The Criminal Diaries

      A little time to go until the wedding of Terrence and Raquelle and Edward and Natalia. Their family and friends cannot wait for it, and they are getting ready for that day very actively and helping the soon-to-be groom and bride. And several days before the wedding, the grooms and brides came together with their friends at a bachelor and bachelorette party. Natalia and Raquelle are spending time with their friends on a gorgeous yacht that was rented especially for this event. Not only did Helene and Anna come, but also Blair, Jessica, Cassidy, two school friends of Rochester from her old school, Olivia, Emma, and Odette. The weather is very good today: the air is quite warm, no clouds in the sky, and the sun is shining brightly. All the girls put their hair into a ponytail or bun, put on comfortable summer clothes, and did not forget about the most beautiful swimsuits they have in their closets, going to take a lot of pictures against the views they can see from the yacht that is slowly cruising far from the busy city.       “God, Kylie, it looks so cool!” Cassidy admires, looking at the short violet hair of the gray-eyed girl she called Kylie with a wide smile and a gloss in the eyes.       “I wouldn’t find the courage to dye all my hair to this color,” Blair confesses, starting to look at the pink, turquoise, orange, and yellow strands of the brown-eyed light-brunette. “But I really like the strands that Melissa has. I would try to get them.”       “You can’t dye your hair!” Kylie replies with a slight smile. “You can buy colorful strands and pin them on your hair. Like fake hair. It would look very beautiful. You’d show off and then take them off.”       “And if you are shy or don’t wanna dye, there are wigs,” Melissa notices. “Kylie had been playing with them some time before she decided to dye her hair for the first time.”       “Great, girls!” Cassidy exclaims happily, looking at the hair of Melissa and Kylie with a wide smile and shining eyes. “I want the same one! I madly like it!”       “Agree, it looks very beautiful,” Anna replies with a slight smile, leaning back on the sofa on the deck of the yacht. “But the question is, whether your brother allows you to dye your hair.”       “You think I’d ask him?” Cassidy chuckles loudly. “Come on! He shouldn’t think he’s a lord who decides everything!”       “I think he could let you do it,” Helene assumes with a slight smile. “It looks very beautiful and fresh. I really love it. Although I’m not a lover of radical changes, I like these experiments.”       “Besides, you can wash off colorful pants after washing your head two or three times,” Olivia notices confidently. “And they don’t harm your hair at all.”       “Yeah, that’s why I often experiment with colors,” Kylie adds. “A couple of weeks ago, I had bright pink hair, and now I have violet hair.”       “Cool, girls!” Odette exclaims. “Very cool!”       “Hey, I remember Natalia had some colorful strands,” Raquelle says thoughtfully. “Seems like they were pink…”       “That was a fake,” Natalia smiles shyly. “Saw something like that in a magazine and decided to play. So, I bought… It looked very good. I’m thinking of putting them on and wearing them for a while again.”       “I wouldn’t mind playing with wigs and fake strands,” Jessica confesses. “Of course, I like being a blonde, but as people say, sometimes we want change.”       “Hey, Natalia, don’t you have some wigs and fake strands?” Blair asks.       “I have strands but can’t remember where they are,” Natalia replies quietly, fixing her hair. “And honestly, I hadn’t called the memories about the colorful strands before I met Kylie and Mel.”       “Our teachers would’ve probably kicked us out of lessons if we’d shown up like that,” Melissa assumes with a quiet chuckle. “Our grumpy head teacher would’ve been especially mad.”       “That’s right, they’ve called our parents and swore at them for us having that shit on our heads,” Kylie chuckles kindly. “He would’ve said girls must’ve been girls and dyed their hair to ‘normal’ colors.”       “There was one girl with bright pink hair at my school,” Cassidy confesses. “She wasn’t studying with me and was much older, but I knew her well.”       “Oh, there was a girl with purple hair in my class,” Emma confesses.       “Actually, that girl did not always have that hair and dyed it during the summer holidays in grade eight or nine. So, she went to school like that on the first day after the holidays. The guys liked it and wanted the same. But the school staff started a scandal! Kinda what the hell you did to you! She was almost wanted to be kicked out, but everything went over well eventually, and she dyed her hair a different color. Went to school like that and put on fake strands outside.”       “Oh, you know how they swore at us because of makeup!” Melissa exclaims. “Somehow, Kylie and I came to school with barely noticeable eye arrows and little mascara on our eyelashes. They started such a scandal! As if we committed a crime! And they took us to a dressing room and made us clean off the cosmetics. Even if we had makeup before! But we took that scandal for the first time!”       “Yeah, we just wanted to make our eyes more expressive,” Kylie confesses. “Decides to try a different makeup.”       “Well, I dunno, I was studying at school where nobody cared how you looked,” Olivia confesses. “The important thing is not to be naked. Well, you could wear what you wanted – even a robe and slippers/”       “Me too,” Odette says confidently. “Nobody cared about what you wore at my school.”       “And I did a makeup when going to my other school, and nobody cared,” Natalia replies quietly. “Not bright, of course. So, to hide my big brunches from getting not enough sleep under my eyes and not to look like a white mat. Nobody ever swore for makeup and clothes, but many people dressed up like for a party.”       “Oh, friend, that’s good you left our school!” Kylie exclaims, putting a hand on her heart. “After you left the school, all of our teachers and the head teacher were replaced. I don’t know why it happened, but our favorite teachers got fired. You know what kind of hell started!”       “Didn’t you leave your school?” Anna gets surprised.       “No, we were studying there ‘til the end,” Melissa slightly shakes her head. “But we would’ve rather done what Natalia did and found a new school… My father offered me to go to a better school, but I was an idiot ‘cause I refused. Didn’t wanna separate from my friends. And the way to the school where Dad wanted me to go was very hard. But my school was near me.”       “You know, Mel, my life at my school wasn’t sweet, either,” Natalia confesses. “There was our queen, who turned everybody against Raquelle and me and forced us to start studying at home. It started with just bad swearing, but ended with an attempt to frame us and blame us for theft.”       “It’s true,” Helene confirms. “Everybody took her for many years, but then the guys got sick of the tricks of that madam and decided to kick that girl with her gun. We annoyed her so much that she left school and actually went to another city.”       “But our classmates and we were amicable,” Kylie replies thoughtfully. “Melissa and I still speak to many guys from the school.”       “About the classmates, not about the teachers,” Melissa specifies. “When we meet them, we either pretend that we don’t know them or just say hello and keep moving on.”       “But no matter what, the school time was cool,” Odette notices.       “Agree.”       “And you, Blondie?” Kylie asks Natalia. “Have you spoken to someone after leaving the school?”       “Nope, I lost my contacts with all the guys after leaving that school,” Natalia shakes her head.       “By the way, the guys often talked about the memories of you from school years and were sad ‘cause you forgot about them at all.”       “Yes, Blondie, we all missed you, but you forgot about us!” Melissa exclaims.       “I’m sorry, girls,” Natalia apologizes shyly. “I’m sorry about what happened…”       “But since you met Natalia, you can tell someone from your school about it,” Helene notices with a slight smile. “What if many more people arrive at her wedding…”       “Oh, girls!” Melissa exclaims happily. “We’re so happy Natalia is gonna get married soon!”       “That’s right!” Kylie agrees. “Finally, our blonde found her sweetheart.”       “And we’re madly happy our brunette is gonna get married, too,” Olivia confesses.       “To the man of a dream!” Emma smiles mysteriously.       “Terrence MacClife himself!” Odette exclaims.       “Finally!” Jessica raises her hands. “I thought we’d never live until their wedding day.”       “I must confess that I’m a little amazed that Natalia didn’t get married much earlier,” Kylie confesses. “The boys from our class said she was the most beautiful girl among all the girls.”       “But now she has grown up and become more beautiful!” Melissa adds.       “Natalia had many admirers,” Raquelle confesses. “But they didn’t deserve to be with her. Someone cared about her parents’ money. Someone saw a beautiful sexual doll about her. Nobody loved her truly.”       “But the wait was worth it, and she met the real prince,” Cassidy notices happily. “Edward is such a cool guy! I’m sure he’s gonna be a wonderful husband to Natalia.”       “That’s good Natalia is gonna be a part of the famous MacClife family,” Jessica says cheerfully. “She’s gonna be a sister-in-law of Terrence MacClife himself! So cool! Not any girl would be so lucky.”       “Trust me, Jessica, I also never thought I’d become his wife soon,” Raquelle replies with a shy smile. “The wife of the one I didn’t get on well with at first.”       “At least your family won’t resent that you’re living with him without a marriage,” Blair notices with a slight smile. “By proposing to you, Terrence proved that he wasn’t surely gonna replace you with anyone and loves you with all his heart.”       “Yeah, I found my prince on a white horse.”       “That’s right!” Anna exclaims with a wide smile. “And on the wedding day, the girls are gonna be real princesses.”       “Oh, yeah, the guys are gonna go crazy when they see our beauties in the gorgeous wedding dresses they picked up,” Helene replies confidently. “And with that fabulous hair and that wonderful makeup… M-m-m…”       “You know, my darling, judging all of your stories, we can believe the guys go crazy even when the girls wear something simple and modest,” Melissa notices with a mysterious smile.       “And it’s true,” Cassidy confirms with a slight smile. “Edward and Terrence love when you have a little bit of everything.”       “Ah, it’s cool when a man loves natural beauty,” Kylie replies with a wide smile. “There is no wish to scare him by your face after washing off your makeup that would make you an ‘eternal beauty.’ I know a couple of gals who look gorgeous with makeup but ugly without it. They know it and never show their real faces. So, men fall into a stupor and run away from them.”       “Don’t worry, Kylie, Edward will not run away,” Natalia smiles shyly. “When we met, I didn’t almost have a makeup. And I didn’t put too much makeup when we went on dates ‘cause I wasn’t gonna seduce him.”       “That’s wonderful!” Jessica exclaims. “That’s good you prepared him earlier, before a wedding. Well, I must confess you don’t need a makeup ‘cause you’re beautiful without it.”       “Oh, gosh, I still can’t believe I’m gonna get married in a couple of weeks. I’m so excited and worried about how it would be.”       “Are you afraid of short changes that you’d experience after getting married?” Cassidy asks. “Leaving your parents’ home, moving to your husband’s one and something like that…”       “Of course, I am. But I’m actually accepting these changes positively. Yes, it’s gonna be sad to leave my parents, but I can’t wait for the day I start living with Edward. When we fall asleep and wake up together.”       “I also felt sad for some time when I left my grandfather,” Raquelle confesses. “I was yearning for that and couldn’t call our home my place. It was like I was a guest. But after our reconciliation, I began to get used to it and to think the place where I’m living is my home.”       “Someday we all would have to get through it, girls,” Blair notices with a slight smile. “We’d leave our parents and those who educated us, to live with our husbands.”       “Well, I wouldn’t have to get used to it ‘cause I’m living with Daniel,” Anna throws her hands up with a slight smile. “And I feel like I’m kinda married to him.”       “Someday you’ll really get married to him, darling,” Natalia replies with a slight smile, caressing Anna’s shoulder. “And we’d be happy when having fun at your bachelorette.”       “Someday it will happen…” Anna smiles shyly. “But first, we need to send you and Raquelle to married life. And give you to Edward and Terrence’s hands.”       “Trustful hands,” Raquelle fixes confidently.       “Anyway, let’s announce our party in honor of the bachelorette officially open,” Helene suggests cheerfully.       “The party is on!” Natalia says funnily, raising her hand up.       “Let’s have fun to the fullest!” Raquelle exclaims.       “Yea-a-a-ah!” Cassidy happily whoops with a wide smile. “Turn on the music at full volume and bring the food and drinks here!”       “And let’s think about what to do now,” Kylie says confidently. “Taking pictures against the ocean, sitting on the deck, or dancing?”       “And we can swim,” Melissa suggests cheerfully. “Start a competition for the best jump in the water or something like this.”       “Let’s decide what to drink and eat,” Natalia says confidently. “We’re offered so much that our eyes are running from side to side.”       “And see which music we can turn on,” Helene says confidently, getting up from the sofa.       “Is there something danceable to dance along with?” Melissa asks funnily, getting up from the sofa in a jump. “I wanna move a little!”       “There must be,” Natalia pronounces, going aside along with Raquelle and Anna. “We’ll pick up something now!”       “C’mon, girls, bring ‘em here,” Cassidy jabs funnily, getting up from the sofa and jumping at the same place cheerfully. “We’ll check everything!”       “Hey, are we gonna have some cocktails today?” Jessica asks loudly. “Alcohol or non-alcohol?”       “There’s everything you want,” Anna replies. “I will ask them to bring glasses here.”       “Oh, yeah!” Blair exclaims, moving unnecessary things off the table. “Bring the food, champagne, and something like that!”       “Girls, Helene brought the discs,” Kylie says loudly. “We’ll see what to listen to!”       “It’s just a part,” Helene confesses, coming back with a bunch of musical CDs. “If nothing is good, I will bring the others.”       Cassidy runs to Helene, takes all the CDs, sits on the floor, and puts them on the sofa, while Kylie, Melissa, and Blair join her.       “Oh, I had this CD!” Melissa exclaims happily, taking one of the CDs that was released a long time ago. “I listened to this one thousand times when I was a baby.”       “Me too!” Odette smiles widely.       “Aw, it’s the album of my childhood!” Emma confesses.       “Wow, how many familiar songs!” Olivia exclaims.       “And I adore this song!” Blair wonders, examining the list of songs on one of the CDs. “It’s so cool!”       “Seems like the CD that is closer to Cassidy has many songs we could listen to now while eating and drinking,” Helene says.       “Wow, there is even a CD of Brianna Armstrong!” Kylie exclaims loudly, happily, taking one of the CDs. “Damn, it’s her new album! Oh, I adore it…”       “Yeah, the girls and I love her. And the men know Brianna very well and often run into her on shows.”       “Really?” Olivia cannot believe it. “The men know Brianna herself?”       “They do!” Anna exclaims.       “Hey, why didn’t you say anything before?” Emma wonders.       “Sorry…”       “How did they meet her?”       “She is a cousin of the girl Daniel and Peter used to work with.”       “Cool!” Cassidy exclaims happily. “I don’t know Brie well, but Daniel let me listen to a couple of her songs, and I literally fell in love.”       “She’s really cool!” Jessica smiles widely. “But if there were an album of our incomparable ‘Against The System,’ it would be an amazing collection.”       “Oh, yeah!” Helene replies cheerfully. “The lads’ album is the most important one that we must have in our collection!”       “It’s okay, soon we’ll get a chance to add their album to our collections,” Raquelle says confidently, while some people come to the girls with two plates of different food in their hands. “Go to a store and buy their creature on the first day.”       “I’ve already saved my money for that,” Blair confesses with a slight smile. “When the album is out, I will go buy it.”       “Oh, I’d go to buy this masterpiece even at night!” Natalia says cheerfully.       “But before their album is out, let’s pick up something from what we have,” Olivia suggests.       “Yeah, there is so much interesting about it!” Odette notices. “You just look! We wouldn’t have enough time to listen to these discs!”       The girls examine the list of songs on every single CD closely, discuss it, and decide what to listen to first. And after the service staff brings the food and drinks and puts them on the table, they start talking about the plan for today, feeling like home, and getting along with each other since they found a common language with those they met some time ago.       

