38. All Mine... Finally

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Dedicating this chapter to Bararamazing for the cute cover on the side. :) Thank you very much. :)

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CHAPTER - 38

ALL MINE... FINALLY

The smirk that she had given me when I was caught buying half a basket of c**doms, the innocent look on her face when she had asked me to pee on her teacher's door, her wicked and mischievous eyes with a slight sly smile on her lips whenever she thought about some prank, the way her eyes lit up at the smallest of things, the content look on her face when we were at the beach, the wonderful smile she had given me when we had said our first goodbyes, everything was so clear in my head.

Veronica was standing right in front of me in a gorgeous white wedding dress with happiness in her eyes, but there was one thing that I was searching; the thing that I could not find even after staring in her blue eyes for a very long time.

And, in search of 'that' my mind again wandered to the brown eyed brunette I had met, again, five years back.

The way she bit her lip in nervousness or whenever she was thinking hard about anything, the way she had looked at me when I asked her to ice skate, the way she had said that she was scared of falling, the way she had looked at me when she had opened up her past to me, the way she had looked at me when I had shown her the pictures of my terrible past, the disappointed and hurt look in her eyes when she had seen Hannah and me flirting, the smile that had stretched on her beautiful face and the blush that had crept up her neck when I had called her beautiful at my secret place, the dazed and unidentifiable emotions in her eyes when I had kissed her at the New Year's party, the little joy on her face when we met again at GGIA's party, the way her eyes spoke volumes when she had said just one sentence, 'I know you a lot better than you think I do', the way she had smiled with tear filled eyes when I had made her talk to Hailey, the desire in her eyes when I was about to kiss her again in the hotel room, the blank expressions with which she looked at me while shooting, the unreadable expressions on her face when I had told her 'we're over' and when she had asked me to keep Veronica happy; each and every moment I had spent with her over the years came in front of my eyes like a slide show.

The fact that shocked me to the core and left me utterly speechless was that what I was trying to see in Veronica's eyes at this moment was always present there in Kim's eyes. Pity, I was just too blind to see that throughout these years.

Love!

It was always there in her eyes and I was just damn f*cked up.

I was brought back to reality when Veronica's smile changed into a frown as she looked at me. She raised her eyebrows as if waiting for me to say something.

At the sound of throat clearing my head snapped towards the preacher standing in front of us, who was looking at me weirdly. Once he knew he had my attention, he asked, "Do you Keith Warren take Veronica Lyons as your lawfully wedded wife?"

My head whipped back towards the girl standing in front of me and I felt nothing good about it. My hand itself made its way towards my pants pocket and I touched the piece of paper that I had kept in it before leaving the house today. Looking straight at Veronica, I felt Kim's letter inside my pocket.

Remembering my mother's words from my growing up years, I closed my eyes. She had always said that whenever you are confused all you've to do is close your eyes and whatever pops up in the dark is what you want.

And, the moment I closed my eyes, all I could see was Kim.

I loved her. I loved Kim. I always had.

I snapped open my eyes in shock of what I was about to do and stared back at Veronica with wide eyes. She, too, was looking at me with confusion etched on every feature of her face.

"No," I mumbled but I was loud enough for everyone to hear in this pin-drop silence. A few gasps escaped the mouths of people who had come here to witness the end of my bachelor life.

"What?" she asked with wide eyes as if she couldn't believe what I had just said.

Just as I was about to repeat myself and tell the world that I do not take Veronica as my lawfully wedded wife, the door of the hall opened, making all of us look at the new entrant. Murmurs started spreading in the hall as everybody looked at the little Asian boy who was probably around six or seven years old. He stopped in the centre of the hall and stared right in the front with his black eyes.

"This wedding can't happen," he said in his little voice, making everyone gasp again.

"What?" Veronica asked again in a much ridiculed voice.

"He is my father," the boy said, his Asian tone very much prominent in his accent and pointed in the front.

"What?" the preacher shouted in complete shock as he looked at the boy who was pointing at him and calling him his father. "N... no... no! He is not my kid," he managed to say while looking around in bewilderment. How in the world was my wedding related to the precher's son was something I couldn't understand. But, I wasn't complaining for the interruption. The murmurs got louder but were cut off when the door burst open again and someone else entered. 

