After the exciting news the adoption the kids slowly returned to their seats.
Jackson stood again.
"Now I lied before. I have one last thing to announce. Spike would like to present Bianca and Marissa with their wedding present."
Spike stepped out from his table to stand in the middle of the dance floor. He gave a brief bow before giving a nod to the DJ in the corner. The show tune 'Top Hat' began to play and he started to dance.
He skipped, tripped, tapped and shimmied his way across the floor, sparkling with talent.
When the second verse started Miranda and Emma jumped up from their seats and joined in, falling in step with the routine. After the bridge, Spike turned to Miranda, took her in his arms and began to dance her across the floor.
Emma made a brief show at being frustrated by not having a dance partner and then hurried over to grab AJ's hand. He looked like was being dragged unwillingly but then in a flash joined the dance, spinning and stepping with Emma like a pro.
Marissa gasped with delight to see her son, who didn't dance, dancing so well.
When the song ended Kendall then stood up, surrounded by Randi, Camilla, Cara ,Maggie and Reese, and began to sing 'Kiss the Girl' from the Little Mermaid.
Bianca laughed out loud. It reminded her of that drunken party, years ago, when Marissa's amnesia had made her blind to Bianca's feelings. Kendall had sung a Karaoke version of the song order to drop a big hint. Marissa in the meantime decided just to follow instructions. She turned Bianca by the chin and planted a soft lingering kiss on her lips.
The all-girl chorus got to the second verse when Reggie, Griffin, Scott, Ryan and Frankie got up at the other side of the room and began to sing 'All you need is Love' instead. It was very smooth.
Then also only got to second verse until Gabby walked into the middle of the room, held up her hands and yelled,
"We need something funky!" at the top of her lungs.
The DJ changed the backing track and the kids all got up to join Gabby on the dance floor; Emma; all the Martins, all the Slaters, and all the Tasker-Montgomery kids too. They danced a very cute choreographed routine to 'Happy' by Pharnell Williams. Ayesha, Gabby and Jenny were having trouble keeping time with the older kids and Ian was just doing his own thing but it looked like they were having a whale of a time. At one point Emma and Kathy disappeared from the dance only to come back on pushing a baby buggy each so that Charlie and Holly could be part of the dance too. Gabby and Ayesha did the same with their toy buggies with their teddy bears in. Miranda paused and then disappeared too, leaving Spike without a dance partner. After a brief kerfuffle she reappeared with Leora in her buggy. She was following the other girls moves. It obviously wasn't part the intended routine but Miranda clearly didn't want anyone left out.
At each new surprise Bianca and Marissa were getting more thrilled and overwhelmed. The time and effort that had gone into doing all this was amazing… and it was all for them.
Towards the end of the song everyone was getting up onto the dance floor to join in, dancing away to no particular routine now, just a dance full of joy. Even Erica and Krystal joined the throng.
During the dance Krystal and Erica collided with each other sending Krystal staggering off to the side. There was a moment of worry that it was going to come to blows between their mothers. Then Marissa and Bianca realised it was all part of this choreographed spectacular, as the collision coincided with the sound effect of a record scratching.
Krystal dusted herself off and squared up with Erica, playing on their rivalry, and they glared nose to nose for a moment. Opal came between them and put her arms around their shoulders and began to sing 'You've Got A Friend'. Quickly Erica and Krystal joined in; light and happy, as if they had been best friends for years... but whenever Opal's back was turned they would pull faces or push each other… but it was all part of the act.
Bianca and Marissa shared a look of delight and surprise. The biggest shock being that under the play acting; it looked like their mothers really were getting along. The song was great, and the fact that their mothers would've had to spend quite a bit of time in a room together in order to rehearse meant maybe there was hope for the new in-laws after all.
Krystal and Erica ended the song glaring at each other despite Opal's efforts but Kendall and her backing girls stepped between them and sang a chorus of 'Stop In The Name Of Love…"
Marissa and Bianca were in tender hooks to see what was to going to happen next.
What was to come was the grandest of grand finales. The whole room got up and began to dance to a choreographed routine to 'Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher' with lots of shimmying and arm waving. Even Adam Chandler was dancing; even David; even the catering staff; even the Wedding photographers… Everyone was dancing, it was incredible.
As the song continued people began to stop dancing and drift back to their jobs or their seats. It ended with just the kids on the dance floor… and on the final chorus Spike dancing on his own just as he'd been at the beginning.
When it was all over Marissa and Bianca applauded and whooped a loudly as they could.
"That was amazing!" Marissa exclaimed. "A-Mazing!"
"Best wedding present EVER." agreed Bianca.
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