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This is Really Happening

It was quite the sight, everything was. The beautiful extravagant decorations, the lovely music. I couldn't begin to express how overwhelming it all seemed; high ceilings and important looking people all around. I felt like turning around and bolting. Taking my way out seemed like a good decision. I thought it was just me, but Kaname seemed just as tense as I was. It all seemed to come at once, the reality of it all, wanting to consume us whole.

"We're getting married, aren't we?" I asked, quiet enough so that only he would hear. He cleared his throat and hummed, signalling that he felt the pressure. My heart was beating faster with every step we took closer to his parents and the wedding planner. They smiled at us even though I was pretty sure that even a blind man could see our discomfort.

"There you two are! I was beginning to think one of you was getting cold feet." she said with a smile. Right, she didn't know that both of us were completely against this whole ordeal. "Okay, so what we need to take care of first is who is going to be walking down the aisle." she informed us. Kaname and I looked at one another.

"Whoever gets to the alter first?"

"Oh, you're on, Kuran." I said with a smirk. We both took off, but we frowned when we realized that we got there at the same time. I heard some chuckling from some of the decorators. I sighed.

"How about, both of them walk down the aisle. It won't matter then because they will both have to do it." Kaname's mother, bless her sweet soul, suggested and everyone agreed. Of course everyone would say yes to her. "Kaname can go second because he's the one getting married off." Kaname rolled his eyes.

"Okay, everyone assume the positions!" the wedding planner yelled, making everyone scramble to wherever it was that they were supposed to be. A few people took a seat in the chairs set out for the ceremony while others got in line to walk out. I didn't know who was walking out or who was best man or any of that. Yuki nearly scared me to death when she took my arm.

"I volunteered myself to be your best man, seeing as how no one is able to approach you." she told me and I snorted. She wasn't wrong. "Can you believe this is happening? I've been going absolutely crazy over the fact that my best friend is getting married." Yuki told me with a squeal.

"Yeah well, its not the most ideal thing I've ever done with my life. I didn't see myself getting married to some prince of vampires, but what can I say? Upgraded." I joked and she smiled at me fondly.

"What about Kana?" she finally asked and I sighed. "I really want you two to like each other."

"I mean, we don't hate each other really. We just haven't exactly learned to like each other." I said, although it was a small white lie. With my own conflicting feelings and Kaname basically confessing his love for me just minutes prior, I could just about say that neither of us were exactly against being with the other, marriage was just a bit more extreme than we wanted.

The music started and people started moving up in the line, the wedding planner telling people certain things that were apparently important. I wanted so badly to roll my eyes as she told a kid how to walk properly in a wedding. It was all so overdone. Now, if this had been decided on our own then maybe it would have been perfect.

"Now, Zero, you and Kaname will be held in different places until you both walk out so you don't see one another. It may be far from traditional but we can still make it beautiful." she said dreamily. I wondered how much they had to pay her to be this damn optimistic.

And so, it continued on. The people in front of us in fancy suits and extravagant dresses walking arm in arm through the doors with soft smiles on their faces, attempting to look as if they were genuinely touched by the events to take place. I rolled my eyes once again and tugged on the collar of my black tux, because I had never been one to enjoy wearing such monkey suits. Yuki looked lovely of course, and she had a fond smile gracing her features.

"We're almost there." Yuki said as she squeezed my arm and took a breath. It was strange to know that I had my life long friend on my right arm, ready to walk down an aisle with me to my impending doom. I hadn't seen Kaname since last night, 'tradition' as the woman had said.

I remembered back to the point of this, seeing Kaname walking down very rigidly with his parents on either side of him. His father giving him off to me and seeming as uncomfortable as his son and I. The stand in preacher made us repeat the vows and we did with as much enthusiasm as a corpse.

It was when he told us to kiss, that everything kind of crazy. We just looked at each other for a moment before scratching the back of our heads and stuttering out random excuses. Our wedding planner looked like she was going to have a come apart right then and there because we wouldn't kiss.

"We want to save our first kiss for the actual wedding." Kaname had said with a clenched jaw. There were a few awes here and there as he said that.

"You two are so pure I can't even explain!" she had squealed, and that was the end of it after a handshake to mock our kiss. But that didn't get us out of it today. I took a shaky breath, my hands sweaty and every muscle in my body rigid as my heart raced with the possibilities. Would we even be able to fake it?

My mouth went dry as I seen that we were next, soft music of a piano being played as some guards opened the doors for us, everyone standing to look back at us. I gulped and began walking with Yuki, people I had never seen were smiling and staring at us. She gave my arm another reassuring squeeze that was completely discreet and I exhaled. I had to do this now, not turning back. We walked up a few steps and then she took her place to my left, both of us turning back to face the doors we had previously come out of.

My hands were shaking, and I was thanking my lucky stars that I was told to hold them behind my back while I waited. A few seconds later, the doors opened again and my heart nearly quit working.

There, right in the middle of his parents, stood Kaname in a crisp white tuxedo. His hair was a little neater than normal, and he seemed much more pulled together than the night before. When our eyes finally met, he smiled a bit at me and I just knew that I smiled back at him without trying. He looked at me and mouthed a word, "breathe", to me. He must have been able to tell that I was mildly freaking out. I exhaled finally. 

I couldn't entirely explain it, but it was almost as if everyone else disappeared as I watched him. I told myself that it wasn't just me that had to go through all of this, that I hadn't been doing this all alone the entire time. So that was possibly the reason why I could only see him during the short walk from the door to me. He was probably feeling the same as I had. They reached the bottom of the steps, his mother kissing his cheek and taking a step back before his father walked halfway up the steps, me meeting them, and him handing my Kaname's hand.

Watching it, it was like from a cliche movie where the princess was marrying the man she had fallen in love with and he loved her too. So magical, so pure, so real. I took his hand and walked him up the steps to the place we were told to stand. I had never really paid attention to what the preacher said before our vows. I found myself staring at Kaname while he watched the preacher speak the words from a book.

Finally, he took a glance at me and our eyes met. I barely remembered myself saying for richer or for poorer, or him saying in sickness and in health. I barely remember the preacher asking if we took one another to be our lawfully wedded husband, as strange as it still sounded, and I barely remember placing a ring on his slender finger, but I did remember what I said. With a deep breath and a plunge into his eyes, I spoke.

"I do." I said, and Kaname relaxed visibly. I couldn't believe that I did it.

"I do." I heard Kaname say as well, and my heart wanted to jump out of its cage.

"I now pronounce you husband and husband. Zero, you may kiss your groom." and in that moment, as Kaname stared at me with doubt in his eyes, I placed my thumb and forefinger on his chin, bringing his lips to mine gently, and sealing our fates with a kiss that I never thought would happen.

This is really happening.