[2 months later--early January, 2004]
        Chin chewed on her pen as she stared at the picture in front of her on her bed. Sprite was sitting in her lap, purring happily; Coke was sitting beside her. "I hate deciding on things," she muttered.
        "I think this is pretty." Julie held up a magazine clipping that Hannah had mailed Chin.
        "It's okay, I guess," Sarah offered, scratching Darwin's head as he came to sit by her feet.
        "Too conservative." Cathy made a face. Kezia opened a sleepy eye and turned over, prompting Roky to do so as well.
        "Sorry, girls. I have to agree with Kat..." Chin shrugged. "Julie, I know it's hard, but put yourself in my mind," she giggled.
        "How about this?" Cathy grinned evilly as she held up a picture that Jenny had seen in New York and had sent a copy.
        "Umm...Where's the rest of it?" Julie laughed. Cathy threw a pillow at her but hit Sarah by mistake.
        "KAT!"  Sarah screamed.
        "Okay...That's it." Chin stood up and grabbed the two pictures her friends had just shown her. "Please help me find a medium of these okay? Not too conservative and not too... well... naked?" The girls burst out laughing. "Guys!"
        "Sorry!" Everyone stifled their laughter and turned back to their magazines. Chin sat down and flipped through the magazine in front of her. After a few minutes she sighed. Nothing.
        "Screw this," Chin muttered and stood up. "Let's go shopping..." she grabbed her keys.
        "Hell yea!" Cathy jumped to her feet.
        "It's easier just sitting here," Sarah whined.
        "Well, you'd be just sitting there as well... I'm the one trying on stupid white puffy things, remember?" Chin winked and grabbed Sarah's hand. "Come on!"
        "I'm telling AJ you called your wedding dress a stupid white puffy thing!" Julie grinned as the girls headed for the garage.
        "Do that and I'll stick you in ugly pink puffy things..." Chin grinned back.
        "Hey, are you gonna have it white?" Sarah asked.
        "Yeah, I forgot about that...you going for white?" Julie asked, smiling. Cathy grinned. Chin looked lost.
        "Why wouldn't I?"
        "If you ain't PURE!" Cathy giggled, running towards the car before Chin could smack her.
        "What do you mean? OH...you GUYS! I don't care about what white was supposed to mean ages ago...I'm getting a white dress, dammit!"
        "Oooh, does that mean Chinnie ain't pure for mister McLean?" Cathy crooned from the safety of the car. Julie laughed and got in, followed by Sarah.
        "Actually, I was--" Chin caught herself as she fastened her seatbelt after getting in. "Why do I have to justify having a white dress for you guys? Now shut up before I DO stick you in ugly pink puffy things!" she threatened as Sarah backed out her car from the garage.

[4 hours later]
        "Holy good LORD...if I have to go to one more freakin' bridal shop..." Sarah began to threaten but opted to collapse on a nearby bench instead.
        "I second that," Julie mumbled, sitting beside her.
        "Me too," Cathy sighed, joining them. Chin, thinking the three were joking, had kept on walking for a bit until she realized that there was no one following her. She whirled around.
        "You GUYS! Come on...this is one thing that you cannot give up on!"
        "Chin, I am not taking another step unless it is directed towards my car," Sarah replied calmly. "I know this is for your day, and maybe we're ruining it, but this is insane...Why don't you just make your own dress? You see aspects of what you like everywhere, but never all together at once. Designing your own makes the most sense..." she trailed off, her fatigue getting the best of her. Chin's face lit up.
        "Why didn't we think of that before??"

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[one month later, mid February]
        It had been decided that the usual March reunion would be pushed back to take place earlier in February on accounts of conflicts in everyone's schedules. By luck, that week contained Jenny's birthday, and deciding on doing something out of the ordinary, the group went camping for three days. (In any case, though it had been over a year since the accident and her amnesia had seemed to have disappeared, Sarah had yet to mention Disneyland, so no one was going to push it.) Nick and Lance put up a fight about "leaving modernized comfort," but were quickly silenced by their significant others, as well as verbal threats of physical abuse from everyone else. Over the course of two days, everybody gathered dusty tents from the garage, rented equipment, and stocked up the girls' three cars with sleeping bags and other provisions. Kevin gave Sarah a scare when he showed up in her room while she was packing and then insisted that she take a certain outfit for the final day. The food was packed carefully by Chin and Howie, with mentions of how on earth it would be possible to keep the supplies away from "the vacuums." Because the final day would be Jenny's real birthday, the decision was made early that someone would go get the cake that morning to serve as a birthday breakfast.
