Chapter Sixteen: My Wedding
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The hallway outside Bijou's room
July 10, 2005
11:38 AM
Sandy, Pashmina, and Penelope pressed their ears against the door of Bijou's room. Bijou wouldn't tell them that this wedding was biting at her, all she would do was try to put on a smile for them, her friends.
♥♥ {"It's really sad that this is going to end this way," Mumbled Pashmina as she took her ear away from the door."I just feel totally bad for Bijou," Sandy said. "She really doesn't wanna marry this jerk."
"No, duh!" Stan's voice exclaimed as he appeared in the hallway. Sandy and Pashmina giggled as they saw him wearing this hideous three-pieced suit. Poor, poor Stan. André had forced him to be the best man by using guilt of not telling any of the Hams that André knew about this charade. But Stan didn't really consider himself the best man, he just thought of it as a position that stood directly beside the groom.
"You didn't help either, Stan!" yelled Pashmina and Sandy, holding in laughter. "You knew about André knowing, too!"
"Don't laugh at what I'm wearing," Stan ordered. "You two don't look so refined, either, in those ugly gowns!"
"We like our bridesmaids' gowns, thanks you very much!" The two girls responded huffily.
"Okyoo..." Penelope said sadly.
"What's with her?" asked Stan as he looked at Penelope tentatively.
"She doesn't want it to end this way either," Pashmina answered.
"Well who actually does want it to end this way besides that pig?" Stan asked indignantly.
"Poor Bijou, this has to be killing her," said Sandy, putting her hand on Bijou's door.
"I dunno," said Pashmina. "I think Boss or Hamtaro could be dying inside, as well. I mean, what kind of brutal torture it is to see the one you care for be condemned like that?."
"Where is Hamtaro anyway?" Asked Stan, trying to change subject. ♥♥} Kattx, thanks!
"He's at the hospital," Sandy sighed. "He's with Boss and Snoozer."
"I can see why he didn't wanna come." Stan closed his eyes tightly.
"Yeah, but he wasn't invited. Neither were Boss or Snoozer," Pashmina explained sadly.
"Oh, well...Umm...I guess I better be going. I have to be at the altar in a few minutes," Stan clarified as he slowly walked down the hallway.
"You wanna give it one more shot?" Sandy asked Pashmina as she watched her brother leave.
"Sure. Why not?"
Bijou's Room
July 10, 2005
11:42 AM
After Bijou had visited Boss for the last time, she went straight home and put on her wedding gown. What should be a girl's most joyous day was the day Bijou feared that she might lose her life.
Bijou stood in her bridal gown, awaiting the long walk down the aisle. 'Even if eet's not how I want to end up, I'm doing it anyway.' She thought. 'Too many hearts have been hurt from zhis ordeal. Boss... everyone.... all your pain will end soon.' ♥♥Kattx's genius!
"Uhh....Bijou?" Came Pashmina and Sandy's voice as they knocked on her door.
Bijou looked at the door for a second. "Come in," she answered.
Pashmina and Sandy came into the room and were immediately daunted by Bijou's gown. Bijou slightly moved as the cape benignantly touched the floor. Bijou's dress was an impression to them, even though their dresses were quite lovely too.
They had matching bridesmaids' dresses: Silken white, with delicate pink sashes. The gowns were long and graceful. Their magisterial ribbons highlighted the girls. Sandy and Pashmina's shoes shimmered with pink sequins that naturally ornamented the pure white color of the shoes. Forget-me-not bouquets were cradled in their white garlanded glove hands.
Everybody, except Hamtaro, Boss, and Snoozer, were expected to come to the wedding: Orders of André. Everyone, except Hamtaro, had found a suit or dress to wear to the wedding, this worried Bijou the most.
"Oh Bijou, you look so amazing!" Pashmina exclaimed as she tried cheering her friend up.
"Yeah, you look just like a fairytale princess," Sandy agreed.
Bijou's eyes were covered by the darkness of her bangs.
"Merci," came a subtle whisper. "But coming to compliment my dress is not what you came here for, right?" Bijou's soft whisper asked.
