Wedding Bells

It was late when Thorne got back home. He had opted for the over time and had done the late-night shipments to Luna and back. It had been a pretty basic delivery, but he had been up since four this morning. At least he had tomorrow off to sleep in.

Seeing the familiar sight of the Rampion he breath a sigh of relief. Back home on earth with his family. It wasn't something he ever though he be a 'family man' but four years ago him and Cress had their daughter Verda. She had come into their lives a little early then he had planned but he wouldn't have had it any other way.

He whispered, "Captain is King and Cress is Queen," and the door swished open for him. The main loading dock was dark except for the dim emergency lights that were always on, it was almost midnight Verda would defiantly be asleep and Cress most likely. Kicking off his boats he headed to the galley, if he was lucky Cress made dinner if not the take out from the other day would still be good.

He was surprised to see the lights on and even more so to see Cress in her night shirt sitting at the table her portscreen on and the wedding binder open several different papers scattered around her. Thorne and Cress were a month away from tying the knot.

"Welcome home," She whispered turning away from her portscreen.

"Hey, I figured you would be asleep." He went to the fridge and pulled out a plate spaghetti and meatballs, Verda's favorite.

"I'm trying to get the finale count done and have a setting style arranged." She looked at the papers. "Do you prefer round tables with an opening at the front for the dance floor and DJ and the head table at the back. Or they can do long rectangle tables done up in a U with the dance floor in the center and head table making up the base of the U."

Thorne rolled his eyes, he was tired and knew that if he got caught up in the wedding stuff with her now he'd be here all night. "Whatever you like better." He said putting his bowl of pasta in the microwave.

"Thorne that's been your answer for almost everything. Invitations: Whatever I want. Center pieces: Whatever I want. Color scheme: Whatever I want. This is your wedding too."

"I came up with the locations, didn't I."

"Cinder and Kai offered us the Opera House." She said crossing her arms. "I want you to be a part in this wedding."

"Cress I really don't care." He said dully taking the bowl out of the microwave.

"You don't care about the wedding?" She sounded both insulted and hurt.

"I didn't say that," He spun around fast getting defensive. "I just don't care about the tables."

"You also didn't care about the flowers or the music and if it wasn't for the fact that we got to sample the cakes I doubt you would have cared about that. It's like you don't want to have the wedding."

He slammed the bowl down. "Why do you make that jump! I'm not concerned about where people are going to be sitting their asses and you conclude I don't want the wedding at all."

She shot up from the table. "Well maybe if you would actually give some input and didn't put everything on me I wouldn't make such an assumption."

"Cress I've been at work all day, I don't want to talk about wedding stuff right now."

"And what do you think I do all day!" She shouted. "Besides getting Verda ready for pre-school, dropping her off going to work, picking Verda up, run errands, come home and make dinner, get Verda ready for bed and then catch up on the cleaning."

"You want help around the house? We can buy a servant android they're pretty cheap now."

"I don't need help around the house I just don't like it when you use work as an excuse."