        Most of the first day was spent trekking up to the site (more than one person complained, but no names shall be mentioned for their sake ;o). The evening was spent fighting with the tents in the twilight, realizing some were broken, and trying to figure out new sleeping arrangements with the new shortage of places for slumber. There was also the event of almost losing the food down the mountain, as well as the task of working for a good hour to get the fire started and then almost starting a bonfire by mistake. Ghost stories well into the night followed.
        The second day was eventful, with Nick trying to teach Hannah and Sarah to fish, AJ and Brian attempting to "be manly" and blaze a trail (they got lost for about half the day), Howie scaring everyone because he thought he saw bears in their camp, which were Lance and Julie fighting with the tents that had collapsed, Kevin and Chin almost tipping over their rowboat and getting lost in a current, and Jenny and Kat playing practical jokes on everyone (most were let to slide on account of the birthday girl being one of the attackers)....the list of chaos was endless.
        The final morning, mostly everyone was dead tired and took their time to wake up and wander off to do whatever. It was hard to keep track of who was where. Cathy was anxious about cake and almost woke everyone up at 6 before Howie had taken her to sit by the water's edge for the sake of just sitting there in peace together. Julie had gone with Hannah to get the cake around 7:30--and had refused to take Nick because "he smelled like fish" (they were afraid he would eat the dessert before they got back)--so there wouldn't be any cake for at least another hour.
        "Hey, Sarah...you busy?" Kevin asked. Sarah looked up from the bowl of cereal that she had been picking at for the last ten minutes or so.
        "Oh, you know I am. I've been trying to arrange these lonely cheerios so that in some way they'll resemble a cat...but the evaporated milk is giving me a hard time, making them float all over the place, and all; I'm quite busy," she replied dryly.
        "Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?" Kevin laughed as he helped her up.
        "I vaguely remember something of that nature--let's just say I haven't regained all of my memory capabilities," Sarah joked. "So what's with disturbing my Play Time?”
        "I dunno...I thought we could go for a walk," Kevin shrugged.
        "Alrighty, a walk it is," Sarah agreed.
        Twenty minutes later, the two were still walking...though hand in hand. Sarah had tripped and Kevin had gone to catch her; once she was balanced, his right hand had entwined with her left one instead of resting back at his sides after he had grabbed her waist to prevent her fall. To their surprise, she hadn't given any physical or verbal rejection; their hands remained as they were.
        Kevin kept looking at his watch; Sarah noticed but assumed that he was counting down the minutes until Cake Time. At 8:30 he stopped walking. Sarah thought that that he was simply pausing to look at something and continued on her way. Only when their arms could stretch no further did she stop and turn around with the realization that he hadn't resumed moving yet.
        "C'mere," he smirked at her. She looked at him quizzically and closed the gap between them from two arm lengths to two feet.
        "Yes?”
        "Do you know what today is?" he whispered.
        "Um, Jenny's birthday?" she half-smiled, whispering back.
        "Yes, and..." He waited for her to finish the sentence.
        "And...?" She had no clue.
        "And it's an anniversary...our anniversary, you could say.”
        Sarah raised an eyebrow. "What you talking about?”
        "Five years ago..." he began, untwining their hands so her palms faced up, resting in his, "I ran into a girl," he continued, reaching into his back pocket with his free left hand, "and gave her these...who needed these." He placed four quarters in her open hand and closed her fingers over them. He saw the light bulb go off in her head.
        "You remember?" she whispered incredulously, half shocked that she remembered herself.
        "I remember everything," he smiled, his right hand still holding her left one. "What you wore..." She looked at herself.
        "So that's why you had me wear this?" she asked. Kevin smiled and nodded.
        "I remember your face when Jenny got you to confess you ‘liked' me...I remember your beautiful voice when we made you sing...I remember falling asleep with my head in your lap in the hotel... I remember throwing you in the pool and in the ocean countless times...I remember all of us singing to you over the phone for your 19th birthday." He saw her smile a bit. "...I remember your saran-wrap jokes at the Larger Than Life video shoot, you complaining about me videotaping you at the Show Me The Meaning shoot...the fear in your eyes on New Year's Eve years ago..." he trailed off. Sarah's eyes were welling up. "I remember how you looked in the car, how you looked in the hospital...the look in your eyes when I told you I loved you," Kevin hesitated, wondering if he should go on. She hadn't run away yet, but he was scared to death of her shutting down on him again. Her tears spilled over and his left hand moved to gently wipe away the liquid from her cheeks. "And I'll remember you as are today--" he began, their faces inching closer.  
