Here's the 7th chapter!!! I hope ya'll are enjoying the story!! My mom's happy that I've finally managed to get my face out of my Mediators, but she doesn't know that I'm simply away from them to write my own story on them!! lol
--pGp
SEVENNow that I was free of stupid old Ariel, I was finally allowed to do what I liked. And in the recent two weeks, I had barely managed to spend any time with Jesse. Neither of us was in the mood to get out of the house nowadays, so we were basically spending our days staying home – watching videos, popping endless packs of popcorn, playing a few board games now and then and making out a lot. Not that I minded (LOL)!
Surprisingly, Jesse is getting a bit bolder nowadays. He slips his hand into my bra quite often, without getting all guilty and awkward, like he used to before (he doesn't quite feel me up through the front – it's mostly at the back – but he's done it a couple of times). I guess he's finally realized that we're engaged. But he still refuses to go all the way before the wedding night. But I've kind of stopped caring much. It was just one more day. And at least Jesse wouldn't fuss then. But still, second base is an okay consolation.
Right now, we were making out on the bed of Jesse's room. Jesse always forgets to lock the door when he goes into his room to change. I knew this, so I had slunk into his room quietly and shut the door quietly. He was preparing to put his shirt on. I crept up behind him and slipped my arms around his bare stomach. "Susannah!" he turned around, shocked. I laughed. I did this so often, and Jesse still never anticipated it.
When he looked at me, he didn't take as much time as he usually does to recover from the shock. He gave me a short, flirtatious smile. Ooh. Then, much to my surprise, he swept me right off my feet just like Paul had done to Christie, and kissed me passionately. "Mmm…" Delighted, I kissed him right back, of course. He held me in his arms for sometime, then put me down on his bed and sat down himself, and we continued kissing.
I tried to take advantage of the situation by lying down on the bed, but Jesse wouldn't allow it. "Querida," he said, sternly. "Just a few more days." "Okay, okay!" I said, sitting up again. "Come here." I enveloped him in a hug. "I love you so much, Jesse," I said, mid-hug. "I love you too, querida," said Jesse, hugging me tighter. We separated and continued sitting on his bed.
I leaned backwards and stuck up my bare legs. I was wearing short-shorts and a short top. By now, Jesse had stopped professing his disgust for my short summer clothes, because I guess he had realized I wasn't going to listen anyway. "Hmm…" I sighed. "Exactly four days for the Big Day!" Jesse laughed. "Four days for the day of my eternal doom," he said. I grabbed a pillow and whacked him playfully. Jesse laughed again. We hugged.
(A/N: Awww!)
A DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING
The preparations for our wedding were in full swing. Despite my repeated requests to not, my mother had arranged for an elaborate, expensive wooden altar at the beach. The dress code, because it was a beach wedding, was summer clothing.
Mom had insisted that I go over to the beach to have a look at everything today.
"But Mom," I said suddenly. "Don't you think we need some sort of sanction before we can use the beach for a wedding?" "Oh," said Mom, as if I was talking junk. "Don't you think Andy and I thought of that before? Of course we have sanction. Look." She produced a bunch of papers from her purse. "All right, all right," I said hastily. "I got it, Mom. Just asking!" Mom stuffed the papers back into her purse.
The altar was actually quite beautiful. It was light ochre hardwood and had little hand-carved roses in the top. Mom said that there would be a few real big roses to decorate it tomorrow. The ceremony started at eleven in the morning, and ended at five, when it would start to get dark. Father Dom (of course) was going to be the minister. Adam McTavish, one of my best friends, was getting to be the best man. CeeCee Webb, my other best friend, was the best maid. OOOOOHH!! That reminds me, CeeCee and Adam are going steady!! They don't exactly have any plans for marriage at the moment, but that's okay. They're totally devoted to each other.
Tomorrow. Wow. My wedding was so near. Suddenly, it hit me properly. I'm getting married.
BIG DAY!!!!!!
I was over at Andy's house to get ready for my marriage. Mom and I had selected a just-above-the-knee white dress. It had pretty sequins all over, and was strapless. It was the most beautiful dress. It came with a pretty net train which had a beaded lining along the end and elbow-length silk gloves. As I had insisted, no one was to wear shoes for the wedding, but Mom had insisted that Jesse and I wear shoes, at least for the ceremony. So I had bought a pair of silk tie-up shoes in a 40 per cent off sale.
CeeCee was helping too. She looked really pretty in her shin-length white silk dress. She put her long hair in twisty knots above her head. She no longer wore glasses, because she had gotten laser surgery done. So she looked even prettier than before. Her sharp violet eyes glowed with excitement as she leaned over the back of my chair and smiled at me in the mirror. "You look superb, Suze!" she said. "I know!" I said, grinning.