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      Terrence and Edward came together with all their friends at the bachelor's party, for which a large yacht was rented, and a service staff was hired. Just like the girls, the men have a wonderful mood and are going to have a lot of fun today. They put on t-shirts, sleeveless ones, and short pants, and everybody did not forget about swimming shorts. The guests of the bachelor are Peter, Daniel, Jeremy, William, Christopher, Kevin, Benjamin, Blake, Ryan, Joseph, and Cody. And of course, Sammy, who got the love of all the men and took a special place in their hearts, judging by the fact that they are happy to pay attention to him and feed him with something tasty. Jeremy and William liked him especially much since they are playing with Sammy and scratching his stomach, while someone is sitting on the sofa on the deck or the wooden floor, and someone runs from side to side and agrees on something with the service staff.       “Sammy, c’mon ‘speak!’” Jeremy orders, raising his hand up in front of Sammy. “C’mon, boy, ‘speak!’”       Sammy obediently does the command of Jeremy and barks two times, sitting in front of the guy and watching him and his brother closely.       “Good boy!” William exclaims with a wide smile. “But now ‘Roll!’ ‘Roll!’ C’mon, buddy, you can! ‘Roll!’”       Sammy brilliantly does the command, rolling on the floor, sits down, and shakes something off himself.       “Good boy, good boy!” Jeremy nods in approval.       “Okay, but now…” William pronounces, taking a doggy treat from a little packet. “'Jump!’”       Giving this command, William throws the treat in the air, and Sammy perfectly catches it in a jump, eats a piece of his favorite treat with pleasure, and barks two times. It makes William and Jeremy smile shyly and stroke the dog’s hair, while the pet does not stop wagging his tail and accepts such a desired caress.       “Hey, hey, you better save food!” Edward chuckles kindly, sitting proudly on the sofa. “Nothing is gonna be left for us!”       “Probably, not us but your brother,” Daniel laughs shyly, installing himself on the sofa comfortably and putting his arms on the back of it.       “Uh-huh, I believe MacClife is eating a second or third sandwich,” Benjamin says thoughtfully, sitting on the floor with half-bent legs, and quickly fixes the bandage on his ankle.       “Right!” Joseph agrees. “We haven’t started to celebrate, but he can’t wait to eat.”       “Terry is in his element,” Cody laughs shyly.       “Hey, stop eating, glutton!” Benjamin glances at where Terrence is. “You’re not alone here!”       “If you don’t stop, you’re gonna be a fatty piggy!” Edward adds with a sly smile. “And crash your soon-to-be wife at your first marriage night!”       “Do we have to stay hungry because you should eat literally as much as an elephant?” Daniel resents.       “Hey, why are you crowing there again?” Terrence resents, standing near the sofa and holding a sandwich in one hand and his guitar in the other. “I took just a little!”       “Uh-huh, sure, a little!” Christopher rolls his eyes, sitting on the floor with his legs bent under himself and holding a bottle of cold beer. “Someone probably wanted to eat a sandwich, but they missed this chance. Because of you!”       “C’mon, men, he can do,” Blake specifies, walking on the deck with random packs. “He and his brother are grooms. We can’t deprive them of food, as the ones who are the reason for this party.”       “You noticed it right,” Peter grins kindly, figuring out how the music system works along with Ryan. “But it doesn’t mean the grooms have the right to eat everything and leave their friends hungry.”       “I won't eat them, surely!” Kevin meddles, sitting on the floor with a bottle of beer in his hands and his legs bent under him. “I don’t like them a lot.”       “I won’t eat, either,” Blake says confidently. “I don’t like ham.”       “Don’t worry, gluttons, we’ve got enough food!” Ryan exclaims. “Everybody would be happy!”       “Uh-huh, we just need to make an order so that the cookers cook everything,” Edward says cheerfully.       “We hired the best of the best!” Cody exclaims. “They can feed us with the most delicious dishes.”       “Uh-huh, when we drink to the fuck and eat a lot, we’ll go to dance and swim in the ocean,” Joseph adds.       “This is the first time I’m on the yacht in the ocean,” Edward says. “I never did it before.”       “Not just you, dude!” Ryan exclaims. “And I really hope we won’t get stuck somewhere in the middle of the ocean without water, food, and communications.”       “Relax, man, it doesn’t threaten you,” Jeremy assures.       “We have enough drinks, just in case!” Benjamin replies loudly. “All the best! I checked it personally!”       “Oh, yeah!” Blake exclaims cheerfully. “Besides, we have such a cool reason to drink! The bachelor! Saying goodbye to the single life of our grooms and sending them to the married one.”       “Yeah, we were lucky to meet Terrence,” Cody notices cheerfully.       “Uh-huh, we found out about his wedding and the fact that he, as it turned out, had lots of brothers, who he said nothing about so hard,” Joseph agrees.       “But he told us much about you two,” Edward confesses. “Though he didn’t think about you before you met him.”       “Oh, we were very busy, too,” Cody confesses. “We had no time to call your brother or Ben and invite them to hang out together. As you know, I was busy with the shooting of the show. And I’m gonna go abroad to continue to film in September.       “It’s alright, men, we will meet often,” Joseph promises. “At least, I won’t get lost anymore! And we’ll come to the wedding with pleasure!”       “You must come!” Edward grins loudly. “You’re groomsmen! As well as Parker, Rose, and Perkins.”       “We’re one hundred ready, buddy!” Cody exclaims. “Ready to marry you and your big brother off.”       “Yes, Edward, you can count on us,” Joseph adds.       “Ah, men, I never thought I’d be hanging out on Eddy’s bachelor party someday,” William laughs quietly, drinking some beer from his bottle. “Our boy is getting old, guys! He’s gonna get married in two weeks!”       “Oh, Will, we didn’t also think everything would lead to that,” Christopher chuckles kindly. “But now we’re sitting here all together and drinking in honor of sending our grooms to a new life.”       “And since we’re on board, we can finally announce our party is open,” Edward says with his head proudly up.       “Let’s have a cool bachelor!” Terrence pronounces loudly, clenching his hand into a fist and raising it. “Party on!”       “Yea-a-ah!” the other men repeat at s different time loudly and happily.       Sammy barks loudly two times as if he shows his wish to have great fun on this bachelor party in a male company.       “Hey, I didn’t get, where are the others?” Daniel wonders. “Rose, Clayton, whacha you doing there? Turn on music and bring your asses here!”       “Okay, okay, we’re coming!” Peter jabs loudly. “We’ve finally dealt with this thing!”       “Turn on the radio first or a CD?” Ryan asks.       “Turn on the one to have a black cover,” Edward says. “It has cool rock music.”       A few seconds later, rock music starts quietly playing on the entire deck, which all the men like.       “Alright, leave it!” Christopher says loudly. “What we need! Don’t make the volume louder! It’s okay!”       “Connor, where are you the fuck going?” Terrence asks loudly, moving his eyes aside. “Take your ass here! Let’s finally drink!”       “I’m here, I’m here!” Blake jabs, getting out of nowhere. “I should’ve given them the packs!”       “Hey, didn’t you take glasses?” Edward specifies, looking at the mess on the coffee table. “Where are they the fuck?”       “They are here, you don’t kinda see!” William says, showing one of the glasses.       “They’re here, Blake!” Jeremy says loudly. “Don’t go to the service staff!”       “Maybe we forgot to take something?” Blake specifies. “Remember everything before I sit down!”       “Everything is here!” Edward exclaims and makes a calling gesture. “C’mon, take your ass here!”       When Blake returns to the living room, all the men sit down on the sofa or floor, getting ready to say the first toast in honor of Edward.       “So what, men, I suggest we start with little things and drink some beer,” Christopher suggests cheerfully. “And then we can drink something stronger: vodka or cognac.”       “Oh, we’re gonna really suffer after drinking like this,” Kevin laughs shyly.       “Uh-huh, we’re gonna have our heads torn,” Joseph assumes.       “C’mon, we’re hanging out for the cool reason,” Cody throws.       “The important thing is not to die after this,” Ryan replies confidently. “And not to drown if we jump in the water.”       “And I really hope nobody suffers from seasickness and won’t throw up on the entire yacht when they have motion sickness,” Benjamin expresses hope.       “C’mon, guys, fuck it all!” Daniel waves a hand with a wide smile. “We have a party! We can do everything today! Scream at the top, drink, or dance!”       “Yeah, you were counting down the days on a calendar to get a chance to drink,” Peter chuckles kindly, sitting on the sofa like a stone. “Dreaming of the bachelor since the day of MacClife, Jr.’s engagement.”       “I was also dreaming of the bachelor!” Terrence says funnily, with a wide smile. “I’m personally gonna have a great fun. And in two weeks, my bro and I will get married to our charming beauties.”       “Alright, dudes, confess, who let my childhood friend drink?” Benjamin asks funnily. “We haven’t started our party yet, but he has already drunk!”       “Me? I haven’t even taken a sip of beer!”       “It’s okay, men, Edward and Terrence are gonna drink much more than all of us,” Kevin replies confidently. “So, our mission is not drinking not to be able to watch them and not to let them do a stupid thing. And make sure they don’t go to drown themselves in passion.”       “Uh-huh, so they didn’t stare at us surprisingly, when we refreshed their memory after they lost it at all,” Ryan adds funnily.       “Why did my brother and I invite all of you?” Edward rounds his eyes. “A bachelor is a party for us two! We’re gonna drink to the fuck and have much fun, and you’d watch us and save us from stupid things.”       “Listen, don’t ya think this creature became a little insolent?” Joseph asks everybody.       “That’s right!” Cody agrees. “The younger groom kinda stepped on the wrong foot.”       “What?” Edward rounds his eyes. “To you, it must be an honor that I let you take care of me before my wedding.”       “He let…” Joseph grins quietly.       “Listen to Kevin’s advice and don’t drink to the fuck.”       “No, buddy, we do advise you not to drink much. Because we’re gonna have a cool time. There would be nobody to watch you ‘cause the minds of all of us will be brown after a couple of glasses.”       “And yeah, Parker, Prescott, Freeman, Rose, Perkins, watch your mind especially closely,” Terrence insists. “Because we’re gonna need you as groomsmen, to whom Edward and I trusted to organize the bachelor party and some things for the wedding ceremony.”       Sammy barks quietly two times, as if he says he will be watching all the men and giving special attention to the taken men.       “Okay, men, let’s not waste time and finally drink,” Peter says confidently, taking a bottle of beer. “C’mon, c’mon, before these two plan a bad trick. Everybody has some beer?”       “These three have already drunk half of their bottles,” Blake chuckles quietly, looking at Christopher, Kevin, and Benjamin and taking a bottle for him. “While we were getting ready, they were keeping their asses in comfort and emptying the bottles of beer.”       “Then let’s drink now before they drink everything,” Daniel suggests.       “So, guys…” Edward says confidently, proudly sitting on the sofa with a bottle of beer. “I’m ready to listen to all of your best wishes and advice with pleasure. Begin! Who’s first?”       “You’ll hear them on the wedding day…” Jeremy smiles shyly. “Maybe… If we want to wish something on you.”       “But now let’s just drink to say goodbye to your childhood and to celebrate you becoming an adult man,” William adds with a wide smile.       “And for saying goodbye to the single life of you and your bro.”       “Hoora-a-a-a-a-a-ay!” the other men pronounce funnily and loudly.       While Sammy barks loudly along with everybody, all the members of the male company click each other’s bottles with whoops, whistles, and wide smiles, and slightly touch the nose of the dog with them and drink some cold and tasty beer with pleasure that shakes them up.       “Hey, listen, cool beer!” Blake notices cheerfully. “That’s what I need! The warm wind’s blowing! The water’s all around, cool views… It’s a pleasure!””       “C’mon, you don’t feel any high from beer!” Benjamin throws gloomily. “Cognac or vodka are what we need! That’s what is really cool!”       “Absolutely agree,” Christopher agrees. “But we came here not to be vomiting from drinking alcohol from the weakest to the strongest. A little bit of beer now, a little bit of vodka or whiskey later – and everything’s gonna be fucking cool!”       “I feel the girls are gonna kill us!” Benjamin assumes with a quiet grin. “Especially if we come to them, being drunk.”       “That’s right!” Peter exclaims.       “I’ve got nothing to fear ‘cause I’m single,” Cody says.       “Me too!” Joseph adds.       “Anyway, someone should be ready for fights,” Peter notices. “When we get sober and barely go home, we’re gonna be questioned with a degree.”       “C’mon, Pete, they don’t care about us at all!” Kevin waves a hand. “Their bachelorette is just starting now.”       “Uh-huh, they’re swimming on the yacht, discussing clothes and hairstyles and sharing their fantasies about the upcoming wedding,” Christopher assumes confidently.       “They’re surely gonna talk about us,” Edward adds funnily, taking a piece of fish from a plate, eating it, and taking a big sip of beer.       “They’re surely gonna be discussing you and me very much,” Terrence replies confidently, eating something from the food with a bottle of beer in his hands.       Sammy barks confidently two times, sitting next to the men and listening to their talk, while they are drinking beer and eating everything they see on the coffee table.       “Listen, that’s cool Sammy is with us!” William notices with a slight smile. “And he’s definitely happy to be here.”       “He has nothing to do at the bachelorette,” Peter throws his hands up with a slight smile. “He’s a boy. So, I took him here. May he be with us, in the company of the men.”       “That’s right,” Jeremy replies confidently. “Or his ears would probably get sick of the girls’ talk about clothes and hairstyles and hot discussions of a hot lead character of a TV show.”       Sammy makes a sound, kind of saying he is not really interested in it.       “I get it, boy,” Daniel pronounces funnily. “I get it very we-e-e-ell.”       “But think we saved you and let you be at the bachelor that’s surely gonna be unforgettable,” Cody adds.       “Enjoy this time, man!” Joseph encourages.       