the wedding - open rp post

[wereokay]

The big day is finally here and Betty shifts between being extremely nervous one minute, and completely calm the next. Guests are arriving already, and after the short ceremony there is going to be a comfortable reception.

Even though the approach to this wedding has been somewhat casual, there is no mistaking the investment in time and effort. It's an outdoor wedding, and the gazebo couldn't be decorated any further, flowers and ribbons are basically everywhere.

If you hurry, you can catch the bride to wish her luck!

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[wereokay]

In some ways it didn't matter. She'd felt the same five years after he vanished the first time, she felt the same now, and he'd done it again. Her heart couldn't tell the difference.

Just for the moment, Betty gives in. All of her love and all of her frustration is poured into a kiss that has to end. It has to be the last time she'll ever kiss him, because if it isn't, her heart won't take the waiting any longer. It would just give up.

When she pulls back enough to look into his eyes, there is a silent apology. "If you asked me right now. The answer would be yes." The answer was always 'yes' to Bruce.

"...don't make me choose again." Raising herself to her toes, Betty presses her lips to his forehead.

"I love you, Bruce. I hope- I want you to find happiness too."

[memyselfandtheotherguy]

She had to be the one to finally break the kiss because he didn’t have the strength to do so. She had to be the one to pull away, to say the words that needed saying. In their relationship she had always been the strong one. She was the one that had kept them together for so long, she was the one who had fought for them when Bruce only wanted to give up, and now she would be the one to finally end things so she could do what was best for her. It had to be her, because he simply couldn’t do it.

He wanted to ask her, he wanted to say the words and run away from all this, but he couldn’t. Taking a shuddering breath he kept his head lowered and tried to say something, anything. “Some people... just don’t get to be happy,” he finally said. He forced himself to look at her, to meet those beautiful eyes that still haunted his dreams. “But you do, and you will be, Betty. Nobody deserves it as much as you.”

He wanted to say that he loved her too, that he always had and he always would, but he couldn’t quite form the words so he kept them close to his heart instead.