Mi Vida Loca: Part 6

We pulled up to her family's house and I continued to sit there for a few seconds longer trying to work up some guts. When the door burst open and a huge throng of people started pouring out of the thing. I recognized her father from the time I had met him before but every one else there was completely and utterly new to me.

"Well come on Jack. Let me out and transform so I can let you get to know all of these guys."
I popped the door for her and she hopped out and grabbed her bags from my back seat. Several people moved in and helped her take the Kayaks down and then started demanding to know where this boy friend of hers was. I noticed her Father had a big grin on his face and that he full well knew where her boy friend was.

"Well if you'll wait for just a few seconds and give me some room I'll introduce you all to him." She beamed.

That moved the rest of her family back a considerable distance and then she turned around to face me. I wanted to sit there as an inconspicuous Lancia for the rest of my life rather than let these people start in on me. But I wasn't going to do that to her so as she grinned at me I triggered my transformation circuits.

"Allow me to introduce you to my Fiancée Wheeljack."

I finished transforming and then waved down at all of her family has they all gapped up at me.

"Uhhh hi." I said meekly.

I mentally turned on my transmat and a few seconds later I was human sized. Despite the size change they still stared at me like I had lobsters coming out of my audio ports. I was about to change back into a car and take off when it was like some one flipped a switch. Every single female there started over to me and began hugging me and kissing me on the cheek and telling me all about them selves. Alyssa was pretty much getting the same treatment from them as I was, she how ever seemed completely accustomed to it. The men in the family showed over and started slapping me on the back and telling me that I was a lucky man to have finally gotten "Stubborn Lil Alyssa" to agree to get married. Then the whole mess started to move into the house dragging the two of us with them.

I had a few seconds to get used to all of that when I realized that there were even more of them in the house. Once again a pack of human females descended on me and started hugging and kissing me yet again. I stood there a stiff as the proverbial post while all of them did this. I was about to try and go find Alyssa when an elderly lady that had been one of the first to accost me appeared and grabbed me by the arm.

"Now young man, what's your name again?" She asked.

"Wheeljack mam," I swallowed. "But you can call me Jack like Alyssa does."

"Well Jack, now I want you to tell me when you and my granddaughter are planning on getting married. Because you see it's my job to make sure that the girl does it right."

"mam?" I was at a loss this time.

"OH that she has a traditional southern wedding honey. And of course her colors have to be yellow and white. She's from Texas so she has to have yellow roses. All kinds of yellow roses and the rest of the decorations have to match all of that. You see?"

"Ummm…" She now had me and was dragging me deeper into the mass of people.

Several others were agreeing with her on the whole thing and telling me that it was imperative that she be allowed to plan this thing. That it was only right and proper and that of course it HAD to be traditional.

"Now you have to get that pretty lil brunette and her husband down here. She just HAS to be Alyssa's maid, oh wait she's married now isn't she?"

"Yes mam," I started, "to…"

"OH well then she can come and be her matron of honor. We have to get her sizes and get everything ready. OH yes!" She paused and clapped her hands together, "And the whole thing has to be in June. IF My lil granddaughter is going to have a wedding then it has to be in June."

I kept watching as this woman dragged me around the whole family get together and displayed me for various other family members. All the while telling every single one of them about how Alyssa and I were going to have a June wedding and how everything was going to be. Most of them were more than enthusiastic about it and yet again every single female that came near me had to hug and kiss on me for some strange reason. Either they were just very affectionate or I looked like I was in need of some attention.

Eventually every thing got settled down and I managed to locate Alyssa again.

"THERE you are!" I called.

"HEY baby!" She jumped up and kissed me on the cheek. "So what's up? Why'd you flinch when I kissed you?"
"No offense sweetheart but do you have any idea…" I noticed she was about to start giggling. "WHAT?"
"I see you got the treatment from all of my female relatives." She laughed. "Lemme guess every single one of them that came with in grabbing distance got hold of you?"

"Dose this happen to every one?" I asked.

"Every one who comes in contact with this family, yep!" She grinned. "Come on. Dinner's almost ready."

"Uhhh…. And exactly what am I supposed to do during dinner?" I asked.

"We brought some cubes for you, just eat one of those." She grinned.

I looked down the hall to where her grandmother was and the woman waved at me. I winced and looked back at Alyssa.
"I think I just lost my appetite." I muttered.

"Oh no…"Alyssa trailed off, "Did Grandma give you the "Getting Married" treatment?"

"How'd ya know?"

"Oh she dose that to every one." Alyssa grabbed hold of me and tugged me out to where the cooking was going on at the grill. "Still she might have a point."

"Yah but Yellow? Do you really want yellow?" I griped.

"Well you're the one that fell in love with a "yellow rose of Texas" Your just going to have to accept it."

"Yellow rose?" I blinked at her.

She laughed again and kept going in the direction of the cook out, "I'll explain it to you some time later."

I looked up and wondered just how I was going to deal with all of this mess. Still I was happy to be accepted by her family and I was more than thrilled that they were going to let me stay in this remarkable girl's life. If putting up with a few eccentricities and a weird color of flower at our Lifemate ceremony was all it took then I could live with all of that. I was starting to think I could live with just about anything as long as it meant that I could live with her.