It was now July, summer had come up on Merlin quite quickly, he had to focus quite a lot on his school work toward the end of the school year, as he never exactly failed, but his marks weren't the best. This meant writing the song for Uther and Hunith's wedding had taken quite the backseat, much to Hunith's delight, she still didn't want him to sing, but he refused to give up. It was true there was only two weeks left, until the wedding, and he had still not chosen the two songs he wanted to show her yet, but he had written a lot more lately, and now all he had to do was just pick the two he liked the most to show her. He was doing this, late in the afternoon, in his room, even though he was supposed to be cleaning out the garage for Uther, so said Hunith who told him to, but it could be done later. Instead, he read through his own song lyrics.

"I get so lost inside your eyes, would you believe it? You don't have to say you love me...You don't have to say nothing .."

It wasn't exactly what he wanted to show his mother. he wanted one upbeat song and one slower song, so that way, all bases were covered and she couldn't get out of letting him do it. Suddenly his door burst open, and Merlin jumped, thinking it was his mother to come and yell at him for not doing what she had told him, but instead, it was Arthur. Arthur had arrived back from Uni that morning, Merlin was doing his best to not focus on spending time with him and doing this instead. Apparently Arthur was not getting that memo though. He walked in, and Merlin noticed he looked a little off.

"What's the matter?" he asked, putting the papers his songs were written on back into one stack and in the blue folder he had for them. Arthur came and sat on the bed.

"Dad's just asked me to be his best man..."

Merlin looked at him, for a long time, mostly just because he liked to, and then shrugged. "Mum asked Morgana to be her maid of honor."

Arthur's face scrunched up. "What'd she say to that?"

"Well...no," Merlin smirked. "But then yes, after awhile and a talk with Uther."

"He probably paid her," Arthur rolled his eyes and fell forward onto Merlin's bed. So, it seemed he planed on staying awhile. "It must suck...not having any real friends, because you're fake."

"I mean, yeah...it does," retorted Merlin, grinning. "I wouldn't say I'm fake, but..."

Arthur rolled over and glared at him. "Shut the fuck up...you know I mean them."

"Did you say yes..." asked Merlin then. "To his proposal?"

"Yeah... what else was I supposed to say?" said Arthur, sighing deeply now and closing his eyes, laying flat on his back in Merlin's bed. "What are you doing then? If me and Morgana are in it."

"Um...nothing, I guess, they didn't ask me to do anything," said Merlin, he wasn't very bothered by that, but Arthur peeked his eyes open and looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "I don't mind...and I am supposed to sing, so maybe that's why they didn't ask..."

But Merlin knew that wasn't true, and that if it was up to his mother he wouldn't be singing, either. "Oh yes, you're singing," smirked Arthur. "Do I get a sneak peek?"

Merlin shook his head. "Nope...you'll have to wait for the wedding. The only one who gets to hear me is Mum, as she has to approve it."

Arthur pouted. "Aw...can't I listen in, with Hunith?"

Merlin smiled, but not because Arthur was at all convincing, it was more like he was very cute and it was annoying. So, maybe he was convincing. "Uh...fine, you can, but I had wanted everyone to see me there...with the band, in a suit...the whole lot."

"I'll pretend I never heard you then, so I can be surprised," said Arthur, and Merlin rolled his eyes. "I do have to say...I'm still surprised you wanna do this, the boy who I first met and asked me to teach him piano would've never done that."

"Oh, that boy's still there, I...I'm just trying to shut him up for once," said Merlin and Arthur rolled back over, onto his stomach, and propped up on his arms to look up at Merlin and smile knowingly at him. "What?"

"I didn't say anything..." grinned Arthur.

"No, you're canary lips are though..."

"Excuse me? My what lips?" retorted Arthur, touching his mouth. "Don't look at my lips, son..."

"No one wants to look at your lips, Arthur..."

"I reject that, I think they do..." When Merlin did not react to this, Arthur, clearly bored by that, reached out and tried picking up Merlin's folder of songs, he snatched it out of Arthur's hands, before he could open it.

"Ah...no, my eyes only!"

"I just wanted to see...aw, come on!"

