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Chapter 12
Felicity woke up the next morning since they actually did go to sleep… afterwards. She looked over at her fiancé who was still asleep and kissed him awake like they promised. "Today's the day, Adam."
"Is it really? I had a dream I slept for a week."
Felicity thought about it for a second. "I'm pretty sure it is… but knowing us we probably wouldn't even know if we did and have the wedding today anyways." She reminded happily.
"Maybe." Adam said with his eyes still closed.
Felicity shock him like a three-year-old on Christmas morning. "Come on, let me see those ninja stars."
"It's bad luck to see the bride before the wedding."
Felicity stopped shaking him, completely confused by that statement. "What?"
"That's the superstition that the groom should never see the bride on the day of the wedding until the vows."
That just confused Felicity even farther. "I know almost all of the wedding superstitions like that for good luck, the bride should hold a marble in her hand through out the entire wedding day and I have NEVER heard that one."
"I've never heard the one you just said."
"Really?" Felicity asked her confusion only worsening. "I thought everyone knew that one. It's the second most common behind having an odd number of tiers on the wedding cake is bad luck."
"What?" Adam asked.
Felicity just gave up and slipped on the clothes she had on yesterday for good luck, grabbed her marble and left the room to find Isabella while trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
Adam opened his eyes to check she was gone then stood and dressed in his new uniform and left. He decided to find Connor first since knowing his sister she had all the girls helping with the wedding set up.
Felicity looked through the mansion, quickly finding her maid of honor and VERY soon to be sister-in-law.
"Felicity how is the bride to be?" Isabella asked surrounded by all the girls.
"Absolutely fantastic, of course." Felicity ringed happily with a slight spin.
"Good, now about your dress..." Isabella said.
Felicity's smile faltered slightly. "Does it really have to be a dress?"
"Well, it is your day what did you have in mind?" Isabella asked
Felicity showed Isabella a picture she found a long time ago of a bridle pant suit with lace pants and jacket and a silk shirt and scarf, all white of course.
"You want to wear this instead of a dress?"
Felicity nodded, her smile returning. "I hate dresses." She reminded. "Not as much as I hate shoes but I still hate them."
"Right, well I guess we can get one of those do you want it in white or purple?"
Felicity hadn't even thought of that. "Maybe, we could have the shirt in purple and everything else in white."
"I can arrange that easily. Gretchen, get Felicity's measurements for me." Gretchen took a tape measurer and measured where she needed to and jotted them down.
"Good, can you get that suit or have it made? Isabella asked.
Gretchen took the picture and looked at it. "Oh, no problem. I can have it ready in a half hour at the latest."
"Then lets get on that now. Felicity, any perticular decorations you want?"
"There needs to be a lot of purple and red." Felicity said for obvious reasons. "And about the same amount of both, that way it doesn't look biased in either direction."
"So, do you want it mixed or half and half?"
"Mixed thoughout." Felicity answered. "It might look a little odd half and half."
"Just asking, I've seen both options."
"Of course, it Adam's wedding too though." Felicity reminded. "So you might wanna talk with him to but he doesn't want to see me, say's it's bad luck."
"Well, yeah, it's bad luck." Katie and Isabella said together.
Felicity was still confused but Adyson 1 spoke up first, "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. There hundreds of wedding superstitions but that's not one of them."
"Yes, it is! Maybe it's different in this world?" Katie said
"Oh!" Felicity said it finally making sense. "That's why he also didn't know any of the ones I mentioned. The 1st Dimension must have different superstitions than the 2nd Dimension."
"Apparently. Now, back to the wedding." Isabella said.
"Right! As I was saying before we got into that. It's Adam's wedding too so you guys should run the stuff by him as well." Felicity reminded.
"He told me as long as you were happy and we had a chocolate fountain with lots of things to dunk in it at the reception he would be fine. Oh, and no pink. All I need from him is what suit he wants to wear."
Felicity rolled her eyes. "Boys. I agree that there shouldn't be any pink though. Sorry, Isabella. We should still stick with the purple and red plan though but the bouquet has to have an odd number of flowers according to 2nd Dimension superstition or it's bad luck so how can we work around that for the layout?"
"We need an odd number of everything?"
"No, the bouquet flowers are odd, the wedding cake tiers are even. Any other numbers don't make a difference in luck."
"Easy enough, any flower you want in your bouquet?"
Felicity shrugged, "Not really, actually."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I don't really know that much about flowers anyways." Felicity answered.
"Simple enough. Now location, any ideas?"
"Well, I have one idea, but it's insane." Felicity said hesitantly.
"I'm listening." Isabella said
"Virtual 2nd Dimension Paris?" Felicity asked hopefully. "It's where Adam and I started dating."
