Two years later...

Standing at the altar and waiting for Rory to walk down the aisle, I have never been happier than I am right now at this moment. Today is the day Rory becomes mine forever. I never thought this day would come. I always thought Rory would just be a girl I was secretly in love with in highschool. Until that fateful fourth of July night.

Now here we are ten years later.

I'm about to marry the girl of my dreams. We have two amazing nine, almost ten-year-old sons Knox and Kohl, whose last names are now the same as my own, Trevor. Just recently, we found out Rory is pregnant with a little girl.

Who we decided to name, Finley.

We still haven't told anyone yet that Rory is pregnant since she just now is beginning to show. We plan to tell everyone later today at the reception.

My brother Catch has been trying to figure out what is making me so happy cause he isn't easily convinced that it's because of the wedding. Over the last two years, we have gotten closer than what we used to be. He has been working hard to prove to me that he's changed, and he's not the same person he was in the past demanding money to pay off his drug debt.

He has proven it.

I can hardly remember the person he was ten years ago.

Now he's the best man in my wedding and happily taken by his girlfriend Aria. Who he's just as much in love with as I am with my soon to be wife. They both deserve to be happy after everything they went through in the past. After hearing their story the way Catch acted back then started to make sense. I probably would have been the same way.

Aria is great and fits in perfectly with our family.

Speaking of family.

My Dad and Rory get along great now. Lauryn and her are civil now and that's the best I could ever hope for. She's gotten nicer and less snobbish since Dad and Mom got divorced, which was finalized about a month after I proposed to Rory in February two years ago. Mom didn't want anything other than her stuff, which is why the divorce was settled so quickly. None of us have seen her since the sheriff dragged her out of Sugar Rush, thank goodness.

I always knew she wasn't really a great person. I just didn't realize how bad of one she was until I saw how she treated Rory.

We were all so surprised that the reason for that was because my mom was still in love, though it was more like obsessed with Rory's Dad Jim. So she took her hate and bitterness out on Rory.

I can only hope my Mom is talking to a therapist to help her let go of the past.

I doubt it, though.

Twist of Fate by By The Coast comes on through the speakers, a signal that the wedding is starting.

Quinn, Rory's maid of honor and only bridesmaid, walks down the aisle, wearing a long blue-gray dress that matches the color of my eyes, with Catch. Catch also has a tie on that is the same color that I didn't see him wearing earlier. I've been trying to guess Rory's favorite color for the past two months. I know what you're thinking. How do I not know the love of my life's favorite color, right? Well, she has always insisted that she doesn't have one, but I know she does and just hasn't been telling me. So she finally admitted that she does have a favorite color, but I won't find out what it is until the wedding. She said her favorite color will be Quinn's bridesmaid dress.

The color is fitting for our January wedding.

I should have known it was the color of my eyes, the same eyes the boys share with me.

Knox and Kohl come down the aisle, wearing the same thing that Catch is and then they go stand next to him. We didn't want them to be left out of the wedding.

Rory comes walking down the aisle with her father, Jim, just as the chorus of the song starts.

I'll be yours 'til the end of time

In every other life, I'll be yours

I'll be yours in the rain or fire

And on the other side, I'll be yours

Gosh, does she look absolutely beautiful. Rory has her curly hair down, and with no call on her head, just something holding the pieces of hair that normally frame her face held back. Her dress fits her perfectly. It's simple. Her ivory colored dress has thin straps and the top part to her waist is made of lace and then the bottom that sort of flares out looks to be made of stain. In her hand is a bouquet of black eyed anemones.

She told me what her favorite flowers were called a million and one times, which is the only reason why I know what they are.

Her father and her come to a stop right in front of me.

"Who gives this woman away to this man?" The minister asks.

"I do," Jim looks like he's about to cry. I can't blame him. I will be the same way when my daughter gets married someday.

My daughter.

My smile seems to get even bigger when I think about Finley. I can't help it, I'm excited.

Jim places his daughter's hand in my own and Rory comes to stand in front of me. Jim goes back to his seat, then the minister starts to talk.

"We are gathered here today to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony."

I zone out what the minister is saying, my mind on one thing, well other than my future wife, that is.

I can't do this.

"What?" Rory asks, and then I realized I said that out loud, going off the gasping of the people in the pews.

"I'm sorry Rory, but I have something to say first." I turn to face everyone in the church and say what I've been wanting to say for a while now. "Just recently, we found out Rory's pregnant with a little girl."

Everyone cheers and offers some form of congratulations. I feel a hard punch to my ribs and I wince in pain, and look towards a kind of angry Rory.

I know she's not upset about me telling everyone since we did plan to tell everyone later today. I just couldn't wait. I have been basically bursting at the seams to tell everyone and their dog, cat, and mouse.

"I thought you were about to say you didn't want to get married anymore, you jerk!" I laugh and pull her into my arms.

"Never, Sugar. You're more likely to leave me right now than I am to leave you.

"Can we proceed with this wedding now?" The minister asks, breaking up Rory and my embrace.

I nod my head and he continues on with the ceremony.

"Cage, do you intend to take this woman whose hand you hold to be your lawful wedded wife? and do you pledge before God and man to love, honor, and protect her through sunshine and shadow alike? Keeping yourself unto her alone
until death shall separate you? If so, answer "I Do"."

"I do," I answer.

"Aurora, do you intend to take this man whose hand you hold, to be your lawful wedded husband; and do you pledge before God and man to be to him a loving and true wife, through sunshine and shadow alike, keeping yourself unto him alone, until death shall separate you? If so, answer "I Do."

"I do." Those are probably two of the sweetest words to have ever passed her lips.

"Cage, repeat after me: I Cage take you Aurora, to be my wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, excluding all others, as long as we both shall live. With God as my witness, I give you my pledge," I repeat everything he's said to Rory then I slide a custom white gold curved wisp band with tiny diamonds around the top onto her left hand ring finger, right next to her engagement ring.

"Aurora, repeat after me: I Aurora take you Cage, to be my husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, excluding all others, as long as we both shall live. With God as my witness, I give you my pledge."

Rory repeats every word the minister says, then slides a simple gold band around my finger.

"You may now kiss the bride."

I lean in to kiss her and everyone around us starts to clap just as my lips brush against hers. One of my arms goes around her waist, locking around her tightly. My other hand goes to her cheek and I kiss her like I have all the time in the world.

Because I do, we do.

Rory Trevor, you're stuck with me for the rest of our lives.

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The rewritten version of The Perfect Night, Cage My Heart is posted and is completed go check that out.

Well that's the epilogue I really hoped you enjoyed it!  Anyhow I hope you all have an amazing day or night!💕

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(Edited - 4/3/23)