The day before the big day, and I was staring around at the marquee that had been set up. I was supposed to helping make decisions on things like where the flowers go and specific arrangements.

Instead I stood there like an idiot. This is why I needed Tina, she knows about this sort of thing, I haven't got a clue! Taboo wasn't much help either, she was just as clueless as I was.

As I stood there like an idiot one of the people from the company who set these things up (again, ask Tina) dropped something, causing one of the round tables to topple over.

I watched in slightly horror, mainly amusement as this caused a domino effect, the tables, thankfully not covered in anything, slowly began to fall over in sequence. Everyone else freaked out and ran to stop the tables falling over, but they were all over the place, so when the last table landed right in front of me with a slight wobble, there was silence.

"Well," I mock sighed, "if there's one thing I can actually do, is get these tables back up again. How about I call some backup?"

Enter Rachel and Mary, both of whom had decided to come to Burgess in preparation for tomorrow. The two older Descendants quickly whipped things into shape, and I became the one ordered around as I helped with some of the manual stuff. Arranging the flowers became surprisingly easy once I'd relaxed and gotten into more of an artist's mindset, and by evening, the whole thing was set up for tomorrow. There were a few last minutes things to get ready, but those could naturally wait.

"Nice job. Knew you could do it without me."

"Tina!" I turned on my heel to see the Descendant of Toothiana standing in the entrance. "You're back!"

"Yep, now come on."

"Why?"

"Night before a wedding? Bachelorette party? It's not the whole thing, but me and Sally have something planned."

"If it's what you did on my 21st..."

"You did not have to remind me of that!" Taboo groaned from my shoulder.

"No, it's not. We all learnt our lesson from that. Trust me, you'll love it."

I raised my eyebrows but followed Tina to her car. Sally was already in the passenger seat, so I got in the back.

"So, where are we going? Or are you kidnapping me the night before my wedding."

"We're not stupid enough to try." Sally deadpanned as Tina got in the driver's side. "And if we told you, it would ruin the surprise."

"Surprise huh?" I could see Tina holding in laughter as she started the car. "I thought the plan was laser tag."

"Why can't I come to that?"

Because laser tag staff don't usually cater for telepathic ice tigers. How would you even hold and fire the gun anyway?

"Oh don't worry." said Tina as Taboo grumbled. "That's still on, we've just got something else planned first. Something smaller and quieter."

That had me intrigued. "Are you sure you can't tell me?"

Sally shook her head. "No."

"What if I guess?"

"Still no." Tina's turn.

I slumped down in my seat. "You guys are no fun." I mock whined.

"You're getting married in the morning, start acting your age." Tina couldn't go one day could she?

I couldn't help feeling the butterflies build up in my stomach at the prospect of, what was happening tomorrow. My first instinct was still to shove it one side and ignore it, but I ignored that instinct and let myself feel it. I was nervous, that's normal, right?

"You've met me right? My mental age flips between 50 and 5."

"And the worst part is I can't disagree."

We drove out of Burgess to the nearest city, the drive taking about half an hour or so.

"I still feel like you guys are kidnapping me." I hadn't been here in a while, everything I needed was in Burgess, except new books, but I rarely had time to read a lot of them these days.

"If we were Sally would've have knocked you out, and we wouldn't be having this conversation."

"Fair point, unless that's a double bluff."

"Well, we're here, so you can decide for yourself." Tina had pulled up outside an independent bookshop that I'd never seen before. She then turned in her seat to face me, bills in her hand.

"Go nuts." she said, handing them to me. If you don't spend it all, we can go to another shop or you can save it."

I blinked and robotically counted the money.

"Whoa."

"This is a hundred dollars." I said, stunned.

"Yep, mine and Sally's wedding gift for you. Nigel and Billy are doing something similar for Jamie as well."

"They say," Sally added, "that this place has books you can't find anywhere else. Even we can't some of this stuff in our shop."

I looked at my two fellow bibliophiles. "What about you two?"

"We'll browse." said Sally. "Reading the blurb is sometimes just as fun as buying."

