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Relena woke up bright and early that morning.
It was Wednesday, the day of the rehearsal, 1 o'clock sharp.
She had to get dressed,
organize everything,
go through the rehearsal,
then deal with Wufei and Sally again this afternoon.
Hilde was her maid of honor, and Sally, Catherine, an assortment of Quetra's
sisters, and even Dorothy would be her other brides maids.
Heero's day was easy,
get up,
fart around until he had to get on his tux,
do the rehearsal,
fart around until bedtime.
As Relena paniced, running
around trying to get things orderly Heero read a paper at his leisure.
He sighed peacefully, relaxing in the lay-z-boy. The day progressed slowly and
with easy for Heero, not a care or problem in the world... But Relena on the
other hand...
After about 2 hours Relena was finally ready to go, all the brides maids were dressed and Heero's best man arrived at the door, the maid of honor snuggly held close to him. Wufei finally arrived at the church much to Sally's surprise, apparently they had had a fight the previous night and weren't speaking to eachother. But they did look over to eachother, quick glances, and sometimes long lasting looks of genuine concern and hurt.
Quetra and Trowa held hands on
the way in, Quetra blushing, Trowa looked as cold and emotionless as ever, but
if you watched very closely, whenever he looked at Quetra his eyes were
lighter, and the stony face had some life breathed into it, sometimes even a
gentle smile emerged. Quetra had so much heart that Trowa could share it.
Hilde and Duo flirted
boisterously the entire ceremony, but not enough to be disruptive. Relena was a
vision, tightly rapped in her white gown that trailed a good 15 feet behind
her. A couple of Quetra's sister's children carried it while following Relena
and Zeches to the alter. Heero stood and his soldier's face broke, a gentle
smile of appreciation now tugged at his lips and he helped Relena up the last
stair to the alter.
Zeches leaned over to Heero, gripping his shoulder and growling in his ear,
"Hurt her and I kill you."
Heero smirked, leaning back to Zeches, "Same to you."
Zeches smirked and chuckled, releasing his grip off of Heero's shoulder and
taking his seat.
Marimeia walked up the aisle and handed Heero the ring off of a velvet pillow.
He nodded and she too, took her seat. Lady Une, Noin and Zeches all smiled at
Marimeia and Lady Une wiped a couple of stray tears.
Amazingly, for all the things that could've possibly gone wrong, not much ended
up being an obstacle.
The rehearsal, on the whole, when pretty well fine, but it wasn't the rehearsal
that Relena was dreading...
"Tell the _woman_ to put on a decent top if we're going out."
"Tell the _asshole_ to put on a decent mouth if we're going
out."
Relena sighed. She wished they
were using a more silent silent treatment. They were going out to an amusement
park while Heero and Duo went to help work on Hilde's car, which had broken
down. Relena rubbed the bridge of her nose between her index finger and thumb,
trying to gently massage the headache she was growing out of her head.
Now she could deal with
Heero's cold treatment, wars, famine, plague, hatred, death, unhappiness,
arrogant young diplomats and proud old ones, but Wufei and Sally just plain
struck a nerve with her when they got like this.
After the Whirlo-then-Hurlo ride, Wufei had to go to the bathroom and Relena
finally got a chance to ask Sally what had happened last night.
Sally wasn't sure how to
respond, she was so used to being indignant around Wufei's pride, when Relena
asked gently she didn't know whether to be suspicious or break down and tell
everything right there.
Relena gave Sally a look of genuine concern, and this finally broke Sally's
denial.
Her gaze became distant and
sad, almost lonely and regretful. "Me and Wufei had a fight last night...
I was trying to thank him for saving me, I don't remember what happened exactly
the next minute we were shouting and yelling and then I think I threw
something..." Sally sighed.
Relena made an expression related closely to "D'oh."
Wufei was making his way
through the crowds when he heard Sally talking about him, he froze, listening
intently.
"It's just, oh Relena, you have to understand, I mean, it's the same with
you and Heero. We- well I can't just admit that I do enjoy being around Wufei
even despite his chauvenistic, asanine, jerk-off, pompous, arrogant, stubborn,
pig-headed-"
Relena rose her hand up, "I get the idea."
"But at the same time I love the way he is. He's always focuses, intense,
confident, something with him just fits with me. When I'm with him I forget who
I am, forget that I'm Sally Po, that I'm anyone but part of him..."
Wufei couldn't move he felt like he was sinking in quicksand.
"But... I thought... I thought she hated me..." He almost said it
aloud...
Relena looked over at Sally, who was desperately trying to cram back in
everything she had just said by talking more about his fault, ignoring that she
was almost crying, and that she knew Wufei was close.
She turned to Relena, "I'm sorry Relena for the arguments we get into...
It must be terrible to be around... I thought maybe I could get on his good
side, maybe he'd respect me, but I know he never will..."
Sally's eyes were now filled with sadness and their physical manisfestation,
tears.
She wiped them away with a rugged, angry movement and stormed off. As soon as
she moved Wufei was uncovered and Relena looked at him. His emotions were
seeping out slowly, he looked confused, torn, angry, unhappy. The mix of
emotions was dangerous and made Wufei even more short tempered then usual.
When Relena tried to approach him he turned away swiftly and melted into the
crowd.
He said quietly over his shoulder, "I had no idea..."
Relena sighed, "Figures."
Shaking her head she went home...
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