To all my viewers for this fanfiction, please feel free to leave any sort of review on what you think of it so far.
Also, I know in the description it says that this fanfic's genres are friendship and drama, but there are romantic moments between Mordecai and CJ throughout it. I'm a big fan of the couple.
Guest-Eileen will start making appearances in the next chapter. What she's like in this timeline will be revealed then.
Regular Show: A Different Direction in Time
A Tour of the Park
"And over there is our Ballroom," Pops pointed out. "We call it the Parkside Lux Ballroom."
For the last half hour, Pops had been driving around in the golf cart with Mordecai and CJ sitting in the front alongside him; showing them all over the park. So far the tour was going in the park's favour, especially upon seeing the ballroom.
"You know this looks like a pretty cool place to have a wedding at," CJ remarked.
"Yeah totally," Mordecai commented. "Though perhaps we should take a look inside first."
"I'm cool with that," CJ agreed. "Pops?"
"Okey-dokey," Pops said while turning the cart in the direction of the ballroom.
After inspecting the inside, confirmed that this was the place where the couple wanted to get married in. "Yep diffidently the place," Mordecai said which he followed up by giving CJ a kiss, causing her to blush, (as it usually does whenever he kisses her), just like earlier. Also just like earlier, their little "moment" did not go unnoticed.
"Aww, how sweet. You two make such a cute couple," Pops commented.
"Uh thanks," Mordecai replied sheepishly while CJ, (also feeling sheepish), just rubbed the back of her head.
"So where did you two love birds meet?" Pops asked. "If you don't mind me asking."
"Uh no, I don't mind," Mordecai answered. "What about you CJ?"
"Nah it's cool," CJ responded. "We met six years ago when we were both attending College U," she began, "We were competing in tryouts for the school's dodgeball team. At College U dodgeball tryouts are done by dividing everyone up into two teams and having them compete to see everyone's skill levels in terms of how many throws and catches you get. Top ten students with the highest scores are on the team and the person with the highest score period is team captain. Mordecai and I were on opposing teams, as well as the last members of our teams standing. On top of that, we also had the same highest score number so whoever won would be captain. I, of course, kicked Mordecai's butt, but afterwards, I bought him a soda."
"Yeah as an apology for giving me a major hit to the face with your dodgeball," Mordecai said though in a more humorous sounding tone of voice than you'd expect.
"You know who else gives major hits to the face?" Muscle Man asked. "My mom!"
Oh yeah, F.Y.I. Muscle Man and High Fives decided to come along and ride in the back of the cart.
"Uh okay, uh ha, ha," Mordecai said not getting the joke. "Anywho, after the soda, I kind of developed a crush on CJ."
"One that I also developed," CJ revealed. "Neither one of us knew how to deal with our feeling since I hadn't been dating since my last break up, while Mordecai was just plain awkward when it came to romance."
"So true," Mordecai agreed. "It made things awkward between us. Especially since we were on the same dodgeball team, as well as had a bunch of classes together, including art. She ended up being the inspiration for many of my abstract painting."
Hearing this caused CJ to blush for the third time that day.
"Then how'd you two hook up bro?" Muscle Man asked curiously.
"Well, it happened nearly four months after we met," Mordecai explained. "The College U dean was hosting a New Year's Eve masquerade party and to make a long story short we kissed at around midnight then ended up confessing our feelings for one another."
"After that, we decided to start dating which really turned great," CJ finished, now giving her finance a loving look who gave the same look in return.
"Sounds pretty cool," High Fives commented.
"Yeah, it is," Mordecai confirmed.
"So who's hungry?" Muscle Man suddenly asked.
"I could eat," Mordecai responded.
"Same here," CJ said. "You have anywhere in this park that has food?"
"The snack bar," High Fives answered.
"To the snack bar then," Pops declared.
20 minutes later…
Yeah despite being the most boring job for park employees, it was one of the funnest places in the whole park to hang out at. Though that didn't mean it was better than the Crash Pit; which Muscle Man and High Fives couldn't stop talking about while they chatted with Mordecai and CJ at the snack bar along with Pops.
"And then KABOOM! It was so awesome and everyone agreed. Even the teachers couldn't argue about how awesome it was."
"Whoa that's totally cool," Mordecai commented after hearing Muscle Man retell the time when he and High Fives drove a school bus into the Crash Pit while a bunch of students and teachers watched.
"You know that'd make a totally awesome after-wedding show," CJ suggested.
"Yeah that's a great idea," Mordecai agreed. "Hey, you guys think you could do something like that for our wedding? Maybe add a little something to it to give it a bit of a romantic feel to it? Perhaps fill a vehicle with shaken cans of cherry soda that'll explode and rain soda upon crashing?"
"Sure bro. I can defiantly work something up," Muscle Man confirmed. "Though why cherry soda? Is it important to you guys or something?"
"Well yeah it's CJ's favourite drink," Mordecai started to say.
"It's also the beverage Mordecai and I had to celebrate right after we got engaged," CJ finished.
"Really?" Pops asked.
"Really dude," Mordecai confirmed. His mind, along with CJ's, going back to that wonderful date.
Flashback
"Okay, Mordecai where are you taking me?" CJ asked. Both of them were dressed up fancy, and CJ was wearing a blindfold that her boyfriend, (the one she'd been dating for over five years now), had forced her to wear before taking her out on their date. For that reason, she was unable to see where they were going.
"Oh you'll see soon," Mordecai responded as he continued to guide his girlfriend towards their date. "In fact, we're. Just. About. There. And. Now."
