[natty]

In reality the story does not end happily ever after when the prince kisses the princess bride. I was always told that life actually begins after the cake is cut and the toasts are made. They said marriage is hard work, takes lots of understanding, and compromises. We are hard workers and willing to give to one another. I thought a marriage most important ingredient is love. Love conquers all was what was written on our wedding invitations. We do have love, lots of love for one another and we proven that to our friends and family. So what went wrong? Where did we fail?

Chapter 1.


Matt woke up to the sound of seagulls fighting probably over a piece of fish. She opens her eyes and found herself in the arms of her husband. Her husband, finally after so many heartaches and drama. Everything from her parents’ disowning her to almost losing him to another girl. However they gotten through all that, Omnia Vincit Amor, Love Conquers All.

She caresses the hands that sit gently on her stomach and smile. Today is the happiest day of her life because this is forever.

“Morning” he whispers into her ear and held her closer. His love radiated from his heart and travels along his arms and she can feel it seeping inside her through her stomach to her soul.

She closes her eyes to savor the warmth, “morning” she whispers back with a smile.

“It’s great to be able to wake up next to you and call you my wife, finally.” He said to her as he shifts her to her back and looks down into her face. Her heart thumps as he leans down and places a soft kiss on her cheek. “I love you”

“I love you too.” She repeats back into his soft brown eyes that are full of warmth.

“You make me the happiest man on earth this morning you know that?” he smiles and places another kiss on her other cheek.

“You are making me blush” she chuckles.

“it’s ok, I love it when you blush cus your eyes sparkles. Do you know that your eyes always tell a story, it’s the window to your heart.”

Matt rolled her eyes, “Well hubby, what are my eyes saying right now?” she challenged him as she opens her eyes wider.

He smiles, “it’s saying that you are grateful that I chose YOU to be my wife”

She smacks him on the shoulder, “Whatever! It does not!”

“What? You’re not grateful? Oh my god I’m going to have a heart attack” he joked as he clutches his heart and fell back on his pillow, “and here I thought I was doing you a favor!”

Matt jumped up from the bed grabbing her pillow to smack him “Oh my god you ass!”

Her husband predicting what she would do blocked her pillow and grabbed her by the waist. He pulled her back into bed and pinned her down as he tickles her stomach. She roared with laughter, the sound of heaven.

“Stop!!!!” she begs but he had no mercy.

“Say you’re grateful wife!” he ordered playfully.

“Never! I am not grateful!”

“Then you shall die of laughter!”

“I will pee in my pants before I die of laughter! Stop!!!”

“Not till you say you are grateful” he repeated as he continues to tickle her.

“Ok ok!” she scream,

“Say it!”

“I’m grateful!”

“Grateful for what?” he asked

“I’m grateful that you chose me to be your wife!” she shouts surrendering.

He stop his tickling, caresses her cheek, look into her eyes, and said to her, “I Mark Parin am grateful to have you Matt Peeranee to be my wife as well, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish from this day forward until the last of my dying breath. There’s no other I will love more then you. This is my promise and my vow.”

This post has been edited by natty: 31 January 2012 - 05:10 AM

[suk13_karn]

Mark & Matt?..i love both of them..ha..ha..but i think they not really suit each other ha..ha..but i will read ur fanfic since both of them r my fav..

thanks ja..will read it later when i got time..seem interesting..

[natty]

I was going to use mint n and mark or matt and great or matt and nadech.. took me 2 hours to decide on matt and mark lol. I'm almost done with this story.. it's a short one..

gosh i should had use mai and wier!

This post has been edited by natty: 31 January 2012 - 05:19 AM

[suk13_karn]

lol in ur choice doesn't have Mark & Matt but finally u choose them but from all of ur choice i prefer this couple since they're my fav..
i have so much thing to read just bought 10 short thai novels to read ha..ha...

[tipstar]

I like your choice of Matt and Mark, natty. Though I imagined it more with Mai Davika and Mark for some reason!!!!

