Regrets

White Wedding

1976

Alexandra hooked arms with her older brother John, who was taking over the action of handing her over to Frank in place of their deceased father. Her heart pounded harder and harder in her chest. She was nervous, but it was a happy and good nervousness. She jumped slightly when her brother began to walk forward a bit at the sound of the cliché wedding march music, and she followed his lead.

The two siblings reached the front of the sanctuary at the altered and stopped. John hugged his little sister. "I'm so proud of you," he whispered and kissed her forehead, "And Dad would be too." Alexandra gave a small smile at her older brother before looking at her fiancé and soon to be husband, who also had a smile on his face. The two stood together as her older brother left the front and walked over to his seat in the front row next to his wife.

"Family and friends," the Reverend began, "We are gathered her today to celebrate the union of Francesco Angelo Razzano and Alexandra Katharine Conti..."

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Barney walked into the hospital room he'd been told was where his older sister was. He wasn't completely sure where he was going, he just followed the signs throughout the hospital corridors and hallways based off of the floor and room number he'd been told by the woman who sat at the front desk in that specific hospital ward.

Barney turned around a corner to the next hallway. Once he reached a hallway, he saw his brother in law talking with his younger brother and his sister in law outside of a room in the hallway. He mentally decided that was the room his sister was in, the one they were standing in front of. He continued down the hallway to the three people he was related to, both by blood and through marriage, and to when they saw him and greeted him, and he gave a smile in greeting back at the three.

"Congratulations, Rob," Barney said and shook his brother in law's hand.

Robert Presto- Barney's brother in law and Beatrice's husband- smile. "Thanks," he grinned then sighed contently, "Geez, I can't believe me and Bea are really parents."

"Well believe it," Brandon Ross- Barney's little brother by one year- chuckled, "And no less to a little girl during the decade of 'sex, drugs and rock and roll'."

Rob rolled his eyes. "That's helpful, thank you very much, my dear in law." His voice dripped with sarcasm.

"Oh, come on," Angela- Brandon's wife who most people called 'Angie' for short- scoffed slightly, "At least she won't be growing up in the majority of that decade."

Barney nodded in agreement. "Angie's right. She won't have to grow up during those years cause all of us did that already," he joked, causing the three to laugh, "That's why Jim Morrison was arrested on stage a few times, and the reason we have Robert Plant and Keith Moon." When they all continued to laugh at his jokes, he couldn't help but laugh himself.

Brandon gestured to his older brother. "Ya see, Rob? We already went through that, so you and Bea have nothing to worry about. And even if that generation comes back to haunt us, you and my sister already know how to handle it."

"Ok," Rob started, "I know you're all trying to be helpful, but you're not doing too well."

The four all laughed at the new father's comment. They stopped and cut their laughter short when the heads of the Ross family stepped out from their daughter's hospital room and out into the hallway. They hugged their son in law and said something to him, in which he nodded in response and walked into the hospital room. When their eyes landed on their second child, the two elder parents smiled and greeted him with a hug.