Mafia

Chapter Sixteen

The music plays loudly as the doors open and the first two bridesmaid walk down the isle, moment later followed by the other two, and then it was going to be me and Mia walking down. Nerves where jumping around my body, and my hand was squeezing Mia tightly praying that I would wake up from a bad dream. 

"Are your ready?" She asks as I shake my head, however we start our slow walk down the isle, there where so many faces that I had no clue who they where all stood up and looking at me. Flowers decorated each seat and then there was the most amazing flower arch that Giovanni stood under his eyes starring into my own, a smile on his face. I don't think I had ever seen him smile before today. 

It felt like forever until I finally reached him and Mia went and sat back in her own seat, a massive smile on her face as she watched us two stood together smiling. The lady stood up and spoke to everyone allowing them to be seated before we went through the vows. 

"Giovanni do you take Valarie to be your lawfully wedded wife?" 

"I DO" He says strongly causing a shiver to go down my spine. 

"And Valarie do you take Giovanni to be your lawfully wedded husband?" She asks and I felt Giovanni's eyes burn into my begging me to say yes. The pressure was on, everyone was looking at me, the nerves had gotten to me and I felt as though I was unable to speak.

"I do." I  mange to force the words out as my eyes met with Giovanni. 

"Then I pronounce you Husband and Wife you may kiss the bride." And very quickly Giovanni pulled me into a kiss pacing a hand on my pregnant stomach as he did so. The audience quickly cheered and I could see tears of happiness fall from Mia's face. I tried to scan the area for Giovanni's father however I couldn't see anyone that looked like him there. We both held hands and head down the isle together to go, whilst everyone else left behind us to start drinking.  

"Thank you." 

"For what?" I ask looking towards him as we went into our own private room. 

"For not making a fuss." He says as he poured himself a drink and sat beside me. "I know you wanted to." He said as I smiled towards him. 

"Yeah well this isn't exactly like how I dreamed about when I was a little kid." I say as I grab myself a glass of water and sat back down next to him, he raised his eyebrows. 

"So tell me V what was your dream wedding like." 

"Walking down the isle to marry the man I love." I say as I sigh slightly, hoping that one day I could do this all again with the man that I well and truly loved. Not Him. 

"You know 'True Love' is rubbish right. There's no such thing, not in this world anyways." He says causing me to stare at him strangely. 

"That's what you believe Giovanni, not me." 

"Well it's the truth V."

"You're only saying that because of what happened with Lilly." I mutter, however he heard, he just chose to ignore me. He stood up brushing down his suit before offering me his hand so that we could go and entertain the guest at our fake wedding. "You know this is stupid." I mutter once again as we head towards a couple that seemed of importance.

The husband was dressed in what looked like a very expensive suit, his hair was neatly groomed back, however the grey hairs still poked out slightly. His beard, like his hair, was also starting to grey slightly. His wife, who looked a lot younger than him, was wearing a bright pink dress that went well with her bright blonde hair, her teeth where as pearly white as you could possibly get them. They both offered us a smile as we approached them to start a boring conversation about how we met, blah blah blah.