Natasha’s P. O. V:
I had been living at my Joey’s since the last two days. I couldn’t believe it how quickly the time had passed. Jude’s mom had come over and insisted that Jude and I shouldn’t be together till the day of wedding.
“Now you will directly see her on the wedding day” she had told a sulking Jude when she was taking me away. I was sulking too, I didn’t like being away from him but I understood. Old people gave traditions too much importance but Jude threw a major tantrum.
“Why do you have to take her away?”
“I have already explained this to you Jude I am not repeating myself again”
I shrugged and followed Mrs. Smith, she had wanted me to come and stay with them at their country home but I refused. I asked her to take me to Joey’s and I have to admit it had been 2 days of crazy fun. Sean and Wade would come to visit me but Jude wasn’t allowed in by Joey. She enjoyed it far too much annoying Jude so much so that he threatened to keep her away from me after our wedding. He only left after Joey threatened to call his mom. We spoke on the phone but it was just not the same.
Today morning I was woken up as usual by my phone ringing. I glanced at the display and smiled it was Jude. He had been calling me and waking me up since the last two days. Today was the D day, today we would be together and remain together forever and always.
“Hello?”
“I do I do I do”
“All I am All I’ll be”
“Everything in this world”
“All that I’ll ever need”
“Is in your eyes shining at me” (here I interrupted him saying “you cant see my eyes right now!”
“Oh shut up and listen and do not interrupt me”
“Ok” I giggled.
“When you smile I can feel”
“All my passions unfolding”
“Your hand brushes mine”
“And a thousand sensations”
“Seduce me ’cause I”
“I do chrish you”
“For the rest of my life”
“You don’t have to think twice”
“I will love you still”
“From the depth of my soul”
“Its beyond my control”
“I’ve waited so long to say this to you”
“If you’re asking do I love you this much?”
“Yes I do”
“Jude! That was beautiful!”
“Thank you, but Nats its not just any song I am singing I really do feel that way about you”
“I feel the same about you too Jude, you don’t have to think twice either I will love you forever and ever”
“Nats I -”
“I hope you have written your vows”
Silence.
“Jude?”
“Of of course I have!” he stammered which immediately made me think he was lying.
“Oh really? Lets hear them”
“No way Natasha! You will hear them directly at the wedding today ok bye!” and he hung up.
I shook my head as I stared at the phone. This was so typical of Jude to leave the vows until the last moment. I looked up as Natasha jumped into the room and said, “Your girlfriend is here”
“Who?”
“Ta da!” said Sean stepping in.
“Sean!” I jumped up and hugged him.
“So how do you feel about your D day Natasha?”
“Um I am nervous”
“Understandably so”
“Yeah well Jude hasn’t written his vows yet!”
“Why am I not surprised?” he rolled his eyes.
“What are you doing here so early?”
“Well I am here to help you get ready of course!”
“So soon?”
“Its never to early to start getting dressed for your own wedding” piped in Joey.
I took a deep breath and said, “Oh wow I am getting married”
Then suddenly it hit me, “Oh my God! I am getting married! What was I thinking? How did I , when did I ever think I could do this?!”
“Natasha!” yelled Sean, alarmed by my outburst, “take a deep breath, close your eyes, breath out calm down”
I did as Sean said and calmed down slightly. I sat on the edge of the bed chewing my lip nervously.
“Stop that!” admonished Sean.
“Ok what am I to do?”
“First you are to eat a healthy but light breakfast so that you have something to keep you going for the day but you don’t bloat. You need to have a flat stomach”
“I do have a flat stomach!”
“Yeah but when you eat like um like you do you are bound to get a bulge around your belly”
“Shut up!”
“Just listen to me Nats!”
“Ok fine but I am not starving myself”
“Its going to be a long day” sighed Sean as Joey giggled.
We went to the kitchen and I sat at the table as Sean made my breakfast. When he put my plate in front of me, I almost fainted. It had small slices of toast in it and a glass of juice.
“What is this?”
“Your breakfast”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes”
“No way I’d rather bloat on my wedding day”
“Trust me when the pictures come out you will wish you hadn’t pigged out on your wedding day”
I scowled at him as I ate my breakfast, I finished it pretty quickly and then he marched me straight off to the shower.
“Jasper and Gwen will be here soon so you had better hurry up!”
It was almost noon when Jasper and Gwen arrived along with Stefan the make up artist.
“Are you ready for your big day?” asked Stefan.
“No”
They all looked at me and then at each other at a loss for words. Gwen recovered first, “Oh honey everybody is nervous on their wedding day!”
