RAIN
Chapter 3
A couple of days before the wedding, Kimberly and Tommy stood arguing in the parking lot to the rehearsal. A small crowd forming around them. Jason and Trini came outside to stop them after Kim's mother told Kimberly to leave now before she says something she really doesn't want to.
"You are unbelievable!"
"ME! You are yelling at me because of something your mother said! You are crazy!" She shoved him.
"You're an ass! You never listen!"
"Maybe because you never shut up!" She shoved him into his car.
"Oh really!"
"You two stop it!" Trini yelled. "You're making a scene!" Kim shoved Tommy harder. Tommy slightly pushed her back. He tried to hold her, but Kimberly fought him, ending up slapping his arms a few times.
"Don't touch me!"
"Come here," Tommy said grabbing her arms and pulling her back to him. "I'm sorry, Beautiful." He hugged her. Kim hugged him back.
"No, I'm sorry." Tommy held her face and kissed her. Jason and Trini sighed.
"Thank god," Trini said watching the couple make-up.
"Let's get out of here."
"Wait, what about the rehearsal!" Jason asked.
"Kim, your mother will be angry if you leave now, especially during the rehearsal!"
"I don't care. Let's go, Tommy." Tommy got into his jeep as Kimberly walked to the other side.
"Hey! What am I to tell your mother!" Trini asked trying to stop her.
"I'm away."
"KIM!"
"Goodbye."
Next morning
Tommy woke up to find knocking at his door. He wrapped a towel around his waist and opened his door slightly.
"School starts in an hour."
"I'm up."
"Is Kimberly here?"
"No." Tommy's mother pushed the door more. Kimberly was asleep on her back, the covers around her.
"Her mother called, wake her up and get her home."
"Mom.."
"Don't Mom me, Thomas. You are grounded." Tommy's head went down as he closed the door. Tommy quickly threw on some clothes and woke Kimberly. She was dropped off at her house. Kimberly opened the door and found her mother coming down the stairs.
"You are so grounded."
"Whatever," Kimberly said passing her on the stairs. Kim's mother grabbed her arm.
"Why are you acting like this!"
"Don't touch me!" Kim pulled away and ran upstairs.
"I don't want to have to worry about you when I am gone!"
"Then don't!" Kimberly slammed her bedroom door. Kim showered, got dressed and was to head out the door when her mother stopped her.
"Why are doing this, Kimberly? We use to be able to talk about anything."
"Oh Mom, don't. Perhaps the fact that you were just married, not even a year ago, and now you are marrying another guy. But what do I know about love, right. I'm just 16." Tommy pulled up.
"I want you straight home after school."
"I'll see." Kim slammed the door as she left. Kim's mother sighed.
At the dinner before the wedding day, Kimberly sat beside Tommy. Appetizers served. Kimberly popped a black olive into her mouth and Tommy kissed her. Kim held his leg as they shared peaks here and there.
"People are settling in, Kimberly. This is our party, not yours. Keep your affections to a minimal." Kimberly looked over to her mother.
"By all means, don't let us stop you from partying." Kimberly stood up and threw her napkin to her plate. Kimberly walked away. Tommy took a sip of his water and pulled his napkin up.
"Excuse us," Tommy said getting up, following Kimberly.
Tommy heard crying from the bathroom. "Oh, Beautiful." Tommy pulled her hands down from her face. "Come on."
"I hate this! I hate all of this! And I hate her for putting me through this!"
"No, don't you dare say that! You don't hate her."
"Yes, yes I do!"
"I won't have you talking like this about your mother. She loves you so much. This is our night. Why can't you just be happy for her?"
"Oh, you want me to just suck it up and deal!"
"No, I want you to be courteous." He held her face and kissed her. "Now come on." He grabbed some tissues and wiped under her eyes. "I'm here, okay."
Kimberly was asked to open the wedding tomorrow with a song, so tonight, she was going to warm with a few songs. The crowd slowed danced to Kimberly's singing.
"Okay, this is my final song. It's a new song, I wrote for a very special person in my life. I love you, Tommy." She picked up her guitar and started playing.
Tommy got closer to the stage. Kimberly bent down and kissed him. Everyone clapped. The DJ took back over playing music for the dinner party. After the main course was served, dessert would be out shortly. Kimberly and Tommy went to dance a while with Zack and Angela.
"They are so cute together."
"He is not the right one for her, mother," Carolina said to Kim's grandmother.
"Oh, honey. They are happy. She is happy."
"Too happy. They are moving well too fast for so young."
"One would say the same to you."
"Mother! Whose side are you on?"
"There is no side here, dear. You are an adult." Kim's grandmother got up to get another drink. Zack dared Tommy to dedicate a song to Kimberly. Kimberly watched Tommy walk away and go over to the DJ stage. The DJ handed over the microphone.
"Hello. Excuse me, can I get everyone's attention. Congratulation to the couple of course. Big day tomorrow. Before the final song before dessert, I just want to take this time and dedicate the song to the girl in my life that has made me a better person. I love you, Beautiful. Here is our song." Kim covered her mouth, as Brown-Eyed Girl started. Tommy held his hand out for her. They danced alone.
The final toasts were to be made before closing out the evening. When Kimberly refused, her mother got upset, so to farther make things worst, Kimberly decided to say how she really felt right there to her mother.