        "CAKE!!!" Cathy shouted as she ran past them to find the others. Kevin sighed and Sarah gave him a weak smile as their faces were abruptly separated by a significant distance once more.
        "We'd better go before The Vacuums get to it, huh?" She slowly turned to leave. Kevin grabbed her arm. This wasn't happening. He hadn't planned this in vain. He didn't want to accept the idea that maybe all they would ever have would be their friendship.
        "Wait...we have to talk about this."
        Sarah paused, not knowing what to say. She had almost given in...Both heard the others calling for them. The perfect excuse.
        "Later...Come on."
        Kevin sighed and complied as usual. He let go of her arm and followed her.
        It was always "later"...Yet again, she was trying to ignore it, and every day it was getting and harder for him to do just that.

[back at the house after the camping trip]
        "I swear, I'm never gonna get married," Sarah sighed, flipping through the bridal magazine in front of her
        "Aww, why not?" Jenny chided, not looking up from hers.
        "I'd go completely insane trying to plan it," Sarah smiled lightly.
        "Yup, I can see it now: Miss Perfectionist Sarah admitted to an insane asylum on accounts of her failed attempt at pulling-off a Martha Stewart wedding," Hannah laughed. Julie nodded in agreement. Cathy rolled her eyes. Chin wasn't paying attention. The guys were sprinkled around the house, all sleeping somewhere, supposedly tired out from the "exhausting trip." The animals had found comfortable places with some of the males; either on them (Coke and Sprite sleeping soundly on AJ's chest and stomach), under them (Howie using Kezia as a pillow), or next to them (Roky and Darwin in between the blond one and the sleeping cousins). The girls, on the other hand, were together, ready to spend countless hours trying to help Chin plan her wedding (though Cathy and Jenny had to be practically dragged into doing so, wanting instead to cuddle up with their significant others, while Lance and Kevin had been willing to help, but were shooed away).
        "Hey, listen to this," Julie said, finding something interesting in an article. "It's about the wedding traditions. You know the bridesmaids? They are there, and they all dress alike, cuz once upon a time the bride dressed the same as them, so if any harm was planned for her, etc, they were there as protection, they were there to get harmed instead of her," she summarized.
        "Ya hear that, Chinnie? We are prepared to take bullets for you!" Hannah beamed. Chin didn't even acknowledge the statement.
        "Oh, and the bridal showers..."Julie continued reading, "The practice was started so in case the girl's family disowned her or she somehow lost her husband, she'd still have on which stuff to get by."
        "Cool, so then the silver cutlery set Chin registered for that I'm getting her," Jenny started, knowing Chin probably didn't notice her voice, "can be useful if Mr. McLean ever leaves her--"
        "Dude, if AJ left her, I'd have his ASS before he walked out the freakin' door," Cathy threatened, chuckling.
        "Guys, I can't decide on colors," Chin whined, her voice finally being used. "I hate this."
        "What's your favorite color?" Sarah asked her. Chin raised an eyebrow. "Seriously."
        "Um...purple."
        "And what about AJ's?" Julie asked, catching on.
        "Um...yellow."
        "How many colors do you want to work with?" Jenny piped up.
        "I was thinking three would be a nice number."
        "Are you partial to white at all?" Hannah inquired.
        "White is nice..."
        "Voila, your color scheme...that took, like, what, one minute?" Cathy laughed. A smile slowly crept onto Chin's face.
        "Purple, yellow, white...soft colors, nice," she grinned. "Good work...now I can actually decide on things--the color problem was getting in the way a lot."
        "So that's why you were ignoring us, not making use of this vital resource?" Jenny pretended to sound hurt.
        "What?" Chin raised an eyebrow.
        "Never mind...When is the rehearsal dinner?...Better yet, when IS the wedding, dear?" Sarah asked, poking Chin playfully. She yelped and shot Sarah a look while nursing her waist.
        "Um...I dunno yet? Stop giving me hell about this!"
        "We're only trying to help, Chinnie," Hannah replied.
        "So this is our next task...wedding date...lesse here..." Julie began to mutter. Cathy's eyes lit up.
        "April's special, is it not?" She asked Chin.