“Yeah you should know you’ve been married thrice” said Jasper.
I couldn’t help I and I burst out laughing as Gwen glared at Jasper.
“Ok I see you’re in good hands” said Sean, “Jude need s me over there Natasha, I will get back to you as soon as I can!”
“Ok” I swallowed.
“Alright first thing change into something strapless” said Gwen, “I don’t want your hair to get ruined when you change into your gown, better still wear a button down shirt”
“Alright”
Sean came over and kissed my cheek and then he left.
Jude’s P. O. V:
Ever since Natasha had reminded me about the vows I was in a fix. How could I have forgotten that? I didn’t even know what to write!
I paced on the living room floor and kicked the couch in frustration. Just then the doorbell rang and I rushed to answer it. It was Sean.
“What took you so long!”
“Natasha was freaking out she almost backed out of the wedding!”
“WHAT?”
“Relax, I’m just exaggerating”
“What happened?”
“She just had a moment” he said waving his hand.
“Ohhhhkay, now help me write my vows!”
“Oh no no no no no. I am not doing any such thing! You are supposed to write your own vows so you will go ahead and do that!”
“But I don’t know what to write!”
“Jude you don’t have to be a writer or a poet to write your vows. Just write what you feel about her.”
“Oh God, I am going to look completely miserable standing there with no vows!”
“No you won’t! Now get going you barely have any time!”
“Some help you are!”
Just then Wade waltzed in, “how is it going?”
“I am getting married in a few hours and I have still not written my vows!”
“Oh dude, you are so dead”
“Help me!”
“Nu uh the whole point of writing your own vows is that you write them”
“Traitors!” they both shrugged and opened my fridge and dug into whatever food was in there as I picked a pen and a notepad and got to work.
I kept scratching out the notes I made and was close to giving up when I had my epiphany and I started writing non stop.
Just as I finished writing my vows Gary entered carrying his and my suits.
“Hey!”
“All set?”
“Yup”
“Gary did you get everything?” asked Sean.
“Yeah”
“Jude’s clothes?”
“Check”
“Jude’s shoes?”
“Check”
“His hair gel?”
“Check”
“Socks”
“Sean I got everything man!”
“Did you pick up the wedding rings?”
“Che- oh shit! I forgot to pick the wedding rings!”
“WHAT?” I yelled.
“Dude that’s lame” said Wade, “you’re the best man how can you forget to pick the wedding rings!”
“Told ya should’ve picked me” coughed Sean.
“I heard that!” yelled Gary.
“What?” asked Sean innocently.
I clutched my head, “guys stop it!”
“Gary go and get the rings”
“Ahem” coughed Sean, “the jeweler is closed for the day. Remember he kept emphasizing his shop would be shut on your wedding day so to pick up the rings well in advance”
I slapped my hand to my forehead and said “What the hell am I going to do? Natasha is going to think she is marrying a complete idiot!”
“Actually” said Wade, ” she is going to think Natasha is marrying a guy whose friend is a complete idiot”
“Hey!” yelled Gary indignantly, “I will get your wedding rings. Give me the jeweller’s number.”
He took his card from me and went inside the room to speak to him. After a while he came out and said, “he is giving me the rings! He is coming down right now and will give it to me”
“Wow! How did you get that grumpy guy to do that?”
“Did you know your jeweler is a gay?”
I stared at him with my mouth wide open, “No!”
“Well he is and he said he would come down if I would make it worth his time”
“What?” yelled all of us at the same time and burst out laughing.
“Dude seriously?” asked Sean.
“Yeah”
“Oh man! I guess you dug your own grave huh?” said Wade still trying to catch his breath.
“Oh shut up” muttered Gary as he went out.
“can you believe it?” I asked turning to the boys who were still laughing.
“Yeah that’s Gary for you”
“No I mean what do you think the jeweler is going to make him do?”
“Hahahahahahahhahahahaha” started Wade and all of us collapsed once again.
I called Natasha in between but her annoying friend answered and said that I would have to wait until the wedding to talk to her. Revenge is going to be so sweet I thought as I hung up.
An hour passed and Gary had yet to return I was about to call him when he came in through the front door.
“Dude what took you so long?”
He looked mortified as he handed in the ring boxes to me.
“Nothing”
“Gary what happened?” asked Wade trying hard not to laugh.
“Nothing”
“Did he rape you?” asked Sean and Gary glared at him, his face was flushed.
“Oh Gary did you sacrifice your bum for me? I asked trying hard not to laugh.
