A/N: Last chapter, firstly i would like to thank everyone that reviewed, Alerted and or Favorited this story. Really makes me happy that you guys liked this story. I am currently working on a sequel but with so many ideas in my head it may or may not turn into a trilogy. so look out for Our Lives Together coming later this year.
Chapter 18: It's a Nice Day For A White Wedding
Raising triplets was harder than either Scotty or Lilly had thought. Because there was three of them, Dr Palmer had suggested that she express and then bottle feed to make it easier on her and Scotty to feed them at the same time. With Lilly being on maternity leave until the babies were 7 months old, Scotty decided to cash in all his leave and took 3 months off to help her out.
Even at such young ages, each of the three babies had their own distinct personalities.
Mathew always had to be moving, he'd screamed the place down unless he was in his swinging chair or pushed in the pram of bounced by either Lilly or Scotty.
James always fell asleep sucking his thumb, Lilly tried to get him to suck on a pacifier but he kept spitting it out and going back to his thumb.
And Little Laura, loved to watch people. She hated it when Lilly or Scotty put her down in her pram when there were people over, she loved sitting in one of her parent's laps and observing people. Scotty joked that she was developing her detective skills very early, learning to read people just as well as her mother.
They were so busy raising their little ones that they barely noticed that three years had gone by.
Lilly and Scotty had talked about getting married, they'd been engaged for so long but the timing never seemed right. It wasn't like they could pawn the triplets off on a relative and go on a honeymoon so they kept putting it off.
Lilly was thumbing through a file folder when Scotty came into their bedroom a triumphant look on his face.
"You finally get them to sleep?" Lilly asked "In under an hour? Impressive"
Scotty just grinned at her and started getting undressed "its 8 o'clock, the triplets are asleep, and I am not exhausted for the first time in months"
Lilly closed the file and placed it down on the bedside table "So?" Scotty stripped of his boxers and slid into bed beside her, and started to trail kisses over she shoulder. "Oh" Lilly replied in realisation.
"We haven't made love in over a month Lil, what do you say about…..." He trailed off and his hand slid underneath the covers and touched her. Lilly gasped and rolled on her side to face him, leaning in to kiss him. They were just getting heated up when they heard Mathew screaming.
Scotty sighed "you want me to go?"
"No, I'll go, I am still…..clothed"
Scotty chuckled and rolled on his back "Well hurry up and get back in here"
Matthew's emergency was that he had woken up and couldn't find his stuffed purple hippo; Lilly had to search for a good five minutes before she found it in James's crib. Once the three of them were settled she headed back into the bedroom. "Minor crisis, all resolved now" she said as she closed the door, she looked up and saw Scotty, thumbing through the folder Lilly had been perusing before "What are you doing?" She asked in horror.
"I was just seeing what you were working on….I thought it was that cold case that you said that you re-opened" Scotty put it down on the bed "What is all this?" Lilly swallowed thickly.
For the last few years Lilly had been hiding something from Scotty, in a file folder next to her bed Lilly had been keeping in the file, wedding ideas, clippings from magazines of dresses she wanted and reception halls and churches she wanted to use. She'd been afraid of telling Scotty because she didn't want him to think she was pressuring him into getting married.
"It's nothing, really"
"Lil, it looks like wedding stuff"
Lilly sighed and sank down on the bed "I am sorry, I should have told you"
"Why didn't you?"
Lilly shrugged "I don't know"
Scotty closed the file and put it back where he got it from, Lilly watched as he moved to his side of the bed and pulled out a notepad from his bedside drawer and handed it to her. Lilly looked at him in confusion and then down at the pad, she flipped it open and looked through it.
It would seem that Scotty too had been secretly planning their wedding as well. "I have been jottin' down some ideas, including some vows"
"How long have you been keeping this?" She asked him
Scotty shrugged "About three years"
"That's how long I have been keeping my file"
Scotty's chuckle turned into a full throated laugh and Lilly joined him "I can't believe it that we haven't told each other about this before, I mean look at this stuff" Scotty gestured to her file and his notepad "We've been practically planning are wedding by ourselves without the other knowing."
"I know it's stupid"
"I just thought that you wouldn't want to get married while the triplets were so little, that you didn't wanna leave them" Scotty said
"I always assumed that you wanted to wait, that you'd set a date when you were ready"
"Well how 'bout we set a date now then, get married this year"
Lilly grinned "I'd like that"
Scotty kissed her "Are the kids asleep?" he asked softly, Lilly nodded "Then let's celebrate our decision"
Lilly pounced on him, pushing him back against the pillows.
In just over two months Lilly and Scotty had planned their entire wedding and here she stood. In Allie and Mike's bedroom, looking at herself, in the full length mirror, in the long white dress, waiting to go to the church to marry the man she loved. She heard a knock on the door and she turned "Come in"
The door opened and Allie and Lindsay walked in, Lindsay carrying Laura in a small white dress white pink roses around the hem and Allie carrying Matthew and James, one under each arms, each of them in tiny tuxes. Lilly didn't even know they made tuxes that small but when she found them last week she knew that the boys would look adorable in them. "You look beautiful Lil" Lindsay exclaimed and Allie nodded in agreement.
"Thanks"
"Mummy pretty" Matthew gurgled
"Yeah pretty" James echoed.
"Thank you boys" Lilly replied.
Laura reached out to her and Lilly lifted her into her arms, pressing a kiss to her cheek "Are you and Daddy going away?" she asked in a sad whisper.
Lilly nodded "Yes but only for a week"
Laura pouted "But why?"
Lilly smiled "Mummy and Daddy are going on a honeymoon; it's a holiday that Mummies and Daddies go on when they get married"
"Can Me, James and Matthew Come?"
