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A Bet, Some Rum, and a Wedding
Chapter 8: The Reception

"She looks beautiful doesn't she? I can't wait until my wedding day."

"Maybe that'll be some day soon."

"What?"

The ceremony went very smoothly. The whole wedding took about thirty minutes. The only thing that went slightly wrong was when Sarah hesitated when it was her turn to say I do until Amy gave her a quick kick to remind her to say I do. Both Amy and Jack really didn't pay attention during the ceremony much because they were busy thinking about each other. Amy was thinking about what Jack said and Jack was thinking about why he said that. When the ceremony was over Sarah had to give Amy a small kick to bring her out of her trance to remind her to walk down the isle. Amy did the same to Jack and walked down the isle following Sarah and Johnny.

"Well how does it feel to be Mrs. Johnny?"

"It feels wonderful. I'm just glad the ceremony is over. Thanks for giving me that small kick. It would have taken me forever to say I do."

"I had a feeling you were going to be scared. Now that the wedding is over, let's head to the pub for your reception and drink some rum. You deserve it."

"Yes, please. I've been waiting to go there all day. I really could use something to drink right now."

"Then what are we waiting for? Come on! I had Kyle save some rum for us." Amy, Jack, Sarah, and Johnny left the Church and went to the pub.

"Kyle, we're back!"

"Hello, Amy. Congratulations, Sarah. You're finally married."

"It's true. I've finally settled down. I still can't believe that I'm married. Amy told me that you had some rum waiting for us."

"Yes I do. The best rum we have. I've reserved a table for you. Come." Kyle led them to a round table

in the corner near the bar and sat down. Amy sat next to Sarah, Sarah sat next to Johnny, Johnny sat next to Jack, and Jack was sitting on the other side of Amy.

"Be back in a minute with the drinks."

"Remember to put mine in tea," reminded Jack.

"Got it. Rum tea," said Kyle and left to get the drinks.

"Why on Earth would you want to drink rum tea?" asked Sarah.

"Helps the pain, which someone gave me because they didn't believe me."

"I'm really sorry, Jack. It'll heal eventually."

"You probably have me to thank for getting that shiner."

"How could you have something to do with it Sarah?"

"I'm the one who reminded her the name of the ship and that you were once captain. But I didn't know that she was going to hurt you. I though she just wanted to remember the name, that's all."

"It's ok, luv."

"Don't call her luv. If you can't call me luv, you defiantly can't call her luv."

"I promise I won't call her luv."

"Good. Look, Kyle is back with the drinks."

"Here you go. First round on the house."

"Thank you Kyle."

"It's a wedding present from me to you. Here you go, three pints and rum tea." Kyle quickly put down the drinks on the table but Jack grabbed his drink from Kyle and drank the whole thing in one gulp.

"I'm going to need about seven more of those."

"How 'bout I give you just some plain old rum with no tea?"

"I'll need four of those then." Amy gave Jack a small slap on the wrist.

"Jack! I didn't hurt you that bad."

"I'm sorry but I just need rum. I'm going to go crazy if I don't have any soon."

"Don't have too much. We don't want Sarah and Johnny spending that much money on us."

"No it's ok. It's the least I could do for you since it's my fault you're hurt in the first place."

"Thank you. At least someone understands how much I need rum."

"I'll be right back with your rum. I think I better leave now for my own safety anyway." Kyle took Jack's empty glass and left the table. Amy gave Jack the death glare.

"What? She said that I could have as much rum as I wanted and I said thank you. What's wrong with that?"

"Just forget it."

"No tell me."

"If you can't figure out why, then just forget it. Let's change the subject. So, do you two have any honeymoon plans?"

"Yes we do. Tomorrow we were going to head back to England and stay with my parents for a while. They've never met Johnny before and have been wanting to meet him for a long time."

"That's great."

"That reminds me. If you don't mind me asking, after we leave tomorrow, can you lock up my house and make sure everything is ok?"

