--- call it karma,.

[mackenzie trent]

mackenzie noelle phillips
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----- signing off of instant messenger Mackenzie sighed closing her laptop placing it next to her on the couch. Jared was coming over, that of course made her happy. It was just, what he wanted to know that didn’t make her so happy. She had no idea why she was acting like this. It was almost pathetic, and Jocelyn was right. What difference did it make if they were just in a relationship, engaged, or married? He still loved her all the same. At least, she thought Jared did. There was no need for Mac to doubt Jared’s love for her. Maybe it had come to her when she had went away to college, being away from him was extremely hard, but somehow they had gotten though it. Now that she was back she never wanted to leave him again, but she knew when classes started up she’d be off again. She hated school, and would’ve never went away to college if it wasn’t for her mother telling her that it would be good to go out of town. Well, it was good just being away from everyone she loved ate away at her everyday. Mackenzie’s mother was very supportive of her only daughter, the two were close, but sometimes Mackenzie could get away with a little to much than most people would allow their daughters too. Now for Mac, that was a good thing, but it wasn’t helping her any. Mackenzie’s father had died when she was very young, he had quite a bit of money stored away enough for both Mackenzie and her mother never to work another day in their lives. But they still did. Mac was very picky when it came to ‘working’ she would rather not at all. But she learned to get over that, and just deal with it. Soon she even grew to liking it…weird.

----- with the death of Mackenzie’s father, her mother moved both herself and her daughter to Grace, when Mac was just two years old. Her mother had grown up in the town just north of here and she knew that it would be nice change for the both of them. Pretty much you could say that Mackenzie’s lived her all of her life. For the most part she loved it here; she had made my friends, and had a wonderful boyfriend. He had been the boy she had most hated through out grade school and into middle school. He would get into all kinds of things, and do stupid things to her and her friends. He had to have been the devils child. It was funny to think that, that little boy was now her boyfriend. Mackenzie had never been afraid of him when they were little and he would case hell. She had yelled at him a few times because she was so fed up with his shit, and yet it never seemed to faze him which made her even angrier. Jared knew how to push her buttons and he sure did one hell of a good job at doing so. Entering into high school, with her luck she had been placed in pretty much ever class with him. There was really no getting away from him as much as she tried. Even though she was older, his looks were starting to improve, but that was the only thing he had going for him. He was the same dick, she had hated all through her years in school. Jared seems to have a.d.d, as random as he was in school, and out of school. With the small town she would once in a while run into him, but never really paid any attention, and just kept on where she was headed to.

----- that was until one day during sophomore year where the two had been lab partners for some stupid thing they’re teacher wanted them to do. Mackenzie hated what they were doing just as much as he did. The two actually had a decent conversation, plus he had made her laugh a few times. He hadn’t done anything stupid like how he typically had done in the past. Plus not only that but he had change quite a bit since freshman year with his looks and all. Mackenzie hated to admit it but that was probably the first time she had been attracted to him. As they were cleaning things up as the bell had just rung, he bluntly asked her why she hated him. Mac really didn’t know what to say. She had hated him for all of the stupid crap he had done when they were little. But they weren’t really little anymore. So she figured she’d tell him. That’s just what she had done. She told him the truth; sure she had been late for her next class but it was well worth but because she managed to get a boyfriend out of it. Ever since that year, the two have been together. Most of the kids figured they’d get married right out of high school; really Mackenzie wouldn’t have cared if that had happened. But it didn’t and she was also fine with that too. Now after being out of high school things were different, she had gone away to college, and she was very worried if they would still be the same. There was always that nagging worry of ‘what if he found someone else?’ Some that was much better than herself. There was that possibility. Just she tried so hard not to think about it. She knew Jared would never cheat on her. Just that thought was in the back of her mind.

