Chapter 21

The next morning, Amy was at my door at 10 AM. We were going to pick Melissa up from the airport together. We were both excited. I was excited because I got to spend a little bit of alone time with my bestie.

"How are you this morning?" I asked.

"I am tired," Amy said. She flopped down on the sofa in the living room. I joined her. We weren't leaving until 10:30 to go to the airport. Melissa's flight didn't get in until noon either.

"Me too," I said. "I had a very exciting night last night." I showed Amy my left hand.

"Oh, I know," Amy smiled. "My bestie is getting married!"

I smiled. After John and I got home from Cenas', we ended up calling my parents, his mom, and sending out a text message to all her friends and siblings, telling them all we were in engaged. Amy called me right away and was so happy and excited. She claimed the status of maid of honor. I said that was fine. But everyone was very excited for us.

Amy and I arrived at the airport at 11:05 AM. We checked the status of Melissa's flight it wasn't delayed. It was right on time. We grabbed some lunch while we waited. I loved airports, because they had many places to get food from while you were waiting for your flight or someone else's.

At 12:15, Melissa finally came off the plane.

"There's my baby sister," I said.

Melissa smiled as she walked up to me. She gave me a big hug. "I missed you," She said.

"I missed you too."

"Quit hogging her, Trish," Amy said. Melissa let go of me and gave Amy a big hug too.

"Come on, let's go get my luggage," Melissa said.

Once we had all of Melissa's bags, we headed to the parking lot to get the hell out of there. I was so happy to have my baby sister there with me, along with my bestie. Christie said she was going to come out and see me sometime soon. She had just gotten married a month ago, so I told her to enjoy her newlywed life.

"What are your plans for your first evening in Boston, Melissa?" Amy asked.

Melissa smiled. She sat in the front seat with me. Amy sat in the back. I glanced over at my baby sister.

"Yes, what are your plans?" I asked.

Melissa continued to smile. "I have plans with Sean Cena this evening!"

"Ooh," Amy said. "What are those plans?"

"Dinner and dancing."

"Oh, that sounds like fun."

"It is definitely going to be!"

I just smiled and paid attention to the road. Melissa and Boog were going to have a great summer. He wasn't doing any summer classes. He would mainly be working at the restaurant. Melissa wasn't just out in Boston to hang out with me and Amy, and have a summer romance. Melissa was doing an internship at Amy's and my law firm. It was an excellent way to paten her resume and it gave her experience since she wanted to be a legal assistant just like me and Amy.

Melissa was actually thinking of going to law school. She wanted to go to Boston University law school. She was a very smart girl and an excellent student. Besides applying to Boston University for law school, she also needed to take the LSATs. She had already taken it and passed. She however wanted to take the test again and see if she could do a little better. My sister was an overachiever.

I spent the rest of the afternoon with Amy and Melissa. There was not much to catch up on, because Amy and I talked every day. The same was with Melissa. We text messaged through out the day, every day. I did that with my parents and Christie as well.

Melissa was not the only one who went out that evening. Amy and Phil had a double date with Torrie and Randy. I spent the evening at home with my fiancé. We were always content to spend most of our evenings alone.

"We're like an old married couple already," I said.

John chuckled. "Yes, we are. But that'll change. I know you will want to go out next week, which okay by me."

"Yes, I am going to need to go dancing and I like to go out dancing with you. But I'll have to have a girls' night with Melissa, Amy, and Torrie. Kourtney and Ally actually want to have a girls' night. You know it is us getting together and talking about our men."

John laughed. "Yes, I and my brothers do that when we get together."

"I'm sure Steve is on the brink of wanting to bitch about Chelsea because of the wedding. I remember getting a few phone calls from Melissa because Christie and Jake were going crazy over wedding stuff the last month before their wedding."

"Speaking of weddings," John said. "Do you want to talk about ours?"

"Yes, I do," I said. "We need to consider a few things: date, time, venue and what size wedding we want."

"Well, I will do whatever you want to do. I'll do a big fancy wedding if you want."

I smiled. "I don't want a fancy dress or ball gown wedding dress like most brides want. I mainly want a big reception so we can dance."

"Yes, it is our thing to do. But we could do a small ceremony and have a huge reception with a big dance floor, great food and a band or DJ."

"I vote for a DJ."

"One thing down."

"I vote for a small ceremony too," I said. "I just need an officiator. Amy has proclaimed herself as my maid of honor, so I have to have her. Plus I want some other bride's maids: Melissa, Christie and Torrie. I do want us to do our own vows, though."

John nodded his head. "Oh, I would love to do that. But when would you like to get married?"

"Okay, before we get to that, we can agree on a small ceremony with us writing out own vows and then having a large reception?"

"Yes and yes," John replied.

"Okay, there is one thing we have to worry about and that is the birthday of our baby."

John nodded his head. "Well, your due date is November 11. The baby can come early or late, right?"

"Right. But in actuality I could have a premature birth. Knock on wood." I sat forward and knocked on the coffee table.

"Okay, let's not even talk like that. We're focusing on a wedding date here!"

"True," I said. "But I think before we actually set a date in stone, we should consider looking around at places to get married and have our wedding reception."

"Yes, we need to set a venue. But before we decide on venues, where would these venues be located at? Boston? Atlanta?"

I smiled. "Boston, duh! It's where we both live. It's where our baby is going to be born."

"All right, sounds good. So we'll start looking at places to get married at and have the reception at."

"You know since we're doing a small wedding, but a huge reception, we could just have the wedding at the place we want to have the reception. We could have all our wedding guests seated at the tables where they would be sitting for dinner for the reception and then our wedding could take place somewhere in the same room. We just have to look at a place for it."

"Sounds great. Let's switch gears and talk about wedding guests. Who do we want to invite?"

