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See Cheerleader Reunion for misunderstandings about Bonnie, Ron, and Kim a couple years earlier. The ex-Middleton cheerleaders were not on the original list for invitations. But, as Shego warned, guest lists only grow and they had been added.
Wedding 2 – Atypical Jewish Wedding, part 5
Tying the Knot
"Sorry you aren't getting a bachelor party?" Kim asked Ron as she and Shego prepared to leave and pick up Bonnie on the Saturday night before the wedding.
"Nah. It'd be lame. I'll just take the girls out for pizza and to a movie."
"No pepperoni," Shego warned.
Kim kissed Ron on the cheek. "I think you'll always be daddy to those two. I'll bet they have you walk them down the aisle someday."
"Not any time soon," Shego added. "They won't be allowed to date until they're twenty-five."
Bonnie was waiting on the porch of the Rockwaller home and hurried to the street as soon as she saw the car approach. "What kept you," she demanded as she got in."
Kim checked her watch, "We're five minutes earlier than we said we'd be."
"Five lousy minutes early? That's the best you could do?"
Kim sighed.
"Bonnie, I'm not trying to rush you," Shego commented, "But when will you and Ron officially move out of the house?"
"Move out?"
"As in, you and Ron are moving to California, right?"
"I'm not moving out. I want a home in Middleton. Ron and I will find a house on the coast. But this is my home. If you want us out, you'll have to throw us out. And… brace yourself for some bad news, Kim."
"What?"
"God help me, you feel like family."
The red head laughed, and then grew thoughtful. "Hey, you hate your family."
Bonnie considered an evil grin and saying, 'Think about it'. Instead she chuckled, "Okay, to me you're what family should be."
"Will you and Ron still need two rooms," Shego asked, "or can we consolidate you?"
"Shego," Kim whispered loudly, "you sound like you want to get rid of them."
"Just thinking if we move Ron's stuff to Bonnie's room we can offer the twins their own bedrooms and still have a guest room."
"And what are we going to do with the nursery? We'll never need it again."
"Oh, Ron and I will probably have kids," Bonnie interrupted.
"The nursery is off the master bedroom," Kim reminded her.
"All the times I changed diapers for Kasy and Sheki? You two owe me. Ron and I will come back for visits and you two can watch our kids and let us sleep."
They had reached Leonardo's as they talked and parked in the lot. The special events room they'd rented for the night was crowded and a cheer went up as they entered.
Most of the former Middleton cheerleaders were there for the wedding, as well as various other friends from high school and college. To Bonnie's relief both Connie and Lonnie had turned down the invitation from Kim to attend. Kim asked for everyone's attention for a moment and made it clear that Ron was not the father of Kasy and Sheki. They had been conceived artificially when Kim was at a difficult time in her life. Ron had supported her emotionally, and her daughters loved him like a father. But he wasn't their biological dad - and Kim predicted Ron's marriage to Bonnie would be wonderful.
Monique, Justine, and Zita - who had lived in the big house all or part of the time while Bonnie was in college - were among the guests. Justine looked uncomfortable but tried to fit in. Zita wondered why she had come, she had not liked any of the cheerleaders except Kim in high school. But it was good to be out with the Possible Manor women. One of the cheerleaders, Linda, had asked if she could bring a date to the wedding. Ron told her yes, without asking for a name - and not expecting Linda to bring her date to Bonnie's party. A couple of the women nearly had fits when the black woman strolled in, with Crystal's former dorm mate, Beverly, on her arm.
It was three in the morning when Kim and Shego dropped Bonnie off at her house.
Sunday dawned and Bonnie woke up alone, and unhappy about that fact, in her old room in her parents' home.
Friends, Rockwaller kin, and Stoppable relatives were in abundance. Ron wondered how he and Bonnie could have imagined a small wedding.
Figuring out the family seating had proven slightly difficult. Rachel Stoppable wanted to keep her parents as far from Bubbie Stoppable as possible. They solved the problem by seating two of Ron's aunts and their families in between.
The chuppah was suspended from the ceiling rather than being held on poles as had been done at Kim and Shego's wedding.
When it came time for the ceremony Wade entered first, with Felix rolling along behind him. Hana marched in, slowly and solemnly, with both rings tied to a cushion. Ron came in between his mother and father. His mother kissed him, and his dad patted him on the shoulder, then the two moved over and sat down with the guests.
Unfortunately Rachel Stoppable forgot her own seating chart, and sat down by her mother-in-law. Having made the mistake she was too embarrassed to make a scene by trading places with her husband.
"What? You couldn't get a real rabbi?" Bubbie complained.
"Shhh," Rached shushed, "she is a real rabbi."
"Rabbis are men," her mother-in-law responded loudly enough for the rabbi to hear.
Lonnie entered, looking beautiful. Bonnie had resisted the temptation to pick out the most unflattering bridesmaid dresses she could find. Kim reached the front and moved to one side, then faced the back stairs and nodded. She smiled as Kasy and Sheki came forward. There were a number of whispers as the twins moved forward, and Kim crossed her fingers and hoped Kasy remembered she must not call Ron daddy anymore - or at least remembered for the rest of the day.
The quintet changed the music and everyone rose and stared as Bonnie entered between her mother and father.
Kim sighed, wondering how Bonnie could ever have believed her sisters' teasing about her looks and intelligence.
"Such a beautiful girl," Bubbie Stoppable told her daughter-in-law, as if Rachel Stoppable was unaware of the fact, "and so nice."