----- mackenzie jumped hearing the knock on the door, figuring it was Jared she hopped up and on to her feet walking over to the door. Twisting the door knob it slowly opened seeing Jared standing there Mackenzie’s facial expression lit up a smile acrossed her face. She took his hand lacing their fingers together. Slightly tugging him through the door way, god did she love him. As the door shut behind him she pulled him into a tender, yet passionate kiss. Her hand was still intertwined with his and soon she they had broken the kiss her eyes fluttered open as her head was still slightly tilted looking up at him with a grin on her face. “So have I told you lately how much I’ve missed you?” She said somewhat jokingly considering she had just got done talking to him on instant messenger, and had informed him of this many times. Mac had been grateful that her mother was at work right now, not that it even mattered. Jared had been over far too many times with her mother in the house. But she’d just rather not have her mother around. Before she knew it the two were on the couch his arm around her as she sat close to him almost as if there was no space between them. That’s when it started, what she feared most, he was asking about what they had been talking about earlier, the thing she didn’t want to tell him. The stupid thing she managed to bring up. Mackenzie didn’t know what to say. She knew that she didn’t want to lie to him; she’d never done it before, and wasn’t going to start now. The only thing to do was to be honest with him. Even if it was just her own stupid insincerities that were messing with her. “I don’t know if I believe you… because well we’re not engaged or anything, and i alway thought that we kind of would be...” Mackenzie said looking over at him watching his facial expression. “I know how crappy that sounds really I do. And that’s why it was stupid, and nothing of any importance.” She said looking away from him again. “I mean, really I don’t know if you’d even want to marry me, there’s other people out there some one better than I am. Some one that won’t ask you when we’re getting married…”But before she could finish off her little rant she was cut off. Mackenzie had a way with over talking when she was nervous or scared. Right now she was both of those.

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[jared trent]

jared trent.

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[/size]e sighed. ”I don’t know where they are, exactly. She just said they were out with some friends.” Kade looked at Jared with that stern look their father used to give them when they were boys and acting up too much. Jared wondered if Kade knew he had their father’s facial expressions. He also wondered what in the hell was up with his brother today. Kade seemed to be in a worse mood than what was usual for him. Hell, he had just gotten off of work not too long ago, and that was usually when Jared’s older brother was at his best. Something was going on, and Jared knew it was something that he wasn’t going to share easily. ”What’s up with you?” he asked, bluntly, as Kade moved across the kitchen to the fridge, most likely in search of a beer. Jared had been on his way out as Kade had come in, and wanted to inch toward the door but thought he’d stick around for a moment or two longer. Just to see if he’d get an answer or more verbal abuse for losing track of where their younger sisters had run off to. “Nothing.” Well, that wasn’t much of an answer. Though, judging by the sigh that accompanied that nothing, Jared would say it was definitely something. However, he knew that no matter how much he poked and prodded, he wouldn’t get an answer. ”Oh…Well, I’m going over to Mackenzie’s. Hunter should be back soon, and so should the girls.” Kade mumbled an, “A‘ight,” and Jared made his way out the door.

-----H[/color][/size]e did feel bad for not noticing that his sisters hadn’t been home. Since their mother had died just short of a year ago, Kade and Jared had been looking out for Taryn and Mykayla even more than they already had been. Hunter did the same when he was home from college, but they all knew that there was only so much that they could do. Taryn was eighteen, and Mykayla was determined. At least they’re together, they’ll look out for each other, Jared thought as he climbed into the driver’s seat of his vehicle and slid the key into the ignition. After that, he had let his worries about his sisters fade, and worries about his girlfriend filled his mind. Jared had been working a lot lately, saving up the money, and had used his day today to fix things up around the house. Mackenzie was sure to feel a little ignored, which Jared had never meant, but then on their AIM conversation, she seemed to maybe be doubting him. Maybe he had been reading too much into it, or maybe that wasn’t why she was unhappy at all. Either way, he didn’t like the way it had read and had made up his mind to go over to her home. He had been planning on inviting himself over that night anyway, but this gave him all the more reason to go. She lived down on Jackson Row, and Jared had drove the dirt road between his house and hers so many times over the years that he thought he could do it in his sleep, or that his car could go there all on it’s own. It didn’t take very long to get there, and he was up on her porch and knocking on the door before he knew it. Mac was right there, opening the door and that gorgeous smile of hers lighting up her face.

-----J[/color][/size]ared could remember her as a little girl, all elbows and knees. They had practically grown up together, always being in the same schools and a lot of the same classes. Granted, Jared had been a hellion back in those days and had tormented the younger version of his girlfriend quiet a few times. He could remember her yelling at him, being so angry and him just nodding his head, trying not to laugh. It wasn’t until high school that they actually became friends, and it seemed to be because Jared, out of curiosity, had asked why she hated him. It hadn’t bothered him that she did. Okay, maybe a little because she was gorgeous and he was crushing on the girl, but other than that, it hadn’t bothered him. She answered honestly, and after that they were friends, and had then started dating. The two had been together ever since, and Jared loved her more than how he even knew how to tell her. That’s why he had been worried about her on the drive over here; he hated to think of her sad, and would move the sun and the moon to have her happy again. But, when he saw that smile he knew that she was fine. There was something that he needed to ask about later, but at least she wasn’t broken down into tears and sobbing. That was always a plus. Her fingers laced through his, and he stepped into the house. Mac closed the door, and then her lips were on his, and he smiled. This, this was how it was supposed to be. He hated being away from her, but life calls sometimes. In this case, it was that damn coal mine, but the extra hours had paid off. When the kiss ended, she looked up at him with those beautiful dark eyes, and he couldn’t keep that smile off his face. “So have I told you lately how much I’ve missed you?” Only two or ten times. ”No, I don’t think you have,” he joked back, then he leaned forward and kissed her again, loving the way her lips felt against his.