[natty]

Chapter 2

January 5

Matt unlocked the door and pushed the door open. What greeted her inside their condo was darkness and silence. It felt lonely. She felt the wall for the light switch and within seconds lights illuminated the place. She closes the door to the condo and to her right she opens the closet door to put her coat and heels away. She walks into the kitchen as she put her purse and keys on the counter. Walking toward the fridge to get a bottle of water she saw a note. Matt tore off the note and read:

Your phone was off all day.
Emergency meeting in London will be back Friday.
Love you, Mark

“Well I guess I’ll be eating all the sushi alone then.” She said sadly. She had ordered sushi from their favorite restaurant to celebrate their 1 month anniversary. “Well who the heck celebrate a 1 month marriage anniversary anyways Matt?” she ask to make herself feel better as she drop the note in the trash bowl and turn back to the fridge to get her bottle of water.



Mark woke up to the sound of seatbelt signal turning off. Finally he’s home, he felt exhausted after such a long flight and an equal long meeting. He felt drained and can’t wait to get home to his wife. He missed her gravely and felt bad that he did not call her at all while away. He was unable to because he just didn’t have time.

Mark grabbed his bag and quickly exits the aircraft. Thank god they let business class out first because it was raining outside and it might be a while til he can wave down a taxi. However he was in luck cus when he step out of the airport an empty one pulls right up to the curb. He gave the driver his address and fishes his phone out of his bag.

“Ah shit, no battery.” He said in frustration and threw his phone back into the bag. Thirty minutes later the taxi pulled up in front of his condo and he got out.

He looks up and saw that the light was on, “sweet Matt is home.” He said happily.

When he got into the house he called out to her but no answer. He dropped his laptop case on the counter and took his bag into the bedroom, “Matt honey, are you home?” No answer. He went into the bathroom and put his suitcase on the counter, taped on the mirror was a note

“Welcome home honey. Hope your meeting went well. I tried to call you but your phone was off. I won’t be home til Wednesday, went to open a new store in Florida. January 5th was our 1 month. Happy 1 month
Love you lots,
Matt”


Mark closed his eyes and smacks his forehead, “Ah shit! How could I forget our 1 month? Damnit”

Time for damage control, he grabbed the phone off their lamp table and dialed her number. It went to voicemail but he didn’t leave one. “Guess I’ll just wait til she gets home.”

[natty]

Chapter 3

April 18th

Inside a dark office, Matt sat staring at the only source of light which illuminated from her computer screen. A big red x marked a date on the calendar sitting on her desk except the date was not today, it was seven days ago. She was late. No she was not late for an important meeting or anything but her period is late.

How can it be?, she asked herself. She’s been asking that for the past 3 hours. Everyone in her office had left except the cleaning lady and the security guard down in the lobby.

Not that she isn’t happy if she is indeed pregnant but the question that she’s concerned about is, are they ready. She hasn’t seen her husband in a week. Actually they’ve been married four months now and they maybe see each other about 2 or 2 and a half weeks each month. Both of them are extremely busy with their constant traveling for work. When they are back at home they would try to spend every waking moments together. Their friends and family even asked if this is normal for a newlywed. Everyone is worried but we know our love is strong enough to survive anything. Now she could be pregnant so how will their life change after this? What must change after this? No way can they continue only seeing each other a few weeks each month. That’s no way to raise a child, she told herself.

Matt leaned over and turned off her computer then she grabbed her bag from the drawer and left the office. On her way home she stopped by the drug store to buy an EPT test. When she got home, she tossed her keys and purse on the counter as she fished the applicator out of her purse and went into the bathroom.


Five minutes went by and she was feeling chills. Her body was shaking with nervousness. The direction said she is to wait 5 minutes and those minutes are up. She closed her eyes to pray but pray for what? Pray not to be pregnant? Pray for what she asked herself again. She took a deep breath, opens her eyes, reached for the applicator and accepts the result. She’s pregnant.

