Alexandra
"Eric, Eric. Please stop. I beg you stop" I pleaded with him with tears in my eyes and pain in my heart. How did this go wrong so fast?
"Eric please" I kept crying. Though with a blind fold on, I could still feel the tears trickling down my checks.
"would you stay still!" he shouted causing more fear to coarse through my body.
"Eric please. Eric…" I continued to cry and plead but it continued to fall on deaf ears. This is my worst nightmare.
"please… stop" I cried weakly, slowly loosing my strength as I had exhausted all my strength in my empty pleas. Then it all stopped and then I heard a loud noise, causing me to drift my attention from the current terror of my life to the direction of the sound.
"Carry on my wayward son, there'll be peace when you are gone
Lay your warry head to rest
Don't you cry no more"
My alarm rang two more times and was heading for the fourth when I stopped it. I took a minute or two to clear my head and another minute to sit up straight on my bed then another minute to get up from the bed.
I tried recalling what happened yesterday then the last thought that was on my mind before I slept came back to me.
"this was just the rehearsal dinner
What does that mean? Was it a threat? What was just a rehearsal dinner?
Was it a threat, was it a joke, a silly prank, was it a… what was it?
While still pondering on what it could be, my phone began to ring. I stretched my hand and picked it and saw it was Baxter calling. I sighed before I picked the call.
"yeah" I answered dryly.
"tell me you are dressed. That this dress that was just brought to my house is not the same dress that I told you to go see if it fits?" Baxter said but I would call that a shout of rage.
How could I forget I was getting married today!
"Snow?" Baxter called.
"yes. Well… I believe your house address hasn't changed" I said and ended the call. The minute I did that I heard a knock on my door. I went over to open it and saw Gwen standing in front of me.
"you have to stop breaking into my house" I told her as I left the door to pack y stuff.
"you didn't pick up your dress, did you?" Gwen asked in a mock tone
"shut up. Just take my keys and try to drive fast. Besides you are not permitted to mock me" I said to her as I put the last of my things in my bag.
"why not?" Gwen asked.
"because you are my bride's maid. Let's go" I said to Gwen as I dragged her out of my room.
"I'm driving you could at least compliment me" Gwen said as we left.
"you look nice" I told her.
"well thank you. All this is for you baby" Gwen told me as I closed my apartment's door.
"misplaced priorities" I told her as we hurriedly left for the car.
Arriving the Baxter's mansion, I first headed to the shower, paying no attention to no one on the way. I couldn't talk to my in laws if I haven't brushed my teeth and not shower. Not that I cared but we were supposed to make the thing look real and I think a woman in my situation would do the same thing.
After my shower, I dressed up in my under wear and tied my robe then went to meet the family.
"Alex dear, I can call you Alex right?" Caroline asked as I entered the living room and she welcomed me with open arms. Literally.
"yes you can mom" I said getting into character.
"oh my God she called me mom. Thank you dear. You look beautiful already" she said to me.
"it's the glow that says "yay, right now I could have this wedding"" I said and they laughed. I looked up and saw my parents and sister walk in.
"sister!..." Jessica shouted as she rushed to hug me. We hugged each other tightly and then I proceeded to hug my mom after Jessica released me from hers.
"alright we can do all of this and cry all the cry and shouts after the bride who is to be married in a n hour is dressed" Gwen said, cleverly pulling me out of there before we all dove into a God knows where kind of discussion.
We got to the room and the dress was a marvel. Beauty for my eyes to behold, crime for my body to hold as it wasn't my size.
Baxter was going to freak out
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1,2,3,
"ah…" came a loud noise from probably the living room or hallway, indicating that Baxter had gotten the information
"this is the part you should be pacing the room" Gwen said.
"just in a bit" I told Gwen. In a few seconds I heard footsteps. As the door swung open, I followed the same frequency and started to pace round the room.
"baby, you got to be calm" Katherine said.
"mom…"I called referring to my mom but both my mom and Baxter's mom answered.
"um, you ma, you're ma or mama. And you mom are going to be mom or mother" I said.
"ma, I can't be calm, the wedding is in about 45 minutes" I fake cried.
"dear, you have to be calm. You're the bride. If they don't want to wait for the bride, they can go to hell" Caroline said. I love this woman!
"I might have a fix for this" Caroline said and her and my mama left the room then I stopped crying and worrying.
"you should have been an actress; you are the one with misguided priorities" Gwen said with a smile and I chuckled.
"girl my priorities are in the right place" I said and Gwen laughed. And minutes later, the mama's walk back in with a gown in hand. Holding it up, it reveals to be a wedding dress. I don't know how they did it, or what they did but I had to admit that this was the only real feeling I had, had since I arrived this mansion today. That dress was really divine.
They excused Gwen and I got busy as fast as possible. She got done real quick and as she was finishing up Baxter busted into the room. I didn't need to look at the door but I knew he was the one.
"you need to be quick, you've got 5 minutes before the wedding is supposed to start and you are no where close to the church" Baxter said
"you are not supposed to see the bride before the wedding" Jess said from behind him as she walked past him into the room.
"please, she doesn't look any different" Baxter said.
"okay back up. Get your sorry behind out of here and to the church where you will be waiting to marry my dazzling sister before I break your bones", she said with all seriousness that Baxter left immediately. She looked at us and we laughed.
"fire sis, fire" I said to her.
"yeah, well I learnt from the best" she said to me, then moved closer to stand behind me.
"is Danny coming?" Jessica asked me.
"no" I said.
"okay" Jess said and paused for a while before she spoke up again. "I know why you are marrying him. I want to hate you for it, but it would be the only justifiable reason why you would relate with these people. I will need your kind of strength because dd may have to put a contract in place for me too if grand pa didn't, I'mma need your strength to pull this off. Lord knows" she said.
"Jess you don't have to be like me. Find love or whatever it is they find or call it. Don't hate man or all of that nonsense" I said to her and she moved from behind me and stood beside me., one hand on my face and the other hand on my hands.
"your pain is my pain. I'm not going to stop till there is a change for you. So you need to find love, for my sake" she said and we laughed with tears in her eyes. She sniffs as she holds the tears back.
"it's not a real wedding, why am I so emotional" Jess said.
"I could ask myself the same question" Gwen said as we turned to look at her crying. "Jess was god, that was a good speech" Gwen added and we laughed.
"okay, lets end this and just get going we are late" I said and we rushed out of the room but I treaded a bit lightly than others, not used to hills. We rushed o out of the house and then into the car waiting outside for us.
I was getting married!
Today!