What's In A Dream
Part 7: Shop 'til Ya Drop!
Elle waded listlessly through the infamous maze of winding halls in MIB, she wasn't looking forward to going shopping that day with X's mother. The lady seemed very nice and truth be told, Elle really wouldn't mind having her for a mother-in-law. It was her son that she had the problem with!
"There you are angel!" an enthusiastic elderly voice called.
She groaned and turned around giving the old JeeDangian woman a weak grin, "Hello….Mom."
"Oh deary, you're gonna look so pretty in a JeeDangian wedding dress!"
"Huh?"
"I've had a gown transported here especially for you!"
"You shouldn't have," Elle groaned.
"This is so exciting!" Zoey half squealed, "And I can't wait to see that son of mine in a JeeDangian wedding tux!"
"Me either," Elle muttered slyly, at least there was one good thing about this forced wedding, X was gonna get shoved into some spacey monkey suit and made to walk down the aisle. Elle could just imagine the sour look on his usually smug face, she snickered at the mental picture.
"Well come on dear, let's go by the front desk and see if your gown's come in!" Zoey took Elle gently by her arm and led her down yet another twisting corridor, Elle felt like she was being marched straight to the electric chair, she secretly wished that were true.
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"Mother?" X called frantically as he searched the immigrations area for her, he spotted his mother by the front desk with, oh great, Elle!
He strode up to them and gazed, puzzled, at the large flat box his mother was handed by one of the customs agents. "Here you go ma'am, it just arrived earlier this morning."
Elle rolled her eyes, X moaned, that couldn't be a good sign. What was in that box?
"Oh, and here's the other one." the agent quickly added handing her another box similar to the first.
'Other one?' X eyed the box suspiciously, what was going here? "Mother?"
"Oh and here's the lucky groom to be now!" Zoey burst out happily and shoved the box into X's arms.
"What's this?"
"It's your tux for the wedding you silly boy." Zoey replied as Elle snickered, "Well don't just stand there like a dazed Pulpeteire, go try it on!"
"Yes mother," X moaned and headed back towards his quarters.
Zoey turned to Elle, "And after you try yours on we can go pick out some arrangements for the wedding ceremony!"
X snickered as he walked away, Elle hadn't got off the hook that easily after all. "B-but what about X?" she stammered, unable to believe that she was getting stuck with all this.
"Oh he wouldn't know good taste if it bit him the ear." Zoey chuckled and once more led Elle by her arm back towards her quarters.
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Inside the kitchenette a several hours later Jay and Kay were enjoying a nice steaming cup of coffee when X sulked in and crashed down in one of the chairs by the small table. "I can't believe it." he mumbled to himself, "What did I ever do to deserve this?"
"That's easy," Jay laughed, "you insulted humans constantly, treated everyone like inferiors, you've nearly gotten Elle killed over a hundred times, and-"
"Thanks human that will do!" X snapped.
"Maybe it won't be so bad," Kay offered, "Now that you two are going to be married maybe you'll get along better. Learn to work as a team, and APPRECIATE each other."
"No," X muttered, "this is just going to make things between us worse than ever, neither of us wants to get married and certainly not to each other!"
"Just don't turn your honeymoon night into a murder scene," Jay cautioned with a grin.
"Easy for you to say," X scoffed and then panicked when he heard the loud clanking of stomping heels coming down the hall, he knew that sound! He was doomed.
"X!" Elle shrieked as she entered the kitchenette, "I just spent the last SEVEN HOURS picking out flower arrangements with your mother! Do have any idea what it's like to be hauled around in high heels for seven hours on tile floors?!"
"No," he grunted, what was she complaining about, she wasn't the one who had to ware that ridiculous JeeDangian tuxedo!
"Well it isn't pleasant!" she snapped.
"Shop 'til ya drop," Jay chuckled then bit his tongue at the resulting death glare that he got from Elle.
"Relax you two," Kay spoke up, "only one more day until the wedding then you'll be able to go back to your normal routines."
"No," Elle grumbled, "then we'll be living together!"
X winced at the thought, he could just imagine the chaos that would result from sharing the same quarters as Elle. It was bad enough that they had to work together, now they would be living together too!
Zed strolled in, suppressing a grin, and informed the 'happy couple' that their honeymoon had been all planned out. They would be going to a place called Romance Falls just south of Honolulu, Hawaii. Elle cringed at the news. "And you'll be glad to know that you'll be getting a full week off," Zed added with a smug expression, he wondered if they would last a full week alone together.
He turned to leave and Kay and Jay decided that it would be safer to follow him. Elle looked at X, "I hope you're happy, because of your lousy JeeDangian custom we're gonna be stuck together for the rest of our miserable lives!"
"Oh please," he groaned, "do you honestly think that I wanted to take YOU with me on my honeymoon night?!"
"Well then why not just marry someone else?" she snapped, "You knew that this was coming so why didn't you just settle for some other girl instead of staying single when you knew that it was going to result in your mother picking your bride for you and risking the possibility that she might be a HUMAN??"
"I guess I thought my mother had better taste?" he shrugged.
"Oooo!" Elle shouted and stormed out, he could be so frustrating some times!
X grinned as she left, 'Misery loves company,' he thought. And they were anything but a match made in Heaven. Oh well, at least she didn't try to choke the life out of him. Then again….he still had to survive the honeymoon.
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