Aure strode into Edan's office and slammed her palms on the desk, leaning forward. She regarded him through narrowed eyes. "When were you going to tell me that we're engaged?"

His eyes widened and he looked at her like she'd grown a third head. But she wasn't playing around. She remembered what her brother told her.

The night before...

"You're fucking me." Aure stated out of pure shock.

"No. I'm not, actually." He took a cigarette out and lit it. "Edan would sure love to, though."

"You can't be serious!"

"Oh, but I am. When am I not?" He continued before she could respond to that. "Edan wants you. And he's pretty important, you know. Needs to choose a girl for his wife at an early age. He's been following you around since ever at that point. Had a little crush on you, I suppose. You were his prime choice."

"But, didn't he ever think about if he'd stop liking me?"

Oriyn choked on some smoke from laughing and hit his chest a little. "Are you kidding me? Edan was, like, five at the time. Do you think the kid was thinking 'what if's'?"

Aure hesitantly shook her head.

"Right. Lucky for you though," he tapped the ash into a tiny metal tray, "he didn't stop."

"Great. I'm going to be forced into marriage because of a five-year old's stupid crush." Aure glared out of the dark window.

Oriyn laughed. "As if it were that simple." He stretched out. "You're going to be forced into marriage, now, because of not only that crush but also an eighteen-year old's lust. You may not have known it before, but he's kind of a virgin. Years of pent up sexual frustrations isn't good for a man."

"And why didn't he just go have sex with someone?" Aure raised an eyebrow.

He laughed again. "In a cute way, he's saving himself for you."

"Wait. If Edan and I are going to be married, then why did you interrupt us back there?"

Grinning, he took another long drag. "Let's just say that I don't believe in pre-marital sex."

"Says the man-whore."

He scowled at her, trying to keep the damn edges of his mouth from twitching. "I resent that."

"You're a moron, you know that?"

Oriyn sighed. "You've been telling me that since you could talk. It has always been going in one ear and out the other but I'm hoping one day that it'll stick."

"So we agree." Aure smiled.

Back to the present...

"What?" Edan said, obviously trying to stay composed.

"You heard me, Edan." She said tiredly. "So, when were you gonna tell me?"

He sighed heavily and leaned back in his chair. He looked up hopefully and spoke, "When I had convinced you to go out with me. Date a few years and then ask you to marry me. You'd never have to know that it was going to happen eventually, anyway."

"You suck." She glared at him and walked away.

He jumped from his chair and followed after her. "Wait a minute, Aure!"

"That was a pretty horrible job at getting me to go out with me, you know. Ignoring a girl and then attacking her isn't how you become a couple, retard." She said icily.

"Yeah," Edan agreed. "I know I'm stupid. I get that. But you aren't the easiest to approach."

"Most aren't when they're totally pissed off!"

"Could you just hold on?" He grabbed her wrist and spun her around. He held her against the wall, one hand on the wall on either side of her head.

"I'm sorry, Aure." He insisted, even though she wouldn't even look at him.

Groaning, he placed his forehead on her's.

"I am really really really sorry, Aure. I'm an idiot and deserve to be bashed repeatedly over the head with a brick." Edan pleaded with her. He stroked her silky pale hair with his fingertips. "Forgive me."

She shook her head, brushing away unshed tears.

Oh, god. He was making her cry.

"I won't." Aure shook her head again. "No. You're a complete asshole. I'd rather you have picked someone else."

It was like she was dancing across his heart with bladed shoes.

"I'm sorry, Aure." He repeated quietly. Softly, he pressed his lips to hers. He remembered the night before and it gave him a little more courage.

For Aure, though, it just jumbled up her feelings even farther. But, horribly, she kissed him back. How horrible was it when your body wouldn't listen?

He deepened the kiss, brushing his tongue against hers, and Aure made a little content noise in the back of her throat.

They kissed for a few more moments, before Edan pulled away, brushing the pad of his thumb across her bottom lip. "I really am sorry, Aure."

"The only thing that sucks is that you never told me." Aure murmured.

His heart leapt. "I can make it up to you..." He said suggestively.

Aure blushed.

He kissed her throat and smiled. "You can't resist."

And it was true. She couldn't.

She let him whisk her away to his room.

Giggling and tiny moans could be heard from the hallway.

Oriyn passed by, banging his fist--hard--against the door. "No pre-marital sex!"

A few months later...

Aure bit her lip. Should he really be staring that long...?

"Um, Edan?" She squirmed. "I'm a little uncomfortable."

He roved his eyes across his wife's naked form. "It's either this or we see how quick we can make love."

She sighed, an unintentional action that caused a delicious sight for her new husband's eyes.

"Aure." He groaned. "You're beautiful."

This was going to be their first time--personally and together. Oriyn had definitely seen to that. Aure cringed mentally, thinking of all the times Oriyn had busted in. Well, he would not stop them this time. It was Aure's and Edan's wedding night after all. They deserved it.

Edan grinned devilishly, and kissed and touched Aure like he'd been wanting to for all of those horribly virginal years.

Unbeknownst to them, Oriyn stood outside, waiting for just the right moment...

The end of the end of the end....!

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Haha. Will he ever leave them alone so they can do the nasty? Eventually...

Lol. Review and try not to leave hate messages about how I bamboozled you all! Mwah-ha-ha! -Love, Balandria. (Mwah-ha-ha... *plots manically*)