Chapter 25
"What happened to all of you?" Maxine yelped when her sons came into the church for the rehearsal. She took first Adam's chin in her hand and looked at his face, then did the same for Kit.
"Just once you couldn't behave yourselves?" Maxine asked, furious. "You have a wedding tomorrow. What is everyone going to think?"
"That the Ely boys had fun?" Quinn quipped, earning a stare from Maxine. Luke's mouth twitched once. Quinn grinned.
"I should have stopped at one," Maxine huffed.
"I would have hated to be an only child," Kit complained with a grin.
Maxine gave him a dirty look and stormed into the church.
"Don't tease her too much," Luke warned his sons. "She's emotional at another son getting married."
The six guys nodded. Luke followed his wife into the church.
"Gosh, what's she gonna be like by the time Jakey gets married?" Kit wondered.
"Oh by then she'll be sick of weddings and will ask Jakey to elope," Quinn teased.
Sam snorted and Jake grinned. Sam knew Jake would rather elope and bypass all the ceremony of it. Jake didn't like attention.
They filed into the church after Maxine and Luke, Sherri and her family was already there. Sherri look one look at the battered and bruised Ely brothers and her jaw dropped.
"You played football," Sherri accused.
Adam shrugged, causing the other five Ely men to snort.
"Henpecked," Bryan said under his breath.
"Whipped," Kit, Nate, Quinn and Jake corrected at the same time. Then they all started to laugh.
Sam, Debi, Cricket and Vanis rolled their eyes as they went into one of the pews to sit together. Cara went with them. Even Cricket who was the latest to join the Ely family knew the guys well enough to roll her eyes at their antics. Poor Vanessa grunted as she tried to get comfortable.
"I'll be happy to have this baby," Vanis rubbed her belly. "I'll love seeing my feet again."
"Is Nate putting your shoes on for you?" Debi asked.
"Yes, isn't he sweet?" Vanis gushed.
"Is that why you have two different colored shoes on?" Sam had to ask, pointing at Vanessa's feet.
Cricket, Cara and Debi looked down at Vanessa's feet and started to giggle. Sam snorted.
"What?" Vanessa yelped causing everyone in the church to look at her. They saw the other girls laughing and wondered what was going on.
"Oh my gosh," Debi held onto Cricket as she laughed.
"What's so funny, Debs?" Quinn asked.
"Nate put two different colored shoes on Vanessa's feet," Debi managed to say between bouts of laughter.
"Oh I did not," Nate came over and then started to laugh when he saw that he had.
The rest of them came over and Vanessa held out her feet for all of them to see. Even though she couldn't see them, the others could and soon they were all laughing.
"At least he did it for the rehearsal and not the actual wedding," Sam giggled. That set all the women off again. Even Maxine was laughing. Leave it to her boys to show up at one of their brother's wedding with black eyes and to put the wrong shoes on his wife's feet.