Kim

Probably, the biggest smile of my life stretched on my face when I spotted her coming towards me with a determined look on her face. She stopped beside the little Asian boy who was apparently, the preacher's son. She bent down slightly and that's when I noticed her belly that was all swollen up as if she was pregnant. She reminded me of the day when we had taken drive from the happy family from Nashville to Hendersonville.

'What the hell is she doing?' This question alone ran in my head as I looked at her with my eyebrows furrowed together in confusion.

She moved the kid's pointed hand slightly so it was pointed directly at me, and this action made me change my confused expressions to that of complete bewilderment.

'What?' I shouted in my head as I looked at her with eyes as wide as saucers and my jaw touching the ground. Mentally, I tried to recall my 'fun times' with many girls. I always supported safe s*x. But, then again, c**doms were only ninety eight percent safe. Could this little boy be the result of the unsafe two percent?

No! It couldn't be. The kid didn't resemble me in any way.

She sighed very audibly and looked up at me. "This is what happens when a son doesn't get his father's love for years. He is not your son, sir," she told the preacher with misery in her voice. Her eyes shifted back to me and she herself pointed her hand towards me. "He is Keith's son."

This resulted in eruption of much louder gasps and the murmurs changed to loud chattering. "Oh, I'm a granny!" Mom squealed as she got up from her seat in excitement. Everyone's attention went towards her and she realized her mistake as she slowly sat back on her seat. And, all I could do was stare at Kim with confusion built up in every nerve of my body.

"But... what the hell are you saying?" Veronica screeched and her question was directed towards Kim.

Kim gave her a wide eyed look; a look that by now I was very well aware of - her fake innocent face. "You don't believe me? Ask Keith. He'll tell you that we spent a complete night together eight years back." She motioned towards me with her hand and then, looked at me with the look that said that 'I should better continue with the act if I want to be alive'.

I wanted to laugh, smile, hug and kiss her. But, all I could do at that moment was nod slightly as I gave Veronica a look of fake guilt. We were telling everyone the truth. We had spent a night together eight years back, though whatever we did was entirely different from what we were implying here.

"And, Keith and I spent a night together again last week. I'm pregnant," Kim announced, caressing her fake belly with a smile on her face. She was a great actor. I would give her that.

"But... but you were not pregnant when we met five days back. This is impossible," Veronica shouted, looking at Kim with disbelief written on every feature of her face.

Kim looked back at her wide eyes and covered her fake belly with her hands in a protecting manner. "I failed Bella in the record of fastest pregnancy," she said and I pressed my lips to stop the laughter that was threatening to erupt from my lips.

This was my Kim. Just mine.

"Ho-how could you?" Veronica asked me with shock as her lips quivered as if she was about to cry.

I pressed my lips together as I looked at her and said, "I should have taken lessons on cheating from you." The clicking of my tongue at the end just added to the sarcasm. Truth was that Veronica cheating on me was the least of my concerns at that moment. In a way, I was thankful that she did this.

This made the color drain off from Veronica's face. She knew that I knew the truth. She opened and closed her mouth several times to say something but nothing came out of her lips.

"Close your mouth, fish. There is not enough oxygen for you here," Kim said, rolling her eyes at Veronica.

Veronica looked at me for a moment as if expecting me to believe her. Was she kidding me? Eventually, she ran out of the hall and her relatives followed her. The only people left in the hall were my family and my friends, who had by now surrounded both Kim and me. All types of questions were thrown at us from all of them. Pregnancy related questions from my dear mother, obviously. Hailey, Brian, Adam and everyone was, surprisingly, happy that Veronica was no more in the picture.

While everyone was busy laughing, grinning and talking to Kim and me, we were in a completely different world. All we could do was stare at each other with so many emotions. Cutting the sea of people between us, we took steps towards each other, not taking eyes off from one another.

We stopped when we were a step apart. I smiled and glanced at her fake belly. "I guess, your over-acting finally worked."

She scoffed and replied, "I'm an excellent actor."

A smirk made its way on my lips and I whispered, "You could have fooled me."

"I hope you weren't thinking that I would be mourning and sobbing at my home like a stupid love-struck girl," she said as she playfully narrowed her slightly swollen eyes at me. Her eyes were contradicting her words.

A chuckle escaped my lips and I told her truthfully, "I'm glad that you came."