-----T[/color][/size]hey eventually ended up sitting on the couch, Jared holding her close in his arms. He was content to stay just like that, not saying a word. That is, until he remembered why he had been worried. ”So, what was it that you weren’t wanting to tell me? Why didn‘t you believe that I know you‘re great?” he asked quietly, looking down at her and hoping that she would tell him now that he was here. He and Mac didn’t generally keep secrets from one another; secrets don’t make friends, and they sure as hell didn’t make relationships work well. Jared wanted her to trust him with whatever this was, and hoped she did. She seemed as if she didn’t know what to say at first, but then replied. “I don’t know if I believe you…” He already didn’t like it. They had been together for so long, through so much. His parents dying, her going away to school… they had survived all of that and now she was having doubts? “…because well we’re not engaged or anything and I always thought that we kind of would be.” What? Now slight confusion replaced the worry. “I know how crappy that sounds really I do. And that’s why it was stupid and nothing of any importance. I mean, really, I don’t know if you’d even want to marry me. There’s other people out there, someone better than I am. Someone that won’t ask you when we’re getting married….” ”Mac,” Jared interrupted, shaking his head and turning a bit so he facing more towards her. Jared couldn’t believe what he had just heard. ”Baby, look at me,” he said softly, waiting to see those pretty eyes of hers looking into his. He grinned. ”Is that what you’re upset about? Thinking I’ll find someone else? Mackenzie, that’s insane. I don’t want anyone else.”

-----W[/color][/size]here she had ever gotten that thought from, Jared wouldn’t know. Sure, they weren’t always together, but that didn’t mean that he was running around and cheating on her. Jared would never cheat on Mackenzie, and she knew that. ”And as for getting married… Of course I want to marry you.” Jared knew what the people of Grace talked about when it came to him and Mac, and that was that they should have been married right out of high school. Around here, that was still acceptable, and in some cases expected. But, Jared had wanted to wait then. ”If you just would have waited another hour or so….” Jared moved a bit, reaching into his jeans pocket and pulling out a little black box. Inside it was a diamond engagement ring, the thing he was working so hard at the mines to have the money to pay off. He opened the box and took out the ring. ”Mackenzie Phillips, I do love you, and I want to marry you. I guess I don’t really have to ask, but what the hell…. Will you marry me?” Jared had had a better speech in mind for this, and a better location, but the weather wasn’t cooperating and after her semi breakdown, he figured this would just what she wanted, and what he wanted as well.

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[mackenzie trent]

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----- not only being away at college difficult for the brunette girl, but also knowing Vivian Carter was still around. Jared and Viv had become good friends, due to Mac. Viv and Mac became friends instantly all through out their childhood, plus they had been in walking distance to each others homes. Hell, you could probably walk everywhere if you wanted too. The two had so much in common that they could’ve been twins separated at birth. Even though they joked about that, their physical appearances were polar opposite. When Mac started dating Jared all three of them would end up hanging out, which Mackenzie liked. She loved the fact that her boyfriend and best friend got along so well. It was always a drag when that didn’t end up happening, it would feel almost like you had to choose one or the other. However Jared and Viv got to knowing each other a little too well perhaps, which let to a kiss the two shared. That was what scared her. Of course she was hurt when Jared had told her what had happened. At least he didn’t go and sweep it under the rug, pretending that it had never happened. Mackenzie had known how Jared was, he was a happy go lucky guy, random at most times, but yet he could probably still tell that it bothered her. Probably more than it even should’ve. But that was how Mac was, very scared of loosing him. Getting her heart broken by a guy was not something she wanted to endure. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Jared, because she did. If she didn’t, than what was the point of even being in a relationship with him? Right. There was no point. It was just Viv that she had lost a little trust for. Jared had told Mac that the kiss meant nothing between the two. However, she didn’t know if Viv felt the same way. Or if there was actually something more that Mac was blind too.