Gary went red in the face and said, “Shut up!”
“Come on! Tell us what happened!”
“He wanted a picture of my butt”
“WHAT?”
“Yeah he said it was for the lonely nights”
For the third time that day al of us collapsed into laughter as Gary watched us embarrassed.
“What did you do?” I asked as I gained my breath again.
“I got the rings didn’t I? What do you think I did?”
Wade and Sean started laughing harder. When everyone ha d stopped Wade started singing, “Are you lonesome tonight?”
And once more we started laughing, my stomach ached from laughing and I wanted to stop, I really did but I just could not stop laughing, tears ran down my cheeks as I clutched my stomach and laughed.
Gary glared at us as we stopped laughing and said, “We are going to take this to our graves, never ever repeat it again”
We all nodded solemnly and Sean jumped up grabbing his face, “Oh my God! Look at the time! I have to go to Natasha’s she should be ready and Jude you are supposed to be getting ready! Oh my all of us were supposed to be ready by now! Hurry up!”
We all scrambled up in alarm, it looked like if we didn’t Sean would get into the panic mode and none of us wanted him to get into that mode. Sean rushed about taking a shower and getting dressed and he left immediately for Natasha’s place.
Wade shooed me in and asked me to take a shower quickly. All of us rushed about getting ready as quickly as possible.
Sean’s P. O. V:
I drove like a maniac to get to Joey’s. When I rang the doorbell a very disturbed looking and barely dressed Joey opened the door.
“Why aren’t you ready yet?”
“Its Natasha!”
“What do you mean?” I asked stepping in.
“Well she was really nervous”
“And?”
“Jasper didn’t know…”
“Didn’t know what?”
“Seanie!” yelled Natasha and I looked up to see Natasha walking around in her wedding dress. Her hair was done but her make up was still to be completed.
“He didn’t know about her low tolerance for alcohol”
“You mean she is drunk?”
“Seanie you look sho pretty!” said Natasha pulling my cheeks.
I slapped my hand to my forehead and said, “This can’t be happening!”
“Jasper I was gone two hours! And you managed to get her drunk?”
“I am sorry Sean” said Jasper twisting his hands, ” I didn’t know she didn’t drink I had a little in my flask I offered her a swig but she drank the whole thing bottoms up” he said sounding impressed.
I wanted to bang my head on the wall I really did but there was no time for that.
“Joey make a glass of lemon juice”
I immediately called a doctor friend of mine, desperate times called for desperate measures, “Get a banana saline bag and come here quick!”
“Sean look at me!” yelled Natasha and I looked up to see that she was moving in circles watching her dress twirl.
“Oh Nats! Is anything about you ever average? Your life is so full of drama!”
“I know right?” she giggled.
A few hours later
My doctor friend came through and now a sober Natasha was sitting in front of her dresser getting ready for her wedding which was just an hour and a half away. She sat in silence as I looked over her shoulder.
Once she was done she twirled around to show me her dress. I gave her thumbs up and we quickly got into a car, crossing my fingers and hoping that this wedding would now proceed without any more events.
Joey and I were to take Natasha straight to the wedding venue where we would meet Wade and Jude. We reached there just in time and Natasha got out, Joey held her train. I pulled the veil on her face and whispered, “are you ready?”
“As ready as I’ll ever be”
“Here we go” I said offering her my arm.
She smiled and took it and we walked in to meet Wade who offered his other arm to her.
All three of took a deep breath and proceeded towards the altar as the band struck up the traditional song.
Jude’s P. O. V:
I looked up as the band struck the music. I looked in the front row and smiled nervously at my mom who blew me a kiss. She looked gorgeous in a green dress and dad looked very elegant right next to her. I smiled kindly at the matron and Natasha’s mom. She didn’t know she was here for her own daughter’s wedding but she was happy.
As Natasha stepped near I could only stare at her open mouthed. She looked so beautiful!
“You look wow!” I said unable to come up with something better than that. That small word summed it all.
“thank you don’t look to bad yourself!”
“Thank you”
Suddenly her eyes swept over the front seat and she saw her mother. She gasped and looked at me her eyes shining with unshed tears.
“Don’t cry” I whispered, “you will spoil you make up”
“Its waterproof!” she said sniffling, “thank you Jude it’s a wonderful surprise”
I shrugged her off and said, “you don’t need to thank me!”
The priest cleared his throat and began the ceremony and soon it was time for us to say our vows.
