Erin
I was dreaming. I have to be dreaming, Zack would never ask me to marry him! He told me that right from the beginning of this relationship that marriage wasn’t on the cards for him.

“Erin, say something,” He laughed nervously “You’re kind of freaking me out here,”

“Hold on…” I whispered “I thought… wait… what?”

“I know,” He laughed “I know that I said we would never get married, and I know that you were prepared for that, but we’ve been together for two years now and the longer I’m with you, the more I realise that I don’t want to lose you,” He reached into the drawer on his side of the bed and turned back around to face me with a little black box “Since Beth came to live with us, I’ve been considering this even more, when I see you with her, when I see how much you love her, I want to be able to give you more of her,”

“You want to what?” I asked. This wasn’t seriously happening.

“I want to marry you, Erin.” He told me seriously “And I want to have a family with you, a family of our own, I want to get out of this house and eventually out of this life, live a normal life with you,”

“Ask me then, you goof!” I laughed. Tears were welling in my eyes, my hands were shaking in my lap.

“Erin, I love you more than anything in this world, and I’ll do everything in my power to make you as happy as you make me every single day, so,” He popped open the box and I gasped in surprise at the ring “Will you do me the honour of becoming Mrs Erin Baker?”

“YES!” I screamed in delight, launching myself into his arms.
If this had been a bad TV show, the live audience would be clapping and cheering.

“I love you,” He whispered in my ear.

When I pulled away from him, we were both crying tears of happiness. He took my hand in his and slipped the ring on my finger, it was a perfect fit.

“I love you, too.” I smiled widely at him “I can’t believe this,”

“I knew you’d be surprised,”

“Surprised?” I scoffed “You almost freaking killed me!”

I was bouncing excitedly on the bed with excitement, and I knew Zack could see how excited I was.

“Go on,” He laughed “Go tell her, I’ll be down in a minute,”

I jumped off of the bed, threw on a tank top and panties before tearing down the stairs.
~~~~
Hannah
While Zack whisked Erin off to the bedroom to spend some quality time together, Matt and I sat on the sofa to watch The Call, but about ten minutes in, Matt started to ask questions about the wedding dress.

“Is it white?”

“I’m not telling you,”

“Big?”

“Not telling,”

“Strapless?”

“Not telling,”

“Is it at least like one that we-“

I threw myself over his lap, both of my hands covered his mouth as I straddled his waist.

“Shut up,” I laughed, bouncing a little in his lap.

“Don’t do that,” He groaned into the palms of my hands.

“What?” I narrowed my eyes at him “This?” I did the same thing again and I felt him harden the slightest bit against me.

“Yeah, that,” He smirked as I removed my hands “You wanna… fool around a little bit?”

“Yes, and no,” I laughed, throwing my head back in exasperation.

“Why ‘no’?” He asked.

“Because I promised myself, my dad and Cooper that I’d wait until the wedding night to consummate anything,” I laughed.

“Then why ‘yes’?” I looked back down and him and saw his cheeky smile.

“Because my body is telling me to,”

“Well, if we’re not going to go all the way, we could at least do this,”

Matt cupped the back of my head with his right hand and pulled me closer to him by placing his left hand on the small of my back. His lips pressed against mine, gently at first, but as the passion started to build, I pulled away from him and started to laugh.

“What are you laughing at now?” He chuckled.

“You make us sound like a couple of horny teenagers,” I told him between laughs

“Oh shut up and just kiss me,” He let out a laugh before pulling me back down to him.

The noises we could hear from Zack and Erin’s bedroom weren’t exactly helping us keep control of ourselves, but we were doing well. Until Matt started to unbutton my jeans.

“Matt,” I groaned against his lips, removing my hands from his hair to push his away “Matt, stop it,” I detached my lips from his and slapped him hard across the face. That earned me a backhand to the left side of my face, causing me to fall off of him and onto the hard floor beneath us.

“I’m sorry,” He immediately apologized, standing on his feet and reaching his hand down to me to help me up. I pushed it away and lifted myself off of the floor.

“You’re not sorry,” I said bluntly “You’re just afraid of getting shot again, because you know that the next time, you won’t survive the bullet,”

“No, Hannah, I really am sorry,” I was surprised that he was ‘apologizing’ and that he wasn’t grabbing at me or hitting me again
“We’ve been doing so good lately, and I’ve been trying to control my anger,”

As he spoke, I turned from him and walked into the kitchen. I took some ice out of the freezer and wrapped it up in a cloth and pressed it to my cheekbone where Matt’s ring had clipped me.

“Whatever, Matt.” I sighed, cutting off his rambling “Go find something else to do, I’m pretty sure there’s still some things to be checked over by you down at the club,”

“That can wait,” He insisted.

“No, it can’t,” I told him “People are going to start to notice my bruises, Matt!” I raised my voice “Zack shot you before the evidence
showed up on my skin, my whole family wanted to come to the hospital and beat you to death when they saw through my makeup,
and people at the club know I’m your fiancé, and they can see the marks too!” I took a deep breath to calm myself “So this has to stop,”

“I’ve been trying!” He insisted.

“Then try harder!” I snapped at him, my voice cracking from the volume of my voice “Just get out,”

I walked away from him, up the stairs and into our bedroom.

Once I’d changed into my green bikini, I tied my hair up and wiped all of my makeup off before making my way down the stairs and out into the back yard. It was a hot day and there was too much going on around me, I just needed to relax.
~~~~
I was floating on my back in the cool water, when suddenly, someone jumped into the pool, screaming my name, pulling me under the water. When we both surfaced, I saw that it was Erin.