----- hoping that it was just something Mac was reading too much into, time passed, and Mac had gone away to College. Now having returned everything seemed to be just as she remembered it. Maybe the only thing that was different was that Jared was working more hours than what she could remember. Then apparently Kade had a son? Jocelyn admitted wanting more than just friends with her boyfriend’s older brother. Hunter had also come back from college. Mac didn’t know what was going on with Viv she hadn’t talked to her in a few weeks when Mackenzie had called her just to talk. With Jared’s new hours it didn’t bother her, considering she was still getting settled back into this small town she’d grown up in. Plus, she hadn’t seen her mom in quite a long time figuring that she should and wanted to spend sometime with her anyways. On top of that she wanted to go and hang out with her friends she’d left behind. Even though some of them had actually left for good. Mac would probably never see them again, but she really wasn’t supper close with any of them. Sitting there on the couch Mac dreaded the question he’d asked, she had to let it sink in and make sure her response didn’t come out in the wrong way. But knowing her I would. Mac was never really good with words; she had a hard time expressing herself once in a while. Like now, she knew how she felt, but tying to get someone else to understand it was hard work. But Jared wanted to know, and she wasn’t going to take the easy way out of it and lie. So she had done the best she could, even though she might’ve sounded like a rambling fool Mac got what she wanted to say out. There were times when Mackenzie had no problem getting her point acrossed like- yelling at Jared when they were little kids, which had been no problem for her. Mac never really got angry or so pissed for just anything, and when she does you really don’t want to see it. Not to pretty.

----- jared had cut her off, “Mac,” She looked up at him watching his head shaking from side to side, and turned so that he was facing her a little bit better. Mac looked back down with her hands in her lap, okay so maybe lying would’ve been a lot better. Even though, she knew it wouldn’t have been. “Baby, look at me,” Mackenzie slowly moved her head up eyes connecting to his, as she saw that grin on his face. “Is that what you’re upset about? Thinking I’ll find someone else? Mackenzie, that’s insane. I don’t want anyone else.” He might think that now. But a few years down the road things could change. Hell, things are always changing. “You don’t know that…” The girl said lightly, as if she were just a child, “You may not want anyone else right now, but that could change, Jared.” Mackenzie didn’t know why she fighting it so much. Couldn’t just accept the fact that he loved her, and he didn’t want anyone else period. No, she had to go and make everything difficult. “I mean look what happened with Viv…” Maybe not the right to bring that whole thing up again, considering Jared probably thought that was done with and in the past. The kiss or whatever meant ‘nothing’ but a kiss always has to mean something no matter what circumstances it’s under. Mackenzie’s worrying wasn’t helping them any that’s for sure. Most the time, maybe even all of the time she would over analyze things, thing that didn’t even need to be thought about. Plus, with her worrying about whether or not they were going to get married… before she’d have to return back to school, and then not see him until Christmas. That was hard to think about.

----- mackenzie knew better than to think Jared would ever cheat on her. She knew that he wouldn’t. The why was she in so much doubt about them? Scared maybe? That, that could happen. “And as for getting married… Of course I want to marry you.” Mac would have to admit she didn’t think he’d actually say that, considering how crazy she’d been acting lately. But she was so unbelievably happy to hear those words. Which put some of her worrying on hold wondering where he was going to go with this whole thing. “If you just would have waited another hour or so….” What the hell? Mac watched as he reached into the pocked of his jeans pulling out a small black box. Her mind totally went blank; she knew what that was right away. Jared opened, and took out the beautiful diamond engagement ring. “Mackenzie Phillips, I do love you, and I want to marry you. I guess I don’t really have to ask, but what the hell…. Will you marry me?” Mackenzie was practically glowing she was very surprised, but it didn’t take her long to answer the question. “Yes! Of course. I will.” The said as Jared then slipped the ring onto her finger. Once on Mac held out her hand admiring it, like it was some kind of dream, and eventually she’d wake up soon. She had imagined when this day would come. Even though, back then things weren’t really taken that seriously. “It’s beautiful, much more than what I deserve and I love you so much.” With that Mac moved forward placing her lips on Jared’s. Mac smiled breaking the kiss, looking down at her finger hand and then back up toward her now fiancé. How amazing that was to call him that. “I’m sorry, for freaking out… and not waiting. For doubting us.”

