Chapter 371

8 months later.

"I don't want to wear pants." Hayden pouts, scooting backwards when Candy takes his wedding clothes out of the closet.

"What?" Candy spins around in surprise to see her nephew getting off from the bed to waddle across the room. "But you agreed to…" she starts to remind him, keeping an eye on Pixie who is already learning to walk, using a table to hoist herself up on chubby legs.

"Well, I've changed my mind now." Hayden insists, making his way - not very quickly - to the door, dressed in one of Virgil's shirts, the grey colored outfit big enough to easily look like a short dress on him, loose pajama bottoms encasing his legs.

Renee shows up at the door, looking harried. "What's going on?" She comes in looking particularly harried. "Hayden, why aren't you dressed yet?"

"Because..," Candy starts to explain, chasing after Hayden who darts behind his mom, running to the other side of the room, his serious expression making Candy laugh so hard she can't keep up. "...that." She points at Hayden who had waddled to the other end of the room, looking very out of breath.

"Well you look like you have things under control." Renee mutters absently, already moved on from the crazy scene before her - it wasn't like it was her first one anyway.

"I-I need to go help Dia find the cakes…' She mumbles already spinning around to leave.

Hayden and Candy pause their running around at this, surprise on their faces.

"Um… Ren? What happened to the cakes?"

"We can't find it." Renee blurts out, tugging on her hair. "One moment they were in the fridge and the next... poof! No cake." She explains.

Her sister and son just stare blankly at her, unable to comprehend her little speech.

"What?" Candy is the one to find her voice.

"Yeah, so Dia is in panic mode right now trying to bake another."

"It's just a couple hours to the wedding, how is she going to manage that…" Candy starts to ask, cutting herself off halfway when she notices Pixie trying to ride Apple. "Pixie! Stop that, Apple will… oof!" She winces when Apple hops away and smacks her daughter on the face with a sheathed paw.

"Apple!" Hayden starts to scold, already heading for his pet to pick her up and away, he doesn't get that close though.

Pixie lets out a loud shriek that is pure rage, shifting into a pup and going after Apple who darts away with a yelp, Pixie barrelling after her.

Together they knock down a couple vases an a side table before dashing outside, Candy following after her daughter at full speed.

Hayden looks at the door to see Jennie standing at the doorway with a wide eyed expression which she easily shrugs off, one got used to the eccentricity that always surrounded them. "I hope I'm not too late." She gives him a bright smile.

"Jennie!" Hayden exclaims in happiness, waddling across the room, tummy big enough to slow him down. "I had no idea you would even be able to make it."

Jennie meets him halfway, hugging her friend and boss. "I wouldn't miss your wedding for the world."

"It's so nice to see you Jennie." Renee greets her with a smile. "Hay was worrying over bothering you to come."

"Mom?" Hayden starts to complain.

"Uhh, Renee, I think Dia was looking for you at the kitchens." Jennie says. "Something about missing cakes?" She frowns.

"Oh my God! The cakes!" Renee mutters to herself, dashing out.

"Quite a party you got going." Jennie notes, guiding him to sit on the bed. She had finally caved in to Hayden's suggestions and gone to pay a visit to her parents, timing it so that she would have to come back for his wedding and oops! Out of her suffocating parents house.

Hayden rubs his back absently, they had wanted the birth of the baby to be a real surprise so other than knowing that the baby was healthy and well, he didn't know much else, well except that his baby kicked a lot, there was that.

It was ridiculous when Dream brought up the idea of getting married before their due date but the more his brother talked about it, the more it seemed like a really cool idea.

Nothing like getting married with big baby bumps, it would definitely make for a perfect wedding picture.

It was autumn so the woods was a beautiful mix of the evergreen pines and the golden hue of the other forestry.

It was to be an open wedding, not like it would have happened anywhere else, Hayden would rather shave all of his hair than get married anywhere that wasn't Pine Creek.

There was nothing better than getting wedded in the midst of so much love, absently he wondered how Dream was faring, most likely better than him.

He had no idea how everything went haywire just this morning, everyone had insisted on doing everything themselves which was just perfect in Hayden's opinion and everything had been going so well, weeks of fun preparation cumulating to a bright and sunny Saturday morning.

But perhaps some creature of mischief had flown into both Pack Houses the night before and just sprinkled glittery, chaos dust all over then because this morning could only be described with one word, chaos.

He doesn't know where his mom and Shana had dragged Virgil off to earlier saying that seeing the groom before was badluck which was ridculous to Hayden but he bare through the scented bath but as soon as his mom and Shana had got called away, he immediately dived into Virgil's clothes and snuggled into bed before his Aunt showed uo to try and coax him into dressing up.

"You have no idea." Hayden mutters to Jennie.

Jennie gives him a bright smile, realizing that she was still holding the item of clothing that Candy had placed into her hands while she was dashing out after who had to be baby Pixie. "I'm guessing this is for you?" She asks, holding up the tailored pants, it was beautiful, quite plain but the texture so silky smooth and soft, the color a dark white with a shimmering golden glow.

Hayden makes a face. "Yeah, no, I'm wearing this to my wedding." He says proudly gesturing at the oversized shirt and equally baggy pajamas.