Sandy and Pashmina looked at each other.
"No, we didn't. Listen, there's still some time-you don't have to do this," Their unified voices said.
Bijou desperately did not want to marry André, but her conscience was whittling away at her. It would not allow her to break this sacred promise made when she was just an infant.
"I've tried to stop forcing myself to go through with this, but it just won't work," Bijou's voice spoke as the signs of crying hid in her voice.
"Yes you can! Fight your stupid conscience, it can't force you to do anything!" They objected.
Bijou said nothing.
"Ookwee?" Penelope's voice asked as she came in.
Not even Bijou could help but smile when she saw Penelope. Looking all cute and puffed in her light blue and white dress. She had blue trimmings and snow white shoes. She had a huge, frosty blue ribbon pinned under her neck. She wore petite gloves and carried blue bells in a wicker basket. Her sparkling eyes dimmed as she saw Bijou.
"Oh Penelope, you look beautiful...." Bijou said bending down to Penelope's level. Hey eyes still concealed, yet you could tell that they were ready to sob.
"Ookwee?" Penelope asked once again.
Bijou started hugging Penelope, squeezing all the might within her out, fearing that this would be the last time she'd ever see the young child.
"Ookwee." Somehow, Penelope could read Bijou's mind. She gave Bijou one of the blue bells.
"Ookwee, ookwee, ookwee!" Penelope said as Bijou stared at the flower, simply baffled.
"Penelope said that she knew that today was your birthday and she wanted to give you this," Pashmina translated as she held back her tears.
But Bijou started crying, her hold on Penelope increasing.
"I'l never forget you, any of you...." She said between sobs as her watery eyes came into view.
The clock struck 12:00: Time for the wedding ceremony to begin.
Pashmina and Sandy gasped.
Bijou's eyes fell to the ground.
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The center of the Villa was not the grand foyer. It was this round dome called the Axis. It had onyx marble balconies surrounding the whole top. Today it was lined with two rows of seats. Josie sat in one of them, her white sundress shifted as she nervously toyed with the pink choker around her neck. Dexter and Howdy sat still. Not even they would get in a fight today. Panda and Cappy looked straight ahead to the very epicenter of the center of the Axis: The altar.
At the altar stood the best man Stan. Stan hated his three-piece suit, he hated this Axis, he hated this day, but most of all, he hated the groom. Oxnard stood beside Stan; just incase Stan's anger got the best of him. André stood directly beneath the flowered archway, with the marrier Maxwell at his side. Maxwell had asked Bijou many times if he could simply say the wedding speech wrongly so they wouldn't be legally married, but Bijou declined from the offer. She said if she had to go through with this, she might as well have a decent wedding.
André stood smugly. His hideous smirk wanted to be slapped off of his face by everyone one of the Hams. His murky black tuxedo very much complimented his even darker eyes. He had no beret on today. Nope, his hair was sleeked back. He probably could've made children cry.
André stood at the altar with a cocky grin on his face. All that he had to endure was finally over. 'Zee big day eez now here, how I have waited so long,' He thought. 'After a few moments, I will have fulfilled an agreement, destroyed the hopes and dream of a fool, and beaten a savage all in such a short time. Ah C'est magnifique!' ♥♥Thanks, Kattx!
The clock struck 12:00: Time for the wedding.
The grand doors that led to the Axis swung open, revealing little Penelope as she grudgingly threw flowers
down the black aisle.
The hams sat in the pews fearfully as they awaited the bride. ♥♥Once again, Kattx, thanks!
Jinlge played "Taps" on his guitar.
The Hams that were presently seated watched nervously as Sandy and Pashmina entered.
They looked around. Everybody was watching them and the door. If the bridesmaids were coming, then that must mean......
Jingle played "Taps" on his guitar even louder.
And then the doors swung open.
And then came Bijou.
Her bangs were once again concealing her eyes. With all of her crestfallen heart, she let her cape drape the floor. She came at a steady pace. Inching ever so closely to her soon-to-be husband.
She was crying, but not tears of joy like a girl should on her wedding day, but tears of fear. A few yards ahead of her stood the man she was destined to marry, if you could even call him a man. But she did not want to marry him. His presence in the room sent scary chills down Bijou's spine.