Tears rolled down her cheeks and she started to sobbed. Happiness! She was feeling happiness!

“oh my god, I’m pregnant” she whispers as she place her shaky hand on her stomach. Her baby, their baby is growing inside of her. “I’m pregnant”



The cab pulled up to a condo in Brooklyn and Mark got out of the cab. A woman got out after him and gave him a light hug. “Thank you for allowing me to share a cab with you Mark.” She said to him.

“No problem Kim, thank you for going on the trip with me at the last minute. I wouldn’t had finished work so fast if you hadn’t come.” He said to her as the cab driver hand her suitcase to her.

“Oh no problem, we’re co-workers so we should help each other out. However I still hope Matt doesn’t know.” She told him.

“Matt will be ok about it. She knows I love her and we don’t keep secrets.” He assured her. Even though Kim and him had a history, it was that, a history. You see Kim is his ex fiancé. It was more then that actually. When Matt and him first realized their feelings for one another they didn’t act upon it, instead they fought it. At that time Matt was engaged to a guy her parents approved of. When they finally admit their feelings for one another, they ran away from their feelings and that was when he met Kim and they dated but when Matt broke up with her fiancé, he and Kim ended their relationship. Matt and him started to date but her parents were so mad that it caused a rift in their relationship. They fought a lot and one drunk night at a company’s party he got with Kim. He was too weak to stop himself from having an affair. Kim got pregnant as a result and his relationship with Matt ended. Or so he thought but then Kim had a miscarriage and she let him go. Luckily he was able to win Matt back and that was why they are able to have today.

“Alright then.”

“Well I’ll see you at the office tomorrow.” He told her and waited til she got into her condo.

Finally he’s heading home to his wife. He missed her dearly and he can’t wait til she sees the necklace he got for her. Kim had to help him choose it of course since he was so busy at the office. That part she doesn’t have to know.

Within an hour he was home, he jogged up the stairs as Charles the doorman open the door for him. “Welcome home sir, your wife just got home 10 minutes ago.” He was told.

“That’s great Charles, it’s good to be home.” He said as he slipped a 50 into his hand, “Just take it Charles, no argument” he told him as he hurries passed him and into the waiting elevator.

When he opened the door, his beautiful wife was just walking out from the bathroom. He dropped his luggage as she ran to him and jumped into his arms.

“Oh god I miss you so much.” She cried to him.

“I miss you too.” He said as he held her tightly. When he let go to look at her, he found that she was crying. He frowned, “you can’t miss me that much to cry sweetie, what’s wrong?”

Matt wiped her tears and smiles at him then showed him what she was holding in her hand.

“You’re going to be a daddy.”

[natty]

Chapter 4

June 5th

Mark checked his watch and saw that he was already twenty minutes late meeting Matt for lunch because of the meeting that is running late. He started to get a bit annoyed. Today he was supposed to meet her for lunch then afterward he was to go with her to her doctor’s appointment to find out the gender of their child. They’ve been excited since last night and he promised her that today he would clear his schedule for her however when he got into the office this morning he was told there would be a meeting with a big client. He did call to tell her he might be running late and she was ok with it, however it felt a bit guilty.

“Mark,” his boss snapped him out of his thoughts.

“Yeah?”

“We’re closing the meeting, do you have anything else to share with us?” his boss asked.

“Nope.” He answered.

“Ok then I’ll have Kim get all the paper works ready for the project. We’ll start Monday.” His boss said and Mark nod his head and quickly shut his laptop off and store it away in his bag as Kim walks up to him.

“You better hurry, the doctor’s appointment is in half an hour. I’ll call down to the lobby to have someone hail a taxi for you.” She told him.

Mark smiles up at her, “Thanks” he said and rushes out the door.

He pulls out his cellphone as the elevator door opens and found that once again his phone was out of battery. “Shit!” He dug into his bag for the extra battery and found it missing. “Oh crap,” he exclaimed, remembering that he left it on the night stand after charging it.