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[/size]e had actually been thinking about proposing to Mackenzie for awhile now. Like it was said, most people thought that the two of them were going to get married right out of high school. It had weighed on Jared’s mind, and he had almost bought the ring to have for a graduation night proposal. But, he hadn’t. He had wanted to, but back then he didn’t have his own money. His mother would have gladly loaned it to him, or even given her son the money, but Jared didn’t want it to be that way. A lot of people took him as the town goof, the guy you could always count on to be crazy and totally random, without a plan and without a care in the world. Those people thought that way because that was the side of Jared that was most often seen, and that was okay. However, there was another side to him, the one that was responsible and could think things through. When he wanted to. He wanted to make sure that he could support Mackenzie, and give her the kind of life that she deserved. That’s why he had decided to go right to work, mining coal in a town forty minutes away, earning money to buy her a ring and a home, and everything she wanted. Within reason, of course. No one could say that Jared hadn’t thought this one through, and he had been thinking about it long and hard. He had even planned on taking her up to this beautiful place in her field that they often took walks to for the proposal, but the rain had screwed that plan over. He had brought the ring with him anyway, determined to ask her tonight, even if it was a simple proposal.

-----J[/color][/size]ared could almost grin at Mackenzie’s impatience and wanting this all right now. It was cute, and he found it endearing, but he hated her reasoning behind it. She was worried that he might find someone else, or that someone else would be better suited for that and he would see that while she was away at college. To him, that idea was absolutely crazy. He had been with Mackenzie for so long, and if they could get through everything that they had and still love each other like this, then Jared was convinced that they would never find someone better. She was his girl, and he was her guy. The were high school sweethearts, and they were going to make it. He didn’t have a doubt in his mind about that one, he never really had. From the moment that the two had gotten together, Jared had just known that he would never need anyone else. They had been so young then, and Kade had slapped him on the back of the head when Jared had revealed his feelings about Mackenzie to him all those years ago. “You’re an idiot,” he had said, shaking his head at his younger brother in disbelief. But, Kade had owned up and apologized for that when seeing that he had been wrong. “You’re still an idiot, but not about Mackenzie. That‘s the one thing you‘ve actually done right.” Well, kind of apologized. Now, here the two of them sat, on her couch while Jared held a ring in his hand, asking the most important question that he would ever ask in his lifetime. He had always been sure that, “How does one become God?” would be the most awesome question he’d ever get an answer to, if he ever did get it, but now he knew that this one was much better.

-----M[/color][/size]ackenzie agreed to marry him, and he was happier than he could ever remember being. He slid the ring onto her left hand ring finger, and watched with a wide smile as she admired it. It was a nice ring, one that Jared had saw and knew it was meant for her finger. It had been pricey, but he had worked to be able to get it for her. It looked perfect on her finger. And he had even gotten the right size and everything. “It’s beautiful, much more than what I deserve and I love you so much.” What was with all this shit about her not deserving it? Jared didn’t much like hearing her talk like that, but he didn’t have a chance to comment. She leaned forward, and their lips were locked in a kiss. So now it was official. They were engaged, and they would be getting married. Taryn had filled Jared’s head with all sort of nightmarish ideas about planning weddings, but he was sure she had been just exaggerating to torment him. Like she usually did. But, it would be okay. He would go through anything to spend the rest of his life with Mackenzie. When she pulled away from him, they both wore smiles on their faces. “I’m sorry for freaking out…and not waiting. For doubting us…” Jared brought his hand up to cradle the side of her face gently. ”You don’t have to say you’re sorry for anything. It’s okay.” Jared was such an easy going guy that pretty much anything she did was going to be okay. ”I love you just the way you are. Impatient, paranoid and all.” That was meant as a joke, but it did bring back to his mind what she had just said about Vivian. His hand fell away from her face as he tried to figure out how to approach that one.