The happy Sammy barks loudly two times, as if he shows his thankfulness.       “Hey, buddy, look!” Edward exclaims, takes something from the table, teases Sammy a little, while the dog’s eyes get glossy, and throws this thing to the dog. “Catch it!”       Sammy catches the treat perfectly in a jump, eats it, and licks himself, kind of saying it’s very tasty. While Edward shyly smiles, Peter being next to him caresses the dog’s head and yanks him by his ears softly.       “Hey, guys, did we eat the sandwiches I brought here?” Ryan wonders, looking for something on the table.       “You mean big ones with pork cutlets?” Blake frowns slightly.       “Yup, them…”       “I surely remember that Terrence ate two of them,” Jeremy says thoughtfully. “Stood aside and slurping…”       “It seems like he ate the other two while we were dealing with the music system and talking with a bottle of beer,” Peter assumes confidently.       “Hey, I don’t actually see fish burgers,” Christopher says.       “I don’t get it, where are the pieces of spicy chicken?” Daniel wonders, examining what’s inside a small plastic box. “There are only two!”       “And where’s fucking fish?” Joseph resents, checking another box.       “Exactly, where’s fish?” Cody wonders.       “Where are all fucking chips?” Edward resents, looking at what’s on the table and frowning slightly. “Why do we have so little? There were two packs! Didn’t I go crazy, right?”       “You didn’t go crazy, your bro just ate half of what the service staff brought here!” Benjamin says confidently. “That’s good he didn’t reach my drinks I brought just in case.”       “Oh, oh, okay, the riot has begun in a henhouse,” Terrence grins kindly, holding a bottle of beer. “Cock-a-doodle-doo! Cock-a-doodle-doo”       “Hey, glutton, couldn’t you the fuck wait for a while? When you see tons of food, you eat everything!”       “Hey, you just look at how much food is lying here! I wouldn’t eat all of this alone!”       “You wouldn’t eat?” Edward wonders. “You’d eat an elephant if you had a chance!”       “There is enough food for a whole army!”       “Ha, you would’ve eaten all of this while we were doing something here,” Daniel says confidently.       “Not truth!”       “Look, MacClife, you may not get through a door if you don’t stop eating so much.”       “Oh, oh, you better keep silent, touch guy! You didn’t forget to take a lot of tasty food for yourself. And I kinda should be hungry!”       “I do actually think of others, not just me.”       “I think of others, too!”       “Really?” William pronounces amazingly. “You could take at least a couple of sausages from home! Or a couple of bottles of beer! Just for a good thing!”       “By the way, we all brought something from food or drinks!” Blake exclaims. “A little, but still!”       “But MacClife brought nothing,” Joseph adds.       “Exactly!” Cody exclaims.       “I didn’t have to!” Terrence says. “I am a groom! You must provide me with food and drinks.”       “Ha, what do we do then?” Joseph surprises.       “We spent fucking much money to let His Highness swim on the yacht and warm his naked stomach on the sun along with his brother,” Peter adds.       “Right, I am broke now!” Benjamin agrees. “I spent a lot of money organizing the bachelor party in honor of the MacClifes. But I won’t get my salary soon!”       “It’s okay, men, we will remind Terry of the limit when he inflates his cheeks and has his stomach lying on his laps,” Daniel replies confidently.       “Shut up, everyone!” Terrence orders with a full mouth. “I didn’t tell you to ‘speak!’”       Daniel shows a grimace, imitating Terrence, whose words he says more funnily, gets a slap on the head from MacClife, Sr., and barely has time to avoid getting a plastic lid from one of the containers into him, which Perkins wants to throw right in his head.       “So, we’ve got no choice, we’ve gotta go to the service staff and ask them for more,” Ryan throws his hands up. “We don’t have enough food! And we don’t have too many drinks.”       “May MacClife go then,” Christopher suggests with a kind chuckle. “If he’s eating as much as an elephant and wanna leave us hungry, may he buy food for his money.”       “Uh-huh, to let him eat at least 80% of that on the way?” Kevin wonders loudly. “No, if he goes there, he will go only with someone!”       “Hey, Connor, you go!” Edward suggests.       “Me?” Blake wonders, pouting at himself with his fingers. “Why should I go somewhere while Terrence eats?”       “Yeah, but I want you to go to a shop.”       “Why the fuck?”       “No talks, boy. Grab your feet, put on a smile, and go.”       “MacClife, are you serious?” Blake wonders loudly. “Your brother is eating like a dinosaur, but I have to beg the service staff to give us a couple of more boxes of food?”       “Connor, move your ass,” Edward insists with an innocent smile. “The men and I wanna eat.”       “Ha, maybe, would you go there?” Jeremy chuckles kindly. “Fix what Terrence messed up!”       “And your excuse about being a groom won’t work,” William says confidently.       “Right,” Edward says with his head proudly raised. “I am a groom, too. But I don’t eat as much as my bro eats.”       “I won’t go anywhere!” Blake snuffs with his arms crossed over his chest. “Go to the fuck!”       “You kinda forgot about your promise to do anything me and the lads want.”       “I’m not at work, Edward. I’m at the bachelor. So, you, Terrence, Daniel, and Peter can’t tell me what to do.”       “Are you stubborn?”       “I don’t service you when I don’t work.”       “Okay…” Edward clicks his fingers, looking at Terrence, Daniel, and Peter. “Guys… Remind me of George’s number… I need to talk to him about something.”       “Uh-h-h…” Blake stutters with running eyes. “No… Don’t do… Why do you call George?”       “So, will you go? Or do I call Smith?”       “Okay, I got it…” Blake raises his hands up. “I will go… Go…”       “Much better,” Edward smiles slightly.       “Fucking devil with horns!”       “Tell them to give us much food. We all love eating, and someone loves it especially much.”       “And get much more beer,” Kevin adds cheerfully.       “Or better something stronger!” Cody exclaims.       “Yeah, we have too little strong alcohol,” Joseph adds.       “Oh, fuck…” Blake wonders, putting his hands on his hips.       “Oh!” Terrence exhales sharply, clapping his hands on his laps. “Fuck you! Let me go! Or you’re gonna remind me of eating your food for my whole life.”       “At least, you’d do one good business,” Edward snaps with a sly smile. “Not only suck everything in like a vacuum cleaner.”       “If you say one more word, you’ll agree on everything by yourself!” Terrence threatens Edward with a finger.       “No, brother, I will not go.”       “Just because you’re a groom too doesn’t mean you’re allowed to go against your older brother’s will.”       “Maybe you go fuck yourself, older brother?”       “You want me to throw you overboard?”       “Move, Terry, bring us food! But I will watch all these assholes, alright.”       “Okay, stay here. I will deal with you later. You will pay me for everything, little rutrag.”       “Oh, oh, I’m so scared!” Edward rolls his eyes. “My shorts are wet now.”       “Oh, let me go with you, too,” Ryan says thoughtfully. “I will take something for myself.”       “Hey, can you take something tasty for Sammy?” Peter asks. “So that he isn’t hungry. Let him bite some bone or a piece of meat.”       “Okay, say what we should get not to go there thousands of times,” Blake says confidently.       “A couple of big pizzas and many chips,” Daniel says cheerfully. “And something spicy, personally for me. Super-hot.”       “Take fish!” Joseph exclaims. “Fish!”       “Yeah, Joe and I adore it!” Cody confesses.       “Get as much of everything as you can!” Benjamin adds confidently.       “Don’t waste your time there,” Christopher says funnily. “And don’t let Terrence eat everything before you’re back here.”       “Calm down, guys, I will care about everything and watch everybody,” Ryan promises with his head proudly raised.       “C’mon, Ryan, we’re counting on you,” Edward says amicably. “Don’t let Terrence stay with cookers for too long and eat everything boiling in pots.”       “Oh, oh, okay, buddy, turn off the commander mode,” Blake grins kindly. “Of course, you’re a groom and the reason for this party and something like that. But I’m begging you, don’t be the second Terrence MacClife.”       “Hey, stop talking! Go get drinks and food! C’mon, c’mon! You three!”       “Hey, take a pack of cigarettes from my bag!” Kevin says quietly. “In the pocket on the edge. I wanna smoke. Maybe someone would love to smoke, too.”       “Not me, surely,” Daniel says confidently. “I weaned myself away from smoking.”       “Okay, gang, we’ll bring everything now,” Blake promises. “Don’t worry! It’s gonna be okay!”       “We’ll be back soon, guys – go there and come back,” Terrence promises cheerfully and points at all the men. “And yeah, don’t dare to drink to the fuck without us! And don’t let Eddy drink… We’ll do it a little later. I must see my drunk brother going crazy from happiness.”       “Move your ass!” Edward exclaims, taking a pillow from the sofa and strongly throwing it at Terrence, who, however, easily avoids the attack with a quiet chuckle.       After specifying what everyone wants to eat or drink, Blake, Terrence, and Ryan turn around and leave the deck to find those who would provide them with drinks and food.       “Hey, Sammy, where are you going?” Peter asks loudly, seeing Sammy following Ryan, Terrence, and Blake. “Come here! You hear me? Come to me! Samuel! Come here now! You have no reason to go there! C’mon, c’mon! Move your paws! Sit near me and don’t leave! You got it?”       Sammy makes a quiet sound and comes quietly to the others sitting on the sofa or the floor and laughing quietly with food or a bottle of beer in their hands.       “Don’t ya think sending Terrence to a shop wasn’t the best idea?” Benjamin frowns slightly and takes a sip of beer.       “Don’t worry, Ben, Ryan will watch these two,” Daniel replies confidently. “Of course, we could send Sammy with them, but it would hardly be good if he put his nose in all the dishes and pots and rubbed his ass against everything he finds there. So, the long-eared wouldn’t be able to wake up MacClife staring at a delicious cutlet or trying to struggle not to eat a big bun.”       “But I understand him anyway…” Kevin smiles slightly. “It’s hard to resist when you feel an incredible smell of fresh bakery or incredible roast.”       “M-m-m…” Joseph smiles widely.       “Yum, yum…” Cody pronounces.       “Quiet, quiet, buddy,” Jeremy pronounces, clapping and running his hand over his grumbling stomach. “Quiet… Don’t grumble…”       “Ah, is your stomach grumbling?” Edward wonders. “Oh! I thought we were two steps away from feeling like sailors surviving a shipwreck in a storm that rages the ocean!”       “What a funny joke! Laughing so hard!”       “Listen, boys, why don’t ya trust Blake?” William asks, knocking at his bottle of beer with his fingers. “He’s a cool guy! Funny, sociable, quite amicable…”       “And why did Edward insist that he go to a shop so hard?” Christopher asks.       “Because, Chris, first, Blake is my obedient servant,” Edward replies confidently with his head proudly raised, barely shaking his bottle of beer. “And second, the lads and I don’t trust him and don’t let Connor get too close to us.”       “Wrong!” Benjamin exclaims. “I personally liked Blake at once.”       “Judging his pretty face?”       “Nope. The way he behaves.”       “He’s just pretending to be shy. You don’t know what kind of bastard he was some time ago! Pete and Dan would confirm!”       “Oh, that kid washed our brains enough,” Daniel says confidently.       “C’mon, dudes!” Kevin exclaims funnily. “Connor is quite a good guy!”       “You just didn’t work with him for a few months when you would’ve heard how that snooty one was mocking at you,” Peter replies confidently.       “Come on!” Jeremy exclaims. “Maybe he was joking?”       “No, Jer, he wasn’t joking but was really mocking.”       “C’mon, men!” Cody throws. “He’s a good boy! Why are you hitting him with hooves from all sides?”       “Agree,” Joseph agrees.       “Hey, how can such a shy boy look mock at those he works with?” Jeremy gets truly amazed and takes a sip of beer from his bottle. “Okay… Even if he mocked you, it’s clear that Blake is trying to get better.”       “We don’t refuse to give him a chance to prove it,” Daniel notices, drinking some beer from his bottle and leaning back on the sofa. “And I must confess… The lads and I haven’t disappointed in him for those few months after he apologized to us.”       “Yeah, Connor is trying, and we see it,” Edward adds thoughtfully. “Working with him has lately given us much more pleasure.”       “Oh, relax, men!” Christopher throws cheerfully, taking a sip of beer and eating some chips. “He’s such a young, silly boy! But you get stuck on him.”       “We don’t do, Chris, we just don’t let him relax,” Peter says confidently.       “Moreover, notice that Sammy always wraps around him,” Benjamin notices. “It means that Blake isn’t as bad as you think.”       Sammy barks quietly but very confidently to show his agreement.       “Yeah, right,” Peter agrees. “Sammy really got a love for him.”       “But we’ll keep a distance from him for a while,” Edward says with his head proudly up. “And if Blake keeps being a good and decent boy, we’ll finally let him join our party. We’re kind and fluffy and always ready to give a chance to the one who asks it.”       “It’s okay, guys, you’ll drink much alcohol and get kinder,” Jeremy replies funnily. “Blake is gonna be very close to you!”       “Yeah, but we won’t be drinking without Terrence, Ryan, and Blake!” Benjamin says confidently, shaking his head. “We’ll wait for them and then start a cool party.”       “I think it’s gonna take a long time…” Kevin assumes thoughtfully, scratching the back of his head. “Terrence and food are as inseparable as a dog and fresh meat.”       “Yeah, taking our brother from the kitchen is gonna be a hard mission,” William agrees.       “And if these handsome men don’t come back in five minutes, we’ll have nothing but to come for them and pull them from pots by ears,” Daniel suggests confidently.       Sammy barks loudly two times as if he agrees.       “Sammy agrees with us,” Edward notices with a wide smile, yanking Sammy by the ears. “But now I suggest we just sit, eat, and drink beer.”       This offer makes all the men happy, and they keep talking about something funnily, eating what they have, listening to the music that is well heard thanks to the speakers placed on the walls, and drinking nice beer that makes all of them relax, get much funnier, and feel at ease in their heads while waiting for Terrence, Ryan, and Blake. Sammy does not stay without their attention, and all the men have the pleasure of petting him and playing with him with what they see in front of themselves. Besides, they sometimes let the retriever eat something from the food, which the dog has had an eye on for a long time, and licks himself as he looks at it with pity in his eyes.       

