A Little Game Called Love

Epilogue

The church door has opened and everyone's eyes are on me as I marched down the aisle wearing the wedding dress I've been dreaming of. Gentlemen wore a dark suit while ladies had their yellow dress on, our wedding theme was black and yellow that represents our favorite color.

We had our civil wedding the next day after we accidentally met each other again on my 25th birthday, the same day that I bore Persephone, the fruit of our one-night stand because of our crazy friends who put us on such situation. It was over 9 months ago when I already gave up on having a dream wedding with the man I love since I had to marry the father of my child for her not to born out of wedlock.

I thought I got to love him because I was pressured with our marriage, us living together with our child, that it's better if there's also love between us for the sake of our baby. If not to my first love who suddenly came back to my life I wouldn't know if my feelings were genuine or not.

I gave myself a chance to figure things out, I tried to be with the man I used to love before but then my legally wedded husband separated himself. I missed him every time I don't see him when I'm done with my work and he's waiting for me in the car then we're having a conversation on what happened to us that day while we're heading home to be with our child, having dinner. I always think about him that's why I can't help myself but talk about him most of the time though I got the wrong person who listened to my stories about him. I was then got certain of what I truly feel.

I had to let go of my past to move forward, letting go of my first love to be with my true love, I followed my heart and that leads me to my happiness. We've gone out to public as lovers, making our relationship right from the start, got engaged for a month and now we're having a church wedding.

It was just his professor who witnessed our civil wedding before but this time his entire family are present. They finally moved in to the country 2 weeks before our nuptial and accepted my parents offer for their accommodation and business as their source of income. Even if they're finding it hard to settle in with a non-English country, I know my in-laws will figure it out to adapt with their new life.

"She's all yours now" Cronus gave Demeter's hand to Zeus after they reached the altar "Please take care of my eldest" tapping Zeus's shoulder

"Always" Zeus with a serious face when she took Demeter's hand from Cronus "You're so beautiful Dee-Dee" staring at Demeter with loving eyes

"I know" Demeter calmed down with Zeus's compliment "You're so handsome baby, you look like a prince right now" proud of her groom's appearance

"Hahaha" Zeus loosened up his nervousness "I'm all yours, baby" acting cool while facing the altar "We're ready, father, you may start the ceremony"

He who has heart shaped lips and round eyes that makes him good looking even though he's only 10cm taller than me. Quiet and very shy with strangers who prefers if other people initiate conversations and gets close to him, but with an amazing singing voice and acting skills. He who is better than my own mother because he loves cooking and he's great at it; obsessed with cleaning who always tidy and likes to sort things by color, brands, and type; and looks after me and our child but will nag if necessary. He is sentimental, considerate and jokes around a lot with me. He doesn't do exercises, because he hates sweating but he's physically fit since he used to be a judo athlete when he was a kid. These are the only thing I know about him but I still want to know him much better, I want to know everything about him, his habits and even secrets, I want all of him.

We had our reception for the grownups at Years & Years diner, one of Zeus's family food business, where only 50 people can accommodate, and had our traditional Korean wedding with their guidance. As for the youngsters that includes my siblings, cousins, and friends; we had our night party at Owl City night club, Zeus's family other food business, located under their diner the 2-storey underground night club can accommodate twice as their diner, filled with loud music by Zeus's foster brothers we had a party like there's no tomorrow, danced the night away while getting drunk until 2am.

It was almost lunch when we both woke up in the same bed in our own house that has been constructed by my parents to be our family home. For the second time around, we made love unconsciously, this time with the influenced of alcohol, but it doesn't matter we're married anyway. Whether I get pregnant again or not, as long as he's the father, I'll wholeheartedly carry our child without any worries because I trust him and I love him that much.

7 years later, Zeus got released from the military after his 2 years' service, to celebrate his home coming and our wedding anniversary, we went to England for our delayed honeymoon trip. Now that Persephone is almost 8 years old, she doesn't need too much supervision. Thanks to my brother Toto who adored his niece and a close friend of my husband, we can leave our child to his care and have a good time with no qualms.

We visited his parents' graves and he introduced me as his wife on our first day in London, he always wanted to do this ever since we got married but he had to delayed it because he wanted to make his father proud, told him how he served as a military personnel even for a short period of time. Because the grave of his father is quite far with his mother's, we watched the sunset in a cemetery where his mother lies. It might be some kind of creepy but walking side by side while holding hands with the person you love, everything around us doesn't matter, like we're walking in a park.

We had 5 sleepless nights during our London trip, both longing for each other touch we just can't keep our hands to ourselves. We stayed most of the time in our hotel room got our body worked out as if there's nothing else we wanted to do. His 2 years absence felt like decades and we've suppressed ourselves for that long so we had the time of our lives like it's only the two of us who exists in the world.

2 months after, since Persephone is on her 3rd grade in elementary and Zeus got back to work as a team leader in Lolo Uranus's company, I started finding a job to continue my career as a geologist. Zeus supported my decision because he knows how badly I want to work again, even if it means that most of the time I'll be away from home because of the nature of my job.

We may not be blessed with another child no matter how many times we worked hard for it but having one is better than none. It may be luck that we a child that brought us together but I rather say that we are fated from the very beginning.