The day seemed to go much faster when everyone was there and they were all chatting and laughing. Jayne, Phil and the kids eventually decided they were going to stay the night just because it was so much easier, it was starting to snow a little outside and they didn't fancy going out in it so late. So Jess and Karen both borrowed some pyjamas of Karen's which obviously totally drowned Jess but she loved it, and Phil and Keiron both borrowed a pair of shorts to sleep in from Chris, Keiron was totally fascinated by the fact he could pull them right up to his arm pits. "Right you two time to go sleepy now I think" Jayne said laughing at the sight of the two of them standing in front of her giggling.
"Okay goodnight mummy" Jess said giving Jayne a big hug.
"Go and give hugs to everyone then baby and then I'll come and bed you down" Jayne said kissing her daughter on the cheek.
"Goodnight daddy and goodnight Auntie Karen and goodnight Uncle Chris and goodnight Laura and goodnight Emma" she said going around every one giving big hugs.
"Auntie Karen story story" Jess asked.
"Of course I'll read you a story baby" Karen said getting up and picking her up taking her upstairs. "Are you coming too Keiron?"
"Yeah as long as it's not all about princesses and fairies" Kerion said slowly following them upstairs.
"Deal" Karen laughed as she lead them both into the small spare bedroom which they'd just about managed to squash in a double blow up bed for them both to share together. Karen got them both settled down and snuggled up in the warm duvet before she sat down on the edge of the bed herself and began telling the story she'd made up totally on the spot, making sure there was things like dragons and sword fighting in it for Keiron too. By the end of it as if by magic both children were fast asleep, Karen kissed them both gently on the head, turned the lamp off and quietly left the room, shutting the door to on her way out.
"I really don't know how you do that Karen I don't... Keiron never listens to the stories I tell Jess"
"Ah but did you make them have fire breathing dragons and sword fights in them?" Karen said sitting back on the sofa next to Chris.
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"I think we're going to be getting on our way now mum," Emma said standing up clutching her stomach. "Oh the babies are kicking" she said excitedly.
"Okay honey it was nice you both being here" Karen said standing up and hugging Emma and Josh in turn.
"Drive safe" Karen shouted from the door as she stood and waved them off.
"I think I'm gonna be off too, thanks for dinner and everything" Laura said standing up and getting her coat to leave.
They all said their goodbyes again so it was just Karen, Chris, Jayne and Phil left in the room and after a little while and a couple of rounds of Bailey's and a coffee they all headed up to bed. Jayne, Phil and the kids went fairly early on Boxing Day morning shortly after they'd all eaten and then Chris spent a while clearing up and sorting out the kitchen while Karen watched some of her Friends box set that Chris had bought for her. She had previously owned them all on video and still loved watching them but they were getting rid of the video player and it was so much easier with the dvds. Eventually Chris joined her on the sofa with the blanket and they watched it together for a while.
"Karen Jayne's on the phone" Chris said picking it up covering the receiver end. "Oh hang on... oh she says will you get ready and she's coming to pick you up with her driver in an hours time" he said with a strange expression on his face as he was confused. "Do you know what its about?"
"Nope but I do have a good idea, I'll be down in a bit then" Karen said excitedly going upstairs and changing into a short black dress with a large section of the back cut out and some killer heels to match, she came down the stairs to Chris putting a rather shocked expression on his face.
"You look bloody amazing... I can't believe I'm marrying you tomorrow baby..."
"Me neither..." Karen said giving Chris a passionate kiss pressing her body close up against his just as they heard a car horn outside the house and Karen quickly grabbed her coat and left, waving to Chris.
"Right let's make this a good night eh... your last night as a single woman again!" Jayne said as Karen did up her seat belt and she instructed the driver to take them to a place she'd found out about, a club in the centre of London.
"Where are you taking me then..." Karen asked.
"Ah well you'll just have to wait and see won't you... and I think Phil is going round with a few other guys to keep Chris company and give him a bit of a stag do"
They quickly arrived where Jayne had planned and when they got to their destination. It was a club on one side but the other had a restaurant too where Jayne had organised a small group of Karen's friends to help her celebrate the fact she was getting married tomorrow. Once they'd eaten they moved over into the club section of the place and they all had a wonderful time partying and drinking. Afterwards Karen went back to Jayne's where she was getting ready for the wedding the following day, and the friends that weren't able to come to ceremony wished her all the best before they headed off home.
