Darkness's Flower: Pulling It Together

Chapter 58: First Night Honeymoon

~Nico~

After countless hours of dancing and staring at my gorgeous wife, we left. We were both still dressed up from the wedding. I took her hand in mine and kissed her soft lips.

"You ready to go? I have everything planned out and it'll be perfect," I said.

She smiled. "Yeah, I'm ready. I would kinda like to know where we're going though. I know you wanted to surprise me, but I'd like to know now," she replied.

I kissed her again. "Nah. You have to wait until we get there."

"Whatever. Let's go. I love this dress and all, but I'm about ready to get out of it."

I laughed and let my fingers slip through hers. "Trust me, I know. Okay. Don't let go, whatever you do. This'll be for a longer trip. You ready?"

"Of course I'm ready, what kind of a question was that?"

I smiled and we slipped into the shadows. It took a bit, not long or anything, but it drained my energy so much. We landed in Paris. I know this is where she lived for about a year, but we have some good memories from this place.

We were in the house that I rented and we both stumbled and hit the ground. Me harder than her. I let myself fall back against the wood floor, almost cracking my head. Lilly just sat there, stunned.

"Baby, are you alright?" Lilly gasped.

"I'm...yeah. I'm alright. Just, can you get me out of these clothes? Just put me in my boxers," I muttered.

I was surrounded by white, then darkness once again. There weren't any lights on and it's super early in the morning. I heard Lilly get up and she leaned over me.

"Here, I'll help you up," she said.

I let her take my hands and pull me up to my feet. She had changed as well into compression shorts, black in color, and a tank top that fit loosely around her waist and stomach.

"Thanks. So, Lillian, this is our honeymoon. We will be here for a week and do nothing but be together doing gods' know what," I explained.

She smiled at me and put her arms around my neck. "I can't wait. But I'm so tired from everything today, can we sleep?"

I kissed her on the forehead softly. "Of course. Whatever you want."

We crawled into the huge bed and pulled the silky covers over us. We just lied there, both on our back, staring at the ceiling, my arm around her.

"Well, we sure did have an interesting day, now didn't we?" she asked.

"Sure did. But, Lillian, today was the best day of my life. I am now married to the most amazing girl in the entire world," I replied.

She snuggled against me. "And I'm now married to the best guy ever."

I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her on top of me. "I love you so much, Lillian."

"I love you too, Nico."

Then we started kissing. Okay, making out. It lasted for about two hours on and off. After that, we both fell asleep. Lilly was half on top of me with my arms around her. It was actually very comfortable.

When I woke up, Lilly was still asleep. I gently kissed her head and smiled. Flowers. That's what she smells like. That's what she always smells like. She wasn't super close to me, but right beside me. She rolled over to face me, but was still sleep. Or so I thought.

"Morning," she mumbled.

"Hi," I whispered. "And how is my beautiful wife this morning?"

She smiled. "Tired. Let me sleep. At least let me lay here."

I kissed the tip of her nose. "That's fine. And just so you know, my gods, I love saying that!"

"Saying what?"

"Saying that you're my wife. I love it."

She smiled again and closed her eyes. "Let me lay here. And you don't move either. Stay with me, Nico."

I kissed her forehead. "I'm not leaving you. Don't worry. I don't want to move. We can stay in bed for as long as you want. I don't care."

I turned on my side and pulled Lilly against me. I tucked her head under my chin and pulled the covers even higher over us.

"I love you," I whispered.

"I love you too," she whispered back.

And then it was silent. But I smiled. Lillian is my wife now. We're married. She's mine forever know matter what happens and I love her.

"Nico?" Lilly asked softly.

"Yeah?"

"What, um, what are we gonna do since...since we can't have kids?"

I held her even tighter. "I told you before that we can always adopt."

"I know. Can...can we adopt Allie? I love her. We took her from her family. When I was living there, my parents were friends with her parents. They didn't care she was gone. They didn't look for her. And that killed me. Chiron said that she stays at camp, but he has her go to school and even live in a foster care. He also says she talks about us. Me. You. Nico, I want her to be my daughter."

I smiled some and kissed her forehead. "Okay. She'll be our daughter. When do you want that to happen?"

She tensed. Uh oh.