‘The day of the wedding, Shane is contemplating what she should do after just witnessing her father leave his wife and son behind, just like he did with her and her mother. She tries to look inside of her heart to decide whether she should leave Carmen behind or spend the rest of her with her. What will she decide? And what will life be like after she makes her decision?’

“-Italics-” Thoughts

-Italics- Flashbacks

“-Bold-” Phone Call or Voice Message

-Bold- Text Message

As Shane and Carmen pack up, Carmen thinks back on all of events of the last week or so. She smiles as she thinks about all the moments she and Shane have shared that were both surprising, stunning, and not to mention sexy.

Carmen looks at Shane as  continues folding her clothing into the suitcase in front of her, and she feels hopeful that many more treasured moments like the ones she’s experienced with Shane will continue to pop up.

As Shane finishes her packing she states, “Well I think that’s it for me, are you all hmph–”

Carmen cuts Shane off with a deep, passionate kiss that went on until they both broke apart with a gasp.

Shane still dazed from the unexpected kiss asked, “Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but what was that for?”

Biting her lip in the way that Shane loves, Carmen looked down while playing with the collar of Shane’s dress shirt and replied, “For being the absolutely amazing person I always knew you could be.”

With that she looked straight up into Shane’s emerald eyes with her caramel ones. As Shane smiled she started inching her lips towards Carmen’s. As their lips nearly touched the private in-suite phone rang, causing them to pause. After a moment’s hesitation, Carmen gave Shane a quick peck on the lips, and then answered it. After sharing a quick word with the person on the other line, Carmen hung up the phone and said, “André is down in lobby waiting.”

Shane smiled and started rolling her suitcase towards the door with Carmen close behind. As Shane opened the door for Carmen she asked, “You ready to head back home?”

Carmen, taking one look back at their honeymoon suite replied while walking out, “Let’s go home, babe!”

˜END OF PART ONE˜