What's In A Dream?
Part 9: The Big Day!
Elle paced nervously in front of the wooden doors that lead inside the church, they had managed to find one where the JeeDangian priest could perform the ceremony and on such short notice. She was so nervous, almost tingly nervous, what was wrong with her? You'd almost think that she was excited about all this?? Excited about marrying X?!
The music started to play, Kay extended her his arm. This was it, she was going to stroll down that isle and become Mrs. Human Hating Hothead! Oh joy.
She tried to smooth out the creases in her silky white JeeDangian wedding dress, which was surprisingly rather lovely. It was snow white and shimmered in the light. She was bedazzled by the radiant glow it gave her. The headpiece was silver and the veil was a transparent white, not lace, but something similar. Her bodice fit snuggly against her upper body showing off all her nice little curves. She just knew that X was going to have something sarcastic to say about that on their honeymoon!
Her beautiful white slippers weren't visible under her long slightly puffy gown but they were actually pretty comfortable to walk in. Elle forced herself to look up at X on the far end of the isle as Kay led her past all the rows of guests, all species admiring her breathtaking appearance.
Her train was being carried by one of X's younger cousins, the little JeeDangian child toddled on after Elle trying to keep pace. Elle had to admit, that little girl was certainly adorable, maybe having one or two JeeDangian children wouldn't be so bad after all? Then she remembered who their father would be…
X watched intently as Elle was lead down the isle, he was awestruck by how beautiful the mouthy little human looked. A lot better than he looked in his JeeDangian tux. He was clad in a black suit with a cranberry colored cape draped around his shoulders and a similar colored piece of cloth draped over his chest. It had a gold trim and was silky, and hot! He could barely stand it under all that cloth! His suit was made of some similar material and his feet were bare. He wore no gloves but a strip of the same material as the cape was wound around each of his hands. X failed to notice his discomfort as he watched his partner, soon to be partner in life, head down the isle towards him.
Kay glanced over at Elle to make sure that she was alright. To his surprise she seemed to be entranced by X! Her eyes were fastened upon him as he escorted her down the isle. 'Okay', Kay thought with slight alarm, 'it must all the heat in this room.'
Once the procession was over Kay handed Elle's hands to X who excepted them with a dazed look as he peered into the human's pale blue beady eyes. They looked picturesque as they stood there before the altar in their fine garments gazing into each other's eyes and holding their hands level with their chests.
The ceremony began and the vows were made, after the 'I do's', the guests were escorted out to the reception hall where the large (and I mean LARGE) cake was to be cut.
X's little cousins dashed around the tables while his aunts tried to calm the cooped up children down. It was all unnoticed by the happy couple though as they danced in the center of the room to the tune of the oddly romantic JeeDangian slow song. Elle rest her head against her husband's chest and listened to the sound of his heartbeat as the children dashed around them. This wasn't so bad, even if it was X that she was married to.
The dance ended all too soon and everyone gathered round as the 'happy couple' cut the cake. Elle and X had even reduced themselves to that indignant tradition of feeding each other a slice. This got a laugh out of Jay. Elle groaned under her breath and wiped some of the vanilla icing off her mouth. At least the worst was over now, 'Oh crap!', she suddenly remembered, 'The HONEYMOON!' . X seemed to be thinking the same thing too. He could just picture how disastrous it was going to be to wind up on the six o'clock news when his wife strangled him.
"Hate to rush this happy occasion along," Zed interrupted from behind them, "but you two have a plane to catch."
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