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184. GOT7 Youngjae - The Seventh wedding

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Nobody knows how long it takes to fall in love. Some people think a few seconds is enough, others say it is a matter of weeks, while still others believe that you can't really be in love until you've known the person for at least six months.

If you asked Choi Youngjae, he would tell you that it took him seven weddings.

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Wedding Number One: Mark

The first time Youngjae saw you was at Mark's wedding. It was a deliberately fancy affair considering that Mark had made a small fortune through his enterprising business and his wife to-be was equally rich. The young couple had spared no expense. They had hired an enormous outdoor garden locale which had stone fountains, lush beds of green, beautiful flower beds and a little river that flowed through it with a stone bridge.

In such a romantic place, almost anyone could be persuaded to fall in love.

Mark had reluctantly agreed to let Jackson be his best man. After all, the couple had only met due to Jackson's convenient interference. It was at one of Jackson Wang's wild and raving parties that Mark had first met the woman he would eventually grow to love and marry, which meant Jackson had been walking around with a puffed-out chest and a painfully arrogant attitude while telling anyone within earshot that he was responsible for this entire marriage. It was only amusing for the first two weeks. It got progressively more difficult as Jackson shirked even the most basic of his best man duties in order to stop and claim credit for the entire wedding.

While Jackson was constantly describing the magical moment when Mark's and his fiancée's eyes had first met to anyone that would listen, Jaebum and Jinyoung were running around on the morning of the wedding to make sure that everything was in place. Youngjae had been briefly yanked aside by Jaebum, who looked annoyed.

"Listen, I need you to take Jackson and go to the venue early," Jaebum insisted.

Youngjae glanced doubtfully at Jackson. The man was on the phone, saying something along the lines of fate and knew it from the start while sounding extremely smug but Youngjae had heard the conversation a million times before.

"Me?" Youngjae whined reluctantly. He didn't want to be stuck with Jackson while he was being so unbearable.

"It's hard enough keeping the groom calm without this buffoon stomping uselessly about the place. It would be better to have Jackson go there and inflict himself on Mark's guests. Besides, we need somebody to make sure that the arrangements at the venue are all right. I'll send you a list of what should already be set up; the tables, the seating for the ceremony and the caterers van should be there. Oh! Also, the flower delivery guys should have finished by now so make sure they didn't do a sloppy job."

Youngjae looked at his friend with a pout. "Hyung..."

"Would you want us to slack off during your wedding?" Jaebum demanded sternly.

If I ever get married, Youngjae thought miserably. He was fairly confident that such a thing would never happen. Jaebum had a steady girlfriend and their nuptials would no doubt take place soon. Jinyoung had been in love with Jaebum's sister for a while now, a badly hidden secret that they were all aware of except for poor Jaebum himself. Jackson and Bambam had girls swarming around them and no doubt sweet and friendly Yugyeom would find some nice girl to spend his life with.

Honestly, Youngjae was left feeling rather bitter about his future prospects.

"Fine, I'll take Jackson-hyung and go to the venue," he agreed. It took a lot of persuading to convince Jackson to get into the car. It was only when Youngjae pointed out that they could greet all the wedding guests themselves if they got there early that the best man agreed that it was a good idea. They drove down to the gardens where the staff were setting up tents. Caterers were bustling about the place with the vans parked to the side and everything was coming together nicely.