Page 31 of His Last Love

“Babe, I was waiting for the right blonde. You.”

Wow, that is so cheesy. Who knew the snowboarders are big softies at heart? Maybe all the super sweet things Oliver said to me yesterday weren’t only from the effects of his painmeds. For a split second, Reagan looks as if she’ll hit Knox, but then a small smile grows on her face and she takes a step closer, standing next to him.

“Let’s go, people. I need to get married.” Remi cuts right through our circle, stopping in front of Reagan and Knox. “You two up front.”

“Why are you always so bossy?” Reagan asks with attitude, but she turns around and follows Remi to thestone fireplace, taking up a position on the left side. Knox stands to the right, acting as Remi’s best man.

The four of us leave in a hurry to find seats in the few short rows we set up this morning. Once everyone settles, the overhead sound system plays a traditional wedding tune and Marley, with her mother and father on each side walks down the makeshift aisle created from the gap betweenrows of chairs.

Remi didn’t stop at the really expensive flowers. He also paid to have Marley’s parents flown in to be here for the event. He knew Marley wouldn’t want to get married without her mom. When the man makes a decision to do something, he goes all out.

Marley and her parents stop in front of the fireplace where a pastor and Remi wait for her. Her parents pass her off, and the pastorbegins a short but sweet wedding ceremony. While he talks about friends and futures and finding one person special enough to spend the rest of your life with, I replay what a whirlwind adventure these Winter Games have been. From a crazy skier with a grudge to broken arms and gold medals. Four couples came together and found their someone special.

Maybe even me.

Oliver grabs my hand, intertwiningour fingers, and places it in his lap along his leg. He squeezes and I miss the couple’s first kiss choosing instead to get lost in the depths of his blue eyes.

None of us are going home empty handed.