She called him Chéri

CHAPTER XI

Day of the wedding.

Olivia looked in the full length mirror, as sarah adjusted her veil.

'You look so beautiful,' she whispered. 'If only you were enjoying this as well.'

Olivia tunrded around to face sarah, with a sad expression on her face. 'Im not comfortable with this, sarah.'

Sarah scoffed and rolled her eyes. 'This is our father youre talking about you know how he is. Don't take this seriously. He'll give up from this stupid oath of his in a couple days.'

Olivia tried to smile, but couldn't. 'If only mom was here.' She spoke in a low tone and sarah embraced her in a hug.

'She watches over you know. From heaven, high up in the clouds. She would've wanted you to be happy.'

'Youre right, but I cant control what im feeling.' She looks down, and back up to her sister, but her attention turs to outside the room, where hayden jumps over the plants and looks inside the window.

Olivia and sarah both laugh and his goofy smile, as he pressed his cheek against the glass, squishing his face. Olviia bursts into laughter as hayden says something, but its impossible to understand because of his squished face.

'This man is mad.' Sarah laughed.

'He's my mad cheri.'

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Olivia walked down the aisle, arm in arm with Joe. They walked slow as she looked up to see hayden, with a proud smile on his face, as he wiped the skin just below his eyes.

He was crying. (AWH MY GAWD IM SOFT WELP)

She walked up, hugged joe, and stood next to hayden, big smiles on their faces, as the priest began.

We are gathered here today to celebrate....

Hayden tilted his head slightly back, as he whispered in olivias ear. 'You look so beautiful, soon-to-be Mrs. Salvatore.'

She blushed and looked down with a huge smile on her face.

-the vows-

Olivia: 'I want so badly to be able to explain all the love I have for you. Not the love of butterflies and stomach knots—but more the blurring of self and the entanglement with another soul. Love is a word that is much too soft and used far too often to ever describe the fierce, infinite and blazing passion that I have in my heart for you. You are a million dreams and a million prayers of a little girl come true. You are kind. You are silly. You are intelligent. Your laugh is contagious and you can put away an entire Baskin Robbins ice cream cake in one sitting like nobody else can. You acknowledge my strengths and accept my faults. You make me want to be a better person every day. I take you as you are now, tomorrow and for eternity to come, to be my husband. Even when the day comes that we're old and gray, I promise to always see you with the same eyes and the same heart that I see you with at this exact moment. So today, I vow to honor you and respect you, support you and encourage you. I promise to dream with you, celebrate with you, and walk beside you through whatever life brings. I vow to laugh with you and comfort you during times of joy and times of sorrow. I promise to always pursue you, to fight for you, and love you unconditionally and wholeheartedly for the rest of my life. You are my best friend and I'm the luckiest person on Earth to call you mine.'

She took a deep inhale and wiped the tears underneath haydens eyes.

Hayden: 'I'm so proud that today I become your husband. I love you.I love the way you dance to make me laugh. I love that you always push my hair back when it's in my face. I love that I get a kiss from you every time we stop at a red light.I love that you're open to trying new things.Today, I want to make promises to you that I will always keep.I promise to never stop holding your hand.I promise to make sure I'm not just hungry when I get upset.I promise to give you all the love and support that I'm capable of. I promise to share my food with you, never go to bed angry and always honor your passion for the backstreet boys.I promise to stand by your side while you face the world. Listen to you when you speak.I promise to join your laughter with my own and when you can't look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.I promise to grow alongside you, but also to never grow up.I promise to love, respect, protect and trust you, and give you the best of myself, for I know that together we will build a life far better than either of us could imagine alone.I choose you. I'll choose you over and over and over, without pause, without doubt, I'll keep choosing you.I used to never truly enjoy moments because I was always waiting for what's next. The next thing to happen. Kind of living life in fast forward. Now that I have you, I enjoy the moment. Every moment.