"Okay, so as maid of honor I am supposely to now have this grand toast. What am I suppose to say? Congrats? Good luck?"
"As maid of honor, you are..."
"At the wedding, Mom. But hey, I can make a toast to this stupid thing."
"Stupid thing? My wedding is stupid!"
"I never wanted to be apart of this scam!" Tommy grabbed her arm to make her stop.
"Come on, just stop it."
"What? No, she wants a toast!"
"Kim, that's enough," Kim's grandmother said.
"You believe my marriage will be a scam!"
"How can I not, after 8 months of dating!"
"You and Tommy claim to be so in love!"
"I do love Tommy! I am not jumping up to marry him! You don't go from being so in love with Daddy to marrying Pierre! It's ridiculous! You are ridiculous!"
"I do love Pierre!"
"You love Daddy!"
"Loved. I stopped loving your father long before the divorce."
"Then you are a liar." Kimberly grabbed a glass of champagne as it passed. She stood on a chair. "Excuse me, excuse me!" The crowd hushed. "I'm sorry. My mother seems to be upset about her maid of honor lack of toast, so after much thinking, I believe I have something."
"Get down!"
"Oh no, no Mommy. You asked for it. Webster defines love as a human emotion that can be shared between 2 people. It is believed that every human searches the world for it's other half. Some get lucky and find it early. Some don't ever find it in their lifetime. And then there are some, like my mother, who find it, give it up and spend the rest of their lives trying to make up for that. So, as we are here tonight and tomorrow to celebrate this supposedly great union of my dear mother and her new toy, I mean, fiancée Pierre." She drank down her glass. "Best wishes." She dropped the glass and got down. Kim's mother grabbed her arm.
"You will apologize to me, Pierre and these guests immediately!"
"No." Kim smiled. "I hope you are ready for a life of hell, Pierre, Lord knows, Daddy wasn't prepared." Kim's mother slapped her. Kim held her face and looked at her mother. She ripped off her necklace, family heirloom. "I hate you and I would rather slit my throat than watch you get married." She walked out. Tommy tried to stop her.
"NO! You need to go back in there and.."
"Unless you are leaving now with me, shut up and let me go."
"You are not going away like this."
"Drive or I will."
"You need to go back in there and.."
"I just said in front of crowd that I would rather slit my throat than be apart of my mother's wedding. I really, really don't think I should stay."
"You are...fine, let's go then." Tommy put his hand on her back and led her to his car. Kim's mother stood in the doorway, tears rolling down her eyes. Pierre came up behind her.
"Honey?"
"Why am is she doing this? She has never acted this way before."
"Kimberly...she just wants what is best for you and right now, she doesn't see that as me."
"But you are! I know you are! I love you!"
"I love you too. Come, we still have guests."
Tommy drove home in silence. Tommy pulled into his driveway. Kimberly's heart finally gave in. She fell forward crying.
"What is wrong with me? I shouldn't...it shouldn't be like this." Tommy rubbed her back as she cried. He got out the car and walked to her side. He opened the door and carried her into his house.
"Am I crazy?"
"No. You are hurting. I know it hurts, Beautiful. You just..you reacted badly." She hugged Tommy.
"So what are we going to do?"
"Well, tomorrow I was supposed to walk my beautiful girlfriend down the aisle of her mother's wedding, but that's over with." Kimberly laughed then started to cry again. Tommy carried her to his bedroom.
Next morning, around 6 am, Tommy woke up to knocking at his door. Kimberly moaned and turned off his chest to her stomach. Tommy sighed and kissed her back as he sat up.
"Coming." He slid on some pants as he went to open his door.
"Mrs. O'Brien?"
"My granddaughter." Tommy stepped aside. "Get up!" Kim's grandmother flipped the light on. Kim groaned and covered her head with the sheet.
"Mama, go away!"
"No no! Now get dressed, you have a wedding."
"I am not doing it!"
"Yes, yes you are. Your mother would be terribly upset if you don't."
"She doesn't want me there, nor does she need me. I sure as heck don't want to be there."
"Well tough! This is your mother!"
"You don't agree with this darn wedding either!"
"I know I don't. But what you need to understand that is my only baby girl. And she is getting married." Tommy picked up Kim's clothes.
"Come on, Beautiful. We only get one mom in life. You need to be there. You need to this for you mother or you will regret it. This wedding is a beginning not just for your mother, but you."
"I told her I hated her."
"Oh, your mother has said that millions of times to me in a fit of angry. If you don't get up, I will tell your mother about you and Tommy having sex."
"GAMA!"
"Now."
"You wouldn't."
"Try me." Tommy held up Kim's dress. She took it from Tommy.
"See if I tell you anything else," Kimberly mumbled. Kim's grandmother kissed her forehead.
"Just get dressed, I'll be in the car." Kim's grandmother left them.
"This is crazy. I shouldn't be going this!"
"You are going. If I have to carry you kicking and screaming myself." He kissed her head. "Now, lets go." Kimberly sighed. She hugged Tommy.
"You love me?"
"You know I do, Beautiful. I love you so much." He cupped her face.
"I love you too." They kissed.
TBC
last chapter is ahead :P