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      Spending time at the bachelorette, the friends put the food on the coffee table and sat on the sofa or the floor. The brides, as queens of the party, are sitting on the sofa enjoying the way the warm wind blows up their faces and their hair. Nice music is playing on the deck, and there is a mess around: some packs, musical CDs, the girls’ bags, and some of their accessories are placed everywhere. However, the girls do not care about it at all.       “Gosh, girls, I can’t believe we’re gonna be hanging out at your wedding in two weeks,” Helene says with a wide smile, eating a chocolate truffle she is holding on a small handkerchief. “Time flies so fast: it seems like you became fiancées some time ago, but you’re gonna be wives soon.”       “I can’t believe it, either,” Raquelle says thoughtfully with a slight smile, holding a white zephyr. “Can’t believe I’m gonna become a part of the MacClife family soon.”       “Yeah, seems like you wanted to hear nothing about the fact that your time to get married came some time ago,” Anna recalls, wiping her mouth carefully with a napkin after something sweet she ate. “Your relatives annoyed you with a wish to watch you get married so much that you started to get irritated.”       “Oh, how much I complained that I wasn’t destined to be happy, there was no prince from far, and something like that…” Natalia replies with a quiet chuckle, holding a glass of champagne. “That’s why I felt very sad… I did want to meet someone and get married, but… Nobody proposed to me. Nobody even dropped a hint!”       “And you complained too much that the prince ran to you in a gallop and stole your sensitive heart,” Kylie chuckles kindly.       “And then promised you what you couldn’t reject,” Blake adds dreamily with a slight smile.       “Not marrying such handsome guys would be a sin,” Odette notices.       “That’s right,” Olivia agrees. “Terrence and Edward are both handsome.”       “I don’t even know who is the most irresistible,” Emma adds.       “I wouldn’t have rejected it even if we’d only dated for two weeks and barely known each other,” Natalia says confidently. “I did really want to get married to him… Literally saw dreams of me wearing a wedding dress in front of the altar and standing next to Edward.”       “Fantasies and dreams come true very often, Blondie,” Melissa notices funnily.       “I can’t wait to become a married woman…” Natalia takes a little sip of champagne, puts her glass on the wooden table, and eats a little piece of cheese cookie that smells incredible. “Wanna be with my sweetheart… Wanna fall asleep and wake up next to him…”       “Soon, friend, soon,” Raquelle smiles shyly, stroking Natalia’s shoulder. “A little time to go. Soon, you and I will go to the altar.”       “Edward and Terrence have an incredible taste in girls,” Olivia notices.       “Magnificent!” Odette exclaims.       “By the way, Natalia was the only blonde in our school,” Kylie explains.       “Come on?” Cassidy wonders.       “So, weren’t there blondes?” Blair wonders.       “No! All the girls were brunettes, and Rochester stood out against them. Beautiful, blonde and tall…”       “And everybody admired her golden hair,” Melissa adds.       “And there were blondes in our school, including Natalia,” Raquelle confesses. “I remember there was even a blond boy. But he later dyed his hair dark.”       “Oh, that was the main turkey of almost the whole school!” Natalia laughs quietly. “Head up, shoulders spread, straight back… And his friends were the same peacocks! Believed they were handsome! Even though they claimed that.”       “No, that blond was actually quite good-looking. But he was really much more arrogant than our beloved Terrence.”       “At least, you had someone to have a crush on,” Cassidy says thoughtfully, eating a little cookie and taking a sip of champagne. “There were no boys to put an eye on! But at least, half of them could speak to you well. And the others were pompous, narcissistic turkeys.”       “Were you looking for the one to be similar to your bro?” Helene asks with a slight smile.       “Well, I would say so…” Cassidy smiles mysteriously. “My brother is a handsome guy. Of course, he’s sometimes insolent and rude, but he’s handsome. Especially now, when he has grown up and become a real man. Daniel was just a sympathetic guy. A little kid who loved showing off but was terribly shy of his teeth, which were the reason why he wore braces for one year or one and a half years.”       “Oh, did Daniel wear braces?” Jessica wonders.       “Uh-huh! But alongside that, doctors worked on his teeth well ‘cause looking at them quietly was impossible.”       “Wow…” Anna laughs shyly. “He’s never said that…”       “Too bad that he refused to photograph and didn’t smile. I would’ve shown you that handsome guy and his ‘stunning’ smile.”       “Too bad that my older brother didn’t become more handsome,” Emma sighs quietly.       “C’mon, he’s not so ugly!” Olivia protests.       “Uh-huh, it’s okay he’s got freckles and ears that stick out!” Odette exclaims. “Everyone is beautiful in their own way!”       “At least his brain works incredibly,” Emma notices with a slight smile. “He’s always been a very smart dude.”       “And my brother is getting handsome every day,” Blair confesses with a slight smile. “Becoming a man… And I’m waiting for Harry to be taller than me. And I must confess that it’s gonna happen soon.”       “And what’s his age?” Jessica asks.       “Ten. He celebrates his birthday at the end of December.”       “Isn’t he gonna visit the wedding?” Melissa asks.       “He will. Harry wanna look at the brides and grooms.”       “I surely know Amanda is gonna be at the wedding,” Raquelle smiles shyly.       “Oh, maybe that’s a chance to introduce them to each other?”       “It would be just wonderful.”       “Uh-h-h, excuse me, Raquelle, but who is Amanda?” Kylie asks hesitantly.       “My cousin. She’s almost ten. She’s living with my aunt Alicia, who took that girl from an orphan house and became her mother.”       “Wow!” Melissa exclaims. “Doesn’t she have children?”       “Alas, no. As they say, God didn’t give.”       “But didn’t deprive her of a chance to show her maternal instinct,” Anna notices confidently.       “By the way, everybody says Amanda looks like me when I was a child. And I think it’s true. Sometimes I think of myself when I look at her… Understand we’re kinda alike.”       “We believe that’s why Alicia took that girl with her,” Helene confesses. “That woman is very attracted to Raquelle and has always loved her as a daughter.”       “Great,” Olivia pronounces with a slight smile.       “Hope motherhood would give her happiness,” Odette shows hope.       “If it’s wanted, it should do,” Emma says confidently.       “Alicia really wanted to become a mom and waited for the moment she could take a girl away,” Natalia confesses. “And we believe it was worth it.”       “I can’t wait to meet her at the wedding,” Blair confesses with a slight smile. “I hope she and Harold will get along.”       “I’m sure they will.”       Silence settles in the air for two seconds, during which the girls eat the sweet food placed on the table in front of them with pleasure, deciding to give a damn about their bodies and let themselves eat everything they want. And enjoy the way the warm wind blows up nicely their faces and hair, while the yacht moves slowly on the water.       “Oh, girls, I feel like we’re gonna get stuck in a gym and work out very hard for two weeks after eating so much sweet food,” Helene chuckles, eating a little sweet cake.       “I’m gonna literally spend nights there anyway,” Natalia replies confidently. “I want my dress to fit me perfectly. Anything not to be seen on my belly.”       “You don’t have to worry about it, friend,” Kylie replies confidently, eating a cookie with a white glaze with pleasure. “You’re our skinny one! Anything on the belly doesn’t treat to appear on it.”       “After eating so much sweet food, I won’t fit into any dresses. Because I’d get fat and become big and unturned.”       “Stop, Natalia, everything is good about your body!” Cassidy replies confidently. “Nothing would happen to you if you let yourself relax and eat some sweet food for only one day.”       “Exactly, one day.”       “Stop, Blondie!” Emma exclaims. “You look good.”       “As well as Cameron,” Olivia adds.       “You never notice how you gain weight!” Natalia notices. “Somehow I relaxed enough after travelling around Italy for one month and eating everything. I ate too much Italian pasta because it was incredible. And it was bad for me. I gained a few kilograms and couldn’t put on my favorite jeans after going home and deciding to put on what I had left at home. I didn’t take anything on the trip and usually wore what I bought at shops.”       “You didn’t gain weight!” Anna protests. “You were beautiful and slim and stayed the one!”       “In short, girls! Today I’m letting myself relax, but tomorrow, I’m gonna start the hardest diet and make myself better. Or I’m gonna cry while looking in the mirror. And my man would lose interest in me. And find another girl. Beautiful. Slim. Frigid.”       “Oh, gosh, Natalia, stop…” Jessica shakes her head with a slight smile, eating oatmeal cookies. “If you lose some weight, you’ll look like a bag of bones. I don’t think Edward wants to hug your bones, not you.”       “He won’t do, Jess, I promise. I need to lose only one or two kilograms! That’s all! I’m gonna be a beauty! And I’ll do it easily for two weeks. Luckily, I can quickly lose weight.”       “If we run a little on a treadmill, we’re surely gonna make ourselves look good after eating so much sweet food,” Odette notices cheerfully with a full mouth.       “And us not to get fat after that, and the men not to lose interest in us, I suggest we, girls, drink for that,” Anna suggests, taking her glass of champagne and raising it slightly.       “Yes, c’mon!” Blair exclaims. “Great reason to raise glasses!”       All the girls take their glasses with champagne, and someone first eats what they eat, swallows it up, and then gets ready to say a toast along with everybody.       “Let’s drink for that and for the happiness of our beloved brides,” Emma suggests cheerfully with a wide smile. “May their men love them even if they get at least one kilogram fatter.”       “And never let them, as Jess noticed, hug their bones,” Helene chuckles kindly. “We don’t want our friends to be bags of bones.”       “Raise our glasses for our beloved brides!” Cassidy exclaims happily.       “Hooraa-a-a-a-ay!” the girls whoop.       The brides and their friends click each other’s glasses with a wide smile and take a couple of little sips of champagne in honor of Natalia and Raquelle, for whom the bachelorette was organized.       “Hey, Raquelle, tell us about your relationship with Terrence,” Cassidy says with interest. “I’m terribly curious to know how everything was happening.”       “Yes, friend, tell us everything about Terrence,” Jessica adds happily. “Somehow he told something shortly, but I wanna know more.”       “What do I tell?” Raquelle wonders, looking at her glass and getting a little blush from shyness. “Although Terrence and I didn’t get on well because he was arrogant and pretended to be a turkey, something clicked inside me when we met.”       “Oh!” Natalia exclaims. “Cameron denied she got a crush on MacClife for a long time and insulted him in all possible ways. We had to spend a lot of time to assure her to confess that the pretty boy didn’t leave her indifferent.”       “And I didn’t forget him when I was busy with my businesses. Not because he kissed me by force, but because I suspected him of spreading rumors. But later, Terrence found me and made sure he wasn’t the one to blame. And I made sure about it later. So, another fight of ours brought us to the moment we confessed we weren’t indifferent to each other. And after that, we started to get to know each other and started to date… Everything was happening kinda fast… Too fast.”       “And then he proposed that you live together, and you agreed with pleasure?” Melissa asks happily.       “Well, yeah… Only a few months had gone by, but I didn’t kinda care. I… I couldn’t refuse, even if I was worried my family wouldn’t approve it.”       “They think only husband and wife can live together?” Kylie asks.       “Yeah, but I didn’t rush to marry. Even if Grandfather and Aunt always told me it was my time to get married and didn’t wanna hear of me leaving that man. They were worried that I wanted to date nobody. They were worried that I’d never get married. And they told me how important it was to every girl to do it as soon as possible.”       “But it’s your life, not theirs!” Cassidy exclaims. “Why did you do what they wanted?”       “I don’t regret getting married to him now. Because we used to be united only by sexual attraction. Passion clouded our minds… I thought I wouldn’t live if that man wasn’t with me. I would choke. Die… But later, we, so to speak, got enough of each other. Got busy with our businesses after the wedding and forgot each other. Somehow, it was actually disgusting to us to see each other. And we eventually split up. And then realized we felt bad apart. We should’ve worked on our relationship: supporting an interest for each other, talking, sharing feelings, being open and honest…”       “And you didn’t think about it when deciding to live with him.”       “Nope. I didn’t know what a relationship was. Because my family never explained how to keep it and not to ruin it.”       “Sadly, it happens often,” Odette notices. “You aren’t the only one to confuse love and passion.”       “Right,” Raquelle nods. “Besides, at some moment, he began to sometimes annoy me. And I doubted… If I wanted to keep dating him… Grandfather and Aunt never said everything would be easy. They just told me to get married. I should’ve kinda had someone. And I naively thought there was nothing hard and terrible about it…”       “They also recognize their fault for not telling you more about that…” Anna notices thoughtfully.       “Right,” Natalia agrees. “You were a beautiful couple, but… You were united only by a wish to end up in a bed.”       “Resisting his charms was impossible,” Raquelle smiles slightly. “And I still can’t do. Though I fight so hard to torture him.”       “That’s good you realized you loved each other,” Cassidy says confidently. “But when you get such problems and fight like cat and dog, they shouldn’t get married.”       “It’s life, Cassidy,” Natalia replies quietly. “Everybody fights and reconciles. That’s absolutely fine.”       “Everything can’t be perfect, darling,” Blair says with sadness in his eyes. “Lovers may also fight and run into misunderstandings and different opinions. You speak like teens – if you love, you will do forever and live happily ever after. But you’ll understand it when you grow up and get wiser.”       “Unless my bro doesn’t kick all my admirers,” Cassidy replies with a quiet chuckle. “What if Dan wanna grab all the boys by the collar and kick them out?”       “If he does, he’ll do it just to save you from bad boys,” Anna replies shyly. “Your brother doesn’t want you to get in touch with a bad man.”       “What if kicks everyone out?”       “In this case, we’ll help you with pleasure,” Helene promises confidently. “We’ll talk to your brother. And if your admirer is really good, we will assure Daniel that he won't do anything bad to you.”       “Thanks, of course, girls,” Cassidy replies thoughtfully with a slight smile. “But I hope I’ll agree with that asshole.”       “Okay, but we’re always at your service,” Natalia lets know amicably.       “Thanks a lot.”       One of the girls takes a little sip of champagne, someone eats something from what is placed on the table, and Helene changes the music at the plea of her friends with a remote control.       “Hey, girls, don’t think about bad things!” Melissa exclaims cheerfully. “We should be happy and have a good mood.”       “That’s right!” Blair adds. “It’s a bachelorette! On which we all came together!”       “By the way, I also wanted to invite my assistant Deidre, who helps me on shootings,” Raquelle confesses. “But sadly, she’s now busy.”       “Anyway, we’ve got a good company,” Natalia notices, holding a chocolate cookie.       “Listen, let’s go somewhere and have fun someday?” Anna suggests cheerfully. “Roll on some coasters, play some games, buy sweet cotton…”       “Hey, cool idea, girls!” Helene replies funnily. “We can go to an amusement park!”       “I’d be happy to go,” Natalia suggests with a slight smile.       “But I’m gonna warn you that I won’t be rolling on a coaster,” Cassidy says confidently. “I’m afraid of them!”       “Afraid?” Melissa wonders.       “I almost died when my crazy brother persuaded our parents to let him ride on coasters. Well, okay, he’s an idiot! But Daniel decided to take me, as well! He thought I wanted it, and Mom and Dad agreed to let me go. Wanted to take many more photos of us. Ar-r-r…” Cassidy growls irritably. “I thought I’d die from fear… Well, or at least kill that brainless idiot. Rip what he got between his legs!”       “I’ve never rolled on those things but wouldn’t risk,” Blair confesses hesitantly and takes a little sip of champagne. “They don’t give me trust.”       “I dunno, I personally liked it when the girls and I rolled on one of them somehow,” Natalia says with a slight smile.       “Agree, but I felt a little dizzy after those permanent turns,” Anna adds and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear.       “I would roll on some moving thing,” Kylie says with a shy smile. “I’ve never rolled on anything like that, but I wanna try it so badly.”       “I think we definitely should think about it,” Raquelle replies confidently.       “A little later, girls,” Melissa says cheerfully. “But now let’s drink some champagne.”       “It’s a mind!” Jessica exclaims.       “Great mind!” Helene agrees.       All the girls take off their glasses, barely slap on each other’s ones, saying, “For the brides!”, drink some champagne, and eat something sweet.       “Ah, girls, I’m falling into nostalgia…” Natalia says thoughtfully with a slight smile. “After drinking almost a glass of champagne…”       “Share with us,” Jessica suggests. “Are you thinking of your beloved fiancé? Huh?”       “Yeah… Thinking of our first meeting… About how insecure and quiet Edward was when he came to me in a cafe and asked for permission to sit down…”       “He came to you in a cafe?” Cassidy wonders. “Come on? And wasn’t MacClife a coward?”       “Nope, Edward came to me. Said all the tables were taken, and he didn’t wanna sit with others ‘cause there were only mothers and children or old people.”       “M-m-m, as it turned out, Edward is a pick-up master,” Blair smiles mysteriously.       “Yeah, found a good reason to meet a girl,” Jessica adds confidently.       “Honestly, I don’t care,” Natalia replies quietly. “If the man wanted to sit down with me, I didn’t mind. I mean, I didn’t actually care. If he sat down, it was okay! But I memorized his first words after he sat at the table. ‘Why is such a beautiful girl sitting here alone and being sad?’ Edward really cared about what made me so upset. Of course, it got me really amazed… Why a stranger wanted to know it… But… Even if being talkative wouldn’t have brought you to anything good, I told him the reason… Edward supported me and shared his problem…”       “Yes, yes, we know this story,” Raquelle says with a slight smile. “Your sweetheart pretended to be Edward Lockhart and hid the fact that he was Terrence’s brother. Whom he showed a great interest in. He wanted to meet him and befriend him so badly.”       “It was very nice for me to hear his soft voice,” Natalia smiles shyly, looking into the distance. “I wanted to hear a song performed by him. And when he shook me by the hand, I felt so good… His hands… They were so warm and soft… I got the goosebumps on my back!”       “Well, but you said you didn’t look at him as a man first,” Anna says confidently. “You fell in love with him at first sight!”       “No, Anna, I fell in love with him, but not at first sight. I felt very good with that man and spoke to him with pleasure. But I didn’t look at him as a man. I looked at him in this way later. I saw he was very handsome, sweet, tender… And when we somehow spent time on a beach, I couldn’t stop looking at him. After that day, I realized I wasn’t indifferent to him. I would give everything just to spend much more time with him.”       “Sometimes I think he cared about a meeting with Terrence less than pastime with you,” Raquelle confesses shyly.       “Yeah, at first I thought he fooled me. Used me to meet Terrence. Though even if he’d said he was his brother, I wouldn’t have believed and would’ve thought if I should’ve kept talking to him.”       “I don’t know, I believe their kinship is clear!” Cassidy says confidently. “Edward and Terrence are very similar to each other. If you dressed them up and brushed them in the same way, not everyone would differentiate the two.”       “I still remember how you always said you didn’t wanna stop speaking to Edward,” Anna recalls with a slight smile. “You were terribly afraid he wouldn’t have wished to invite you to walk in the city anymore…”       “It’s true…” Natalia nods. “I was terribly afraid Edward would’ve forgotten me and stopped speaking to me when he’d met Terrence… He kinda needed me just to find his brother. Many men spoke to me when they needed something. So, I was afraid the same would’ve happened in Edward’s case.”       “He was afraid of that like fire!”       “And… One beautiful day, I introduced him to his brother, whom we met in a cafe… Then I got horrified from realizing it was the end of my meetings with Edward. He didn’t need me anymore after reaching his goal. I kept thinking so, even after he confessed his sympathy for me and kissed me for the first time. And… After the meeting of the MacClifes and the reveal, I left… Left Edward… And… Didn’t contact him for about two weeks… Until someday I met him outside and explained everything… Then we began speaking again. Besides, Edward showed a wish to continue it.”       “Wow!” Cassidy wonders, putting a glass of champagne aside with a wide smile. “What a story!”       “Gosh, Rochester, did you leave Edward after he told you about his sympathy and kissed you for the first time?” Kylie rounds her eyes.       “Sort of…” Natalia smiles shyly.       “Bloody hell!” Emma exclaims.       “Oh, what a silly girl you are, Blondie!” Melissa exclaims. “The silly girl who almost lost her happiness!”       “She is really silly!” Jessica agrees loudly. “The guy told you about his love and kissed you, but you left him! It’s something like trying to imagine Helene leaving Peter after his confessions about his feelings, which he had been hiding for one and a half years, and their first kiss.”       “And disappeared for two weeks!” Blair exclaims. “Come on, Natalia!”       “First, I just wanted to let Edward get to know Terrence better and thought they didn’t need me,” Natalia explains. “And second… Yes, I was stupid! Because I left him after he confessed his feelings and kissed me for the first time. I was scared he would’ve left me earlier… And decided to do this first!”       “Be happy you didn’t lose such a good man like Edward because of that stupid thing. What would you be doing now if you hadn’t come back to him and agreed to become his wife?”       “Wouldn’t surely have a bachelorette,” Helene laughs shyly. “Would’ve celebrated only Raquelle’s wedding.”       “Coming back to Edward was one of my best decisions,” Natalia smiles shyly. “But the best one of them was my agreement to become his wife. I don’t regret getting married to him. There’s no better man than he is. And I don’t need another man.”       “I still remember you and Edward going to the home of Terrence and me and announcing your engagement to the guys and us,” Raquelle confesses with a shy smile.       “Yea-a-a-ah, Natalia wore such a beautiful dress,” Blair says amicably. “It fitted her so well!”       “That’s good I decided to put it on,” Natalia says thoughtfully. “Wanted to look beautiful… And something made me dress up… But I didn’t think we would become engaged. I was surely waiting for that moment, but didn’t wanna drop a hint. Was afraid to scare… And when we were walking together on the absolutely empty beach, Edward got nervous at some moment… I asked what was wrong, and he said some nice words… And then proposed to me to marry him…”       “Gosh, how it’s so sweet!” Cassidy gets tender feelings with a wide smile.       “You know how overwhelmed I was! I couldn’t speak, breathe, or stand on my feet! I thought I was losing ground! Trying to understand if it was real. I think I needed a little before fainting.”       “Just like I was when Terrence asked me the same, getting down to his knee…” Raquelle replies shyly. “At first, he gifted me a very cute necklace and then proposed to me to marry.”       “And Edward got down on a knee only when I finally came to myself and calmed him down after scaring him with my silence that he found my refusal.”       “Since the man decided to do it, it means a lot,” Blair says with a wide smile.       “The only thing I could do was smile widely and whoop for joy. I was kinda overwhelmed for a whole day and waiting to wake up in my room… Everything seemed so unreal… I didn’t even believe myself when I told my parents that I was gonna get married and showed them the ring. They didn’t believe it for a few seconds as well, but then they were happy like children along with me.”       “But I remember how happy my grandpa was when I told him about my engagement,” Raquelle confesses. “And how happy my aunt was, who didn’t go to London at that time. Shouted like children who got the desired toys.”       “They dreamed of that for a long time!” Anna exclaims. “Your families just adore Edward and Terrence and find him almost their own sons.”       “And they were worried that I wouldn’t find a husband and would remain single,” Natalia adds. “And they cared about my age… Time was kinda going, I should’ve gotten married and given birth to a child… And I was worried about that ‘cause I wasn’t lucky in relationships, and nobody proposed to me to marry.”       “My God, girls!” Jessica exclaims cheerfully. “Don’t listen to those stories about age: you should get married and give birth to children when you’re ready. Nothing would happen if you gave birth to a baby when you turned thirty or got older. The important thing is your wish to have the one and the ability to provide for the one.”       “Actually, I’m ready for motherhood, and the situation lets me think of my own child. But first, I should get married ‘cause I don’t want my children to be born earlier.”       “That’s right!” Helene approves.       “You and Edward can think about it after your wedding,” Kylie suggests cheerfully.       “All in time, Kylie,” Natalia smiles shyly. “When the time comes, Edward and I will have a baby. Or maybe a few ones.”       “Hey, I think it’s one more reason for a toast,” Cassidy notices funnily.       “Not drinking champagne for the future children of the grooms and the brides would be a sin,” Odette replies confidently.       The girls take off their glasses again, shout happily, “For the future children of the grooms and the brides!”, click each other’s glasses, and take a couple of sips of champagne.       “Hey, girls, what do you think our men are doing?” Anna asks with a mysterious smile.       “Drunk to the hell – one hundred percent!” Emma chuckles loudly.  “I hope they won’t drown if they come up with a wish to swim in the ocean.”       “Uh-huh, my brother will surely find a reason to drink!” Cassidy says. “And make the grooms do the same!”       “Hope they won’t get problems,” Raquelle shows hope. “And they won’t end up somewhere in a police station.”       “Does someone know where they have their bachelor party?” Melissa asks.       “They rented a large yacht,” Natalia says quietly. “Hired cookers, who would provide them with food, and someone else from the service staff.”       “Hey, the boys stole our idea!” Kylie exclaims. “The groomsmen didn’t obviously have their own fantasy.”       “That’s right!” Helene laughs. “Perkins and Rose spend much time making Seymour and me tell them what we came up with.”       “And when they did it, they got excited as if they came up with something,” Anna adds.       “Can’t believe someone gave that large yacht to those idiots,” Cassidy says.       “Anyway, they will be responsible for everything,” Raquelle throws her hands up. “If they break something, they will fix it.”       “Something will hardly be left of that yacht after their tricks,” Olivia says funnily.       “We don’t care. The responsibility is on that gang.”       “They can do what they want, but they are not allowed to invite unfamiliar girls and go to a striptease club,” Natalia adds.       “Oh, if I find out one of them brought a half-naked stripper, I will kill Rose,” Helene says confidently. “And kill the one to bring at least one girl there!”       “At least, Perkins won’t surely think of bringing girls there,” Anna replies with her head proudly raised. “He does know about consequences.”       “Don’t worry, Anna, it’s gonna be cool!” Cassidy says cheerfully, slightly clapping Anna on a shoulder. “Danny is on our hook! You and I did pin him to the wall so hard that he was literally afraid to go to the bachelor.”       “It seems like it’s gonna be much worse for Daniel,” Jessica laughs. “His girlfriend threatened with a finger, and his sister promised to kick his ass…”       “Oh, don’t be afraid, girls!” Blair smiles shyly. “You can be quiet about the MacClife brothers, Rose, and Perkins. Anyway, Sammy is gonna kick them hard!”       “Ah, yeah, they’re under a hard control of the long-eared one…” Helene smiles slyly.       “I’m definitely quite ‘cause Sammy is with them,” Natalia confesses confidently. “He wouldn’t let those idiots do a stupid thing. However, I count on the decency of Edward, Terrence, and the other men. I gave MacClife a little instruction and promised to do something if I disliked something.”       “Since Sammy is with them, questioning Terrence would be much better,” Raquelle replies with her head proudly up. “He’ll help me understand if my sweetheart lies and thinks he fools me.”       “Don’t worry, girls!” Kylie advises with a slight smile. “May the boys have fun and hang out enough.”       “Let’s hope they wouldn’t love to drink to hell and go to the nearest striptease club to watch half-naked girls,” Odette suggests.       “Maybe they published something on social networks?” Jessica assumes. “Let’s check out their accounts?”       “If they didn’t forget how to turn on a camera on the phone and what to press to publish a post on their accounts or our direct message,” Helene laughs shyly.       All the girls take their bags placed on one of the sofas and take their mobile phones to check if the men posted photos or videos from the bachelor's celebration.       “No, nothing,” Natalia chuckles kindly, examining something on her smartphone. “It seems like they were really drunk and forgot how to unlock a phone.”       “Or haven’t reached them yet…” Melissa assumes. “Or something… Or their hangout isn’t so cool or too funny to take photos and record videos.”       “Wait, Mel, it’s not the evening,” Raquelle replies confidently, checking something on her smartphone. “I’m sure someone will leak all the photos and videos from their bachelor. And we’ll surely see them.”       “I bet they check out their phones when they’re able to do it with a wish to see what we’re doing here,” Anna chuckles quietly, scrolling something on her smartphone.       “Well, we could make them happy and send something to cheer them up or drive them crazy,” Blair smiles mysteriously.       “Excellent idea, Blair!” Kylie nods confidently.       “So what, girls?” Olivia asks. “Let’s show them how to have a lot of fun?”       “I agree!” Jessica agrees cheerfully.       “Okay, girls, listen to me!” Natalia jabs funnily, loudly, putting her phone aside. “Turn on cool music at full volume! We’re gonna dance now.”       “And we’ll surely be taking photos and recording short videos for our gentlemen,” Raquelle adds.       “Not taking pictures against these views would be a sin,” Olivia says.       “And we can dance right on this table,” Cassidy chuckles funnily. “Imagine it like a scene! Shout and whoop as much as we want!”       “If Daniel sees something like this, he will kill you!” Raquelle laughs.       “Oh, I forgot to ask him! Come on!”       “Don’t be so confident and sassy Cassidy,” Helene advises. “Your brother isn’t gonna love it.”       “Relax, ladies, it’s gonna be cool! Moreover, he won’t remember it ‘cause he’s one hundred percent drunk to the hell. And I dare to assume Dan climbed on a table and is hanging out on it. Getting ashamed of the men and showing he can’t dance at all.”       “I’d watch that scene!” Natalia laughs shyly. “And actually, I’d laugh loudly if they really came up with an idea to dance on the table.”       “Gosh, if they drink, they can think of anything,” Kylie replies confidently. “They may easily climb to the top of the yacht and scream like crazy naked.”       “Hope they won’t do these things,” Melissa expresses hope. “It’d be better if they just danced on a table. Even if they were naked! Shocking those who serve them.”       “It’s okay, girls, we’ll see what those idiots came up with soon,” Helene replies with a sly smile.       “But now let’s hang out to the fullest and show them a master class by dancing that they would need very much,” Emma suggests.       “Yes, let’s dance on the table!” Jessica throws funnily. “Let the guys get lessons from the real professionals!”       “Come on, girls,” Natalia orders confidently. “Move everything off quickly and turn on music.”       “May those who live underwater forgive us!” Blair laughs shyly.       “Don’t worry, cuties, we’re far from the city now. Nobody can hear us, no matter what we do. So, we can do what we want.”       “Let’s begin then!” Anna exclaims funnily.       “Yeah!” Natalia quickly gets up from the sofa and raises her hand. “It’s time for the bachelorette! The time for real fun has come! Hoora-a-a-a-ay!”       “Ye-e-e-e-e-a-h!” the other girls shout much happier and louder, getting up from the sofa or floor and raising their hands up.       After funnily giving each other a five, the girls examine the list of all songs closely, choosing the best songs for dances and talking about every one of them. They prefer leaving the glasses of champagne here but ask the service staff to bring them a couple of packs of juices not to drink alcohol for a whole day and not to get drunk. They plan to relax and have a good time. Not to drink to the hell and suffer from a hangover, and try to remember what they did on their own bachelorette and whether something bad happened.       

