Chapter 6: I Don't?
The day of the wedding was hectic at best. Wally was woken up at 6:30 by Linda, who was having a hair crisis, why she was up so early when the wedding wasn't until noon he didn't know. "Well today is the big day." Wally sighed as he got dressed. "You know you've invited too many people when I can't even go by my actual name for safety reasons." Wally said looking at his costume, he'd much rather be without it and wear a tux like normal people do, but he had to protect his identity and Linda said his costume matched the decor or something like that he honestly couldn't remember.
After putting on his costume he grabbed something to eat and tried to watch some TV, but all anyone was talking about was his wedding and between the TV and Linda's frantic freak outs over how her dress was snug or how her hair wasn't turning out right he just about went insane.
Eventually it reached the time when he should head over to the church and greet people before the ceremony. "Today marks the rest of my life, I can't mess this up." Kid thought as he stood outside the church chatting idly with the guests that had shown up.
"You know out of all of us titans, I pictured you one of the last to be married." Robin said jokingly making his way to where Kid was.
"I know I can barely believe it myself." Kid said looking among the crowd that showed up, Linda wasn't kidding when she said half the town was coming. He checked his watch and the time read 11:45. "Might as well head in and get in position." He thought as he walked through the doors. "Linda was right I do match the colors, but the decor isn't that tasteful if you ask me." Kid said to himself commenting on the red, yellow, and orange flowers and ribbons that decorated the plain white church.
As he stood at the altar looking over the crowd he could've sworn he saw a flash of pink. "It can't be, Just someone's dress probably." Kid thought trying to calm his nerves and stop his thoughts of Jinx. "I can do this." He thought over and over again.
Jinx's day started out with her alarm forgetting to wake her and as a result she woke up at 11am sharp. "Shit! Macy is going to kill me!" Jinx muttered to herself as she jumped out of bed and started getting ready. She brushed out her straight hair until it stopped looking ratty, and she then ran around getting her dress and shoes on. Jinx barely had enough time to eat a granola bar before she had to head out the door and meet up with Macy.
"As much as I hate this wedding, I might just have to go to the reception and get some decent food." She said to herself as her stomach began to grumble as she ran down the street.
"There you are! I was worried you weren't going to show, Jinx." Macy said as she stood outside the church, happy she finally found Jinx.
"Yeah well you did black mail me, so I really didn't have much of a choice in the matter now did I? Miss I took your shift, you have to come." Jinx said mocking Macy's voice.
"Come on let's go in." Macy said leading inside the church. Jinx immediately chose the seat nearest the door in the far back of the huge church incase she felt she needed to make a run for it. She barely missed him, just barely but there was Kid Flash zooming up to the altar as the ceremony started.
"Jinx, are you okay? I think you're bleeding." Macy whispered to Jinx.
Looking down at her arms Jinx hadn't realized she'd been digging her nails into herself. "Like I said I'm not a wedding person." Jinx whispered back but her statement was deaf to Macy because at that time Linda walked through the white doors in all her glory. In Jinx's opinion she looked like a cupcake in the ball gown dress she was wearing, but in everyone else's mind Linda looked like a queen. "I don't love him, god can't the wedding go any faster." Jinx said as she yet again began clawing into her arms. "Don't do anything stupid! Don't lose control" She told herself over and over again attempting to keep her powers in check.
Over at the altar Kid was in shock. Linda looked great sure but it just hit him that this was marriage! This was forever and he was stunned, his thoughts were going a mile a minute. Did he want this? Would he be happy with her? Sure. He could get along well with anyone, except Jinx but only because she was so stubborn. Did he love her? Kid didn't know and that's what troubled him the most.
Looking at her in that dress, she was pretty, she looked like royalty, but he didn't feel that spark. Was there any such thing as a spark? Kid was sure there was he felt it whenever he saw Jinx. "I'm just being paranoid and getting cold feet is all. It isn't fair to compare Linda to Jinx there completely different people. Besides, I'm over Jinx, I'm sure of it." Kid thought as the minister drowned on.
