Chapter 23: Wedding Preparations
Emily's Viewpoint
Three Days before the Wedding Everything was starting to come together and I was expecting Tyson, Hilary, Ray, Mariah, and maybe even Dani if I was lucky but she's too upset to come out until the actual day of the wedding. She's been helping me every step of the way on the phone and internet and a few times has stopped by but with the death of her brother and the funeral, well she's been a mess. Andy, too has been gone with her, so we make plans between her crying periods and stuff. It's set up but the funeral wasn't a pretty sight for any of my friends, especially not Dani and Andy. Dani wanted to kill herself to be with her deceased family members, or member. Andy stopped her but then she wouldn't leave his coffin-side and Andy had to forcibly remove her from the coffin. She was just falling apart over the last few days.
I awoke to a knock on the door, I walked into the living room to find a sleeping Kai hunched against the arm of the couch. I quietly walked through our living room, to the side door where they had knocked at. I opened the door, and when they were about to talk I cut them off and closed the door slightly behind me.
"What's up, Emily? We're here, I forgot to check the time change on our flight, so how are you?" Hilary said quietly pointing to a sleeping Tyson in the car they rented.
"Why are you so quiet Emily, I'm surprised you aren't all happy and stuff. Though you never were one to be super excited, or happy or something but maybe that's just you and Kai's attitude that I'll never get use to." I laughed at Hilary's joke.
"I've already been through the scared, not sure what to do phase of wedding jitters. That was really bad, I ran off from Kai, then stayed with Dani for a few hours then Kai solved it and then it was good."
"Ouch, I'm sure I would have cried and cried, did you?" I nodded. "How bad was it, Emily? You can tell me, I understand weddings because my mom was a wedding planner, you should see all the crazy people she had to deal with." I laughed.
"Well mine is probably the worst you've ever heard of. I was fine and asking Kai if he was ready then I said some stuff, about um. Can I tell you when Mariah gets here because this story is upsetting and once is enough for me?" Hilary nodded.
"Sure Emily, so why are we not talking inside you beautiful home instead of in your garage?" I thought about this for a second.
'Because Kai is asleep in my living room, I don't know why but Kai's been acting a bit weird since I went through my phase of pre-wedding jitters." I said trying to think of where we could talk.
"It could be his form of pre-wedding jitters, for everyone it's different. It's one girl who had it bad, she decided that she changed from a fancy palace wedding to just her closest friends at her house and proponed the wedding four years. It drove her insane for those four years."
"Yikes, that sounds bad. But it still wasn't worst than my case. Mine was horrible, but it was very nice how Kai handled it. I'm glad that I wasn't that insane, just scared more like it. We can go inside to my bedroom, you just have to be careful not to wake Kai." She nodded and we turned around and saw a very wide awake Kai at the door, just leaning against the sill of the door.
"Um, sorry that we woke you up Kai; I didn't mean to. I was just talking with Emily, sorry. You can have the pleasure of waking Tyson up, he's in the car." Kai smirked and opened the door, and walked to Hilary's car.
"Hey Tyson, wake up!" Kai yelled at him, and Tyson jumped and hit his head on the ceiling of the car. Kai smirked and walked over to us. "He's awake." I laughed.
"I'm telling you, that if you waked me up like that, you'd be in for it." Kai snickered. "I mean it."
"I'd seriously like to see that. Let's get you two in side; and new to you Em, I wake up at 6 every morning." I looked at my watch and it was 6:13 so we didn't wake him up, good.
"Whatever Kai, let's just go in, it's pretty cold out here." Kai walked over to the car and grabbed Tyson by his foot and dragged him onto the dew covered ground. Kai just left him there and followed Hilary and I inside.
"Wow, your place is bigger than I remember, Emily. I never got to see anything but the living room, so could I have a tour?"I looked at Kai, he shrugged. I took Hilary's hand and gave her the tour of the place. Our condo had 1 master bedroom, 2 small bedrooms and a fold out couch. It had 2 bathrooms, one upstairs, and one on the main floor, it had a tiny small basement, for storage, a kitchen, living room, and had a few closets and in the corner of the upstairs was a laundry room, that looked like a closet. After the tour we came down the stairs and saw Tyson watching TV and eating cereal or whatever Kai had given him, while Kai just leaned against a post.
"Just like old times huh?" I turned around and saw Ray and Mariah who must have been let in by Kai without alerting me.
"What's just like old times, you scaring me half to death or Tyson stuffing his face and Kai leaning against walls?" Ray laughed and Mariah smiled and gave me a hug.
