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Chapter 2 - Missing bride and bridegroom

As the happier and merrier moments goes on,arrives the time for presenting the couples before the altar.

With a frenzier mood the crowd seated within the church alighted from their seats to welcome the couples.

Usually this church holds a single wedding but today due to the request of this particular date from the families they were going to hold two wedding at the moment.

The couples are Erika and Matt, Jon and Lidia.

While the crowd is eagerly watching the entrance of the church,two families are in a commotion as they are calling the missing bride and bridegroom Mark and Lidia.

There family and friends are present in the church, only they were not found.It is said that both informed their parents on arriving separately by themselves but since the time is almost near and there is no trace of them appearing it makes all tensed.

While they were busy figuring out, Erika and Jon are completely devoid of any knowledge about this as they were waiting in there room.

As the clock ticks all are nervous and crowd within church too started feeling something fishy.Parents of Matt and Lidia asked there respective bride and bridegroom families to make their children to wait infront of the altar,as they made excuses for bride and bridegroom .

All is set for the bride and bridegroom to walk to the altar accompanied by the bridesmaid and man of honour.

Both Erika and Jon stood before the entrance with their dashing attire followed by elegantly dressed bridesmaids and man of honour. At this moment both felt eachothers presence so they turned to look at each other.A small glance, again they turned to their original stance.

He thought 'A beauty but can't compete with my wife.'

She thought 'Handsome but far from my hubby.'

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With the cool breeze as their comfort two people paced through the church towards the altar each step in sync with others.

All who were watching this scenes were astonished to look at the matching pair,each and everyone complimented wholeheartedly instead of being jealous as an appreciation.

But to their shock the bride and bridegroom got seated at the two sides of altar instead of standing nearby.They were dumbstruck with the change as the crowd thought in unison that these two were one of the couple.

Erika and Jon were completely unaware of the crowds thought.

Both were seated gracefully before the altar and they were eagerly waiting for their partners arrival.

At the entrance Matt's parents kept on calling him to get in touch with him but they only got a response "the number you dialled is currently not reachable". With this answer his parents Mr and Mrs.Lanslow feared about occurrence of any mishap to their son so they send few of his friends to find him.

On the other hand in Lidia side Mr and Mrs Thomas have already sent people to call their daughter but she is not found in home ,and they were informed that she already left home a hour ago.

Nearly for half an hour people waited patiently in the church but now with less than 15 minutes to have the marriage vow done even the priest is getting anxious with the crowd.

The most anxious were bride and bridegroom,they both felt too alone with their partners miss, also they felt the interogative looks of the crowd towards them.

Erika is dealing with turbulent emotions as with each second her heart grows uneasy and all her previous inferior thoughts started arising once again.

She thought 'I shouldn't have expected anything'.She feels nervous and uneasy as the looks of the crowd is focussing keen on them. She tightens her hold on the bridal flower given to her.

'Relax dear relax maybe he might be on some traffic. Yes! right he might be. Yep who would spoil their own wedding day. oh God! please make him come faster' she consoled her tense mind upon watching the altar.

On the other side Jon is anxious but he started to suspect something amiss with the unavailability of both bride and bridegroom at the same time. 'No how could there be an amiss she will come soon. Right God!' eased himself while watching the altar.

Both set of parents are now nearly facing a mix of emotions.The parents of the Erika and Jon were in worry about their children's marriage whereas lidia and Matt parents were in fear about their children's life.

Suddenly a car arrived at the entrance and everyone is expecting it to be either bridegroom or bride.

As expected with one of the door opening alighted Matt his parents were eager to rush towards him but at the same time other side of the car opened to reveal presence of another person in the car who is none other than bride.

Instantly all faces read shock as they moved towards them whereas, Matt and Lidia they themselves came towards the entrance in front of all the people in hand in hand.

They went towards their parents who were standing together with the other bridegroom and bride's parents and said in unison "we are married".

None is able to recover from the situation until they heard sobs from Erika and Jons mothers.

They were completely in devastating state as they thought of their children's.

Soon the news passed on to bride and bridegroom in front of the altar, immediately they were bewildered and considered it as a prank but still approached the gates only to become shocked, stunned, shattered and heartbroken .

The bridegroom's parents came to their son's support as the bride too got the same approach.

People were looking the broken bridegroom and bride in a pity.

Both Erika and Jon lost their stability to digest the news as they saw Matt and Lidia hand in hand.