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"Karen... Karen wake up..." Jayne whispered into her friend's ear just a few hours later. It was 8am and they had a lot to organise to be ready at 11. Karen slowly turned over and opened her eyes, taking a while to fully wake herself up. "Today's the day Karen!!" Jayne said excitedly wondering around the room collecting a towel from the rack and heading down to have a shower. "You'd better get up Kaz we don't have much time and Laura's doing your hair when she gets here I told them to get here for half 8 at the latest so we can do everything in time"
"Okay well I'm gonna just get myself together a bit and hurry up in that shower I'd like to get in there"
So Karen went to get the dresses out of the end of Jayne's wardrobe and she laid them all out on Jayne's bed once she'd made it and for a while just stood and looked at them all. Tears sprung to her eyes as she cast her gaze at the first original maternity wedding dress, and had a little moment as she remembered her beautiful unborn son. She didn't let it get to her too much though she didn't want to be in that bad place, not today, she thought.
"Karen are you okay?" Jayne said seeing her friend sitting sadly on the edge of the bed just staring into space, Jayne had just quickly wrapped a towel round her wet hair and had her dressing gown on she was just adjusting it.
"Yeah I'm fine sorry.. I just found the old wedding dress... but I'm fine, honestly, anyway I'm going to get in the shower now" Karen said grabbing a towel quickly before heading to the now very steamed up from the amount of time Jayne had been in there. Karen took her time standing under the warm water and shampooing her thick hair. Eventually she was finished and borrowed Jayne's spare dressing gown that was hanging on the back of the door.
"Hi mum" Emma said as Karen walked into the bedroom where Jayne, Laura and Emma had already all changed into their stunning dresses, and it was just Karen's left now lying on the bed.
"Hello girls.. wow you all look beautiful I mean it"
"Well hurry up and get your dress on would you then we can all go downstairs I've already started setting up our own little salon" Laura said heading downstairs with the others following her and they all painted their nails while they waited for Karen.
"I've decided I want you to do my hair and make up and stuff first I'll end up wiping it all over my dress or something otherwise" Karen decided quickly following them down the stairs a couple of minutes later.
Sorry I would have carried on longer but I really do have to go and get ready myself now, will probably update again later this evening, hope you're all still enjoying it x
Sorry if this is dragging on at all it's nearly finished actually :( just a few more sections and this will be completed! Please let me know what you think :)
Rating: 15 on this bit mainly toward the end!
Laura started doing Karen’s hair carefully combing through each strand of hair which was still damp from her shower earlier. She knew she had to make it absolutely perfect for her big day, it felt strange doing her own mum’s hair even though she’d experimented on it so many times before just to try out new styles but this time it actually mattered and it had to look amazing. It took her a while but eventually she ended up with a classy up do, it was sassy but had a bit of an edge to it, in loose wavy curls, almost a beachy effect with strands curling around the sides of her face, and a simplistic tiara a couple of inches back from the hair line. (looking a little like this http://www.designsbyindy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Curly-Hairstyle.jpg) When it was completed and Laura had put plenty of hairspray to keep it all in place it looked wonderful, and also by this time Jayne had given her a French manicure on her naturally long nails. Karen was very pleased with Laura’s job on the hair and then she had to do her make up which Karen had been fussing over for ages now, she couldn’t decide exactly what she wanted herself and in the end she just let Laura choose for her, as long as it looked good and went with everything else she didn’t really care. In the end it was a simplistic look and nothing too flashy, just smokey eyes made up with different shades of silvers and pale nude and pink colours all blended into each other creating a lovely effect, she had black liquid eyeliner sweeping over the lash line on the lids that continued a little bit and flicked out a little at the end. She also had fake eyelashes on, but not the type that were humungously too long, just natural looking but more defined.
“You look like a princess…” Emma sighed, she had just finished doing her own hair, Emma, Laura and Jayne all had their hair and make up the same; hair half up half down with soft curls and some hair pieces in a silver diamante fashion, and make up again kept simple, slightly darker smokey eyes than Karen with very similar colours.