When the elevator open to the lobby floor he rushes to the receptionist to see if he could use their phone but he found that it was busy so he grabbed a post it note instead.

“Sir, taxi is waiting outside.” the security guard told him.

“Thanks Ryan.” He waved as he writes a note to the receptionist.
[Please call my wife and let her know that I am on my way to the clinic and for her to wait and that my phone is dead.]

He hand the post it note to the receptionist, she read it and nod. Mark rushes out the door to the awaiting cab.

Not even two minutes later, the cab stopped because they hit traffic on 7th street. Today is starting to get a bit challenging. He pray that Matt got his message and waits for him.


At the clinic Matt check her watch, the nurse should be calling her in soon and Mark hasn’t yet arrived. She sighed, somehow she knew he wouldn’t make it. It is a busy time after all, she understands but she was hoping he would be here with her today to find out the gender of their child. This would be the first clinic visit together. All the other ones he did try to make it as well but something always came up.

“Matt, Dr. Mikeals is gready for you dear.” The nurse came over to tell her.

“Thanks Britney” she weakly smiles and got up to follow the nurse inside.

Inside the cold room, the nurse gave her a gown for her to undress then later helped her onto the bed as her doctor walks into the room.

“Hi Matt, how are you?” she asked.

“good but still tired” Matt answered her.

“Well it’s normal since you are anemic. Will Mark be here today?” she asked.

Matt frowned, “No, he had an emergency meeting he couldn’t get out of.”

Dr. Mikeal gave her a sad look but then caught herself and smile, “Well let’s see how the little one is doing shall we?”

And so the procedure began, cold gel, heart beat and finally the gender of their baby. Matt teared when Dr. Mikeal told her what they were having. Deep inside her heart she wished she could share this very moment with her husband.

Mark was pissed by the time the cab pulled up to the clinic; he was almost half an hour late. He foregoes the elevator and used the stairs instead, taking two steps at a time. When he opened the door to the clinic, Matt was sitting in the lobby waiting.

“I’m so sorry.” He said as she got up and he pulled her into his arms. “There was so much traffic.”

“It’s ok.”

“Can we still go in or do we have to reschedule?” he asked.

She frowned, “I’m done”

His heart dropped, “You’re done?”

She nodded, “Yeah, I’m sorry I didn’t get your message until after.” She told him, tears running down her face.

Oh he felt like an ass, “No sweetheart, don’t be sorry, I’m sorry for breaking my promise.” He held her as if the world was counting on it to survive. His heart broke that he wasn’t here to find out the gender of their baby together. He gave her a kiss on the lips, smiled and asked, “So?”

She smiled as she told him what he prayed to hear, “We’re having a girl.”

Mark was so happy he shouted with joy, “We’re having a girl? I’M HAVING A GIRL!” He always wanted a little girl, his little princess. He wants a girl so that he can spoil, a little girl that will remind him of the little girl he cherish and grew up with, her mommy.

They both left the clinic extremely happy. They can go shopping now and boy did they shopped. It felt like he bought everything at the children’s boutique. Little pink dresses, purple clips with bows, green frilly basinet stroller and everything that he wanted his little girl to have. It was the happiest day of his life, of their life.


The happiest day of their life did not last that long. The most devastating day of their life happened just two weeks later, June 14th. Matt was on her way to the airport for a final job project before she takes an early maternity leave when her cab got struck by a semi truck and her cab veered down the off ramp. She survived but they lost their little princess.

[tEaRdRoP]

Wow...sooo good but soooo short. Update soon. I'm a sucker for sad endings

[natty]

Chapter 6

Sometime in August

“What do you mean you accepted a job in Texas?” Mark asked his wife, he was still in shock. He hasn’t seen her in three weeks because he was away in Singapore for work and he comes home to her bags already pack and a life changing decision that he had no parts of.

“I was offered a promotion of a lifetime, I would be stupid to not take it.” She told him as she put her folded pants into her luggage.

Shock turned into anger, “and you didn’t think to talk about it with me first before you accept the promotion? I am your husband Matt.”