        "It has our anniversary, yes..."Chin mumbled. Sarah grinned.
        "Then that's easy; get married on your anniversary of meeting, or getting together, or whatever you celebrate that date for," she suggested.
        "Would AJ have any objections?" Jenny asked. Chin looked sheepish.
        "Actually...the arrangements have already been made for that date...like with a beach house, an' stuff..." she grinned shyly. It took a split second for the girls to realize that the couple had pulled a fast one over everybody.
        "You DORK!!" Julie threw a pillow at her. "You had us thinking that you guys were months behind planning all of this!!"
        Chin laughed and ducked out of the way of the flying object. "Well, it was supposed to be a secret! I couldn't just tell you guys...so I played along when you wanted to help..."
        "The nerve!" Jenny pretended to sound hurt.
        "Ok, I for one was beginning to get worried. It takes months to plan these things and it's February--I was gonna point out that April was way too close to plan for, unless you meant next year--" Sarah began.
        "Yes, yes, little miss genius; couldn't get anything past you," Chin joked. "But seriously...the main thing I did need was a color scheme to apply to our plans, cuz otherwise everything else is set, except our vows." The girls looked at Chin, their mouths open. "You don't believe me? We've been planning since September. AJ and I looked at flower possibilities for the tables, the aisles, and for the bouquets and boutonnieres; we just needed to pick the colors. AJ chose the suits and vests, I've picked out the bridesmaid dresses, and designed my dress. We just checked up on our wedding rings last week and plan to pick up our marriage license a week before the big day. The invitations were sent out a few days ago for both the rehearsal dinner and the wedding. We ordered the cake and will be meeting with the caterers tomorrow to look over the menu. We registered for gifts, as well as found a photographer and videographer. I made appointments for our hair, make-up, and nails. We reserved the hotel and tickets for the honeymoon. We hired a limo and found a hotel for out-of-towners. We booked the DJ and chose the music, arranged for a priest, as well as all the table stuff and tents for outside the beachhouse we're renting. We made the seating charts, too...and we decided it's gonna be a secret, no media if we can help it...Hmm, is there anything else I'm leaving out?" She smiled innocently.
        "The fact that you had us WORRIED SICK over NOTHING!!" the girls screamed turning in unison to Chin.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[a  week and a half later]
         "Why did we choose to write our own vows?" Chin whined, crumpling another piece of paper and chucking it at the wastepaper basket, missing the shot. AJ chuckled and bent down to put the paper in the trash. They were the only two in the house; Julie and Nick had gone back to their apartment, Howie had flown back to Florida, Brian was in LA, Lance and Hannah were at a press conference in Las Vegas, Jenny was in New York, and Cathy and Sarah were out getting groceries.
         "Cuz we don't like the default generic ones," he reminded her, kissing her on the forehead as he passed. "C'mon, this can't be that hard, right?"
         "Easy enough for you to say; you don't have a congested and groggy head while trying to write this!" Chin sneezed, cursing her lack of Kleenex. AJ noticed a box near him and threw it to her after he sat down on the couch. Chin looked so pitiful, wrapped up in her blanked, surrounded by crumpled papers.
         "Do you want me to help?" AJ smiled. Chin looked defensive.
         "Hell no! They're supposed to be a secret, dumbass!" She sneezed again, her hands groping for the fallen Kleenex box.
         "I know you're really sick when you cuss at me or call me names," he laughed, beginning to write his vows on his pad of paper.
         "You suck for being healthy," Chin grumbled, readjusting her covers.
         "You're so cute when you're grumpy and sick," AJ snickered. "But now that I'm trying this...I agree with you...it is hard to find the right words..." he trailed off. A few minutes and a few Chin-coughs later, he got up.
         "Where are you going?" Chin demanded, grabbing hold of one of his cargo pant pockets as he passed. "You're leaving the invalid?"
         "Whoa there, hon, this is not the time for these pants to come off," he joked, wiggling his eyebrows. "I'm getting you some soup. Plain and simple. Sarah said the cans were in the garage." He gently un-pried her fingers from the cloth around his leg.
         "When are she and Kat getting back?" She sniffed, reaching for another tissue.
         "Am I that bad of company?" AJ called out from the hallway as he headed for the garage, pretending to sound hurt.
         "Will you stop trying to pick a fight with a sick girl?" Chin yelled back, grumbling. AJ returned, soup can in hand, on his way to the kitchen.
