Lover

Chapter 5: Chapel of Love

I knock on George's door he opens it quickly and smiles at me. I hear the rest of the guys inside.
"Where's Jimmy?" He asks. I turn around and he's nowhere to be seen. I shrug before stepping inside.
A couple minutes later someone knocks on the door. Ross opens the door and it's him.
"I got us all a suite." He says holding key cards. "To make it easier." He smiles. The guys say thank you before we all head downstairs to a restaurant. James sits to my right and George to my left. We order drinks and I find myself not knowing what to order.
"What do you want?" George asks.
"Hmmm." I think out loud. "I'm in the mood for some Italian." I say and I see James shift in his seat.
I finally go for chicken tenders and fries making the guys roll their eyes at me.
They talk about the upcoming season and to their surprise, I have a lot of input.
"You guys forget I grew up on a football field." I say when they look at me in awe.
They put in their two cents but mostly agree with what I have to say.
Kendrick orders a bottle of tequila and they say it's time to pregame. I'm quick to down three which is enough to get me tipsy.
"Have another." Ross encourages pouring me another and I don't hesitate. 7 will be my drinking limit. So I can enjoy my night.
I start dancing in my chair to the song the restaurant has playing in the background.
"You seem like you're ready to go." Deebo says.
"Super ready." I say.
They take it as the cue and soon we're on our way to the club.
It's very pretty and has a neon lights theme.
The music is so loud I feel it in my bones. We get to our reserved section and bottles just flock to our table. I have two more shots before I head out to the dance floor. I find a group of girls who are as drunk as I am and accept me in their dance circle.
"You guys are the best I love you." I say as we dance.
"I feel like I've known you forever." One of them says. So many songs go by before George comes to me.
"Come hang out with us for a minute."
"But these are my best friends." I pout.
"You'll be back." He laughs taking me back to the table. I see the guys dancing. I join Kendrick and George because they're obviously the best dancers.
James has his eyes on me so I make sure to dance a little extra hard.
The DJ is in the middle of a throwback set and plays Dj got us falling in love again. I let loose and see he's still watching me. He walks over to me and I decide to meet him halfway.
"You dancing for me?" He smirks. I shrug and decide to dance up on him. The song changes to a more upbeat song.
Some bottle service girls walk by and I notice one has a jar of that glow in the dark paint most of them are covered in.
I dip my finger in it and bring it to his neck drawing a capital K on it.
"What did you draw?" He asks.
"Guess." I giggle.
"Hmmm, was it a letter?" He asks.
"Maybeeee." I drag as I dance some more.
"You just got branded Jimbo." George says making us laugh.
"You branded me?" He asks with a smile. I dance away to another crowd and have two more shots. I find the girls I was with and we continue dancing.
"Katie." I hear someone call. I turn around seeing Kwon motioning next over.
"Yeah?" I ask walking over, it's getting hard to walk. I see James come too and I see he is equally trashed. I see some stairs and decide to go up them.
This part of the club is empty or closed. There was a sign but I ignored it. It's illuminated by the same neon lights downstairs. I see a couch and decide it's time to sit down.
"What are you doing here?" I hear a voice ask.
"I need a minute." I say turning around to find him.
"Why do you follow me?" I ask.
"What?" He asks sitting next to me.
"I feel like everywhere I go you're there." I say turning my body towards him.
"I don't know." He smiles. "Guess I'm like a magnet." He shrugs making me laugh. "Especially to things I know I should stay away from." I stop laughing and turn to look at him.
"You.." I drag before stopping. "We should stay away from each other." I say.
"Why?" He asks.
"Because." I say with a shy smile.
"Because?" He asks leaning towards me making me giggle.
"My brothers would kill you."
"I'm not afraid of them."
"You should be."
"Hmmm." He hums amusingly.
"Can you do me a favor?" He asks.
"Sure." I smile.
"Picture what your life would look like with me in it."
"Hmmm, it'd be a little messy."
"How so?" He asks. "You know we're good for each other."
"Based on what?"
"Based on how we act when we're around each other. The banter, the laughs, and the eye rolls. I want it all." He says making my heart beat fast.
"You're crazy." I laugh off. "And you're mean to me in front of everyone."
"What?" He asks. "I'm no meaner to you than I am to everyone else." He says
"That's not the point." I say. Ugh I'm feeling myself sober up. "I wanna dance." I say getting up and then feel how NOT sober I was.
"Will you dance with me?" He asks standing up as well.
"Hmmm, I don't know." I tease before going back downstairs. I see George pouring tequila down Ross' mouth and I need to be a part of that. I slide in and he gets to pouring. I can tell by how they quiet down they were not expecting me to be able to as much as I did.
"Ohio State." I proudly say as I wipe my mouth.
