I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Christmas.
A/N: I thank my friend (well, technically more than a friend now) Steven for the song choice.
Chapter 22
The next morning seemed to come too quickly for both of them. Ari woke up first, not quite sure what to do or how to get up without waking the redhead beside her. So, she lay there for a few hours until, finally, Axel opened his eyes and yawned. "Sleep well?" She giggled and he nodded, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "So, what's on your agenda for today?" He looked at her, waiting for an answer. "Well, me and Xion were gonna go dress shopping." He smirked, "Cool, I'll come too. I seriously have nothing to do today."
She rolled her eyes, "You can't come, Axel. It's wedding dress shopping. It's bad luck for the groom to see the bride in her dress before the wedding, you know." He rolled his eyes, "Yeah, I know. Go, have fun; I'll see you later. Okay, love?" Ari smiled and leaned over, kissing him on the cheek. He chuckled as she left and grabbed some clothes to change into. After changing into a cute light green camisole and skinny jeans, she headed outside of the house and down the street to Xion's house. Xion was waiting outside for her as she walked up the gray walkway that up to the porch. The two girls chattered as they got into Xion's car. The black haired girl drove for about half an hour and Lady Gaga was blasting her music on the radio. In the middle of Poker Face, they pulled into the parking lot of David's Bridal.
"So, what colors were you thinking about for the bridesmaid dresses?" Xion asked her friend while walking into the store. "Well, I was thinking maybe a light pink for that, I don't know though. It's just so hard to find colors that wont totally clash with Axel's hair." Both girls started laughing, but they also knew it was a true fact. Then, they headed inside, into the magical world of silky whites and lacey off-whites. The sight of so many dresses was almost too much for Rixa to take in. Xion noticed her just as she was about to fall over and caught her, helping her over to a bench near the right wall of the store. "Th-this is really happening, isn't it? I'm getting married." Xion sighed and rolled her eyes, "You're just a little nervous Rixa, everything's gonna be alright." It took a few minutes to actually convince her to stop hyperventilating and to go try on a dress.
The first was too big on her waist, the second was too tight, the third was way too immodest, and so on and so forth. She tried on about seventeen dresses until they finally came to the perfect dress. It was a strapless white gown with a beaded bodice and billowy looking fabric towards the bottom. She looked way better than any fairytale princess would ever have looked. This was it; they had finally found a dress.