Milkshake Hearts

Chapter 159: Maybe

A/N: A reminder that this is fiction in every dimension including career commentary!

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Olivia and Sam's wedding is held in early April, and it's not a beach wedding, but the venue is a huge house by the beach full of white marble and bright sunshine. Olivia's own friendship group had grown in a very different direction to the rest of the Smosh cast, and no one is offended by the fact that it is their other friends and family that end up in the wedding party rather than anyone from Smosh.

"I think this is going to be the fanciest wedding I attend for a long time," Ian muses, joking, when he arrives outside the venue about the same time as Shayne and Courtney – alone, because although he's kind of been dating someone, it hasn't been for long enough to bring her to one of his employee's weddings – and moves to stand with them as they wait to go inside.

The ceremony flows perfectly, as far as either Shayne or Courtney can tell from where they take a seat with a few other coworkers who are in attendance about halfway back in the ceremony space. Olivia's dress is glittering and delicate at the same time, and Sam beams at her unashamedly when she walks up the aisle (beside her mother).

The day is bright and sunny, and the reception is held in an indoor-outdoor space looking out over the beach below the venue. There's a Smosh table at the reception, too, with Noah and Tiffany, Keith, Ian, Kimmy and Shane joining Shayne and Courtney talking amicably over the lunch served. As much as the wedding is traditional, there's touches of different traditions thrown in as well, and it all blends into a celebration that perfectly fits the couple they're all there to celebrate.

"Liv Liv, you look so gorgeous!" Courtney enthuses, when Olivia moves over to their table a little way into the reception, mingling around between all their guests. Her comment is quickly echoed by everyone else from the table, as Sam soon wanders over to join her and to chat to their table for a while.

They all start to mingle around, too, after Olivia and Sam have moved on to chat with someone else, and although they don't know Olivia's friends quite as well, Shayne and Courtney find themselves talking to various Goldbergs cast members and some of Olivia's family.

The reception flows smoothly from lunch to cake and desert (it is an amazing cake, that they later learn – via one of Olivia's bridesmaids – was made by her mother and some of her friends who all had a mini cooking and baking club together), and after the formal dances, into a party that, as with the rest of the event, fits well with Olivia and Sam's own aesthetics.

Keith and Ian hit the open bar with enthusiasm, and while neither Shayne or Courtney go quite as far as they do, they let themselves be swept up in the atmosphere, sipping fancy champagne as they talk increasingly loudly and amongst increasingly more people, and when it moves from slow dancing to a little more free-for-all, through the dancefloor.

They know the party will go on late into the night, but as dusk moves into night and the ceremony in the late morning becomes increasingly distant, Shayne gently pulls Courtney aside.

"Would you be okay if we left soon?" he asks, softly, Courtney simply nodding in response, knowing they have a decent drive back home to the Valley and they've more than covered all the socialising they needed to at the wedding.

They find Olivia and Sam to say goodbye to them, Olivia now far enough from the ceremony that she is less cautious of keep her dress from the slightest wrinkle as she flings her arms around Courtney in a tight hug, while Sam draws Shayne into a hug, too.

"Gorgeous event, Liv Liv, it's all been very perfect and very you guys," Courtney tells her, warmly, Olivia grinning at her in response when she pulls back.