"There it is," André simply said. He paid no attention to Maxwell and Stan's deadly glares. He recalled Bijou as a prize: A mere object when won was fun to play with for awhile, then to no use at all to him.
Bijou's gloved arms nursed a bouquet of roses, benevolently shaded in white.
White ribbons laced with silver linings lingered in her hair.
White was the theme of this wedding.
White meant purity.
White meant a new beginning.
White meant sympathy.
She edged ever so closer to her painful doom. André stood there as if this was some event that he was impatiently waiting to get over with.
"Come on! I don't have all day to stand here and watch you march your little walk of gloom!" André commanded Bijou, but Bijou kept her pace still soft and steady, and silent. It took all the restraining power of Maxwell and Stan to keep from kicking the Ham-Heck out of André as he ordered Bijou to walk a little faster.
Josie started crying. Cappy stared in simple awe. Panda felt his stomach turn. Dexter and Howdy's mouths formed perfect O's.
Penelope, Sandy, and Pashmina stood on the other side of Maxwell, awaiting Bijou's arrival under the archway.
Maxwell waited for Bijou. Lord knew he tried to get Bijou to change her mind, but her conscience would not let her listen. He stared at her, she looked so beautiful. When Hamtaro had described to the Hams, or at least tried to describe, Bijou's gown he said it was "So stunning that no words were worthy of describing the subtle serenity of every little sequin." And know Maxwell knew that Hamtaro was right.
Oxnard was just as amazed as Maxwell, and he wanted his best friend to be here. But then again, Hamtaro would've been simply heartbroken at this scene, so maybe it was best that he didn't come.
All the Hams could do was try to imagine the depression, the fear, the anxiety that was within Bijou's head right now, but what good was imagining right now when Bijou's face told it all?
You could not see her eyes.
Her head hung down in shame. Tear stains marked their spots on her disappearing face. Feeble hands clutched the bouquet. The once luminous sunflowers were now wilted weeds on her dress. Her tiara was composed of diamonds, and her veil carried the precious stones as well, but they did not shine. Her calm steps were the only things holding in her sanity. She needed some fresh air; she needed to forget that this Ham-Human experience had ever happened, she needed to leave.
But that wouldn't happen. Her final step brought her parallel to Andr's face as Pashmina took away the crying bouquet of roses.
Maxwell cleared his throat.
Bijou silently nodded.
André yawned.
"Ahem...we are gathered here today to bring together Miss Bijou and -cough- Mister -cough- André. These two are now going through a ceremony to prove to the world that they will now love and honor one another-"
Maxwell was interrupted by André.
"Get to the chase!" He ordered.
"Fine... do you, André, take Bijou as your lawful wedded wife? To ensure that you will love and respect her till death do you part? Through sickness and though health? Through richer or poorer?" Maxwell asked already knowing that André would do neither of those things.
"I do," He simply responded.
"Do you, Bijou, take André as your lawful wedded husband? To ensure that you will love and respect him till death do you part? Through sickness and through helath? Through richer or poorer?" Maxwell asked, giving Bijou an "Are you sure about this?" look.
Bijou's pleading eyes responded "I'm sorry, Maxwell, but it must be done."
"I d-" Bijou was interrupted by someone kicking open the door.
"STOP THIS WEDDING!!!!!"
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Ha! Cliffhanger, I'm so mean. R/R. And one more thing, will the end of this story be a wedding? I'm not making any promises.
The next chapter's the last one. I can't believe it! My first fic's almost done!
(Wasn't that Teen Titans episode, Aftershock Part Two, just amazing? Terra got turned to stone! I hated her--well, I still hate her. Such a bimbo...All you Terra lovers can flame me all you want, I don't care. I HATE her, and I admit to it quite proudly!)
This chapter was submitted in memory of my cousin, Kiran, who's moving really far away tomorrow. Bye!
Say "Happy Birthday" to "My Fake Fiancée"! Its turning a year old tomorrow, August 26, 2004!
Tootles,
Celestial Night