Finding Her Joy

Going To The Chapel

*A/N- Sorry it took so long to get out. I wanted it to be perfect, and there will be a final authors note after this later. Are you ready? This is it until our next adventure. I had some help from my beautiful and talented girlfriend LivWrites00 for the wedding vows. Go check out her stories if you haven't already. For the vows, I wrote one, and she did the other. Let's see who can figure out whose is whose. Till we meet again, dear friends: Happy reading! Enjoy!

Standing at the end of the altar and waiting for the love of my life to walk down has to be the most intense moment of my life. The fear that this wouldn't work or that she was going to disappear before the doors opened was scaring me to death.

I couldn't blame her, though. I'd had the same thoughts right before I walked down.

I had just finished getting ready, and I was pacing the room. Nerves hitting every inch of my body like knives. Nausea setting in just thinking about how I was about to spend the rest of my life with one person.

One... person... forever...

The perfect person for me. All the women in the world could not compare to her, and I knew I wanted to only be hers and her, mine for the rest of our lives.

So why was I so nervous?

"Don't be nervous," a deep voice called out from behind me, pulling me out of my trance.

I rolled my eyes, "As if you can tell how I'm feeling. You're probably saying that to make me nervous."

He laughed, "And that's how I know I'm right. You always get defensive when you feel like that."

He came up behind me and placed a hand on my shoulder. I relaxed as he touched me, saying, "Reecey, you still know me too well." I shifted around to him, "It's annoying as hell, you know."

"Yeah," he laughed, "You say that all the time."

I reached for some champagne, my hand shaking so hard that Reece noticed it. All he had to do was squeeze my hand lightly and look in my eyes. I felt safe when I was with him, and I couldn't imagine my life without him. He was the best friend I ever had. He was the only consistent friend in my life.

"Reecey baby, will you walk me down the aisle? You can say no, but it would mean so much to me if you did. I just... I-"

"Yes," he interrupted. No hesitation to be heard in his answer. "I would love to walk you. You deserve this and all the happiness you're going to get from it. You've really earned this, Mia. I'm so proud of you."

I laughed, "Proud of me? What for?"

He just gave a warm smile, "For the person you've become in spite of everything you've been through. For being someone better instead of letting every bad experience control your life forever. Mostly for opening your heart to love and finding it in one of the best people I know. Second best..."

I raised an eyebrow at him.

"You're definitely the first." He hugged me, and all my nerves disappeared for a while.

Reecey watched as I fixed myself enough to make the trip down the aisle.

"Okay. I'm ready," I turned to look at Reecey, who was now standing at the door with his arm out. "Let's go get married."

"After you."

The doors to the venue opened to show deep brown chairs full of all our friends. Really, I should just call them our family. We were all so close now that I considered them my chosen family. Even if they hadn't picked me first a few months ago, I knew they would choose me now.