I see James laugh and dance with George. I see the K still on his neck and the words he said ring in my head. He turns to look at me and smiles, that damn smile. Promiscuous begins to play and I'm taken back to those freshman parties I went to. I maintain eye contact with him as I dance my ass off. He motions for me to go to him but I shake my head shyly. The song switches to another one and something comes over me and before I know it I walk over and bring him down to me pulling his face to mine and I kiss him. He doesn't hesitate to pull my body closer to his. One hand stays on my back and one comes up to my cheek. He's quick to include his tongue into the kiss, but I honestly don't care.
"OOOoooOoH." I hear George and the guys yell and laugh. "GET IT LITTLE BOSA!" One of them says making me laugh.
"Shit." I say once I pull away from him.
"You're not gonna throw up are you?" He asks making me laugh really hard.
"No." I assure. "But I shouldn't have done that." I say stepping away from him. He reaches out for me I disappear into the crowd. I manage to make it outside and I lean on the wall. I can still feel my lips tingling. I reach up to touch them and I smile. I kissed him. oh my god I kissed him it was all on me! Shit Katherine why can't you just listen to your brother? It's never been an issue but I'm so different when it comes to James and I don't know if I like it or hate it. Why do I even listen to Nick? Like honestly he just bosses me around and it's so annoying. I love him but for tonight fuck that guy
I go inside and have three more shots.
"Slow down." George laughs.
"I'm kind of sick of being here. Let's go somewhere." I say stumbling over my own feet luckily he catches me.
"Oh you're not going anywhere like that." He says.
"I wanna do something crazy!" I giggle.
"Go sit and be crazy there." He says setting me down on the couch. I lean to the side and I see James looking at me, he's still drinking I wonder how fucked up he is. I motion for him to come over. He takes a step and I know we're at about the same level.
"Let's do something crazy." I say as he sits next to me.
"Crazy?" He questions. I sit up and nod my head excitedly. "I'm so fucking down! You're so cool." He says turning to look at me.
"Come on!" I say and get up with him by my side. We're able to sneak out undetected and go out into The Strip. We walk around, see some shows, take some pictures with cartoon characters and then I'm so hungry I could die.
"James I'm so hungry." I complain. As we cross a street. He holds my hand tightly navigating me through the mess of the city.
"There's a Taco Bell right there." He points out. I'm sold and we head inside. THEY SELL ALCOHOL HERE!
"I love Vegas." I say sipping on a lime margarita.
"You're so cute when you're drunk."
"Oh shut up." I laugh off. I turn to the side and see a Chapel inside the restaurant.
"Excuse me." I say getting a workers attention.
"Yes?" He asks.
"What's that?"
"Wedding chapel, we do ceremonies here. are you two interested?" He smiles. I look over at James and he has the same look I have, we want to do something crazy.
"Fuck it." We both say
"Do you have rings?" He asks and takes in our looks before smiling. "We do sell some." We go pick out the rings before walking to the chapel.
We stand before an Ordained person who reads off the typical wedding stuff. We hold hands and cannot stop laughing.
"This is crazy." I laugh.
"Do you take Katherine Bosa to be your lawfully wedded wife, To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?" She asks.
"I do." He says looking at me.
"And do you take James Richard Garoppolo to be your lawfully wedded husband, to—"
"I do! I do!" I interrupt.
"Then with the power vested in me by the state of Nevada I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may now kiss the bride." She says. We lean in and kiss. The people in the restaurant watch and applaud making me laugh. I look down at the ring in my finger and at his and just think, wow I'm so fucking dead.
I remember eating a taco and then nothing else.
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I wake up and immediately turn to the side of the bed to throw up. Thankfully there's a bucket. The blinds are closed so I'm not blinded I throw up some more and sit on the bed. Why do I even drink? I go to flop backwards on the bed when I feel myself on top of someone making me scream. James' head shoots up.
"What the fuck?" I yell. "What are you doing here?" I ask pointing at him.
"What are you doing here?" He asks fully getting off the bed pointing at me. We look down at our hands and notice the rings, everything suddenly flashes back to me: The drinks, the dancing, the kissing, and the wedding.
"Oh god." I say running a hand through my hair. I look down at myself and see I'm in his shirt from last night.
"Did we?"
"I don't know." He says just as scared and confused as I am. I lift the shirt and I'm still wearing underwear making me sigh. "That's not definitive I like to just slide them to the side." He says making me scrunch up my face in disgust. But also that's funny.
"Well at least no one knows." I say with a little sigh. I grab my phone seeing Taco Bell took a photo of us after we got married and tagged us both. You can see how drunk we are and Jimmy has the letter K on his neck. This is bad. Now add 20 missed calls from my brothers. Oh Katherine, you really did it this time.