Impress Me Not: The Architect

Chapter 9

The rest of the morning went by quickly. Most of it was simply stories about their short lives together. Sunshine was quite the talker, but Nikita put in a few fun stories of his own. It calmed him down quite a lot. He had come into the chapel worried and stressed about planning the wedding and was now calm and happily enjoying the conversation. It was easy to be overwhelmed by planning a wedding, as there are many things that need to be figured out. But his job was to make it easy for them.

"Alright," Casimir ended the tour of the wedding location. "We covered many things that I honestly didn't think we were going to get to, today."

"That's because she's been set on having a wedding at this chapel ever since we moved here," Josefina rolled her eyes playfully.

"I was ten when we moved here!"

"Oh, but I remember when you first found this place and said," Josefina started speaking in Spanish, teasing her cousin about when they were just little. She didn't stop until Sunshine pushed her.

"Stop it!"

"I'll be sure to get the color shades out to you as soon as I can," Casimir shook their hands outside of the chapel. "It should only take a couple days, I promise. And I'll be keeping in touch with the both of you the whole week until I see you again next Sunday."

"Next Sunday for sure," Sunshine shook his hand. "We only have six months to figure this out, so we need to get things rolling."

"Of course," he smiled. "I've planned much earlier weddings, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. For now, just enjoy your time together, and leave all the stressing and planning to me."

He left them all to talk amongst themselves. Instead of listening to them, he decided to follow someone else who was walking to his car at the moment. It seemed as if he was done with the mundane conversations that they were having.

"You know," he caught up to the man easily. "I didn't expect you to be the Best Man of a wedding."

"I didn't expect you to be a wedding planner," he said. He was as cold with his words as when he was talking to him in the parking lot the day before. But this time, there was something different about it. Something that seemed to draw him in more so than before. And Casimir couldn't help but notice those dark blue eyes looking his way every now and then.

"I told you, I dealt with love all the time," he smiled at him.

"With how you always walked around, I was wondering if you even had a job."

"You'd be surprised by how much inspiration you could get just by some quiet time and an appreciation of scenery," Casimir told him. "I also wouldn't have met you if I hadn't been mindlessly exploring the streets. And I do think that would have been a shame."

"Other than today, I suppose."

"Well, I would have never known what you thought about love before today," he said. Then he turned away from the parked cars and looked towards the bride and groom just a few feet away. "What do you think about this couple, Mr. Valentino?"

Those dark blue eyes sparkled a bit as the brunette shook his head. He leaned on his car and crossed his arms.

"I'm not that pessimistic, thank you very much," he said.

"You were the one that told me love was just a tourist attraction here," he teased. "Or is there a twin that I accidentally mistook you for that said that instead of you?"

"Don't be ridiculous," he shook his head again, looking slightly amused. Then he paused a second and nodded back to his friends. "Not them."

Sunshine and Nikita were both talking to each other at the moment, looking like they were so excited about what was to come. Even Nikita, who was extremely nervous that morning, looked like he couldn't wait to be looking down the aisle, waiting for her to walk down it, and wondering what gorgeous dress he was going to see her in.