In Drummer Heaven

Pink Ladies

I hate the fact that my best friend is marrying a guy who's favourite colour is hot pink. Dani's wedding colours are pink and black but god forbid we wear black dresses in church. Jadie, Rosie, and I are in bubble gum pink bridesmaid dresses and good god in heaven, I feel dumber than dumb.

"I think you misunderstood us when we said we loved Grease, we didn't want to be Pink Ladies." Jadie says. "If anything we'd be the T-Birds."

"I love this dress." Rose says and twirls around.

"Now I know why they think you're a ditz." I mumble as I look in the mirror.

Before we even get to the god awful colour, I hate what I'm wearing. I hate dresses and I hate girlie things, I don't know how to wear a dress so I keep pulling it down. I stand with my legs as close together as they can be. Now onto the colour of the dress, my mom always said that pink looked horrible with red hair and god she's right. I look absolutely horrendous. Tommy is going to laugh his ass off as soon as he sees me and then I will kill him and I will go to hell for killing someone in church. At least I don't have to walk in heels or uncomfortable shoes, I'm wearing bubble gum pink Chuck Taylor's. I guess I won't have to worry about falling down the aisle.

"I look ridiculous." Jade says and steps into the mirror beside me.

"Tommy and Nikki are going to have a field day." I admit and she laughs.

"I feel like a bubble gum princess." She says in a fake girlie voice and I roll my eyes.

"Rose is in her glory." I point out a nod towards her twirling around.

Before Jadie can reply Dani busts into the room with her big ballroom style Cinderella bullshit dress and she's on the verge of tears. Rose who is good at calming people down runs to her assistant and Jadie and I awkwardly walk over.

"Everything is going wrong! The preacher is stuck in Montgomery. The flowers are white not pink. The genius Bret Michaels picked up the wrong groomsmen suits. Bobby's is too big, Rikki's is too small, Bret's fits but is the wrong colour. My dress is too tight because I ate too much in Canada and everything is going to shit!" Dani finishes and bursts into tears.

"Darcy, uh, go get her some wine or tequila or anything alcoholic." Rose directs. "Jadie, go get her grandmother. Everything is going to be okay, Dani. It will work out."

I walk out of the room and towards the kitchen. I see Tommy standing in the fridge and I look down at what I'm wearing. This is going to be hell. I walk in and Tommy looks up and starts laugh.

"I look horrible in pink, I know." I say as I open the cabinet looking for alcohol.

"No baby, it's not that, it's well, I don't know what it is." He laughs and I sigh. "You look beautiful in anything but I like your superhero boxer better."

"Yeah me too." I smile and he kisses my shoulder.

I turn around and his hands drop to my ass, Tommy smirks and grabs my ass.

"That's mine." He tells me matter of factly.

"Really?" I ask and he nods.

"So are you hiding from Dani?" Tommy asks and I smile.

"She's freaking out because Bret fucked up and the preacher isn't here yet. Baby needs her bottle." I explain pointing up at the bottle up Jack. "Just this baby can't reach the bottle."

Tommy laughs and grabs the bottle off the top shelf, he hands it to me and I look it over.

"Yeah, this should be enough." I say and he laughs. "I should get back to Dani before she kills someone."

"Okay." He agrees and kisses my lips. "I love you."

"I love you too. I'll see you in about and hour." I tell him.

I go to walk out of the kitchen and Tommy slaps my ass. I turn red and turn around making him laugh. I roll my eyes and walk back to Dani's room.

I get back to the room to see Rosie and Dani's ninety five year old grandmother calming her down. I awkwardly hand her the bottle of Jack Daniels then go over to sit with Jadie. She points to the grandmother and laughs.

"She told me on the way here that if this lasts a year she'll kiss a good man's ass." The guitarist explains. "I tried to tell her that they've been together for almost four years but she didn't listen."

"D said she thought her grandmother could out drink Tommy." I tell her. "I don't doubt her to be completely honest."

Dani gets calmed down and the preacher shows up in just enough time. The wedding goes off pretty well without a hitch. Bobby sneezed in the middle of the ceremony, Rikki almost fell and muttered 'oh fuck', and Bret tried to blow a bubble with his gum and disrupted the whole service but other than those three idiots being idiots the wedding ceremony went off great.

At the reception Bret gets piss drunk with Bobby and Vince and goes to pass out underneath a table. Keith and Mr. Bradley stare down CC for most of the reception. Grandma Bradley is still talking about eating a good man's hat. Nikki and Rikki have made a sport out of bothering Mick and Jade. Rose hooked up with one of Dani's cousins as far as I know. Tommy and I are awkwardly dancing around the dance floor to Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith.

"Are you sure that you don't want a big wedding like this?" Tommy asks and I look up at him.

"I'm sure. I want a small wedding." I assure him. "Besides look at all the cameras and press."

"That's true. I'd rather have the small intimate wedding." He agrees. "But I can't wait to marry you, Darcy."

"I can't wait to marry you either." I smile and he kisses my lips.