Time frame: 1 year before the outbreak
POV: Ellis
Main event: Keith risking his health for a cake
I know I mentioned that one time when Keith was supposed to get married and he skipped out on his wedding day, the whole 'runaway groom' story. Well, here's how it went:
Keith was still with that girl, the 'tunnel of love' girl. Her name was Brandi by the way. Well, she really wanted to get married, all of a sudden and Keith being the guy he is said 'sure' when she proposed to him. Like she literally got down on one knee in front of his friends. Brandi wore the pants in that relationship. They were gettin ready for the wedding, and everything was set up. I was his best man and the suit I was wearin made me look smokin'. So I was waitin up at the front with the priest and Keith showed up, waitin for Brandi to come down the aisle. He had this weird look in his eyes, like the kind he got when he was coming up with a horrible idea.
He waited all the way until the priest said, "if anyone has a reason this couple should not be wed" part and Keith says, "finally!"
Everyone, including me, was shocked. He takes the microphone off of the podium (broke it off the stand) and he says to everyone, "Hello ladies and gents…especially the ladies" and he winks, then he says, "I have an announcement to make. Brandi, this lady right here, my fiancé is pregnant."
Everyone claps, except for me, Paul, Dave, and anyone that knows Keith very well. Keith clapped along with the audience and Brandi looked so satisfied, but he finishes with, "Yeah, yay. Chuck it up. What you don't know is, I got kicked in the crotch by a horse when I was 19. It made me 100% sterile. So…maybe if I was an idiot, this would be okay. But I'm not an idiot so I know for sure that bun in her oven aint mine. This wedding is over. Bye."
He drops the mic, and it makes a loud sound. Brandi starts cryin and I just stand there until Keith tells me to come with him. He says, "Grab the whiskey, Ellis." He picks up the top two tiers of the wedding cake and he tells me to pull the car around. So I do. We go back to my house and get drunk and eat half a damn weddin cake a piece. He seems like he isn't even that sad until he's real drunk, starts to cry, tells me, "El, she was fuckin another guy? Don't I know how to choose em?" Then he pukes up a bunch of blood and passes out.
By then Dave and Paul and Scott and Kale came over to check on their buddy. Keith's family was so pissed and everyone wanted to kick Keith's ass. So his friends guarded the house to make sure he'd stay safe. But with the vomit, we had to take him to the hospital. My mom was workin that day (she was a nurse) so she got him in as soon as we could get Kale to drive him (he was too young to drive but he wasn't drunk).
Keith just went through that poisoning from the chicken a little while back, so he wasn't supposed to be drinkin alcohol or eating anything solid. They pumped his stomach again and my mom yelled at him, then almost ripped Brandi's face off when she came to check on her ex-fiance.
By the time the week was over, he seemed like he was back to his old self and he was right, his girl was cheatin on him…with like three other men. Two months after her weddin with Keith, she married the guy that she was pretty sure was the father of her baby.