"Sure thing."

"Thanks Amy."

"Don't mention it. Look at your hair, it's falling apart. Don't you think you should take it down?"

"It feels fine to me."

"But it looks really messy. Maybe you should go to the bathroom and take it down." Sarah was very confused on why Amy was trying to get her to go away. Amy was making little gestures towards the ladies room and after a second, she finally got the hint and got up.

"You're right. I don't want to walk around with bad hair. Johnny, can you go see how much longer Kyle is going to be?"

"Sure thing honey." Johnny got up from the pub and headed towards the bar and Sarah went towards the bathroom leaving Amy and Jack alone.

"What was that all about?"

"What was what?"

"All of the sudden you said something about her hair and made her and Johnny leave?"

"I just noticed that her hair was getting messy that's all."

"Right."

"It's true."

"I don't believe you."

"Well you should 'cause it's the truth."

"Fine. It's the truth. I still think there's more to it though."

"There's not."

"Really?"

"Really."

"I still don't believe you but I'm never going to get the real answer out of you."

"That's right so you're just going to have to live with it."

"You never tell me anything."

"Maybe because I don't want you to know everything."

"Why not?"

"There are some things I want to keep to myself, Mr. Sparrow."

"I'm never going to understand you."

"If you ever figure me out, I'll give you a thousand shillings."

"Deal."

"So, um, I've been thinking about what you said at the wedding. What did you mean by that?"

"Oh, yeah, um, about that, ah. I just meant that someday a very lucky guy will marry you. Maybe someday soon." Amy's heart sank.

"Oh."

"That's all I meant, luv."

"That's it! I said that if you called me luv one more time, I was going to call you a name."

"And are you going to call me a name this time?"

"Yes I am, Walter." Jack spat out the rum he was drinking and quickly sat up in his chair and looked at Amy in surprise.

"How did you find out about that? No body is supposed to know about my real name!"

"One of my friends in Port Smith told me. He's best friends with Gibbs. He also the same person that help me get you into that crow's nest and into that dress."

"Gibbs promised not to tell anybody! The only reason I told him was in case something happened to me. I'm going to have to have a talk with him 'bout that the next time I see him."

"See, I told you were going to hate it."

"I thought it was going to be like an insult or something, not my real name. I much rather have an insult than this. At least I could fight back with an insult but not with this."

"Now will you stop calling me luv?"

"Yes I will if you promise not to tell anyone my real name."

"I promise not to tell anyone that you real name is Walter."

"Shh, not so loud. I don't want everyone hearing my name."

"Well I do."

"You promised not to tell. I could find a secret about you, you know."

"Like you could. No one can find out secrets about me."

"I can and I will."

"Fine go ahead and try. You won't find out anything though."

"I swear that I will."

"It's a bad thing to swear on something that you're never going to be able to do."

"I will find out a secret about you."

"I don't care if you find out a secret about me or not, Walter. I'm going to find Sarah. She's been gone for a long time." Amy quickly got up from her chair, pushed her chair in so hard it shook the table and stomped away.

"Stubborn." Jack was left all alone at the table, with Amy's rum. Just sitting there with no one watching it. He knew this was a very good time to seek revenge on Amy. He was going to put salt in it, but then decided not to waste it all that rum so he was going to take a drink then put salt in it. Kyle was taking much too long and he needed rum. He checked to make sure no one was watching and quickly took a drink of Amy's rum. It felt so good to have plain old rum again, it made him feel so much better.

"What are you doing?" He put down his rum to see Sarah staring at him.

"Oh, well you see, Kyle is taking a very long time and I really needed some rum. And it looked like Amy wasn't drinking much of hers so I thought I could have some of her rum."

"Why didn't you say so? You can have my rum, I don't like it that much anyway."

"Thanks." So much for Jack's plan.

"Where is Amy anyway?"

"She left a second ago to look for you."

