"I can't believe this," Elle murmured again. "How can you expect me to go through with this?"
"Now, Elle, calm down. Everything's all arranged," Zed told her. He really was sorry that she was going to have to go through with this but he couldn't see any way around it. If there wasn't a wedding after what X's mother had told the Alien Rights Commission, it would be a total disaster. All they could do was make it as pleasant as possible for her. He took some brochures off of his desk and handed them to her. "Here. Food services sent these over for you to look at and pick the menu. The worms offered to handle the cake."
"The worms are not handling the cake," Elle muttered as she started to look through the brochures. "I refuse to have coffee cake on my wedding day! Not that it's going to be much of a wedding considering the fact that we hate each other."
"What's that?" X asked suddenly as he pointed to a part of her veil, startling her. She had almost made herself forget that he was there.
"Huh? Oh, that's the part of the veil that's supposed to go over my face until the kiss. Which by the way, we are NOT going to do!!" she said as she glared at him.
"How nice," X said as he reached out and fiddled with the veil for a minute before putting part of it over her face like it was supposed to go. "It covers up those beady little eyes of yours so well!"
"X, you know there's something in the wedding vows about 'til death do you part.' I would be very quiet now if I were you. I do not want to get married and widowhood is looking very attractive!" Elle cried as she stood and started for the door. "I'll just take these down to my room and look at them."
"Fine. Just hurry and bring them back so Food Services can get to work. Oh, Agent Vee would like to talk to you about the flowers when you're through with the food," Zed told her before she stormed out.
*******
"Elle?" Jay said as he and Kay spotted Elle stalking down the hall. In that dress, she was extremely hard to miss.
"Don't say a word," Elle muttered as she glared at him. She really wasn't in the mood to hear Jay making jokes about this. "If you want to live to see your next birthday, don't say a word!"
"Uh, I was just wanting to know if you were really getting married tommorrow. Need to go shopping if you are," Jay blurted out before dodging behind his partner. Surely Kay wouldn't let Elle kill him.
"Yes, I am getting married tommorrow because it seems X's mother called the Alien Rights Commission with the happy news! They're all going to be here and if there's no wedding, then there will be a lovely interstellar incident to deal with! Never do a favor for an alien!" Elle moaned as she stalked past them and down the hall into her room, slamming the door behind her. She couldn't believe this was happening.
"Did you understand what she just said?" Jay asked. He still wasn't sure that Elle hadn't had a breakdown.
"No, but Zed will. Come on. Let's go talk to him," Kay said as they started down the hall to Zed's office.
"Okay. I wonder what Elle would like for a wedding present?"