Joe and Dianne: My Suicide Saviour - Part 2

Bonus chapter - the wedding (pt 3)

Dianne's POV:

I clung tightly onto Joe's arm that was crossed in front of me for protection. Neither of us could take our eyes off of the man who had just walked in. My heart was pulsing and I could feel a panic well up within me as all of our memories and un wanted stories came to the forefront of my mind - after trying to push them back for the past few months.

I gripped Joe's arm tighter as my Dad stood up and walked towards the man.

"Anthony what are you doing here?" He questioned bravely as the rest of us were too scared to approach him in anyway.

"Mark !" My mum screamed at him in fright, only know realising just how dangerous Anthony is.

My dad threw up a hand telling everyone to be quiet as he continued to walk towards the psychopath at the end of the aisle. Anthony's voice was slow and almost panicky- A side to him that I hadn't seen since we started to go out all those years ago.

"I just need to speak with Dianne." He said calmly. Everyone's eyes except for Joe's went onto me. Joe wrapped his arm around me tighter, and I could see the fear struck across his face. The beads of sweat that were culminating on his forehead and the shake in his hands proved to me just how frightened he was of the man that had ruined both of our lives and had essentially owned them for so long.

"Well?" Anthony questioned waiting for me to either retaliate or head down towards him. I gripped Joe hand and brought it off of me.

"Dianne, what are you doing?" Joe questioned as he finally took his eyes of off Anthony.

"Joe it's fine." I said bluntly to him

"Di I think that if we have learnt anything from the past year is that if anything happens with him involved, it is NOT fine." The panic and fear across Joe's face had only gotten ten times worse, but I knew what I was doing. I had been around Anthony long enough to know when to play his games and when not to. And after what I have just vowed to Joe, It was my turn to take the bullet and my turn to protect the man of my dreams. After all it was my fault Anthony was ever in our life in the first place. it's about time to finish what I started.

"Joe I will be back, I promise." I gave him a gentle kiss before walking away from him and back down the Aisle. Anthony opened the door and led me outside, shutting the door behind us.

Narrator's POV:

As Dianne stood out in the Australian sunshine next to a Psychopath she had once called her boyfriend, she couldn't help but not ignore the sound of her racing heartbeat in her ears. The way that her hands were trembling. And the way that her mind was racing. But here she was, on what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life, willingly talking to a man who has done nothing but ridicule and hurt her and the one that she loves since they had met.

"Anthony I don't know why I am willingly talking to you - after all that you have put me through, there must be a very good reason as to why you have interrupted my wedding day." Dianne was surprised at her new found surge of confidence, but by the look of it Anthony certainly wasn't.

"Dianne I came to apologise." His words were simple, and heartfelt, but to Dianne they were the worst words he could have said in this moment.

"What?" She questioned confused and angrily

"I'm sorry, okay, for everything that I did to you. I've had time to think and I...." Anthony stopped what he was saying as he looked up to see Dianne laughing.

"You're sorry are you?" She chuckled "Well you know what Anthony that makes everything okay again - that makes me forget the things that you did to me whilst we were going out. That makes everything you put me through okay again - and that brings back the life that Joe deserved to have." She said sarcastically at him.

"Why are you still protecting him?" Anthony questioned. "Why are you still pretending that you love him after all this time. You and I both know that you only started to go out with Joe because you wanted to spite me."

"NO ANTHONY! THAT CANNOT BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH!" She screamed at him, her tensions bubbling over "I went out with Joe because I loved him. Because I saw a broken boy who needed to be held by someone, and quite frankly after what you did to me, I needed that as well. I needed a way to feel loved again - to feel happy in a city that was thousands of miles away from my home."

"But I need you back." Anthony said, almost ashamed of his words.

"What? Did you really think that after everything that has happened, you would come back to me and I would greet you with open arms. That if you stormed in on my wedding you would be able to pry me away from the ONLY man I have ever properly loved. Did you really think that you would be able to take me back to London and that we could start our life together again?" Dianne's questions were so bitter and honest but all of them had the same answer.

"Anthony you should leave. Right now. Don't ever come back here - come back to me. I don't care if after you leave, you are alone, or depressed or so unobtainably broken that you slit your own wrists, because once you do, even when you do, you will still never even have the faintest of ideas what you put me through, and what you are still putting Joe through." As Dianne stopped her face was flushed and a tear threatened to fall form her face.

Anthony gave a chuckle before he reached into his back pocket, pulling out a gun...

Joe's POV:

I stood there in the church routed to the spot, I was staring at the doors waiting for Dianne to walk back through them. I knew that people were trying to talk to me -trying to get me to speak back. But with the love of my life and the man who ruined it speaking behind closed doors I couldn't say anything. Something told me not to go out there - I thought my presence would only make it worse for Dianne.

Alfie was stood to my right, with his hand pressed firmly on my shoulder, he was stopping me from going out there, but also partially being there to help me. But what could he do?

I saw Mark and Dianne's brothers talking to all of our friends and family trying to settle them down. I was appreciative of my family, knowing that they had our backs in this shitty situation - but I was just to frozen to say anything to them.

"BANG!!!!" I heard it go off outside the front of the church. Suddenly coming back to reality I got out of Alfie's grasp and began to sprint out of the church, Towards Dianne with Zoe and Andrew close behind.

"Dianne?!" I screamed as I bolted through the doors.

I found her stood there - a shocked look on her face as she looked at the body on the ground before her.

"Shit" I said in a gasp as I wrapped Dianne up in a hug. I brought her away from Anthony's body and allowed her tears to flow into my chest.

I din'tknow what to say or what to do. I just stood there to the side - holding Dianne close to my chest as she cried into me. Everyone else went over to Anthony's body until eventually Andrew came over to us. He placed a hand on Dianne's back, causing her to flinch under his touch. She turned out of me and looked at her older brother.

"He's gone now Di..."