Forever Love (Fghter Club 1) (13 page)

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‘
Mummy,’ Ben and Amber
shouted as they ran into her hospital room.

‘
Hi, my babies.’ she cried
as she grabbed them for a gentle cuddle.

‘
It’s ok now mum, you
don’t have to cry, we are all safe now.’ Ben said.

‘
Yeah mummy, no more
crying,’ Amber said as she wiped Alexia’s face with her hand. James
joined them and wrapped his arms around all of them. He pulled back
to let Ben and Amber go and take a seat whilst he cupped Alexia’s
face in his hands and kissed her.

‘
EEEEeewwwwww Mum, Dad.
That’s gross!’ Ben squirmed.

‘
Yeah we don’t need to see
that!’ Amber joined in.

James and Alexia chuckled at
them as he pulled her in for more gentle kisses. Ben and Amber made
gagging noises and comments about it being gross and started
laughing. James pulled back to look at her and noticed the doctor
stood behind them with a smile on his face.

‘
Now children, there’s
nothing wrong with kissing the person you love,’ the doctor said to
them. He turned his attention to Alexia ‘Sorry to interrupt, I’ve
come to do a scan.’

‘
Oh yes, I haven’t told
them yet,’ James said to Alexia.

‘
Oh well let’s surprise
them then,’ she said.

‘
Would you all like to
come and sit and have a look?’ The doctor asked. Ben and Amber ran
over and sat on the chairs next to James so they could see whilst
James sat on the bed next to Alexia and held her hands.

‘
So I can see your first
pregnancy was twins, so lets see what we have this time, I’m just
going to put this gel on so it might be cold.’ He concentrated on
the screen for a bit before talking to them about what he see’s.
‘Ok Alexia it’s looking like you’re about twelve weeks and....’ he
looked at her and James, ‘It’s twins again!’ He
announced.

‘
WHAT?’ They said in
surprise, Ben and Amber sat with their mouths open in shock. The
doctor went through everything with them and reassured them
everything was fine and left them to it.

‘
Another set of twins!’
Alexia said, she looked at Ben and Amber ‘I’m going to need your
help with them guys and they are going to take up a lot of
attention to start with.’

‘
We know mum, don’t worry
we’ll teach them the bad habit’s,’ Amber laughed.

‘
That’s what I’m afraid
of,’ Alexia giggled whilst holding her jaw. ‘Oh god, I can’t
believe I’m going to be carrying twins again! These two better not
wriggle as much as you two did.’ Ben and Amber sat back on their
chairs whilst they all looked at the scan pictures.

‘
Hey dad can we go buy a
drink please?’ Ben asked after a short while.

‘
Yeah, here,’ He gave them
some money, ‘go there and straight back.’

They ran out and James kissed
Alexia again, ‘I love you Alexia.’

‘
I love you
too.’

‘
This last few days have
been a whirlwind, when Sarah called me to tell me you’d had been
shot I was so scared. The last time I got scared was when I lost
you the first time.’ He looked deep into her eyes, ‘Alexia, I can’t
live without you, can’t breathe without you, can’t focus without
you. You are my rock, my soul, my heart, my breathe, my everything
and I’ve loved you all these years and now I have you back I want
to make you mine.’ He pulled out the ring box and opened it,
showing her the ring and she started to cry, ‘Alexia I love you so
much, will you marry me?’

Alexia was crying so much she
could hardly speak but she whispered, ‘Yes.’ James put on the ring
and kissed her deeply. He pulled back a little to rest his forehead
on hers and they smiled at each other.

‘
Always.’ He
said.