-----V[/color][/size]ivian Carter was one of Mackenzie’s best friends, and she had also been a friend of the Trents’. Jared had never really known her that well, though, until he had started dating Mackenzie. The three of them would often hang out, and Jared grew to like the other girl. She had seemed to like him as well, and the three of them were friends. Of course, he was more to Mac, but that much was obvious. The situation that Mac brought up now was a time the summer after they had graduated, almost a year ago. Jared was just extremely comfortable with Vivian, and then he was just Jared. Something had been said to prompt the kiss, and he had done it without giving it much of a second thought. It wasn’t a long kiss, and it had been nothing more than a kiss between friends in Jared’s mind. He hadn’t even tried to hide it from Mackenzie, telling her about it and laughing as he did. He wasn’t trying to blow it off as nothing, because to him it really was nothing. He had known that Mackenzie hadn’t liked it, even though she had tried to keep that quiet. Jared had spent weeks feeling bad and being extra sweet, trying to make up for it. He had thought that it was all forgiven and a thing of the past, something that didn’t bother anyone anymore, but he had been wrong, apparently. Did Mackenzie honestly think that Jared would leave her for Vivian? ”And as for the whole Vivian thing, she’s a nice girl, but she isn’t you. I wouldn’t have asked you to marry me if I didn’t know you were the one for me, Mac. There is no one else. I promise you that.” He leaned over and pressed a sweet kiss to her forehead before wrapping his arm around her again.

-----H[/color][/size]e grinned to himself as she settled against him. He could see that ring glinting on he finger, and it all made him so very happy. She always made him happy, even during the times of his life when he thought that he might never smile again. ”Now I guess we get to plan the wedding, and the honeymoon.” He gave her a playful squeeze there. ”Then, we get to pick out the names for our children. I like Jared, personally, but that’s just me. Jared Mitchell Trent the Second has a nice ring to it, don‘t you think?” Jared didn’t think Jared Trent Jr. sounded as awesome as the Second would. It’d be awesome to see Jared Trent II. He could start a whole line…. Jared just grinned a little more, in awe about how easily he could see a future for himself and this girl together. ”And then, I’d want a pretty little girl that looked just like her momma. But a son first, naturally.” In reality, it wouldn’t matter if they had all girls. Jared would be thrilled with whatever God gave them, but he liked to joke, and he liked to just sit and put together these pictures for their life together. None of it had to go as he was saying it, just so long a he had Mackenzie and she was happy, he was always going to be happy.


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----- everything was official. Jared and Mackenzie were engaged, and just the thought of that could put a big cheesy smile on the girl’s face. She was in love with him, and knew she would never want to be with anyone else. Hell, she’d gone away to college, and came back still in the same relationship. Of course it wasn’t the same as it had been in high school. They didn’t see a whole lot of each other while she was away. Jared having his job which was working hours where she sometimes didn’t see him at all. Nevertheless, none of that changed how she felt about him. Speaking of jobs, Mackenzie herself had just found a job herself. It wasn’t anything glamorous; in fact it was the furthest thing from it. Dealing with Micah everyday was something you wouldn’t call glamorous. She had just started out and things already seemed to be bad. No matter how hard she was trying she was still messing up. And he was still being a dick about it.But she wasn’t going to think about him, or her job. “You don’t have to say you’re sorry for anything. It’s okay.” Mackenzie smiled. This was why she loved him, and then even more. She really couldn’t describe how she felt about him. There really were no words. “I love you just the way you are. Impatient, paranoid and all.” Mac softly laughed, it was true she was impatient, and paranoid. Obviously, but she was working on that, trying not to be so paranoid all the time. His hand fell from her face as she wondered what was up, figuring she’d find out.

----- it was known thing that Mackenzie didn’t like the little kiss shared between Jared and Vivian. Mackenzie didn’t view it like Jared had. He seemed to be very open about it, which was good, but it did hurt. She knew she was probably being a real bitch about it, considering for a least a few good weeks Jared was being so sweet to her. Mackenzie had forgiven him of course; there was no way she couldn’t. He was Jared. No matter what he could ever do she’d never stay mad at him forever. Mackenzie could never really even remember a time since the two had been together when they were both pissed off at each other. It was kind of weird, but yet it was a good feeling. After everything the two had been though they’d never really wasted energy on being mad at one another. Yes, at first Mac had been worried that he might leave her. Not really for Vivian, just someone in general. Vivian was just used as an example you could say. “And as for the whole Vivian thing, she’s a nice girl, but she isn’t you. I wouldn’t have asked you to marry me if I didn’t know you were the one for me, Mac. There is no one else. I promise you that.” And with that he leaned over giving her a sweet kiss on her forehead then wrapped his arm around her once again. “I know, I know…” Mac said looking up at him. She did believe him, maybe before she had just been worried because of the whole marriage thing. It was stupid if you actually thought about it. Jared and Viv were just friends nothing more. At least that’s how Jared saw it being.