"Hey Emily, Hi Kai, how is everyone else, oh hey there Hilary." Mariah said acknowledging everyone except Tyson who would probably spit food at her because he was talking with his mouth full.
"I think Ray means the Tyson and Kai thing, Em." Hilary said responding to the question I asked. "So Emily, why do you need such a big place, for just you two. You would have done fine with an apartment." Mariah nodded and I looked at Kai but there was no help for me this time because he was too preoccupied with waiting for Tyson to mess up.
"Well If I remember correctly Sam and Kaelan are staying with us because they got a job at the research center with us, so that's why. I guess." I didn't know why exactly Kai and I got such a huge house, I just knew that Sam and Kaelan were paying rent too, so I guess for all those people it was a good sized house.
"Oh I see, so where are those two and your other two friends, Andy and Dani?" Mariah said looking around and noticing they weren't there.
"Kai, where is Kaelan, I haven't seen him for weeks. I remember that how Andy thought that Dani's brother was Kaelan but we never did figure out where he was and is?" I yelled across the room, to Kai.
"I have no clue, Em. We haven't seem him for a while, Sam's looking for him now. I'm surprised you forgot for so long. Mr. Dickinson says he's doing something for the BBA out of town but Sam's not sure and is trying to find him through the BBA accounts." I nodded, so he wouldn't keep talking so I wouldn't bother him much.
"So we don't really know for sure, but I hope he's going to be back in time for the wedding. So what would you two like to do for the rest of the day?" I asked, wondering what they'd like to do.
'Mariah and I have plans Emily; I guess you could come because we're shopping for gifts for you and Kai. It's formal to give people presents at weddings. I gave one to Mariah and you did too so now it's your turn." Mariah slapped her head. "What's up Mariah?"
"I'll tell you later, just don't let me forget." We both nodded and I followed the girls out to the car but we went back inside so I could pick up my check book and Mariah could ask for some money from Ray because her debit card was packed away to avoid unneeded expenses on their trip.
Kai's Viewpoint
Emily had just left to go shopping with Mariah and Hilary and I was back at home and Ray had just arrived so we went into the kitchen to talk because, well I wanted to. Tyson was fine with eating all of the cereal in a box we bought about a month ago. So I went with Ray into the kitchen.
"So Kai, how are you feeling about your wedding? It seems yours is going much smoother than mine did, but mine had many more rules than yours will. Yours is pretty much free except for the basics, right?"
"I guess but Emily had a total break down and I'm afraid she's going to have another. I didn't think she'd be the one who'd break down so easily." Ray laughed.
"Kai, I know you should know this by now but girls are very complex, Emily is strong physically but it doesn't mean she is mentally, and smarts isn't what I'm talking about. I mean she uses her strength and brains to cover up, like you that she's very fragile with her feelings, and she, like you is very good at it but sometimes she can't and then she breaks." I nodded understanding what he was saying about her, but what about me.
"What do you mean, like me?" I said acting rather curious as to how he would explain this to me.
"You ever realize how your hiding how you really feel about people, like Emily before. It's because you really do care about people, and your friends, you just don't want to show it because you think it's your place of weakness. You hide your feelings with your strength and your emotionless act." I nodded, it was the same thing Emily told me the first time. She said 'I know why you stay on your own Kai, because you're afraid that if you got to know your teammates that you'd like them.' She said that because she knew that I was a friendly person, at heart. How she knew was because it pertained the same thing to herself, and she's smart.
"You're right Ray, so how did Mariah act before your wedding?"
"She was pretty much like she is everyday except she was more, well jumpy. She almost beat up Tyson because she thought he was some mad killer person, because he wore a red suit and the colors were red, white and pink." I laughed at this, strange acts of marriage is right. "She jumped around everywhere, spun around a lot, and was just more happy then normal, and she was just extremely loud and almost broke my grandmother's arm because she shook it so hard. So how did Emily react when you told her, I was never told the story of how you were engaged to her?" I laughed tried to think about all the crazy things that went on that day.
"Well it was the day that we got our letters from out school so that we could get a starting career. I didn't get it but Emily did, but she turned it down even though it was an amazing job. Later that night we went home and we were played around and stuff like normal, and I got up and walked over to her and bent down on one knee and proposed, then she said yes but fainted soon after, she had a seizure but the next day I left a note for her to make sure what she said is really what she wanted and she came to work and tackled me, and there you have it." Ray laughed at the funny way I proposed which wasn't very crazy compared to the second time, after we canceled it without anyone knowing.
"So she had a seizure after you proposed to her that seems like something I've seen in a crazy monster movie. The guy proposes then the girl dies being hit by a monster." I nodded, but that's how it happened.