Eventually it got to the important part. "Do you Linda Park, take Kid Flash to be your husband?"
"There we go again with the Kid Flash stuff, geeze I have a name." Kid thought as Linda answered "I do."
"Do you Kid Flash, take Linda Park to be your wife?"
Kid froze, and Jinx dug further into her arm. "I can do this." He mentally told himself.
"I can't watch this!" Jinx thought looking up at the couple. "Control yourself, Jinx!" She kept telling herself.
"I can do this, I can!" Kid thought as he began "I-" suddenly he froze again "Can I?" Kid thought still conflicted. "I'm not sure all I can think about is Jinx, why can't I think about Linda she's a wonderful person. But she's not Jinx." A voice at the back of his head told him. "I- don't" Kid finished. "I'm sorry Linda but this is too rushed and I'm not sure I love you, I'm sorry, I really am, but I can't marry you." Kid said as he sped away from the altar, heading off to find Jinx.
Little did he know she witnessed the whole thing. "He didn't say I do!" Jinx thought as she released her arms from her grip, witnessing the commotion that was going on. The guests were whispering to one another, the titans had left almost immediately after Kid, they did have a city to defend after all.
Then there was Linda a crying mess sitting on the floor of the altar. Jinx felt for her, she really did, but she was ecstatic Kid said no, for her own selfish reasons of course.
"Come on Jinx, let's go comfort her." Macy said grabbing Jinx by the arm and walking up to where Linda was. "Are you okay?"
"No, I'm not, how could he? Macy, I loved him and no one here cares, all the females here are excited he's single again and no one cares that I'm all alone." Linda said still sobbing.
"Well, maybe you shouldn't have invited half the town." Jinx said sounding not the least sympathetic.
Linda glared at her and then continued sobbing to Macy. "I won't even be able to go see him and ask him to come back to me! Linda said taking a tissue Macy handed her.
"Can't you just go to his home wherever he lives?" Jinx said again slightly annoyed at this girl for not having any pride.
"No! He lives in the penthouse at the apartment complex in the dead center of town and I need a code to not only get into the building but his apartment as well!"
"Hmm" Jinx said an idea popping into her head. She decided to pay the speedster a visit, I mean he obviously has something wrong with his head if he ran out on his wedding.
"Well Macy, if you don't mind I've got some things to take care of, and uh it was nice meeting you Linda." Jinx said as she left the church and headed home to change.
After she changed into a comfortable pink V-neck tshirt and some black shorts she grabbed something to eat and waited. The best time to break into a place was at night anyway.
At around 8 o'clock she headed out, being sure to stay in the shadows so no one saw her.
Honestly breaking into Kid Flash's apartment had been one of her easiest feats. She took the fire escape to the top and hexed the lock on the window to get in. "He really should get a security system, or something this is just too easy." Jinx said as she looked around it was a really nice place there was the master bedroom that had a bathroom in it, a hall bathroom, two extra rooms, one was used as an office and the other one a guest bedroom. The living room and kitchen areas were fairly large and after looking through the cabinets she grabbed a bag of chips and turned on the TV. Of course most of it was about the aftermath of the wedding which Jinx couldn't help but laugh at.
"Wedding of the century, for sure." Jinx said as she started eating the bag of chips. "I could get used to this."
Meanwhile after the wedding Kid had to find Jinx. He knew she was in Star City, he searched the town 3 times over for her. Then, deciding maybe she left due to all the wedding stuff, he searched all the nearby towns and eventually most of the United States.
Coming short every time. He decided to head home and search more tomorrow he was exhausted due to the wedding trouble and searching for Jinx it was midnight by the time he stopped searching. "What if I can't find her?" Kid thought as he walked in the apartment complex he was drained and felt no need to run anywhere. "What if she hates me? Ugh of course she probably hates me. I can never win with Jinx." Kid said to himself as he entered the code for his apartment and upon opening the door he was shocked and elated to see said girl on his couch.