They got home and walked into the crazy house. People were running around in every direction. AJ ran up and put his suitcase in his room and came back down to greet people.
''AJ, honey...take out that damn lip ring. My baby isn't going to get married with a lip ring," Denise ordered.
"Oh AJ, if you don't mind, Grandma Matthews hates tattoos, so make sure you don't roll up your sleeves at the reception. She would die on the spot if she saw that AJiggidy tattoo of yours," Judi said, hugging him.
"Hey AJ...did Nick get his tux yet?" Ashleigh asked.
"I don't know," AJ said.
"He better have. I'm gonna call him," Ashleigh said. Whittney zoomed by him on roller blades.
"Whitt! Take those off!" Judi screamed.
"Oh, its okay. We roller blade all the time in the house," AJ said.
"No, I don't want her falling and breaking her arm before the wedding," Judi said. Whittney sat on the steps and took off her blades. She set them on the floor and stood up.
"Take those upstairs! Someone will fall on those," Ashleigh told her sister, running by her. Whittney sighed and picked them up. The doorbell rang and no one went to answer it. Whittney waited for someone but decided to get it herself. She set the blades down and opened the door.
"Hey!" Regan said.
"Regan! I'm so glad you're here...I need to give you your shoes," Gwen said, running past Whittney and grabbing Regan's arm. Regan became really close to Ashleigh and Gwen so she was going to be a bridesmaid.
"Alright...hey, I had to stop at the grocery store and I overheard a clerk tell a bunch of girls where the church was. I don't think this is good," Regan said. Denise overheard.
"Oh no! They must have found out!" she cried, running to the phone to call their management.
"Here are your shoes," Gwen said, handing them to Regan.
"Thanks," Regan said.
"You're lucky she handed them to you. She threw them at us," Leighanne said, laughing. She was 4 months pregnant and had a little tummy. It was hardly noticeable she was pregnant but they had to make a special bridesmaid maternity dress for her to match the others. The wedding colors were decided to be dark blue and baby blue. The bridesmaids were going to have regular blue and baby blue dresses depending on the order of the girls. Half had baby blue and the others dark blue. Madaline was going to be the flower girl and had a mini-version of Gwen's wedding dress. The girls were going to carry an arrangement of red, blue and purple roses while Maddy was going to be spreading blue and red roses. The guys were going to be wearing black tuxes with all blue vests.
AJ found Gwen in all the madness. "I now understand," he said.
"It's crazy," Gwen said. Judi came back from picking up Gwen's dress. She ran in the kitchen and told AJ to leave the room. He gladly left and went into the theatre to get privacy by watching a movie. Judi went back out to the car and brought in the beautiful white dress. Gwen helped her take it upstairs and hide it in the guestroom closet. Gwen temporarily moved out of AJ's room while her mother stayed there. Once the dress was safely put away, Whittney brought in Maddy's matching dress. Regan, Illie and Leighanne were looking at the dress as Ashleigh came into the room. She was drinking a cup of coffee to help wake her up. Ashleigh hadn't been getting a lot of sleep lately and she needed coffee to help wake her up.
"Isn't it so cute?!" Regan asked.
"Maddy will look adorable in this," Illie said. The girls agreed. Whittney went to take it upstairs.
"Oh Whitt, wait," Ashleigh called. She walked into the living room toward Whittney. She stepped on something and fell straight to the ground. In air, her cup of coffee flew toward Whittney.
"The dress!!" Regan called out but it was too late. The new white dress was completely covered in a big coffee stain. Ashleigh looked at the roller blade she tripped on.
"WHITTNEY! LOOK WHAT YOU DID!"
"ASHLEIGH! LOOK WHAT YOU DID!" both girls screamed at each other.
"ME?! I DIDN'T DO THIS!" they both screamed in unison again. Gwen ran in and saw the ruined flower girl dress.
"What the hell happened?!" Gwen cried, running to the dress.
"Ashleigh spilled her damn coffee all over it!" Whittney screamed.
"Whittney left her damn roller blades here and I tripped!" Ashleigh screamed.
"Knock it off! I don't care who did what!" Gwen screamed. Denise and Judi ran in.
"Lets try every stain removal in the book," Denise said, grabbing the dress. They ran off with Ashleigh and Whittney screaming at each other.
"If you would have put these damn things away!"
"If you weren't so damn clumsy!" they screamed.
"STOP!" Gwen shouted. The two girls shut up and went off in opposite directions. Gwen looked like she was about to cry and Leighanne ran up to her.
"Honey, these things happen. But nothing is going to ruin Saturday," she said, hugging a crying Gwen. AJ came out after hearing all the screaming.
"What happened?" he asked. Regan, Illie and Leighanne all started talking, telling what they all saw. "Whoa...wait," he said, taking Gwen from Leighanne. They walked upstairs and shut their bedroom door.
"AJ everything is going wrong! Everything! I can't take this anymore!" Gwen sobbed. AJ held her and tried to think of a solution.
"Well Babe, we could elope," AJ joked. Gwen went quiet and thought. She looked up at him.
"That's it!" she gasped.
"What?!" AJ asked.
"We could elope," Gwen said.
"You can't be serious," AJ said.
"Why not? No parents, no media...no hassle," Gwen said.
"We already have your dress and my tux and everything else paid for," AJ said. Gwen looked up at him.
"AJ..I'm about to lose my mind. All I know is I love you and I want to marry you," she said. AJ was silent while he thought it through.
"It does sound pretty nice.." AJ said. "We could fly to Jamaica and get married on the beach..."
"In our bare feet," Gwen smiled.
"Let's do it," AJ said, kissing her forehead.
"Really? Is this what we want to do?" Gwen asked.
"Yes...I want to marry you," AJ said.
"Okay...let's elope."
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