Tyler's P.O.V
- About five years later -
"Tyler I'm home!" James yells as he comes through the front door into our apartment, "Hey, how was today?" I ask going up to him and wrapping my arms around his neck and giving him a kiss.
"It was fine, Dad finally let me move into my own office," he says and kisses me back.
Me and James have been dating for almost five years now, after my surgery he basically babysat me every day until I recovered.
The recovery this time went way better, but then fall came around and he was off to Harvard Law School. All those early law college courses his parents made him take starting his sophomore year of high school came in handy and he was able to graduate after only a year.
Soon after he started at his parent's firm, last year we moved in together in a cute little apartment.
About a month after our accident Felix started his police training and is now one of Dad's officers, he has a girlfriend whos also a cop she may also happen to be his partner. Greyson is now a fireman and he and Dana are still dating, I suspect we'll be going to a wedding in the near future.
Addison is going to school to become a teacher, she's still single seeing as she can't seem to get over Clara. Finn is the assistant coach for the high school's football team, he and Sam broke it off when she went to school.
Dallas is in his first year of college and he and Clayton are still dating and going to the same school.
When Oscar said he was going to stay single for as long as he could he really meant it, even with him in college he still has yet to find anyone for him. Paxton never dropped out of school, he met a girl named Carmen and decided school wasn't so bad he even went to college.
Brooklyn and that boy who moved in next door seemed to work out much against Chris and Daniel's silent pleas. He turned out to be kind of a bad boy you could say, with his leather jacket, motorcycle, skipping class, and things like that. Luckily he never did anything illegal or Daniel definitely would have shut them down.
After graduating high school Vivi thought long and hard about what she should do. She didn't want to go to college, and said she was tired of school. She ended up becoming a 9-1-1 operator so she kind of works with Dad, Felix, and Greyson. She and Landon are still together, I suspect we'll also be going to their wedding soon. Landon is going to school to become a brain surgeon, I know the guy who needs brain surgery is going to be performing it.
"Really, he finally let you become a big boy?" I ask pulling away, "I know it's about time, I think he's going to miss us being in the same office though," he says and heads off to our bedroom and I follow.
"So how'd work go today?" he asks taking off his suit jacket, "It's a little crazy with all the paperwork for Lilly to retire and get the building and all put into my name," I sigh running my hand through my hair.
I also didn't go to college, didn't really need to I knew where my future was going. Lilly has always said she sees me like a daughter and that when she was ready to retire and quit the business it was going to go to me. Now the time has come, she's going to retire this year and so now we're trying to get all the proper paperwork done so I'll own Lillys Boutique. It'll keep it's name, I could never change it that feels like taking Lilly away forever and that's not what I want to do.
"Tyler?" James asks his back still facing me as he digs in his pocket, "Yeah?"
He turns and is suddenly down on one knee holding a little open box with a ring inside of it, "I knew since the day I saw you that I wanted to marry you, and I know that is a very cliché thing to say but, will you marry me?" the tears well up in my eyes and I have no idea what to say.
"I- James I don't know what to.... YES, yes I'll marry you!" I say jumping up and down and screaming, "Fore real?!" he asks standing up. "Like twenty thousand percent YES!" I tackle him down onto the bed and kiss him hard.
He laughs a little and kisses me back, "Okay give me your hand," he says taking the ring out of the box. I hold my hand up and he slips the ring on, it's a beautiful opal with small diamonds on the band.
"I love you so much," I say and kiss him again, "Man if I knew that proposing would get you all going I'd have proposed a long time ago," he says then kisses me again. In all the years we've been together we've never had sex. Yeah, we've done ya know other stuff but just never gone all the way, I just was never ready. Until now.
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"Tyler can I come in?" Greyson says knocking on the door, "Give me a sec" I say fastening the strap on my heel and taking a look over in the full length mirror.
I adjust my necklace and fluff out the skirt of my dress, "Okay, you can come in," the door opens and he stops when he sees me.
"Oh you're beautiful, I think I'm gonna cry," he says coming up behind me after he closes the door. "Don't do that, I might cry and Vivi will kill me if I ruin my makeup," I laugh.
"Mom and dad would be so proud of you," he whispers taking my hands in his. I have finally gotten over my issue with touching.
"I wish they could be here," I sigh, "I know but they're watching and there's a little something special in the front row for you," he says grinning.
My eyebrows scrunch together, "What?", "Well I can't tell you now can I?" lets my hands go and throws his up in the air.
"So everyone's ready, we're just waiting on you," he says pointing to the door, "Okay, let's go do this," I say picking up my skirt and following him to the door.
We get to the hallway and Greyson goes and stands next to Felix, James' best man. Since I don't have friends because I still never made those I asked Greyson to be my maid of honor, I mean he is kind of my best friend.
Well, I guess he's my Man of honor, which I should have realized it would have been a mistake having him and Felix walk together sooner but sadly I did not until rehearsal yesterday.
We don't have a big wedding party, just Greyson and Felix. I mean it's not a big wedding either.
Daniel and Chris come and stand on either side of me, I think one of the hardest decision I had to make this whole wedding was who was going to walk me down the aisle.
Greyson was my first thought, then I considered PawPaw, then I thought about Daniel but I didn't want Chris to be left out. I even considered asking James' dad but ultimately I decided I'd have both Chris and Daniel walk me.
The doors open and Felix and Greyson enter, they behave this time instead of playing around like yesterday. Then Ryan goes next being the ring bearer. He's improved a lot over the last few years, he's a senior in high school now and actually makes eye contact with people, his speech is also less robotic.
Malia is our flower girl and follows after him, okay it's time. The music starts and the doors open, we decided on not the traditional bridal song but instead the office theme song.
I mean it truly is the best show, and this is my special day so I don't think anyone could tell me no.
As we start down the aisle I look up and see James standing there in his tux crying. I smile up at him and he smiles back wiping his tears away.
The wedding goes through smoothly and there are a few tears. Especially when we turn to exit and I see what Greyson was talking about earlier.
On the front row on the bride's side sits what I thought were two empty chairs but in fact was two chairs with my mom and dad's pictures of them in their military uniforms. I break down a little then but I collect myself quickly.
The reception was short and then we headed onto our honeymoon, going to Florida. I don't do planes so we obviously had to go somewhere in the country and we decided that Florida was a nice change from Minnesota.
The whole way there I gawk at my wedding ring. It's opal like my engagement ring and has two bands around it, one on the top and one underneath that have been welded together.
I'm glad to say I'm married to the man I love and that we will be together for the rest of our lives. I just hope I'm able to bring him children of his own, he's told me many times that if I can't carry kids that'd be okay we could always adopt. But I know how much every guy wants their own kid.
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Tyler's a married woman now and her and her family are growing up.
So there was a little sexy scene written in but I ended up cutting it, sorry for that.