Jesse was getting ready at the apartment, with the help of Father Dom and my brothers. He was going to wear a tuxedo we had selected for him when Mom, him and I had gone wedding shopping.
Mom was helping me out with my makeup. I had put a coat of gloss on my lips, and light blue glitter on my eyelids. My cheeks were bare. Mom said I'm blushing enough already because I'm so nervous. Hah.
After getting ready, Mom, Andy and I called up at our apartment to check with Jesse. Father Dom had received the phone and said that Jesse was ready, too, so we met at the beach in five minutes.
When we got to the beach, no one was there except my fifteen-year-old twin maternal cousins, Allison and Seth Simmons, with their parents – Uncle Cedric and Aunt Cady. All four smiled and shook my hand. They both have identical faces, and brown hair. Thankfully, the weather wasn't too hot or sunny, just right. Yeah, it was certainly quite warm for me with my silk gloves, but I could take them off after the vows.
We saw Paul and Christie (both looking good: Christie in a short black sequined wraparound dress, Paul in white chinos and an olive green summer shirt) parking their car near Andy's and walking into the beach. They walked in with a huge present wrapped in silver paper. "Wow!" I said, taking it from Christie. It was amazingly heavy. "I'm sure you'll love it!" said Christie, practically jumping up and down. I laughed. "I'm sure, too," I said. "Heaviness implies good stuff!"
Doc was already walking about with a video camera in his hand, filming everyone.
Within an hour, everyone was there. The altar was decorated with colossal red roses just as Mom had promised, and a red carpet had been laid leading to the altar. I asked CeeCee the time. It was time for the vows.
Father Dom was standing near the altar, and Jesse was already in his place, after forty-five minutes of meeting all of my extended family, which I'm sure is an extremely satisfying way to spend three quarters of an hour. Not. Andy was trying to get everyone to collect around the altar for the vows. Mom had shoved my bouquet into my hands and run off to help Andy.
Finally, about fifteen minutes later, everything was in place. Father Dom was primping himself up – adjusting his clothes, and putting his crucifixion cross pendant straight. Jesse was just standing there, looking at me, smiling nervously.
Andy cleared his throat, adjusted his tie, and smiled down at me. I smiled back. "Ready?" he whispered. I replied, "More than."
Andy walked me up the carpet and left me next to Jesse with a smile and a wink. I grinned nervously. Father Dom smiled at me, too, and cleared his throat. He removed the holy book from his pocket, from which he was supposed to read out the vows.
After opening it to the correct page, Father Dom cleared his throat again. I half-thought he was as nervous as me. Then he started. He addressed Jesse first.
"Do you, Hector de Silva, vow to love and cherish this woman, Susannah Simon, for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and health, till death do you part?"
"I do."
Then Father Dom turned to me.
"Do you, Susannah Simon, vow to love and cherish this man, Hector de Silva, for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and health, till death do you part?"
"I do."
Back to Jesse.
"Do you, Hector de Silva, take this woman, Susannah Simon, to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
"I do."
Back to me.
"Do you, Susannah Simon, take this man, Hector de Silva, to be your lawfully husband?"
I paused for a second, sweating nervously. "I do."
Father Dom turned to the little table behind him and picked up two fancy wine glasses, filled with dandelion wine. Dandelion wine. He handed one each to me and Jesse. We took them. Father Dom had made us familiar with the vows once, so Jesse and I knew what to do. We drank one sip each from our own glasses, then linked our arms in such a way that we were standing facing each other, and could drink from each other's glasses. In this way, we took a sip of wine from the other's glass (when I spoke to Father Dom about the rituals, he said that the wine thingy was no longer done, but I had requested if he could put it in, because I thought it was kind of cool). Father Dom had also been planning to say the vows in the Old English, but I told him to please lay that off. He was kind of offended, but I couldn't help it.
After we drank the wine, Father Dom took the glasses from our hands and put them back on the table he had taken them from. He turned to us again. Then he said loudly, so everyone could hear. "I now proclaim these individuals man and wife." Everybody applauded. Then, after the applauding had died down, he said in a softer voice, to Jesse, "You may now kiss the bride." Jesse took a step towards me, slipped his arms around my waist, and kissed me. This time, the applause was way louder than before. Allison and Seth and a couple of my other teen cousins started to whoop, but their parents made them shut up.
Doc quickly took a picture (I know because I saw the flash). After the vows were over, all our relatives came up to us in bunches and got their pictures taken with us. That was pretty much the most boring part of the wedding.
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P.S.: I hope I made the scene between Jesse & Suze romantic enough!!! Anyway, there's gonna be another scene/s in the next chapter, so I'm gonna try to make it even better!! ----pGp