Upon saying those words Mordecai stopped CJ and removed the blindfold from her eyes, opening them up to the sight of what appeared to be the College U gymnasium, the place where the couple had first met over five years ago. The gym floor was filled with rose peddles and candles, while on the walls hung many of Mordecai's abstract paintings; all of which were the ones that Mordecai had based off of CJ. Off to the side near the bleaches, CJ could see a small, fancy decorated table with two chairs, two empty wine glasses, and a full bottle of cherry soda, (her all-time favourite beverage).
CJ was utterly flabbergasted by what she was seeing. Sure Mordecai had done some romantic gestures for her many times over the years. But this, this was, by far, the biggest love gesture that Mordecai had ever done for her. It probably took him hours, maybe days to set up and get everything in place. And it wasn't even a special occasion. It wasn't her birthday, her half birthday, valentine's day, their anniversary. So what was the occasion to motivate all of this? she thought to herself.
"Ahem." Mordecai cleared his throat, drawing CJ's attention back towards him.
When CJ turned to look back at Mordecai, she saw that he was on one knee, his hands holding up a velvet box that held a sparkling blue diamond engagement ring.
Then out came the words that Mordecai would spark the beginning of eternal happiness, "Cloudy J will you marry me?"
Shocked, surprised, CJ couldn't believe what was happening. It was as if she were in a dream. A dream that could only get better if she did five more things.
She kneeled down so that she and Mordecai were at eye level, said the following words, "Yes, yes I will," grabbed his face, pulled it in towards her own, and kissed him on the lips with extreme passion.
End of Flashback
"You know I think that was the greatest date of my life," CJ stated.
"Same here," Mordecai agreed while gazing at his fiancé dreamily.
"Aww isn't that sweet," Benson said, walking into the picture, "figuratively." "I take it you've been having a good time at the park?"
"Yeah, we have. This place is amazing," CJ stated. "You know when my mom and friends warned me about how Weddings Monthly declared this to be the worst place to get married at, they clearly hadn't been to this park themselves, or at least after the fiasco wedding that occurred four years ago. By the way, what exactly happened at that wedding to cause the magazine to give your park such a horrible reputation? They never went into detail about it."
Closing his eyes, Benson put his right thumb and index finger on them before answering, remembering the horrible event "Sigh, one word, Rigby. He fell asleep on the lawn mower when I instructed him to write 'CONGRATULATIONS' in the grass for when the bride and groom had been married. Of course, the mower was on when he fell asleep and he ended up crashing into the wedding and rammed into the priest, breaking his legs. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of it. The bride's dress got caught in the mower's blade which resulted in it being torn to shreds. Then it rammed through the buffet table leading to the cake falling over. Then after all that, the mower fell over right in front of the groom, somehow causing the thing to set on fire, as well as the groom. Since then Mr. Maellard banned motor/electric-powered lawn mowers from the park, and Rigby, (who only managed to keep his job because we couldn't find anyone to take his place), was put on probation since."
"Pfff no surprise there," Mordecai said. Given all the shit his former best friend had put him through during their childhood, it wasn't a surprise to hear that the raccoon was still causing problems. Though that left a serious question to ask. "So how do you plan to keep Rigby from messing up our wedding if we chose to have it here?"
"Don't worry, I've already forbidden Rigby from coming anywhere near either of you two or your wedding. I also spoke to Mr. Maellard. He's agreed to send one of his best security guards over to personally watch over Rigby and make sure he doesn't attempt to do anything to ruin your guys' wedding. So what do you say?"
Looking at one another, Mordecai and CJ nodded at each before turning their gazes back towards Benson and answering the gumball machine's question.
"Alright dude your park is hired," Mordecai announced.
Filled with incredible joy from that decision, Benson got up onto one of the nearby tables and started shouting, "YES! WAHOO! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! WAHOO!"
This caused CJ to feel a little wired watching the park manager, a guy she barely knew, get so crazy excited by her wedding. "Uh yeah, no problem. Now could you please get down you're starting to creep me out a little?"
"Same here," Mordecai said.
"Me too," High Fives concurred.
"Yeah Benson. Don't ruin the moment," Muscle Man added in.
"What? Uh yeah, yeah um sorry about that," Benson said as he snapped out of it; getting off the table he was on. "So anyways when do you plan to have the wedding, five months from now, a year?"
"Next week," replied CJ.
"Say what now?" Benson asked.
"Yeah you see I proposed to CJ about a month ago and since then we've been going around ordering and buying stuff, as well as making arrangements. The toughest of all of it was picking a place to have the wedding at," Mordecai explained. "Though if the park's busy next week than we could always find somewhere else."
"NO! No, no, no. A week from now is perfect. I was just surprised by how close the date was," Benson explained. "But nevertheless, as park manager, I promise that I and the rest of the staff will see to it that your wedding is not only all set up for next week, but is also the greatest wedding in marriage history."
"Yeah and I can totally have a crash pit show for your wedding whipped up by then," Muscle Man said.
"Wait, what?" Benson asked, not knowing about the crash pit request that Mordecai had made earlier.
"Yeah I was telling them about all our crash pit adventures and they asked if I could do a special crash for their wedding."
This definitely surprised Benson, especially since he thought that the massive hole was nothing but a threat to the park and its reputation. "Really? Well I was going have that thing filled, but if you guys want that, then I see no reason to object. Hmm, guess the crash pit can stay."
"ALRIGHT!" Muscle Man shouted. "Whooooooo! Whoo!"
"It's all settled then," Mordecai said. He then shook hands with both Benson and Muscle Man before going off with the manager along with CJ to begin making the necessary preparations to make the park fit for a wedding.
Yep, the crash pit stays. I really liked the hole and thought it could be useful for the park.
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