Chapter 8: Practice Makes Perfect

Jenny and Jonathan's marriage was getting closer and closer. As it did so did tension between Jonathan, Evy and Rick, Jenny. Siblings fighting over all this wedding business and only woman and men agreeing with each other. The thing that Evy and Jenny were having problems with was getting together enough to talk about the wedding. The practice wedding was going to be set for tomorrow and Evy had to make a hole in her schedule to get to it. Rick swore up and down that he wasn't going to go but somehow Evy talked him into it.

"Alright. I have Rick going to the wedding and Jonathan agreeing that he won't freeze up at the alter tomorrow. All you have to work on is getting Jonathan to change that stupid tux to a color that won't show stains. Have fun with that. I think I want you to be my brides maid for my wedding if you want to do it. I have colors picked out, a navy blue with white flowers stitched into the bottom of the dress. You can do what ever you want with your hair and what you put in it as long as you will have a white bracelet or necklace, you choose."

"Navy with white. Sounds like a good combo. I want to have the practice at 7. I don't know why but I've always wanted a night wedding."

"You won't want that at the Tower of London. Night is when it is said to be haunted the most. How about a 4 o'clock practice and a 6 o'clock wedding. It's close to the night but not going to be at night."

"Sounds good to me." She didn't want sounds coming from the tower as the priest was giving the wedding vows. "Where are you going to have your wedding?"

"Rick wants it in a chapel but I don't know if there's one around her pretty enough. I think there is one on 5 blocks from the house but I can't remember the name or the religion that they practice. I think they're a Christian group but it might be Catholic. I'll check it out when we go home. We have agreed on a place for the honeymoon, Paris. Have you and Jonathan decided about honeymoon destination?"

"We've decided to go to Germany, Berlin to be exact." She gave a smile because she found herself thinking of the perfect honeymoon with all the 'Jonathan' disasters.

"What you smiling at?" Evy could help but smile. It was contagious to her, when one person smiled she would always smile.

"I was just thinking of the ways that Jonathan could mess this honeymoon up but it still be fun and maybe even eventful." She winked at Evy which made Evy laugh hard. She would believe it if her brother came home after the honeymoon and tell her that she was an aunt.

"That would be so funny. Jonathan comes in the house first and starts telling me about how I'm an aunt and just faints right there on the living room floor. You come in carrying the baby and Rick comes down stairs and faints falling on top of Jonathan." She was laughing so hard her sides were starting to hurt. Jenny had stopped smiling when Rick had walked in. He hadn't heard what Evy said but she knew that he would ask until he found out what she was laughing about. "Hello honey, what you need?"

"I just came in to find out what time the rehearsal was and I find you laughing. What were you laughing about?"

"Oh, it's nothing. The rehearsal is at 4 and the actual wedding is at 6. She wanted a night wedding but I told her about the ghosts of the Tower of London so we changed it to just before night."

"Ok. Now stop avoiding answering me about what you were laughing at."

"I didn't avoid it, I told you that I was laughing at nothing. It was just something Jenny brought up and I carried on with."

"Ok. Well I guess I'll see you at home and we'll go to this thing together. Good luck tonight." He kissed Evy and walked out of the library.

"Oh my God. What have you done to him? He gave in to easy when he asked about you laughing." Jenny gave Evy a suspicious look, then it turned to a shocked look.

"What?" Evy was puzzled.

"You slept with him didn't you."

"WHAT! No, of course not. He loves me and respects that I don't want to tell him everything. Why do you automatically think that I have slept with your brother?"

"Because I slept with yours. And I don't automatically think that you slept with him. The first thing I thought was that you drugged him into agreement, then I thought you slept with him."

"You slept with my brother! Oh God. I hate when people have to tell me that the have slept with my brother. Not that I hate you now but it just doesn't make me feel secure when I hear that my brother has slept with the 3rd woman in his life." Evy didn't know what she said until it was to late. She put her had to her mouth and tried to take it all back, "I am so sorry that I said that. You are actually his first, really. The others just say that he slept with him." Jenny stormed out of the library with in a red faced fury.

When Evy got home that night it was to find that her whole world was going to be turned upside down by the small mistake that she made of telling Jenny about Jonathan's previous girlfriend. Evy was telling her the truth when she said that most of the woman had just made it up when the told her that they slept with her brother because she knew that no one went into Jonathan's room, Jonathan wouldn't allow it. She walked into the kitchen to find Jenny crying on Rick's shoulder and hearing Rick trying to comfort his crying sister. Jonathan was no where in site. She had a feeling that he went to The Bottom of the Hill, a small bar not to far from their house.

"Rick, can I talk to you in the living room, please?" Evy looked so depressed that Rick put Jenny on a chair next to the one he was sitting in and walked to her and carried her into the living room. "I take it that Jenny has told you everything about our conversation at the library."

