Chapter Thirty Eight: Our Wedding

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The day I wed Theodora Nomikos was and is one of the happiest of my entire life, right up there beside our babies births, and the day we reunited in Turkey. Also, obviously, the day we met...

The day I met Teddy, I was fourteen years old, a little excited to have her company for the summer, impressed by her confidence, her swagger, her ability to light up a room with her wit and smile. I don't think I had ever seen dimples like Teddy's, they were deep, and in the most part, permanent, always a slight dip in each cheek like a poorly hidden secret that as soon as her lips lifted an inch, revealed themselves. My god, if you made her laugh, her husky laugh. Theodora most definitely piqued my interest, but only as a friend at first. I think it was the year after when I returned to Willa's, that I began to notice, how I looked to Teddy a little differently, still innocently, but with a new sensation forming. It appeared one day in camp, when she laughed so hard at something Willa had said that she couldn't breath, and her giggles became contagious, my own chest rising and falling sporadically as I began to laugh myself. She placed her arm around my shoulder, the brush of it making a butterfly flit through my stomach, a butterfly! I had never had that sensation before, I had nothing to compare it too, but as years passed they became more obvious, even if she so much as brushed by me. Theodora was one of my bodies cellular memories it seemed, it just couldn't get over that first touch.

Teddy was three years older than me, almost four, we were not destined to be anything but friends, or so I thought, but as we shared that first kiss when I was twenty, it was quite obvious... that times had changed and we were both grown up, enough to make moves... and the spark from that kiss ignited something I don't think either of us could have predicted.

Here we were, four years later, with an almost three year old, a second baby on the way and about to get married for the second time, but this time was the wedding, the planned and extravagantly executed Nomikos wedding by the Nomikos sisters.

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"I wonder what Harper is doing" i muse looking out of the window to the beautiful estate we were about to wed on.

It was a wedding venue, not too far away from home, an hour or so, a beautiful hotel constructed in the eighteenth century, nestled in the white mountains, surrounded by trees of every colour, red, green, orange and some purple hues.

The arbour we would marry under looked out over the tree filled landscape below, a patchwork of colours, the mountains springing up in the distance, this was the most idyllic spot to marry. It felt like you were both in one of Harpers favourite places, her home state with the mountains, and equally for me, my Babas humble beginnings in Greece, on the mountain. It witnessed both views and sunsets that wouldn't look out of place in the illustration of a Greek mythology book.

It was our dream, to feel as close to those on earth, as those above, when we married today. It felt like that, as I looked out to the elevated position, like we were but a reach away from those beyond this life, whilst sharing it with those living and breathing beside us.

"She's most probably thinking the same soppy thing as you" Demi says as she helps me adjust my dress.

Callie places on my shoes, at my feet.

"Well I know she's getting ready. I just wish I could see her. I missed her last night... and Wren" I confess.

"It's tradition you spend it apart" Thea says looking back to me in the mirror.

"Here you go...s'agapó moró mou" momma says as she places her necklace around my neck, a simple diamond in the centre of a delicate chain.

"Thank you Momma" I smile, as she kisses my cheek.

"Oh Theodora" Momma says in awe, as Callie and Demitra help me to my feet.

She turns me to the mirror, and I look at myself, the pretty lace dress clinging to the bump.

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