"You want me to set up your wedding in virtual second dimension Paris?" Isabella asked
"That is what I just said." Felicity stated. "I told you it was insane."
"Not actual Second dimension Paris?"
"That's not as symbolic." Felicity stated simply.
"Well, I suppose we could have a machine built in one of the spare rooms."
"It wouldn't be too much trouble, will it?"
"For us, no it won't. It will be about an hour and a half process, though."
"I knew I could count on you guys!" Felicity said excitedly. "I couldn't have picked a better Maid of Honor."
"No, no you couldn't." Isabella said playfully.
"Ok, so we've got the non-dress, color palette, bouquet, and location." Felicity listed getting back on topic trying to think of what's next.
"Groom and groomsman suits we don't have those." Isabella offered.
"Right! Didn't you say you needed that from Adam though?" Felicity asked looking into her eyes and noticing something. "Your eyes are black by the way."
"Well, I'm stressed I need someone to help me it's just so much to do." She sighed.
Felicity nodded in understanding, being really stressed out herself. "This would be a lot easier if he was aloud to see me but we really can't take any chances with our luck on either dimension's superstitions." She rolled the marble around in her hand slightly.
"I know, what we need is someone on the boys side to help."
"Then go get Connor." Felicity said simply. "We all know that that who you want to get."
Isabella's eyes and cheeks went pink. "Well I do want to go get him, but that might be distracting." She said.
"True… and we wouldn't want to take away the best man from Adam either so not James… how about Ferb?" Felicity asked.
"Perfect, he's efficient and he knows everyone, it's perfect. Gretchen he's your boyfriend you should go get him."
"Will do." Gretchen said heading over to where the boys are.
"So, you aren't allowed to see Felicity at all today until the actual wedding or it will bring bad luck to your marriage?" Connor asked Adam trying to make sense of that since he's from the 2nd Dimension.
"Yeah, that's the situation." Adam said.
"How come I've never heard of this then?" Connor asked.
"Oh, that's because the 1st and 2nd Dimensions have different superstitions from eachother." Gretchen answered having just gotten there.
"Gretchen what brings you here?" Adam asked smiling.
"Isabella asked if I could go get Ferb." Gretchen answered gettin back to business.
"Oh, yeah he's right over there kicking everyone's butt's at DDR."Adam said
"Ok, thank's, Adam." She told him and went over there. "Congratulations by the way."
"Thank you, Gretchen."
Gretchen walked up behind her boyfriend and waited for the song to be over instead of messing him up.
"How do you do that?" James asked when the song ended
"He's Ferb." Gretchen reminded. "You should never question how Ferb does anything he does."
"Still, I will." James said.
"No you won't," Gretchen stated simply. "because I'm going to kidnap him to help us with the wedding."
Ferb just shrugged and walked over to Gretchen. "How can I help?"
"We need to head over to Isabella and the rest of the girls, she just told me to go get you." Gretchen answered pointing in that direction.
"Alright, lets go is there anything she needed immediately?" Ferb asked. Gretchen shrugged as they headed off.
"I've got Ferb!" She declared when they arrived. Isabella was in full planner mode and had not heard her. "Isabella!" Gretchen shouted to get her attention.
"What?" She asked not looking at her.
"I got Ferb." She repeated.
"Oh, good. Do the boys have suits picked out?" She asked
"Oh, we've had them picked out for a while." Ferb answered since they have the easier job.
"And no one told me?" Isabella asked
"Sorry, James said we wouldn't need to." Ferb said.
"I'm gonna kill him!"
"Isabella, no killing people who aren't evil." Felicity lectured.
"But he delayed your wedding."
Felicity smirked. "I just said you couldn't kill him. I didn't say anything about anything else." She reminded maniacally.
"Right, we'll save that for later."
"Yeah, we have a lot of work to do today." Felicity said then turned to Ferb trying to keep herself calm. "So, what suits did you guys agree on?"
"Red and black for Adam. Black and white for us unless you want to change them." Ferb said showing the m a picture of an all black suit with a red vest.
"We can do that." Isabella said looking up at him with her now red eyes. "You still should have told me though."
"I'm sorry." Ferb said.
Isabella sighed, "I guess it's James' fault. Not yours."
"Exactly, so don't kill me."
"We've been friends for as long as I can remember." Isabella reminded but her eyes were still red. "I would never dream of killing you… but we really need to stay on task."
"Right, does anything need to be built or bought."
"Actually, we need a virtual reality device." Isabella told him.
"How big?" Ferb asked.
"Big enough to have the entire wedding in." Felicity answered for her.
"Did you ever decide if you wanted to enter on that elephant?" Katie shouted to Felicity.
"Of course, we need the elephant." Felicity answered. "That way, I can finally get my elephant."
"Well, alright then. Holly we're going elephant shopping!"
