Chapter 50

Geoff and Nic walked to the beach holding hands and stopping to kiss passionately.
"I've missed you." He told her.
She grinned.
"The girls confiscated my phone last night." She commented.
"I'm not surprised. Irene shouted out to tell me to shut up laughing at about 3am. I think I kept her awake." He smiled.
He stopped and pulled her towards him stroking her cheek and pushing a lock of hair behind her ear.
"I can't wait until our wedding night." He said. "I'm going to, but you need to know that I need you so much." He whispered.
She melted into his embrace and kissed him passionately.
" I love you." She told him. "I love you so much I can't imagine life without you."
He grinned.
"Well luckily for you future Mrs Campbell you don't have to!" he told her gently. "I promise never to stop loving you." He declared loudly.
"Thanks Bible boy, but maybe you should save that for your wife to be." Aden said from behind them.
Nic laughed and looked over at her foster brother, he was sitting on the beach with Belle.
"Very funny Aden." She told him.
Amy-belle and Brett were playing nearby and she found herself distracted by them.
"Er. .Nic.." Geoff said again.
She looked up.
"Sorry?" she asked.
She blushed as Aden winked at her.
"Aden and Belle were asking if you want to go shopping with them tomorrow to get his suit." He told her.
"Yes. What time?" she asked Belle.
"About 10ish. I tend not to do early mornings anymore." She commented.
"Your not…" Nic asked, about to say pregnant. She felt a hint of jealously go through her. Maybe she was a little broody. Ok, she was a lot broody looking over at Amy-Belle.
Aden chuckled.
"She better not be." He commented earning a thump form Belle.
"No the kids drive me nuts in the morning so I tend to try and take it as it comes, otherwise I end up panicking about missing an appointment." She told her.
Nic and Geoff sat down next to the others.
"You look slightly less stressed about the wedding now." Belle told her.
Nic looked over at her.
"Are you kidding? I'm a basket case." She confessed. "We have a caterer and photographer, the flowers are ordered, I've got to see who has replied to our invites and make Ruby's and Annie's dresses." She told her in a long monologue.
Belle laughed.
"It's not too late to elope." Aden told Geoff. "I'll give you a hand kidnapping her." He looked over at the expression on Nic's face and changed his mind. "On the other hand you are on your own." He muttered.
Nic finished glaring at him and turned back to Belle.
"We found these lovely headbands in the city and I got one for Amy-Belle. Does she wear them?" She asked seriously.
"Yes she loves them." Belle commented.
"I've also ordered a basket of rose petals she can scatter up the aisle." She confessed, earning a loving look from Geoff.
She smiled at him and felt her heart thump in her chest at how handsome he was and how his eyes lit up when he looked at her.
"She will adore you for life. Why don't you go tell her?" Aden told her gently.
Nic flushed.
"I don't know I've never really had much to do with kids." She said quickly.
"Well Amy-Belle is easy. Just tell her she's a princess and she'll be your slave." Geoff told her.
"Geoffrey Campbell have you been hanging out with another woman while I've been away?" she asked him raising her perfectly shaped eyebrows at him.
"Yes but she has a protective older brother, just like you!" Geoff commented. "I had to play with an action man for nearly an hour." He grinned.
She giggled and stood up walking over to Amy-Belle.
She knelt down in front of the young girl, shocked by how much she looked like Aden.
"Hey Amy-Belle I'm Nic." She said to her.
"Nic, I knows you. you are my ant." Amy-belle lisped. "I like yous hair." She said wiping a sand-covered hand through it.
Nic laughed at her.
"That's funny because I was just thinking that you had pretty hair. I was hoping you could do me a favour?" she said
"Yes." She lisped putting her hand in Nic's "Help me build castle for princess." she told her.
Nicole sat on the beach and put the sand in the bucket.
"When me and Geoff get married would you like to help me?" Nic asked.
Amy-Bellle nodded.
"I wants Princess dress." She told her.
"I have the prettiest princess dress for you to wear." Nic told her. "And a little crown to put in your hair."
Amy-belle smiled at her.
Nic patted out the castle from the bucket and firmed it up. Amy-Belle added some shells she'd found to decorate it. They did more castles and Nic found some seaweed she added to it to make a garden.
"I want to do faber." Amy-belle told her. "Do you want to see my dolly?" she asked her. She tugged on her hand and pulled her towards where she had left her dolly.
"Wow she is really pretty," Nic told her.
"Yes she's like you." Amy-belle told her. "Cuz you are pretty too."
"Thank you Amy-Belle." Nic said feeling emotional tears in her eyes.
"Don't cry." Amy-Belle told her and put her arms around her neck.
Nic stood up with Amy-Belle in her arms and cuddled her.
"Er… Geoff. " Belle told him. "I think your future wife is kidnapping my daughter."
Geoff looked over at them seeing his Nicole. She looked so lovely with the little girl in her arms that he couldn't wait until it was their daughter she was holding.
"Well you have a chance that she might give her back someday." Geoff said.
Aden and Belle looked at each other and stood up.
"Ok you two are babysitting, see you in an hour. No ice-cream." Aden told him.
"Babe. " Belle protested.
"Alright two hours." Aden grinned.
He walked off down the beach with Belle giggling next to him.
Geoff stood up and walked over to Brett.
"Hey Unc Geoff." He said.
"Hey B Boy." Geoff called using the nickname the boy had decided on after hearing his Dad calling Geoff Bible Boy. "Fancy a game of ball?" he asked him.
Brett nodded and stood up from his castle to go to his soccer ball.
Nic came over to them still cuddling Amy-Belle.
"We're babysitting." Geoff told her.
She looked at him and grinned.
"As long as they realise we will expect them to do the same." Nic said to him.
He chuckled.
"Perhaps you should.. I dunno… at least wait until we are pregnant before planning the babysitters." He told her in a whisper.
She giggled.
"Ok Amy-Belle shall we show these men how to play?" Nic asked her and Amy-Belle nodded.
Nic tackled Geoff and kicked the ball along the beach. Brett started running towards it and she let Amy-Belle down so she could go too. They played for a half-hour, then built super castles before heading to the Diner for milkshakes.
Geoff and Nic walked together holding hands until Amy-Belle decided she wanted to hold Nic's hand instead.
Geoff lifted Brett on to his shoulders and put his arm around Nic. He couldn't help smiling at her she looked so happy.