THE AURA OF HATE [Editing]

TWENTY- FOUR

"Hazel." Melissa calls out my name.

I shut my eyes down and fist my hand.

Calm down Hazel, don't create a scene.

"Hazel." Hayley calls me out and I look at her.

"What!?" I snap at her.

"I am sorry. I had to call him be-" I interrupt her.

"Because? What?" I ask her glaring.

"Because, she wanted your father to walk you down the aisle." My dad speaks up.

"Okay. Let me make one thing clear. YOU. ARE. NOT. MY. FATHER." I scream at his face making him flinch.

That's right.

"I am sorry Hazel, he wanted to come to his daughter's wedding." Melissa informs me.

"Daughter? His? Please, when has he ever played the role of a father in our life? Huh? If he were to be our "father" he wouldn't leave us in the street when we were 6." I reply to Melissa and she looks down.

"Look h-" I interrupt him.

"I don't want your damn fucking, meaningless apologies. I am an orphan and I am happy the way I am right now. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to enjoy the rest of the ride silently. It's my wedding day and the last thing I need is you destroying it for me." I tell him emotionlessly and put my head back in the seat and fall asleep.

"Hazel. Wake up. We're here." Melissa tells me and I wake up.

Oh god.

It's here.

The time is here.

The bridesmaid head out leaving Sandler and I alone in the limousine.

"I wish you a very happy married life, Baby." He says and I look the other way.

He gets out of the car and comes to my side of the door.

He opens it and offers his hand to me.

Me being helpless, I give it to him.

We are standing at the entrance of the Church.

I see Xander standing there, looking hot in his tuxedo.

Everyone gets up from their seat, to welcome the bride.

We slowly start walking down the aisle. My eyes fixed on Xander and his on mine.

He roams his eyes on every part of my body, making me feel naked under his gaze.

Soon we reach him and my dad offers him my hand.

"Keep her happy." He says and walks to the bench.

"Looking gorgeous like always." Xander whispers making me roll my eyes.

"Wish I could say the same." I reply smirking.

"Hazel and Xander, have you come here to enter into Marriage without coercion, freely and wholeheartedly?" The priest starts the ceremony.

"I have." Xander and I both agree and look at each other.

"Are you prepared, as you follow the path of Marriage, to love and honor each other for as long as you both shall live?"

"I am." We both reply.

"Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God and to bring them up according to the law of Christ and his Church?"

"I am." We both reply.

"Since it is your intention to enter into the covenant of Holy Matrimony, join your right hands, and declare your consent before God and his Church."

"I, Xander Carrington, take you, Hazel Alsteen, to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life." Xander says his vows.

"I, Hazel Alsteen, take you, Xander Carrington, to be my husband. I promise to be faithful to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love you and to honor you all the days of my life." I say my vows and look at my feet.

"Xander, do you take Hazel for your lawful wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?" The priest asks Xander.

"I do." Xander replies without hesitation.

"Hazel, do you take Xander for your lawful husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?" The priest asks me.

I open my mouth to reply but nothing comes out.

Xander raises his eyebrows.

"Hazel, do you take Xander for your lawful husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?." The priest repeats himself.

I sigh and answer.

"I do."

"I, now pronounce you, as husband and wife. You may kiss your bride." The priest allows and Xander pulls me close into him.

His lips meet mine, and fireworks explode in my stomach.

Never have I ever thought of this day.

Marrying him.

Marrying the person who I hate with my life.

We separated ourself from the kiss and Xander puts his forehead against my head.

"Welcome to hell. Wife." Xander says smirking.

The only thing he didn't know was that I ruled hell.

I was the she devil and by marrying me, he entered my territory.

"Don't worry husband by the end of our marriage, you'd be the one desperate to get out of this hell." I smirk back making his smirk fall.

If I cannot bend heaven, I'll raise hell.