Departure

Elijah

I get up early the next morning. It's only about 0530 when I decide to eat breakfast. An hour later Indiana wakes up and snatches the rest of my breakfast.

"Are you ready for your big day?" He asks me as he pours himself a cup of coffee.

"You know I thought I would be nervous for my wedding day but I'm not nervous at all. Whatever happens today, by the end of it I will be married to Lorelei and that's reason enough to not be nervous." I respond as I sip coffee.

"That's a good response, be sure to tell Lorelei that."

I smiled a little and finished eating scrambled eggs I had for breakfast. When Indiana is done with his coffee I drag him out of the chair.

"Come on, we have a two and a half hour drive."

"Fine" Indiana sighs as he washes out his cup.

I grab the bag with the suits and walk out the door. Indiana soon follows after me. We take his car down to the wedding's location. One, I don't have a car and two, Alivia is taking the other car.

After a long two hours in the car with Indiana we reach the small building that we will be getting ready in.

One half of the building is for me and my groomsmen and the other half is for Lorelei and her bridesmaids. Me and Indiana walk into our side and see Sage, Enoch and August drinking Bourbon.

"Finally you show up! I was thinking we would have to drive all the way back to the city to drag your sorry butts out here." Sage groaned.

"Well we are here now and so we can finally get ready." Indiana grins.

I toss the bag with Indiana's suit at him. He catches it and then walks into the changing room. 

"Can you pour me one of those?" I nodded to the Bourbon.

Enoch was about to pour me a cup when August stops him.

"Dude, today is your wedding. You are not showing up there with a fuzzy mind." August takes the bottle and pours himself one.

Sage hands me a glass of wine. I take a sip and realize it didn't have the slight punch that wine had.

"Non-alcoholic?"

"You bet." August smiles.

"Why did you buy non-alcoholic?"

"It's was after Lorelei had that pregnancy scare five monthes ago. We were in the middle of catering when you called up and said Lorelei was pregnant." Enoch explained.

"And then she wasn't." Sage answered.

"Oh."

I'm not sure why I wasn't informed of the wine situation but okay I guess we can have grape juice at my wedding. In about thirty minutes Indiana walks out in a suit. It's black like all of them but it has a red handkerchief.

We continued like this for about two hours as we all got into our suits. Sage's suit had a navy blue handkerchief, August's had a black handkerchief and Enoch's was a dark green. I had a white handkerchief.

Sage was the last one to change. That's when Alaina walked into the room. She looked beautiful. She was in a dark blue dress the color of the sky. It swept the floor as she moved.

She walked straight up to me. Up close I could see the extreme features her makeup constructed. Her eyes looked a lot darker than they normally are. I never realized how much older Alaina looks.

"Elijah, can I talk to you?" Her voice was shaking a little.

"Yeah of course."

"Alone." She probed.