"Oh, she'll be back in a few minutes. There's no use going to go look for her. I'll just stay here with you."

"Go right ahead." Sarah gave Jack her drink and sat down in her chair.

"Is Amy's first name really Amy?"

"I can't believe she told you to call her Amy too. Personally I think her real name is very pretty."

"What is her real name?"

"It's- no, Amy wouldn't have wanted me to tell you."

"Oh, come on. I promise not to tell anybody."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

"Ok then, if you promise not to tell anyone, her real name is Vivian."

"Vivian? Her real name is Vivian? At least that's better than my real name."

"Your real name is not Jack? What is your real name then?"

"Nothing. Finally, Kyle is back with the drinks."

"Sorry that took so long. I'm covering for another waiter. Here you are Jack two pints."

"I asked for four."

"We're running out of clean mugs."

"Two will do just fine." Kyle handed the drinks to Jack and gave Kyle a nod.

"Thank you Kyle that will be all. Do you know where Johnny is?"

"Last time I saw him he was sitting at the bar drinking rum and talking to someone."

"Was that someone a girl?"

"Yes I believe so."

"I told him to go look for you. How could he talk to another girl? Johnny, grrrrrr."

"I'll tell him to come right back."

"Thank you Kyle but I think I'll talk to him myself, but if you do see Amy can you tell her to come back?"

"I will don't worry. I better be heading off again. Ta!" Kyle took Jack's empty mug and left followed by a very angry Sarah. Once again Jack was left all alone, at the table, with Amy's rum. Now that Sarah was gone again he could resume back to his original plan. But then again he had two full pints waiting just for him, sitting there just waiting to be drank. Jack figured he would have plenty of time before Amy comes back and decided to drink instead. He took the mug and drank almost the whole thing in one gulp. The amount of rum he just took in made him dizzy for a second but nothing he wasn't used to. He was Jack Sparrow. He finished of the rest of the rum and found some salt on the table. He took the top off the shaker and was about to pour the salt into Amy's rum when he looked up and saw Amy staring at him.

"Putting salt in my rum eh?"

"It's a good thing, it enhances the taste of the rum. Thought you might like it."

"If it makes the rum taste better, why don't you have any in your drink?"

"I've done it too many times. Salts bad for my health."

"Since when do you care about your health? Come on, I drink it with salt if you do."

"I really don't want to."

"Come on do it. If you drink it, I'll drink it."

"We both have to drink it at the same time."

"Fine." Amy sat down in her chair and took her mug away from Jack and poured salt into her rum. She handed the salt to Jack and pretended to pour the salt into the mug but was actually pouring on the side of the cup so all the salt fell into his hand but where from Amy standing it looked like he was really pouring it into the rum.

"Got salt in mine."

"Can I see your hand?"

"Why?"

"Just let me see it." Jack quickly dumped all the salt on the floor and showed Amy his hand.

"You have salt on your hands."

"I was just using salt."

"And there's a small pile of salt right next to your chair."

"I guess I missed the cup."

"Let me pour the salt this time." Amy took the salt and poured almost all of it into is rum.

"That's an awful lot if salt don't you think?"

"That's how much I used. On the count of three we drink the rum. One, two, three." Jack and Amy just sat there not even reaching for their rum.

"You said you were going to drink it."

"So did you. I'll count this time. One, two, three." Still, nothing happened.

"We have to do this sometime. We have to promise to do it this time."

"Fine."

"We both better count this time. I'll start."

"Why do you have to start?"

"Fine Jack, you can start."

"One." Both of them grabbed their mugs.

"Two." They brought their mugs close to their face.

"Three." Jack waited a second to see if Amy drank it and saw that she did and started to drink it too. The rum tasted horrible. It was the worst thing both of them had ever tasted. It started to make him sick to his stomach along with Amy.

"I don't feel so good." Amy had her arms around her stomach to help the nausea and watched Jack finish drinking.

"That was the worst thing I've ever tasted."

