Holy smokes, what a day. Tony was on his way to propose to MJ and I was supposed to take care of everything else. But as I came back to the mansion, I was greeted by Jen from the boutique, like how the hell did she get here before me?
Anyways, the mansion was beautifully decorated with white lilies and pastel-colored balloons in every corner. I put my hands in front of my mouth in awe.
"Wha- what am I supposed to be doing now?", I asked Jen. "It's all so fucking beautiful already. How did you? ...when did you?"
Jen was grinning widely and instead of disclosing her secrets to me, she was taking my hand to pull me outside and into the garden. Chains of lights were hanging in the trees, a small altar was built up and there were four chairs placed in front of it.
Four... four chairs?!?
I looked to Jen again and her grin hadn't faded a bit. Then I looked back to the altar and suddenly there was John standing in front of me, wearing a posh suit. It was all surreal, like a fairtytale.
I couldn't get a word out when he smirked and walked up to me, kneeling down in the grass in front of me. This puzzle of mystery was coming together in my head piece by piece. I was sensing in which direction we were moving, but wasn't sure at the same time.
„What are you doing? You're gonna ruin the suit?", I said, making it sound like a question, which it was not. A totally confused statement and so out of place. But where was I? And what was going on? Could someone wake me up?
„I don't fucking care", John said and laughed. "Why would I fucking care, huh?"
I shrugged. Yeah, why would he care? As if he was ever gonna need to be flawless, wearing a neat and clean suit. He was perfect with every imperfection.
"You're confused, darling", he said and raised his brows.
"Yeah", I said and nodded. "Yeah, that's what I am."
He grinned. "That's good. You won't even wonder why I don't have a ring, why I didn't prepare a proposal or anything of that sort", he said with a shy smile. „This was like so unexpected to me, too."
I was ready to listen to anything he had to say, standing there with my hands embracing my sides, feeling like me and John were the only persons out there. I was dismissing the noises and the people in the background, partying. Noone else mattered anyway. I was ready to spend eternity in this perfectly constructed garden of eden that was the backyard of the mansion.
"Tony and I had talked about it and planned this. Tony and me, we're like.. we're having this complicated relationship at the moment. But still, he's my brother. And I am his. And we thought, what could be better than having this special night with the persons we both love so much. And to have this special night together, as brothers. But we hadn't planned this for tonight", John said and shook his head. "Surely not for tonight. And then he pulls this on me. Like.. wow."
I just stared at him and couldn't help but laugh.
John changed from kneeling on one side to the other and rubbed his grass stained knee. „Oh good god, kneeling fucking hurts", he said and then turned his attention back to me.
„Well, Sam, it doesn't matter to me which day it is anyway, because I love you to death each and every day. And I don't know if you already put one and one together, but I want you to be my bride tonight. Even though this is not gonna be a normal ceremony and we don't have a real priest. But I don't care about things like that. I care about proving you how much you mean to me and that I will never let you go. And maybe it's actually the perfect night after all, thinking about what has happened earlier and that this can't seperate us", he said and I felt my eyes getting wet and in the next moment, tears started streaming down my face.
„Sam, will you make me a fake groom tonight and be my fake bride at this fake wedding? I know, it might sound funny, but it would make me very happy and... and I need to hear you 'cause my knees really fucking hurt", John said and I went from being really touched to being really amused. I wiped away my tears and laughed. I reached out my hands to help John stand up and the 'yes' was loud enough to be heard and to make John lift me up in joy. He kissed my neck multiple times, let me back to the ground and placed his lips on mine. I felt so overflown with happiness. Even though this was not gonna be a real wedding. I never wanted to get married and this was gonna be much better than getting married in the classic way. It was our way.
John released me from his hug. "I love you so much", he said. "But I need to put together a wedding band now." I laughed and told him to go and find us the best wedding band ever. And I was sure he was able to do that.
Jen was touched and pleased with the first positive outcome of her efforts as a wedding planer and took me upstairs. It was time for hair and make up. And to make this night that started out so awful become perfect at last, she had secretly put my lilac dream dress in her bag for me to wear for our little fake wedding.
When the door cracked open and MJ was standing in front of us in her PJs, it was just the icing on the cake.
"What the fuck is happening?", she asked and we both laughed.
"Did you say yes?", I asked her.
She rolled her eyes. "I have broken up with him just recently. But how could I say no to a wicked move like that? Well... we're both getting married, I guess?", she asked as she eyed me in my dress.
"Yeah, you're damn right", I said and pulled out the dress I had looked out for her. Now it was time to get her ready.