“Thank you baby… I’m going to get my dress on now and then we’ll be ready to go,” she said getting up and running lightly on her feet upstairs, hurrying into her dress but at the same time doing it very precisely so it didn’t rip or anything. She came down the stairs 5 minutes later looking absolutely gorgeous and all three girls rushed up to hug her. “Right come on then let’s go… have you seen my cardigan?” Karen asked smiling warmly at her friends, she was now towering over them in her 4/5 inch heels that were proving a bit difficult to walk in as they had a very narrow heel, but it was a sacrifice she was very willing to make.
“Yes it’s out in the hallway all ready, I can’t believe today’s the day,” Jayne answered pointing to the door.
“Me neither!” Karen said carefully putting her arms into the cardigan which of course went with the dress, and ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬-then she just picked up her clutch handbag which just had her lippy, phone and keys in it. “I’ve got butterflies now I’m so nervous…” Karen said as the three of them sat in the back of the car as they were chauffeured to the church.
“I bet you have… I think I cried the whole day on my wedding day” Jayne laughed, taking hold of Karen’s hand and squeezing it tightly in hers.
“We’re here ladies…”
“This is it Karen… and with a bit of luck it looks like Chris is already here!” she smiled at Karen lovingly as she got out the car and then helped Karen with the dress so it didn’t get all caught up, it wasn’t a huge dress with a massive train on the back but there was still a lot of material to comprehend with.
When the three of them were out the car they hugged before Emma and Laura entered the church and walked down the aisle with a mini bouquet of flowers in their hands, smiling at each other most of the way. Jayne held back a little but then followed the girls and walked down behind them, with tears in her eyes just thinking about the two of her bestest friends being united with marriage. She caught Chris’s eye and gave him a loving look of encouragement as she then nodded toward Karen who was now slowly making her way down the aisle, doing very well considering the height of her shoes she didn’t give away the fact they were practically murdering her feet, she just smiled tearfully directly at Chris the whole way down, and he took hold of her hand when she got there.
“We are gathered here today to share the joy of Karen and Chris’s love for each other. We witness the celebration of their love in the warmth of God’s presence. A wedding is a celebration of magical and spiritual love between two people. I invited you to be in peace and listen with your hearts to this most joyous ceremony. We are to celebrate the gift of love and happiness, we praise you God for the ways our lives have been touched with a variety of long loving relationships. We give thanks for love and friendship around us. Remember we have come here today not to mark a new relationship, but recognise a great bond that already is in existence. This marriage is the expression of many varieties of love. So let’s begin bringing joy to this happy couple together.” The ceremony had begun and the whole time these precious words were said Karen and Chris just stared romantically into each other’s eyes and smiling madly.
“I, Christopher Dean, take you, Karen Barber, to be my beloved wife, to have and to hold you, to honour you, to treasure you, to be at your side in sorrow and in joy, in the good times, and in the bad, and to love and cherish you always. I promise you this from my heart, for all the days of my life.”
“I, Karen Barber, take you, Christopher Dean, to be my beloved husband, to have and to hold you, to honour you, to treasure you, to be at your side in sorrow and in joy, in the good times, and in the bad, and to love and cherish you always. I promise you this from my heart, for all the days of my life.”
“Karen and Chris are now united together as one, as a couple who will live in each other’s company and look out for each other not only as a married couple but as best friends in sickness and in health, until death may part them. You may now kiss the bride…” As soon as he heard those last treasured words Chris took his cue to lean in and kiss Karen romantically on the lips for a few seconds, before breaking it off again and there was more romantic staring. Karen was now in tears of pure joy and happiness, she’d never been happier in all her life, apart from giving birth to her beautiful daughters. Jayne was also in a similar position with tears of happiness rolling down her cheeks full of colour, as she smiled through blurry eyes at the new happy couple.
