Chance.

Chapter 2: The marriage.

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He doesn't like the news at all. And why would he?"Emmy, are you in your right mind?" He shouts at me over the phone.
"Charlie my mother is dying." I tell him.
"That doesn't mean you have to marry some random guy." He shouts one more time.
This kind of frustrates me. If he really likes me, yes he should get all angry but he should understand where I am coming from.
"Charlie it's her dying wish." I tell him trying to be patient.
"To leave me?" He asks, still too loudly. I am sure steam is coming out of his ears.
"No." I tell him."To be with someone else."
"Umm...Emmy that's like leaving me." He says angrily.
"Look." I say almost about to lose my temper. "She wants me to be with someone who loves me."
"Oh my God." He yells."You don't even know this guy, how can you talk about him loving you?"
My mother's saying pass in my head and I tell him that."You don't find love, it finds you and you never know how."
"Oh please Emmy." He says so loudly I have to move my phone away from my ears."Ok let's suppose he loves you, but what about us?"
I know it's not fair for him and I don't like doing this to him but I have to."Charlie, please try to understand my mother is dying, and her last wish is for me to be with someone I can spend my life with."
"Ok." He says angrily."Spend your life with some singer, what about me, that's like telling me you can't spend your life with me?"
Well I can't. I know that.
"I am sorry." I tell him."I have to do this."
"This is so unfair." He screams through the phone.
"I know." I say."Can't you see I have no choice?"
"I see this is going no where." He says a bit calmer."I'll see you around then...maybe."
I hang up the phone after that. I see it's unfair to him but after knowing that he cant understand what I am saying, I see that even trying to fall in love with him was pointless. He can't even respect the way I feel for my mother. My mother who's going to die. Leave me all by myself...plus Niall. But it won't be the same. Will it be? No.
I just hope that she knows what she is making me do. Forcing me in someone's life. I wonder how Niall even agreed doing this. Leaving his single... well maybe I think single life and coming to me. See I don't even know if the guy is single or not. And well if he wasn't then I am sorry for the girl he has to break.

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I wake up by the annoying sun in my eyes. I was dreaming about something nice. Who am I kidding I was having nightmares all night long.
I wonder why. Oh I guess maybe because I am marrying someone today. And I don't know anything about him. Why am I marrying him? Because my dying mother wants me to.
My mother is about to leave me sometime soon. She's in pain all the time. Yesterday night I mentioned the fact that I hate that she's in pain and I can't help her. She told me that."When you marry Niall, when I know you are with someone who can make you happy, this pain will be nothing."

