All the guests had arrived at the church with about 15 minutes to wait until the wedding was supposed to start.
Kristen was busy getting her hair fixed by Amanda when Isabel grumbled from the door, "I'm here and I am NOT happy about it."
They both turned to look and almost laughed at the pitiful look on her face; she looked eihter ready to kill or ready to cry. She was wearing stretch khaki's and a button up, navy blue shirt. She crossed her arms in front of her the best she could and glared, "It is not funny so don't laugh or I'll kill you both."
Kristen cleared her throat and tried not to laugh, "We won't sweetie, now what's wrong?"
"Everyone else looks great in their dresses or tuxes or whatever and here I am in KHAKI pants and a shirt. These are the only pants I can fit over this damn cast and I wasn't even about to have Nick help me put on that dress."
"Do you want to try to get it on?"
Isabel shook her head, "Not really. I'm tired and my hand hurts and I don't feel like moving, to tell you the truth."
Kristen helped Isabel manuever the wheelchair into the room, shut the door behind her and locked it. "Maybe Nick could take you to the house and you can sleep or something Isabel. Maybe you're just not up to being up and about yet."
"But I want to be here..I have to be here. I'll feel awful if I go home and miss your's and Kev's wedding Kristen."
"Well..how about you stay for the ceremony, then maybe stay for just a few minutes of the reception?"
"I guess..I'll have to ask Nick."
Amanda smiled, "Does he look good in his tux?"
She rolled her eyes, "I wouldn't know..he didn't have it on when he came and picked me up. What does AJ look like?"
Amanda shrugged, "I have no clue..I'm kinda afraid. After his escapade at Pebbles Beach and those ugly ass golf pants, I'm scared to see him at a wedding."
Kristen laughed, "That's true..here, come finish my hair, we have like 5 minutes till I gotta get out there."
"Me too silly."
"Oh yeah."
The ceremony went off without a hitch, Kristen looked gorgeous, Kevin looked veerry good, and AJ had for once looked normal. Nick had agreed that him and Isabel would only stay for a half hour at the reception and then go to his house.
Isabel still felt bad about leaving early, but Kevin and Kristen had both reassured her that it was fine and that she wasn't missing anything. Kevin had hugged her closely, well as close as he could, kissed her forehead and said, "I'm just glad you made it to my wedding."
She laughed, "Me too..I still wanted to be in it though."
"I know..but, you're here, you stayed and that's all I care about, ok?"
She nodded, "Yeah..okay."
"You make sure Nicky takes care of you, huh?"
Isabel smiled up at him, "I will."
"And I'll call you ummm..Wednesday sound good?"
She nodded once more, "Yeah..have fun in Italy Kev."
"I will."
Kristen pushed Kevin out of the room saying, "I'll be there in a minute."
He mumbled something they couldn't understand, but left anyways. Kristen sat down so she could be at eye level with Isabel, "You feelin' okay?"
"I guess..I'm just tired."
"I bet..your first day out and already you're partying."
"I know."
"You tell Nick to take you home and put you to bed...are you upstairs?"
"No, I'm staying in the bedroom downstairs near the kitchen, it even has it's OWN bathroom!"
"Really? Cool."
"I hope you two have a wonderful time in Italy."
Kristen smiled, "I'm sure we will..it'll be fun. I've never been there."
"Really? It's pretty..I went once..with them."
"Cool..well..I better get out there, is Nick waiting outside?"
"Guess so.."
Kristen hugged her, "You take care of yourself or Ann'll have mine and Kev's heads."
"I will."
"When we get back I'll show you all the pictures we take, ok?"
She nodded, "okay."
Kristen hugged her one last time before she spotted Nick coming in. "Hey Nick..come to take her away?"
He nodded, "Yep..Kev just gave me a big long speech about making sure she gets enough sleep and eats enough. Okay..daaad."
They all laughed. Isabel smiled, "That's just Kevin though."
"True..," Kristen said, "Okay..I really gotta go. You two have fun in Tampa and I'll see you in two weeks..we both will."
She hugged Nick but before she let him go she whispered, "Take care of her."
He nodded, "I will."
Kristen smiled before walking out to find Kevin again. Nick turned to Isabel, "So, you ready to head to my house?"
"Yep."
He wheeled her outside to his car and opened the passenger side door and helped her inside. She refused to let him pick her up. He had rolled his eyes; she was almost too independent at times.
Once at his house, he helped her inside and into the room she was staying in and went back outside to get her things. "Are you going to go to sleep?," He asked as he set down the last of her bags.
She nodded, "I think so..I'm just really tired right now. You don't mind, do you?"
"Oh no, of course not. I just don't wanna do anything too loud."
"Do what you want. One, it's your house Nick. And two, I sleep like a log. A hurricane could blow by and I probably would just roll over and sleep through it."
"Okay..I'm..gonna go then."
"Okay..night Nick."
"Night Isabel."
Nick sighed and looked at the clock. 11 p.m. and he was bored to tears almost. That was when a thought occured to him. He opened the door to the basement and went down the stairs and into his in-home studio. He found the notebook filled with songs he had thought of on the road or when he had woken up from many a nap and found a pen before the words left his head. He smiled as the words began to flow out of him and onto the paper.
'She'll get a kick out of this....I hope.,' He thought, ' Someday.,'
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