26

The morning of the wedding was
surprisingly calm. James and Alexia didn’t believe in the whole
“it’s bad luck to see each other before the wedding,” so they
agreed just to stay at home and get ready all in one place. Also
there was no way James was going to let Alexia out of his sight.
Over the past couple of months Alexia, Tracy and Sarah had planned
the wedding as they wanted to be married before the twins came and
Alexia didn't want to be too heavily pregnant in her wedding dress,
although she was having the odd whine about being fat in her dress
but the girls assured that she looked amazing, despite being twenty
four weeks pregnant with twins. James had been really lucky and
managed to find a brand new house for sale and paid cash for it
whilst Alexia was recovering in hospital as he didn’t want her
going back to where everything happened, so they spent a couple of
weeks at Alexia’s’ house. James had paid the sellers extra to get
things sorted quickly so they could get moved in. This house was a
six bed mansion with a large front room, kitchen, dining room,
office and outside had a sports area, a play area, a ‘church’ tree
house which Ben and Amber loved and swimming pool.

James’ parents, Tony, Sarah and
Sam, and Tracy and Matt stayed over so it was a good job the
wedding wasn’t until two thirty. However, from ten o’clock
everything was crazy with getting showered, the hair and makeup
artist coming and the photographer coming. The girls decided last
minute that they wanted to get ready in one room and the boys
should get ready in another then meet them in the front room where
they could leave together. Alexia’s wedding dress was a soft cream
satin slim A-line dress with hand-beaded modified halter neckline,
a gently gathered bodice with jewelled beading at the natural
waistline, open back bodice with bandeau tie detail and detachable
fly-away streamer and a sweeping train. The bridesmaids all wore
simple pale pink full length dresses. The flowers were exquisite
cream and pink roses. James and the boys wore black trousers and
cream shirts with waistcoats and cravats in the same pale pink as
the girls’ dresses. They opted not to wear jackets.

The men were in the front room
pacing as they waited for the girls with anticipation, excitement
and nervousness running through them. Sam and Matt looked over at
James as he paced the floor looking a shade paler than he should,
like he was going to pass out from nerves even though he wouldn’t
admit it. James walked over to the drinks cabinet and poured a neat
whiskey and downed it in one go then went back to pacing the room
whilst taking deep breaths. Sam and Matt thought it was amusing as
they had never seen him this way before, not even before a fight.
Finally the girls were ready, the double doors were opened to
reveal Alexia, Sarah and Tracy, and in front of them stood Ellie
and Amber.

James, Sam, Matt and Ben watched
as the doors opened and were blown away at the sight of them and
whispers of appreciation from them all followed. They stood and
admired their women with big grins on their faces. They walked up
to them and gave them a kiss and then Sam kissed Ellie as James
kissed Amber. Ben then walked over and gave Alexia a kiss and a
hug. Everyone went out to get in the cars and left Alexia and James
alone for a minute. He gently grabbed her face with his hands and
kissed her.

‘
Wow, you look amazing,
gorgeous, sexy, yummy....’

She giggled at him, ‘Thank you
baby, you're looking very sexy too but that suit will look even
sexier tonight.’

‘
Why?’ He looks
confused.

‘
Because it’s going to be
on the bedroom floor,’ she smirked and he growled slightly at
her.

He grabbed her hand and dragged
her out of the house playfully and she laughed, ‘Come on let’s go
make you Mrs Alexia Taylor,’ he said with a big grin and helped her
in the car.

James and Alexia had opted on a
simple theme and had the wedding at the James’ fight club and the
reception at Alexia’s’ new dance studio that James had bought for
her as the re-build of her old studio was going to take too long
and she had a lot of things coming up with the company. The Fight
Club had been decorated simply but mostly in and around the ring as
that is where the wedding party were going to be and the guests
were seated around the ring. They took their places in the centre
of the ring and started proceedings. There wasn’t a dry eye in the
club as James and Alexia exchanged vows:

I, James Matthew Taylor, take
you Alexia Amelia Clay, to be my wedded wife. To have and to hold,
from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for
poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till
death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.

I, Alexia Amelia Clay, take you
James Matthew Taylor, to be my wedded husband. To have and to hold,
from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for
poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till
death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.

