Bound By Contract

Chapter Fifteen

Christina's P.O.V.

I could have never imagined something like this; a wedding at Disneyland. It is not normal by any means, but what it definitely is.. is beautiful. The Reverend Jesse Jackson who presided over the ceremony gave a beautiful sermon. His words I will not easily forget:

'Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. A couple does not begin marriage with this perfect love. The couple grows in loving and grows by loving. Love is hard work. Sometimes love will mean you will have to suffer, if not the love is a disguised form of selfishness.'

Immediately after Michael and I had finished greeting the extatic fans we changed in our dressing rooms meanwhile the fans were cleared out by a large hired security force so that for the rest of the morning and the rest of the day the theme park could be enjoyed by the entire wedding party.

Only Michael Jackson could pull something like this off.

We have the whole park to ourselves. People playing arcade games are given unlimited tokens, carnival games are free, even the concession stands and restaurants are all you can eat. It is beyond amazing.

"Let's go on that one!" I exclaim pointing up towards a large dome room.

"Space Mountain! That's my favorite!" he declares with a large goofy grin, which I stop to stare at, it's so cute. But Michael doesn't seem to notice and pulls me alone with him, racing along into the building and towards the empty roller coaster cars. He has this smile of pure joy on his face as if he were an eleven year old boy at Disneyland for the first time.

"This place is totally different with no people around. It's pretty cool. We could get on this thing a hundred times today if we wanted to," I point out.

"Yeah. But I kind of prefer it with people. To experience it like it's supposed to be experienced."

We sit in the very front of the roller coaster car and the ride workers come to check our saftey bars. "I love rollercoasters," he says excitedly.

"Disneyland doesn't have very many large roller coasters, Michael."

"No, but this is my favorite one, it's not the biggest one..." he started when we start zipping off into the darkness of Space Mountain.

When the ride is over and the ringing in my ears finally stops from his screaming, we head out into the park in search of another ride.

"You see why this place is so magical?" He turns to look at me, his puppy dog eyes almost pleading. "You do, don't you?"

So not to dissappoint him, I nod my head in agreement. "I do see this place as magical. I just don't think I had ever seen it though your eyes before."

He smiles broadly with satisfaction and tugs me along. "We'll be able to get on every ride!" he chirps happily, and I can't help but giggling like a schoolgirl myself, not having had so much fun in a very long time. And with all the stress from this contract and huge wedding, this is a welcome change. It's not time to think about contracts anyway. Not today.

Passing random wedding guests at restaurants and carnival games, Michael holds my hand tightly wherever we go, searching for the next perfect thing to do.

It is 8 PM and finally dark outside, I'm surprised that there is not going to be any formal dinner, probably because everyone had their fill at all the free concession stands and restaurants in the park to be hungry anyway.

"Getting everyone from around the park to one spot ot have a formal dinner, when this party is anything but formal is a task in and of itself," Michael explains. However the rides were scheduled to be closed now, and everyone was told to be on their way to the center of the park, where a lot of the guests had already started to gather around a large stage.