Chapter One

Chapter One

I think I bit of more than I could chew with all of this. I was already freaking out with having to help plan Rochelle's wedding by the end of June but now with mine coming up I was freaking out.

Why was I freaking out? Chase and I stupidly decided to make the wedding date for the middle of April, so I was indeed getting married first. He wanted it to be on the day we started dating officially and he didn't want to wait almost two years so I was getting married in nine months.

Rochelle was of course my maid of honor and Monica would be my matron of honor, but we were all just a mess.

Riley was an alcoholic, I was the god mother for two kids due in five to six months. My maid and matron of honor were pregnant, I had to help plan Rochelle's so I was planning two; we both were. I was a ball of stress, they were two balls of hormones, and Chase was just frantically trying to pick up the slack from all of us.

I've been engaged a month and I'm no closer to finding a venue. Rochelle has hers but we haven't had time to figure out anything else. We were going into the city this weekend to do dresses. I needed to get mine pretty much that day if I wanted any hope of having one ordered for me. Rochelle needed to find her wedding dress and brides maid dress then if she didn't want to be budging out he her stomach when she did, and same went with Monica.

At night I would come home too tired to do anything else so Chase and I haven't even had sex since the night we got engaged and it was definitely showing for both of us. We were both frustrated all the time and if we could just find time or energy to be together maybe things wouldn't be so bad.

"Hey baby." He wrapped his arms around me when I came home and I sunk into his embrace.

"Hey." I mumbled against his shoulder

"How are you today?" he asked and I groaned

"Fucking tired, I have nothing planned and when I go to start I can't figure out where to start so I spend hours just obsessing over what needs to be done without actually getting anything done. I can't imagine anything until I figure out where we're getting married. Is it outside, inside? I always wanted outside, but it's April, what if it rains? What flowers, what color, what will my dress look like. What if I order a dress and it doesn't fit with the venue-'

"Brylee!" Chase snapped me out of my ramble

"What?" I asked tired

"We'll figure it out. If you would let me help you things would be easier."

"Yeah, even if you help me I have all those things to worry about for Rochelle too. Thank fucking god my brother's already married."

"They could have renewed their vows." He said and I groaned

"I would have killed him."

"Me too."

"They're coming up eight years. I bet you by thanksgiving they tell us they're planning a renewal."

"I wouldn't doubt it." he kissed my neck and I sighed

"I need to get to sleep, I have to get to work early so I can leave for a few hours."

"What's tomorrow?" he asked as I took all my clothes off and I was too tried to puta shirt on so I just collapsed into bed.

"I don't even know. Something she needs planning with."

"Baby we are getting married too you know, you should focus some time on that too." He stripped to his boxers and shut off the light before crawling into bed with me.

"I know. We just need to figure out there where first. I can't do flowers until I know what I'll need, the dress is going to be hard too, I can't do seating and guests until I know space. You never know if a place only has specific venders to use. When we figure out the where, it will get easier." I yawned

"What colors do you like?" he ran his hands through my hair and I looked at the ring on my finger, any time I was having a bad day looking at it made me feel better.

"Well it's a spring wedding."

"Screw the season, what colors do you want?" he asked me

"Purple and either green or yellow."

"What shade?" he asked

"A darker purple and a solid yellow or a light green."

"How about we do all three. Purple can be the main color and we can accent with yellow and green."

"Will that even look good?" I asked

"Depends on the shades but yellow and green can be similar."

"Okay. Inside or outside?" I asked

"I've always pictured it outside. The sun hitting your face and the blue sky above." He kissed my forehead

"What if it rains?" I asked

"We can put up tent things for cover."He said like it was obvious

"That gets expensive." I sighed and he snorted

"We're boosting the economy." He declared and I rolled my eyes. I had a hard time imagining spending large sums of money on some things. A wedding was one day, why spend hundreds of thousands on it?

"I want you to have the wedding you always wanted."

"Any wedding I have will always be my second choice." I said feeling emotional and he held me tighter

"I know baby. I wish they could be there too."

"It sucks."

"I know, but you'll finally be my wife and that's a day I've been waiting for my whole life." I looked up at him and he kissed my lips

"You are so cheesy." I smiled

"I like cheese." He defended with a smile on his face

"So do I." I sighed as I relaxed into his arms

"I miss you, you know." He said softly and my heart hurt a little because I felt terrible we didn't spend much time together.

"I miss you too."

"Not this weekend, but next, I'm stealing you away and we're going to relax and be together. No talking about babies, weddings, your brother and his alcoholism, work, or anything else that's stressful." He said

"I would love that but I can't. I'm already going away this weekend and have too much to catch up on."

"Your brother can do his job." He told me

"I know, I'm just trying to make things easier for him. He's stressed enough." I told him. He's in AA and working on it, but he's trying to reconnect with Monica and she's pregnant and he shouldn't have to stress about work.

:So you're going to do your job, his, plan our wedding and Rochelles, be there for your two pregnant best friends and try to keep your sanity?" he asked and I shrugged.

"The wedding will get planned, both of them. they're pregnant not dying, and Brylee you need to stop babying him." I groaned

"I'm trying to help."

"Yeah and so am i. we're going away that weekend and that is final."

"I can't" I said again and he turned my head to face him

"I said that it is final Brylee." He said and I wished I wasn't completely exhausted because he was turning me on right now.

"Okay." I agreed and he smiled and kissed me briefly

"Good girl, now go to bed baby." he curled up behind me, spooning me. He had no idea what it did to me when he called me a good girl, none at all.

I know, it's been like forever since DD was finished. i promised i would post this April 4th and here we are. So for my birthday i give all you amazing readers this chapter. :)

So it's been a month since the ending, and i wanted to start it slow and not just have them tearing eachothers clothes off, that comes later ;)