Waiting at the church's altar, Jensen couldn't stop thinking how, after today, everything would change in his life. He would have a wife; he would be expected to have children almost immediately and all of that without even having met his future wife.

Jensen hated this whole arrangement, but he had no say in how it turned out. He still remembers how he found out, just as fresh in his memory as what he had to drink just before walking out to the altar.

He had gone to his parents' house for Sunday night dinner. Halfway through it, his father, very proudly, announced to the whole family that Jensen was getting married within a month's time and that it was all already being taking care of. Jensen must have looked like a dear in headlights to everyone at the table by the way he looked at his father and asked him to repeat what he had just said. When he did, Jensen lost it.

How could he make a decision like that without so much as a phone call? As far as he knew, Jensen could have agreed to marry someone else. But his father didn't care, he simply said it was done and there was nothing he could do about it now. Jensen left immediately after that.

The next few weeks passed in a blur, him not remembering much from them, except one thing. A certain meeting he just had to have before the wedding. After getting information on who was going to be his father-in-law, Jensen decided to invite him to his office so they could talk.

Afterwards, Jensen still felt nervous about the whole arrangement. But at least he now knew something about his future wife: she didn't want this just as much as he did. Maybe they could come to some sort of agreement, who knows?

Just then he heard the first chords of the bride's song being played signaling that it was time, bringing him out of his thoughts. Looking to the beginning of the aisle, he could see a young woman, younger than him, shaking as she held to her father's arm.

"She's just as nervous about this as I am.", he thought before focusing on his future wife once again, giving her a comforting smile. Just then he realized that they needed to stick together if they were going to survive, not only that night, but the rest of their lives. "God, help us."