Waking with a satisfied smile upon her face, Carly Corinthos slides off her extremely comfortable king size bed and slips her feet into her two thousand dollar, diamond encrusted, house slippers. Slowly stretching the fatigue from her body, she makes her way over to the walk-in closet to slip on her eight hundred dollar satin robe that she had begged Sonny for a few nights ago, continuing down to the living room once she finishes enjoying the soft delicateness of her robe.
"Mm." Carly licks her lips before claiming her husband's as his arms wrap around her. "Good morning."
"Breakfast's almost ready." he voices when he pulls away. "Leticia has taken Michael to the park for his baseball practice already, so, you can relax until the food's done."
"Don't mind if I do."
"Sonny, what's this?" Carly questions as she relaxes on the couch holding a delicately addressed envelope that simply read Mr. & Mrs. Sonny Corinthos. "Are you expecting some kind of invitation?"
"Not that I know of." Sonny calls back. "Open it and let me know what it says."
"You think the five families are hosting one their infamous poker nights?" Carly suggests with excitement. "Now that's something I'd love to attend."
"I doubt they'll host anything until Jason gets married." Sonny reminds her. "Speaking of which, I should get a hold of Jason. He should be back in town already."
"Don't you think he would have stopped by if he was back in town already?" Carly counters with a scoff. "Really, Sonny, its like you don't even know him."
"He's under a lot of pressure, Carly." he drags out her name. "In case you've forgotten."
"I haven't forgotten..." Carly started to say before she chokes on her words at the sight of the invitation laying within. "NO! NO! NO! SONNY!"
"What? What is it?" Sonny questions as he walks out of the kitchen to a steaming Carly. "What?"
"I thought you said he was marrying Robin!" she snaps, waving around the invitation angrily. "What the hell do you have to say about this?!"
"Would you calm down?" Sonny wipes his hands off on his rag before slinging it on his shoulder and walking over to see what she was getting worked about. "Let me see it."
"Go on! Read it!" Carly shoves it at him. "You see that name right there, Sonny, its not Robin Scorpio! He's marrying that freaking muffin face! How could you let this happen?!"
"I had nothing to do with this." Sonny says seriously as he sits down to read the invitation. "Robin was set to marry him. All Jason had to do was ask her and it would have been a done deal."
"Yeah, well, look at where your planning has gotten us!" Carly snaps. "I told you I should have been the one to handle it, but no! Now I have to go and fix your mess!"
"What are you going to do?"
"Whatever it takes!" Carly snaps as she stomps her way to the front door. "The only way he marries her is over my dead body!"
Anger flooding through her, she swears that she should have known that blood sucking leach wouldn't stay away forever. No. Once again that little muffin face has found Jason at his most vulnerable point and has weaseled her way back into his life. She has another thing coming if muffin face thinks she's going to let that happen. Not in this lifetime. Not as long as she's living and breathing. That muffin face will not get into her inner circle. Robin she could tolerate, she's done it before, she's gotten rid of her before, as well, but not that muffin face. She will not marry Jason!
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The Quartermaine estate had been loud and lively with the usual arguments floating around, as well as insults, but once Alice brought in the wedding invitation all fall silent to the shocking news. It was barely a week since they had heard about Elizabeth marrying Lucky, a wedding they hadn't been invited to, of course, but this union was a whole lot more interesting. The invitation is addressed to Lila and family, which the Quartermaines take as all of them.
"Well, well, well." Edward ponders the invitation when his wife hands it over to him. "Looks like we have a wedding to attend today."
"If you're going, daddy, then I guess I shall attend, as well." Tracy voices as pours herself a cup of coffee. "I have been waiting for a good excuse to pull out that dress you bought me for my birthday."
"I have to work." AJ voices. "Right, Grandfather?"
"The invitation was to me and my family." Lila speaks up before Edward has a chance to speak. That means we will all attend. Understood?"
"Of course, my love." Edward kisses her temple before turning a glaring eye at AJ. "We will all attend the wedding."
"I'll get started on clearing the schedule for today." Ned says as he gathers his things. "Shall I RSVP for the reception under chicken or fish?"
"You go to work." Lila says softly. "I'll call Jason myself to extend our congratulations as well as an RSVP for the family."
Once everything was set and agreed upon, everyone got to work on preparations for the unusually sudden wedding. Monica and Alan both were uncertain of their place in attending the wedding, seeing as it was addressed to Lila instead of them, but decide that they will attend regardless. For years they have been trying to find a way to reconnect with their son and maybe, just maybe, attending the wedding will be the first step in accomplishing that.
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Sipping her cup of coffee, Robin smiles softly as she reads the invitation that has landed at her doorstep early that morning. She could almost hear Carly's screams of foul play as she makes her way over to her kitchen where her boyfriend stands in the kitchen cooking breakfast. Last night, after her talk with Jason, she finally had the courage to tell Patrick exactly what she expected from him. She wants to be exclusive. Nothing short of it. And, to her surprise, he simply responded with 'took you long enough'.
"Hey, you." he greets her with a gentle kiss. "What's that?"
"A wedding invitation." she replies simply. "Care to be my plus one?"
"Always." he replies slyly. "How else would I be able to see you in a dress?"
"You want to see me in a dress?"
"Sure." he smirks before pushing her up against the counters, locking her hands behind her back before doing so. "But I'm more interested in what happens at the end of the night when I get you out of it."
"You're so bad."
