I Do...

Chapter 1

“I’ve had the best time honestly....honestly!” I said slurring my words trying to concentrate on standing up.

“Come on Becks! Let’s get you home” Liam said trying to direct me towards the exit of the hall. He turned back to Ollie and Amy, shaking Ollie’s hand. “Thanks guys! Congratulations to you both.”

“No thank you for coming!” said Amy looking over and smiling at me staggering about.

“I don’t want to go Liam! Why are you taking me away?” I whined, hitting him hard.

“Because you’re completely hammered! When I said I wouldn’t drink so I could drive I didn’t mean get completely legless!”

“I’m not legless! I have legs!” I said pointing down to them.

He shook his head in amusement and then picked me up and put me over his shoulder.

“Hey put me down!” I said hitting him on the back, which didn’t bother him at all he just laughed and turned back to the newlyweds waving them goodbye. In continued hitting him as he carried me out through the doors and over to the car. I shivered when the cold air hit me. I knew I should have bought that shrug but as usual I was too stingy to buy it. Some things never change; I had always been like that even in high school.

He plonked me down on the seat of the mini cooper and pulled the seat belt across me. I groaned miserably. Why did he have to take me home? I was enjoying myself at the wedding.  Weddings seemed to be the only occasion where I managed to see all of my mates at once. After high school we had all gone our separate ways.

Even I, after swearing never to leave my home town of Hereport Heath, moved away to the seaside town of North sands. Me and Liam had bought a small house overlooking the sea and beach, just a year after being together. It seemed like the best thing to do because when we were both living at home were spending almost every day at each other’s houses. I think that it was both bad and good that we lived opposite each other. Good in the way that we could see each other whenever we wanted to but bad on the front that Liam albeit cheesy, used to climb up the wall and in through my bedroom window nearly every night. I can remember asking him why he insisted on climbing through the window and not just going through the door, he replied by saying “Well it reminds me of when you were sneaking around to my house in the middle of the night to talk to me and climbed over the hedge instead of using the gate so you wouldn’t make a noise and get caught.”

I rolled my eyes just thinking about it. I had gone round to his house in the middle of the night after we had fallen out and ended up getting stuck on the hedge and falling off and knocking into the bin. Which in turn probably made just as much noise as it would have if I had used the gate. That was the first time that I our friendship and finally relationship began. It seemed so long ago it was nearly five years ago now. It seemed like we had been together for ever, although it was only a little off four years.

I sighed as I looked out of the window watching the scenery painted against the dark sky go past as Liam drove us both home. We had just left yet another one of my friend’s weddings. That was four that I had been to in the last eighteen months. I had gone through nearly the whole of high school being the only one without a boyfriend and now I was starting my adulthood going through life without being married or at least engaged.

“Hey you okay babes?” Liam said glancing over to me, reaching down and putting his hand on my leg.

“Yeah I’m fine!” I lied.

“Becks...don’t lie! What’s up?”

“Nothing....honestly.” I said trying to smile.

I saw him raise an eyebrow as though doubting me. I was just about to say what I was really thinking when I started to feel really sick.