"Where are you guys going?" Cassandra asked Isabella as her and A.J. were saying their good byes at the reception.
"Oh, unlike you and Nick, we're heading off for our honeymoon tonight," replied Isabella.
"What? Were are you going?"
"You know that A.J.'s parents died when he was young right?" Cassandra and Nick nodded. "Well, we're going to their cottage in Ireland, and we'll be gone for about a month."
"You're leaving, now? Tonight?"
"Yup."
"For a month?"
"Yup."
"I'm gonna miss you!"
"I promise that I will either call or write to you very often. I promise!"
"Oh Isabella! I hope that you have fun!"
"Oh we will!"
"Come on Isabella," said A.J. "We're going to miss our plane."
"All right, I'm coming. Good bye Cassie, good bye Nick." She gave both of them a hug. "I'll see you guys in a month." Cassandra waved to her sister and watched her walk out of the door.
Cassandra turned to Nick and put her arms around his waist. "Well, we finally married my sister. Now what's left for us?"
Nick yawned. "Well I am kind of tired. We could go back home-" Nick stopped and grinned devilishly.
"Nick!" she said, and he continued to grin. "All right, let's go!"
Cassandra and Nick went up to the group.
"Hey guys, we're gonna take off," Nick said.
"All right, I guess we'll see you guys in the morning," said Coreene.
"K, bye guys. We'll see ya at the house," said Cassandra, and her and Nick walked out of the reception hall and to his car.
They both got into his car, and found out that they were both more tired than they thought. "You sure you can make it all the way home?"
"It's only midnight, and it's only a two hour drive home," Nick said sarcastically.
"Well, let me know if you want me to drive," said Cassandra laying back and closing her eyes to go to sleep.
"I guess I will."
Three days from then, the group was sitting in the girls' living room.
"It's so unlively without Isabella and A.J.," said Emalia.
"Yeah I know-" started Cassandra but she stopped when the phone rang. She got up from the couch, grabbing Nick's hand and dragging him over to the phone. "Hello?"
"Cassandra!"
"Isabella! How are you? Where are you? What are you doing? No wait, I went on a honey moon, don't answer that last question." Cassandra and Nick both sat down at the kitchen table.
"Well, we're fine, we're at the cottage in Ireland. It is so beautiful out here!"
"That's good to hear!"
"Yeah, and just between you and me, A.J. is better outside of the country."
"Isabella!"
"What?"
"That's so funny. Hey wanna talk to Nick?"
"Yeah sure, put that man on the phone." Cassandra pushed the phone over towards Nick.
"Hey Isabella," he said.
"Hey blonde buddy! How are ya?"
"Fine, how are you two doing?"
"Oh, we couldn't be better!"
"Hey that's good. So what's it like there?"
"It's very beautiful. We're like, in the middle of nowhere and all there is, are green hills for as long as we can see outside of the front window. And the back window looks out over the rocks and the water crashing onto them."
"Hey, that sounds really cool!"
"Yeah we can make as much noise as we want, and no one can hear us or complain!"
"Uh, yeah!" Nick agreed.
"So Nick, what's up?"
"Well lately a lot."
"Oh yeah, I'm guessing you and Cassandra have been busy."
"Well since you're not here she doesn't have a lot to do, so..."
"Nick, I don't think you should finish that sentence!"
"I think your right."
"All right cutie, I am going to let you talk to A.J. and then I want to tell Cassie something."
"All right I'll talk to you later."
"Okay, keep Cassandra busy, if you know what I mean!" Isabella handed A.J. the phone she could faintly hear Nick laughing. "It's Nick."
"Nick buddy, what's up?" A.J. yelled into the phone.
"Ask your your wife!"
"What?"
"Never mind. Not much, you?"
"It's really great up here man, you have to come out here sometime."
"Maybe someday, but not anytime soon."
"So what have I missed?"
"A lot of great sex."
"Not really, I get enough of that out here."
"Are you sure about that?"
"That's all we do!"
"What are you talking about?" Isabella yelled at A.J
"Nothing, dear." A.J. answered.
"Better be nothing." Isabella said.
"A.J. we are tying up the phone line, so we better let the girls talk." Nick said.
"All right." A.J. said and handed the phone back to Isabella, and Nick handed the phone back to Cassandra.
"Cassie, I just wanted to say bye and make sure nothing bad is going on." Isabella said.
