*Thank-you for the reviews on the last chapter they were greatly appreciated. Thank-you all so much.* I do want to take the time to apologize for my lapse in updating as a couple of my readers or maybe a few more know my family experienced a loss almost two weekends ago so I haven't really been up to updating but I'm back now.
TWO MONTHS LATER: September 2016
"You looked stressed, Baby," says Joe as he comes into our computer room as I am sitting at the computer looking at wedding ideas on Pinterest for our country themed wedding. "What are you doing?"
"I'm just gathering some ideas for our wedding," I answer. "I really like this country theme we have going on I mean since we are getting married on my dad's ranch I think it's perfect. What do you think of a beige and teal color pattern?"
"I like it," he says as he sits down next to me. "I told you. I'm going to do anything you want me to do except wear a cowboy hat. I will wear cowboy boots but no hat I don't want to mess up this hair," he says making me smile as he puts his arm on the back of my chair. "I really want you to be happy with the wedding, Willow. I had my dream wedding the day we got married in the Cayman Islands this wedding is to be your dream wedding to wear the dress you want, have the big celebration you wish to have. I'm happy with whatever you decide."
"But I want it to be about us," I say. "You know what I mean?"
"I know but I'm happy with anything you choose," he says.
"I just feel like I have so much to do with our move to Orlando in a week and then you're going back out on the road next month and we still have so much planning to do. I should talk to Lana. She just planned her wedding."
"Don't," he says, "just don't."
"Why?" I ask with a smile.
"Because then she will have you going with thousands of ideas. You and I have one idea and it works. You don't need her influence."
"Okay," I say. "But we just have so much to do because come January our lives are going to be hectic and chaotic with the road to Wrestlemania beginning."
"You really think you want to wrestle at Mania?" he asks.
"Do I think? I want to and I'm going to," I say. "I wanted to last year and missed the chance. I won't miss it this year. You know what would be cool if they put you and my dad in a storyline together and had you two wrestle each other at Mania. I think that would be the best way for my dad to go out."
"Remember they tried that this year and it was nixed. There are so many rumors going around but is this your dad's final show?"
"Yes," I answer. "This year will be his last Mania. He's ready to give it up and he is going to be in the Royal Rumble."
"Wow," he says. "So are you ready to go shopping for your dress?"
"I don't know," I say. "My mama, plus your mom, Michelle, Sara and Renee I don't know if I am ready for all of that. Is Vanessa going to let me bring Alani along?"
"Of course," he says. "I told her you would be picking her up on your way to the bridal shop."
"Okay," I say exiting out of my Pinterest page. "I love you, Joe."
"I love you too," he says before he kisses my lips softly.
"And what are you going to be doing while I'm out?" I ask.
"Well, I have to get ready for our anniversary. I have a nice evening planned for both of us. Happy Anniversary," he says making me smile as today is the day we became a couple last year. It has been quite a year for us and we have been through more than most married couples have been together in a lifetime but I wouldn't change this year for anything.
"Sounds fun," I say standing up, "by the way how do you feel about not wearing a suit for the wedding and wearing jeans with a vest and a tie and a shirt what do you think?"
"I think that's much more comfortable than a suit," he says. "Just let me know what I am doing so when the guys and I go out I know what we are looking for."
"I like the idea of you wearing a pair of faded blue jeans, white shirt, teal tie and beige vest with a pair of cowboy boots while they wear something similar but instead of a white shirt I want them to wear a teal shirt with a white tie and beige vest and they have to wear cowboy hats."
"You really see Dean wearing a cowboy hat?" he asks with amusement.
"He will and he'll love it," I say with a smile. "I have to get ready to go. I will see you later. I can't wait for tonight. I love you."
"I love you. I can't wait to see what you pick out for our wedding."
"And you won't until the day I walk down the aisle," I wink. I kiss his lips softly before I make my way upstairs to grab something from my closet before I go back downstairs to grab my purse and keys off the counter in the kitchen before I walk out the side door to the garage to my car to head to pick Alani up from her mom's house before meeting everyone at the bridal shop.
