When life starts to burn and the pain returns.

I just wish that I could heal the hurt you feel tonight.

There’s life in your veins. These needles are chains to hold you down.

How can you expect to win this war if you’re too afraid to fight?

Needless to say, they ended up together.  Ashley was hilarious the night she proposed, all nervous and panicky in a way she hadn’t been since singing with Never Settle.  The wedding preparations brought out some surprising traits.  Spencer was the laid back one, it’s Ashley that was the bride from Hell.  Thank God that’s all over.  Today my ‘little sister’ is getting married.  At the pier, of course, down on the beach.  She looks gorgeous in her white lined dress shirt and pants, giving Spencer a run for her money in her simple white sundress.

The women stand beside one another with the sun lowering into the waves behind them.  Before them a man in a dark suit begins to speak the timeless words of union, for which the group of friends and family have gathered.

“We are gathered here today to witness the union of Miss Ashley Davies to Miss Spencer Carlin . . .” and from there they stop listening. They are lost within each other, their eyes speaking volumes of their love.  The man calls upon Ashley for her vows.

“Wow. Okay.  I’ve spent like four months trying to figure out exactly how to describe what you make me feel and how much I love you, and that made me realize how truly limited the English language is.  I can’t even begin to tell you how much you mean to me.  All I can do is promise that forever is what I’m giving you, and I will never falter from it.”

“do you, Spencer, take Ashley to be your lawfully wedded wife?”

“I do,” she wihispers around her tears as she accepts Ashley’s forever, “When we first met I never would have guessed that we would end up here.  Of course, most six year olds aren’t thinking about getting married, but still.  The day you asked to be my prince I never thought anything of it because you always were my knight in shining armor.  But then I became a shallow and selfish teenager focused solely on popularity because I wasn’t comfortable with who I was, who I am.  My love for you has challenged me to grow into someone that deserves your love.  Someone who deserves you as their prince.”

“Do you, Ashley, take Spencer to be your lawfully wedded wife?”

“I do,” she states strongly.

“I know pronounce you Mrs. and Mrs. Davies.  You may kiss the bride,” their lips met in an emotional tangle full of love, happiness, and excitement.

“I guess true love really is blind to the faults of others,” Anina murmurs to Vanessa.

“No.  True love is not blind, it sees more.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.  Willing to forgive.”