Finally Free - Charlie Gillespie

Chapter Sixty-nine

Charlie
"I want to marry you now." I can tell she's still talking, but my brain can't process her words. I would literally drop everything right now just to marry her. I would leave this trip and drive our asses down to the courthouses to get married.

"Then let's get married tonight." She doesn't say anything. She just laughs. "I'm being serious. We can get married at the closest courthouse. I'll leave right now and pick you up in an hour-"

"Charlie, we can't do that! The entire wedding is planned for two weeks away. We can't just cancel it."

"So then we won't. We'll get married now and then we'll get married again in two weeks." I know what I'm saying doesn't even make sense, but I just want her. All of her.

"We'd get married twice? Is that even legal?"

"I don't know, but it'd be more of like...a um...more like a-a-a party."

"You know that none of our friends would approve of us eloping, right?"

"Then we won't tell them." She sighs and I know that she's pacing now. She always does when she starts stressing.

"Heer will literally murder me when she finds out."

"Then she won't. None of our friends will."

"But we have to have two witnesses."

"Then we'll ask two strangers around the courthouse to be our witnesses. Kenedi, you don't want to wait and neither do I. We can figure it out when we get there, just say yes."

With how long she's being silent, I feel like she's going to say no. I prepare myself for that response when her voice finally answers.

"Okay." I sit up trying to make sure I heard her right.

"Okay?"

"Okay. Let's do it." I smile so wide that I feel like my face is going to fall off.

"You're being serious?" She giggles making my heart race.

"I'm being serious. Pick me up and I'll come up with an excuse to leave the girls for a few hours."

"You're not just saying yes because I want to do this, right?"

"I'm saying yes because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I don't want to wait any longer to do that, Charlie. You didn't convince me to say yes. You just convinced me that the positives outweigh the negatives." I smile lightly listening to her.

"I'll be there in an hour. I love you."

"I love you." I hang up and just stare at my phone for a few seconds before walking back over to the guys. I end the live before they can yell at me then kiss Owen's cheek.

"I love you all dearly, but I'm going to be sick if I eat another hotdog. I'm going into town for a few hours to eat and stuff."

"Cool. We'll go with you." Owen starts standing up, but I push him back down onto the chair.

"No it's okay. I need some time to just think."

"Are you okay?" I smile at Jeremy.

"Never been better."

***

She sits down in the passenger seat and leans across kissing my cheek. The area her lips touched burn and I dumbly smile at her.

God I love her.

"I told them that I was taking Shadow for a play date." She huffs lifting up Shadow. "She's heavy." I laugh petting her.

"Well she is already almost twenty-five pounds."

"I thought the vet said she was going to be small."

"He did, but he's wrong. She's going to be a big dog." Shadow barks making me laugh as I kiss her head.

"What did you tell the guys?" I slowly pull back out onto the road starting to feel nervous. Are we actually getting married now?

"I said I was tired of eating hotdogs so I went into the city to get something to eat."

"You know if we get dinner, you wouldn't have lied." I raise an eyebrow at her laughing.

"Are you just saying that because you're hungry?"

"Maybe." She scrunches her nose. I shake my head rolling my eyes.

"Do you want to eat before or after?" She stays silent for a minute thinking.

"Before."

"Reason being?"

"I'll be too busy to eat after." I smirk looking over at her.

"Busy doing me?" She gasps and hits my arm blushing.

"Charlie!"

"Am I wrong though?"

"Oh my god."

"Tell me I'm wrong, sunshine. Tell me I'm wrong." She sighs blushing deeper.

"You're not." I lay my hand on her thigh and squeeze smirking. I can see her swallow hard from the corner of my eye and she grabs the arm rest on the door.

Shadow jumps into the back and lays down in the seats. Perfect. More room for me to mess with Kenedi.

All The Time by Jeremih starts playing through the speakers making me smirk. Of course she put this song on the playlist of songs that remind her of me.

"This song is very true, you know?"

Kenedi
I feel like I'm going to explode from embarrassment. This song really had to start playing? And now Charlie is saying that it's true?

"Don't even go there." He laughs as I push my hair out of my face. I skip the rest of the song and sigh in relief when he moves his hand further down my thigh.

"Anywhere in mind you wanna eat at?" I shrug. I still don't know much about Canada. Maybe I really should start exploring more before filming starts.

"Not really. Just somewhere with mashed potatoes."

"Is that your new craving?"

"Apparently. It's all I've been able to think about today."

"At least you're not craving weird foods like watermelon and ranch." I raise an eyebrow at him. Who the fuck told him I would crave shit like that? "Owen said you might start craving that kind of thing."

"And you listen to Owen because....." When he doesn't respond I roll my eyes smiling. "You himbos really do share one brain cell."

"Hey!" I giggle squeezing his hand.

"You know I'm not wrong, baby." He stays silent for a minute then sighs.

"No...you're not."