An hour later everyone was sat down at long narrow tables filled with wonderful exquisite food that Chris had organised mostly by himself, with a little help from Jayne; Karen hadn’t had much to do with the reception at all really, so everything she had Chris to thank for. The venue was a posh hotel in the centre of London not too far from the church, it looked fantastic from the outside and didn’t fail to impress when they walked in either. They had a luxury suite upstairs for whenever they wanted to go up and some of the other guests were staying there too, most of Karen’s family seeing as they had come all the way down from Newcastle and Manchester. Whenever they could they would get in another sneaky kiss showing their passionate affection to each other. Everyone was having a fantastic time, and as soon as everyone had finished eating and speeches were made, etc, Jayne quickly got up and dragged Karen over to the table against the wall at the back of the room. There were piles of presents perfectly wrapped underneath, but on top was the most beautiful wedding cake, baked by a very old friend of Jayne’s who had kindly volunteered to do it for them, but she couldn’t make the wedding. It was in the shape of a large heart and coated in white icing all over, a fruit cake inside, and had various bits of decoration on the top. After Jayne’s count of 3 Karen and Chris cut through the cake themselves, both making one magical wish that no one would ever find out…
Not long after this they were taking their first dance together, they had been given the dance floor to themselves, they began just swaying slowly to the beat of the music, Karen’s head was resting on Chris’s shoulder as he lead her along, they looked like a match made in heaven as they glided across the floor looking into each other’s eyes the whole time, smiling affectionately. As more and more people came to join them with their partners Chris’s hands wondered around Karen’s body, feeling the curves of her perfect figure that was shown off in the dress amazingly. After a few songs and a couple of glasses of champers Chris took Karen outside in the icy winter air, but it was magical at the same time it had just started lightly snowing around them, large snow flakes fell from the white sky and began to settle around them, and Karen didn’t barely notice the cold, mainly because Chris was doing such a good job keeping her warm, his arms were wrapped tightly around her tiny waist as they stood kissing each other passionately on the balcony outside where no one could see them. They stayed out there for ages until Karen just got too cold, although she tried protesting against the idea Chris could tell she was absolutely frozen and insisted on taking her back inside before she went any paler than she already was.
“I love you Mrs Dean…” Chris whispered into her ear as if no one else was allowed to hear as he broke of the kiss to take her back inside.
“I love you too… so, so, so much, and I always will,” she replied back at him giving him another passionate kiss before Chris finally managed to get Karen back indoors in the warmth.
“You look frozen my god what have you done to her?!” Jayne said as she passed Karen and Chris coming back into the room.
“I’m fine I’m fine, we just went to find a bit of privacy out there to escape everyone,” Karen replied to Jayne rubbing her hands together a bit to warm them up, her voice had a bit of a cheeky tone to it as she spoke to her best friend.
“Oh I see… bet you did a good enough job of keeping each other warm that you didn’t even notice it was snowing out there,” Jayne said giggling as she searched the room for her own husband. “I’ll leave the pair of you to it then, I’m off to find Phil I’ve barely seen him all day, neither my beautiful children, I briefly heard the two of them running around chasing each other shouting but that’s about it” Jayne realised.
“They’ve probably found Alice, Imogen and Bradley, my niece’s kids, I think they’re around the same age,” Karen said. “Well I’m sure they’re having a good time wherever they are,” she added giggling, she was still standing really close to Chris, as close as she could get to warm herself up after being in the freezing cold temperatures for a while.
“I’m still annoyed at Jill for not letting the boys come, it’s my wedding day for god’s sake” Chris said remembering his own kids.
“Well I’m sure we’ll be able to see them soon, we’ll go over to America for a few days before Dancing on Ice starts again, promise” Karen said squeezing his hand and kissing him as Jayne walked away having spotted Phil on the other side of the room, chatting to some relatives of Chris’s that he’d never met before, but they were technicians like he was and they were talking about some kind of technical equipment that just confused the hell out of Jayne when she got over there.
“What do you say we go and check out that hotel room you booked us into now eh?” Karen suggested, noticing most of the guests had gone up to their rooms or gone home, including Jayne and Phil. There were still a few people mingling about looking like they were on their way out.