I had to agree.

"Okay, what are we waiting for?!" I cried, opening the car door.

"Hear hear!" Tina pushed open her door at the same time as Sally. The three of us then stormed the bookshop. They never knew what hit them.

We left the new books in the trunk of Tina's car (I had a few in there for everyone else, with an extra one each for Tina and Sally, they deserved it) and we went to the laser tag arena, which was in the same city. Taboo wanted to stretch her legs, so opted to run to Sally's place to wait for us, as that was where the final part of the night was going to take place.

This part was with more people, the female Descendants who were coming (hen night remember?), so Alice, Mary, Rachel, Tina and Sally. A small group, but we all had combat experience, which was guaranteed to make things interesting.

"Alright!" Alice shouldered her laser gun. "Let's go kill people!" she then skipped to the arena whistling 'Kill Bill'.

Yep, very interesting.

"You know that you need a sword to kill Bill?" I called after her.

"Are you two aware that this isn't real?" I heard Rachel ask, but I was already chasing Alice. As the two youngest in the party, we could act like it.

"Hey." I caught up with her as we gathered to go in. "Want to team up?"

"Against the OAP's?" Alice asked, her grin as bright as her blue hair. "You're on!"

Said OAPs caught up, and after a quick countdown, we were in!

The arena was quite dark, with different coloured lights in odd spots. It was just one level, and was littered with various barrels and walls at different heights to hide behind.

We quickly split up and scattered, but Alice and I stayed together and hid behind a group of barrels near the centre of the arena.

We didn't have to say what we wanted the other to do, our training was kicking in, despite how fake this was. We faced opposite directions and did I believe Billy calls 'camping'.

We had picked the perfect spot, despite how few of us there were, when we did snipe someone they didn't know where it had come from.

Then, we couldn't find anyone. It was as if everyone had disappeared from the arena.

Alice and I looked at each in confusion, until we heard.

"SURPRISE!"

The other Descendants had surrounded our group of barrels without us realising and were now firing us!

Alice and I let out a war cry each and opened fire on them as well, but very quickly the sensors on our vests showed that we were out of health and had lost.

Next game had us in pairs, then in two teams with a sort of capture the flag thing, then a final free for all!

I'd love to say that I won, I really would. I didn't, I got third. Alice got first, the little psycho, she wouldn't stop gloating all the way back to Sally's, where the final part of the hen night was going to take place, with everyone.

Added to the party was Sophie, Pippa and Cupcake, and we were going to have a movie night, with most of us probably staying over.

We were all in pyjamas and sprawled across the sofa, half eaten by beanbags or sitting on the floor as the nine of us argued about which movie to watch. Taboo had only seen any of these from my memory, so was silently watching in curiosity.

Finally, Sophie pulled out the Frozen box set.

"You've got to be joking." I groaned. I didn't like Frozen, there was nothing inherently bad about it, I just found it annoying, and now it was being waved in my face.

Sophie and Alice grinned at each like Cheshire cats. Those two discovered that they get along very well. "All those in favour?" they asked in unison.

"Of seeing the bride getting annoyed? Aye!" Mary put her hand up, which was quickly followed by Sally and Tina, only Rachel was on my side, but we were outvoted.

"Screw you guys." I groaned as Sophie put the DVD in. I had a feeling I was going to be dreaming about singing snowmen and reindeer tonight.

Once that brand of irritation was over we put on some old Jack Frost inspired cartoons for a laugh, along with 'The Santa Clause 3'. We laughed pretty hard at that, since none of them were accurate. The final thing we watched was Paranorman, a personal favourite of mine. I wouldn't say that I have a favourite movie, I just like this one.

Then at some stupid time in the small hours, we all hit the hay, either spread eagle on the couch, on top of some beanbags or dragging themselves yawning back to where they staying and putting their coats on inside out.

I curled up on the floor with Taboo like a pair of puppies, despite protests from everyone else, and went to sleep pretty easily.

Big day tomorrow.

HOGMimpossible Mini Series Wedding Part 5