"I know. It's not settling well either."

"Same here. I was supposed to have all the rum I wanted today and now I can't. Why did you have to make me drink that?"

"So you wouldn't play tricks on me."

"Well looked how it turned out. Now both of us are sick."

"At least you got what was coming to you."

"Fine you got me. Happy? What about Sarah?"

"That's right. We can't be sick now."

"Didn't think of that now, did you?"

"Why didn't you tell me before?"

"I just thought of it."

"The only thing we can is not drink any more rum for the rest of the reception."

"What!"

"Would you rather be sick for a few hours or a whole week?"

"Fine. What are we going to tell her then? She'll be wondering why we are drinking anything."

"I'll just tell her that I've had enough rum. She knows I don't drink that feel like drinking right now. I'll drink tea instead."

"What do I tell her then?"

"You can tell her I made you go make to the rules of the bet."

"Won't she wonder why you made me go back to the rules?"

"I'll tell her I saw you putting salt into my rum and I got mad at you so you can't drink any more rum. And I would have but this is better."

"Except you're sick too."

"I didn't think I would get this sick."

"Well you can't do anything about it now."

"I know. We're both just going to have to live with it. Can we drop it now?"

"Fine by me. What took you so long to come back?"

"I couldn't find Sarah and I saw Johnny sitting at the bar so I decided to go and talk to him."

"That was you? Too bad Sarah doesn't know that. Now she's going to kill Johnny for no reason."

"What do you mean?"

"Kyle came over here and Sarah asked him if he had seen Johnny. He told her that he was sitting at the bar talking to a girl and Sarah got really mad and was left to go yell at Johnny."

"You mean Sarah was here?"

"For a time yes. She came a few minutes after you left."

"I knew I should have stayed here. I'll just wait here with you until Sarah comes back."

"Fine you can stay here, Vivian."

"How did you find out my real name? Sarah told you didn't she? She always was a blabbermouth. How could she tell you? She knows how much I hate my name."

"It's better than my name."

"I still hate it, Walter."

"Don't call me that."

"Well don't call me Vivian either! We're in the same place as we were before aren't we?"

"Yep."

"Great." Sarah came up to the table stomping with an angry look on her face and was pulling Johnny behind her hold him by his hair.

"Was that you talking to Johnny?"

"Yes." The anger left Sarah's face and let go of Johnny's ear.

"Johnny I'm sorry. I should have believed you. Is your ear ok? I yanked it pretty hard."

"It's ok Sarah. No, my ear doesn't hurt. I would have doubted me if I was you. I would have beaten myself up already."

"Well it's a good thing I'm not you," said Sarah. Jack started smiling at Amy.

"What?"

"You can't see it? That was just a flashback. You jump to conclusions, you hurt someone, you find out the person you hurt was telling the truth and you say you're sorry and beg for forgiveness."

"That's not true."

"Think about what Sarah just did." Amy thought about it for a second and realized Jack was right.

"Oh my God, that is me. Sarah we've been best friends for too long."

"What gives you that idea?"

"The way you just acted. That's how I acted when I hurt Jack."

"No."

"Yes."

"You're right, we have been best friends to long."

"Oh well."

"Yep." Jack rolled his eyes back and sighed.

"So, how 'bout some more rum?"

"Um, I've had enough rum."

"Fine. I know Jack won't turn down free rum."

"Actually, I can't drink any."

"Why not?"

"Ask Amy."

"Amy?"

"I saw him trying to put salt in my rum and I got mad at him so I made him go back to the rules of the bet."

"Why do you have to be so stubborn on my wedding day? Just look at what you did to Jack. I can't do much about it now. I know how hard it is to change your mind. But on my wedding day?"

"Sorry."

"Oh, it's ok. I have to forgive you. What are we going to do the rest of the time if we can't drink rum then?"

"I'll have some tea and we could just talk."

