Chapter Twenty-Eight (1/2)

Chapter Twenty-Eight

“Brylee, come on get up.” Someone shook my lightly and I groaned and rolled away

“No.” I complained

“Woman get your ass up so we can get you ready so you can get married.” And with that my blankets were ripped off and I shot up to glare at Rochelle, I liked Monica better.

“Bitch.” I mumbled

“You already knew that though, shower time, you’re the last one who needs one and we waited until we all took one to wake you up. You’re mimosa and breakfast will be ready for you when you get out.” Rochelle pushed me into the shower and I took a quick one because I was hungry.

They knew how to motivate me to move, food!

Such a change from when I dropped all the weight and avoided food at all costs, now my appetite is well back and the best part about when I do get pregnant is that I can really eat whatever I want and Chase won’t say shit about it. I’m going to be a beached whale pretty much.

I scrubbed myself, we had all gotten waxed at the spa, which was so fucking painful and he better appreciate it, damn it. When I was all clean I got out and put a robe on before heading out into the living area, we had a little kitchenette and Rochelle was mixing up my drink over there.

There was food on the table and as I sat down to eat she brought over the drink. There was a lightness about today, it felt like a good day and I smiled suddenly because I was about to get married. No more waiting months or weeks or even days, tonight when I went to sleep I would be a wife, though I’m not sure there will be any actual sleeping going on tonight.

It sent a shiver of excitement through me but I pushed it away, this was so not the time or place for that kind of feeling.

There was a knock at the door and Monica went to answer it.

“Aunt Brylee, do we get to have our hair done too?” Lina asked me and Mia was waiting expectantly beside her

“Of course you do and you get to wear a pretty dress and I have a special surprise for all of you too.” None of them knew about the necklaces yet.

“Awesome.” Lina was the more outspoken one where Mia was more shy yet girly, she loved when Monica sat and braided her hair and paints her nails and she loved dresses where Lina liked soccer and all her friends were boys, the loved wrestling around and the mud.

They were completely opposite.

But there was the side of Lina that loved getting dressed up and this is one of those times.

We hung out until the lady doing our make-up and the guy doing or hair showed up and then it was time for the very long yet fun process of getting ready.

I wanted the girls to go first so Monica sat down for her make-up with Lizzie while Jake started on Rochelle. I wanted to wait as long as I could to get Lina and Mia ready so there was less time for them to ruin their hair.

The girls were all getting their hair braided like a headband with a set of fake pearls adjoining it and curled before being pulled back away from their faces with clips in their hair. I was putting extensions in mine and he was styling it to be curled and pinned to the side. There would be a slight poof with my bangs so the veil could stay in and I wore the headband my mother wore to her wedding.

Something Old.

I would also have a set of fake pearls twisting through my hair and he was a genius with hair as he pulled it all together and they looked beautiful and I absolutely loved my hair. Next Lizzie was working on our make-up while Jake took on Lina and Mia.

I needed something that would stay well so it was going to be pinned like crazy and their hair would be up with flowers and pearls going through their hair and as I watched him pull it all together and get the girls to sit still, I thought they were the most adorable thing.

Out photographer was in taking pictures of everything and we were told to ignore her for the most part so she could get better pictures so we just took her advice.

Everything felt great about today and when there was another knock on the door Rochelle went to get it.

“Hey.” She said happily and I looked over to see Linda coming in with a huge thing of flowers.

“A gift from a man who’s going insane without you.” she said and I smiled as she brought them over to me and I just stared at them, there had to be three dozen red roses arranged in there.

I finally stood up and I picked up the card as I took in the scent of them.

“What does it say?” Trista asked and I was glad that Lizzie hadn’t gotten to my make up yet because I was already crying, how am I going to get through this day with my make-up intact?

“I’ve been dreaming about this day for almost ten years but my dreams could never do you justice. I know the moment you say ‘I Do’ will be the moment all my dreams come true. I love you Angel.

P.s Yes, I know that was cheesy, but true. ”

I read the last part and couldn’t help but laugh. I loved him so much.

“A couple more thing before you get your make-up done, per Chasen and Riley’s request.” She told me as she pulled out her phone and showed me a picture of the venue.

“On your side two empty chairs are sitting there with flowers and a candle for each of your parents.” She said and I took a deep breath and nodded.

“Alright.” I was crying and I felt a pang of sadness but I knew it would be okay.

“Second is I know you wanted to borrow this for the wedding, I wore it on my wedding day and didn’t know if you had anything borrowed” She handed me a beautiful pearl and diamond bracelet

“I don’t, thank you.” I gave her a hug and she put it on my wrist.

“You’re welcome baby.”

“Anything else that’s going to make me cry?” I asked her and she nodded

“Yeah. I’ll be right back.” she told me and left before coming back in with the flowers.

“These are for you, I talked to Chasen and he asked me to change the flowers a little bit.” She opened my box and pulled it out gently.

“What?” I asked

“There are two fake candles in the bouquet that we can turn on, we would have gone with real but things catching on fire probably wouldn’t be a great thing and since they were changed last minute you have two, you can throw the other one at the wedding and keep this one intact for a memory and.” She turned the flowers around and my eyes filled with tears again.

There was a blue bow tied around it and it had been obviously cleaned but it was a part of the blue shirt my mom had been wearing the last time I saw her.

“How?” I asked as I reached out to touch it.

I had given them both a hug that night as I insisted they kept their plans to see the lights since they would be gone soon and I would help Riley with the kids and Monica being sick. Blue was my mom’s favorite color.

“Riley.” She told me and this was all just so much and Monica wrapped her arms around my waist and I leaned my head on her shoulder.

“And from me.” she said as she grabbed my hand and brought my over to my dress and turned it.

“What did you do to my dress?” I joked and she shrugged.