Disclaimer: Own nothing
Chapter 14
of
I Smile Real Hard
Chapter entitled:
They Smiled Real Hard
Sparrow wanted something with some culture and was thinking India. Charlie figured they could do it over lunch, by the Justice of the Peace or a Priest informally. And Mac was thinking something so huge it would have bankrupted Canada.
They compromised with Vegas.
And so in what had to have been one of the most elaborate secret plans ever executed Charlie and Sparrow, along with Mac, kept the secret of their engagement from their families and began to make preparations. The actual guest list for the wedding consisted of exactly 3 people, Mac and a couple getting married after Charlie and Sparrow in the Shot Gun Bride wedding chapel, a Stan and Stella. A pair of crazy 65 year olds who had been living together since they were 20 and on a whim decided to become official in the eyes of God. They were nice enough to act as official witnesses.
Neither Charlie nor Sparrow had wanted a big wedding; they didn't really even want a medium one. But a small wedding was out of the question. Both Brewer-Thomas and O'Connelly clans would have to be invited and the immediate family with spouses and kids alone was just under or over 40 people.
So they decided to elope.
"By the power vested in me, by the State Gaming commission and maybe even the big man upstairs, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Kiss her man!"
Charlie, laughing, did what he was told amid the clapping of Mac, Stella and Stan. ------------------------
Oriole Mullins and her Mother burst into Sparrow's apartment only to find it empty. And not just the void of any life empty. All the furniture, chairs, lamps etc were gone. The two frantic woman- who had been quite certain that Sparrow had been robbed, murdered and dumped somewhere-learned from the landlord that in fact Sparrow had given notice and moved out not 2 days ago. Immediately and completely in sync of the other, the two woman whipped out their cell phones.
"Hello, Jay? Sparrow's flown the coop!"
"Hello Maria dear, is Kea there? Thank you. All right Kea, where the hell is she!?
------------------------------------
"Everyone smile real hard!" Stan, Stella, Charlie, Sparrow, Mac with her stepmother's arms around her shoulders all smiled for the camera as Bob (the man that had married the two couples) ran to get into the photo.
SNAP!
"Oh how I wish I could see the expression on their faces when they see this! Particularly mother's." Sparrow then began to cackle to herself as she typed on her laptop. -------------------------------
Kristy in an offhanded manner opened the e-mail from Sparrow. The picture that showed up on her screen caused her to spit out her coffee, scream for her husband, all while crazily reaching for the phone and punching in her mother's number.
------------------------------
"Mother, I am sure there is perfectly good explanation for this. You know how scatterbrained she can be, she probably forgot to tell us she was moving. Mother have you even tried calling her cell phone?" There was a long pause on the other end of the phone. And for a brief second, Kea was afraid his mother had finally burst a blood vessel in her head, but then he was suddenly hit with such vulgar descriptive language usage, you'd think that an entire High school had been incarnated into a single being and it was that who Kea was talking to. Kea use to his Mother's unique vocabulary merely rolled his eyes. Then taking the phone away from his ear, he set it down on the desk in front of him and picked up some paper work he had to look over for tomorrow. He was reading in relative silence (the only noise being his mother's loud outcries of injustice from the phone) when a particularly loud laugh from his wife made him look up.
"What's so funny?" he asked. Maria merely turned to him from the computer screen and began laughing again. Kea, looking at his wife like she had gone nuts, got up to see what was so funny. The picture on the screen caused him to join his wife on the floor. Gasping for air, he picked up the phone and told his mother in mid-insult to check her e-mail.
-------------------------
Elizabeth Brewer held the phone away from her ear and quickly logged on to her e-mail. Clicking on the subject heading, I Smile Real Hard, a picture of her granddaughter, son and as she discovered, her new daughter- in-law came on the screen with three other people she didn't recognize.
"Never say never indeed," Elizabeth muttered reading the message under the photo. Smiling, she put the phone back to her ear. "Yes, I see Kristy."
------------------------
Mary Anne Morgan, when seeing the photo, only muttered something along the lines of "typical Sparrow," and "Poor Charlie," before going to find her husband to tell him the news.
----------
Gwen O'Connelly looked at her computer screen in shock. A wide variety of emotions crossed her face. Anger, sadness, horror, anger, happiness, anger.
Smiling up at her was a photo of three people she didn't know, Charlie, Mac and Sparrow with the caption in green letters of, "The Thomas Wedding."
The End!
Thanks to all those that have reviewed and stuck with the story. Epilogue is coming.