"She really is," Rachel answered.
Not every eye in the loft was focused on Bonnie. While Bonnie held everyone's attention a slim teenager seized the opportunity to slip down the stairs. And one person, who took in everything that happened in the loft, noticed the departure.
"Will you please guard the rings?" Hana whispered hurriedly to Felix, putting the pillow with the rings on his lap.
"What's wrong?"
"I must go."
"You should have thought of that--" he started to say, then noticed she was gone. He wondered how she could move so quietly.
Zita felt a sharp pain in her stomach as Bonnie's parents led her to the chuppah, and recognized it as jealousy. She didn't think she had ever been as happy in her life as Bonnie looked at this moment. That might have been her. She tried to shake it off. She and Ron had dated occasionally in high school, but not seriously. When she moved in to Kim's house she was married to an abusive spouse, and not interested in seeing anyone until the divorce came through. Ron had always been there for her when she needed him. She had known at the time Bonnie felt jealousy towards her, and had taken every opportunity to make the brunette feel like something was going on between her and Ron. But after her bad marriage she had been more devoted to making Lipsky and Load profitable than developing a social life. Now, seeing the look of happiness glowing on Bonnie's face, she wondered if she had set her priorities right.
Bonnie and her parents reached the wedding party. Her parents left Bonnie with Ron and moved to their seats, Mrs. Rockwaller digging out tissues because she had already started to cry. Ron and Bonnie faced each other, staring into the other's eyes and fighting hard to remember they were supposed to wait until after the ceremony to kiss. A small cough from the Rabbi brought them back to attention.
Ron and Bonnie turned to the rabbi, and in a clear voice she began to read the wedding contract to the assembled guests.
Sean donned a pair of plastic gloves before taking out the bottle. Possession of the bottle might prove problematic later - but he hoped to find a chance to slip it into Ron's pocket. Ron would leave his own fingerprints on it when he found it. Sean's original plan had called for the release of a large number of the crickets he used to feed his iguana in the food for the reception. The crickets, however, might have pointed to him. He could claim his own innocence - maintain he had been framed, but there was too much risk - crickets were hard to carry. Besides, the magnesium citrate in the punch would be vastly more amusing in the long term.
"What is in the bottle?" a small voice asked.
Certain he was alone Sean almost jumped, then turned and saw Hana standing close to him. He wondered how she could approach so quietly. "Nothing," he snapped.
"Nothing in the bottle? Then why are you here?"
Sean thought fast. He was older and blood kin to half the people there. He could claim that Ron had poisoned the girl's mind against him. People would believe him. He already had his mom and two other relatives convinced Ron was a paranoid lunatic who enjoyed inventing evil stories about his younger cousin. They'd write off Hana also. "I want some extra flavor in the punch. Do you like lemonade?"
"Yes…" Hana agreed cautiously.
"This is some extra lemon flavor. I just add this powdered mix to the punch and stir it up."
"Please, I want to see you eat some of it."
"The powder is a concentrate. That means it's very strong. You are only supposed to drink it mixed with liquid. Let me put it in the punch and you can try it."
"Please, let's go to the kitchen and you can put some in water and drink it."
Sean started to get a little worried. There was a chance he would be missed if he stayed away too long, or is mom might ask him about something in the ceremony. "Go away, kid. Weren't you supposed to carry rings or something?"
"I guard my family."
"I'm family too. I'm your cousin. Now get lost."
"Ron does not trust you. So I do not trust you."
"This is perfect. They'll think Ron poisoned her against me." "Get lost, kid," Sean repeated and tried to push her away.
In the loft rabbi Ruth offered a meditation on the Ger Toshav, the resident alien among the people of Israel, which left the Rockwallers scratching their heads in curiosity and left Ron's grandmother smiling - for a moment the idea that a woman really could be a rabbi floated through her mind before she dismissed it.
After the meditation Ron and Bonnie repeated their vows and the rabbi asked for the rings. Felix looked down, and panicked when he saw the rings were missing. But Hana stepped forward with the rings on their pillow. Ron whispered, "Thanks," to his sister and Bonnie smiled at her. Felix tried to remember when Hana could possibly have returned, and how she managed to take the pillow off his lap without him realizing it.
"The ring for Bonnie," the rabbi whispered to Hana. "Repeat after me," she told Ron, " Behold you are sanctified to me with this ring, according to the Law of Moses and Israel."
He repeated the words as he slipped the gold band on Bonnie's finger.
The rabbi grinned at the serious faced little girl in the tuxedo, "The ring for your brother?"
Hana bowed deeply and presented the ring.
The rabbi gave the ring to Bonnie to put on Ron's finger, "Please repeat after me, I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine."
Both mothers, and Ron's dad, were crying too hard to watch as Bonnie recited, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine."
The rabbi recited the Sheva Brachos, the seven blessings and Bubbie smiled. There had been so much English in the ceremony she was starting to doubt whether this could even be called a wedding at all.
At the end of the seven blessings Ron and Bonnie drank again from the glass of wine the rabbi had blessed earlier in the ceremony. After Ron finished the wine he handed the glass to the rabbi, who wrapped it in a towel and gave it back to Ron. He put the glass on the floor and brought his foot down on. The glass shattered loudly and Stoppable relatives shouted, "Mazel tov!" at the couple.
The wedding party, lead by Ron and Bonnie recessed out. There was a moment of confusion caused by the absence of one of the ushers, but the guests were dismissed in a semi-orderly fashion to the reception line and party downstairs.
