Prologue 4: The Perfectish Wedding
I can't tell you how many songs I wanted to put in here, so the overall song is THIS IS LOVE by For King and Country, but I will include all the songs in the wedding there.
A year later
Clancy POV
I'm in the groom's room, getting dressed. My hands are shaking as I get on the last few buttons. Why in the world am I so scared? This is very simple, we've practiced this before last night, what in the world could go wrong? Everything
Shake it off Clancy, you're fine. Everything. Is. Fine. It's just your wedding, what could possibly go wrong. You made sure that Blacker and Minny were never at the same end of the wedding to try to find some prank idea, so nothing can go wrong. Although, as it turns out, Blacker and Minny weren't the people I needed to fear at all.
I'm done and go outside, watching everything, but still remaining undetected.
I watch as my groomsmen walk around. We decided to have a small wedding so Elliott, Blacker, Froghorn (by Ruby's request believe it or not. They've gotten sorta-close-but-not-really now.) and of course, Sam Colt are the groomsmen.
I check the time, and suddenly feel like I'm about to throw up. I nod to Sam, trusting him to tell all the others it's time to go outside for the wedding.
Ruby POV
I'm trying to get myself into this torture that people call a dress, when someone finally takes pity on me.
"You know you're supposed to undo the zipper before trying to slip it on?" SJ says laughing, as I feel my face turning redder and redder.
"There! Finally I'm all ready!" I say with a slight smile, trying to hurry up and leave the room before she realizes it.
Her wedding dress.
"Oh no you don't Ruby. You still need make-up and nails, to get the rose petals strone through your hair, and your shoes on." LB says with a smile and an evil laugh. I'm glad she's having fun, because I'm not completely sure I'd rather have a run-in with the Count than this torture!!
After much moaning, groaning, and complaining on my part, and deep heavy sighs on LB, SJ, Del, and Sky (Foghorn's wife and one of my best friends who has saved my life more than once, and gotten her husband to get off my back.)
Her hair style.
Her makeup.
Her shoes, which she hates and all of the bridesmaids had to help her learn how to walk in. Who knew LB was amazing at walking in heels?
Her nails.
This is all just how I imagine things. If you already have an idea, then just imagine that. Now onwards with the story!!
When I felt completely immobilized and in a lot of pain from the uncomfortable position of feet, they finally declared me ready, and they all got dressed in their outfits.
Instead of trying to match me or the colors of the wedding, they each had a different flower in their hair, their nails painted with that flower, and their dress that color too. Del was a morning glory, Sky was an iris, SJ was a purple magnolia, and believe it or not, LB was a carnation. (If you think that I'm doing ALL of these, you're crazy. It took me FOREVER to decide what to do for Ruby.)
As they walk down the aisle, and I hear the music play, I smile. Time to marry the love of my life.
3rd Person POV
As Ruby was being walked down the aisle with Hitch on one side of her, and her father on the other, with her song pioneers by for king and country playing, no one could see that she was nervous, but she definitely was.
In contrast, all of Clancy's nervousness faded away as he was memorized by his very-soon-to-be-wife's beauty when she was forced to look absolutely striking. There was no other way to describe it, and he was suddenly uncertain that Aphrodite was prettier than his Ruby.
As she reaches the preacher, butterflies are all in her stomach. When he starts to say the first words of the very long speech, both of their minds drift.
"Do you Ruby Redfort take this man to be your lawful wedded husband, to cherish him, tend to him when he's sick, and love him to the end of your life?" The preacher asks.
Ruby takes in a shaky breath, thinking of how of a life decision this is before looking Clancy in the eye and replying "I do."
"And do you, Clancy Crew, take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife, to cherish her, tend to her when she's sick, and to love her until the end of your life?"
Without hesitation, or a second thought in his mind, Clancy replies back "I do."
"By the powers invested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride."
And with that, they kissed, so passionately, so tenderly, that if you had to rate every kiss that anyone had ever had, this one would have blown them all away.
When they drew away, to walk down the aisle, most likely the best song for the occasion Good Day For Marrying You by Dave Barns, since the day was a perfect September evening.
After everyone had walked inside, and grabbed a punch, it was far too late to fix a 'mistake'. As luck would have it, the punch was spiked with moonshine, with agents, lawyers, and the entire Spectrum 1, Legal Division there. And that was just the first of the many pranks pulled on the newly wed couple.
Another one that happened during the first dance, was the car predations. Now, Ruby and Clancy were cautious, and thought that this might happen, so they had a decoy car out, and a real car in a secret location so no one could mess with it.
Unfortunately, they told LB about the location of the new car, AND gave her the keys. Now, usually LB would be the perfect choice, but in this case, she was the worst, since she was the mastermind behind ALL the pranks. To be fair, she never did get her revenge on Redfort for messing with her office, or eavesdropping.
So, that was how their car had newly married all over it, was stuffed with toilet paper both on the inside and out, had the cans tied to it, had streamers all over it, had spray paint all over it, and why it smelled of catfish when you turned the heater on.
While doing this, they came across the suitcases, and thus were able to finish part two of the plan while Hitch was covering for them.
Part two was clothes replacement. They stole ALL the underwear, replaced Ruby's clothes with fancy sleeveless dresses, and her shoes with 5 inch high heels. For Clancy, they repacked blazers, bow ties, and brown leather cowboy boots.
This is awful, because for their honeymoon, they were going to hike mountains in Arkansas, Wyoming, North and South Carolina, and Colorado.
When the participants in this returned to the party, no one suspected anything. Ruby and Clancy didn't even know until they left the wedding, and got to the secret location. By then it was too late to do anything, so they drove the car, still not knowing about the clothes swap.
When they found out about it, they weren't too happy as expected, and there might have been some yelling, screaming, and muder plots for Blacker and Minnie, and Clancy noticed a note written by LB, telling Ruby to be more careful and prepared next time. Thus invoicing the following conversation.
Ruby: I'm going to set LB's photos on fire when we get back, and I'll feel no remorse.
Clancy: *just discovering the bow ties and boots* I'll bring the kerosene.
So, I'm now redoing this arrangement. Any one-shots that I make are now not pertaining to the story. Instead, there will be two more chapters, until we get to the actually beginning of the story, and me lining everything up is over. On a happier note, there is finally a wedding scene out!! I have ALWAYS imagined this scene, and no joke, this is probably going to be my favorite chapter in the whole book. I can definitely tell you that it was the most fun to write, and I probably could have made it better by including all the speeches and everything, but, I'm not sure what everyone would say, or how many different ways there are to embarrass the young couple. Also, I don't care how unrealistic it seems, there were wedding pranks; they might not have been these, but there were wedding pranks. No one can convince me otherwise.
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