"Only in the best ways."
Her laughter is muffled out as his lips come crashing into hers, cutting off any coherent thought that might have slipped from her lips, his hands slowly doing away her robe to reveal her most private parts to him. The invitation said to call in an RSVP for the reception, but the more his hands roamed her body, the farther it was from her mind. Jason has to know she'll attend the reception, right? Her name will be on the list. She's sure of it. Letting out a loan moan, she allows her mind to go blank, leaving only the desire for her boyfriend and the hunger for his heavenly body.
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Taking the mail from his butler, Nikolas makes his way to his living room where his brother has chosen to take residence until he can find a way to fix things with Elizabeth. Every part of him wanted to stop his brother from making anymore of a fool of himself, but he is a Spencer and they don't listen well. Sorting through the mail, he almost fell over in shock when he opened an envelope addressed to him and found it to be an invitation to Elizabeth's wedding.
"What?" Lucky snaps at him when Nikolas looks at him with a nervous expression. "What is that?"
"Nothing." Nikolas tries to shove it between the rest of his mail, but his brother grabs it before he can. "You don't want to look at that."
"Are you freaking shitting me?!" Lucky explodes. "This can't be real! She can't be marrying him!"
"It looks pretty real to me." Nikolas voices before taking a deep breath. "Maybe its really over this time, Lucky."
"The hell it is!" Lucky snaps, waving the invitation at him. "This sham wedding is not going to happen! You can bet your ass on that!"
Watching his brother storm out of the room after tossing the invitation in the trash, Nikolas shakes his head before picking the invitation up and sitting down on the couch. A part of him wants to be surprised by this, but he really isn't. As much as she tried to deny it, Nikolas had seen the true feelings behind Elizabeth's eyes whenever she mentioned Jason.
As much as he wishes that Elizabeth and Lucky could work things out, this invitation has changed everything. She's finally done with his brother and there really wasn't much that either of them could do now to change that. Deciding to take Emily's lead, Nikolas places a call to the number provided and RSVP's for the reception.
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She's angry. Not because of the fact that her best friend is about to marry her brother in a matter of hours without telling her about it. She can definitely understand why Elizabeth and Jason have chosen to do things like this rather than facing all the drama that would have undoubtedly come about if they were to make the announcements themselves. No. That's not why she's angry. There's only one person she's angry at in this whole ordeal and he's about to get an earful for putting her through this crap without telling her the most important part.
"Emily?" Johnny looked at her in disbelief. "How did you find me?"
"I strangled it out of Ethan." Emily snaps. "How dare you?!"
"I can explain..."
"You better have one hell of an explanation to make up for not telling me that I was planning a wedding for my best friend and my brother!" she exclaims. "You should have told me, Johnny!"
"Maybe." he admits. "But would you have done if I did?"
"That's not the point!" she replies angrily. "You should have told me!"
"It was just best this way." he sighs, running one hand down his face. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't risk anything stopping this wedding."
"Tell me one thing." Emily says firmly as she stands right in front of him. "Do they love each other?"
"I think they could if given the chance to do so." Johnny admits. "They're good for each other, Emily."
"Fine." Emily states. "But you and I are done from here on out. I never want to see or speak to you again after this wedding is over."
"Emily..."
"No." Emily says firmly. "Elizabeth may be a good enough person to see past this, but I am not. We're done."
Leaving a stunned Johnny in her wake, Emily makes her way back to the estate to get ready for a wedding she had blindly planned. Hopefully she'll be able to get some alone time with Elizabeth before the wedding, to get a true handle on just how serious things are and decide where she stands in regard to it all. A part of her feels bad for Lucky, but she no longer finds herself eager to jump to his defense. After all she has been put through after the wedding that wasn't, Emily just doesn't care all that much anymore.
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Standing in the middle of the bridge over Black Stone Canyon, their arms around each other, Jason and Elizabeth take a moment to just enjoy the peace and quiet, knowing that today will be filled with a whole lot of shouting and angry people that disapprove. Closing her eyes, Elizabeth focuses on the beat of his heart, thankful that she can do that now without feeling guilty or sad.
"You okay?" he asks softly, causing a smile to touch her lips.
"I'm perfect." she whispers, tightening her hold on him a little. "I just can't believe we're really here right now."
"I know what you mean." he admits. "I stayed up most of the night trying to wrap my head around it."
"Can you believe that this will be the last ride we'll have together before we get married?" Elizabeth says as she pulls away to look at him. "In just a few hours I will officially be Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan."
"I like the sound of that."
"Me, too." she admits, a slight blush reaching her cheeks. "If this is a dream, I hope I never wake up."
"Its not a dream." he says before kissing her lips soundly. "Its much better than that."
"We should probably head back." Elizabeth says after a long moment. "You still need to pick up your tux from the dry cleaner and I promised Ethan I'd get to the studio on time to do my hair and makeup."
"Okay." he replies. "See you at the alter."
"I better."
While he rides his bike back into town, Elizabeth climes into the SUV parked at the end of the bridge with a waiting Francis in the driver's seat. Though they didn't keep with tradition as far as not seeing each other at all before the wedding, they are keeping with tradition as far as Jason not seeing her in her wedding dress. It had taken her all morning to pick out the perfect dress, having sent her last wedding dress up in flames, and now all that's left is to get ready, get to church, and get married.
"Ready?" Francis asks her once she's buckled up.
"More than I have ever been."