Her lips stretched in a beautiful smile when I closed the distance between us and snaked my arms around her waist. Without giving a second thought to anything and without paying attention to everyone around us, I captured her lips with mine. Her hands travelled to my neck and she started running her fingers through my hair, making me go insane.

I wanted her so badly.

I had waited for this for such a long time.

But, my sanity returned when she pulled back slightly at the sound of applause and wolf whistles from my family and friends. Once slightly apart, we looked at each other with the biggest grins on our faces.

Feeling a slight tug at my pants, I looked down and spotted the little Asian kid looking at me with huge back eyes. He stretched his hand in front of him and said, "Give me your game tickets."

"What?" I asked as slight laughter left my mouth and I looked back at Kim with a questioning look.

She acted offended and said, "You gave them tickets for letting you lick the guy's mustached cheek." She referred to the night at Martin's diner about a week back.

"You kissed a guy's cheek?"

"Why would you do that?"

"Were you out of your mind?"

"Is that supposed to be something funny?"

"I thought Adam's impact on you had faded."

"He had a mustache?"

"Why the hell would you do something like that?"

"Are you insane?"

These were few of the questions that my family and my friends started throwing at me the moment those words escaped Kim's mouth. Rolling my eyes at them, I shot Kim a mock glare. She was trying hard to not laugh. Everything looked like it was earlier with Kim. Everything looked great... perfect.

Not in the mood to entertain any of the questioning mouths at that moment, I grabbed Kim's hand in mine and took her out of the hall. They called us from behind but we both were too eager to finally be with each other that nothing else mattered.

I hugged her once we reached outside like I had always wanted to. I couldn't let her go away now. Well, I would never let her go now.

"So, this is how it would feel to hug a pregnant Kim?" I whispered in her ear and felt her stiffen for a second. I pulled back from the hug and raised my eyebrows when she didn't answer. "Do you really think I'm so much of a fool that I would let you go? Again?"

Her lips stretched up in her beautiful smile and she whispered, "You've always been stupid, Keith."

"Have I?" I asked with a smirk, challenging her to say yes.

"Of course!" she exclaimed. She rolled her eyes playfully and took a step away from me. She took out whatever she was using as a fake belly from under her cotton jacket and to say that I was surprised to see the jacket that I thought I had lost five years back at Precious' party would be a huge understatement. I looked at my jacket and then back to her with confusion all over my face. "I'm just proving that you're stupid."

I just stared at her with love and adoration. I couldn't believe that this girl loved a douche like me. She was incredible.

Suddenly, as if remembering something, her eyes widened and she looked at me with accusation on her face. "You're about to marry that cheater. If I hadn't sent Sam to interrupt you'd have been Mr. Veronica Lyons now."

I stopped myself from laughing at what she said and shook my head. "You were late." The anger and accusation from her face changed to confusion and I continued, "I had already said no."

Soon, that confusion also died and was replaced by complete happiness as she hugged me.

"I love you," I told her merely in a whisper as I knew that it was for her to know and she could very well hear every word I said and my every heart beat.

She brought back her face in front of mine so our noses were touching and with the biggest smile on her face, she whispered back, "I love you too."

Laughter escaped my lips as I hugged her again and kissed the life out of her. I was not laughing at myself. I was laughing at the turn of events. I was laughing from the immense happiness that had filled inside me till the very core; happiness that Kim was with me; happiness that she was mine, all mine... finally.

THE END

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But, there will be an epilogue.

And, and, and...SURPRISE - I'll be writing 1-2 chapters in Kim's pov. Write the chapter that you want to know in Kim's POV in your comments below & the chapter with the highest votes will be posted after the epilogue.

For clearing up any confusions:

1. It was Veronica at the alter in the prologue & here, not Kim. He was so in love with Kim that while he was about to get married, he still couldn't think about anyone else but Kim.

2. Of course, Josh told Kim about Veronica's cheating on Keith & we all know how Kim is. She is not the one to cry and wait for things to happen. She fought for her love, just like Keith did by saying 'No''. This shows that they both love each other & wee willing to fight for each other. :) <3

3. The jacket that she used to make her belly was the one which Keith had thrown in her bedroom after getting highly drunk in the 'ferpectly packable' chapter - An Unkown Fear. If you remember, he had tried to find his jacket in the next chapter but he couldn't & he thought that he must have forgotten it at Precious' home.

If there are any more confusions about anything, please ask..I'll answer right here in this a/n. :)

New story:
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