Chapter 24: The Wedding (Part 1)

Kai's Viewpoint

I awoke up at 6 like every morning so that I could prepare my stuff for the wedding. Emily was right about this being a big step for the both of us. I wouldn't ever admit to anyone but I was nervous because I could sense that something would go wrong. Emily would tell me that I was being paranoid but I could feel it. I got dressed into my tux and went to wake up Emily. What I was expecting was what was soon to happen, Emily wasn't there.

"Emily, you are making this so much tougher than it has to be." I looked around her room and saw a note on her bed. Of course Emily would be the one to run off from her own wedding, and leave a note with detailed directions on where she'd be. It was stupid, but I had talked to Emily yesterday about this.

Yesterday

"Kai, I know that I'm going to be scared tomorrow and run off. I don't want to run away but something inside of me is going to snap and I'll run away. What should I do?" I thought about this and I had the answer.

"Try your hardest to stay calm but if you feel that you are going to tomorrow, draw a map or something to tell me where you'll be so I can find you and bring you back." She nodded and calmed down as she rested her head on my lap.

"You nervous, or scared, or anything?" I kissed my freaking out fiancée on the cheek and leaned back.

"I only fear that something will go and take you away from me. Chances are that you'll be the one who'll take you away from me." She nodded like a sick person; understanding but to weak to make much movement.

"You sure you'll be fine with me running off." I shrugged, honestly I'd rather not go running off after her at 6 in the morning tomorrow before our wedding but I need Emily at our wedding for it to be complete so that's what I might just have to do.

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I sighed and picked up my jacket and walked out of the house. Then I saw Dani and Andy coming up to the door. "Where are you going? You're getting married soon."

"I know that and so does Emily yet she left a while ago. I know where she is but I'll see you later. Stall for a bit until I get back." They nodded and walked back to the wedding hall where we were having the wedding.

Emily's Viewpoint

I sat there at the fancy dinner restaurant where we were holding the reception. Why I ran away here, I don't know. It was so calming I guess. Emily, you are so stupid, didn't you have enough wedding jitters before? I sat at the table and cried and cried.

"Miss, do I know you? You seem awfully familiar." The girl about 9 said who stood there in a wedding gown, I guess she was styling the flower girl's outfit.

"I don't know if you know me. I'm Emily Dennison, and in a few hours, I'll be Emily Hiwatari." She smiled.

"Emily and Hiwatari seem awfully familiar names to me, miss. So why you crying? Are you styling that wedding dress?"

"You could know me from beyblading tournaments and my fiancé's last name is Hiwatari, Kai and he's a famous beyblader too. I'm not styling this dress; I'm supposed to be getting married very soon." She nodded.

"So where is your fiancé Kai, Emily? Doesn't he have to be with you to get married?" I nodded.

"Kai's back at our house, he's probably just figuring out that I'm here or is still asleep or worrying about where I am. Or he could be waiting for me to return on my own. Either way, I'm here and not there."

"Why aren't you there, Emily? I'm Megan by the way." I nodded understanding her.

"I'm scared, for what reason, I don't know. I just am, and I wish I wasn't. I ran off and now I'm lonely and sad and just really depressed."

"Weddings are supposed to me happy Emily, not lonely, sad and depressing. I think you messed up your wedding. Are you sure you're in love with Kai, Emily." I laughed.

"I guess to someone who doesn't know us very well, it may seem like I don't. But I do, with every part of my soul I love Kai but something's wrong with me, and I don't know what." I started crying again and she looked at me sadly.

"My big sister got married and she was at her wedding, that was a few years ago but I remember. She cried at hers too. She thought she was sad, but she wasn't she was happy."

"I really wish my tears were of joy, because then I wouldn't be ashamed, I'd be happy but they are of sadness, and of pain." Megan started crying and I looked at her. She made sounds like a sobbing women over her dead husband. "Why are you crying?"

"Because I'm sad, because I can be happy if your not. I wish we both knew why we were sad." I nodded and we both cried and cried for a while.

"Megan, where are you? There you are, why are you crying? And who is this?" A older girl came who must have been her sister or her mother. She was a bit too young to be her mother, I think.

"Hi sissy, she's sad because she's getting married, like you did, remember." The girl nodded. "Her name's Emily and she's getting married today. She sad, depressed and um, lonely too."

"Poor Girl, hello Emily. I'm Megan's older sister, Ashley. So Emily why are you lonely, sad and depressed?" I shrugged and looked at the table. "Let's try to figure this out. Your fiancé okay? Is he alive? Did he leave you?"

"He's fine, and alive. He didn't leave me, I left him. I woke up and when I saw him on our coach asleep I freaked out and ran away here. I'm just sad, lonely, and depressed." She nodded understanding me.

"It sounds like a bad case of wedding jitters. Why don't you go home and talk to him? You two share a house, right?"

