May

Fourty

"I was thinking to myself, 'How the hell are you going to find a way to explain your love without taking an entire day?' My bright idea was writing it down. The question that was constantly on my mind while writing this was ' when did I know that I am in love with you?' The honest truth, the night before we broke up-"
our friends and family laugh
"-before then I was attracted to you but I was not willing to put my life on the line for you, before then I thought we were not going to last so I enjoyed every second that we had together because in my head, it could be over soon.

You left for Russia and I was not that sad, I thought it was because I was looking on the brighter side of things but it was because I did not know the extent of my love for you until I thought you were dead. When I found out I was pregnant, I could not tell you because part of me was stuck in the past. I could not come to terms with reality. 

When I gave birth to two beautiful girls, I realised, we can do this. We are made for this, you are my matching sock. Amari, Ashanti, Arawelo and myself are all lucky to have you in our lives. I promise to stand by you, do our pre-mission tradition and pray that you are safe.

I promise to be faithful and to kill you if you ever think about cheating on me, I promise to hide your flaws to the world but fix them together. I promise to lift you up when you are down. I promise to kill the spiders, if you kill my enemies. I promise to be a good mother to our three beautiful daughters and to hold you accountable to being an amazing father.

I promise to watch the sunset with you every Saturday and to love you even after we die." His eyes are filled with tears.

"Mr Goncharov, it is your turn." I wipe his tears.

"How do I beat that?-" We all laugh. "-But I will try. The night you decided to throw caution to the wind and save me, I knew, this one I want to marry. I couldn't get you off my mind and I couldn't look at another woman without thinking of you, I still can't.

You have given me two beautiful girls and have brought back my first born. You never listen to anyone but apparently I have a special place that sometimes you listen to me. I don't want to cage you, you are your own woman but you agreed to let me in, agreed to be my equal, agreed to let me be in your life. When I almost died, all I could think about was you, all I could see was you and Amari.

Even though I can fend for myself, you feel the need to help me and it has been hard letting you in, it has been hard allowing someone else take the reigns when I am tired but this is the first and only time I will admit this but you are better than me at everything and I have never met anyone like you, male or female and I promise to be your servant for life, to be your bodyguard, your masseuse, your housekeeper, your husband, your ally, your bestfriend, sorry Dylan, your supporter, your fandom.

I will divide myself into million of pieces to fill any holes in your life. I will become a foot stool for you when you are pregnant, your punching bag and your soundboard. I promise to listen to you and to come to you when I need help, I promise to dry your tears, I promise to watch the sunset with you every Saturday, I promise to drive you to work and take the girls to school when you can't and I promise to put you and our children above myself, any day.

You are my first priority, you and the children and I vow, no one will come before my family. Till death do us part, lerato la ka." (Translation: my love) [Sesotho]

"I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride."

We lean in for a simple kiss, like we practiced but he pulls me closer and it is more than I anticipated, our foreheads pressed together. The crowd is cheering and I can hear them but I can not focus because my husband is kissing me.

Tears roll down my eyes. He stops, his eyes observe me while his lips pursed. My eyes look into his, our souls searching for home and we find it in each other. A peace comes over me, his arm wraps around me, he pulls me in tight.

"I love you." Said lowly into my ear to calm me down.

The reception hall is beautiful, Kate and Noah have outdone themselves. As per Nate's wishs Noah is the MC.

"I would like to give a toast to My bestfriend, Nate, I remember when you came to the house after meeting her, there was something diffrent about you. It was the night that you discovered that you had a heart and that it could love again.

She has changed you, dude, that woman, keep her because she makes you better, you smile, I had never seen you smile until you met her. I am going to miss you but I know that you are in great hands. I love you! Now that my speech is over, I would like to welcome on to the stage, May's bestfriend and my close friend, Dylan." Dylan is my man of honor, there is no one else I would have.

"Thank you Noah. I can't believe you married him and gave him twins but I am happy for you both. We had a bet on how long it would take him to propose and we honestly didn't think it would be this soon. I have see you cry over him and if he ever does it to you again, Ryan won't stop me from skining him.

I am happy for you May, thank you for making me a godfather to three amazing children. Thank you for accepting me and I am thankful to you too Nate, for making my bestfriend happy." He makes is way over to me and kisses my cheek.

"Thank you, Dylan. Can the amazing parents of bride make their way to the stage." I wonder what they are going to say.

"I can't belive our little girl is married and has a family of her own. I remember when you were just a little girl on your first day, you gave me so much stress but as you got older, you seemed to slow down and I have only your father to thank for that. I love you my baby and may God bless your marriage."

"I may not have been there for most of your life and I thought I would have to tell my son-in-law that if he hurts you, I will kill him but you can handle yourself. Nate, treat her better than I have and treat her like the Empress she is. I love you, my little girl."

"Now that the parents are done, May asked that we have a moment of silence in honour of Nate's parents." Nate gawked at me, his lips slightly apart, his eyes glossy with tears and our moment of silence was spent staring into each other's eyes comforting him.

"When we met, we were at logger heads and it took her seeing my heart for her to try to be friends with me and now I planned her wedding. Alyone is the kindest person and she is smart and is always willing to be friends but that switch can turn in a millisecond. Alyone is a great friend and Josh is lucky to have her as a wife, Nate, you better not mess up because that, that's a diamond, don't throw that away looking for stones. Noah and I are always ready to babysit."

Katrina brings the girls to sit with us, they just woke up from their nap.

"Up next, my bestfriend, the dashing groom."

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Author's Note

- Figured it was about time they tie that knot.

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