I help my mom eat her breakfast, then I go to make myself cereal. I don't really feel like eating right now. I don't think I ever will be able to. I might actually puke. I am getting married today, with Niall. I wonder what's he going to tell his fans.
"Yeah I am just marrying a girl I never met."
Well it's his problem... I don't care what he tells them.
I take a bowl pour cereal in it. Then I go the refrigerator to get milk, I grab the cold box, still shaking my head on the thought of getting married.
We aren't having a big fancy wedding or anything. We are just going to sign the papers and get over it. Niall will bring the paper work when he comes today.
I shake my head again and then realize that the milk is over flowing in my bowl and is going around everywhere.
"Oh, that's a mess." I hear Maura's voice. I turn around to see her standing behind me. I was so occupied in my thoughts I didn't even realize that she was there.
"You sounded like my mom." I told her the truth. Mom always said that when I made a mess. She gives me a small laugh then says."Well I am going to be like your mum now."
"Yeah." I say as I grab couple of tissue papers to dry the milk flowing everywhere.
Maura sits down on the kitchen table and examines me as I put my over flowing cereal bowl on the table.
I throw in couple of tissue papers on the milk and let them soak it. Then I sit down and start eating."Niall called me a while ago." She says."He said he'll be here by 9:30."
I quickly look at the clock reading 9:06. Just a while more and I'll have to marry Niall.
I don't know what to say so I just say."Okay."
She senses what I am thinking."You know Emmy." She says.
"Yeah?"
"I know that you are nervous." She tells me.
"Yeah." I say again.
"But I promise you, Niall is going to take good care of you, just let him try."
I don't want to say it, but I can't help it."Why so sure?"
To my greatest surprise she actually gives a chuckle then says."Think about this way, if he is ready to marry someone he doesn't know, I guarantee he'll find a way to make you smile."
I see her point. She's right and she talks like my mom.
"Besides." She continues."Emmy you are beautiful, I don't think he'll be able to help himself."
I give her a bright smile. I don't know how but she actually made me feel a lot better. I like the way she talks to me so calmly and and so gently like she has no other worries. Though I know she is worried about my mom. She is as sad and broken as I am. In general I like her.
"I am sorry about Charlie though." She says.
"How did you know about him?" I ask.
"Your mother told me about him, a while back." She tells me.
"A while back?" I ask.
"Yeah when we talked on the phone, she mentioned you quite a lot." She tells me. This makes me smile.
We both talk for a while then the bell rings. He's here. Niall my future husband. The thought of having a husband turns my insides outside.
"That must be Niall." Maura tells me as she gets up."You finish your cereal and I'll open the door."
I give her a small nod. My heart starts beating really fast. I look at the time 9:32. Well at least he is punctual.
I am getting really nervous, I start moving my spoon around in my cereal. My mind is completely going nuts right now. I hear footsteps coming and my heart is flying now. I am breathing really fast.
"Hi." I hear a voice, I quickly look up to see a figure standing by the counter. Niall. I have to admit, he is really good looking. The first thing I notice about him are his blue eyes, I always liked blue eyes. His blonde hair is spiky. He slowly puts down his back pack beside the counter.
"Hi." I whisper and look away hoping he didn't notice that I was staring at him.
"Ok." I hear Maura's voice as I look at my still almost full cereal bowl."Why don't you two catch up and I'll tell Isabelle Niall is here?"
And she leaves giving Niall a small pat on his shoulder. My heart is beating first. I try not to look at him as he makes his way towards me and sits down on the chair in front of me.
He puts his hands on the table and looks down. I think if he's feeling as nervous as I am.
"So Emma?" He says.
Emma? Did he just call me Emma? Nobody but my mom calls me Emma and I'd like to keep it that way.
"It's Emmy." I tell him, still staring in my bowl. I don't think I can eat anymore.
"Sorry." He says."I didn't know you prefer Emmy."
"It's all right." I say as I stand up and pick the bowl up. I don't care if there is still cereal in there, I can't eat it.
I put it on the counter and take away the tissue papers now covered with milk from the counter and throw them away.
I sit down in my place. I really want to go away, but I know my mother would want me to stay and try to make a conversation. I try my best to say something, but nothing comes out of my mouth.
I am sure he is going through the same but he has better luck because he says."So I told the fans I am getting." He pauses then says."Married."
Say something. Anything."How did they react?"I ask him.
"Shocked." He tells me.
"What did you tell them?" I ask him. Oh I thought I didn't care but I want to know now.
"I had to lie of course." He says."I told them I met you about 6 months ago, it was love at first sight and we got engaged 3 months ago and now we are getting married."
"Okay." I say.
I don't know why but I say it."I know you don't want to marry me and your mom is making you so for that sorry."
I look at him, he is still looking at his hands on the table. "I understand why she is making me do it." He says."She's my mother and if she wants me to do this I will, I think you feel the same way about yours."
I do. I am glad he understands.
"Yes." I say."I do."

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"Here." Says Maura to Niall, as she hands him the pen to do his signature on the paper.
He takes it, he reaches the paper and pauses for a while, I know he's thinking about it. He then scribbles down his name on the paper. Then Maura turns to me with the paper work and the pen."Sign over her." She tells me pointing at a doted line under where Niall just signed. I look at my mother who is looking at me with a smile, then I look at Niall also looking at me.
I look down at the paper. And then write down my name "Emma Tanner" where Maura asked me to.
She then hands Niall a ring, moving away from the middle leaving me right next to him. I know the ring is meant for me. He stares at the ring for about two seconds, then he slowly holds my hand, his hand is warm, I like it.
He slowly puts the ring in my finger. I look at it, it's pretty. Silver but with a real diamond in the middle.
Then Maura hands me a ring. I quickly recognize it as my father's wedding ring. I look at my mother in shock who weakly smiles and nods at me. Niall moves his hand towards me, I slowly place the ring in finger.
Maura kisses me on my forehead. I look at my mother who slips a tear. I look at Niall who is now staring at the floor.
I know that he is thinking the same thing as me: I am married.

I hope that you enjoyed the story. For some reason I really enjoy writing this story. Keep reading if you want to know what happens next.💕