Hello everyone, here is another addition to the wedding. Hope you enjoy, Kayxxx :)
Chapter Twenty one - The wedding: Superhero
It was time for the reception and funnily enough Sophia had not looked once at how the flowers or tables were set out, just like Ethan said she wouldn't, they didn't seem to matter anymore. They had been congratulated by every person who sat in the church, well, except Callum of course. He too had made his way to the reception sharing a taxi with his girlfriend Honey in a rather awkwardly silent drive. Ethan had found himself more worried about keeping Callum away from his brother than his wife, knowing just what Cal was like when he snapped and the last thing he wanted at his wedding was violence. Though Cal's newest love interest Lucy had now turned up, taking his mind off things Callum-wise for a while as they smothered each other in kisses throughout the night. Jessica had also joined her mother Lucy to the reception and had Thomas mesmerised by her pretty pink dress and matching bow tied neatly around both pigtails.
"Why don't you ask her for a dance?" Lofty called to Thomas, snapping him from his mesmerised gazing.
"No way" Thomas shook his head.
"Maybe later?" Lofty asked giving him a nudge.
"Yes, maybe later" Thomas smirked as he sipped from his glass of orange juice.
"Can I say my speech now?" Thomas called as he stood up on his chair.
"Of course" Ethan smiled.
"Okay" he cleared his throat and began, "My superhero, by Thomas Hardy. In school we had to write about our favourite superhero of all time, all my friends put the amazing Spider-Man or batman or the hulk. A lot of people thought I would write about Doctor Who but I wouldn't really class him as a superhero, because he's not one, he's a time lord but anyway...I wrote about the amazing Doctor Hardy. My friends or teachers didn't know about my superhero so I told them all about him. To everyone Doctor Hardy looks really nerdy because he has big glasses and loves Doctor Who but saves lives every single day in his blue superhero uniform because that's his job. His enemy is all the disease and injuries that affect people in the world and he helps make people better by fighting their illness or disease. He also has a sidekick called Doctor Knight who looks much cooler and does the same job but he's always off getting girls which he finds more interesting, but if Doctor Hardy ever needs him he will always be at his side. One day in work, Doctor Hardy came across a lady he once knew, she was like Spider-Man's Mary Jane or Batman's Catwoman. He could have walked away like a lot of people would have but he didn't, he couldn't because he was in love with this lady, he always had been, and she loved him too. He invited her into his life and made her better, though he didn't know he was making her better because she wasn't ill or diseased like all the people he usually made better, she was just a little bit broken and lost. She hadn't used her smile in a while because she had her own enemy she was fighting, the evil man in green whose power was to steal people's smiles. But the amazing Doctor Hardy made her find her smile again and to this day it only ever got bigger which is really good because her smile is the most beautiful smile I've ever seen. All I ever wanted was for my mummy to smile again and my daddy does that just by looking at her, he doesn't need any special powers. That was a story I wrote in school last week and my teacher gave me an A for being really imaginative and making up my own superhero instead of using a real one which I thought was funny, she didn't understand that superheroes don't need a cape or superpowers to be classed as a superhero. My friend's will probably never meet their superheroes because they're really famous and busy all the time but my superhero is my best friend and my daddy. Today my mummy and daddy got married and I just hope they're always as happy as they are right now, I love you both very much" He sat back down instantly as everyone clapped and praised him, he looked down embarrassed suddenly aware that everyone had watched him.
"That was amazing Thomas" a young girl's voice spoke, he looked up to find Jess smiling at him.
"Do you want to play football with me outside?" She asked as she held up a balloon.
"Yeah!" he called excitedly and ran to the door alongside her.
"Don't go far it's getting dark!" Sophia called after them as they disappeared outside.
As the night went on, everyone continued to get more and more drunk, laughing and joking and just enjoying every second. Ethan and Sophia had had their first dance which was adorable and had cut the cake which involved the rather cliché wedding tradition of shoving a slice in each other's faces. Sophia had now wondered off to thank her guests for coming and Ethan had spotted an opportunity to do something he had planned all night. He looked over at the bar and found Honey sat alone with her head in her hands.
"Would you like a drink?" He asked as he stood next to her.
"I've got one thanks" she replied looking down. He sighed deeply and took a seat next to her.
"Oh Honey, what's up?" He asked, "Where's your smile gone?" He continued.
"The evil man in green stole it" she replied quoting Thomas' speech.
"Why are you with him?" He asked.
"I'm not anymore, he was only using me to get to you and Sophia and the wedding, he didn't want anything to do with me" she explained, "and there's me thinking he was the one" she scoffed at herself.
"I'm sorry" Ethan spoke softly as he gently stroked her arm; though his actions were gentle they startled her as if he were going to knock ten bells out of her.
Seeing her reaction he spoke, "maybe it's for the best though" he whispered she nodded slowly in agreement. He pulled her in for a hug,
"I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are such a beautiful girl, too beautiful to sit around without a smile on your face, you'll find someone who treats you right and loves you for whom you are" he whispered in her ear as he held her.
"I wanted that someone to be you" she replied. He looked at her for a moment in shock; he didn't know what to say to that.
"Hey babe" Callum spoke as he kissed her on the cheek, "you staying at mine again tonight?" He asked.
"No, I don't want anything to do with you" she spat out in reply.
"What?" Callum asked confused.
"Just leave me alone Callum" she yelled as she threw her drink over him and stormed away.
He put on a fake laugh and took a seat beside Ethan.
"Woman ay" he shook his head.
"What's it like being the amazing Doctor Hardy then?" He joked. Ethan looked at him disgusted at the fact he would even think to make conversation with him.
"Oh come on doc, I know what you think of me but let's just make amends? Put the past behind us?" He urged. "Listen, I'd hate me too if I were you, but I just wanted to say that I really am happy for you and Soph, like Thomas said, all I did was steal her smile and it's nice to see it back on her face again, it was pretty cool to play the bad guy in Thomas' story but that's the past and I want to move on, be a better person and a step towards that would be making up with you" he explained, Ethan watched him warily, "so what do you say doc? Let bygones be bygones?" He asked as he held out his hand for Ethan to shake, he sighed deeply and shook it "I'm sorry for the upset I've caused your family, I'll be leaving you all alone from now on I promise" he smiled.
"It's not me you need to tell that to it's Sophia" Ethan replied bluntly.
"Oh I will do don't worry, I just thought I'd come to you first" he stated. "Why don't we have a drink to seal the deal?" Callum asked as he pulled out a bottle from his jacket.
"No thanks" Ethan replied, he couldn't think of anything for worse.
"We can toast to happily ever afters" Callum smiled.
"I said no" Ethan snapped.
"Okay I get it" Callum sighed, "I'll leave this here for you, in case you change your mind. This stuff is wonderful, it makes you forget about the bad things for a while, it's my magic" he winked as he left the bottle with Ethan and wondered off into the crowd of dancing people.
To be continued...