losing control, the rest of his clothes start coming off along with my dress.