Chapter 21
It wasn't a big wedding. A hundred people all sitting and watching as his mum and Rian waited for him to bring the rings. He was happy that his mum was happy, but when he got to the front he gave his mummy the rings, she took Rian's and gestured with her eyes for him to pass the other to Rian. His mouth twitched but he remembered what his mother had promised and shoved the pillow at him. The man forced a smile and took the other ring.
Then Mackenzie sat down on the stage, a staff member took the pillow away. He activated his music and watched the crowd as pop songs played in his eyes, no one could tell, no one could hear, but he could see everyone else, all the bored faces, the faces of people who had opted for the cheap hair brands and were wearing masks instead of having their faces cleaned of any blemish. Luckily no one in the room was poor enough to make every one so disgusted by being overweight. Mackenzie pull out his phone, tapping it without looking, understanding the sensations that came when he moved his fingers.
He viewing system opened up over his eyes, he set it to clear. The robot flew into the room. He cloaked it. Nobody noticed. He made it go over to the worst looking person in the room, an older man who had had either been too poor or too much of a scrooge to use the age stopping technology, instead he had reversed his appearance so many times his face he could hardly move it. The small plane moved over to his head, a mess of blue and green.
The plane slowly descended onto his head and he projected a hologram of a spider on his head. It climbed into the vision of the woman next to him. She almost screamed, but supressed it and choked instead, in shock she leaned too far to the side. The person next to her was pushed off the pew and into a little flower girl, who was standing near. Then others began to notice the crawling spider, including the man. He jumped in his seat when it began to crawl over his face. Mackenzie couldn't supress a giggle. The bride's maid looked at him and he stopped laughing.
Then the man, seeing the unrest quickened his words and called for their union. He kissed her, and she kissed back. Mackenzie was distracted however, his plans to poke his tongue out at Rian while he was looking Mackenzie's way were ruined as a group of guards came down, wearing suits, holding neutralisers. He deactivated the spider and sped the plane to the other end of the room, but they hit the robot before it could make it two metres. He glared at the fallen machine, what a piece of crap!
The wedding ended in a hurry, the security guards had to made a big surveillance check, find the source of the disturbance and all that stuff, Mackenzie's new step-father worked it out before he even looked at the machine. "It was him!" Rian told his mum with total confidence. "He didn't want us to get married and this was his last attempt to end this wedding." Mackenzie looked at him, it was nothing of the sort, he was just bored.
His mother saw the plane wreckage and turned to him, her face sad, her shoulders drooped. "Mackenzie is that true?"
"No. I mean, that's not why. I did because I was bored, I didn't think the guy would almost die of fear." The ugly man had had a heart attack and been sent to hospital he was fine of course, but Rian was angry all the same. Rian looked at Mackenzie's mum imploringly. "See what I mean, he has too much freedom and not enough rules, a little structure is good for a child." His mother looked at Rian was the expression that said she wasn't convinced and she was unhappy about what Rian was saying. "I mean, I want to help him, raise him like he was my own son, which he is now, me and him are family, but Ryssa I need your support. I don't he likes me very much, do you like me Kenzie?"
"Don't call me that, only my parents call me that." His mum smiled, "But Mackenzie, Ri is your parent now."