All for Love

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Part 1: Chapter 13: Wedding Day

Adrienne stared at her self in the full length mirror. Her white bridal gown trailed all the way to the floor. She cocked her head to the side slightly, then to the other.

"Well Addy. You successfully made the dress look horrible." She moaned to herself, tugging at the dress. She watched Elena walk into the room through the mirror reflection. Elena stopped and looked at the strawberry blonde with a surprised look on her face. Adrienne spun round. "What? You don't like it either?"

"Don't like it? Addy, it looks gorgeous on you!" She said excitedly.

"Really?" Adrienne said hopefully.

"Really!" Elena walked around the other girl once. "I can't believe you thought otherwise."

"Thanks El."

"You don't need to thank me, I'm just telling you the truth." Elena adjusted Adrienne's veil slightly. "I also came to tell you Reno's here."

"Already?" Addy shrieked a little. Elena laughed.

"It is time, you know." Elena turned to the door. She looked back when she realized Adrienne wasn't following. "What's a matter? You scared?"

"Extremely." Came the timid reply. Elena walked back over to her friend.

"C'mon! Look if it's making a fool out of yourself that's the problem, there's not many people there to notice. Besides, if you do trip or something, I'll trip in a more noticeable way. That way the attention will be drawn to me instead." Elena said. Addy grinned and started laughing.

"Make sure you trip with style then."

"I'll try my hardest. Now c'mon the idiot is waiting." Adrienne smiled.

"Ok."

The two of them walked into the main area of tiny church. Elena patted Adrienne's arm before leaving her side and standing near the top of the aisle. As on cue, the music started and Elena walked swiftly down towards the alter, breaking off before she reached it.

Adrienne took a deep breath and walked to the top. She glanced at Reno, who had turned his head and was looking back at her. He smiled. She smiled back as the music paused slightly and changed to the wedding march. She took another deep breath and started to walk down the aisle.

She kept her eyes on Reno as she walked towards him. Suddenly, she forgot about everything else but her and him. To her, no one else mattered at the moment. She was soon beside him. He was actually smart for once. Shirt tucked in and everything, though she expected no less from him today. He smiled at her again then leaned to whisper to her.

"You look beautiful." She just smiled back as the cleric began reciting the all important words.

Adrienne felt as if everything was going so quickly. The words being said were only at the back of her mind, but she remembered them as clear as day. All that mattered to her was the man stood in front of her. Neither one of them took their eyes off one another.

It came to her part of reciting the vows. She said them without stuttering as if they had been on her tongue for most of her life, though there was a silent tremor within her voice. Reno spoke the vows stuttering slightly at the beginning, but saying them perfectly after that. Adrienne wondered for that spit moment if he was more nervous than she was.

It came to Adrienne's turn to speak again. Those two words that were the smallest they could possible be, but meant everything in the world to her at that moment.

"I do."

Then Reno spoke.

"I do."

Adrienne realized how little time they had actually known each other. Just shy of two years, but to her, it felt like she had known him all her life.

They exchanged rings. Two simple gold bands with a message engraved round the inside. So simple, but yet so meaningful.

The rest of the ceremony was a blur to them both, but then came the final words that neither would forget in their lifetime.

"Then by the power invested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride."

Reno leaned forward and softly placed his lips against hers. Adrienne felt a tear roll down her cheek. She felt Reno's finger brush it away. He smiled at her.

"You're smudging your makeup Mrs. Komiya." She made a giggle that sounded more like a cry as another tear joined the first.

Then everything was over. The music began to play again as husband and wife walked up the aisle. As soon as they walked out the church doors, Reno picked Adrienne up around the waist and spun her round a few times, then put her back down. She looked at him.

"And just what was that for?" Reno shrugged.

"Just been wanting to do that all day." He said. Adrienne giggled as she pushed him a little. They waited as the rest filed out the church.

"So just where are we going now?" Rufus asked, looking really uncomfortable in his black tuxedo.

"My house." Scarlet informed him. He stared at her.

"Do we have to?" Reno laughed and patted him on the back.

"Don't be such a wimp Ruru." Reno told him. Rufus glared.

"What did I tell you about that?"

"You said I couldn't call you Ruffie. You said nothing about Ruru." Reno smirked.

They made it to Scarlet's home without an hitches. Elena came up behind Adrienne.

"You do realize that just because there's only a few of us you're not getting out of dancing with him." She said. Addy spun around and groaned.

"I can't dance though!" She exclaimed.

"Don't dance then. Just put your head on his shoulder and rock a little bit, spin in a slow circle. Hell just move your arms up and down if you want to." Elena smiled. "I doubt Reno can dance either." Elena walked off to be replaced by Reno. He put his arms around her waist.

"What was she bugging you about?" He asked.

"She wants us to dance in a bit." Reno looked bemused.

"What? In front of the small crowd of......" He mentally counted them. "..six?" Adrienne nodded. "Suppose it's better than doing it in front of sixty odd people, half of them you don't know or ever care to."

"I suppose so."

"We can eat first though, right?" He asked. Addy gave him a light slap on the shoulder.

"Is that all you ever thing about?"

"Yeah." He thought about something for a minute. "And you of course." He added as an after thought. She smiled.

"God job you said that, or you would have been spending your wedding night sleeping on the couch." She told him. Reno laughed as he leaned his head on her shoulder.

"You could never do that to handsome little old me." He whined.

"Try me." She warned in jest.

"Break it up lovebirds. It's time for the dinner." They both heard Elena say from somewhere in front of them. Adrienne took Reno's hand and dragged him into the other room.

"Oh god, flashbacks." He muttered. Adrienne looked at him and giggled.

"Hey! At least she doesn't hate you totally this time. And no name calling."

"What? Just Scarlet or anyone?"

".... Anyone." She answered finally.

"Aw, there goes calling Rufus, Ruru."

"Just come on." Adrienne muttered, dragging the red head the rest of the way.

The dinner went without a glitch, except when Reno accidentally called Scarlet a whore again. She threw her folk at him. Luckily it missed. They were still sat at the table when Rufus decided to stand up and make a speech.

"Since Rude sucks at speeches." That earned him a grumble from the said Turk. "I'm going to do this, since, well, I like giving speeches."

"A little too much if you ask me." Reno muttered.

"Shut up Re-re. Anyway Reno's a bastard, end of speech." Reno glared at him. "Ok. What I was really going to say was, well, I haven't known you two for that long. But from what I know, you seem to love each other very much and I hope that nothing gets in the way of that." Rufus picked up his glass of Champagne. "So I'd like to propose a toast." He waited while everyone else picked up their glass. "To Reno and Adrienne." Everyone took a slip from their glasses.

Reno and Adrienne looked at each other and smiled. Maybe things would go smoothly, maybe they wouldn't, but what mattered was that they would be together for the rest of their lives.

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End of Part 1