Matt turned her angry eyes at him, “How can I talk it over with my husband when he wasn’t even here for me to talk to?!”

“You could have waited for me, you knew I would be back today!” He yelled back

“I don’t have time to wait! They need someone right away. This is my life, my career, so it is MY choice!” She shouted, slamming her luggage shut and storm into the bathroom to gather her toiletries.

Mark was beyond angry, he’s tired, he’s hungry, and he’s just sick of them not talking. They haven’t really talked since the accident. You can forget about the sex, it was non existence. He shut his eyes and prayed to heaven for calmness. They’re not going to get anywhere yelling at each other and she’s going on that plane in a few hours regardless.

In the bathroom Matt leaned against the counter with tears in her eyes, she didn’t want it to be like this. She wanted to wait to talk to him about it but the offer weren’t going to stay on the table for her to wait. She had to take it. She’s been wanting this job for a long long time, how can she not take it when it was practically given to her on a silver platter? He must understand how important her career is to her because he’s the same way. Last month he also accepted a promotion that requires him to travel over seventy five percent of the time without consulting her either and she didn’t go ninja over it. So why is HE upset with her? She sighed in defeat.

After calming himself down completely, Mark went into the bathroom after her. She looks up at him as he approached her, there were sadness in her eyes. He pulls her into his arms and held her, “I’m sorry for yelling. I’m just taken back because I don’t know what this means.”

“I know.” She sighed.

They walked out to the bedroom together and sat on the bed. He brushes her hair off her face and kisses her on the lips. The first kiss since the accident. They leaned their forehead against each other and he asked her, “So what about us? How is this going to work?”

Matt closes her eyes and shrug, “I’m not so sure. It shouldn’t be any different then right now.” She swallows sadly. “I mean with your new job, you travel most of the time anyways so it’s not like we see each other much.” His heart cracked a little to hear her said that. “When you get back from wherever you can go see me in Texas. Considering I’m not traveling as well. Plus corporate is here in New York so it’s not like I won’t be back. I actually have to come here at least a week a month.”

“Matt, you know that this isn’t how a marriage should be right? Living in separate states.”

She turns away from him in guilt, “I know. So what are you saying?” she asked.

Mark quickly pulls her into his arms, “I’m not saying anything. Don’t even think of it. I love you Matt, love you like I never love anyone, ever. You mean more to me then anything in the world.” He held her tightly, his heart beating so loud and so fast from fright.

“I love you too Mark.”

“It’ll work, we’ll make it work. My work is stable now so I can delegate more. Plus I can work from my laptop too so I’ll be able to even work from where you are.” He said to her then turn her around to face him. He took her face between his hands and wipe her tears with his thumb, “How about this, I’ll delegate next week project to the boys and I’ll go down to Texas to see you yeah?”

“Really?”

She leaned her head on his shoulder and he held her tightly, “Yes really. Vacation in Texas would be nice.”


The vacation in Texas never happened but it wasn’t his fault actually. Matt told him not to come because she had to fly to Florida to open a new store. They rescheduled to the following week but that week never came either because a network went down in Alaska and he had to fly over there for a week. By the time either of them realized it, they had not seen each other in over a month.

While Matt put all her heart and soul into her new job, Mark was stuck in New York putting his heart and soul into his new team of techs. Because of his leadership and their hard work, their department is now the most sought after techs in all of Cisco System. They were racking in projects after projects, bonus after bonus breaking record breaking numbers.

“Mark! Everyone is ready to pop the champagne, hurry.” his assistant manager exclaimed from the doorway.

He looks up from his computer and smile, “Tell them I’ll be there soon Kim, thanks.”

[natty]

Chapter 7

After the celebration, Mark and Kim continue their work late into the night.

Mark sighed deeply with exhaustion, “Finally it’s done!” he cried out in joy, stretching her body out of numbness. They’ve been at this project for four straight hours. He looks at the clock and saw that it was already 230am.