"Ok." Holly said honestly excited.
"So, buld something to put the wedding and the elephant in?' Ferb asked.
"Exactly." Felicity said as if it was the simplest thing in the world. "And it has to seem like we're in Paris… you know… besides the elephant."
"This may be the craziest wedding in ever." Ferb said.
"Did you really expect a normal wedding to come from me?" Felicity asked with a smirk.
"No, but really, an elephant?"
"When I was little, I asked my parents for an elephant but they said no. It's my wedding and I still want an elephant." Felicity explained.
"So, you're using the wedding to get an elephant?" Ferb asked
"Yes, what part of that is not clear?" Felicity asked.
"It's clear just an odd request. I need to find a plac big enough to build a virtual reality big enough for the wedding and the reception, and an elephant."
"Wouldn't you be able to have one smaller that seems bigger from the virtual world, I mean, Adam and I were in one that included the whole world in both dimensions but really only took up one room." Felicity asked confused. "And we have WAY better builders then Doofenshmirtz had."
"Yeah, but it'll be tricky and to fit the elephant I may need more than one room..." Ferb said.
"Well, what about the ball room?" Isabella asked.
Ferb shrugged. "I guess we could do that."
"Alright and Gretchen, was Adam talking to Connor when you got there?" Isabella asked.
"Yeah, he was trying to explain why he's not allowed to see Felicity today." Gretchen answered. "So, I think we were right about that. Why?"
"Well, he may be threatening him."
"He wasn't when I was there but that doesn't mean he isn't. It's kind of his job." Gretchen said having seen what happened yesterday.
"Oh, so you're on Adams side?"
"Well, when it's just threats instead of actions, yes. As your brother he just wants to protect you." Gretchen explained patiently. "In fact, almost surprised you haven't done the same thing with Felicity, yet. I'm positive she'd never do anything but that's just what siblings do."
"Well, actually I did..." Isabella trailed off.
"See? So, why would it mean anything different when Adam does it?" Gretchen thought.
"It's just, after Phineas."
"So, you're saying that if I was to do to Adam what Phineas did to you, you wouldn't follow up on it?" Felicity asked. "He went way to far but it was an accident and now he knows not to do that again."
"Well, I probably would have..."
"See? So, what's the problem?" Felicity asked.
"Nothing, I guess I just worry a little is all." Isabella turned to Gretchen changing the subject. "Don't you have a wedding non-dress to make?"
Gretchen nodded and headed off taking the picture with.
"Wow, Isa you need to chill." Felicity said.
"Hey, I'm just trying to be a good maid of honor and get this wedding done in time." Isabella defended.
"I know and I appreciate it, but try and calm down just a little." Felicity said
Isabella took a deep breath. "Sorry, I'll try and work on it."
"Good, and remember I'm here to help too."
"Right, so we've got the non-dress, location, tuxes, color palette and bouquet. We need a cake, decorations, food, and of course the rings." Isabella listed trying to stay calm but her black eyes said otherwise.
"Okay, so I'll go get Adam a ring and he'll get me one." Felicity said.
"Adam already left to get you a ring." Said Ferb as he passed.
"Shot, he probably went to Jennifer's and that means I can't go to Jennifer's." Felicity said disappointed since she wanted to see Jennifer like they said.
"Actually he thought of that, so he went somewhere else with James and Connor. Your free to go to Jennifers. Always thinking of you Adam is." Ferb said.
"Oh, ok." Felicity rolled down her pant legs so that you can't tell she not wearing shoes just like last time. "I'll be right back." She said then blurred back to the mall.
She arrived a few seconds later inside Jennifer's Jewelry. Jennifer herself sat behind the counter she looked up when the bell went off.
"Felicity Daniels, nice to see you again." She said
Felicity smiled widely but then thought about how sad that was that Jennifer recognized her right away when her own father didn't. "Nice to see you, too, Jennifer."
"Where's your fiancé?"
"He's preparing for the wedding it's today you know?" Felicity said with a wide smile.
Jennifer smiled as well. "That's fantastic! I'm guessing you're here for the ring?"
"Yes, I am so what do you have?"
"Right this way." Jennifer said and led her to their wedding ring selections. "Pick out anyone you like."
Felicity spotted a medium band with a wrath of thorns carved all around it. "That one." She said pointing to the ring.
"Oh, excellent choice. Why didn't Adam come with you?" She asked.
"Where Adam grew up, it's considered bad luck for the groom to see the bride on the wedding day before the actual ceremony." Felicity explained hoping she wouldn't ask where that is since it's a little hard to explain.
"Oh, so he's observing tradition?"
"Yes, and I am respecting his traditions just as he is respecting mine. Like this one." Felicity held up her marble in between her middle and ring finger. "Luckily, none of them contradict each other."