“Fucking Hell!” I laughed “What was that all about?”

“I’m engaged!” She squealed.

“You’re what?!” I grabbed her hand, and sure enough, there was a huge rock on her finger “Zack proposed?!”

“Yeah!” She was smiling so big that I couldn’t help but smile with her.

“I can’t believe this,” I breathed “You’re getting married!”
~~~~
Matt
I was in the office in the club finishing up some things Hannah had left for me to go over as well as other stuff the guys had left for me to double check. Everyone seems to think we should be hiring some more entertainment so it doesn’t all fall on Hannah, and they even left me a pile of girls’ resume’s to go through. That’s what I was doing, and every girl sounded like she would be perfect for the job, but it looked like we were going to need to interview them all and cut this list down to three or four girls.

There was a knock on the door, breaking my train of thought.

“Come in,” I grumbled, looking up at the door.

“Hey,”

I looked up to see Hannah coming through the door. She was all dressed up in a tight blue dress and white heels, her hair was curled and her makeup was perfect.

“Hey,” I smiled at her “What’s the occasion?” I asked.

“We’re all going out for drinks to celebrate,” She smiled, opening her clutch and rummaging through it until she found her phone “It’s almost time, so come on,”

“What are we celebrating?” I asked, tidying my things away.

“You’re never going to believe me if I tell you, so you’re going to have to see it for yourself,”

“Tell me,” I laughed, wrapping my arms around her.

“Zack and Erin got engaged,” She whispered into my chest “They really got engaged, he gave her a ring and everything,”

“You’re right,” I laughed, pulling away from her and grabbing my keys and my phone “I don’t believe you,”

“Well come on, we have to get to the bar,”
~~~~
Hannah
We got to Johnny’s just in time, we all needed to be there before the happy couple arrived, and we got inside just as Zack pulled up outside.

We’d all toasted them and Brian thought it would be funny to toast to Matt and I, which I wasn’t too happy about, but soon, the drinks
were flowing, we were all dancing and everyone was having a good time.

I was sitting alone in the table drinking my jack and coke, when Erin came back from the toilets and dragged me away from the table.

“Dance with me!” She yelled over the music “You haven’t danced all night!”

After we danced to three songs, all the alcohol I’d consumed was catching up to me and making a break for it.

“I need to pee!” I told Erin, raising my voice loud enough so that she could hear me.

I walked off the small dance floor and through the back to the toilets, but what I saw when I walked through the door, was not
something I’d ever expected to see. Some skanky woman, pinned against the wall with her panties around her ankles, her skirt around her waist and my ‘fiancé’ between her legs, pounding her into the tiles on the wall.

“What the fuck, Matt?!” I yelled.

“Fuck!” He cursed, pulling himself out of the woman and tucking himself away quickly.

“Forget it,” I laughed, pulling the ring off of my finger and throwing it at him “Maybe you can just give it to your bar skank if it doesn’t mean that much to you,”

I stormed out of the toilets, back through the bar and over to the table to grab my things.

“Hey, hey,” Erin said, reaching out and grabbing my wrist when I tried to walk away “What the Hell happened?”

“I’m going to stay with Sam and Dean,”

I yanked my wrist out of her grasp and ran outside, jumped in the car and tore out of there.
~~~~
Sam
Having Beth for the whole weekend was going to be exhausting, it’s been one night and already Dean and I are drifting off to sleep before we even get to our beds. Dean had gone to bed about half an hour ago, but I didn’t have the energy to get off the sofa, but just when I was about to let sleep consume me, there was a soft knock on the front door.
I shut off the TV and slowly walked to the door, nobody should be visiting at this hour. I opened the door and Hannah was standing outside, she looked angry.

“What happened?” I asked, stepping aside and letting her inside.

“Zack and Erin got engaged,” She breathed, walking into the living room and sat down on the sofa.

“What’s so wrong about that?” I asked, confused.

“Nothing, it’s great, but we went out to celebrate and I caught Matt cheating on me with some random girl he found in the bar,”

“Hannah,” I laughed a little “You cheat on him all the time,”

“But that’s different,” She groaned in frustration “He never catches me,”

“That’s true,” I laughed again “Because if he did, my head wouldn’t still be intact,”

“Can I just… stay here tonight?” She asked.

“Of course,”

I helped her get settled onto the sofa with me, I slipped her shoes off her feet and lay down before her so that she could lay on top of
me. I wrapped my arms around her protectively while she rested her head on my chest. I couldn’t help but notice that she wasn’t wearing her engagement ring anymore.

“You’re hand looks much better like that,” I smirked.

“Shut up,” She whispered, her eyes remaining closed. The sound of her breathing was soothing, and soon, I was falling asleep, too.

Notes

Zack and Erin are engaged! Hannah and Matt are broken up, but will Matt be able to convince her to change her mind?

More to come!

- LMV