Chapter Seventy-Nine: Somewhere In Between

It was a very nice wedding. At the reception, we did nothing but dance. And it made a nice change. Everything had its charm, I guess, I don't usually see a wide range and it's all very strange. I have no experience with these types of things.

The dress like the garden venue was simple, a strapless lace a-line, I didn't want anything extravagant, nor did I want to spend much. The wedding wasn't all that important, I just wanted to be married to Mitsu, I really wouldn't have cared if it was a civil service ceremony, but our families, mostly his, wanted a ceremony, so in the very end we agreed on a simple short garden ceremony that was only friends and close family. The cake was probably the most extravagant thing at the wedding and probably caused the most disagreements. I just decided to let Mitsu pick the cake and he ended up letting his mother decide, since she wanted to be overly invested in the wedding, which ended up in us having a pink champagne wedding cake that cost much more than what it was worth.

The ceremony and reception were beautiful, a dream, but I wasn't one for extravagance, I liked simplicity. I was hoping for somewhere in between the extravagant dream and the bare minimum. I love Mitsu, but is this how it's going to be for the rest of my life? I'm not used to this much extravagance outside of school, it's a lot to swallow. I'm not having second thoughts about Mitsu, but this lifestyle… It's not who I am, it's not who I want to be, and I don't think there's anything I can do about it. I don't think Mitsu would be able to leave this after living with it for so long and I'm not going to make him either, but I don't know what I'm going to do.

Hunny's POV

This wasn't what I expected it to be. I just wanted to marry Reiko, not all of this. This was far too extravagant. My mom gave us the wedding that she had always wanted and never got. I didn't want this and maybe it might be better if I didn't live like this. There are so many things I could be, I don't necessarily have to take on the family business. Chika could run the dojos. I love karate, I love the dojos, but there are other things that I could do with my life that would make me just as happy as long as I'm with her. I wonder what would happen if I went into business with Kimi and Sumi, they had some interesting thoughts for the company that Sumi had inherited. I could work with them. We would build our own fortune that would give more to the people than we'd keep for ourselves keeping us somewhere in between the extravagance and minimalist. I'll set up something with Sumi after we come back. I have no need to set anything up now.

"I have a surprise for you." I told Reiko, as we headed out of the hotel that night. "Today was a little too much and not what we pictured it to be. We were expecting something that was just for the two of us and close friends and family, something simple, something in between what we originally planned and what we ended with. So dinner and tonight's entertainment will be exactly that, something in between."

"I don't understand."

"How do you feel about dinner and a show?"

"It sounds nice." She smiled softly, "What show?"

"Into the Woods." I showed her the tickets. Her smile grew; it was one of her favorites, "Yeah?"

"Yeah." She nodded and kissed me lightly on the cheek. I kissed her on the head and we headed to dinner and then to Into the Woods.