----- mac settled her against him, leaning her head on his shoulder. Placing her hands in her lap with her legs scrunched up on the couch. The girl was at ease, she loved knowing she’d soon be married to Jared, and that they would have a family. The whole thing, Mackenzie did want kids, she always wanted children. She was you’re typical little girl, dreaming of a wedding a husband and children. “Now I guess we get to plan the wedding, and the honeymoon.” Jared said, and Mac could help but laugh. “You'd probably just want to skip right to the honeymoon, wouldn’t ya?” Mac said looking up at him with a smirk on her face. Really she didn’t care if they went anywhere it was up to him. Whatever he wanted. “Are you sure that you want to plan a wedding… I mean we could always just go to Vegas?” Okay, so she wouldn’t go for that, she was just messing with him. Jared probably knew that. Mac didn’t know how much he wanted to do with the wedding… but Mac would keep it simple. Simple was good. “Then, we get to pick out the names for our children. I like Jared, personally, but that’s just me. Jared Mitchell Trent the Second has a nice ring to it, don‘t you think?” Mac picked her head up looking at him with a smile on her face- like are you serious? “If you want to name our son that you can.” Mackenzie would let him. “But only one.” She said seriously, in a joking way. Jared and Mackenzie had talked about kids before, however not like they were now. Now it was so real, and very exciting.

----- mackenzie was sure that Jared knew she wanted children, and how many she wasn’t really sure. “And then, I’d want a pretty little girl that looked just like her momma. But a son first, naturally.” The just laughed shaking her head. “Right, naturally…” Mac did want a girl and a boy she did know that much, and whatever order they decided to come in would be just fine with her. “I’ll see what I can do.” Mackenzie leaned up gently placing a small kiss on his lips. “You know, how many kids are we planning on having?” Mackenzie asking, figuring he’d give her some crazy number. It wasn’t a serious question she was just wondering. Jared was from a large family, having four siblings and if you counted him he made five. Where as Mac was the one and only. Being an only child had its perks, yet there was also a down side to it. That’s why Mac knew she wanted more than just one child. She that Jared did to with the way he was talking about it. “If we’re going to have that many kids we should get started.” Mac said with a small playful giggle. She wasn’t in that big rush to have kids, but she knew that she’d be having to go back to school for the next, oh three years. Which meant they’d be apart, again. Unless she found a college somewhere closer to home. That could also work. However there weren’t that many to pick from. Nor were they really all that close.

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[/size]h, she was a brave woman for even daring to bring up Vegas. Jared had shared with Taryn earlier that afternoon what his plans were for that evening. He had been excited, and had to tell someone. Taryn was really his last choice for telling something like too. Not because she wasn’t trustworthy, or because he didn’t like her. He just knew how the two of them where, and that was constantly picking on each other and bickering. The usual kind of sibling love. However, she had been the only one home then, and he had settled. Taryn had really surprised him, though, and had genuinely taken an interest. So she really did have a heart hidden in there somewhere…that was interesting in itself. She had said that she was happy for him, and that she had known it was only just a matter of time before the two of them tied the know. “You’re just too sweet for your own good,” she had said about the couple, and that’s when the real Taryn chose to rear her ugly head again. She had started filling his head with nightmares, and all the ways that he could screw up. To listen to her talk, a wedding was a mistake and saying I Do was harder that it seemed. But what did she know, really? She was seventeen, and didn’t really have experience with this sort of thing. She was a girl, though, and they all seemed to have an insight to this kind of thing even if it hadn’t happened to them yet. Taryn had left Jared sitting in their living room, a smirk on her face as he was left to think things over. It couldn’t be that bad, surely. People wouldn’t do it all the time if it were truly a miserable life experience. Vegas had teetered on the edge of his thoughts, though. It would be an easy way to avoid all of this. A wedding and honeymoon all in one.

-----H[/color][/size]e didn’t dare tell her he had been thinking it, though. Mackenzie might have suggested it, but Jared knew better than to take it seriously. She wouldn’t take that, and really, Jared wouldn’t want that. Even if it did save him all the torture and torment of planning a wedding. He knew how Mac was, and she was one of those girls that dreamed about her wedding since she was little. Jared loved her very much, and he wanted her to have everything exactly how she wanted it to be on their wedding day. He wouldn’t get in the way. As for the honeymoon, well of course he’d like to skip right to it, but he knew how it went. And Jared already had some money put away for that as well, and a few ideas that he thought that Mackenzie would really love. This was all going to fall into place, and it was going to be beautiful. He didn’t know when they would be getting married, but he knew that neither of them had the patience to wait too long. Jared foresaw it being this summer sometime, and was definitely okay with that. But, all of that could wait for tomorrow. Or, you know, next week. Right now, it was more fun to project themselves into the future, where they had children to name and a good life already set up and going for them. He hadn’t been kidding about naming their first son after himself, as he had to start the line of Jared Trents somehow. Mackenzie had seemed slightly amused by that. “If you want to name our son that you can.” Yes, victory! “But only one.” ”Well yeah. Having two Jared the Seconds would just be silly,” he joked, knowing that wasn’t how it worked. It would be up to little Jared to keep the line going, and if he didn’t, big Jared was going to slap him upside the head.