"I don't want to go back because I ran away far from our house and if I go back and he comes here we'll be more late so I guess I have to wait. I really don't want to burden him with my problems."

She started laughing really loudly. "You're going to have a horrible marriage if you're afraid to burden him with your problems. That's what you have each other for. It's a mutual support center."

"Sissy, is she going to miss her wedding because she ran off before it?" Megan asked her sister.

"I don't know Megan, are you Emily?" I looked at my watch which read 7:25, my wedding is at 10:20.

"No probably not, if I go soon; I might if I don't ever go. My wedding is at 10:20." Megan frowned and looked at her feet.

"I'm never going to get married sissy, and Emily. Weddings make you unhappy; I thought you were happy during your wedding, sissy."

"I was, and I know that I found the right guy for me to marry, are you sure you did Emily? The only people who are unhappy at weddings are those who secretly loved one of the people who were getting married, the parents whose child is moving away or someone who is being forced to get married. The only other person, is someone who doesn't truly love the person, do you fit in any of those categories?" I shook my head.

"Kai and I live far from my parents but I've never been with my parents. No one secretly loves me and I'm not being forced to get married. I'm sure I love Kai with all my soul I just think that I'm afraid of something not the wedding itself." I cried.

"Maybe you need to talk to Kai, and push back the wedding a while. It's for the best that you don't get married today if you're feeling like something bad is going to happen." I shook my head frantically.

"I don't know what's wrong with me, I love Kai with all my soul, and I need him. I've been by his side since I was 18, we were partners and he saved me. I went to college with him for 3 years until I was twenty-one then 2 years later here we are, I'm 23 and he is too and we're about to get married. I need him but I just feel so bad about this wedding."

"Well if you know that you love him, maybe it's just that today is not the right time. I think you just need to find out if your heart is ready for this step. It seems that Kai is the cool headed one who knows how he feels and just goes with whatever you do, and loves you for it but you don't have your head calm enough to go through this." I sighed.

"Thanks for your help, you and Megan can go. I need to wait for Kai to once again come to my rescue so that I can truly and always find myself." She nodded and the two left me to doodle in my thoughts.

I got up and laid down on the floor, hoping to look up finding what I'm afraid of but sadly, nothing was there that would solve my problem, it was just a ceiling, the same ceiling that I was looking at before except now it's farther from my face, and less clear. I closed my eyes and hoped that my mind would say something to me. Nothing, there was no reason for me to not marry Kai, except for my own stupidity.

"Excuse me miss, but we have a wedding party coming at 10:50 and we need to clean up the place for the couple." I sat up and started crying.

"I am the new wife, right here." The man looked at me and thought I was crazy then helped me up.

"Do you know that it's 20 minutes away from here and it 8:04 now. You should get going." I nodded.

"I guess that I shouldn't wait for my fiancé here, I could wait there because someone has to explain why everything so horrible." I cried.

"I'm so sorry, so why was the wedding called off?" I shook my head.

"It's not called off, it's just that I'm a mess, Kai's not here and I don't know why I'm so sad."

"Oh Mr. Hiwatari is your fiancé well he's been here for quite a long time now. I get him in here." I nodded and stood up and sat down on a chair and rested on a table.

Kai walked into the room, looking extremely handsome and it brought a smile to my teary face. "You finally decided to show up, huh?" I nodded and stood up and walked over to Kai and started crying on his shoulder. "You seem pretty glad to see me, when you miss me next time, could you just be upset at our house. This place is pretty far on foot." I nodded and hugged Kai. It was like a child reuniting with her father after a camp for a month.

"Why I was lonely was because you weren't with me. Why I was sad and depressed must have just come along with being lonely." He smiled and looked at me.

"Can you please be lonely, sad, and depressed after we get married, please?" I shook my head. "You have to be stubborn huh?" I once again shook my head.

"Once we get married you're mine forever, so I never need to be lonely again. I missed you so I was upset. I promise I'll try not to run away; and if I do, I'll make sure it's just to me bedroom."

"That's better, I can follow you there." I nodded and smiled. "Now, you ready to go we have a wedding to be the guests of honor for." I took his hand and I got into my car and I fell asleep on Kai's shoulder. I was tired from waking up early, driving all the way out here then crying for two hours straight and Kai made me feel very comfortable.

Kai's Viewpoint

I was not very upset with Emily for running off, but she taking my car and my keys and leaving her car at the house wasn't very smart because I don't have the key to hers so I had to walk but it was all worth it in the end because Emily is finally at peace with herself. I looked at the tranquil sleeping Emily lying on my shoulder as I drove through the heavy traffic in the city after going through all the hills of West Pennsylvania. It was a pretty long drive regardless of how fast we were going and it being 8:30 now, didn't make me feel any more sure that we'd be ready in time.

