Guess its Never Really Over

2 Weeks prior to Mike's sentencing

I had been staying at Vin's place until the wedding when we would figure out where the hell we wanted our dream home to be. Until then, Vinny's place felt more like home, as wonderful as palm trees and beaches are at my place. I sold it and the last month him and I had been making multiple trips to move me back on the east coast. Ron didn't stay at my place if that wasn't obvious but whatever that's his circus, not mine.

"Babe I gotta head out soon I'm meeting Deener at her OB in Manahawkin so I gotta leave mad early to make it there in time"

I said as I put on mascara in the mirror of our bathroom. I felt Vinny's hands snake around my hips as he kissed my shoulder blade

"Can't you just tell her you're sick so we can cuddle a little longer?"
Vinny asked with a smirk, which just made me giggle.

"Come on now, Denna's in her third trimester now and..you know..the thing..with Jenni right now"

I said turning around to look at him now. He sighed, resting his hands on the sink, trapping me between him and it.

"I know..it's a messed up situation..that's why if we are getting married, there's no escape"

He said pecking my lips. I looked up at him with a raised brow

"If? We got back together and got engaged on an if we go through with it?"

I shook my head as I turned back around to finish my makeup.

"You're the only girl I've ever wanted to settle down with babe. If I wasn't sure about you being the one I wouldn't of proposed"

Vin kissed the top of my head from behind while I applied some finishing spray.

"I hope so babe because I don't want to look like an idiot standing alone at the alter"

I said looking at him from the mirror.

"I would never do that to you. I promise we're gonna be fine. You and Laurens still planning stuff together right?"

Vinny followed me out the bathroom while I grabbed random things to put in my bag before I head out. Once my bag was packed I walked to my safe and pulled out a preroll and a lighter, closing the safe and turning to the door of our bedroom

"Yeah we wanna make sure we can both do authentic Italian but with our own styles to them so that our weddings are similar but totally different as well. They're doing a nice lush Italian spring wedding while we'll be doing a breezy Italian fall theme but that's as far as we've gotten so far her and I have both been so busy. I mean I haven't done any tours but my manager said it's fine now that the cold season is coming in"

I said as Vin and I began to walk down the stairs to the back yard so I could smoke this j.

"Oh hold on"

Vin ran back in the house which I sparked up and began to scroll on my phone just to see if there was anything new I might of missed.

A text from Deena with the address of her doctors, a text from Jenni asking if I left yet, a text from Nicole asking if I could bring some body spray because she forgot hers and she already left the house to grab coffee and ride over with Deena.

I smiled at my phone with a shake of my head. I loved my girls they were so funny and just breathed such life into me. Just like Vinny does. I guess we all needed time to grow. I was even more excited that tomorrow Pauly and Ronnie would be here and we're all gonna drive together down to Jersey. We're all going to be together for Mike's hearing as a family. I might have fallen off from the show for a while and there was a point in time where I did distance myself from Mike but that was because we were both at one point using and I wanted to stop a lot sooner than he did but look how far he's come. He's worked so hard to get to the balanced good man that he is today. A lot of that he owes to Lauren for never giving up on him even when they took breaks in their relationship.