White and Green
"Aria," I heard myself whisper shouted into the darkness of the room. Sitting up from the bed I shared with my wife of six months, I started looking around the darken room trying to find her but I couldn't see. Being married to the love of your life is the most amazing feeling; I get the biggest smile when I think about our wedding day and seeing Aria walk down the aisle towards me. Aria was incredibly beautiful that day, and every other day that have known her for.
Spencer Hastings was Aria's maid of honour, us three and my maid of honour Hanna Marin all have been friends since the fifth grade. We had met through getting paired up together on the school's working bee day, it's a program school run where student come to volunteer with helping of cleaning the school up. I hadn't really wanted to go but Mum said it was a good way for me to make friends, and friends I did make. Hanna, Spencer, Aria and I all got paired up in group who were working in the library/computer room we were sweeping, cleaning, putting book back and just things to tidy up the library; the best part was we were trust to work alone with no supervision. We had all just seem to really click well, I don't know why when we were all so different but managed to have a lot in common. After that we started hanging out a lot with each other, lunches, outside of school, on weekends and on holidays.
Back to my point Spencer was Aria's maid of honour and helped Aria pick out her dress, Aria didn't want a typical wedding she wanted it to be unique like us and it definitely was different. Aria did wear the typical white dress but her vail was her favourite colour being green, she also had green highlights running through her hair; which was quite beautiful. Hanna Marin my maid of honour had tried to get me into a dress, and we had gone to a few dress shops out of town but I just wasn't comfortable in them. When we went to a suit shop, I found this slim fitting black suit jacket, black shirt and black pants; apparently my but looked good in it, that's what Hanna had said. For fun I had Hanna try on a suit exactly like mine just her size, she was actually surprised at how comfortable it was and we decided to go with these suits for bride and my bride's maids.
Along with Hanna, I had my Dad, Toby and Mike; who was Aria's little brother. Mike had become like my brother, I watched him grow up from this comically boy and into a man and it was great being close with Aria's family. Hanna had got all the guys to come to the suit shop immediately, I was lucky that my Dad and Toby weren't busy at the construction site they both worked at together; Mike was always available. We had them try on a suit each in their own size and the feedback was great, we then need to choose whether we want ties or bowties and we had gone bowties that were green apparently they match the Aria's bride's maid dresses.
Along with Spencer, Aria's bride's maid were My Mum, her Mum and Simone her old baby sitter who was a great friend to Aria. The day had been great with Aria and I reading out the vow's we had wrote, Arias were beautiful and making everyone cry; while mine were beautiful as well but made everyone laugh. We didn't get married in a church, we actually got married at our old primary school; which was weird location.
We wanted the place to be special and what's more special than the place you first might, luckily enough the school was happy to throw the wedding and the repetition there. We held the ceremony in the computer room/library, with Aria and I on the second top step with the minster on the step above us and each other our bride's maid were on steps going down in higher order. The maid of honours were a step below us, then we had my Dad and Aria's Mum on the next step and on the second to last step we had our last bride's maid being my Mum and Toby. On the very last step my little cousin Jodi stood there she had been our flower girl and Aria's cousin Joshua was the ring bearer; they were both extremely cute.
Our close family and friends were all seated down in the computer room, the school had pushed everything in the room back to the far wall and we had set white and green chairs up on either side with an aisle in the middle of it. The aisle was a red carpet which lead around to the computer room door where Aria's bride's maid and herself had enter. My bride maid's and myself had enter from the library door and got into the precision. The photographers we had hired or Aria had meet through work were set up in the library overlooking us all, it was the perfect view point to get the best photos without anyone getting in the way.
After the ceremony and taking loads of photos, all the guests made their way over to the school's gym which had been set up in green and white balloons, table clothes, chairs, streamers and even the lights were flashing green and whiter; white was my favourite colour. The whole day and night had been a great day/night; we had set off on our honeymoon the next day which was to London. London held a special place in both our hearts because we both wanted to go and experience a new culture that wasn't like our own, it just seemed right to go their together on our honeymoon. I was brought out of though when I heard the floorboard creak, I looking up as I saw Aria enter the room with a glass of water.
I asked "Where did you go?"
Aria replied with "I had a bad dream and a glass of water always calms me down."
"You could've woken me," I say while holding a hand out for her to take. Aria placed her glass down on our bedside table and she took my hand. Pulling her down to me I had her sit in between my legs and lay back against me, we had a sheet left in between us but we were really close together.
Resting my hand on Aria's shoulder, I asked "What was the bad dream about?"
"Oh it's nothing, it's silly," Aria was making it out to be nothing but I knew her better than to believe it.
"Please Aria, please tell me. I won't judge, I won't laugh and maybe I can help calm you back down because right now your heart is racing."
Aria looked back at me with this playful smile and said "Who said my heart is racing because it's scared, when there is another perfectly good reasoning." I smiled at Aria, I knew she was stooling and trying to get me to forget but that was going to forget.
