Ch17: Total Shock

Even though I had insisted that we should've had a normal wedding, Kurama surprised me by not even listening to me.The room that the wedding was to be held in was painted to look like a lake in a clearing, complete with an artificial waterfall in one corner and the carpet a light blue. My dress was a vibrant green with some spots of brown to match the forest-like room and my eyes. I thought I was going to be sick, I was so dang nervous. Everyone we knew was there, even Botan! For some unknown reason, Kuwabara was acting weird. When I asked the nervous ningen what was wrong, he only said that he'd tell me later. Afterward, I sat down at a table with Shiori.

"I guess you and Shuuichi have been in love for how long now?" she asked me, wiping away some of her tears.

"Ever since we came back from that camp. He had saved my life from a bear and I saved him from a herd of raging rams," I semi-lied. "I guess I had feelings for him and never knew it. The last night we were there, he told me that he really cared about me, and I told him I had feelings for him, too. Without each other, he and I wouldn't have survived those animals."

Later on, after the wedding reception, Ronnoc told me something I had never really wanted to hear. I fell backward after he said it.

"Kuwabara was on a family tree site, and found out that he's our distant cousin because he's your father's sister's great-great-grandson!"

That was when I fell backward, but Kurama caught me. Then Ronnoc said there was something else he needed to tell us.

"I'm getting married to...oh, man...I can't say it!"

"Who?"

"Come on the suspense is killing us!"

"...Botan..."

"Who!"

"Botan!" My mouth opened wide and I fainted