         "But like I said...you're so adorable in this state," AJ laughed from the kitchen. He yelped when a couch pillow whizzed by him. "Damn, woman--since when did you get such aim?"
         "Don't piss me off when I'm sick!" Chin threatened, before coughing. AJ returned a few minutes later with a steaming bowl of soup. Chin's face softened. "Thank you, Alex...sorry for being in such a bad mood, hon."
         "No worries, my dear," he said, kissing her on the forehead as he gave her the bowl. He sat down next to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder while she began to eat. "Hey, wanna take a break from the seemingly-impossible vows?"
         "What's on your mind?"
         "The one thing we haven't figured out is who's gonna be what in the wedding."
         "Mm-hmm..." Chin made a noise, her mouth full of soup. AJ smiled. "What were you thinking?" She asked once she had gulped.
         "Your sisters are the flower-girls...the twins are too young for anything, but Zack can be the ring bearer...as for the other positions, well, I was kinda stuck."
         "Me too. Can I just have all Maids of Honor?" she grinned. AJ shrugged.
         "I dunno. I kinda wanted all Best Men too," he chuckled.
         "I would think you'd want Brian to be your Best Man."
         "After all the support he gave me when I was fighting with my feelings about you, yeah, I guess...But Kevin took care of you in Paris and I can never repay him for that. I could make him my Best Man."
        "You're talking as if I'm a possession that had to be protected!"
         "Hon, I didn't mea--"
         "I know, I'm just joking. I know he was there for me when I had all that shit with Rebecca, and if I could make him my Maid of Honor, I would," Chin chuckled.
         "Then let me make him the Best Man. Brian seems like he'd fit, but part of me won't allow it cuz he and Nick were so cruel to you--"
         "They had every right to be. They didn't know about Rebecca when I broke it off with you."
         "But still. I dunno. I guess I'm just trying to look for stupid things that will make this easier, you know?"
         "Yeah."
         "And I mentioned it to Brian. He thinks it should be Kev. Our big brother, you know?"
         "Yeah."
         "Do you have any objections?"
         "No."
         "So why the one-word answers?" AJ inquired. Chin had finished her soup and was staring at the coffee table.
         "Everyone kinda matches up when the go down the aisle, right?"
         "Yes..."
         "So if Kevin is your Best Man, that would make my Maid of Honor pick easy."
         "What do you mean?"
         "Everyone will want to go with their significant other. If you had picked Brian, I would have picked Jenny, and the girls would have understood."
         "Yes...so?"
         "So if Kevin's the Best Man, by pairing up all the others..."
         "...Sarah's left as your Maid of Honor."
         "Uh-huh."
         "And you don't know if that will go over too well, huh?"
         "Bingo."

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[2 months later--April 2004]

        "Man, you'd think I could play well for once, of all times..." AJ muttered, heading towards his ball in the sandpit. The guys had taken him golfing for his bachelor party. Chin had indicated she wouldn't have been happy with booze and a stripper at Kevin's house or Nick and Julie's apartment; the guys had conceded on the grounds that the same wouldn't happen at the girls' house.
        "Look at this. He's so nervous he can't hit straight!" Howie yelled out jokingly as the guys saw AJ disappear into the depths of sand.
        "Aww, leave him alone," Kevin laughed. "Let him enjoy this last taste of supposed 'freedom.'"
        "Freedom? That girl's had his heart since the day they met. You call that freedom?" Lance replied, smiling. Howie nodded in agreement.
        "Looks like we lost him. Operation Find AJ is now underway! BONSAI!!!!" The three older men whirled around to see Nick and Brian, who had been previously lounging in the golfkart, hit the accelerator and go speeding off in AJ's direction, golf clubs and balls flying everywhere as the items fell out of the back of the swerving, speeding vehicle. Kevin, Lance and Howie broke into a fit of laughter as they soon saw AJ emerge from the pit, ball in hand, come to the realization that a golf kart being driven by two maniacs was headed for him, and run towards the next hole while being pursued by Frick and Frack.
        "The girls would be so ashamed of this immature conduct" Howie chuckled and he, Lance and Kevin picked up their things and slowly followed the chaos, only having to listen for AJ's yelps for help.

[same time, at the house]
        "I wonder how productive the guys are being," Chin stated as she began to clean up the family room. The dual bridal shower/bachelorette party had just ended, the guests had left, and the girls were attempting to tidy the house.
        "Aww, she's so nervous she's not even thinking," Cathy joked, noting that Chin had just put an empty container of soda into the fridge.