"Sure." Sarah sat down next to Johnny, who sat down while Amy and Sarah were talking. As soon as Sarah sat down Kyle walked up to the table.

"'ello everyone. So Jack would you like some more rum?"

"No, can't have any."

"Why?"

"Amy's fault."

"Thank you Walter."

"You promised you wouldn't say that Vivian!"

"Why is Walter your real name or something?" asked Kyle. Jack was silent.

"Oh my god! Your name really is Walter!" squealed Sarah.

"Shh! No so loud. I don't want other people to hear my name. Why did I tell Gibbs? Look what happened now that I told him. You can't tell anyone my real name got it you three?"

"Yes," said Kyle, Johnny, and Sarah in unison.

"Good. Why did you have to call me Walter?"

"Because you called me Vivian and I want pay back. Which reminds me, Sarah why did you tell Jack my first name?"

"He said he wasn't going to tell anybody."

"And you believed him?"

"I'm sorry. I actually thought he might be saying the truth for once."

"Why would he?"

"Do you think I never tell the truth or something?" asked Jack.

"Yes I do."

"Ok, just checking."

"How could you? Now he knows!"

"I'm sorry!"

"Oh, why should I forgive you?"

"Because it's my wedding day and I'm your best friend."

"Fine, I forgive you."

"Yeah!"

"Why do you have to be right?"

"Because I am. Kyle can Amy have some tea please?"

"Yes she can. I'll try and be back faster than the other times."

"Thanks Kyle." Kyle picked up the three empty mugs and left the table. After that, Amy and Sarah couldn't stop talking. They talked about the wedding, Sarah's honeymoon, what life is going to be like now that Sarah is marries, etc. While Amy and Sarah were deep into their conversation, they didn't notice that Jack and Johnny were extremely bored. They tried to strike up a conversation themselves but they couldn't hear each other over Amy and Sarah. After about the fourth time trying to talk to each other, they gave up and decided to sit and do nothing the rest of the time. Jack counted how many people there were in the pub and Johnny counted how many mugs of rum there were out sitting on the table. Kyle did bring Amy's tea eventually, but the tea had such a strong flavor of rum in it that she had to stop drinking it before she puked. Sarah started to wonder what time it was because more and more people were coming in and saw that the sun was starting to set.

"Wow, have we been talking that long? The sun it starting to set."

"Really? I wanted to get back to the ship before all the drunks and whores come out."

"Same here. I guess we probably should leave now."

"Yeah if we both want to get home safely." Amy and Sarah got out of their chairs. Amy called Jack's name but he was so into counting the tables, Amy had to hit him on the head to get him out of the trance. Sarah had to do the same for Johnny.

"Well this is goodbye. I'll see you tomorrow before you leave for England. What time does the ship leave?"

"One o'clock. I still have to pack our clothes."

"You better head home then."

"Yes. Thank you so much for coming Amy. And the same to you Jack."

"Your welcome Sarah." Amy gave Sarah a hug and walked out the door with her and Johnny.

"See ya tomorrow! Bye!"

"Bye!" and walked their separate ways.

"That wasn't so bad no was it?"

"It was actually kind of fun until I got sick."

"I'm sorry. It's your own fault you know. I feel fine now."

"Same here. I have to meet someone really quick. You can go the rest of the way."

"If someone comes up to me I'll just hit him. When will you be back?"

"Within an hour."

"Ok. One hour means 60 minutes you know that right?"

"Yes I know."

"Good, then you won't have any problems being on time then?"

"I hope not."

"You better not. I'll be waiting."

"Great I can't sneak in now if I'm late."

"You wouldn't be able to get past me anyways."

"I did the first night I came on to your ship."

"But this time I know you're coming."

"I'll try and be on time."

"Good. Bye!"

"Bye Amy," said Jack and left.

"He'll be back in about two hours."

So it wasn't fast. Sorry! But I updated so be happy. Don't feel like writing much. Thanks for the reviews! Keep on sending them!