End of the Day (Mystique Trilogy 1) (COMPLETED)

Chapter 40

A part of this chapter is R-18.

CHAPTER FORTY

"Here we go," I whispered as the doors of this church open. I lifted my chin and looked at all the people who attended my wedding today. They looked so happy for me, while I am so nervous for today.

When the song "On This Day" by David Pomeranz played, my heart started beating so fast as I start walking down the aisle. I saw Yana and Kate looking at me with tears coming out from the side of their eyes. I smiled secretly and looked in front, and that's when I saw Darren at the other end of the aisle. Beside him was Angelo who was whispering something to him and it made him laugh before shaking his head.

My father was looking at me so I avoided his gaze. It's not because I'm still uncomfortable about this arrangement, it's because I don't want to ruin my mood on my wedding day. I don't want to think that the reason why I'm walking down this aisle is because of his orders, but because I learned to love Darren despite the chains of the past that held me back for years.

Darren met me in front of the altar and we faced the priest together. While the priest starts our wedding, my mind started taking me back to all my memories in the game of love. When my heart got broken into pieces, I thought love is something that would crush everybody's foundation of hope and trust without any chance of getting fixed again, but when Darren proposed to me that night, I realized that it is another beginning that I'll face with him. I realized that even if the love between Kael and me closed, it opened another path, another chance, another beginning to try to fall in love again, but this time, it's with Darren.

I built walls the day after Kael broke our relationship. I swore to the stars and to myself that I will give love another chance if I'm finally okay, if my wounds are healed, and if my trust is complete again. I thought Darren would force me to go out with him since my relationship with Kael ended, but I was wrong. I once asked him why didn't he make his move immediately and all he said was he's willing to wait for me.

And he did. He waited for me to be okay. He waited for me to open my heart again and give us a chance. He waited for me to finally say yes to him.

"Darren Jace Juarez, do you take Ellieya Veronica Arellano to be your wedded wife, to live together in marriage? Do you promise to love her, comfort her, honor and keep her for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and health, and forsaking all others, be faithful only to her, for as long as you both shall live?"

Darren looked at me and caressed my hand before smiling. "I do."

The priest asked me the same question. I looked at him and smiled. When I say those two words, I'm laying down my whole life, my trust, my heart, and my comfort in his arms. In saying those two powerful words, marriage will bind both of us together for better or for worse and in sickness and in health, and I'm ready for that to happen. I'm ready to be with him. I'm ready to become his wife.

"I do," I said and smiled at him.

They say we are the writers of our own story but I guess I wasn't in the first half of my life. Someone wrote my own story for me. Someone wrote the complete opposite version of what I'm thinking. And if I'm right, I think my emotions wrote it for me. Writers, sometimes, want to be anonymous for a specific time then will reveal themselves whenever they want. I guess my emotions just wanted me to find them and wait for that specific time that they'll reveal what they hide from me— the acceptance for what I truly feel.

They wanted me to explore the first chapters of love with Kael. They wanted me to prepare myself for the plot twist of my story. They even made my story complicated and somewhat tragic just to help me accept and realize that not all you wish for will happen. I came into my plot twist, and when the climax went down and finally settled down, where did it get me? To my denouement, to Darren.