Chapter 36: Epilogue (Wabara’s POV)
Three Years Later
All of us were moving around the kitchen, trying to put everything together as fast as we could.
“Do you think we should have done this?” She huffed, leaning against the counter while I threw the oven mitts off.
“No,” I mumbled, grabbing the tray and taking it to the dining table, setting everything up for the Christmas dinner.
“Exactly. Then please tell me why we’re doing this,” she laughed, helping me and setting all the glasses for each person.
“Because it’s our first Christmas as a married couple and we’re hosting dinner.”
“We shouldn’t be the ones hosting because this is our first Christmas as a married couple.”
I sighed, glad that we set everything up before our families arrived. I turned to her, taking in her light, soft pink dress that had see-through mesh sleeves. “Because it’s our first Christmas as a married couple, we should be the hosts. So we can celebrate Christmas and our recent wedding at the same time.”
“Our wedding is more important than Christmas,” she smirked. She enjoys winding me up, I just know she does.
I walked over, putting my hands on the chair she was leaning against, caging her in. “Of course our wedding is more important. But we didn’t go big on it, now did we?”
She shook her head, grinning, and put her arms around my neck.
“So we’re going big tonight.”
“Hmm,” she nodded. “Calling both our parents and then also the extended family. I’d say that’s pretty big.”
“We got married…”
“Six months ago.”
“Ha, six months and twelve days,” I smirked.
She chuckled, rolling her eyes, and pecked my lips.
Our relationship changed completely after we finally worked through my issues of commitment. I surprised myself in our relationship a lot. I stayed loyal the entire time, in fact, the thought of being or getting with another girl actually disgusted me instead of inviting me.
Indie and I kept our relationship quiet at first. Only Moretz and Caleb knew and that too because they were always around us. We didn’t tell our families or anybody else either, and at parties or on campus, we would just act like we always did. Dare I say, we acted like friends. And then after one year, we became more publicly open and obvious with our relationship. Some people, mostly the people who knew me and Landon, were very surprised. Because they knew that she was his ex-girlfriend and I was his friend and the two of us didn’t get along. But then we came out and said we were together.
During the summer break of our second year being together, we went to see my parents. Because my mom was coming home too and I really wanted Indie to meet her, I convinced Indie to come home with me that summer. And my mother absolutely loved her, as I expected, and Indie loves my mom too. In fact, Indie’s been calling my mom ‘mom’ since we got engaged.
We waited eight months between our engagement and wedding. And even before that, at our graduation, everybody guessed that we would stay together.
I suppose it became obvious then that our relationship wasn’t just a college romance that somehow ended up lasting throughout, but it was a full-blown, committed, serious relationship. I proposed to her when we went on a trip together to London. It was around the time that our college gave their fall break to the students and because we had just graduated that year, we both decided to plan a trip together and go.