"No!" retorted Merlin, gripping the book to his chest. Arthur sat up and smirked darkly.

"What, are you writing songs about me," he questioned. "And don't want me to see them?"

"Yes," nodded Merlin. "That's exactly right." Of course, it was exactly right, but Arthur didn't need to know that. "It's called, This Big Ass Prat Won't Leave Me Alone...by Merlin Embers."

Arthur looked offended for several seconds, and then laughed. "Fuck you..."

Dinner was soon done after that, and the two went down stairs to eat. Hunith didn't ask Merlin about the garage and Merlin didn't mention it, and instead of helping clean up after dinner, Merlin continued to sit at the table and picked up his buzzing phone from his pocket. The text was from Gwen.

Gwen: Did you ask your parents if I can come to the wedding yet?

No, Merlin had not. He hadn't really wanted to, not that he minded Gwen being there exactly, even though she had never came over to their house, or even wanted to, it was more of a why did she want to come? Rather than a not wanting her there. He waited for his mother to walk back into the room, before he opened his mouth.

"We're allowed to bring dates to the wedding, right?" he asked, suddenly, which made every single person stop what they were doing, which for Morgana was play on her phone, Hunith doing the cleaning, and for both Uther and Arthur, eating their second plates. They just looked at him, like he was crazy. "Just because...I kinda wanted to bring this girl, Gwen, from school..."

Hunith scoffed at this. "No, there are no dates allowed!"

"Oh...I just thought, the invitations said a plus one, and..."

"Yes, if you had gotten an invitation, but you didn't, and if you had told us three months ago..." retorted Hunith. "No, you think this is some party for you? This is our wedding." She put a hand on Uther's shoulder and looked like she might cry, at least she was really trying to. "You have some nerve..."

"Now, come on, Hunith..." said Uther, instead of looking annoyed, like Merlin thought he would, he actually looked quite pleased at Merlin. "The boy has taken interest in a girl, at least...we shouldn't try to snuff out young loves flame..."

"You want to let him?" seethed Hunith. "He's turning our wedding into a...a love game!"

"Merlin, it's a yes...tell the girl she is more than welcome to come to the wedding," said Uther, grinning over at Merlin, and really...they got this all wrong, but he wasn't going to argue about it at all. Hunith finally began crying and Uther sighed. "We have more than enough room for her, Hunith. Let the boy grow up!"

"He doesn't deserve it," she complained, covering her face with her hands, everyone just watched her, not really very bothered, unlike she was. "He has done nothing to help with this wedding..."

"He shouldn't have to, he's not the one getting married...we are."

And that seemed to do it, pushed Hunith over the edge and she stormed out of the room crying, clearly choking from forcing herself to wail, as she went. "Uh...here we go again," said Uther, as he threw his used napkin onto the table, and followed after his soon-to-be wife. "Hunith, now come on...you're being-"

But what she was being was cut off, as Uther had followed her up the stairs and out of ear shot. The three, Merlin, Arthur and Morgana, still sat there. Merlin picked up his phone again and texted Gwen.

Merlin: They said yes!

"Merlin," said Arthur now, and Merlin looked up from his phone, the two still just stared at him. "I hate to be the one to break this to you...but you're gay as shit, what are you doing?"

"Um...I never said that, you shouldn't assume things," said Merlin, plainly, even though he had, at one point, in fact told Arthur he had fancied a boy once, meaning Will. But Arthur was Bi, so he should know not to put labels on things. "And I had never meant I wanted to take Gwen as a romantic date...she just wanted to come."

"Gwen..." said Morgana. "Isn't that the whore girl from your school you told me about?"

Merlin nodded. "Well...yes, but I didn't want to tell her no...she doesn't take no well."

"Oh well..." said Morgana, smirking. "But, saying no is such fun."

Arthur sighed now, deeply. "Great...she's probably going to try sleeping with dad during this thing. Can't wait to see how that goes."

"She's not going to do anything," said Merlin, a little offended, though he himself never put Gwen in very good lighting. "She just wanted to come because she's never been to a wedding before."

(A/N: Sorry it's been a bit since I updated, it's almost over though, I mean...not yet, but the wedding is coming and I'm excited for you all to read it! Enjoy!)