Here is the story of how Todd and Rebecca came to be MARRIED! It's a short story, just seven easy to read chapters. You can read one a day for a week over your morning coffee. Or, if you have a book report due tomorrow, you can read the whole thing in one sitting and still have time to do other homework! If you've been reading along as the story was written I'm sorry to inform you that there will be no more chapters. But we hope you enjoyed it and thank you for sharing in our story.

It was October 2002 and rehearsals for the Arts Club's production of West Side Story were one week underway. Rebecca, to be playing Maria, was being introduced to the cast by director Bill Millerd. Some familiar faces and some she had never met before one by one (at Bill's direction) stated their name and their role.
There was Jeff Irving whom she had a baby with just a year ago on the Waterfront stage, his hair dyed yellow to play Baby John. And Grant Tilly playing Action. Was it really five years ago since they worked together and hadn't seen each other? How exciting to be back at the beginning of the rehearsal process again.
The circle of introductions were finishing off just as Todd Talbot entered the rehearsal hall . . .

That first week of rehearsal began to pass. Rebecca joined into the comfortable ritual of going downstairs to the Backstage Lounge for lunch with the cast, then ending the day with a run of the dance numbers as they were. Rebecca sat at the front and made sure that the attention she payed everyone was equal to the amount she watched Todd. Five seconds Todd, five seconds Chance, five seconds Todd, five seconds Rnold, 7 seconds Todd - oops, 10 seconds Stirling for good measure.
Then, at the start of the second week, Rebecca met the man who would be playing her lover, Tyley Ross. He was easy to work with and he made a point of going to lunch together to get comfortable enough with each other that they wouldn't appear like two strangers on stage. They both had a good handle on the music and fell easily into performing the love songs for the cast.
Well, you can imagine, all that good chemistry started to make Todd nervous. Not only was she rehearsing with Tyley instead of discreetly watching Todd, Rebecca was also missing out on all the flirting he had been orchestrating over lunch.
Todd knew he had to do something - two things actually. But the first was to buddy up with Tyley. Now instead of Rebecca and Tyley going for lunch, Todd and Tyley were going for lunch . . . would Rebecca like to tag along? So tag along she did and a tiny triangle began.

When Rebecca arrived at the emergency she found Todd leaning against the wall of a long skinny hallway. He had already been waiting for a lengthy amount of time and it wasn’t long until he was given a room and told a doctor would be there shortly. Rebecca waited with him. It was one of those rare occurrences in a hospital where the two people in the waiting room were enjoying each other so much that they were actually disappointed when the doctor showed up. After Todd was informed that there is nothing you can do about a broken rib, it was time to go. And the kiss they shared before Rebecca watched Todd disappear around the corner, while it was very romantic, new and exciting, wasn’t actually their first.
It was opening night weeks earlier. Their recent rapport had led Rebecca to believe that she might enjoy some of Todd’s company at the Bijou Bistro. Instead it was Rnold who held her attention with a poignant question about who, in her life, is an example of power and strength. The music was loud and many voices were fighting to converse above it, Rebecca included. Obviously Bill's direction to 'be louder' should have been taken with her from the theatre, for when she answered, “God” Rnold’s eyebrows raised as he repeated back, “Todd?”
Now Rnold was Todd’s roommate and Rebecca was sure it was no accident that Rnold thought she had just said his name. She was sure that Todd must be sharing some of her feelings. Then why had he not said a word to her all night? Ready to give up, she put on her coat and informed Zeyn Ali, her ride for the evening who was tearing up the dance floor, that she was ready to go. But Zeyn still had a few more dances in him and Rebecca sat at an empty table next to the bar to wait.
Todd seized the moment. There he finally was sitting across from her. Had it been earlier in the evening, Rebecca would have been more than ready to jump into a witty banter with him. But he had made her wait too long, her stomach was protesting the late night, and she was already prepared to make her way out the door. Foreshadowing his endless ability to make Rebecca happy, Todd swept her up over his head and as he lowered her to the ground, manipulated the brief meeting of their lips . . .

Christmas came and went that year and Pat never for a moment considered it odd that the man her daughter had been dating for a few weeks was giving her a face cloth for Christmas. Then it was New Year's that came and went. . . and then it came and went again, and in between all that celebrating Rebecca went on tour but came back to Todd, and Todd went to Charlottetown but came back to Rebecca. Through the heres and theres and ups and downs they ended up celebrating together.
Then, on the eve of New Years 2006, 35 000 feet in the air, Todd got down on his knee and asked Rebecca to spend the rest of her life with him as his wife. After making him sweat a bit she said Yes! and West Jet flight 626 showered the newly engaged couple with applause.
Back in their seats, with drinks on the house and a ring on her finger, Rebecca embraced her husband-to-be as he revealed the story of everything he'd done to make this moment happen. It had been quite a journey to that moment, but an even greater journey was still waiting, the exciting journey all married couples face: that of taking two lives and making them one.