He turns over to Kim whose nose was still in her laptop clicking away. He got up and went over to where she sat on the couch.
She looks up at him and smiles weakly, “Almost done. Just a few more tags and we should be completely done.”

He leaned back on the couch, unbuttoned his collar, and then folded his cuffs back. He closed his eyes for what he thought was a second but when he woke up, he saw that it was already 330am. He actually fell asleep for an hour. He found his jacket covering him.

“I didn’t want to wake you cus you looked so exhausted.” She told him as she walks into the office with coffee in her hand and hand him the cup.

“Thank you.”

She sat down next to him, “You need a vacation so go see Matt. You haven’t seen her in over a month have you?”

“Yeah, it’s been over a month since she moved to Texas for that promotion.”

“When was the last time you talked to her?” she asked him.

“Two days ago before her flight to California. She’s going to be there until the end of the month.”

“Well then vacation in California will be nice. It’s at least sunny and cool over there, unlike our sticky humid weather.”

“Yeah I was thinking about that.”

“Do you want me to book you a flight boss?” she always teased him with the boss title.

He chuckles, “You’re more my boss then anything. If it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be where we are.”

She patted him on the knee, “Don’t say that, its teamwork. We work well together.”

“Yeah we do, don’t we.” He repeated as their eyes held something deeper.

“Don’t look at me like that Mark. I just finally gotten over us.” She told him, jokingly, or not.

“Whatever, you gotten over me a long time ago Kim. I saw those wall street executives taking turns sending you roses and asking you out to dinner.”

“Jealous?” she teased him.

“heck yeah, I want multimillion dollar wall street bumpkins sending me flowers too.”

Kim laughed out loud, “only you would put wallstreet and bumpkins together in one sentence.”

They laughed together then it became silent and awkward. Mark looks at her with a smile and she too smiles back at him. “Go see your wife Mark. You guys have been apart too long.”

Mark reached over and squeezes her hands, “Thanks Kim. You are a great friend, always here when I need someone.”

“It’s the only thing I can do,” she said and didn’t forget to add, “as a friend.”


On the other side of the country, Matt got a called from home in the middle of the night. It was her brother telling her she must hurry home because her father was dying. Matt called her boss to let him know that she will need at least a month off then booked the next flight to Bangkok Thailand.

During the long exhausting flight, all she could think about was the wrong that she did to her father. They’ve been estranged since she got married but no matter what you can never cut your own parents out of your life. She went through emotional turmoil, praying that she can ask her father for forgiveness.

After she picked up her luggage from the baggage claim she head out of the security area wondering who was going to pick her up. She didn’t get to talk to any of her family before she boarded but she emailed her itinerary to her brother.

“Matt!” a guy’s voice calls out to her. She turned around to find the owner of the voice, the person who came to pick her up.

“Barry”

The ghost of her past walks up to her with a weak smile on his face. “Hi, welcome home.”

She was still a bit speechless, unsure of what to say, shocked to see him. “Thanks.” Was all she was able to get out.

“p’Boy had some work to clear so he couldn’t pick you up. I wasn’t that busy today so he asked if I could instead.” He explained.

“Oh um thanks.”

He took her luggage from her hand and asked “How was the flight?”
“tiring but ok.” She answered.

“Ok well are you ready to go?” he asked and she nodded.

When they got into the car, he paused before he started the car. “are you really ready?” he asked again.

Knowing what he meant, she turns to look at him, “Is it real?” she asked him and he nodded. So she shook her head. “No I’m not ready” she answered in a shaking voice.

He didn’t invade her space, didn’t ask her anything else. He leaned back on his seat and waited.

It took a good twenty to thirty minutes before she was able to shake the fear out of her body. Seeing him, being here, knowing that this is real and that her father is dying really shaken her up.

“Ok, I’m ready now.” She finally told him and he started the car to head, home.

[tEaRdRoP]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Old Flames! Thanks for the update...hope to read more soon

[kchue]

More please so good!!