“I very much like the sound of that…” Chris replied taking her hand that had barely left his for the whole evening, and leading her the way. As soon as they got to the bottom of the stairs through a hallway down the corridor from the main room they were in, Karen stopped and bent down to take off her heels, as beautiful and stunning as they were she couldn’t have worn them much longer at all and really didn’t fancy the idea of walking up the stairs in them, the chances of her tripping in them looked pretty likely. “Oh come here baby,” Chris said seeing Karen wince at her throbbing feet, and he swept her off her feet scooping her up in his arms and quickly ran up the stairs carrying her the whole way, carefully putting her down as they reached the second floor where their room was.
“Thank you honey,” she replied giggling a lot as they reached their floor. “You lead the way then, I’ve no idea where we’re going,” she said laughing.
“This way…” he said leading her right to the end of the corridor, they passed about 7 rooms on each side before they finally reached the one that was theirs. It was right at the end and Chris pushed open the door pushing Karen up against the back of it cornering her and kissing her as she wrapped her leg around his body, throwing the shoes aimlessly into the middle of the room hoping not to hit anything that could have been in the way.
“Look we don’t have to do this here, let’s get into the bedroom, I bet its amazing…” Karen said breaking away from Chris and hurrying in.
“Well you certainly bet right there with that one…” Chris said breathing heavily as they pushed open the bedroom door to a huge high up bed beyond king sized in the middle of the gigantic room with white tiled floor. There were chocolates and petals fluttered all over the bed spread which was pure white and pink pillows that matched the decoration and embroidery on the bottom of the duvet cover.
“You wait here I’ll be back in a minute…” Karen said kissing Chris’s lips again and then pushing him backward on to the bed leaving him there waiting in suspense as she quickly made her way to the bathroom locking the door. She got out of her dress carefully folding it up and draping it over the side of the bath and changing into some sexy lacy underwear, touching up her hair and strutting back into Chris.
“Well that was worth the wait… have I ever told you how amazing and beautiful you are baby” Chris mused standing up and pressing his body against Karen’s.
“Come on get your clothes off…” she said back to him ripping his shirt off and flinging it across the room, pushing him backwards onto the bed again and pouncing on top of him. “I have everything I need…” she said kissing him tenderly and teasing him pressing her tongue against his lips to part them.
“I could stay awake just to hear you breathing…” Chris sang tipsily as he kissed his new wife passionately, still not quite believing they were married but they had consumed much too much alcohol for them to really think about anything seriously or for it to settle in. They were singing rather loudly to each other, every love song or anything romantic they could think of as their activity got more and more heated, they were lying naked in each other’s arms pleasuring each other greatly, Karen squealed with delight as Chris’s hands wondered and caressed her.
“Chris I want you inside me… now” Karen begged as he teased her emotions in every way he possibly could, licking her, kissing her and pleasuring all different parts of her body as they rolled over so that Chris was laying on top of Karen again as before, Karen closed her eyes and let out a soft groan of pleasure as Chris made his painfully slow journey down to her, then came a content sigh as he kissed her body all over, little, delicate kisses on her cheeks and eye lids that made her giggle as he did. He then moved the butterfly kisses down to her neck, across her collar bone and chest. “Use your tongue… see like this… I love you so much baby…” she sighed heavily and Chris paused for a second breathing heavily as Karen demonstrated, she started placing kissed on Chris’s shoulder and neck, pressing her tongue onto his skin and nuzzling at his ear. “I love you…” she groaned more as he continued pleasuring her with sweet kisses and affectionate movements she loved. Karen then let her left hand to freely wonder up the inside of Chris’s legs as he continued to impress her, causing him to gasp out loud.
“I love you too so much… I never want to stop making love to you my special precious angel…” Chris sighed, rolling over again so Karen was straddled across him getting her turn to do the teasing. “Karen stop you’re tickling…” he said giggling as she kissed his sides and massaged his chest kissing him affectionately still.
“Just never stop…”
The two of them went on pleasuring each other early into the morning before they finally settled down a bit but neither of them could sleep they lay in each other’s arms their bodies covered by the satin sheets and cosy duvet, staring at the ceiling, at each other and back again, fantasising about the day and their future, about each other. They’d both never been happier as they lay in that bed having the time of their lives like neither of them had ever experienced before.
okay i've decided this is now a completed fanfiction! Cannot believe how long it went on for... thank you for all your comments on this!:) hope you all liked it :) xxx