Chapter 14
of
I Smile Real Hard
Chapter entitled:
They Smiled Real Hard
Sparrow wanted something with some culture and was thinking India. Charlie figured they could do it over lunch, by the Justice of the Peace or a Priest informally. And Mac was thinking something so huge it would have bankrupted Canada.
They compromised with Vegas.
And so in what had to have been one of the most elaborate secret plans ever executed Charlie and Sparrow, along with Mac, kept the secret of their engagement from their families and began to make preparations. The actual guest list for the wedding consisted of exactly 3 people, Mac and a couple getting married after Charlie and Sparrow in the Shot Gun Bride wedding chapel, a Stan and Stella. A pair of crazy 65 year olds who had been living together since they were 20 and on a whim decided to become official in the eyes of God. They were nice enough to act as official witnesses.
Neither Charlie nor Sparrow had wanted a big wedding; they didn't really even want a medium one. But a small wedding was out of the question. Both Brewer-Thomas and O'Connelly clans would have to be invited and the immediate family with spouses and kids alone was just under or over 40 people.
So they decided to elope.
"By the power vested in me, by the State Gaming commission and maybe even the big man upstairs, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Kiss her man!"
Charlie, laughing, did what he was told amid the clapping of Mac, Stella and Stan. ------------------------
Oriole Mullins and her Mother burst into Sparrow's apartment only to find it empty. And not just the void of any life empty. All the furniture, chairs, lamps etc were gone. The two frantic woman- who had been quite certain that Sparrow had been robbed, murdered and dumped somewhere-learned from the landlord that in fact Sparrow had given notice and moved out not 2 days ago. Immediately and completely in sync of the other, the two woman whipped out their cell phones.
"Hello, Jay? Sparrow's flown the coop!"
"Hello Maria dear, is Kea there? Thank you. All right Kea, where the hell is she!?
------------------------------------
"Everyone smile real hard!" Stan, Stella, Charlie, Sparrow, Mac with her stepmother's arms around her shoulders all smiled for the camera as Bob (the man that had married the two couples) ran to get into the photo.
SNAP!
"Oh how I wish I could see the expression on their faces when they see this! Particularly mother's." Sparrow then began to cackle to herself as she typed on her laptop. -------------------------------
Kristy in an offhanded manner opened the e-mail from Sparrow. The picture that showed up on her screen caused her to spit out her coffee, scream for her husband, all while crazily reaching for the phone and punching in her mother's number.
------------------------------
"Mother, I am sure there is perfectly good explanation for this. You know how scatterbrained she can be, she probably forgot to tell us she was moving. Mother have you even tried calling her cell phone?" There was a long pause on the other end of the phone. And for a brief second, Kea was afraid his mother had finally burst a blood vessel in her head, but then he was suddenly hit with such vulgar descriptive language usage, you'd think that an entire High school had been incarnated into a single being and it was that who Kea was talking to. Kea use to his Mother's unique vocabulary merely rolled his eyes. Then taking the phone away from his ear, he set it down on the desk in front of him and picked up some paper work he had to look over for tomorrow. He was reading in relative silence (the only noise being his mother's loud outcries of injustice from the phone) when a particularly loud laugh from his wife made him look up.
"What's so funny?" he asked. Maria merely turned to him from the computer screen and began laughing again. Kea, looking at his wife like she had gone nuts, got up to see what was so funny. The picture on the screen caused him to join his wife on the floor. Gasping for air, he picked up the phone and told his mother in mid-insult to check her e-mail.
-------------------------
Elizabeth Brewer held the phone away from her ear and quickly logged on to her e-mail. Clicking on the subject heading, I Smile Real Hard, a picture of her granddaughter, son and as she discovered, her new daughter- in-law came on the screen with three other people she didn't recognize.
"Never say never indeed," Elizabeth muttered reading the message under the photo. Smiling, she put the phone back to her ear. "Yes, I see Kristy."
------------------------
Mary Anne Morgan, when seeing the photo, only muttered something along the lines of "typical Sparrow," and "Poor Charlie," before going to find her husband to tell him the news.
----------
Gwen O'Connelly looked at her computer screen in shock. A wide variety of emotions crossed her face. Anger, sadness, horror, anger, happiness, anger.
Smiling up at her was a photo of three people she didn't know, Charlie, Mac and Sparrow with the caption in green letters of, "The Thomas Wedding."
The End!
Thanks to all those that have reviewed and stuck with the story. Epilogue is coming.
