Disclaimer: I worship Sotsu. I am poor.
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Was it all a dream? Finally,
Relena thought, she was finally marrying Heero. Finally.
But was anything that simple? For Relena, poor Relena, no. There were seemingly
half a dozen obstacles, the most notable, and not to mention the most vocal was
Zeches.
"There is no way I am ever letting even go NEAR Heero Yuy, marrying him is
out of the question!"
Noin put on her best pleading face and leaned on Zeches' shoulder, "C'mon
Zeches, Heero's been a good bodyguard this whole time..."
"But, being a bodyguard means you never... touch..." Zeches
stuttered, putting that 'birds and the bees' face of embaressment. Noin let out
a sturdy laugh and slapped Zeches on the back.
Relena watched the scene with some amusement, but mostly with indignance.
Zeches had a right to be concerned, and a right to be protective, but Relena
wasn't a little girl...
Zeches crossed his arms while Noin dragged him off, a firm grip on his platinum
blonde hair. Relena sighed, somewhat in relief, and somewhat in half annoyance.
She sat on the kitchen counter, her hands on the count she looked out the
mansion window. The room was large for a kitchen, and the counter, which when
only up to Relena's waist was the only seperation to the dining room.
Relena leaned back slightly, looking up at the ceiling.
"Ohhhh Relena..."
Relena almost backwards right off the counter the voice startled her so. She
waved her arms frantically to keep balance and the voice's owner caught her by
the ankle.
Sighing in relief her face met Hilde's who smiled. "So, ready to go buy a
gown?"
Relena was suprised, she hadn't really thought about the logistics of the
wedding yet. She had to admit to herself, as silly as it was, she was mostly
caught in the reverie of the honeymoon. Hilde poked Relena in the nose who
promptly snapped back to reality.
"I know you'd prefer to imagine what it'll be like without the dress on,
but for the sake of the public ceremony, it might be wise to find
something."
Relena blushed profusely, "Was it really that obvious?"
Hilde burst out laughing, "No, but it is now."
Relena's face froze and her eyebrow rose, then she sighed in exasperation at
her own silliness.
Hilde took her hand. "C'mon! Time to go shopping!" Hilde was a great
one at adding enthusiasm.
They took a cab downtown and went to the largest, most expensive bridal shop in
town.
Hilde tried on several bridemaid's dresses, all of which were a little to big.
Relena had to stifle a giggle at Hilde's feigned dismay. Relena fit perfectly
into her second dress. Her first dress, fortunately or not, had ripped when
Relena had almost fallen off the fitting platform. Hilde said however, this was
fortunate since the dress was ugly.
The remainders of the day were spent, literally, on other miscellaneous
dresses, shoes, caterer reservations, so forth. The wedding, which had been
planned for a month had been pushed forward to just a week. Not at much room
for error, but enough.
It was set for Friday, and today was Monday. Just 5, short days - what could
possibly go wrong in that short amount of time -- famous last words.
It was a traditional wedding. First day, Tuesday was a small engagement ceremony;
Wednesday was the rehearsal, Thursday the bachelor party, and Friday the ceremony
itself.
Each day had an unfortunate lack of organization except for the ceremony on Friday,
which was rigidly regulated.
Heero had trusted Duo with the wedding ring, first mistake, and the bachelor
party, second mistake, indeed, this week would go fine, just fine... for a week
out of the calendar in hell...
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While Hilde and Relena cruised
the town for bridal goodies, Duo and Heero looked for the counterpart, namely a
tux. Not just any tux mind you, for Heero, this tux has to be perfect. This had
to be the holy grail of tuxes.
And so began the great quest for the tux. The first store they went to was on
Wufei's suggestion. "Since when did Wufei wear tuxedos? Ahh well, Wufei's
just as much a perfectionist as I am..." reasoned Heero.
Well, Wufei was a perfectionist, but, unfortunately, Heero neglected to observe
the fact that Wufei is also Chinese, and consequently suggested the best
chinese tux maker he knew.
The tuxes, which were nice, were not the problem in this however, but the fact
that Heero didn't speak Chinese was more of a damper to that plan.
The next place was one that Quetra suggested. Heero took one look at the light
blue tuxes and promptly walked out the door. With Duo calling behind him,
"But ah Heero, you'd look cute in pink and blue, I mean it..."
Heero gave Duo his patented deathglare and Duo gave a wide cheshire-cat grin
and shut up. Not because he wanted to of course, he would've rather teased
Heero to high heaven about it, but Heero's demonstation of his left hook made
Duo consider his heath being at stake.
The next place was suggested by Trowa. But Heero didn't like the style or the
management. He thought the shoes and pants were to big and the mask was, just
well, wierd, even for a clown. And the management, they were worse then the
infamously garrulous Duo, except exactly the opposite.
"Damn mimes, don't know how to make a decent tux!" Heero grumbled as
he left.
The last place, in which Heero was extremely reluctant to go to, was suggested
by none other then Duo.
Heero looked over at Duo who couldn't help but laugh hysterically as he watched
Heero get fitted for a polyester lime green tux. Heero's face slowly became red
like a kettle filling with water.
Duo jumped up and ran right out the door, laughing all the way. Heero ran after
him, tripping over an askew sidewalk ledge. Flying through the air he fell
right in front of a tuxedo shop.
And there, in the window, as if illuminated by a halo of supernatural light,
the tux, the perfect tux.
"The Spandex Menagerie." was the name of the shop.
Duo grabbed Heero and dragged him away from the shop.
"No way Heero, noooo way, not gonna happen, that's for AFTER the
wedding..."
Starry-eyed Heero watched mournfully as the spandex shop got farther and
farther away.
Eventually, they found a small Mom and Pop tux shop, simple and good. Heero was
finally adorned in his black tux. He looked a vision of James-Bond handsome.
Duo found a nice looking tux as well, and both satisfied that they looked as close
to perfect as possible returned to their respective homes for a good night's
sleep...
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