junky || Ciaran McDonald

Epilogue

At roughly 5 in the morning I was woken up by Ciarán, he calmly woke me up grinning. I stretched out smiling up at him. "Are you sure you're ready?" He nodded as he grabbed two backpacks.

"Why wouldn't I be ready." Suddenly a knock at the door and Grace quickly rushed in. Romil trailed behind her looking practically dead. She quickly came over and sat down on the end of the bed smiling.

"Come on, we got to get to your wedding!" I looked up at her and tried pulling up the covers. She quickly pulled them down. "You can sleep in the car." She said excitedly. She quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me to sit up. "We got to go before people know we're gone." I stood up and sighed looking around I smiled at Ciarán. I looked around and quickly grabbed one of his sweatshirts and threw it on over my tank top and sweat pants. 

I grabbed the back pack from Ciarán and the four of us quietly snuck out of the room and down the stairs. As we reached the door one by one we went out like ninjas and out to my Jeep. Ciarán walked to the drivers side and I went to the back along with Grace. Grace sat down and I put my head in her lap and felt my eyes start to drift off.

***

"Ciarán are you sure you're ready for this level of commitment?" I heard Romil ask as I started stirring. I don't know how long we had been driving but I heard Grace snoring from above me. "You know you don't have to do this."

"But I want to. I want to be the only guy she thinks about. I don't want our child to wonder where I am."

"But you don't even have a ring."

"I know you think I'm crazy, but imagine how you feel about Grace multiplied by 1000! I will never find anyone like her again if I lose her. She is the girl of my dreams, I don't care how crazy this is."

***

I woke up to Grace shaking me and the light was flooding through the car. I sat up and got out of the car and stretched out my legs. I saw Ciarán's beaming smile as I approached him. He grabbed my hand and took me into the Clerks office. After filling for a wedding license we walked out almost an hour later with one. Grace and Romil had been sitting in the parking lot and Grace eagerly approached me.

"We have to get you a dress!" I looked at Ciarán and he nodded at me telling me to go. Grace and I got into my car and started driving. She prattled on and on about how happy she was.

"Geez, it seems like you are more excited for me wedding than me!" I let out a laugh as we drove down the street. I had my phone plugged in and turned on one of my many playlists and the first song to shuffle through was Bleach. "I honestly can't believe I'm getting married. I can't believe I'm pregnant."

"You're going to be a great mom and wife. Honestly when you are birthing that child forget Ciarán in the delivery room, I will fight him." I let out another laugh as we pulled into the parking lot at the mall. I knew I would perfer a less expensive dress versus a grand big dress. I hoped out of the jeep and started walking towards the entrance Grace running after me. 

"We are going to go to Urban Outfitters. I don't want to spend $1,000 on a dress for one night." She simply nodded as we rushed through the mall. We found our way to the store and walked straight to the dresses. We grabbed all the white ones we could find and brought them to the dressing room. Pulling on fabric after fabric, I had found the one. 

The white eyelet mini dress fit me perfectly as I went out to model for Grace she cheered. She took a picture on her phone and smiled again and hugged me. I quickly took it off and we paid before quickly leaving. To our left was a vinyl store and we walked in, the atmosphere was relaxed. The store smelled of moth balls.