Chapter Thirty

The wedding ceremony went without a glitch. Milliardo was standing proudly near the altar that had been build in the Peacecraft's mansion's garden. Flowers decorated everything, from the chairs to the altar itself. Standing next to him was Heero. Milliardo, lacking of any best friend or male relative that could play the part, had asked Heero to be his best man. Although Heero did not understand very well what it meant, had accepted asking Milliardo to just tell him everything he needed to do.

The bride came accompanied by Quatre. Relena, walking behind Lucrezia, caught the sight of Milliardo's face when he turned around and saw his bride. He seemed at first shocked, then it seemed that the ice from his eyes melted into water. He looked at her so lovingly that made Relena feel a bit jealous. Relena told herself off. This was their day and she would make every effort so nothing would ruin it. Placing herself next to the bride and taking the bouquet from her, waited till the ceremony began.

When the crucial moment arrived and Milliardo kissed his, now, wife, Heero was looking at Relena. He saw a couple of tears coming from her violet coloured eyes. He got worried, why was she crying? Was anything wrong? He looked around and saw that actually most of the women had tears in their eyes. He was really confused again and made a mental note to ask Relena about this.

After the ceremony, they moved to the huge marquee where the wedding lunch would be served and where the celebrations would be held.

After the four course meal, the wedding cake was served and the traditional toast round started.

The first to speak had to be Heero doing his job as a best man. Relena was very nervous that this may have been a bit too much for Heero and hoped for the best.

Heero stood up. Everyone was staring at him. He felt nervous. 'Hey, another feeling' he thought for himself, he was getting good at this feeling thing. He lifted his glass, that contained non alcoholic champagne, the same one that was being served to Quatre, who, being Islamic, could not drink alcohol and, started speaking:

"I'm probably the worst person on Earth to speak about feelings but, I have done some research and, from what I have seen, there is enough chemistry between these two to make sure that their relationship will last…Well, have a good life…".

Everyone was shocked. Relena the first one. Heero's speech was so good that it almost looked like it had been the old Heero speaking.

"Well, thank you Heero…" said Milliardo getting up and toasting with Heero. Then everyone did the same and said:

"To Lucrezia and Milliardo: Have a good life!".

Then the other guys made their speeches. Duo's as usual, was extremely funny and made everyone laugh out loud. Heero even smiled. Then it was Relena's turn.

"Well, after having heard everyone's speeches, I feel like I have very little left to say, so I will just wish you the very best. You give us all an example of loyalty, love and care for each other that everyone should follow. Ah, and I want to say: I want you two to make me an aunt soon, I will love to spoil your children! To you two, my brother and, my sister…".

After this speech, everyone toasted again and then, after Milliardo and Lucrezia had officially opened the dance, everyone went to the dance floor. Something amazing happened then. Sally, as usual was teasing Wufei who, getting tired of being picked on, got up and with a mock reverence, asked Sally to dance.

Sally shocked, agreed. They started dancing and Sally had to admit that the Chinese pilot was rather good at it.

"When did you learn to dance Wufei?" asked the American Chinese doctor looking up, since Wufei had actually grown taller than her in these last few years.

"Well, one has to do everything to impress the woman he loves…" simply replied Wufei.

"What? Wufei…" said Sally getting shocked for the second time in two minutes.

Wufei, instead of replying, did the unthinkable. Taking Sally's face with one hand, bent down to kiss her. Wufei felt immensely relieved when Sally, instead of slapping him like he very much expected, started kissing him back.

By the time he stopped kissing her, everyone in the room was staring at them.

"I hope that now you will give me a break and will stop teasing me…" said Wufei behaving so naturally that almost made Sally laugh.