"So why do you two have such a big house for just the two of you? Are you planning to fill it with kids, right Kai?" I stared at him, that was no joke, it was a very uncalled for statement.
"No, it's because we have to share it with Sam and Kaelan. Plus, Emily and I aren't going to have kids for awhile because we have enough to deal with, without putting another life in trouble, or a pregnant Emily in danger."
"So you're never going to have kids, Kai?" I shrugged, I really didn't know. Other than the times that Emily's been insecure about it and I told her that she didn't have to until she was ready, I didn't really discuss it very much other than that, and endangering another life.
I heard the door open, and I knew that would be Emily coming in with stuff along with Mariah and Hilary. I stood up and propped open the door and walked into the kitchen, being followed by Ray who wanted to escape the crazy girls, after their shopping spree.
After everyone had settled down everyone sat down with their respective girlfriend, fiancée, or wife and we needed to talk, I was by the request of Mariah that she needed to tell everyone it.
"Should I tell you guys now?" Mariah asked cheerfully.
"Come on Mariah, we're all sitting would you to fill the rest of us in on why your so happy?" Ray asked talking to his wife as she smiled.
"Okay Mr. Impatient; I'll tell you and you can tell everyone else because I don't fell like it anymore." Mariah sat down next to Ray and whispered something in his ear. "One, two, three."
"What?" Ray yelled causing everyone else to laugh. "You better be serious Mariah, or you're in big trouble.
"Would you and Kai like you fill us in Mariah?" Mariah looked at Kai, and smiled.
"You can do it Mariah, it is your announcement, because I didn't know until now." She nodded and stood up again and I was getting tired of this and I just wanted to know.
"I'm a pregnant with Ray's and my first child; Ray doesn't know because I got the news in an envelope before we left, I didn't think I'd know so soon but that's the news everyone. I looked over to see Emily happy about this and she was fainted.
"She does that a lot, I'll take care of it." I said, picking up Emily's fragile body, and carrying it into her bedroom. "So continue and such, Emily always faints when it comes to hearing about people being pregnant, don't know why, but she does, so go on."
"That's kind of strange behavior for her, isn't it? How many times has it happened before Kai?" Hilary said, wondering about Emily's health.
"I don't know exactly but maybe 3 now. Once at the research facility, and then when I proposed to her, and now and maybe a few other times, I may have forgotten. She fainted two other times but that was from being drugged with Melodeon and she was shocked unconscious not fainted but about 3."
"Kai, you're a doctor, is that normal?" Mariah said worryingly.
"The fainting with over use of a drug, and going unconscious is but not while being proposed to, now, and when Kaelan was like 12 he said something to the extent that Emily was going to be pregnant when she came back and that was a bit normal, scared her into fainting but that much fainting isn't good for her."
"So Now we get to through a Baby Shower for you Mariah, it's going to be so great. I hope shopping for you isn't as hard as shopping for Emily and Kai. Even when we took Emily with us we couldn't find anything. We're just going to hand them 200 dollars each, and call it done." I laughed at the comment about Emily being someone hard to shop for.
"Hey guys, so what have you been talking about all day." Tyson said coming back from one of the bedrooms upstairs after a nice long nap, I know because I locked him in there because he got on my nerves. Then after 6 minutes I could hear him snoring all the way down here.
"The normal things Tyson; we talked about the girls and shopping, Mariah and being pregnant, and Emily fainting."
"Wow you guys are busy why I'm asleep. So how many times has Mariah been pregnant before, since it's something you guys normally talk about?" I laughed at this as Mariah went over there and smacked Tyson hard.
"You deserved it Tyson, I mean you don't talk about your best friends' wife like that without her slapping you, I think you deserve to get kicked out but since Kai's too busy laughing, your lucky." I nodded, that, that was enough punishment.
"Tyson, you need to start thinking about what your going to say, before you say it. Thinking about it after just helps you get slapped more." I said showing my friendly side to Tyson, the side that liked beating him up and arranging his times to be stupefied.
In about an hour Emily woke up and we continued on our conversation, and told her about Mariah again, this time she didn't faint. She was happy for her and I told them about my re-proposal to marry Emily which no one knew about except us two.
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It's starting to the falling action of my plot line. The climax points of this story are the marriage and their becoming boyfriend and girlfriend. The rising actions were the partnership, the training of Sam and Kaelan. The falling action is just going to skip two and then 6 years in the future and end it up but there is much, much more to come. On the next chapter of Great Expectations and the Perfectionist. Aniecä, Girl of Light Writter. My real name is something very close to Madelyn, but Aniecä is the transversial way of writing it which I like to include in my stories, as my pen name.