Chapter 21 - First Dance
POV: Claire

After everyone's toast I was kind of ready to dance a little bit. I was just scared that Shane wouldn't want to. But to my surprise he did. Now most of the songs that people do for the first dance are country or old songs. The one that we picked was slow, but it wasn't country, it was Far Away from Nickelback. The song started off but when the chorus started to play something didn't sound right. I looked to Eve with a 'what the hell?' look and she just shrugged her shoulders. When I heard a guitar and drums then I knew what was going on. Uncle Wayne's surprise. But could they really be here?

When the curtains moved on the stage to reveal Nickelback, I soon found out that I was right. I couldn't help the smile that had plastered itself onto my face. Next thing I knew Shane was whispering into my ear.

"Love you babe." With that he kissed the top of my head.

"Love you too." I stated looking up at him. With that I kissed him, and when he broke it I just leaned my forehead against his.

Like on our anniversary, Shane had his hands linked together at the small of my back pulling me to him. While I had my arms around his neck, I was very comfortable swaying back and forth in a small circle. When the song finished the DJ started to play another song. Eve, Michael and I knew the moves to Wobble Baby, but I knew Shane didn't. At least I thought he didn't. He surprised me by dancing along with us. The same went for the little bit of WOP that they played.

Let me tell you now, it is hard as hell to drop to the floor in a wedding dress. But with a little bit of effort, Eve and I both achieved it. Receiving some hollers in the process. There was a few laughs and hollers when the wiggle, wiggle part came. I think that was mainly for Michael and Shane though.

When the first dance was finally over, I looked at Michael and Eve as we walked back to the table.

"Now who had them play that?"
"It wasn't us." Michael stated matter-of-factly.

"It was me." I looked to Shane.
"You had them play that?"

"Yeah."

"Why?" I said leaning across my chair and grabbing my glass. After it was gone we made our way over towards the cake.

"Cause I knew ya'll liked those songs. Plus I've been learning how to do them myself without you knowing."

"Well you did a good job babe."

"Think so?"
"Yeah. I didn't think you would get those moves."

After cutting the cake, I fed some to Shane. But smashed a little in his face in the process. To that he got a little mad, but, he got over it. He kissed me with his cake smothered lips and chin, while smiling as I did too. When we were cleaned up some it was time to take the garter off, before we went to change.

Momma had brought two chairs out and set them in the middle of the dance floor. Eve took a seat on one and I took the other. Michael and Shane wanted to be different from the traditional way of taking the garter off. So instead Shane went up under my dress and used his teeth. I laughed, just for the simple fact that nothing about this wedding was really traditional. It was all mixed up and had twists to it.

When Shane finally had the black, pink and white garter off, he twirled it around his finger. When Michael was done with Eve's I looked at her.

"You want to change real quick before we do the toss?" I asked.
"Yeah. I'm ready to get out of this dress."

I walked over and told momma that we were going to go change. But when we got back out that it would be time to do the bouquet and garter toss. Hiking up the sides of the dress, all four of us walked back to the office. Once inside the door got locked then we split to find our clothes and change. Shane had to help me unzip the dress, so I was standing in my seamless, white bustier bra and white tanga panties, along with the black heels. The heels came off first and set them aside, then the dress went back into the bag.

While we had access to the garter that we would keep, Shane went ahead and took the black, pink and white elastic band off my left thigh. The one that Shane would keep was a shiny material for all three colors. The outside was black, while in the middle was white on top, then pink below that. Black lace made Shane's bigger than the other one, and much prettier. In the middle of the whole thing was a pink and black bow, made of thin ribbon. Attached to the bow was a charm with two interlocking hearts. The same charm was on the other one that Shane would use for the garter toss.

I pulled on a pair of dark washed, flared blue jeans, then needed Shane's help with the corset. He gladly helped me out being he was already changed and waiting on me. I slid on a regular strapless, push up bra then pulled a short sleeved, white dirndl blouse on. It was very cute. Around the neck and sleeves were ruffled, the bottom of it stopped right under my breasts. I slid the rainbow ombre, zebra print, pyramid belt through the loops and fastened it off. The last thing I put on was a pair of white, Marceli wedge, heeled sandals.