"Yes, she did and she also told me that you tried to cover it up. Is that true?" Rick didn't want to put the pressure on her but couldn't help but ask.

"No, I just tried to set things straight. I told her that those women that he went out with just said that they slept with him but they didn't really because my brother is very particular in who goes into his room. He won't even let me in it. He will only let a girl that he really like into his room. The last person that went in there was me, I snuck into the room. Sheila, the one that ran around naked, was the only one allowed in there. I pretty sure she lied about sleeping with him though because she once told me that she walked naked to get Jonathan to sleep with her and after she said that she had she still ran around the house naked." Evy was almost to tears. She was trying to figure out a way to set this thing straight and the more she thought the more she came to the conclusion that she had ended her brother's relationship with the best girl he had ever had.

"Alright. We need to tell Jenny all this so she knows not to stop the wedding. She already told your brother to stay way from her and, I know I was against this from the start, but I really feel sorry for him. She probably won't talk to you so I will have to break it to her. The problem is that she'll think that you told me to say that just to get her to keep the wedding date with Jonathan. How am I suppose to get her to believe that I was told and wanted to let her know about the mistake?" Rick looked perplexed as he was thinking of a way to get this to his sister.

Just as they were about to walk into the kitchen, Jonathan walked in and was carrying something in his hand, it wasn't a bottle of liquor or any thing like that. It was in the shape of a circle and looked rather expensive. He was making his way toward the kitchen, Evy jumped up and stopped him.

"She won't want to see you thanks to me so I thought that I would try to tell her the truth. Won't you forgive me for this? I really am so sorry that I said that."

"Don't worry bout it. I heard what you said through the door and know that you are telling the truth. I want to at least see her before hand that way I can apologize for what you said." He gave a weak smile.

All three of them walked into the kitchen and things started to fly. First was a tea cup that Jenny had been drinking from when Rick was comforting her. Rick made it before she started to through the plate that was on the table as the cup whizzed passed Jonathan. Rick had a feeling that the plate was aimed for Evy and wanted to get to it before Jenny could. He took the plate to the sink and went to sit by his sister.

"These two need to explain something to you, Jenny. Please listen to them because this is very important."

"I won't listen to that horrible man and his bitch of a sister." She turned away from Evy and Jonathan to look out the kitchen window and started to tear up again.

"Please, Jenny, listen to them so they can explain the mistakes that have been made."

"Fine, then I'm going out for a drink." She turned to face them again.

"Evy, tell her what you told me." Rick looked from his sister to his fiancé.

"Jenny, when I told you that Jonathan had slept with other women I didn't mean it. You didn't give me the chance to tell you that those women weren't even allowed into his bedroom. Of all people I thought you would have known that he didn't let people in because when you started to date him he had you sleeping in a separate room. Those women just wanted to get on my nerves so I would get mad and try to through them out. That way Jonathan would come guns blazing to me and start yelling at me."

"It's all true Jenny. I wouldn't let a single person, not even girlfriends, into my room. I have this thing were I have to get to know them so I know they won't steal stuff."

Jenny started to see the logic in what they were saying but was still furious about the other girlfriends, especially that one that ran around naked. "What's that? I hope it's a gift that your gonna give me cause you need something to redeem yourself."

"This is a pre-wedding gift for you for putting up with me for so long and to make up for what my sister told you." He gave the round object to Jenny and she opened it. Inside was another round box but smaller. She opened it up and found a beautiful pearl necklace laying around two diamond earrings. "You said that your grandmother had a pearl necklace and two diamond earrings that she was going to send to you. I went to pick them up at the post office. Will you forgive me for everything that has happened in the last day?"

"Are you crazy or something? I'm not just going to up and forgive you just because you brought me my grandmothers necklace and earrings. Now I might forgive you if you can go and get my wedding dress tomorrow and pick up your tux." She smiled, leaned over toward him and kissed him.

"Tomorrow is the practice. How am I suppose to show up and get the wedding dress?"

"Practice is at 4, my dress will be ready before that." She gave him that duh look.

Evy started to get a little happier and every one was ready for the next day. Evy had to remind her self over and over never to bring things up like women and her brother to Jenny. When she got upstairs and got into bed with Rick, the worst question Rick had ever asked came, "Why do we have to go to this practice?"

"Because your sister is counting on us to be at the wedding not to mention that I am her bridesmaid and you are Jonathan's best man. Besides practice makes perfect."

"Yeah, yeah… wait I'm Jonathan's best man? Since when did that happened?"

"Since I told him you would and since I told you that I love you."

"You trying to bribe me into being your brother's best man?"

"Of course I am, sweetie."