"No, everything's fine. Are you okay?"
"Yeah."
"Who are you guys talking to?" Emalia asked from the living room.
"It's my fairy Godmother," Cassandra said back.
"Ooh, can I talk to Isabella?"
"How did you know?"
"I just did!" Emalia got up from the couch and ran over to the phone. She grabbed it out of Cassandra's hand and walked into the kitchen.
"Well okay then!" said Cassandra. Nick laughed at her.
**Three days later**
Cassandra walked outside to get the mail. She reached into the mailbox and pulled out a couple of envelopes, one addressed to her. She dropped the other mail on the ground and opened the letter, and read it to herself.
Dear Cassie and Company,
Ireland is beautiful, and extremely romantic. It is the perfect scenery for a honey moon. The house is gorgeous. A beautiful, big, bright kitchen. The bedroom is so tropical and exotic of an atmosphere. The bed is huge and it has a canopy with lace all over the top of it. It is like a dream house. It is so big and so perfect. We thought many time about living here, but I could never live this far away from everyone. It's just like you felt when you went out to Arizona.
The house is on a cliff that goes down to the beach. It is great. Well, I hope someday to bring everyone up here. Talk to everyone later. We miss you guys!
Love Always, Isabella
"Cool," Cassandra said outloud. She walked inside and dropped the mail on the kitchen table. Nick came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. "Hey, where's everyone else?"
"Oh, they're all outside swimming," Nick replied.
"They?"
"Yeah. Emalia, Kevin, and Nicole."
"Then how come you aren't?"
"Because I was waiting for you."
"I only went to get the mail. Oh, and look! I got a letter from Isabella!" She handed him the letter.
**Three weeks later**
"Hey, Cassie," Nick said. "I think you got another letter from Isabella." He walked into the house, and handed her the mail. She took the letter from the top, opened it, and read it outloud to Nick. Everyone else was over at the guys' house.
Dear Cassandra,
All is well here. Our first few weeks together as a married couple, has been great. Wish you were here, in a way. Tell everyone that I miss them. Like I said, things couldn't be better. A.J. has really turned around. It's like he is a totally different person. He is sweeter than ever. There is something there that wasn't there before. You would be very proud of him.
The scary thing is, I don't know him anymore. Every move he makes is a surprise. It is cool, but yet scary. We miss you all very much, but we are sad to say that our honey moon is over sometime this week. We hope that all is well, because all is well here. We'll be home in a few days, plus I think that I have had all of the "wowzers" that I can take! Hope all is doing good with you and Nick. See you soon!
Love Always, Isabella
"Wowzers?" Nick asked confused, and Cassandra burst into laughter.
**Four days later**
"Isabella! Damn it you're finally home!" said Cassandra running to hug her sister as she came through the door.
"I'm happy to see you too!" A.J. was right behind her.
"A.J.! My fighting buddy! How are you?" Cassandra said giving A.J. a hug.
"I'm good. You seem like you've been really bored without us!"
"Oh I have! I have!"
"Isabella! A.J.!" said Coreene, Kevin, Emalia and Nicole as Isabella and A.J. walked into the living room.
"Hey guys! Can we talk to you for a sec?" Isabella said sitting down on the couch.
"Yeah," they all said.
"You know that house that went for sale down at the end of the street?" Everyone nodded. "Well when we were in Ireland, we called out here and bought that house. We also bought some furniture and had it shipped and moved into the house. So that's where we'll be staying from now on." Isabella looked around at the expressionless faces of her friends. "Um, okay then." Still no one said anything.
"I guess that's cool," Cassandra said giving everyone else a look. They all nodded in agreement.
"Isabella? Where did she go now?" A.J. said rolling out of bed that evening. He looked at the clock. "Half past midnight. What is she doing up?" A.J. walked downstairs and saw Isabella sitting on the couch watching television. He walked into the living room. Isabella heard the floor creak.
"Hey babe," she said, "you are just in time. Come sit with me."
"In time for what?" A.J. said sitting down.
"For the Sifl And Olie show!"
"Oh, yeah?"
"Yep." Isabella began to sing along with the television of the theme song. A.J. laughed at her.
"You are so cute." Isabella smiled and kissed him. Isabella laid her head down on A.J.'s chest. He began to stroke her hair and after about ten minutes they were both asleep.