Shane had changed his pants, slipping into a pair of low rise dark blue jeans. He had left the white dress shirt on that went with the tux, along with the black tie. He put a black and white pyramid belt on and his black DC shoes.

Michael's outfit was the same as Shane's. The only difference being he changed the dress shirt to black, with a white tie. The belt was black but with silver studs instead of black and white. Eve's outfit consisted of a pair of black, low-rise, flare pants and a white and black, steel boned, overbust corset. The sides of the corset are white, while the front of it is black. There were five lock things going down the front. They looked like the locks that are on a window seal. The only thing being they were a brownish color. She finished it off with a pair of black suede boots.

Michael had took Eve's other garter off as well. Of course it was all black. The shiny black material had black lace around the top and bottom. In the middle was a black, ribbon bow with a crystal skull charm. The one that Michael would toss was simple. A wide piece of black elastic with black lace sewn onto the top and bottom. In the middle there was silver heart charm.

"We ready?" I asked to no one in particular.

"Yeah. Where's the footballs?" Eve asked walking towards the door.

"Courtney has them behind the bar." Michael said while walking up to Eve and opening the door.

All four of us walked out of the office then, feeling much better than we did before. Walking down the hallway Michael grabbed Eve's hand and interlocked their fingers. Shane held his arm out and let me slip mine through his. Once we were back out in the main area, we all walked over to the bar and got a Greatful Dead.

"Hey Courtney. Do you have the footballs back there?" I asked then took a sip of my drink.

"Yeah just a second and I'll get 'em." She stated then went back to mixing the few drinks in front of her.

When Courtney was done mixing the drinks, she reached underneath the counter where the register was, and pulled out two footballs, along with two small bouquets. She handed us each one - Michael and Shane the footballs, while Eve and I got the bouquets. We walked over towards everyone, then Michael spoke out over the microphone.

"Hey everyone. It's time to do the garter and bouquet tosses. So if everyone will go outside we'll get this over with."

With that everyone, including the kids, got up and walked to the door. When everyone was outside in the parking lot I looked at Shane and Michael.

"You guys want to go first?" I said while moving the bouquet around in a circle.

"Yeah I guess."

I helped Shane slip the black, pink and white garter onto the football. Eve helped Michael out with his as well. I looked back to the crowd of our friends and family members.

"Okay. We need all the single guys down there!" I yelled pointing farther down the parking lot.

To my surprise they all listened about where to go. "Iite, we all good?" Michael asked all the guys, who in turn whooped and hollered.

Shane and Michael got into position standing beside each other. Michael counted to three then the footballs went flying through the air. It seemed like everyone was jumping up in the air to catch them. One of the guys that caught one of the footballs was Kevin Patterson. The other was Will Foster.

Kevin and Will both go to TPU and have a few classes with me. Kevin stood around six feet two inches, and weighed around two hundred pounds. Most of his weight was pure muscle though from him working out. His curly black hair stood out against his tanned skin and green eyes. Will was another story. He stood around six foot but was skinny, only weighing around one hundred thirty pounds. His shaggy blonde hair went well with his suffer type physique.

Next it was mine and Eve's turn to throw the bouquets. All the single girls got together in a group and waited for the flowers to fly. Eve and I turned around so our backs were facing the group. Then on the count of three we threw them behind us going over our heads. Emilia Hewlett was a nice girl. She was a bit short which was okay though. She stood at around five feet five inches and weighed around one hundred fifty seven pounds. Her wavy brown hair went down to her shoulders.

Brenda Burks was the other that caught the bouquet. She went to TPU also to be a surgical technologist. She stood around five feet two inches tall and weighed around a hundred and fifty pounds. Her ginger hair looked like it had a perm to make it into spirals. The only thing off was how pale her skin was, but being she was a red head it made since. Just for the simple fact that they burn real easily.