Chapter 13: Almost a Hospital Scene
"What happened to him, Jenny?" Evy asked getting a little upset and starting to cry.
"I broke some news to him and he got all excited then tried to run all the way up the stairs and tripped over the carpet and fell right back down the stairs." Jenny was on the ground doing C.P.R. on Jonathan, trying to get him to breath again. She finally stopped and was beginning to wonder if Jonathan was going to live when he opened his eyes and looked at her. As he looked at her a small smile grew from the corner of his mouth until it stretched to a full smile.
"I'm so glad that I lived through that to see how everything would turn out." Jonathan said getting up from the floor. He hugged Jenny and smiled again.
"I'm just glad that you lived." Jenny said giving him a kiss on his cheek and getting closer to him.
"Alright enough of the mushy stuff. What was the news that you almost killed Jonathan with?" Rick was waiting for his sister to come up with some erratic story.
"Well, Rick you might want to sit down for this and Evy you might want to hold him there." Jenny said with caution. She figured that she had already given it away after saying that but Rick sat down and Evy sat by him waiting for the pounce. "I told Jonathan that I was pregnant and that is when he jumped up the stairs and fell." Jonathan, at the time she told Rick this, was in the bathroom cleaning his ear up. He had figured out that it was an excuse to keep Rick away from him.
Rick, however, did not take the news the way Jenny was thinking he would. Evy was about ready to jump on him to keep him from attacking Jenny but he didn't budge. He sat there for a few minutes, which seemed to Evy and Jenny the time he was gaining to catch them off guard, then smiled a wide smile.
"Congratulations sis. I thought you didn't want to have a kid but I guess I was wrong about that." Rick got up and gave her a hug.
"Who are you and what have you done with my brother?" She asked.
"What? I can't be happy for my sister? I know you think that I would jump all over you about it but I have found out that I need to control that. I just hope that Evy and I can have a child. I thought I would be the one to have it and you would be the one that would take care of it when Evy and I are away." He smiled once again. "Where is the father to be?"
"Probably ran away so you wouldn't beat him." Evy said looking at Rick then looking around for Jonathan.
"I was not running away. I was in the bathroom washing off my ear if that is alright with you." Jonathan said walking back into the living room.
"You were hiding then." Evy said looking at him with a scowl. "You left your pregnant wife here to fend for herself while you coward in the bathroom."
"It's alright Jonathan. I was happy to hear the news about my new niece or nephew." Rick went up to Jonathan and shook his hand. "But if you dare die on my sister, I swear that I will come to the other side and kick your butt." Rick all of a sudden had a serious look on his face.
"Oh Rick, be nice to him. The man just cheated death and is going to have a kid." Jenny said heading toward Jonathan.
"I was just kidding. I don't want to die just to kick his ass." Rick went to Evy and pulled her off to another room. "Now we need to talk about this wedding of ours. Are you still wanting to have it today after all that has happened or do you want to wait?"
"I still want to have it today. But we're going to have to do it inside."
"Why is that?"
Evy pointed out the window, "Because it's raining and I don't want to have the wedding in the rain." She smiled and gave Rick the biggest hug she could.
"Right. Rain is a problem but what if we have a company set up tents in the back yard then we can still have it out there and be dry without taking away the flowers."
"I guess we can do that. If you want to call the company while I talk to Jenny about what to wear for a brides maid dress."
"I'll call them and then talk to Jonathan to see if he has a decent tux to wear." Rick went off to the kitchen to get the phone and phone book as Evy made her way to Jenny and Jonathan.
As Rick talked to the companies that he could find that would put up tents Evy talked to Jenny and Jonathan about what to wear.
"Jenny do you still have that blue dress that you wore at your reception or was that a rental?"
"I still have it. It's upstairs in my closet. Why? Is that what you want me to wear to your wedding?"
"Yes. And Jonathan, Rick wanted to know if you had a decent tux to wear. After all you are his best man."
"I can wear the one I had at my wedding."
"Good. Now that we have that strait I guess we just have to wait on the tents."
"Tents? What tents? You're not having this outside in the rain are you?" Jonathan wasn't going to go outside and ruin his tux just to let his sister get married.
"Yes. Rick said that he didn't want to have it indoors because we wouldn't have the flowers that are outside."
"That is so romantic. Rick wants you to have the wedding that you planned so he will have it out in any weather. I wish this one was more like that." Jenny said looking over at Jonathan.
"That's what makes me unique sweetie. If I was like Rick I would look all unhappy everyday unless I was able to kill something." As Jonathan rambled on Rick walked in the room just behind him. Jenny started to signal to Jonathan so he would stop but he totally ignored it. "I also wouldn't be happy unless I had a gun in my hand and even then I would look like an idiot… he's behind me isn't he?"
"You look like an idiot without holding a gun, Jonathan. London Canvas is coming over to put up the tents for the wedding." Rick sat down next to Evy and kissed her on her forehead.
After a couple of hours talking about how they were going to do the wedding, London Canvas showed up and got to putting up the tents as soon as they told Rick they were there. Evy went off to the kitchen to call for a judge so they could set up a time for the wedding. The judge told her that he had an opening in his schedule at 2:30 p.m. and Rick agreed to having the wedding then. London Canvas came back into the house and told them that the tents were set up and won't be coming down soon. They had to take extra precautions to make sure the tents wouldn't blow over. The tents didn't allow any wind or rain to get in so it was almost like they just added a room to the back of the house. All Evy, Rick, Jonathan, and Jenny could do now was get ready and wait for the judge to come so Evy and Rick could get married.