Ever After
Chapter 2 : Preparations
Author's note: Part of this chapter involves sexual refrences.
The alarm sounded. 7:15. Time to get up. But he
was still tired. He wanted to lay there forever, his fianceé
laying next to him. He hit the clock to make it shut up. Claude
put his hand out, reaching for Rena on the other side of the bed,
but she wasn't there.
"I wonder where she went," he wondered. He got
up to get a cup of coffee and sat down on the couch to watch some
TV when he saw a note on the coffee table.
Claude,
I trust you will get up on time. I went out early to go the
airport. I called Precis and Ceine last night while you were in
the shower, and they're coming to help me plan the rest of the
wedding.
Love you forever,
Rena Kenni (I love the way that sounds!)
Claude laughed mentally at her joke. "Soon that won't be a joke..." He drank his coffee, took of his clothes and got in the shower.
Rena was at the airport waiting for Precis and Celine to get off. "I wish the plane would hurry!"
"Big Sister Rena!"
"Darling!"
Precis and Celine ran up to Rena.
"Congratulations!" Celine said as she hugged Rena.
"Congratulations, Big Sister!" Precis applauded.
"I have a feeling Ashton's gonna propose to me soon...oh, I
wish he'd hurry up!"
Rena noticed a big change in Precis' personality. She wasn't the
hyperactive teenager that she had once known. Precis seemed much
more calm and mature. Her hair was French braided and short. She
was wearing a sun dress with a sunflower pattern, light yellow
socks and white sandals. Celine, on the other hand, was still the
same.
"Uh, Celine, can you change out of those
clothes...just this once? Because while we're out today, people
will start looking..." Rena asked.
"Oh, Rena darling...I guess, just while I'm here. I won't
need to cast any spells, will I?"
"Um...no, there aren't that many evil wizards here. They
shouldn't pose a threat," Rena said sarcastically.
"Hmph!" Celine turned around and refused to look at
Rena.
While at work, all Claude could think about was Rena. He had dozed a number of times, feeling he never got enough sleep. But of course, he does just fall asleep at work EVERY day...
"General Kenni!" someone shouted,
waking up Claude.
"Huh? What? Oh, it's you...what do you want?"
"We have more papers for you to fill out," the worker
explained, dropped off the papers and left.
"Oh, all right. Is this all I'm going to do all day for the
rest of my life, sit in a stuffy office and fill out papers?
There's no space exploration to be done at the moment, and even
if there was, I wouldn't go because of the wedding..."
Claude asked himself and sighed.
"How about this one?" Celine asked
Rena. The trio had arrived in the Kenni apartment. They had been
looking at wedding dresses.
"No, I want...crap! I don't know what I want..." Celine
had pointed out a long dress that was cut off at the shoulders.
It had a light pink sash that tied around the waist with part of
it falling down in the front. It had a short slit, about
calf-high and the woman displaying it was wearing beautiful shoes
the color of the dress.
"Oh, let's take a break. Let's talk about guys! I wanna know
how your love lives are going..."
"I'll go first!" Celine said. "Well,
I'm...uh...kinda going out with Dias Flac...we've been living
together for two months now."
"Really? Cool! Where have you been living?" Rena asked
Celine.
"In Lacour. We decided on a big city. He's become a lot more
open towards me than he ever was with anyone since...his family
was slaughtered..."
"That's good, Celine!" Rena said as she winked.
"You go girl!"
"Precis, what about you?" Rena asked.
"Hold on darling, I'm gonna go get a soda." Celine
walked to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. "Oh, just
my luck, no diet! Oh well, I'll go to the store."
"I'll go with you, Celine," Rena said.
"No, Rena, you stay here and talk with Precis. I already
know about her pr-"
"Bye Celine!" Precis said, eager to get her out of the
room. She walked up to Celine. "You let it slip, you
die..."
Precis smiled as she ran her finger across her throat.
"Celine, there's a general store two blocks down," Rena
explained.
"There is? Thanks!" Celine said as she left the
apartment.
"Okay, Precis, what's the big secret? Are you getting
married?" Rena asked.
"Well...no...I'm...ah...kinda...sorta...pregnant...."
Precis said. That was why she had changed so much.
"Oh, my God, that's great! Who's the father?" Rena
yelled happily as she hugged her 'little sister'.
"Ashton. Ashton Anchors. But the thing is, he doesn't
know...he's been wondering why I've been acting so 'weird' as he
puts it lately..." Precis explained.
"You should really tell him, Precis. He needs to he's going
to be a father in less than 9 months. When did...you guys...you
know..."
"We live together, like you & Claude and Celine and
Dias. We've done it before, but we always had protection...but I
guess we had forgotten. It was the anniversary of our first date,
nine weeks ago...I found out I was pregnant last week."
"Oh...I see...I've never even SEEN Claude's manhood..."
"Really? Ashton's is kinda small..." Precis told Rena,
a childish tone in her voice after all the serious talk.
"This is sad, I'm still a virgin and my little sister isn't!
And I'm the one getting married!" Rena laughed.
"You'd think that it would've been bigger, since he's 6
foot, but it's so SMALL!" Precis giggled. Rena smiled and
hugged Precis.
"Precis, as soon as you get back, tell him. He'd wanna know,
and besides, I think he's probably beside himself with fear, and
he probably expects that you are pregnant. Call me when you get
back and tell me how it went."
"Okay, I'll tell him. Thank you, Rena." They finished
their conversation as soon as Celine walked in the door with a
liter of diet coke and some paper cups. She also had orange, 7-Up
[yours! Hehe ^^], grape, root beer, two boxes of Pocky [Japanese
snack candy], chips and candy.
"PARTY!!".