WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY.....
Just like what the priest is yammering about.Yes,the folks earlier that the man in the tux ordered to get out,now scrambled to gathered in to her out-of-the-blue wedding.Who would've thought?she woke up earlier to wrestle a battle with the man she ever loved,now getting hitched to some unknown rich stranger as she stands there,watching the priest talks nonsense while her head is busy in her own thoughts of her suppose to be the biggest day of every girls life.She don't even have that butterflies in her stomach.She don't know anymore,if its normal or maybe the butterflies had already left her stomach or that thing they called cold feet.One thing she could feel was itch.She was itching.her feet was itching to chase after that pr!ck Adrian and yank every damn hair on his scalp for all the hurt he put her through even the guts of gotten herself into a marital commitments that wasn't really a commitment but hey! If she have to look at the brighter side,at least she earns it and after enduring the differences,she'll get half a million soon enough.But why the hell was she not relieve about the money?
She snaps back in reality when she hear the man in a tux ask in low tone
"do you want to change into something.....decent?" as she follows his gaze down at her appearance.She looks like a complete mess like she just went trough a great hurricane,with a rugged khaki jacket covered in mud,even all over her face.She's literally a collateral wreck,well metaphorically but she don't gives a sh!t since she was kinda urge her into this,so she just shrugs him off
" this is fine.covering all my private parts are decent enough besides,its not even real wedding so there's no use"She's not that against the idea of wearing a wedding dress.In fact,she even had fit into one secretly once in the hopes of getting married to Adrian but that wishful thinking shatters to reality that she would even one day hate wearing one besides the fact that she couldn't afford any wedding dress.
Thinking about the money.its not that she's that desperate for the money in offer.She's not a spendthrift,she wanna convince herself that having a money would be good for her advantage if this man in a tux beside her would only just use Adrian's name and not gonna do anything.If that's the case,then she's gonna do something about it.He was displease at what she just said to him.He was clear about the demands on each of both sides of their bargain but he don't wanna present a wife who wouldn't wanna do the first part of their agreement of being a presentable wife.He'll have to make her understand where she's suppose to stand after this since they both agreed with his lawyer that they will both respect each others conditions of agreement.
And now where they both stand,side by side in the aisle,in front of a priest as the UNUSUAL pair.The groom who wears a semi formal black tuxedo but with the bride who doesn't look like the bride,wearing a covered oversized muddy khaki jacket with jeans and a pair of sneakers.He really doesn't care what his bride would look like or what she'll wear but what bothers him was that so was she.It would irritates him a bit if he would size her down for the clothes she'll wear if he's going to present her in front of his grandfather.But She was too occupied with her own thoughts that she didn't even hear the priest asking him the crucial part of this long dreadful ceremony
DO YOU, TYLER KNIGHT, TAKE HANA OLIVAR, TO BE YOUR LAWFULLY WEDDED WIFE?TO PROMISE TO LOVE HER IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, FOR RICHER OR FOR POORER FOR AS LONG AS YOU TWO SHALL LIVED?she thought for a second What a weird surname KNIGHT but it dawned on her that she too will! She heard him answer in a deep clear voice without delay.
"I do" he answered it with full of confidence with his plan working the way he wanted to then he recalled her HANA.so that's her name.
After that,panicked was written all over her face despite the flakes of muddy makeup coverd her all over with anxiety when the priest asks her turn
AND NOW DO YOU, HANA OLIVAR, TAKE TYLER KNIGHT, TO BE YOUR LAWFULLY WEDDED HUSBAND? TO PROMISE TO LOVE HIM IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, FOR RICHER OR FOR POORER-
she glance to him sideways in that irony of rich & poor with a conflicting look.the obvious difference.FOR AS LONG AS YOU TWO SHALL LIVED?
DAMN the priest babble way too quick! She was still busy at the time contemplating.This made the man beside her narrow in deep scowled,sweeping his cold blue eyes to her that pressured her so instead of answering I DO ,she just nod at the priest.maybe for trying to convinced herself more than the priest.
The priest was still having a long additional sermon about love and all the sh!z so the man in a tux cuts him " kindly hurry up father before she change her mind"
She glared at him.How dare he think she'll have no backbone to get through all this?If he thinks of her of that way then she honestly think that he's hiding Adrian Hawke from her.We shall see.Playing house would soon be over after she finds out where he was keeping him.
The priest who wasn't taking no offense at all,even blushed for the groom's anticipation gesture.He was only the cheerful living creature who's too ecstatic about the whole event,bless his uncorrupted soul for not getting entagled about crazy complicated things of human affections.
After the Declaration of Intent,the priest was already pronouncing their marriage BY THE POWER VESTED IN ME, I PRONOUNCE YOU HUSBAND AND WIFE
the priest even tease the groom by looking at him slyly and gesturing his head to her direction YOU MAY NOW KISS YOUR BRIDE
The groom scowled even deeper while the bride squint one of her eyes of disgust from the state of her appearance right now.They both looked at the priest indifferently and instead giving each other a smooch,he extended his hand to her saying "...please do well in the future, Mrs. Knight..."
She in turn extends her hand to shake his also "likewise,Mr. Knight"
He smirk in a slight confidence that he pick a bride as equal as determined as him without half ass-ing;even if she does a moment ago,he'll have to use all unnecessary tricks to lure her instead of leaving a fool. He looked down at the ring in her hands while shaking and was secretly thankful that it fits her size.Finally,this thing's over and finally,his plan had just began.
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Short StoryHana Olivar barge in & kicked the chapels door blast open while cussing in different languages,searching for a man named Adrian Hawke who two timed her with her very own sister Shareen,hoping to stop a wedding between the two but instead finds Tylle...