Alani and I arrive at the bridal shop and my mom, Joe's mom, Michelle and Sara are waiting for me as Renee pulls up and parks beside me. I never realized I had such a great group of women that stood behind me and supported me until the last couple months. I greet everyone with a hug before we walk into the bridal shop. "You look stressed," says my mama as we are walking. "Are you okay? Are you taking your medicine?"
"Yes, Mama, I am taking my medicine. I just have a lot going on right now with Joe going back to work, us moving to Orlando, my training and of course the wedding. I have so much to plan. We are a step closer and hopefully today we get even closer to the next step."
"Well, your engagement pictures were beautiful. I loved the rustic country theme of them. I also liked how you allowed Alani into your pictures."
"Alani is part of the family, she always has been this is as much about her as it is about us."
"Hi, Alani," she says to her.
"Hi," says Alani as she holds my hand as we make our way through the bridal shop to look at all the dresses.
"Who is the flower girl and what are you doing about the ring bearer?" asks Sara.
"Well, Alani is going to be the flower girl and Kaia is going to be the ring bearer but of course she will be dressed similar to Alani. Who says that a girl can't be a ring bearer too?"
"Nothing frilly," says Michelle. "You know Kai isn't exactly the girly type."
"I know," I say with a smile. "I actually have this really cute idea that will mirror my choice of dress and my style I have planned. I was thinking of putting both Alani and Kai in a white dress, with a white tutu but wearing a jean jacket so that it's not so formal but laid back and country with cowgirl boots of course."
"That sounds cute," says Joe's mom. "That's a good idea so the wedding is now in May and not December?"
"Right," I say as I look through the wedding dresses.
"What exactly are you looking for?" asks my mama. "Anything in particular?"
"I want something simple but classy but country if that makes sense. I was thinking that I would get a strapless dress like this," I say pulling a strapless dress off the rack. It is absolutely beautiful. "Like this," I say showing it to them with a smile.
"That's pretty," says Joe's mom. "I like it."
"Me too."
"Don't think you're just going to see one dress and be happy with it and expect it to be the one," says my mom.
"I don't know," says Michelle, "Willow is pretty particular. I can see her picking her dress at first sight. Go ahead and try it on. If it isn't the one you'll know but if it is you'll know."
"Thanks," I say as I look for a sales attendant to help me fit the dress. I have completely lost all my baby weight and back into my regular size clothes. The lady directs me to the fitting room and everyone takes a seat outside on the couches to wait for me to appear. I pull the dress on and have the girl zip it in the back. It's beautiful and it fits perfectly as if the dress was made for me. My long red curly hair falling over my shoulders falling to my lower back, the freckles of my skin exposed as I stand in the strapless dress. The chest or bodice part is white with a lace design. A beaded silver belt separates the top part and the bottom which is a simple white dress that falls to my feet. I feel like it's perfect. I grab my jean jacket and put it on over top. It finishes out the look and is everything I have wanted and dreamed of. I step out of the fitting room onto the small runway to show everyone. "What do you think?" I ask with a smile.
"Willow," says my mom with tears in her eyes as she stands up. "You look beautiful."
"Thank-you," I say with a smile.
"That's beautiful," says Joe's mom. "I like it a lot."
"And the jean jacket sets it off," says Michelle. "You look fabulous."
"I have to agree," says Sara. "You look beautiful."
"Country chic," says Renee with a smile. "You set that off well. It's perfect."
"I think this is the one," I say. "It feels right. It's the dress that I want," I say.
"You definitely slay in that dress," says Renee.
"Alani, what do you think? Do you like it?"
"It's beautiful, you look like a country Barbie doll," she says with a smile. "I think Daddy will like it too."
"I hope he does," I say with a smile. "This is it, this is the one that I want. I don't have to try any more on. I know this is the one."
"I have your dad's credit card," says Michelle, "if that's the one, that's the one. We'll put a deposit down on the dress or pay for it completely whichever you want to do."
"Let's just pay in full today," I say with a smile. "I'm in love."
"Well, it's good to see you happy," says my mama. "I hope it stays that way."
"Me too," I say with a smile before I go to take the dress off.