-----T[/color][/size]his felt so natural, and so easy. He and Mac had talked children before, but not like this. Jared loved this, though, and knew that their future was a bright one. He and Mackenzie would make good parents, and he really couldn’t wait to have all of that. “You know, how many kids are we planning on having?” That was a good question. Jared leaned back, pretending to really ponder it. ”Well, you’re an only child, and I come from a family of five. So we should probably have…ten or so.” Jared loved his big family. He wouldn’t know what to do without all the chaos that came from having so many siblings, and he didn’t want to have to figure it out. Having brothers and sisters like that, there was always someone to hang out with, and someone to lean on when you needed it. There was usually someone annoying the hell out of you and that you hated as well, but you had to take the good with the bad. It had just been so much fun, having everyone around and so much going on. Jared could remember seeing his parents stressed out sometimes with all the noise and ruckus, but then when everyone was gone, or when they thought they were gone, Rob and Marion would be grinning to themselves. They had loved it, too, and Jared wanted that. Mackenzie came from a much smaller family, and Jared understood if she didn’t quite want ten, or even five children. Three would be good enough, but he didn’t tell her that. He left his number at ten, watching for her reaction. “If we’re going to have that many kids we should get started.” He grinned. Jared knew he loved her for a reason.

-----A[/color][/size]nd he knew that this really was it. Honest to God love, the thing that everyone goes through life looking for but sometimes never find. It was absolutely beautiful, and all the he could ever ask for. After all, he was just a small town boy from the backwoods, breaking his back to make a living, and that’s all he would ever do. He saw himself as a dead end. Mackenzie was going off to school and was going to do something with her life. Why she ever wanted Jared was beyond him, but he wasn’t going to question it. They were getting married. ”Yes we should,” he said, kissing her again. He wouldn’t mind if they actually did. But, he knew that Mac had school, and she would be leaving him again in the fall. Jared had only managed to go see her a few times over the last school year, because she was so far away and it just wasn’t easy to get off of work. She couldn’t go away to school pregnant. Jared would miss everything. Mac could find a school closer, but they weren’t as good, and Jared wouldn’t want her to receive less of an education just because of him. That’s why she hadn’t gone to those schools in the fist place. And dropping out wasn’t an option. They were going to have to put these baby dreams on hold. Get married and make it through the next three years. Then they could have all the children that they wanted. He pulled away from their kiss, smiling and loving smile as he looked down into her gorgeous face. ”I love you,” he said to her, quietly. ”No matter what, I always will.” That ring on her finger should have been enough to show her that, but saying it wouldn’t hurt. Jared had been something of a player before getting in a relationship with Mackenzie, but he had been nothing but faithful to her since day one. She was all he would ever want. He didn’t know if he could stress that enough to her. Jared was hooked, and he didn’t care how much the guys at work or out at different parties ragged on him for being whipped and wrapped around Mackenzie’s little finger. He just nodded his head and agreed, because he wouldn’t have it any other way.

-----J[/color][/size]ared leaned in for another quick kiss before speaking again. ”Now, you better go call Jocelyn up and tell her. You know she’ll kick your ass if she isn’t the first one you tell. And Vivian, too.” Jared knew Mac’s friends very well, and he knew that they would be offended if they weren’t the first ones to know about this, or had to hear it from someone else. It was just a girl thing. And really, he was a little bit afraid of Jocelyn. She was a spitfire kind of girl, and the only one Jared knew to have enough balls to stand up to Kade. That was enough to earn her respect from several people. And then there was Viv, who was a good friend, and also worthy of the knowledge even if she wasn’t quite as scary and Mackenzie’s other friend. That infamous Trent grin came to his lips. ”Then, we can get down to the good stuff.” He kind of wished she would skip calling her friends and just go to that last part, but he wasn’t the type of guy not to share. Besides, he had her all evening, and for the rest of his life. He could wait on a few phone calls, or whatever she had to do.


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