Grand Plans Chapter 31

This is a short update and I am really sorry that it took this long. My laptop decided to break on me and I haven't had the money to fix or replace it. I'm hoping by the end of the month I can do one or the other and then I will be able to update all of my stories.

I woke up later than I wanted to since all of the excitment from the night before had made it hard to go back to sleep. I knew that this wasn't going to be easy but I was determined to make it work. Jordan had already left for practice so I got up and grabbed my laptop and went to work looking up the info that I would need. I started with the most important thing, the marriage license. I was happy to find that all it would take is a trip down to the county building, our drivers license and a application along with a forty five dollar fee and filling out an application. Three days from that time we would have a marriage license. I wrote all of the information down on a piece of paper that I had sitting beside me. The next thing that I looked up was a dress. Even though I wanted this to happen as soon as possible the one thing that I had my heart set on was wearing a white dress, even if it wasn't something fancy. I felt a little pang of hurt go through me as I looked at diffrent styles and wrote down a few numbers to some local shops. It wasn't too often that I thought about the women that had abandoned me so long ago but it was times like this that I part of me wished that she was still around. I tried to put the thought out of my mind as I grabbed my phone and made some more phone calls. When I was done I had an appointment for the next day at two shops that said that they thought that they had some dresses that they thought fit what was I was looking for. I really wanted some female opinions and since there wasn't any way that I was going to get it the way that most women do I called up the two ladies that I trusted the most to see if they could help me. I wasn't surprised at all by Kelseys or Veros reactions. They were both excited until they realized what I wanted to do and that quickly turned to disbelief. Vero actually went as far as to ask me if I had gone completely insane. Neither of them could believe it but much to my relief they both agreed to meet me at the first dress shop the next afternoon. As I sat down my phone I realized that I hadn't bothered to eat breakfast and my stomach was letting me know that it wasn't happy with me. I wanted to eat but I wanted to wait and see if Jordan was going to be home anytime soon. I sent him a text and I quickly got one back. He was running an errand and wasn't sure how long it was going to take. I sent him one back and to let him know that it was fine and that I would see him whenever he got in.  I decided to take a break and I went to watch some tv while I waited for him to come home. I started to doze off and later I was awakened by something touching my face. When I opened my eyes I saw Jordan leaning over me moving some hair that had fallen in my face.
" Hey" I said as I sat up and yawned. He sat beside me and gave me a kiss before I noticed that he had something in his hand.
" What is that" I asked and he handed me a small bag without saying anything
" Just look and tell me what you think."
I tipped the bag and out fell two small boxes. I opened the first one and inside was a silver band that had diamonds set into all the way around. The second box contained a similar band that was larger in size.
" I knew that you were going to have to do most of the planning so I thought that this was the least I could do."
I took my ring out of my box and fit it with my engagment ring. The styles seemed to fit well togeather and I slipped it back off and set it back in the box.
" Is there something wrong? If you don't like it I can always take it back." he said
"No I like the ring." I said and even though I really didn't want to admit what the problem was I found myself telling him everything that I had been feeling about my mother.
" You've never really talked about her before." he said as he pulled me into his body and wrapped his arm around me
" There wasn't ever much to talk about. I was so young when she left that I don't really remember a whole lot about her and when I was old enough to figure out that something wasn't right I learned really quick that it was a topic that shouldn't be brought up. The ironic thing is that as much hurt and anger that I have had over the years at how selfish she was, a part of me was kind of glad that she did what she did or otherwise may have never met you and ended up with the great life that I have now."
I could feel the tears start to well up in my eyes and he was quiet as I put my head into his shoulder and cried. After a few minutes of him rubbing my back I finally felt a little better.
" I'm sorrry. This is suppose to  be a happy time and here I am bringing up old emotional baggage."
" Don't be sorry. It sucks that your mom choose to not be a part of your life but just remember that you have people that love you. My mom considers you and Tanya to be the daughters that she never had.
" I know that and I know how lucky I am."
" I have some other good news. I told the guys and at the end of practice I guess that Sid went and talked to Mario. He told him about our plans and he said that there wasn't anything going on at the arena and that if we wanted to we could use one of the suites to have the ceremony in if we wanted. He said that we could consider it part of our wedding gift if we wanted.
" That would be great. It was one of the things that I was worried about." I said as this piece of information lifted my mood considerbly.
I ran to the kitchen and grabbed the info that I had looked up earlier. I sat down and showed him what I had found and we made plans to get the stuff for the marriage licence done. everything felt like it was falling into place and I was trying hard to not let my past affect my future