I am beyond happy with my choice, I am excited for my choice so much that I wish May could be tomorrow. Michelle pays the deposit on the dress because there may need to be alterations done on the dress. As a way to thank everyone I take them out to lunch to spend some more time together which is so much more fun than I expected. My three moms all get along well together and they get along with Joe's mom who has become a mother to me over the last year so I guess I have 4 moms. We talk about bachelorette parties and bachelor parties. I inform them that Joe and I made an agreement to have parties but we are not to talk of the events that occur during the parties but we both must remain faithful to one another. We then follow the conversation up with my wedding ideas and the things we have planned for the wedding before our afternoon ends. I take Alani home and then head back to the house.
Later that evening Joe surprises me with a beautiful candlelight dinner for both of us. He chose to do all the cooking; chicken parmesan with linguine served with red wine. He followed our dinner up with the desert that he had baked a wonderful pineapple upside down cake. "This was beautiful, thank-you," I say with a smile as we are sitting on the couch drinking our wine. "Happy one year anniversary."
"I can't believe it has been a year," he says taking a sip of his wine. "I feel like it has been a lifetime. Everything we have been through this year and yet we are still together to celebrate an entire year together."
"It does feel like a lifetime huh? This doesn't even begin to cover a life time of happiness with you, Joe. If there is one thing I have learned in the last year is that it isn't the good times that keep relationships going, it is the bad times that keep it going we see each other at our worst and still love each other despite of it. We become stronger to get through life, to fight what is trying to tear us apart. We learn more about each other, we become stronger together and take on the world together. It is our love that makes us stronger, that makes us last. Love can beat out anything. Love always wins," I say.
"I have to agree with that," he says, "did you just state some of your vows to me?"
"No," I smile. "I haven't even begun to put into words how I feel about you, what I promise you and how much I love you. I know in my head all these things I just haven't put them on paper yet."
"I see, so how was dress shopping today? Was it as crazy as you thought it would be?"
"No actually it was one of the best days I have had in a while. Everyone got along and I realized how lucky I am to have four beautiful women love me the way my three moms do and the way your mom does. They were very supportive of my choice. I only needed to try one dress on and it was the one. It was perfect."
"My mom does love you, Willow. You are one lucky girl. You have no idea how many people love you. I can't wait to see the dress. I'm anxious about it."
"You'll love it," I say with a smile. "So, I think I am ready."
"Ready for?" he asks.
"You know what for, to make love, it's been so long and I think I am ready."
"You are, are you sure?" he asks.
"I'm sure," I say. "I've been healed for months and emotionally I am in a good place. I want to make love tonight to celebrate our year together."
"Okay," he says with a smile, "but first I want to give you something."
"I thought we weren't giving each other gifts."
"Well," he says, "call this a late/early wedding gift."
"Okay," I say.
He gets up from the couch and walks out or the room after putting his wine down on the coffee table. I put mine down beside his and wait for him to come back. He comes back into the room shortly and hands me a picture. "What is it?" I ask looking at a bunch of land. "It looks like a picture of land."
"It is," he says with a smile. "It is a picture of land."
"Okay," I say curiously. "What am I supposed to do with this? It's beautiful land though," I say looking at the picture. The picture displays acres of land with a small lake or pond beyond some trees in a distance. "Is it about the pond?"
"No," he says with an even bigger smile. "That's our land," he says.
"Our land?"
"Yes, I bought some land in Houston," he says. "I know how much you love Texas and I know you weren't always planning on living here in Florida and wanted to go back. I know how you want to have a farm with horses and cows and chickens all that stuff. I know how much it means to you, Willow. I know how you want a nice little farmhouse with lots of land and that's what I am giving you."
"You're what? What about Alani? Vanessa moved her to Florida so that you two could be closer and you love Tampa."
"I love being with you no matter where it is, Willow. I have started the process of them building your dream house in Houston. It should be ready by the time we have our wedding and we'll be able to move in right after we get married. Vanessa and I set up an agreement that will happen when we move. Alani will spend every summer with us in Houston, I will get her nearly every other holiday and I will fly back one weekend a month to spend with her. It's all figured out. I want to do this with you, Willow. I want to build this love from the ground up. I want us to grow old in that house together and I know your dad wants to get back to Houston but he only moved here to be near you. I know you want to be near your dad and back in your hometown. This is for you, Willow. A house for you and me to build our life together from the ground up."
