Chapter 16; Twenty-eighth of August
'Good morning, lovely bride!' Lois said and sneaked up into Morgan's room. She opened the curtains and hummed a wedding tune. Morgan stretched, yawned and got out of bed. Her heartbeat fastened. Today was the day! Together with Lois she walked downstairs, where Martha, Jonathan and Olivia were already waiting for her with Alex. Click, click, click. The first few photos were already made. Morgan did not mind. She was getting married! Martha forced her to eat some breakfast and they all tried to calm her down a bit. There was still so much to be done!
At nine o'clock the hairdresser came. Her name was Elsa and she was an amazing hairdresser and a wonderful woman. She made Morgan relax completely as she first washed her hair and than made the haircut. It was quite a simple up do, but it still looked amazing. It gave the impression as is several strings were all laid on top of each other and knotted over each other. Since Morgan had a lot of hair it almost became as long as her palm of her hand. It looked fantastic. The tiara was also immediately placed on top of her hair. Just in front of where the up do began. The veil would get on later. Now the most difficult part came: the dress. Still, with some help of Elsa and Lois it was on pretty quickly. Annie rang them, to see how they were doing. She told Lois Conner was getting extremely nervous but refused to admit it. Lois laughed and recognized Clark in it. Morgan looked at the mirror. She was completely dressed now. The dress had a tail of a meter, and at first Morgan was afraid that it would make her look small. It did not, on the contrary, it made her look taller! The veil looked lovely, it was quiet simple. When Morgan put it in front of her face, it would cover up till her a bit under her breasts and it would gently fall down in a diagonal line to the ground.
All the time, Alex just went on with making photos. He loved spontaneous portraits so much more than 'forced' ones. Still, when Morgan was completely ready, he could not resist it. He asked how much time they still had left and said half an hour would do. He took Morgan around the house and even into the yard and into the cornfields and made several photos. Morgan also wanted some photos of her and her best women, as she called Olivia and Lois. They were dressed in light blue strapless dresses, with a white line around the edges. Morgan tried to guess by their bouquets what hers would look like. But Olivia told her, that hers would be completely different. Olivia and Lois had a bouquet with what looked like thousands of small flowers she did not know. She loved the color. Light blue, it matched with her dress.
Dick started the car and smiled. Conner was so nervous his hands were shaking. Conner cleared his throat again and Dick told him he would be fine, again. Conner smiled and looked at the bouquet. He and Olivia had made it at the florist downtown. It was quite simple and not all to big. It would cover both hands of Morgan, but end less than half an inch after her wrist. It had a green 'floor' with several leaves, as the florist had explained to them, and existed mostly out of white roses. Olivia had hinted the color 'light blue' so many times, Conner could not ignore it. So because of that, there were also several light blue flower in it. Blue Flax it was called. Since the Blue Flax flowers were so small, it was possible to use a lot of them. It looked really nice, even though Conner was not really a flower type.
When they picked up Alex, he immediately began making pictures. All the way to church. At first, it annoyed Conner a bit. But because Alex was real easy with it and just kept talking too, he learned to ignore it. Because they were a bit too early at the church, Alex made some more picture of Conner with his best men. But they were send away by Olivia and Lois when Morgan was coming.
While the church was slowly filling, Conner send Roy to spy on Morgan. He really wanted to know what she looked like. It had to be something with light blue! Everyone wore something with blue. The women had a blue something on with small white thing, and the men were all wearing a light blue tie. Would her entire dress be blue? Or just like the dresses of Olivia and Lois? A long version of their dresses? Could it be? Conner doubted that, but at that moment he was not sure about anything. Anyway, Roy went down to the other end of the hall to go to Morgan. But before her door stood Olivia, and she said that if entered now, he had to stay with her. So, Roy walked back and told Conner Morgan looked amazing, without seeing her, and said he had to go to her now. When Roy actually saw Morgan, he gasped and did not say a word for a whole minute.
'If you only have the same effect on Wally,' Lois teased Morgan.
