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Pairings: UxY, JxA, OxE

Author's Note: I just want to say thanks to Anime Bubbles for the GREAT review on Materialzation. I really appreciate it!

"That was a great ceremony. Are they really engaged now?" Aelita asked shortly after the ceremony.

"Well...you don't have to be, but they are," Elizabeth answered. The wandered aimlessly through the gardens before she grinned. "Would you like to take a carriage ride? We can go through the gardens to the east side and then I'll let you meet my family! We have a booth over there where we sell jewelry," she explained.

"Sure," Odd answered. She grinned and led them down a cobblestone pathway to an area where three carriages were lined up with horses tethered to posts.

"Hello Elizabeth," one of the carriage driver's said.

"Good day Nathaniel, these are my friends, Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremie, and Aelita. They're here from a school up north. I figured we could have a ride to our booth through the gardens?" she asked. She pulled out a sugar cube from a pouch at her waist, offering it to the horse.

"Of course," the man replied. He grinned at them all. "Ladies first," he said, offering his hand to Aelita. She took it and he helped her, then Elizabeth, then Yumi into the carriage, followed by Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie. "I hope you enjoy yourselves," he said. He got into the front seat after un-tying the reigns from the pole and off they started.

"So...you guys thinking of doing a hand-fasting?" Elizabeth asked curiously. They were squished together on the two seats, half laying on each other.

"Well, I think Ulrich's considering getting hand-fasted with Sissi," Yumi teased.

"What?" Odd, Jeremie, and Aelita demanded.

"I thought you liked Yumi," Aelita said.

"Yeah, I thought so too," Elizabeth put in. Ulrich and Yumi went scarlet and Ulrich coughed.

"I was teasing," Yumi said. "I wasn't serious, he turned down her offer..." She quickly leaned back, looking around at the garden. It really was pretty here. She was glad her parents had let her come.

"Yumi?"

"What?" She looked at Ulrich, realizing that she'd drifted off.

"Were you serious?" he asked.

"Serious? About? Oh...I, uh, don't know...I guess," she mumbled.

"Really? Then you wouldn't mind if we did?"

"No, I would enjoy it actually," she replied.

"What are you two whispering about?" Odd asked. He leaned in (which was difficult do to the tight spaces.

"Nothing," Ulrich answered quickly.

Elizabeth smirked at them. "I bet I could guess." The two teens in question blushed darker and Yumi leaned her head against Ulrich's shoulder. "A...hand-fasting perhaps?"

"Really?" aelita squealed as Yumi groaned, burying her face deeper in Ulrich's shoulder.

"Mmmhphnomm," she mumbled. He smells really good...Bad Yumi! Bad! Don't think that way! she told herself. Ulrich prodded her lightly in the side and she moved her head and sighed. "I said, Not nice," she muttered. They laughed.

There was another click! and a small flash and Yumi groaned. "So far I'm getting up to a whole roll of blackmail film," Jeremie said, putting the camera away. They groaned again and Elizabeth smiled.

"You two make such a cute couple," Elizabeth said. At their looks she glanced around. "They are one aren't they?" she asked nervously.

"Well...uh...I don't think they know yet," Odd said. "But everyone else does!" he exclaimed, absent mindedly wrapping an arm around Elizabeth's shoulders. She smiled at him.

Odd...We just..." Ulrich trailed off looking at Yumi and she smiled a little. Before they could finish the conversation the man, Nathaniel, pulled up at one of the booths. "Yumi, can I talk to you privately?" he asked as they were getting down off the carriage. She nodded and they silently slipped away, into the gardens.

Author's Note: Dum de da de dum! Another chapter done! Yay! Let me know what you think!