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Lil Italy (no login)
Posted Nov 7, 2002 9:31 PM
Ch. 70
Belle and Shawn were somewhat distracted by their recent news. They had made it back to Salem and hadn’t told anyone about their news yet. Brady, Chloe, John, and Marlena had all decided to stay in Paris a little while longer, and since Shawn had to get back to work, they took the next flight out after Belle’s doctor’s appointment.
John had given Belle the next few days off because of the fantastic job she had done with the fashion show, so Belle decided that she would use this time to start planning her wedding.
“Shawn, do you think we should have a big wedding or small wedding?” Belle asked Shawn as she laid in bed looking at the latest issue of “Bride,” while Shawn got ready to go to work.
“I don’t care, whatever you want,” Shawn said from behind the closed bathroom door, obviously not interested.
“Why don’t you care?” Belle asked curiously.
“Baby, as long as you are there and I am there, then I don’t care if you invite all of Salem or just the priest,” Shawn said as he emerged from the bathroom, and walked straight into the closet.
“Ok then it is settled, we will have a medium sized wedding,” Belle said to herself as she studied the wedding gowns that graced the pages.
“Whatever you say. Oh, speaking of our wedding, Phillip suggested a little while ago, that when I finally asked you to marry me, that we should have a joint wedding with him and Mimi,” Shawn said as he emerged from the closet in black dress pants, a blue striped polo shirt, and a ties draped around his neck.
“Oh my god! That would be so great. I will call Mimi, she and I can go out to lunch and talk about it,” Belle said as her teeth shown from her bright smile.
Shawn looked down at his watch as he fumbled with his tie. “Baby, I’m running late, so I will see you at home later,” Shawn said as he began to walk out the door of their bedroom.
“Shawn come here,” Belle commanded.
Shawn obeyed and quickly hurried over to Belle’s side. Belle took his silk tie in her fingers and tied it swiftly, and tugged on it lightly, lowering Shawn’s lips to hers.
“I love you,” Belle said and released Shawn from her hold.
“I love you too,” Shawn said and bounded out the door, slamming the front door as he left.
Belle fixed herself some breakfast, and called Mimi while the coffee brewed.
“Hello?” Mimi answered the phone.
“Hey Meems, I was just wondering if you wanted to get together today” “That is if you don’t have to work,” Belle added, knowing how important Mimi’s work as a freelance write was very important to her.
“You see Belle that is the beauty of being your own boss, you can go out and do things whenever you want,” Mimi explained.
“Great, so what do you want to do?” Belle asked.
“Well we could always go to the Brady Pub for lunch,” Mimi suggested.
“Ok sounds good, we can discuss your engagement party!”
“Great! I will pick you up around 11 o’clock,” Mimi said and hung up the phone.
Belle looked down at the clock, it was already 10 o’clock, and she knew it would take her at least an hour to get ready.
Belle took a quick shower, and blew dry her hair. She picked out a pair of black pants and a comfortable blue shirt.
“Hello?” Belle answered as her phone rang.
“Miss Black, there is a woman here named Mimi Lockhart, I let her up, but I just wanted to let you know,” the doorman said.
“Thank you,” Belle said and at that moment the doorbell rang.
Belle and Mimi arrived at Brady Pub around 11:30.
“Hey girls, here to pay us a visit?” Grandpa Shawn asked.
“Hi Mr. Brady,” Belle said as she hugged Shawn.
“Please Belle call me Grandpa, or at least Shawn,” Shawn said, “After all you are practically family.”
“Ok…Grandpa,” Belle beamed.
“Can I get you two girls a table?” Caroline asked.
“Sure Mrs. Brady…” Belle looked at Grandpa Shawn and saw his eyebrows rise, “I mean Grandma.”
“Here you are,” Caroline said as she gave Belle and Mimi some menus and seated them at a booth nearby.
Caroline returned to the bar, where Shawn stood polishing glasses. “What has gotten into Belle?” Caroline asked.
“I think she is starting to feel like part of the family,” Shawn said, as he winked at Belle.
Belle smiled at Grandpa Shawn.
“Earth to Belle? What did you want to talk about?” Mimi asked.
“Umm…yeah, I wanted to tell you myself and in person that Shawn and I got engaged while we were in Paris,” Belle said as her teeth shown in an enormous smile.
“Are you serious? Congratulations Belle! I am so happy for you. You know I was going to ask you today if you would like to be my maid if honor,” Mimi said.
“Mimi, you don’t even need to ask! Of course I will be your maid of honor!” Belle said, squeezing Mimi’s hand across the table.
Mimi gasped, her eyes lit up, and Belle could even see the light bulb above her head light up. “You know what would be perfect! We could have a joint wedding! It would be like old times!” Mimi shrieked.
“That would be so much fun! And I could get Basic Black to design our dresses! We should get started planning. When were you and Phillip thinking of tying the knot?” Belle asked. She was speaking so fast that all the words jumbled out into a slurring mess.
“To be honest, we haven’t set a date yet. What about you and Shawn?” Mimi asked.
“Shawn said anytime that I want. I was thinking sometime in May or June, but I would rather have it sooner or later, you know what I mean?”
“I know exactly what you mean,” Mimi echoed.
“But the thing is, even if I knew when to have the wedding, I wouldn’t know where to have to wedding.”
“I think I can help you with that.” Came a voice from behind.
Mimi and Belle turned around to see Maggie behind them. “Congratulations girls, I heard the wonderful news!”
“Thank you Maggie,” both the girls replied.
“I just wanted to let you know that I would be happy to help you out with any planning at all, and I just wanted to let you know that if you need it, Tuscany will be happy to cater or just serve as a place for the reception or any pre-wedding or post-wedding parties you girls wish to have.”
“Thank you so much Maggie,” Mimi said.
“Belle, I actually was hoping that I would run into you, I wanted to talk to you for a moment,” Maggie said pulling Belle away from Mimi and her table.
“Sure Maggie, what’s up?”
*I apologize for taking so long to post this chapter. This is just filler, and filler is very hard to write. More surprises are yet to come. As is my new fic "A Mother's Love." I will begin to post once I have a few more chapters written.*
Thanks for reading!
Luv Always,
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