Chapter 28

Here's another chapter, the following 4/5 are a little less detailed and a bit slow as they're leading up to things :) Hope it's still readable! Updates will now come on Monday's, Wednesday's and either Friday's/Saturday's depending on my Uni work.

It was coming to the end of January and wedding plans were beginning to take shape. "There is no way I am letting him plan your stag night, okay-" "Why not?" Connie raised an eyebrow and folded her arms against her chest looking at him. "Why not?" They'd been arguing over Cal organising a stag do as Connie couldn't stand the thought of it.

"Maybe it has something to do with me not wanting my husband to have some woman parading herself around in front of him, because we both know that is exactly what he would arrange. But hey, if that's what you would rather have then you know exactly-" "Would you just stop for five minutes?" She dropped her arms and turned walking out of the room heading upstairs.

It seemed as though all they'd done in the last few weeks was argue over things which didn't even matter. Connie was working so much that whatever little time they had at home, she was spending stressed and extremely tired.

Jacob got up from where he was sitting and wandered upstairs to speak to Connie, thinking she was sat in the bedroom in a strop. However as he approached the door he could hear her crying. "Connie what's wrong?" She sniffed and looked up at him from where she was sitting. "You never call me Connie, something must be wrong…" she tried to laugh and play it off but he saw through it.

She pulled her legs closer to her chest and wrapped her arms around her knees as Jacob sat in front of her. "Come on, talk to me please because there is nothing I hate more than seeing you hurting like this." He moved a hand against her leg, gently rubbing against it.

"If it really means that much to you then I won't let Cal anywhere near the planning-" "It's not that Jacob." She tried stopping the tears that were falling down her face by taking a deep breath and briefly looking up to the ceiling. His hand remained on her leg as he tried to soothe her.

"Everyman I've ever loved has either cheated on me or not told me that I was the affair… I love you's mean nothing anymore because they never mean it." Jacob took her hand in his and weaved his fingers through hers. "You're right, saying I love you doesn't mean anything because I more than love you. I adore you Connie Beauchamp and there aren't the words to tell you just how I feel about you."

"As for cheating on you, there isn't a woman on this planet who could ever stop me from thinking about you. I'm not in this to leave you. When I asked you to marry me it's because the thought of not spending the rest of my life with you was something I didn't want to ever have to live through." She'd slowly raised her eyes back to his as a smile rested on his face.

"Now are you going to listen to me for long enough that we could actually have a conversation about our wedding?" "There's something I want to say first." He rolled his eyes, something he'd only started doing after spending time with her, as Connie sat forwards and placed her lips gently to his. It was soft and neither made a move to take it any further. When she finally sat back, she rested a hand against his cheek "Thank you."

Sometime later Connie and Jacob were sitting on the sofa surrounded by various pieces of paper. There were things scattered across the table as Jacob sat with the laptop on his lap with several tabs open, while Connie looked through a long list of names. "You really want all these people there?"

Jacob shrugged as he turned his attention back to her. "Why who were you thinking about inviting?" Connie let the piece of paper rest on her lap as she looked off into the distance. "I'm not exactly hard up on friends am I? As for family, I doubt there's any that would bother to turn up-" "Now we both know that's a lie." She frowned as she looked up at him before he took a new piece of paper and started writing names down.

He hid it from her until he was finished and she pulled it from his grasp. There were three names written which caused her to smile both internally and visibly. Grace, Elliot, Charlie. Those three names meant more to her than a whole extended family ever could. "Point taken." She rolled her eyes as a smile started to form on her face. She hated to admit it but sometimes Jacob knew her too well.

"You know, you never did answer me… About what sort of girl you are." Connie laughed before sitting back and crossing her legs on the sofa. "I guess you could say I'm a little both. I don't want anything deeply religious but I want something which means a lot to both of us." Jacob turned the laptop to her. "So this is out of the question?" He showed her a picture of an old church in the middle of nowhere. She gently pushed against his shoulder as he laughed and clicked on another.

"This is going to sound ridiculous after we've spent the last few hours doing all of this… But what would you think about going away to get married? I mean it's just an idea, we don't have to." Connie seemed to sit back and really contemplate the idea.

Sun, sea, sand, only the closest family who were truly happy to see them both with each other. There weren't really any draw backs to the idea. It might be expensive, but she could cover that no problem. As she sat thinking, she didn't realise Jacob had continued to talk.

"When I last went on holiday with my parents, we went to this beach which stretched for miles. It was beautiful there, the trees hung over one end of the beach where there were some large rocks stretching out into the water. You could see right to the floor no matter how deep it was, it was incredible-" "It sounds perfect." Connie then realised he had some photos up and it was breathtaking. No matter how well-described nothing could prepare you for the true site of this place.

"I guess that's one thing sorted then, now we just have to arrange the other 50,000 details-" "You mean you really want to do it?" Connie smiled as she looked up at him. "Escaping to this place with you, I don't it gets much better than that." Before she could even move Jacob had jumped off the sofa and pulled Connie into a hug spinning around. "I love you so much-" "I love you too. I can't wait to finally marry you Jacob."