I'm frosting my 4th wedding cake of the day when Alex walks in and steals a cupcake.
"Thief."
"But you love me." He smiles and I say yeah I do.
"So what's up? I know you didn't come just to steal my cupcakes." I ask him and he smiles some more. He's way too smiley.
"I'm going to ask Leah to marry me." He smiles some more.
"Holy crap that's awesome Alex!" I tell him. It's been a year since she kicked Sam and I out of Alex's hotel room and did things I don't like to think about, Alex is still the same age as Phil.
"What was that look?" He asks.
"I was just thinking my step dad is probably going to the best man at my sister's wedding. That's weird." I tell him and he laughs.
"How are your wedding plans coming along?" He asks and I laugh.
"Oh you mean the wedding I didn't want?"
Sam asked me to marry him once we were settled into our life together. He had just started working at the police department, which I still hate, and the bakery was running well.
I really wanted to go to the courthouse and have a small reception but Leah begged for me to have a real wedding with a real dress and I gave in.
"You know she just wants it to be perfect for you right?" He asks and I think aww how freaking sweet of him to defend her.
"I know Alex but the dress and the flowers and the food, it's all just not me." I tell him.
"So tell her Bella, she wouldn't want you to be unhappy. She's doing this for you." He tells me and I know he's right but I don't really want to tell her no.
"Can I tell her right before you propose?" I ask him hopefully, then she'll be like I hate you Bella! But then she'll be like oh this is awesome because now I can just plan my own wedding!
"I'm not sure I like you using my proposal but since I love you so much…"
"Thank you! You can steal all the cupcakes you want!" I tell him happily.
"How about you just make my wedding cake?" He asks and I agree.
"This could be totally perfect! She can just have my wedding! Charlie is paying for the whole thing, well half of the whole thing and Phil doesn't care at all, so he's not going to care which daughter gets married! I'm going to go call Sam!"
"Yes, your dad is going to be just as happy about me marrying Leah as you marrying Sam." He says sarcastically. So Charlie isn't exactly happy about their relationship which works out amazingly for me. Sam and I are perfect in his eyes. Not that I really give a damn what he thinks. We barely talk anymore. We were doing OK after I moved down here, Sam and I had dinner with them every week as required even after my birthday. He was thrilled when Sam proposed and insisted on paying for everything, and then got in an argument with Phil and they decided to split it. Leah was planning the wedding with pretty much no input from me and zero input from Sam. One night at dinner we were talking about it and I mentioned Phil walking me down the aisle and Charlie was all surprised and it all went to hell from there.
Phil may not remember me and maybe I don't see him as much as I once did but he comes to visit me once every couple of months, and I visit him sometimes. We're very close, after I moved here he got help like I asked him to and we've been rebuilding our relationship ever since.
I call Sam and he is happy that I'm happy, he never cared either way. Then I call Phil to make sure he doesn't mind and he says of course not, he could tell I never wanted it anyways.
I practically float back into the front.
"Wow honey if I knew you were going to look this relieved over not having a wedding I would have talked her out of it months ago." He laughs.
"So when are you going to ask her?" I need to figure out when to tell her.
"I was planning on doing it tonight but if you need time to break her heart first…" He jokes but I tell him no, it's fine I will just call her. "That's actually part of the reason I came, I need a special cake or something that says will you marry me? On it."
"Are you serious? For tonight? You're such a loser Alex, you're lucky I love you and more importantly Leah."
Luckily I have a cake already baked that doesn't have a super important purpose so I decorate with will you marry me? And put in a pretty box.
"Thank you Bella, I love you so much!" Alex tells me and I tell him I'm glad he's going to marry my sister even if it does still weird me out.
As soon as he leaves I call Leah to as he said, break her heart. And it's just as bad as I imagined and she hangs up on me.
3 hours later she calls me saying she loves me and she's sorry she hung up on me and can I come over after I close up to see her ring?
I ask her if she can come by and see me tomorrow at the bakery, it's wedding season and I've hardly seen Sam at all this week. She says OK she will be by around 1.
Finally it's time to close up and I'm exhausted.