Pecking the top of her nose, I say "Nice try, please I want to know, I need to know," I was desperate to know what was going through Aria's mind.
"Fine. I dreamt that you died, you died right in front me and slowly too. I couldn't do anything, I was trapped and all I could do was watch as something kept stabbing you. I lost you, I lost you and there was nothing I could do," I felt Aria starting to shake as she began to cry.
"Hey, hey Ssh…it's okay, I'm right here," I surround my body around her so that her sense would feel me and know that I am here right with her.
Clearing my throat, I being to sing Aria's and my song, "When your legs don't work like they used to before, and I can't sweep you off of your feet. Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love? Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks? And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70 and by my heart could still fall as hard at 23. And I'm thinking about how people fall in love in mysterious ways, maybe just the touch of a hand. Oh me, I fall in love you every single day and I just wanna tell you I am. So honey now, take me into your loving arms. Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars. Place your head in my beating heart. I'm thinking out loud, maybe we fond love right where we are." This had been the song Aria and I had our first dance too, the best thing about that moment was Spencer and Hanna had gotten together with everyone in the wedding party to sing it to us; it was a beautiful and magical moment.
Aria then took over singing for me, "When my hair all but grey and my memory fade and the crowds don't remember my name. When my hands don't play the strings the same way, hmm, I know you will still love the same. Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen. Baby, your smile's forever in mind and memory. I'm thinking about how people fall in love in mysterious way, maybe it's all part of a plan. I just keep on making the same mistake, hoping that you'll understand. But baby now, take me into your loving arms. Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars. Place you head on my beating heart. I'm thinking out loud that maybe we found lover right where we are."
Aria and I then both sang together "So baby now, take me into your loving arms. Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars. Oh darling, place your head on my beating heart. I thinking out loud that maybe we found love right where we are. Oh, maybe we found love right where we are and we found love right where we are." Even though weren't good singers that didn't matter to either one of us, it's the thought and the meaning that counts the most. We both knew the song by heart, we've played a thousand times plus some more, it was our song and it represents to us how we felt about each other.
"You're not going to lose me Aria, I'm always going to be here no matter what because I love you Aria."
"I love you too Emily," Aria had turned around sometime during the song so we could sing it too each other.
I asked "Do you want to know what I was thinking about before you came back in?"
"Yes, of course."
"I was thinking about our wedding day, how perfect it truly was. I got to marry the women I love, I got to marry my best friend and declare my love for you in front of all our friends and family. I remember having our first dance to that song as our wedding party sang the song to us, I remember seeing you walking down th aisle to me looking as beautiful as ever, with your green coloured vail and I remember everything about our honeymoon."
"You Emily Fields are perfect, you make me safe, you make me calm and you make me feel loved. I've never met anyone as truly incredible sweet and humbling as Emily Fields, as some of you may know Emily and I start out as strangers working together at school for working bee. We went from being complete strangers in this very room, may I add to becoming friends, best friend, girlfriends, fiancée and now wife. The journey Emily and I have shared has been rocking, with ups and down and few twists in the middle just for good measure; which is why I know whatever comes our way, whatever happens we will get through it together. Emily you are a child at heart, you've made me laugh and smile more times than I can count, you have this way of making everyone feel special just to know and that's why I feel so lucky. I am so lucky to be standing here today in front of the people who mean the most to us, people who have seen us through the highs and lows of our relationship and I get to say two magic words 'I do. I do choose to marry you Emily, I do choose to love you for the rest of our lives and I do choose you to do the dishes every night at home. I'm also lucky to be standing here today and getting married to my best friend, what more could you possible want? Well we both want children, in the near future and that will be tough but I know together we'll get to be parents and watch as the new love of our live makes their way through life. We'll guide them through life just like our wonderful did; we'll help them through life and answer any question they might ask. With all my heart I love you Emily Fields and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life, of our life together and creating our own unique family." I remember all those words, it had been Aria's vows to me and it's understandable why everyone cried a couple of tears.
"Your vows were so beautiful, you were beautiful and just the whole day was beautiful."
"That it was, it certainly was and you looked so handsome in your suit," I smiled at Aria before leaning in to peck her on the lips. Looking down at Aria's hand, I found the hand that had the gold ring, the gold ring that I had slipped onto Aria's finger on that magically day. The rings were special to us because I had gotten them in graved on Aria's it said 'White Forever' and on mine it said 'Green Always' it was a beautiful thing I had gotten done because I always said forever and Aria always said always; it was just our thing.
"I love you Aria Montgomery-Fields."
"And I love you Emily Fields-Montgomery." Aria crushed her body down on top of me and kissed me on the lips. Wrapping my arms around her back, I held Aria tightly to me as we had a mini make-out session and this was where I wanted to be forever green and always white.
The End.