"Family, friends, co-workers."

"I get family and friends. But to what extent of friends? Are there friends back in Atlanta you want to invite?"

"You know by having a small wedding we want a minimum amount of guests. To answer your question, though, no. There are no friends in Atlanta that I want to invite. I have all my friends here. Amy has been my best friend for so long, that she was really all I needed. I did have other friends in middle school, high school, and college. But I do not call them true friends. I always catered to Amy, my sisters, and my mom. But now I cater to Amy, you, your brothers, their girlfriends, Randy, Torrie, Phil, and your parents."

"There are people at work you consider friends, though, right?" John asked.

"Yes, until I moved to Boston, Amy was the only friend I ever needed. After moving here, there were lots of people to call friends. I found it a little bit hard to open up to people, because of what happened to me as a child. My first boyfriend was a guy that had been my friend first. He helped me to really get comfortable with guys."

John smiled. "I can understand your insecurities. You got over all of that, because when I met you, you were not shy at all!"

I grinned. "That is so true. But I want to invite people from work to our wedding, especially my boss, because he rocks."

John smiled. "Sounds good. I have a few guys from the station I want to invite."

"You know I have already decided on having four bride's maids. You need to decide on groom's men."

"Good lord," John laughed. "I have four brothers and two best friends. That is going to be a rough decision."

"Well, I can come up with three more bride's maids: Chelsea, Ally, and Kourtney. Those three are my friends/sisters."

John laughed. "Yeah, well, that'll put you at seven bride's maids and me with six groom's men."

"I'll narrow bride's maids down later. If we get married after the baby is born, one of them can carry him or her."

"Now there is an idea. I can't wait until you have a big baby bump, because I am going to be kissing it and touching it all the time."

"That is going to get old fast," I said. "I think we have a little while longer before you can start talking to my belly and the baby will register your voice or whatever. I need to read up more on everything."

"Now that is something we should do together," John said. "We should read everything we can about pregnancy and the development of the baby."

I smiled. "You are so cute!"

"Hey, I want to know what is going on inside with our little one."

"Well, I do have a book already: What to Expect When You're Expecting. You could read some of it and see what I'll be going through. Plus we can pick up some other reading material."

"That would be a lovely way to spend some of our evenings: learning about baby development inside the womb."

"Yes and then we can talk to everyone about it. Amy, Torrie, Chelsea, Ally, and Kourtney will love to hear about it."

"Everyone would think it is great. All my brothers are excited to be uncles."

"Yes and Amy says she will be called 'Aunt Amy.' And Torrie will be 'Aunt Torrie.'"

John laughed. "Yes, Randy wishes to be referred to as 'Uncle Randy.'"

"Did you hear about Phil?"

"What about him?"

"Amy is going to refer to him as 'Uncle Phillip.'"

John laughed. "That girl sure likes to call him Phillip. Randy and I haven't teased him about it in awhile."

"Well, Johnny, Torrie likes to call Randy Randall," I said.

"I just came up with a nickname for if the baby is a boy and we name him John Felix Anthony Cena III."

"Yes, I nickname will do just nicely since we have three other Johns: you, your dad, and mine."

"Yes, well, I suggest J.T. He will be John Cena III."

"Yes, that works. I hope it is a boy! I'd like a boy first. Then I'd like to have one or two after him and I want them to be girls. That way the girls will have a protective older brother," I said.

"Well, if we have a boy first, he'll be a protective older brother no matter what his younger sibling or siblings are," John replied. "I have three little brothers and I was protective over them growing up. I still am."

"They're protective over you too. When I met Matt and Dan, they had a Q&A with me. When I was able to really be able to talk to Steve and Sean, they did the same thing. Chelsea, Ally, and Kourtney did the same."

John laughed. "Well, but if the first one is a girl, what would you like to name her?"

"Valeria Callista Cena. But I want to spell Valeria with an A at the end, instead of an e. If it is spelt V-AL-E-R-I-E it is the French way. But if it is spelt V-A-L-E-R-I-A, it is the Italian way. The origin of Callista is Greek too."

"Oh, so we'd be going with my roots of Italian and your roots of Greek for naming our daughter?"

"Yes," I said.

John smiled. "I like that name Callista. How did you come up with the names anyway?"

"The book of baby names your mom got us."

"Right. Duh, John!"

I laughed. I leaned forward and kissed him. He smiled at me. "What does the name Callista mean?" He asked.

"It means beautiful. Valeria means strength. John means God is gracious. Felix means happy and prosperous. I forget what Anthony means. Patricia means noble. Anne is gracious, merciful."

John laughed. "Telling me what your name means?"

"Yes."

John smiled. He kissed me. "I love you so much."

"I sure hope so. I am pregnant with your kid and engaged to you."

"Well, it was one of the reasons why I asked to get engaged, because I love you."

"I love you too by the way."

"Ditto," John replied with another kiss. "I hope Melissa and Boog are having a good time."

"I'm sure they are," I said. "My God, she was so excited. She couldn't wait to see him in person."

"Yeah, he was the same way. Steve and Dad said he couldn't stop smiling today at work."

"Oh, so cute."

"You Stratigias sisters drive us Cena brothers crazy."

"I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the summer Melissa and Sean were in love."

John laughed. "Yes, Melissa is very specific on calling him Sean and not Boog."

"Just like Amy is with calling Phil Phillip or Torrie calling Randy Randall. I haven't called you, Johnny in awhile, have I?"

"Nope. However, last night I did Patricia you."

I laughed. "That's because I had you handcuffed to the bed."

John smirked. "Next time, you're getting handcuffed."

"You'll have to strip search me and arrest me. Then my punishment will be for you to have your way with me."

John smirked. "God bless sexual fantasies."

I chuckled.