Natasha’s P. O. V.:
When I walked up to Jude my knees nearly went weak with how gorgeous he looked. The whole place was beautifully decorated. The pedestal where the priest stood with Jude was made of white georgette and had flowers all over it. The whole air was fragrant with the smell of roses and orchids.
The bridesmaids looked beautiful in their blue dresses that matched Jude’s eyes perfectly. I handed over my bouquet to Joey and turned to face Jude. As we were talking my eyes swept through the crowd nervously and I nearly fell as I saw my mom sitting there smiling at me.
I could not help the tears that came instantly and thanked Jude. I was lucky to have such a thoughtful and wonderful husband!
The priest interrupted our banter and began the ceremony. I looked at Jude eagerly as he began saying his vows.
“Natasha Blake I won’t promise you big things. I won’t promise you that I will never fight with you but I can promise you that if we ever fight I will never let us sleep over an argument, I can’t promise that you will never cry but I promise you that whenever you do I will wipe your tears away for you, I won’t promise you that you will always smile but when you frown I promise to turn it upside down, I won’t promise you that all your dreams will be fulfilled but I promise you we will fulfill new dreams together, I won’t promise you that you will never fall ill but when you do I promise to be there and take care of you, most of all I can’t promise you that you won’t ever be mad at me but I promise that whenever you are mad I will kiss you senseless till you are not mad at me anymore. Natasha Blake what I can sincerely promise to do is to tell you how much I love you every day for the rest of our lives and cherish you. I promise to one day start a family with you and take care and love each and every one of you. I promise to make you the happiest woman in the world just as you have made me the happiest man today.”
I could not help it but I cried and as I cried I was grateful my makeup was waterproof. There was not a single dry eye there at the wedding even Sean and Wade’s eyes were moist. I had to take a deep breath before I began my vows.
“Jude Smith I promise to love you and cherish till my dying day. I promise to look after you when you’re ill, I promise to make you laugh when you’re sad, I promise to stand by you when you’re down. Thank you so much for loving me and teaching me what it is to love and to be loved. I promise to be your strength when you give up, I promise to be your smile when you’re sad I promise to be understanding and caring. I promise to help you in every way I can to achieve your every goal in life. I promise I will punch every person who tries to hurt you. I promise to safeguard your heart which is now mine and I ask you do the same with my heart which now belongs to you. I sincerely promise to be yours forever and always”
“I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now kiss the bride”
Jude grabbed me and kissed me hard in front of everyone as everyone cheered and clapped. The priest quickly wiped his tears and joined in the celebrations. We cut the wedding cake and soon everyone was dancing. After my first dance with Jude as his wife I danced with Sean while Jude danced with my mom.
They were talking and my mom was laughing and smiling a lot. I smiled at them.
“Have to tell you” said Sean, “Jude did a better job on the vows than you did”
“I know” I smiled as I remembered his vows which were now video recorded and immortalized. I was going to enjoy showing the wedding tape to our children.
I smiled at the thought ad glanced at my beautiful wedding ring. The evening passed quickly and finally it was time for the last dance.
“Mrs. Natasha Jude Smith may I have the last dance?”
I looked up my heart beating fast and smiled at Jude. “I like the sound of my name” I said resting my head on his shoulder.
“Yeah me too”
I had spent the evening dancing with Jude’s dad, Sean, Wade and Gary. All of whom had complimented me on how good I was looking.
Jude had even asked the matron for a dance who had looked delighted as she danced with him. He also danced with Joey who had threatened him with dire consequences if he ever made me cry. He didn’t ask her for a second dance. My feet were aching by the time the evening ended. I looked out at the setting sun and how beautiful the beach and the water looked.
Soon it was time to leave and I was about to throw the bouquet. I turned around and tossed the bouquet. To everyone’s amusement Sean had caught it.
“Aw shucks” he muttered.
I hugged my mom, the matron, Jude’s parents, Wade, Sean and Joey before leaving.
“We need to hurry we have a flight to catch.”
“Where are we going?”
“To Greece for our honeymoon!”
“Really?” I squealed.
“Yes!”
We rushed home and I changed quickly and found out that Joey and Sean had already packed a suitcase for me. All I had to do was change into the clothes that had been laid out for me and get to the airport in time.
We just made it there in time for our flight, I put on my seat belt and waited for the plane to take off.
I turned my head to look at Jude and my breath caught in my throat, Jude was looking at me with so much love it was amazing. Suddenly he dipped his head and kissed me. I kissed him back and whispered, “I love you”
“I love too Natasha Jude Smith, don’t you forget it!”
Just then the plane took off to our destination and thus began a new beginning…..