Tears fill my eyes as I put the picture down on the coffee table. "Joe," I say as I stand up next to him. "I don't know what to say. I love you so much, Baby" I say throwing my arms around his neck. "I want to spend the rest of my life with you, in our own home that we created together. I love you so much."
"I love you too," he says with a smile.
"Thank-you so much!" I say before I press my lips against his, igniting a deep passion between us. His soft full lips pressed against mine as his tongue meets mine, stroking it softly and deeply as we share the passionate kiss. "I'm ready," I say breathlessly as I look into his dark brown eyes.
"Me too," he says with a smile before he scoops me up off my feet and carries me upstairs to our bedroom. He kisses me softly as we stop outside our door. He opens it before carrying me into the room. He kicks the door shut behind him and makes his way over to the bed. He tosses me onto the bed softly as he starts to strip out of his clothes. He unbuttons the shirt he is wearing and then removes his shoes before taking off his jeans as I rush out of my own clothes, removing the tank top I am wearing and the leggings I have on. He crawls toward me on the bed with a smile on his face. I cup his face and kiss him as his body covers mine, his knee parting my legs slightly as we share our deep kiss. His hand trailing up my thigh, over my hipbone, over my rib cage making its way to my cheek as he cups my face. "I love you, Willow," he says against my lips. "And I want you so much."
"I want you and I need you, Joe," I say. "I love you."
Joe separates himself from me and removes his boxer briefs, his thick, full and large erected cock ready to please and pleasure me. I remove my lace underwear quickly and then my bra tossing them to the floor. Joe smiles and gets back into the bed with me after giving me time to admire his Greek God like body. He's not completely ripped in his abs and has started to gain a bit of a belly but I have no complaints. His body is perfect, beautiful to me. I like him thick as opposed to ripped and thin. "Come here," I say with my finger and he crawls over to me, his body covering mine, his lips on mine, kissing me as he teases me with his thick cock.
"Birth control?" he asks as he thinks of me like he always does.
"None, I'm not worried about it, Joe."
"What about wrestling?"
"I would much rather be a mom above being a wrestler. I'm willing to take my chances," I say. "Whatever happens happens," I say. "I want to be a mom, you want to be a dad so why not just let life happen when it's supposed to?"
"If you're okay with it, I'm okay with it."
"I'm okay with it," I say with a smile, "now stop talking, make love to me."
"Okay," he says with a smile before his lips are on mine as he slides his thick cock into me making me moan against his lips. It's been so long it takes a minute to adjust to his size before he begins his soft, long movements of pleasure. My body moving with him as he makes love to me, as we make love together, becoming one again. I play with his hair as we make love, every stroke, every thrust making me moan, the fullness of his erection filling me, pleasing me, pulling me over the edge of ecstasy. The deeper he goes the louder I moan. "You're beautiful," he whispers to me as he continues his soft strokes pulling me over the edge. I can't hold back anymore as my toes curl, my legs start to quake and my fingers flexing into his back. I cry out in pleasure as I reach my climax, he continues his movements softly picking up his pace as I feel his cock growing larger and thicker inside of me. "Willow," he says as he thrusts into me one last time, his cock exploding, sending his seed into me. "I love you," he says as he finishes his climax, filling me with his semen.
"I love you, Baby," I say with a smile before he pulls out slowly, lying next to me, taking me into his arms cuddling with me and holding me. Neither of us say a word to each other because we don't need to. We said our words through our passion now we are just enjoying each other's company and enjoying one another as we hold each other in the darkness of our bedroom realizing our future has been set, the love we share never ending despite whatever we go through now, tomorrow, months from now or any time in the future our love will always win.
*A/N: What did you think of Willow's and Joe's country theme wedding idea? What do you think of Willow picking out her dress on the first try, what about her outfit choice for her at the wedding and everyone else in the wedding? What do you think of Willow having all those women around to help her through her wedding and life? What did you think when Joe surprised her by telling her they were moving back to Houston? Do you think it's to start a new life together, building their love from the ground up? What do you think of Willow finally being ready to make love to Joe? Do you think they are getting better with each other? Please review and thank-you for reading.