{Prologue} A Winter Wedding

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It was a pretty day in February 2015. A perfect day for a winter wedding. Snow glistened white outside the fogged windows where little children ran about drawing smiley faces and stars.

It was in the middle of the after party. The couple was married and very happy. The bride thought nothing could go wrong with the wedding. Everything was going to plan, just like the wedding planner said.

Every fireplace was lit so no one was cold, the room was lit with enough light for everyone including the bride's grandparents to see and the food was being served on time and so far, the food was delicious.

The bride turned to look around her, surprised at this new reality. Her parents sat together on one side while her now husband's side of the family sat on the other. Down below the main table stood multiple tables with dark red table clothes and white flowers. Her bride's maids sat at the table closest to the main table as did the groomsmen.

She sighed and sat farther back in her chair, relieved over the success of this perfect day thinking that nothing could go wrong.

Did she speak too soon?

Suddenly a woman in her early twenties stood up to face the main table. She had long dark black hair that was obviously dyed and large blue eyes that covered a good portion of her small pixie face. When she stood up, everyone turned to her and kept quiet knowing this was the start of the speeches.

"I just wanted to start off the speeches with a story. A story about how I met the bride actually!" Elle started with a hiccup and giggle following. Around her, people were laughing and waiting eagerly for her to go on. Everyone except maybe the bride herself and Rosie who sat whispering between her husband and Elle's husband and making quick glances up at Elle, as if the girl was a ticking time bomb.

"You see, this wonderful bride happened to be one of my dance mates starting from a young age at what? 3? Yeah I think it was 3, right Sara?" The crowd turned to the bride who nodded slowly, not sure where this was going. Cody who sat next to Sara took her hand and laughed, obviously enjoying himself while also trying to keep his bride happy and not flustered.

"Well anyway, we were dancers together from the small age of three until 17 and during that amount of time I learned so much about you and got to experience so many things with you as well as learn very good lessons from you."

Sara started to recall when she ever taught Elle a lesson that was not at all bad or embaressing. Nothing came to mind.

"The first example was when we were dancing in the nutcracker during our fifth year at the school." Elle turned to the audience. "We were party children."

There was some laughter. Elle took that as encouragement to continue.

"Well Sara and I were both the smallest in the class at the time and so we both were wore the same dress color since the dresses were arranged in color and size and so we both wore blue dresses."

Sara suddenly remembered this memory. She started to focus her attention to her wedding ring.

"Well to make the story short I ended up having to change my dress because somehow my dress was shredded so I ended up having to dance that performance in a pink dress."

At this Cody and Zoe, started to laugh remembering the experience of a very red and angry Elle walking on stage next to a very happy Sara.

When the laughter had stopped Sara thought for a brief happy moment that Elle was done with the speech but then Elle continued with another story and Sara cursed herself with this karma.

"There were a few other lessons I learned thanks to Sara such as checking your point shoes for glass, making sure you didn't sit on anything red in the dressing room.." More laughter sounded over this statement. " And so on and so forth. But the one that I can never forget is how I was the one that caused these two to meet."

Sara took a quick look to the Emerson side of the family where Mrs. Emerson sat next to her daughter Zoe, both of them judging in some way Elle. Mrs. Emerson was looking at her youngest daughter as if wondering what she did to cause this child to be so strange. Zoe on the other hand had a gleeful smile on her face, eating up every word her little sister said.

"It all started during a Halloween party where I decided to bring my trusty lighter.." Sara turned away from the Emerson side of the table and turned to her parents who started to whisper amongst themselves with daring faces. She turned back to Cody to make him shut Elle up before she gets in trouble when a new voice was heard.

Standing up now next to the drunken Elle stood her best friend Rosie in a soft pink dress that showed a slight baby bump where her arms lay clasped in front of her.

"Elle had invited Sara over to her house shortly after a Halloween party and since at the time we all believed that we should never stop partying even after such an awesome Halloween party that year." Elle looked over at Rosie about to interrupt but Rosie continued.

"Sara came a little late to the second party and so when she rang the doorbell, none of us could hear her over the loud music except for Cody who was most likely sick and tired of all the girls at the house, right Cody?" Rosie asked with a small smile. Cody laughed and nodded, making everyone else laugh.

Rosie than turned to Elle and nodded.

"And they all lived in history!" Elle said happily and then stopped and frowned before opening her mouth again.

"I meant that the rest is history."

Everyone laughed and both Rosie and Elle sat down giving the bride a sigh of relief before getting a tap on the back.

Turning around she saw Zoe with her black hair with light pink highlights give out her hand. Sara slowly put her hand in Zoe's who quickly shook it before saying:

"Welcome to the Emerson clan!"


Hello There!

So here is the second book the the ON TOP series. This book is about the next generation. Now we will be able to see the old main character react to being parents and get to see what they do with their lives.

I hope you enjoy this book and please comment and vote!

Lots of Love

Wintergirl08




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