They exchanged rings and
the registrar pronounced them husband and wife and told the groom
he may kiss his bride. Everyone clapped and whooped as he kissed
her long and deep. Matt tapped them on the shoulders and said, ‘Ok
people we have a room full of guests and a reception to get to.’
Everyone laughed and Alexia and James finally pulled away from each
other and smiled. The wedding reception not surprisingly had a Cage
fighting and dancing theme. The top table was set up in a ring in
the middle of the room and the guest’s table and chairs were around
the ring. All the tables were decorated in the theme by having
dancing score cards with James and Alexia’s name and wedding date
on them as placemats and smaller version of them for the drinks
mat’s. Placed on those were the wedding favour boxes which were
made up to be a fighting ring for the men and dancing shoes for the
women. The chairs had been covered very cleverly in either a pair
fighting shorts or a leotard and skirt. Tracy had a custom made
bride and groom to go on top of the cake. The bride and groom in a
ring but the groom laid on the floor and the bride standing over
him with one foot on his chest and her arms raised with big grin on
her face as she had won the fight, Sarah told them is represents
Alexia winning James. As James and Alexia entered the reception for
the first time as Mr and Mrs Taylor, James’ entrance music from his
fights played out and everyone cheered and laughed. They took their
sit seats a few moments later and they all enjoyed a three course
meal of
Prawn Cocktail for the starter,
Roast Beef for the main and Apple Crumble with custard or ice-cream
for pudding. The part James had been dreading was upon them; Sam
and Matt’s speech. He had given instructions not to embarrass him
but he knew it would be good and as his best men it was
customary.

M; ‘Ladies and gentlemen, if
there's anybody here this afternoon who's feeling nervous,
apprehensive and queasy at the thought of what lies ahead…… it's
probably because you have just married James Taylor.’

S; ‘To those of you who
don’t know us, which is very unlikely. We are Sam and Matt and we
would like to thank James for finally confirming that we are
actually
the BEST
men…but only because he scares everyone
else!’

M
; ‘We have been looking forward
to this moment for a long time. It will be the first time we’ve
been able to speak for five minutes in James’ presence without
being interrupted!’

S
; ‘Now it’s not that we are
saying that James is loud but he does seem to break a fundamental
law of physics that light travels faster than sound…. because with
James, you very definitely hear him before you see him.’

M
; ‘It’s great to see that
everyone is enjoying the wedding today, but I have to say that
being best men you get to see behind the scenes – and let us tell
you it isn’t pretty. Tears, hissy fits, chucking lipstick and
mascara all over the place… Alexia, we don’t know how you put up
with it. You need an award for being with James.’

S;
‘Quite clearly, no expense has been spared in
creating this wonderful occasion for us all to enjoy. And by the
way, please don't worry if you have heard any unusual noises during
the speeches….. It’s only James’ wallet groaning in
agony.’

M; ‘Looking around this packed
room, it's surprising just how far some people are prepared to
travel for a free lunch. It's a good job James didn’t choose the
menu, otherwise you would have been very disappointed to have come
all this way for cheese sandwiches only to be washed down with a
supermarket’s own brand lager.’

S; ‘Now we are supposed to
use this opportunity to recall embarrassing moments to ridicule
James. But we’ve been put under strict instructions not to
mention
the time
when James
was locking up the
club one night not long after he got it and we had hidden in the
bushes behind it. As James started walking towards his car we
jumped out on him and made him scream like a girl and run to hide
behind the bins. Or the time he was trying to make us cocktails
after closing one evening, he put what spirits he needed in the
mixer and started shaking it thinking he was Tom Cruise only he had
forgotten to put the lid on and ended up wearing it. Or for the
final one, the time we were out shopping with James, whilst in a
shop we were winding him up as he was paying for his things, so
when he had finished he started to run after us but dropped
something, so he stopped to pick it up, of course we ran out and he
didn’t see the door close so as he stood up and looked to see where
we were, we started pulling face faces at him and laughing making
him cross so he started running after us again and ran straight
into the door with full force and knocked himself out. To this day
he still tells his parents he got into a fight.’