The Orphan

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Autumn-

Stepping into the tent I immediately located Tori with the hired help placing white flowers above her bun, a braid running down one side of her head stopping at the bun.

"You ready?" I asked her, with the white bouquet of roses in hand.

"God I just want to marry him already! it feels like its been years since he proposed!" she gushed.

At least she's not getting cold feet.

But how could she, she looked unbelievably beautiful, she was practically glowing.

"Anything you want to get off your chest before you leave me for two weeks?" I asked with a joking grin.

"Actually..." her voice quiet.

Wait, what?

"I was joking." I reminded her.

"I know, but I do have something I want to tell you before I leave." she admitted.

Oh.

"Ok, what is it?" I questioned curiously.

She looked down at her fiddling fingers down on her lap.

"Well..." she began but stopped to think about how to word the confession, "you remember how I took off..."

I nodded as she continued,

"Yeah, well... The reason why I took off was because I needed to clear my head. You see, I'm kinda sorta...pregnant." she said the last word barley in a whisper.

My eyes widened, I thought they were going to pop out of my head.

Shock consumed me and I didn't know what to think.

"Congratulations?" I asked unsure the broken word stumbling from my lips.

She smiled as if saying it was ok.

"Is that what Dylan was beating himself up about?" I questioned as the pieces started to fit into place. "Well, are you planning on telling anyone? Do you have names? What are you going to do? are you going to move away or live at home? I'm here if you need me, you know that right?"

She laughed and took a deep breath in, "Calm down Autumn, Dylan and I sorted it all out, We're not going to tell the crew until we get back, we're going to get our own place across the road from home, and yes you'll always be the first person i'll call for help." She assured me.

I smiled to myself happily, "i'll always be your babysitter on standby."

She laughed and I joined along with her, "I'm so lucky."

"And don't you forget it!" I laughed.

Excusing myself I headed into the church where I found a mixture of Ryder and I's group of people.

There were a few people I hadn't seen before.

I walked over to Dylan who were chatting away with his two best men, who of which were two of the six I had never laid eyes on before in my life inside this church.

"Dylan." I stated in a way of hello.

"Autumn, how's she doing?" he asked immediately acknowledging my presence, that felt good.

"She's good, how you holding up here?"

"Good, these are my old mates Brandon and Luke." he introduced them.

"Hey." I waved awkwardly before turning back to Dylan, " So have Rosie, Leah and that lot turned up yet?" I asked.

He pointed over to the four of them chatting away with Arth, Lex, Keir and Ryan.