Emily's cell phone rang, I picked it up. It was Emily's mother. "Hi Mrs. Dennison, I have Emily and we're coming how is everything there."

"Well so far it's good, everyone would be better if our bride and groom would show up, but other than that everything's fine. So why didn't Emily answer her own phone, is she okay?"

"She's a little shaken up by everything and very nervous but she's asleep now and relaxing so she won't be so nervous when she wakes up. She'll be fine."

"It's a good think I trust you 110 with my daughter or I might be worried about leaving her with you forever."

"Trust me, some where in side me there's a part of me that's afraid that from this day forward our life is going to be a horrible nightmare and it's going to happen because I couldn't save Emily from something. I hope I don't have to see that day, ever."

"You should calm down too, you'll do a wonderful job with my daughter. You have for the last five years and you will forever." Deep inside of me something snapped and I realized it was a fear of hurting Emily; from this day on Emily would be a part of me yes but that meant that our danger was in there with our marriage. "Kai?"

"I don't think I can do this."

"Why not, Kai?"

"Because if I marry Emily, the horrible life and death threats that I'm faced with everyday will be part of her life too, and I could never do this. I need to talk to Emily."

"Okay, Kai, good-luck making her understand why you can't marry her."

"Bye." I turned to Emily's peaceful body and wished that, that thing would have snapped before this. "Emily, could you wake up please."

"Sure Kai, we there?" Emily said stretching and yawning.

"No, we have a bit to go. I'm the one who's scared now."

"Scared of what?"

"Scared that by me being by your side forever, I'm putting you in danger. I just couldn't do this to you. Not today and not for the rest of my life. I'm sorry Emily; I love you too much to put you in that kind of danger." Emily starts crying and she said and miserable. "I'm sorry Emily, but I could never do that to you." She started laughing. "What?"

"You just learned something, Kai. If you haven't noticed the day I left the protection of Michael and the All Stars I've been in danger. If I walked to the grocery store on my own from there I was in danger; being alone is danger Kai. Not being with someone. You've protected me since day 1, the first time I went on my own. I've been in danger my whole life and having you by my side all along is what I need. I'm sad because I'm afraid I'll be in danger when I'm lonely, that's why."

"That makes no sense."

"I've been kidnapped so many times her in New York because I walked down the street on my own. I've only ever been safe when I'm in a secure activity cell, or with you. That's shows how stupid you are. I'm only in danger because you left me."

"I guess."

"Well I know, Kai, you never meant to hurt me, you never meant to get me in danger. If you haven't realized, nothing bad has ever happened to me, when I'm in your arms or right next to you; only ever, when you leave me."

"Are you sure about this Emily?"

"I know that you love me, and I love you. I'd die if I couldn't marry you so, I'm sure, very sure." I kissed Emily and realized she was right. She was always kidnapped or hurt when I left her alone, in her bedroom, or anywhere. She's not safe anywhere, but right here next to me.

"For your sake Emily, I hope you're right. But you've never been wrong so why start now. Let's go." I stopped the car at the wedding hall.

"There you are man, I thought you were going to be late to your own wedding." I shook my head and laughed.

"Emme, I thought that you were going to miss the wedding, let's get you ready." Dani said. I looked at Emily and realized that what she had on was the first layers of the dress, not the main thing; but she looked beautiful regardless of what she was wearing.

I followed Andy into the room where'd they get the last preparations done. To think about it I hadn't seen the wedding dress that Emily picked out, I heard you weren't suppose to see the bride in the wedding dress until the wedding but I wanted to. I'd just have to wait.

Emily's Viewpoint

I sat down as Mariah, Hilary, Miriam, and Dani did my makeup, ironed my dress and then helped me get everything on. I looked at myself and I'd hardly recognize myself and it was funny how when I had thought of my wedding in the past, early on in my life it was nothing like this, not better but different.

I imagined like a princess style wedding and being married to a really cute rich guy but I soon grew out of that stage like many girls do. I wanted a simple wedding with just my friends and family and his. I guess all I really wanted was someone who I loved, and loved me back. It wasn't a fairy tale wedding like most imagine theirs to be, or the normal behind a house wedding like I wanted. It was a small group of people there, friends of ours and my family. Kai only had one guest there which was Andy and all our friends of course but none of them did Kai or I know more about except Andy.

Kai's family is now all long gone. His father and mother were killed by his grandfather who was evil and died about a year and a half ago. He didn't have any siblings and neither did his mother or father. Kai was the last remaining member of the Hiwatari family and I wonder if that is ever sitting in his thoughts or has he long forgotten he has family, I don't know, maybe one day, I'll ask.

------ Aniecä, Review Please ------

This is sad, we've all been wondering a few simple questions and such but the few that are going to be answered are in the next chapter. Here are some of the questions:

Where is Kaelan?

How is Sam doing without him?

What's the bad thing that's going to happen?

Will Kai and Emily ever get married?