'Your bouquet,' Roy said, still looking at Morgan. Morgan took the bouquet and looked at it.
'Who made this?' she said.
'Conner,' Olivia smiled, 'with a just a tiny little help of me.'
'It's gorgeous,' she said and smelled it. She loved roses.
'Quickly, people, three minutes till the show begins!' Annie opened the door and said and immediately shut the door again.
'It's my wedding not a show!' Morgan yelled after her and smiled. Annie was taking it so serious! It was so much fun just watching her arranging everything. When the church was decorated Annie almost measured every flower, before they hung it up against the walls and banks. Morgan felt a bit sorry for the for the verger. Annie had made him vacuum the red carpet almost twenty times. Still, there would not have been any other person Morgan wanted to arrange everything, but Annie.
'Come what may! Come what may! I will love you until, my dying day,' Ewan McGregor sung loudly through the church, while Conner slowly walked to the aisle. His heart was beating like hell and he scared that everyone would hear it. But people only smiled as he walked by. When he –finally- reached aisle, Dick and Kaldur stood beside him and he turned around while Nicole Kidman began singing. He took several deep breaths, while Alex kept making pictures. Every time he would hear this song, Conner knew, he would get all nervous again.
'Come what may! Come what may! I will love you, until my dying day,' Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman sang loud. Conner forgot to breath when his bride turned around the corner. Tears filled his eyes. She was beautiful. Slowly Morgan made her way towards the aisle, while Ewan and Nicole kept singing. She could hear people gasp as she walked by. Her long, A line, strapless dress looked beautiful. It was elegant and simple. Under her breasts there was a light blue stroke of silk, at the back it was bound in a small braid and two small strokes fell on her back. Her veil covered her face only a bit and was far too thin to cover the tear on her cheek. The twin daughters of Marissa, a colleague, walked before and threw some small blue flower leaves on the red carpet. Olivia walked behind Morgan and smiled.
'Come what may! Come what may! I will love you, until my dying day,' Ewan and Nicole sang for the last time when Morgan reached the aisle. Roy shook the hand of Conner and gave Morgan's hands to him. Slowly Conner lifted her veil and smiled. Don't cry, don't cry, he told himself as he wiped away her tear. Olivia quickly made sure Morgan's tail laid down properly and then quickly stood beside Lois. Lois stood, unlike her husband, on the left side. Beside Morgan.
'Come what may, what a beautiful way to begin this marriage,' the pastor said. A wide smile showed up between his big beard and moustache. Conner barely heard anything of what the kind man said, the entire time he looked at Morgan. The way she smiled. The way she moved in her dress. The way she pinched his hand when he put the ring around her finger. They had chosen for simple golden rings. The only decoration on it was a small line around it, but nothing more. On the inside of the ring they had wrote a little message. Actually it was too small to call it a message, but Conner just wanted to it. Morgan's ring said: 'I love you, your Conner', and Conner's ring said: 'I love you, your Morgan'.
'You may now, kiss your wife,' the pastor said and smiled. Conner turned to Morgan and took her in his arms. He kissed her and the crowd cheered and applauded. Morgan smiled at him and kissed him again. While the crowd was still cheering and applauding and Wally was still yelling 'we want more', Morgan and Conner turned around and walked out of the church.
'Great,' Alex said, while he kept making pictures, 'Good. Now, turn your hip around, bride. Lovely, Morgan, real good. Give me some fierce eyes, Conner, good! Loving it. Now look at each other, just like that. Lovely. Can you smirk for me? Gorgeous!' Morgan and Conner just did as Alex told them. They enjoyed every minute of it. Before the party began, Alex wanted to make some photos with them. He had already made some at the church but also wanted to make some in the cornfield and around the house. The newly wed just did as they were told. Nothing could ruin their day. Conner was so proud of his gorgeous bride and Morgan thought Conner really looked like Conner, not like Superboy. She loved the blue in her dress, because it matched his fierce eyes. In the store, there had been so many pretty dresses, but none in which Morgan saw herself walking with towards Conner. But when she put on this dress, with the blue on it, she just knew it would her dress. They slowly moved around each other, following the directions of Alex until they were almost sure that no person on earth had ever made so many pictures. Morgan was wondering how she would ever get all the pictures she liked on the wall! When Alex was finally done with all the pictures they walked out of the cornfield to the party. When they arrived Jonathan was holding the microphone.
'Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Mister and Misses Conner Kent!' he yelled and the crowd cheered. Morgan raised her bouquet and blushed a bit, lying her head against Conner's arm. Conner smiled and raised his hand. He could see Wally was already flirting around and Artemis was already on his tail about it. He laughed, those two should marry too one day.
'Ladies and gentlemen,' the DJ said and stopped the music, 'the first dance of the newly wed.'
Everyone cleared the dance floor as Morgan and Conner walked onto it. They had been to dancing class for it. Morgan always wanted to learn how to dance and Conner, well, he just did it for her! Morgan gave her bouquet to Olivia and told her to lay it inside, she would not need for the rest of the evening anyway. Conner took Morgan close in his arms and winked. He had chosen the song and had not told her what it was yet. She looked at him when the first few seconds of the song began. Was this really the song she thought it was? Then he pushed her closer to him and laid his head close to her ear.
'I could stay awake just to hear you breathing! Watch you smile as you are breathing,' Conner softly sang along Aerosmith and he heard Morgan gasp, as he slowly lowered his hands to her but and she wrapped her arms around him. This had been the song they first danced on together. Morgan pressed herself closer to Conner and closed her eyes. Still a tear escaped and rolled over her cheek and she smiled. Softly she sang along.
'Don't want to close my eyes. I don't want to fall asleep, cause I'll miss you baby,' they sang to each other. Morgan felt how her heartbeat became one with his and wished this moment could last for ever. He could be so romantic. They looked at each other and understood. They had danced almost two minutes now, and it was time they would dance with someone else. Conner walked up to Martha and danced wit her, while Morgan took the hand of Jonathan and danced with him. They did not speak to each other, they just danced and enjoyed. Quickly Martha and Jonathan danced with each other. Conner took Lois's hand and danced with her. Morgan doubted, but than took the hand of Roy and danced with him.
Morgan thought she had not danced with so many people at one night. Perhaps in her entire life before this night! She could barely remember all the people she had danced with. Jonathan. Roy. Clark. Dick. Kaldur. Bruce. Some colleagues from work. With several children of her friends. She had danced with Bradley and Olivia. Morgan remembered she had danced with several other members of the Justice League and with almost all her friends. Even Wally had danced with her! Conner and Morgan had staid at the party until around two o'clock, then they took the car and left. Up to South-Africa. They had changed into simple clothes and took the plain of five o'clock. When they had finally reached their hotel, they just collapsed on their beds and fell asleep right away.
When Conner woke up the next day he slowly opened his eyes. It was so quiet here. When he looked to his right, Morgan laid in his arms. His wife laid in his arms. Curled up against him as always. He kissed her head and enjoyed the moment. He thought about the day before and realized he still smelled like other people. He had danced with so many women. But after a while he just walked up to Morgan and danced wit her, and no one else could take her away from him. Alex had made so many pictures Conner was worried is his finger was still alright. Pictures!, suddenly flashed through Conner's mind. Carefully he stood up and grabbed his camera out of his bag and laid back besides Morgan. She moved a bit, but was still sleeping. Conner held up the camera. Click, click. He was going to love this picture for sure! Morgan slowly opened her eyes. Click, another one. She punched him and laid her head against his chest. She smiled and Conner made another picture. Then she turned around and looked at him.
'Good morning, Misses Kent,' Conner smiled and kissed her.
'I love it,' she sighed, 'Say it again.'
'As many times as you wish, Misses Kent,' Conner said, kissing her neck and face and pulled up the blanket.