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31st October, 5 p.m, Loft

Today is our rehearsal dinner, at the , including Grandmere, is going to be there. It was Tina who picked out my outfit for the evening. When it is not exactly princessy, it has a certain charm to it. It was love at first sight. It was a violet colored one shoulder dress. It had all these stones attached to it. It was so beautiful.

I must remember to thank Tina when I meet her tonight.

31st October, 10.30 p.m, In limo back to the loft.

Let me tell you something, tonight is turning out to be the greatest night of my life. Everyone that mattered to me was there. And some people I did not even know, but whatever.

But I had my eyes for only , there he is, standing and grinning at me. I grinned back and walked towards him.

He kissed me gently on the lips and said.
"You are looking gorgeous."

I blushed.

"Your grandmother sure knows how to throw a party."

I looked , he was right.

Grandmere had rented the whole Palm Court for the evening. And I am sure they were all pretty scared of Grandmere, because all of them were in gowns and tuxes. Even mom,whom,I didn't think would do something to please I asked her about it, she just said that she wanted everything to be perfect for my wedding and she didn't want it to be spoiled by Grandmere yelling.

Gee, what a surprise.

I have not been to too much rehearsal dinners, considering the fact that I wasn't born when anyone in my family got married and after my birth, no one in my family got that is not entirely true. Mom and Frank got married, when I was 14, but that doesn't matter. They eloped to Mexico, so they didn't exactly had time to have a rehearsal dinner.

.Tina was looking extremely gorgeous, in a black sleeveless dress. Lilly too looked good.

I was more than shocked when I saw her. She was wearing this midnight blue flowy dress. I have never seen Lilly wear something like that

I never had time to tell her how good she looked.

I was covered by my family. Michael's mom leaned in and asked me why Rocky wasn't made the ring bearer. I mean, I had a brother and we had to do with a

cousin?

Then I said.

", when I talked to him about it, he said he wasn't interested in being the centre of attention."

Gee, even 7 year olds have their opinions.

Anyway, looked all shocked and said.

"Mia, you are going to be my son's bride tomorrow. You are going to be my daughter in law. Please call me Ruth."

"But ,"I protested. "I have known you for the past 16 years and then suddenly to call you your name, it seems a little awkward."

"Mia."She said, taking my hands. "That was different. But now, you are family now. You can call me by name."

"Okay, Dr-, I mean, Ruth."

She smiled and patted my hands.

I moved away. I had recognized the symptoms in -opps, my bad-I mean, in Ruth, which I am so familiar with Lilly, when she is going to psychoanalyze me.

I made pleasant conversation with a bald man, just like dad, whom Grandmere introduced to me as the Prince of had invited him for dinner and forgot that today was our rehearsal dinner. So she had this brilliant brainwave and asked him to attend the ceremony.

He handed me a small box. I opened it and was shocked to find a necklace. I mean, it was just not any necklace. The pendent was a huge diamond and the chain must be pure silver. I must have caught me staring because he smiled and said.

"In our country, it traditional to give a bride a necklace. It is said to bring good luck to her future as a wife and mother."

I thanked him, when Grandmere came near us.

"The Prince of Transylvania has come all the way from his country to witness the happy occasion of your wedding, was very much interested in the American ceremony."

That was when it stuck me.

I asked the Prince to be excused for a moment so that I may speak with my grandmother. He moved over to speak to Morty.

"Grandmere, didn't I tell you not to invite anyone? And you invited them behind my back?"

"I don't know what you are talking about Amelia." she said. "You told me not to invite celebrities. Well I didn't invite them, did I?"

But before I could tell anything else, mom called me to talk to her about something.

And before long, dinner was announced.

It was the Italian cuisine. Of course, Royal cooks from the Genovian palace had been brought to America to prepare a special Genovian 8 course cuisine for tomorrow.

Talk about extravaganza.

We all sat down, eating and talking with each other, when I suddenly stood up and cleared my throat, which, Grandmere had told me, was the best way to get attention.

Nobody looked at me. Everybody kept talking to each other.

Michael, who was beside me, raised his eyebrows at me and looked as if he was trying hard not to laugh,

I shot him a dirty look and tried again.

Nope, no one looked at me.

I finally picked up my fine glass and knocked my knife against it.

Everybody turned to look at me.

Yes!

Oops, Grandmere didn't like it much.

She just gave me the evil eye,

I cleared my throat, before raising my glass and saying.

"Er, of all, I would like to thank you all for coming here tonight, to share our happiness." I smiled at Michael, who smiled back and took my hands. "We are very grateful to all of you. Here's a toast to all those wonderful people we would like to thank tonight .Grandmere?"

I looked at her, who almost choked on her sidecar, and looked at me.

"Grandmere has been teaching me how to be a princess for the past 7 years. It had been great and I thank you for that really have taught me about life."

Grandmere looked as if-Am I dreaming, or is it really the truth?-she was going to cry.

"I would like to thank my mom, dad, my stepfather Frank, and my brother, Rocky, Michael's parents, Ruth and Morty, for being so supportive."

"Lilly, Shameeka, Trisha, Lana and Ling Su, my friends since high school, had been a great help and support to me. Without them, I wouldn't have enjoyed myself in the party the other night. So thank you guys, for being there for me."

I smiled at them, who smiled back at me.

"We would also like to thank Boris and Kenny for being a huge help."

And so I raised my glass a little higher and said.

"To all of us."

The room followed suit.

"To all of us."

Some more time passed as we continued eating and then it was Ruth who got up.

"We have a little surprise for the new couple."

We looked at each other. Our parents' just , the lights faded and the screen in the room lit up.

A text appeared on it.

"Mia and Michael."

Then, a huge picture of a cute baby curled up in a cradle. It looked so cute, as I realized who it ! Michael looked so cute when he was a baby.

Then the screen changed to show another baby, wrapped in pink blankets, crying her eyes out.

Me!

Gosh, couldn't they get a nicer picture to show on my rehearsal dinner?

The slideshow progressed to show our childhood. Our first steps, our first bike ride (though the picture of my first bike ride had been a one mine lying on the grass in the Central Park, the bike lying beside me and I was looking confused.),our first day in school it progressed, I saw the changes happening to us. Michael was turning into a handsome young man, while I was turning into a, well, slide also showed pictures from the Non Denominational Winter Dance from my freshman year, a reminder of the first time we kissed and our first prom. I suspected that Lilly had taken the picture from Non Denominational Winter Dance, while Shameeka would have taken the one from prom. I was not able to get pictures from MY senior prom, seeing that how J.P turned out to be a fake.

OH MY GOD!I totally forgot.J.P doesn't know about my wedding. I should at least call him. It was bad enough that I didn't invite him.

I should ask Michael.

So when the slide show, and the dinner was over and everybody was back to socializing, I caught hold of Michael's had and we moved aside.

"Michael, don't you think I should call J. know, just to let him know that I am getting married."

Michael's lips disappeared. He balled his fingers to a fist.

"Why would you do that Mia?"

"Well, because, you know, I told him we would remain friends and for that matter, I should tell him about the wedding."

"I don't think so guy cheated both you and Lilly. Even if you forgive him, I won't. And like it or not, I am not having him attend my wedding."

Then he turned and walked away, his hands in his pockets. I sighed.

I guess your fiancée is more important than a phony freak with whom you promised to be friends with.

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N.B-In the first two chapters of this story, I have written Mia's name as Renaldi, instead of Renaldo. Sorry for the mistake.