Lilly shook her head "No, baby. You and your brothers are going to stay here with Aunt Allie and Uncle Mike"
"Not fair" she exclaimed, crossing her tiny arms "I wanna get married so I can go on a honeymoon" and Allie, Lindsay and Lilly laughed, Lilly put her daughter down on the bed "Why don't you run that one past Daddy and see what he says"
"The car is going to be here in a few moments" Allie replied
Lilly sighed and nodded "Okay"
"Come on you three, let's let Mummy finish getting ready" Laura nodded and slid down off the bed, and toddled out of the room.
Scotty paced back and forth in the churches back room. He could hear the music from the organ playing in the church and could just make out the sounds of his family and their friends as they took their seats.
The door opened Mike came in "Allie just rang, they are leaving the house now so they should be here soon"
Scotty nodded "Yeah, alright"
Mike chuckled "You nervous little brother?"
Scotty scoffed "No" he laughed nervously and with a look from his brother he sighed "Alright, I am nervous"
"Its normal, remember me before my wedding" Scotty nodded. Mike's cell phone beeped, he took it out of his pocket and flipped it open. He chuckled and then handed his phone over to Scotty.
Allie had sent Mike a picture of the triplets in their formal clothes, his two handsome boys in their matching tuxes and his little girl in a beautiful white dress. He smiled "Good looking family Scotty" Mike said as Scotty handed Mike's phone back. "You and Lil want more kids?"
Scotty shrugged "I don't know, I'd love more but I think Lil is happy with the triplets"
Mike ran a hand through his hair "Allie is gonna kill me but I gotta tell someone"
"What?"
"Allie is pregnant, 5 weeks"
Scotty smiled and pulled his brother into a hug "Congratulations Mikey"
"Yeah, I mean we always thought that Em would be enough for us but now that she's pregnant again….who knows"
"I am happy for you man"
"Thanks, just don't tell Allie I told you, she doesn't want to tell people until the twelfth week."
"Yeah wouldn't want her to kill you"
Mike chuckled "No"
The door opened and Ramiro stuck his head into the room "Your mother told me to come and get you, its time"
Scotty nodded "Ok, here we go"
Scotty watched as the doors of the church opened and Scotty smiled widely as his three year old daughter walked up the aisle with Anita, one of his numerous cousins, scattering petals as she went. She reached the front of the church and tipped out the basket of remaining petals. Anita took her hand and guided her back over to the pews, pulling her into her lap.
Mike came up the aisle next, holding Matthew and James's hands. James waved enthusiastically to him and Scotty waved back.
When they reached the front Ramiro took his grandson's over to sit with him and Rosa.
After Allie and Lindsay walked up the aisle the music changed and the congregation stood up and turned to see Lilly. Scotty's heart skipped a beat as he saw her walking towards him. She was breathtakingly beautiful. He felt like the luckiest man on the planet, she was about to be his wife.
She reached the front and stepped up to him, taking his hand "You look so beautiful" he said softly and she blushed. The organ music stopped and everyone sat down.
Father Donnelly smiled at them and Scotty squeezed her hand and she squeezed it back.
"You two ready?" he asked softly and Lilly and Scotty nodded. Father Donnelly took a deep breath and started the ceremony
Scotty slid into the limo with Lilly that was going to take them to the reception hall. Once the door shut, Scotty pulled Lilly into his lap "Hello Mrs Valens"
Lilly giggled "Hello Mrs Valens" she whispered in his ear. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him gently.
"Feels so nice to call you that" Scotty replied, kissing his way down her neck.
Lilly giggled again and pushed him off "We can't do this now" she mumbled
"Why not?"
Lilly slid off his lap buckled her seatbelt. "Because we are almost at the reception hall and besides I don't want our children seeing us making out in the back of a limo"
Scotty took her hand and kissed it "Your right, guess I'll have to wait for the honeymoon then"
"I can't wait for that" Lilly replied and then she chuckled "Do you know that your daughter, announced that she wants to get married so she can go on a honeymoon"
Scotty let out a wry laugh "She ain't getting married till she's at least 50"
"Uh-huh, you just keep thinking that" Scotty's face contorted at the thought of his baby daughter getting married, he hated the thought of any one taking his Princesa away from him. Lilly leaned over and kissed his cheek "I love you Scotty"
Scotty smiled; he turned to face her and then leaned over to press a kiss to her lips "I love you too"
Lilly sat down at the table, her feet were killing her. She knew that she shouldn't have worn the shoes she did. But they went so well with the dress she'd picked out. She slid her left foot out of her shoe and rubbed it. "Shouldn't I be doing that?" Scotty whispered in her ear as he sat down beside her.
"Sorry, I just couldn't dance anymore"
Scotty shrugged and kissed her shoulder "It's alright, we can dance later" he said with a wink and Lilly giggled.
"Mummy, Mummy" Lilly looked down and saw James tugging on her dress.
"What is it sweetie?"
"Will you come and dance with me?" he asked, giving her the puppy dog eyes that Scotty was always giving her.
"Oh I am sorry honey, Mummies feet hurt?"
"But I wanna dance with you"
Lilly sighed and rolled her eyes "Alright" she said and she slipped of her other shoe "Come one then" James jumped up and down and grabbed Lilly's hand, tugging her towards the dance floor.
Scotty looked out at the dance floor, watching his friends and family enjoying themselves. He chuckled when he saw his five year old nephew Emilio, dancing with Laura, Matthew happily dancing on his own beside them and his gorgeous wife dancing with James who was standing on her feet.
He truly was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, in that moment, he had it all.
The End
A/N: thanks again guys