It was the best day of Mara`s life. All her friends were with her. except Nina and Fabian, who were with Nina`s gran in America.

"Aw, Mara, you look like a princess!"

Mara jumped. She turned and looked at her former housemother.

"Trudy! Oh, I`ve missed you!"

"I`ve missed you, too! Oh, I can`t believe that you and Jerome are getting married! Thanks for inviting us."

"You`re welcome. How`s your life been?"

"Fantastic. Yours?"

"Wonderful, and that must be obvious."

"Yes, it is."

Two small children run up to them, squealing.

"Save us, Mummy!"

"From who, sweeties?"

"Daddy! He`s chasing us!"

As if on cue, Jasper picks up the children.

"Were you chasing them?"

"If by that, you mean making sure they didn`t get lost, then yes."

"Why would they get lost?"

"Trying to find you."

"Oh."

Mara gets pulled to one side.

"Ah! Joy! Mick!"

Her friends laughed. Joy was a bridesmaid, and Mick was a page.

"So, our friend is finally getting married! Go, Mara!"

A lot of little kids were singing "Ring-a-ring-o'-roses."

It was finally time to get to the ceremony. Mara started to walk down the aisle. Suddenly, she hears "Wedding bells are ringing" echo in her head. The bells started ringing and there was a blinding flash and Mara found her self in an empty church. She looked around, worried. She looked out of the window. Blackness.

(Meanwhile.)

"Where did she go?"

"I dunno, she was there two minutes ago!"

Jerome said "Call the police!"

But no body could find her. She`d disappeared.

Jerome collapsed onto the floor wondering where his bride had gone.

Trudy knelt next to him.

"Jerome?"

"Trudy, is that you?"

"Yes. It`s me."

"Can you help me get Mara back?"

"I don`t know. Didn`t Nina come? She`s better at finding lost people than I am."

"No, she and Fabian couldn`t make it here. Stuck in America with Nina`s gran is in desperate need of their help."

"Oh. That`s bad. Well what did happen to Mara?"

"I just saw this flash of light and that was it, she`d gone."

(Meanwhile.)

Mara walked around the church. She heard voices, Jerome was calling her.

"Jerome!"

She knew he couldn`t hear her. Then suddenly, two old folk came in.

"This is where we got married, Jerry, remember?"

"Yeah, the day you disappeared for 5 hours."

"Don`t remind me."

"And then we had to host the funeral..."

"No, I don`t want to remember. Joy and Mick never did want us to be upset when they... Look, I don`t want to remember."

"OK."

They disappear and Mara`s alone. She had to suffer another 5 hours? The last 5 minutes had felt like a lifetime.

The blackness started revolving...

Hope you enjoyed it. Until next update, Random Dizzy. :D