"This is supposed to both Chin and AJ's last taste of 'freedom,'" Sarah stated, picking up some plates. "Let them be. And leave the poor girl alone."
        "AJ hasn't been free since the day he and Chin talked on the phone that first time. We all know that," Hannah laughed.
        "Chin is too frazzled to clean...Anyone up for a dunk in the pool?" Jenny nudged Julie evilly. Julie grinned and both crept towards Chin. Sarah, Hannah and Cathy heard a screech from the kitchen, soon followed by a splash from the pool outside.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[AJ & Chin's wedding day]

         "Oh my god, where is your bouquet?!" Cathy ran almost screaming through the room while Chin fixed her hair--Jenny had knocked out one hairpin while trying to place another one since the hairdo had gotten a bit messed up on the way back from the hairdresser's. Now the girl was in the closet, searching frantically for just two more bobby pins. Sarah was off in search of Chin's mother, grandmother, and sisters, the only other people in the house besides the girls. Julie was refilling drinks. Hannah was taking picture after picture after picture...
         "HANNAH!" Chin breathed, holding up her hand as Jenny reappeared with bobby pins. Chin and AJ hadn't asked Hannah to be the official photographer so they wouldn't burden her with the obligations of a wedding photographer, but she seemed to naturally take up the already-filled position on her own, at least for the sake of Chin's transformation from girl to bride. "We are already a few minutes late for the limousine--can you please call them or something?"
        Hannah nodded and ran off. Cathy showed up, flustered, with Chin's massive bouquet, before she realized that she had lost hers in the process of searching. She disappeared once more as Julie showed up, a tray in hand, full of the "orders" for drinks. Jenny promptly turned and almost ran into her; Julie swerved to avoid spilling the drinks over the dresses or the floor. Hannah and Cathy both reappeared a millisecond later, having completed their tasks. Chin, trying to remain calm, set to work reapplying the glitter on her face. Her hand was shaking. She smiled as she thought about how AJ had tried to stop by an hour earlier and had been shooed away because he wasn't supposed to see his bride before the wedding. He had been kept contained in Kevin's house or Nick and Julie's apartment for the past few days and had run away to try to get "one last glimpse" of his "soon-to-be-wife." Stuck on superstition, it took Chin's mother to finally oust the boy from the premises.
        Sarah finally returned, with Chin's female family members. With one final check in the mirror by each girl, the bridal party began to empty the room and head towards the limo that was to take them to the beach. "Wait!" Jenny yelped. "You're wearing 'something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue,' right??" she quoted the requirements that Chin had to be wearing. Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. Chin sighed and smiled at their concern.
        "The earrings, the diamond hairpins holding the flowers in my hair, the necklace, and my bra," she replied with the items respectively in order. Everyone gave a sigh of relief and continued walking. Chin noticed Sarah looking at her shoes as she walked.  "Hey," Chin whispered. Sarah looked up as they left the room together. "Smile?" Sarah weakly smiled.
        "Sorry if I'm already ruining your day..."
        "Pssh, no way on earth that could happen. I'm marrying Alex. Just that plain fact can keep me happy forever," Chin grinned, nudging Sarah. Sarah nodded and returned her gaze to her feet. They were almost out of the house--the others had left the front door open.
        "I'm still walking with him, right? Are you sure you want me, out of everyone, to be your freakin'--"
        "YES. For the last time YES. Hell, if all of you could be my Maid of Honor, I'd have it like that. But it worked out like this. It'll be fine."
        "Whatever you say."
        "Why won't it be fine? Dammit, SMILE. It's MY day!" Chin playfully whined. Sarah forced another smile.
        "Sorry. I'm being selfish," she apologized as she closed and locked the door behind them. They heard a honk and looked at the street where the decorated limo awaited, the other girls already inside.
        "Sarah, what would make this 'fine' for you?" Chin whispered as the two walked towards the car. Julie and Hannah jumped out of the car and called Chin in. Everyone else, even the driver, wasmaking celebration noises.
        "Who's gonna marry AJ??" Julie laughed.
        "Who's gonna make lotsa BABIES?" Cathy yelled.
        "CHIN!!!" All the girls yelled in unison as the bride turned a noticeable crimson and got into the car. Sarah followed and closed the door. The others were still giggling and talking away.
        "...If he didn't love me," she murmured an answer to Chin's question, too low for anyone to hear.

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