"That is fortunate." Jennifer boxed the ring. "That'll be $1,293." Felicity handed her her credit card which she scanned and all that other credit card stuff then returned. "Congratulations, Felicity."
"Thank you Jennifer. You know if you have the time you could come."
Jennifer shook her head. "I really wish I could but I can't just make the time on such a short notice, I do have a business to run after all."
"Are you sure? We'll have an elephant."
"While I do love elephants, I just don't have the time. I' m really sorry." Jennifer said sympathetically.
"Of course, I know a way you could have all the time you want."
Jennifer was taken a little of gaurd by this. It sounded impossible but with those two she's seen worse so she decided to just believe her. "That would be fantastic!"
"Alright hold on." Felicity said pulling out a small tablet like device
Jennifer raised an eyebrow as Felicity activated the famous time altering device and everyone and thing that isn't involved in the wedding froze in time. Jennifer looked around. "Wow, that's incredible."
"Yeah, it's a fun little device." Felicity said smiling
"So, are we suppose to be going somewhere?" Jennifer asked awkwardly.
"Right take my hand please." Felicity said extending her hand. Jennifer took her hand and Felicity blurred them both back to the mansion.
They came out to many people rushing around the ball room with Isabella at the center directing people.
"James, go give Adam his suit, Holly, Katie make sure the elephant is feed and someone please get me a drink."
Felicity handed Isabella a water. "Isa, what did I tell you about needing to calm down?"
"I am calm. Who's this?" Isabella asked.
"Isa, this is Jennifer of Jennifer's Jewlery, she wants to help with the wedding. Jennifer, this is Isabella, the maid of honor and Adam's twin sister." Felicity introduced traditionally.
"Nice to meet you. If she wants to help she could make sure the boys are getting dressed."
It was an awkward request but Jennifer surprisingly agreed to it. "Where are they?"
"Down the hall to the right. If you want to change into a dress the womens dresses are to the left." Isabella said with a smile.
"Thank you." Jennifer said with a smile before heading off to where she said and knocking on the door since they were hopefully changing.
"Who's there?" Asked Adams voice.
"Jennifer from Jennifer's Jewery." Jennifer answered. "Your sister wanted me to make sure you guys were getting dressed."
"Oh, come in we're all dressed." Adam said.
She opened the door smiling. "It's nice to see you again, Adam."
"You as well, Jennifer. What brings you here?" Adam asked
"Felicity told me that you guys were getting married today and had a device that could freeze time so I didn't have to worry about my store so I came to help." Jennifer explained.
"Thank you I'm glad you came."
"I'm glad I came as well but, where are we?" Jennifer repeated.
"Oh, we call the Manor." Adam said.
"So, do you guys live here or is it just someplace for the wedding?" Jennifer asked rather impressed.
"We live here in fact we all live here." Adam said
"Wow." Jennifer said impressed. "Quite the life you guys must have here."
"It has it's ups and down, but yeah I like it." Adam said with a smile. He looked at Jennifer. "Hey, that employee of yours who got arrested...did she have a family?"
"She used to have a husband but they got divorced had a son together even but he got custody." Jennifer answered. "Why do you ask?"
"Do you happen to know the sons name?" Adam asked
Jennifer had to think for a second to remember it from her record. "Connor. Connor Thomas."
Connor looked up at the mention of his name but didn't say anything. He never really knew anything about what happened with his mom after the divorce.
"Just asking the last name seemed fimiliar." Adam said smiling.
"Ok, well, I'm gonna go get changed as well." Jennifer said then headed to the other room Isabella told her.
When she was gone Adam turned and walked over to where Corner and James were talking. "Hey James, can I borrow Connor for a minute?"
"Of course, Adam." James answered.
"Hey Connor, I never asked how was your life growing up?" Adam asked
Connor sighed. "No need to pretend. You and Jennifer weren't exactly quiet. I don't really know anything else about my mother. She left when I was too young too remember her and I haven't heard from her since."
"I'm sorry Connor. I just wanted to know. If it helps I culd take you to go visit her if you want tomorrow?" Adam offered.
Connor shook his head. "That would probably just complicate things, it's hard to miss someone you don't remember."
"I am sorry, Connor. I know what's it's like to have never known a parent." Adam said.
"I know, you told me back at the mall. But you never missed her until you actually met her did you?" Connor asked.
"No, I never thought about it I wish I had though. I got so little time with my mother." Adam said sadly.
"Such a simple luxury isn't it? Growing up with both parents that so many of those who had take it for granted." Connor said looking down.
"Yeah, it is. I envy those people." Adam said.
Connor rubbed the back of his neck. "Kind of hard not to but don't we have a wedding to get ready for?" He asked changing the subject.
"Right!" Adam said.
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