***

      But it seems like the men do not care about this perspective at all since they have drunk enough and relaxed much more by this moment. Someone decides to take off their t-shirts and wear shorts only, but someone does not rush to do it. Everyone laughs non-stop with all their heart as they tell something to each other or play the fool with the grooms with a glass of strong drink in their hands. And of course, they enjoy the shoots of the hot sun and the way the light wind blows their faces, while the yacht is moving strictly to the right course. Sammy is having pleasure from playing with a toy and biting it with his sharp teeth, but does not forget to watch the drunk men, who are sitting on the sofa insolently and laughing out loud at what Blake is telling them.       “Are you serious, boy?” Edward cannot believe, being a little red and laughing out loud.       “How did you end up at a party of those you don’t know and didn’t invite you to?” Peter wonders, being no less red as well, and not stopping laughing loudly.       “I don’t the fuck know!” Blake chuckles loudly, throwing his hands up and holding a glass of strong alcohol in one of them. “But my buddy and I ended up at a cool party in a magical way.”       “And how did they let you go there if you didn’t know anyone?” Terrence wonders with a laugh.       “They were all drunk and accepted everybody like their close people!”       “Okay, what’s next?” Joseph asks.       “In short, they saw my buddy and me outside when we were going by their home. They threw something in a trash can, as far as I remember… We talked a little, and then they invited us to join their party. They were like, ‘Come in, sweeties, join us!’”       “And you?” Cody asks.       “Well, we just had the pleasure of hanging out and drinking a little. For free, huh!”       “Didn’t anyone really notice that you weren’t invited there?” Daniel wonders, taking a couple of sips from his glass.       “Nobody at all! We were like close people to everybody! They generously shared drinks with us, and the girls literally didn’t let us go and wanted to take us to one of the bedrooms or a bathroom.”       “And how did everything end?” Christopher asks with a sly smile. “As I understand, the party was very cool?”       “I don’t know,” Blake slightly shrugs and drinks some drink from his glass.       “What?” Cody frowns slightly.       “After I started drinking glass by glass, not finding out what they gave me, I was losing my memory more and more. And I eventually don’t remember what I did at that party.”       “Wow!” Joseph exclaims and drinks a little from his glass.       “And my buddy memorized nothing. But I vaguely remember a half-naked girl in a red bra and strings, who struggled to give me a blowjob.”       “And did you surely have wonderful sex?” Kevin asks cheerfully, drinking some alcohol from his glass with a sly smile.       “Maybe, we had,” Blake assumes and drinks some drink. “I don’t know. I don’t the fuck remember that party and don’t know what happened between that half-naked girl and me. I remember only me drinking with lots of unfamiliar people, then turned off at all and woke up the next day.”       “You rock, boy…” Benjamin laughs quietly.       “Agree with you!” Cody exclaims and takes a sip from his glass.       “What kind of events…” Joseph pronounces thoughtfully.       “And you know where I woke up?” Blake asks.       “In a bed with that girl in red, being absolutely naked?” Jeremy chuckles kindly.       “I wish I were in bed. I was on the roof of the house in my underwear only…”       Everybody in the living room starts laughing loudly as the music playing on the music system gets quieter. Someone claps their knees, grabs their stomachs, or puts their hands on their foreheads.       “On the roof of the house?” William trills with a loud laugh. “In underwear?”       “How did you end up there?” Ryan wonders, thrilling with the same loud laugh, with a glass of alcohol in his hands.       “I wish I knew it,” Blake throws his hands up.       “Yeah, as it turned out, I’ve had a boring life…” Benjamin says thoughtfully. “I thought I had a colorful life. But no! Something much cooler may happen!”       “The weather was cold on that day. I got terribly fucking cold and almost froze my balls. And I’m still amazed I didn’t get ill. Because when I lived in an orphan house with my brother, I always got ill and suffered from poor health. I could get cold from any cold air. And I’ve had all the illnesses literally in the world for my years.”       “Oh, I can’t…” Christopher pronounces with a wild laugh. “On a roof of the house in underwear…”       “Uh-huh, you know how overwhelmed I was when I realized I was on the roof of the house where I never was! Which was placed where my foot never stepped!”       “Oh, shit!” Edward thrills with a loud laugh and leans his head back for a second. “You’re a moron, Connor! Just an idiot!”       “Absolutely!” Cody chuckles loudly.       “How could you drink so much that you magically ended up on a roof in your underwear only?”       “Only one thing is clear: I ended up there by climbing the stairs in the attic of the house,” Blake replies thoughtfully.       “I’d like to know how,” Joseph says confidently. “How you did it…”       “Oh, dude,” Terrence pronounces with a laugh and drinks from his glass. “You were lucky you wore underwear. It would’ve been much worse if you’d been absolutely naked.”       “It seems like I slept there for a whole night,” Blake assumes.       “Folks definitely would’ve been overwhelmed if they had seen a half-naked idiot on the roof of the house,” Daniel chuckles loudly, wiping sweat off his forehead.       “That’s good I got out just in time and didn’t meet any one from the inhabitants of that house, and especially cops,” Blake replies with a laugh, being red. “I didn’t kinda wanna be in prison with many prisoners that understand only the language of fists.”       “But where were the people?” Christopher asks.       “The people were sleeping so hard and weren’t even thinking of walking up after that hangout. But one man was trying to get up and reach a pack of bottles of water. But he didn’t care about my pal and me. I later found him lying on the floor near the hall door with someone’s underwear on his head and hugging that half-naked girl. But she was only wearing strings and no bra. Though all the girls were like that, or actually naked.”       “What was your age when you drank at the hangout of those you didn’t know?” Peter grins kindly.       “Just recently! About one year ago. I barely turned eighteen. And I decided to go with that idiot at a party of unfamiliar people. I barely woke that bonehead up ‘cause he was deeply sleeping. He was the fuck happy!”       “Didn’t anyone realize you knew nobody?” Edward wonders.       “Nope, nobody did! And my buddy and I washed our faces, drank the water we found, found our clothes, dressed up somehow, barely came to the door, and got out to the fuck. The way home was very hard! Seriously, men, I almost died after that hangout! And the fact that I woke up on the roof of the house killed me!”       All the men laugh loudly again and drink something from their glasses, already being far from sober.       “Oh, men, this is the best thing I’ve ever heard in my life!” Terrence confesses with a laugh.       “Yeah, as it turned out, sometimes people live much better than you,” Cody notices confidently.       “Yeah, but I liked the moment of sitting on the roof in underwear much more,” Christopher says with a laugh, holding his stomach.       “Oh, I’m imagining that scene,” Joseph laughs loudly.       “I thanked everyone a million times ‘cause everybody was so drunk that nobody thought of taking photos and recording videos of me,” Blake confesses and runs his hand over his face. “Or I wouldn’t have taken that shame…”       “Be happy they didn’t do!” Ryan chuckles kindly. “And it was okay that you wore at least underwear. Everything was worse about me ‘cause cameras caught me wearing a ballet tutu.”       “You?” Blake gets loudly amazed. “Ballet tutu?”       And the male company starts laughing loudly again and slapping themselves on a leg or forehead, making Sammy lying not far from them distracts himself from his toy and looks at them as if he says, “No, are they really idiots?”       “Hey, really?” Kevin wonders.       “Fuck, Ryan!” Daniel pronounces funnily with a laugh. “I won’t believe you decided to do it!”       “I was kinda dreaming of that!” Ryan exclaims. “Dreaming of putting on a ballet tutu and getting a nickname ‘Little ballerina.’”       “Were you drunk, too?” Peter wonders.       “Uh-huh. Drunk to the fuck on one party of pals of my familiar guy, at which they invited me. And later, I succumbed to their provocations and began to drink. Drank whiskey and mixed it with vodka. Later, I took off all my clothes and started accosting all the girls and feeling them up. And they didn’t mind it!”       “And what’s next?” Edward specifies.       “And when I got sick of acting a love hero, I found a ballet tutu at the house, put it on and started doing some idiot things and screaming loudly so that everybody looked at me,” Ryan drinks from his glass through a laugh, being a little red from shame. “Everybody was laughing freaking hard. And one dude started getting stuck on me when being drunk, finding me a stripper in that tutu, and even started putting money in my underwear.”       The men laugh much louder, literally rolling on the floor from a hysterical laugh.       “Fucking shit, dude!” Jeremy exclaims loudly with a little hoarse voice from a laugh. “You’re awesome!”       “Yeah, Clayton, as it turns out, you aren’t as shy as you seem to be,” Terrence notices funnily, drinking some drink from his glass. “As it turned out, you can amaze, we will.”       “It seems like you outdid all of us, boy!” Benjamin assumes cheerfully. “Dance in a ballet tutu… Shit…”       “By the way, I drank to the fuck for the first time ever,” Ryan replies confidently, drinking some burning drink from his glass. “I hadn’t actually drunk alcohol and hadn’t thought of tasting even beer.”       “What was your age?” William asks.       “About sixteen or something like that. But I still studied at school. Wanted to relax a little, have a break from studies, and hang out to the fullest. And that’s what it brought to! I was dancing on a bar table in a ballet tutu of someone’s sister, and the people were laughing and photographing it on their phones.”       “Anything happens…” Joseph slightly shrugs.       “I really got overwhelmed when my friend showed me a video that made my eyes open wide. And I was worried everybody at school would know it. But that’s good everything was okay. Only a few people knew it but said nothing. That’s what I’m grateful to them for.”       “My eyes would be the same if someone saw and recorded a video of me dancing on a table in a ballet tutu with loud shouts,” Edward confesses with a loud laugh.       “C’mon, Edward, shut up!” Blake exclaims. “If we give you some drink, you’ll one hundred percent climb up to this table and start dancing a tap dance for those who live underwater.”       “You know, knowing we all are drunk to the fuck here, nobody’s gonna miss this chance.”       “We ain’t drunk to the fuck!” Peter protests, raising his hand, looking at Edward with almost unfocused eyes, and shaking his head. “We need to drink a couple more drinks of whiskey and add some vodka to that.”       “It’s not too late, Pete,” Daniel replies funnily, barely moving his tongue. “We’ll surely drink more than one drink of whiskey or vodka. At least, I ain’t gonna stop after drinking only one or two drinks.”       “Listen, what if we raise our glasses for the grooms and wish something to them?” William suggests funnily, barely raising his glass. “It’s kinda a bachelor… Today, Eddy and Terry are our stars! The reasons for the party!”       “Oh, did we come together for a bachelor?” Ryan wonders through a laugh. “Of the grooms! And who’s gonna get married? Remind me, please…”       “Kinda me,” Edward chuckles with a stupid smile.       “And me,” Terrence laughs loudly.       “Why don’t ya wear white shorts?” Jeremy asks.       “Pardon, I don’t have these,” Edward throws his hands up.       “And I prefer dark colors!” Terrence adds.       “Okay, but where are the brides?” Christopher wonders and looks around the whole deck. “Hey, brides… Where are you?”       “The brides are having fun with their friends… And talking about us… Obviously…”       “Yeah, men, we mustn’t drink,” Kevin laughs loudly, closing half of his red face with a hand. “We’re losing our minds…”       “At least we remember we came here to send the grooms to a married life,” Blake adds with his head proudly raised. “A great success, I think.”       “And since it’s happening, let’s raise glasses for these two drunk boneheads and wish them happiness in a personal life,” Cody suggests.       “I’m in!” Terrence exclaims funnily, raising his glass up and hugging Edward with a free arm. “Let’s raise the best toast for the most sexual man in the world and his little brother.”       “Drink for the grooms!” Jeremy whops happily. “For my bros!”       “For the grooms!” all the men repeat loudly and funnily.       “For me!” Edward and Terrence pronounce happily.       With much louder shouts, “Hooray!” and whoops, the men raise their glasses, click each other’s glasses, and drink the rest of the drink, and then they eat something from the food, feeling how much their throats are burning after such strong alcohol.       “Ugh, it’s fucking burning!” Christopher exhales sharply.       “But HOW it’s burning!” Benjamin adds cheerfully.       “Oh, oh, oh, I already feel a wave of energy!” Joseph exclaims.       “And when we drink a little bit more, we’ll be singing songs and dancing along with cool music!” Kevin replies cheerfully, stretching his arms out and warming them up after putting his glass on the table. “And swim in the ocean a little.”       “Huh, I’m ready to sing and dance right now!” Terrence says confidently, gesticulating actively. “When are we gonna have a chance to hang out in male company and drink a little?”       “Don’t find yourself in a ballet tutu!” Benjamin chuckles loudly. “Or don’t do something like that.”       “As far as I know… My brother doesn’t go to a ballet class. So, he wouldn’t lend me a ballet tutu.”       “Too bad. I would be laughing so hard if I saw you hanging out on the bachelor in a ballet tutu or actually being naked.”       “And I would be laughing at your striptease, which you started at a club with the blonde gal. In whose underwear you put a one-hundred-dollar banknote.”       “M-m-m, you still remember…” Benjamin smiles mysteriously.       “Of course, I do. And I couldn’t leave it unnoticed. As well as I appreciated your gift for my relationship anniversary with Raquelle. That set for BDSM games.”       “It’s nice to know people appreciate your efforts.”       “Anyway, I laughed a lot at your striptease…”       “Why you laughed! I was just imitable! People shouted so that they all lost their voices! Girls peed their pants from excitement!”       “They likely peed their pants because of your successful attempts to look like a sexy macho, not a clown from a circus.”       “Wow!” Edward laughs. “I didn’t know Parker worked as a stripper.”       “He did, the guys kinda reached the wrong address of his workplace,” Terrence chuckles kindly. “He should’ve gone to a strip club and shown his talents there. Instead of selling alcohol in a random diner.”       “An elite and expensive shop, not a diner,” Benjamin replies proudly.       “Listen, I kinda remember that!” Joseph exclaims. “We kinda hung out as a four! Or there was someone else with us, I can’t remember! And Parker really went to dance with that girl.”       “Yes, yes, I vaguely remember that,” Cody nods. “Ben rocked on fucking hard! Everyone was thrilled!”       “Too bad you and I didn’t think of taking photos and recording videos. We could show them to you.”       “Yeah, we got so busy watching this talented guy and forgot everything,” Terrence laughs loudly.       “Oh, fuck, Ben…” Edward shakes his head. “Did you find a new job? You work at an alcohol shop during the day but rock on at a striptease bar at night?”       “What?” Benjamin resents.       “By the way, what’s your nickname if it’s not a secret? Share your great secret with us!”       “Easy to guess!” Terrence exclaims. “Don Juan. Just Don Juan.”       Everybody thrills with a loud laugh, while Sammy looks at them more suspiciously, definitely thinking, “God, save me from this hell!”       “Don’t listen to him, men,” Benjamin jabs. “Terrence just drank to the fuck from happiness and is now talking shit along with his brother. He can even barely speak!”       “Invite all of us to your show somehow,” Christopher says cheerfully. “Of course, we don’t care about a male striptease, but we’d be happy to come to support our friend.”       “Yeah!” Kevin agrees. “Give you some money! We always need it, huh.”       “Gosh, who do I speak to?” Benjamin moans tiredly, running a free hand over his little blush face.       “I clearly remember someone from the club recorded his incredible performance on a phone,” Terrence says confidently and puts his glass on the table.       “Sorry, MacClife, but you can create a fucking hit once in your life,” Benjamin smiles slyly. “You can shoot one time, but you can hardly do this for the second time.”       “If I had at least one video, I would show it to the guys. They would laugh at you.”       “Why laugh? Maybe they’d be impressed with what I could do!”       “You can do only one thing, Parker – picking up beautiful girls and licking them from head to foot. And lying on the bed while someone gives you a blowjob.”       “Here’s the proof of me being absolutely healthy.”       “Then make our friends happy by telling how you had fun with the strip girl you took at my bachelor.”       “So, did ya like it?”       “Like?” Terrence crosses his arms over his chest. “Seriously? You’ve always had a bad taste in girls! How could you get a crush on a half-naked girl, the ass of whom was closed only with a thin strip, and the boobs of whom could get out of her bra that didn’t fit her by size. She was literally dressing up in the darkness and took the first thing that she found.”       “But what a doll she was,” Benjamin smiles mysteriously. “And how she was moving. wrapping! Like a cat… M-m-m…”       “I found nothing beautiful about her!”       “Oh, dude, I don’t understand you… How could you give her no attention? She was such a cutie! Made a man want to undress and fuck her!”       “She had three layers of cosmetics on her face! Which she wouldn’t have removed even with sandpaper!”       “You didn’t have to live with her!” Blake notices. “You could watch her dance, feel up her ass and boobs, and give her the best sex ever! That’s all!”       “Thanks, but I don’t like silicon,” Terrence replies quietly.       “When you wanna fuck someone, you don’t care if a girl has silicone boobs,” Joseph says confidently. “The important thing is that these are BOOBS!”       “Exactly!” Cody exclaims.       “I'm very sorry that you don’t understand anything,” Terrence says quietly.       “C’mon, Terrence!” William pronounces cheerfully. “You and Edward kinda aren’t born in this world! Why did you mind the girls at the party dedicated to the farewell to your single life?”       “Yes, no bachelor happens without a striptease of sexual cuties,” Jeremy says confidently. “The groom is happy, and his gang gets pleasure.”       “Uh-huh, Ben, Cody, and I thought of taking a beautiful gal to the yacht,” Joseph confesses. “I mean two. Because we have two grooms. So that they please them and satisfy them.”       “When you have your bachelor party, do what you want,” Terrence advises.       “And yeah, I warned you all!” Edward threatens with a finger. “If one of you comes here with a decorated half-naked girl from a striptease club, I swear you will regret it.”       “Sorry,” Christopher pronounces thoughtfully and smiles mysteriously. “We could hang out with a couple of cuties and feel them up…”       “You can leave the yacht, get out to a striptease club right now, and feel up gals as much as you want. My brother and I hold nobody! Ask the helmsman to sail to the beach so that you can leave! If you want, get out! It’s okay!”       “Don’t worry, buddy,” Blake smiles slyly. “We will have time to go and admire beautiful girls.”       “No half-naked dolls with much makeup will be at my party! And I warned you a thousand times.”       “And I said nobody would be allowed to bring a gal here,” Terrence adds.       “Calm down, men, no gals will come here!” Kevin replies confidently. “I brought nobody.”       “Me too,” Christopher pronounces.       “Me too!” Benjamin exclaims. “You know I changed since that time and started dating a good, decent girl.”       “Yeah, but you were such a super lover at those good times,” Terrence chuckles kindly. “I couldn’t memorize all your girlfriends… When I got used to one girl, you got another.”       “I will tell you more, MacClife, I don’t remember half of the girls I’ve slept with, dated, and just flirted with.”       “But as I can see, you didn’t forget that stripper.”       “How could I forget that cat that was twisting so beautifully and getting me attracted with her eyes…”       “Uh-huh, that cat got you caught in her trap, and you took off everything except underwear and danced an unforgettable striptease with her on the table,” Terrence grins quietly, leaning back in the sofa and putting his arms on the back of it. “And you felt each other up. And left lots of bruises.”       Meanwhile, the men listening to Benjamin and Terrence’s talk laugh quietly, looking at each other.       “But then I had an incredible night of love,” Benjamin says confidently. “You know she gave me an excellent blow-job. M-m-m… My eyes popped out of their sockets!”       “Yeah…” Ryan pronounces thoughtfully. “I kinda doubt that a womanizer could suddenly become a family man and be loyal to the only one.”       “But I did become. And I’m dating a girl who’s not similar to others.” Benjamin drinks a little from his glass. “Besides, I picked that girl up because I wanted to get away from one guy, who was with us. Terrence’s pal. The annoying idiot wearing glasses in a Harry Potter style, who thought he could joke well.”       “By the way, that idiot wearing glasses, as you said, has changed much,” Terrence replies confidently. “He got muscles, grew up into a man, and doesn’t wear glasses now. I somehow met him and was nicely amazed by the changes that happened to him.”       “Uh-huh, did he learn to joke well? Or is he still the same owner of a bad humor that makes only him laugh?”       “He isn’t just a lover of dirty jokes. He… So to say… Jokes in an intelligent way.”       “Why did you the fuck bring that idiot to hang out with me, Joe, and Cody? If not for him, everything would’ve been good!”       “I dunno, he didn’t give me discomfort,” Cody confesses.       “Me too,” Joseph adds.       “Fuck, I’m still ashamed of the way he tried to pick up that stripper,” Benjamin claps himself on the forehead.       “C’mon, don’t exaggerate!” Terrence exclaims. “We spent a good time with the guys.”       “Yeah, you kinda remember everything!”       “Much more than you. I didn’t drink as much as you did. Your mind was blown, and you were literally ready to go outside in your underwear or being naked and dance. And make people think you’re a sick pervert, who should’ve been taken to the police station.”       “Yeah, didn’t you forget what you did? How you overdrunk, were dancing on the table when being half-naked, shouting some stupid bullshit, reminding of your popularity again, and proclaiming yourself a king of everyone and everything! And in the end, your long legs twisted, and you fell on the floor and kicked your ass. And rolled on the floor with shouts about being hurt and killed.”       The male company starts laughing loudly again, and someone fills their glasses with strong alcohol and takes a few sips.       “It didn’t happen!” Terrence protests.       “It did!” Cody exclaims. “I clearly remember your tricks.”       “Uh-huh, I believe they posted an article about it in magazines,” Joseph adds. “But his managers did their best to make people believe it was a lie, and those photos were a fake. Then photos disappeared from everywhere, and all articles about it were deleted.”       “Oh, hold on, men…” Daniel pronounces funnily with a glass of drink in his hand. “I feel like Edward is gonna be drunk as fuck, jump on the table to dance, and take off all his clothes.”       “Ya really care if I do?” Edward wonders, barely connecting words to one another. “It’s my bachelor! I’m hanging out and doing whatever I want! I’ve got a party!”       “Apple doesn’t fall far – a younger brother is gonna be the same as an older one,” Kevin chuckles kindly.       “Ed is already drunk!” Christopher says cheerfully. “Look how he relaxed after one glass!”       “Right!” Blake laughs quietly. “Advising you to get ready, men, the grooms will perform a striptease for us soon. And run to jump in the water in their underwear only.”       “With Parker,” Peter grins kindly. “They’re gonna climb up to the table. And then jump in the warm salt water on the run!”       “Uh-huh, keep dreaming!” Benjamin chuckles loudly and drinks some from his filled glass. “Let Terrence make you have fun! He believes he’s an irresistible, handsome man – so, let him show it. Not work his tongue for nothing! Well, if his brother also wanna shake his genitals, it’s okay.”       “You’re first, my honorable friend,” Terrence smiles slyly. “First, may the professional of it do this.”       Benjamin imitates funnily the way Terrence says the last phrase and shows him a middle finger, while MacClife, Sr, hums with his eyes rolled and drinks from his glass, which he takes from the table, and the others still laugh.       “Hey, did you actually meet?” Daniel asks. “We know you’ve been friends since childhood, but we have never heard how you met. Were you studying at the same school?”       “Us?” Benjamin wonders. “No, luckily, we studied at different schools. And we met a long time ago. Somewhere at the age of about seven or eight, if my drunk head doesn’t betray me. Our mothers were working together and spoke quite closely.”       “Uh-huh, somehow, my mother took me with her to visit Parker and his mother,” Terrence adds. “I barely understood what I should’ve done there, but didn’t protest. I wanna specify that I don’t know his father ‘cause he doesn’t live with Ben and his mother since they divorced. And thanks to our mothers, I met this creature named Benjamin Joshua Parker.”       “This idiot annoyed me for the first few minutes after meeting each other. While our mothers were drinking tea in the kitchen, this shameless peacock destroyed my room while running after me. Wanted to play a fucking catch. Then we fought over the toy, broke it, fought… But in five minutes, we were sitting in front of the TV and playing the game console as if nothing had happened.”       “Ha, where would you have run away?” Terrence grins kindly. “With your body, you could only reach the refrigerator.”       “Wanna say I was fat?” Benjamin opens his eyes widely.       “I still remember you being such a puffy and petite boy with big cheeks. Yes, of course, you magically grew up, became as tall as I am, and lost enough weight… But a fact is a fact…”       “It was just baby swelling,” Benjamin smiles innocently. “Any child who suffers from it but loses weight and stretches out as long as he or she grows up. You also had big cheeks when you were a kid, but they later were gone.”       “Not true! I’ve never had big cheeks!”       “You had, you had!” Edward smiles slyly. “Mother showed me your childhood photos! And we laughed at you inflating your cheeks and looking like an eating chipmunk.”       “Hey, shut up there, kid! Or I’ll quickly cut your long tongue.”       “MacClife doesn’t like it,” Cody nods confidently. “Doesn’t like!”       “You’re right,” Joseph agrees.       “Doesn’t like hearing the truth,” Benjamin notices.       “You shut up, too!” Terrence throws gloomily. “If you hadn’t braced yourself, you would be much fatter than you were in childhood.”       “You can always lose weight, but you can’t do anything about your height. You’ve always been a tall column against your pals. A six-foot tail column that has always been one head taller than guys.”       “Not six foot! My height is one meter and ninety-three centimeters!”       “Who cares? Plus or minus a few centimeters!”       “Has he always been like this?” Blake asks with a glass in his hands.       “Always! MacClife has always been head taller than people of his age. And he was also as skinny as a sausage. Much skinnier than he is now. Yes, his cheeks were big, of course, but his legs and arms were thin. Like sticks!”       “Oh, shit, the parrot is talking too much…” Terrence moans tiredly.       “By the way, all the guys in the neighborhood called him ‘Giraffe Terry’ due to his tall height.”       “Giraffe Terry?” Blake chuckles kindly.       “Right!”       “Just try to call me Terry, or you’ll regret it,” Terrence threatens with a finger. “I hate when someone calls me like this!”       “Okay, Terry, we won’t do,” Edward laughs quietly, clapping Terrence on a shoulder.       Edward gets a strong slap on the back of his head from Terrence, then winces slightly and squeaks quietly, rubbing the hurt area but not stopping laughing.       “Why don’t ya like it?” Jeremy wonders. “Just a short name for the name Terrence – that’s all!”       “Come on, Jer!” Benjamin chuckles ironically. “MacClife prefers being a serious and adult man and doesn’t take any short variants of his wonderful, rare name. Terry is kinda not serious, men! Terrence is a better thing!”       “Oh, I remember that Perkins and I called him Terry somehow,” Peter says cheerfully with a glass in his hand. “He got excited and told us to call him only Terrence.”       “But sometimes he misses it,” Daniel adds. “If you call him Terry, he takes it quietly.”       “I just like when people call me by my full name more,” Terrence confesses quietly. “And I ask you to call me only that.”       “What’s wrong with a nickname Terry? I don’t grumble when I’m called Dan! Vice versa, my friends may call me like this! And when I was a kid, one boy called me Danny. It’s fine with me. It’s my name.”       “I said everything! I tell you to call me Terrence and only!”       “Give a fuck, men!” Christopher waves a hand. “Since our star asks us to call him by his full name, okay, we’ll call His Highness the way he wants.”       “A wish of a king is a law!” Joseph exclaims.       “Calm down, men, we’ll get our irresistible Terry drunk, and he’ll get much kinder and take off his crown for a while,” Benjamin replies funnily. “And he’ll react well even if we address him just ‘T’.”       “Shut up, idiot!” Terrence throws gloomily. “You get excited when you are called Benjamin, not Ben!”       “You may fall asleep while pronouncing my full name. But I make this mission easier! Ben is short and clear! Unlike some Benjamin…”       “Oh, how generous you are!”       “Okay, okay, lads,” William pronounces cheerfully, taking his glass and raising it. “Let’s drink one more glass.”       “Oh, yeah!” Ryan agrees, while those who put their glasses on the table take them. “Everybody would quickly relax and stop being annoying!”       “Let’s drink for this self-confident turkey not to be too insolent and…” Edward wants to say with a wide smile, moves his eyes to Terrence, who looks at him not very kindly, falls sharply into silence, and smiles innocently. “Uh-h-h… Okay! Let’s just drink for everything to be cool!”       “Wishing you the same!” Kevin says funnily. “We don’t need the second Terrence MacClife! We can’t settle down the first one!”       “Hooray!” Ryan shouts loudly, funnily.       “Hooraa-a-a-a-ay!” the others pronounce cheerfully.       All the men raise their glasses again, click each other’s glasses, and drink some alcohol, the influence of which gets stronger so that the friends relax more and more.       “Listen, Sammy kinda forgot us at all,” Edward notices thoughtfully with sadness in his eyes. “Sitting in the corner, doesn’t come, doesn’t bark.”       “The long-eared one is just overwhelmed by what’s happening and wonders where he ended up,” Peter assumes with a quiet chuckle.       “Uh-huh,” Ryan grins kindly. “He’s probably thinking, ‘I would’ve rather been listening to the girls’ talks about clothes and hairstyles than being with these eleven idiots and listening to their talks about naked gals and dances with a ballet tutu!’”       While the men thrill with a laugh, Sammy distracts himself from his toy for the first time and barks loudly, not wishing to come to those who smell of alcohol, even if they are one mile away.       “Hey, boy, why are ya sitting there?” Blake asks Sammy cheerfully. “Don’t ya wanna join our party in honor of the groom? Or would you be sitting aside with that bone?”       Sammy makes a weird sound, lies down, and takes his blue bone, kind of letting the men know that they have fun without him.       “We tried,” Kevin throws his hands up.       “Okay, leave him,” Edward waves a hand. “If he wants, he will come. But I dare to assume the case is about us. We’re all drunk to the fuck and drinking a second glass of whiskey.”       “The most important thing is that he doesn’t get out,” Peter replies quietly, barely gesticulating. “Overboard… Or Helene’s gonna kill me with her hands.”       “If you come to her, being drunk to the fuck, she won’t surely caress your head,” Christopher chuckles kindly.       “All your beauties, who are now on the bride’s bachelorette, will definitely tie you up to the bed and kick your asses like little children,” Cody assumes.       “They’re probably sitting and talking about a plan of punishment,” Blake laughs shyly.       “We’ll agree with them,” Daniel replies confidently. “We do know well how to get them to listen to us and look into our eyes like doggies.”       “Oh, Perkins, you’re gonna take a double punishment,” Kevin notices funnily. “Your red-haired beauty and your younger sister.”       “Yay, dude, I don’t envy you,” Jeremy adds and drinks a little bit from his glass.       “We will see it, men,” Daniel says with his head proudly up. “I will agree with Anna somehow, and Cassidy has no right to educate me. I must do this. Because I’m her older brother.”       “Besides, we have Sammy,” Peter notices confidently. “He’d help us make our beauties sure we behaved very well and did nothing bad.”       “The girls will surely believe this doggy ‘cause he only tells the truth,” Terrence adds with a sly smile.       Sammy makes a weird sound again.       “Yeah?” Blake wonders. “Judging Sammy’s reaction, I doubt he’ll cover you.”       “For a fresh piece of meat or a fresh bone, he’d swim the entire ocean back and forth one hundred times,” Daniel replies confidently.       “Don’t be so confident, tough guy,” Benjamin advises and drinks a little bit from his glass. “When I had a dog, she sometimes refused to agree with me even for her favorite treats.”       “Oh, you had a dog?” Edward wonders.       “Uh-huh. I had. A girl named Stacey. Chihuahua. She lived with me when I was a teenager.”       “She died?” Peter specifies.       “Yup. Stacey could’ve been alive, but sadly, she died after eating some shit outside when walking with Mother. She got busy with a talk and lost control over Stacey, but that one found some shit, ate it, and later felt bad. Mother immediately brought her to a doctor, but Stacey wasn’t saved in time.”       “Oh, I remember that bitch!” Terrence rolls his eyes. “That little bitch who always disliked me and always did bad tricks to me.”       “M-m-m, one more huge fan of our irresistible and imitable Terrence MacClife…” Edward smiles mysteriously.       “Okay, Parker, tell us about their ‘great and clean love!’” Daniel says funnily.       “Oh, the two had a ‘love at first sight!’” Benjamin smiles slyly. “When Terrence was visiting me at home, Stacey was getting literally hysterical.”       “You should’ve educated her better,” Terrence throws gloomily. “Your beloved Stacey behaved like an insolent, non-educated queen!”       “My Stacey was a good girl. You did provoke her and forced her to take revenge on you.”       “You could at least wean that insolent girl away from biting my shoes and making them a toilet.”       “It’s not my fault,” Benjamin throws his hands up. “You shouldn’t have kicked her with your legs and screamed at her!”       “Yeah? Do you know the cost of the shoes she destroyed when I went to your home somehow? By the way, I did pay half of my fee for a minor role! Your Stacey destroyed my new shoes to the fuck! After her tricks, my shoes were bitten, torn, and smelled like a dog’s urine!”       “Oh, it’s okay my doggy peed on your shoes.”       “What?”       “You had so much money at that moment that you could buy a few pairs of the same ones,” Joseph notices.       “What you’re talking about!       “Why did you the fuck scream at her and kick her with your feet?” Benjamin resents. “And slap her on the ass!”       “Come on?” Cody wonders.       “The poor girl was so scared ‘cause she had never been treated like that! I never screamed at her or beat her when she did something wrong. Just explained something quietly and took something off for a while.”       “I will never forgive her for that,” Terrence says gloomily. “As well as for everything she did after that case! Because of her, I couldn’t go to your home ‘cause I would’ve had to leave literally naked and barefoot.”       “You got what you deserved, buddy. You shouldn’t have hurt the dog, a female dog.”       “If I’d had my dog, I would’ve told it to pee in your favorite sneakers and bite them to the fuck.”       “I would’ve put them on your head.”       “Yeah, you had a funny life, guys,” Daniel laughs quietly.       “Oh, Dan, you’re right!” Cody exclaims.       “Yeah,” Joseph pronounces.       “But now I can say clearly MacClife must not get a pet,” Peter concludes. “If he slapped that dog, it talks about much.”       “I didn’t slap her!” Terrence protests. “Just slapped her with a newspaper slightly! One time!”       “But she memorized it for her whole life and started to take revenge on you.”       “I was happy then. But now, yes, I’m sorry about slapping her.”       “Hope the same isn’t waiting for Sammy?” Peter frowns slightly.       “No, I love Sammy. He’s an educated, smart doggy. You can explain everything to him by words, and he’d get it. But Parker’s dog understood nothing. No matter how you educated her! It was an insolent, stupid, and vindictive little bitch!”       “Yeah, Terrence, everyone’s right when saying you’ve never been sweet, fluffy, and innocent,” Daniel says thoughtfully. “Every day, we discover more and more about you.”       “Hey, I ain’t bad! I grew up a long time ago, changed a lot, and wouldn’t do what I did before.”       “Ben was right when saying Stacey gave you what you deserved.”       “Oh, Perkins, I would’ve been laughing if your Chelsea had destroyed your new high-priced shoes and turned them to a piece of shit that you would’ve had to throw off,” Terrence replies gloomily. “How you would’ve been mad and begun to shout and run after your dog with slippers in your hand!”       “No, my baby Chelsea was a very educated and shy girl. But madly curious. My parents, my sister, and I adored her with all our hearts. Yes, of course, she was stubborn at times and did dirty tricks, but that’s a female psychology – you can’t help with it. As a true girl, Chelsea was capricious sometimes and got mad when she got little attention.”       “My Stacey was very educated, as well,” Benjamin replies confidently. “She just really disliked Terrence. He’s the only one she, so to speak, couldn’t stand. And the way this shameless king treated her deprived him of a chance to get her love and admiration.”       “So, that’s how,” Joseph says confidently.       “Besides, don’t forget that MacClife still can’t accept the fact that people may drool over him and lick screens when a movie, in which he played a role, is being translated, and also madly hate him. To Terry, it’s always been a strong hit to his self-love. He’s used to people admiring him and thinking he’s imitable.”       “I believe you became too talkative, Benjamin Parker,” Terrence says gloomily. “When you're drunk a little, you turn to a boring talker.”       “You did become boring, Terrence. I guess we should give you a drink so that you get kind and just laugh fucking hard again.”       “Oh, I suggest we drink again!” Blake suggests funnily, raising his hand.       “Great idea, Blake!” Peter approves cheerfully. “But fill the glass of our imitable peacock. He’s sitting here like a stranger with an empty glass.”       “One moment, friends!”       Blake takes a bottle half filled with a strong whiskey and quickly fills an empty glass of Terrence and adds some drink to himself and the others.       “So, men, let’s raise these glasses,” Jeremy suggests, barely shaking his body while sitting on the floor with his legs bent under himself.       “Let’s just drink to have a cool time,” William adds funnily, already being quite drunk.       “Yea-a-a-a-h!” all the men whop happily at a different time.       Whooping with joy and smiling widely, the men raise their glasses up, click each other’s glasses slightly, and take a few sips of a burning whiskey, not forgetting to eat something after drinking it. And a little later, Kevin moves his little unfocused look to Edward thinking about something, and leaving his friends and brothers in his mind as he stares at the horizon.       “Hey, Edward, what are you thinking of?” Kevin asks funnily and clicks his fingers in front of Edward’s face. “Hello… Speak out what your mind is obsessed with!”       “His beloved blonde, of course – what else!” Christopher chuckles kindly. “He’s probably imagining his first marriage night with her.”       “No, just thought about how I met her for the first time,” Edward replies thoughtfully with a slight smile, knocking at his glass with his fingers. “How I went to a cafe to eat something, but forgot what I wanted after I saw her… That incredibly beautiful girl…”       “M-m-m, okay, bros, the minute of sentimentality starts now,” Benjamin replies with a sly smile.       “Seriously, guys… After seeing her from afar, I liked her. I had never met a more beautiful girl than she is. Besides, Natalia is the first blonde among the girls I’ve ever known. I ignored them ‘cause I thought they were stupid. But her beauty got me so admired that I gave a fuck about my principles.”       “Anyone would pay attention to that beauty,” Ryan notices thoughtfully.       “But she was sitting at the table and was very sad. I felt so sorry about that girl… Got a wish to make her smile and comfort.”       “And how many efforts did you put into finding the courage to pick her up?” William asks.       “Not so many. Thought a little and decided to do two things: eat something and try to meet a beautiful girl. So, I came to her and asked if I could sit at the table. Well, she didn’t kinda mind.”       “She was probably charmed by your pretty face and got funnier after the guy sat down with her,” Blake chuckles kindly.       “Although she allowed, I didn’t see that Natalia was interested in speaking to me. I would say she let me do it not to hurt me. That girl didn’t even look at me when I was talking to her, but she wasn’t rude and didn’t tell me to get out.”       “Weren’t you hurt?” Jeremy wonders.       “I just understood something made her worried. So, I treated it with understanding. And I was ready to listen and leave if she asked. But it didn’t happen. Natalia told me that she was worried because of fighting with Raquelle because of one deadbeat.”       “Wow,” Cody says thoughtfully. “To say everything to a stranger so easily…”       “She was so upset that she didn’t think of it. She could tell anyone anything. Anyone could ask her what happened, and Natalia would’ve told everything.”       “But I believe she just liked you,” Benjamin says confidently. “So, she told you everything!”       “Hardly! Natalia looked at me only when I started a talk about Terrence, whom I was trying to find. Compared how similar we were… While I was looking at that girl and admiring her beauty. And wanted to see her smile…”       “Okay, we know what happened later: Natalia agreed to help you meet your bro, the connection with whom you hid from everyone, and you started using a chance to pick her up and often invited her to dates,” Daniel says funnily.       “And of course, she literally ran on them ‘cause she was getting charmed by you more and more,” Peter adds cheerfully. “And the blonde eventually got a crush on you and thought of one young guy with a pretty face every dark night.”       “I couldn’t miss a chance,” Edward smiles mysteriously. “I wasn’t able to meet Terrence ‘cause the hell was happening in his life. So, I thought I shouldn’t have wasted time. Started to spend time with Natalia: inviting her somewhere, speaking to her much, advising her on something, supporting her somehow, comforting… And I was making sure it was giving me pleasure.”       “Yeah, as it turned out, my little bro is really a seducer,” Terrence laughs shyly. “Picked the girl up with no problems!”       “But the funniest thing about this story is that she thought I would’ve stopped speaking to her after I’d met Terrence,” Edward says with a laugh. “Well, why I needed her after meeting him. Natalia believed I would use her and leave her after getting what I wanted. She even stopped contacting me. Disappeared for two weeks. She did after we kissed for the first time. Kissed, guys! I clearly told her I liked her and didn’t even think of stopping speaking to her after meeting Terrence.”       “Maybe everything would have happened so?” Joseph assumes. “If you hadn’t gotten her charmed by you, Natalia wouldn’t have paid attention to you.”       “Anyway, I wouldn’t have forgotten her and would’ve always been grateful to her for help.”       “Listen, I’m still personally amazed by her act,” Terrence says confidently. “She’s really a silly girl ‘cause she left Edward after their first kiss and the honest confession of sympathy.”       “C’mon, maybe the girl was just shocked,” Kevin assumes cheerfully. “Didn’t expect getting a love confession. You did say Natalia was always unlucky in love and was always used by everyone. But then the PRINCE came! HIMSELF!”       “Hey, I didn’t think I’d love that girl and like to marry her,” Edward confesses confidently. “Didn’t think our relationship would be serious. We’d kinda hang out together for some time, and then I’d get sick of her and reject her. And now I don’t connect it with the fact that she agreed to help me meet Terrence.”       “But it happened otherwise, and you were ready to spend every minute with her,” Daniel notices cheerfully. “Just like a man in love.”       “I was getting overwhelmed for some time cuz I started giving very much attention to Natalia and looking for time to meet her with pleasure. And I quickly forgot a wish to reject her some time later. It wasn’t a part of my plan anymore.”       “Yeah, love is an amazing thing,” Benjamin notices thoughtfully.       “And how I missed her when she wasn’t contacting me! I felt really sad. Everything that made me happy stopped making me smile. Every day, I was losing hope of seeing her again… Asked myself what I did that Natalia did to me. Everything was kinda fine, but then I got a hit on my balls! But later she showed up, explained everything, and claimed she wanted to be with me. And what happened next… You all know well.”       “Confess that you liked you at once and got a crush on that beauty,” Jeremy insists cheerfully.       “No, I didn’t get a crush at once.”       “C’mon, bro, don’t be shy. I would be overwhelmed if you hadn’t gotten a crush on her during your first meeting. She is just a cutie! A fucking bomb!”       “But it’s true, Jer. First, I didn’t actually consider her my girlfriend or especially my wife. Yeah, I don’t deny I thought she was a beauty and was charmed. But I thought we could be only friends, no more. Or we could just hang out a little and say goodbye.”       “Nevertheless, that blonde got you caught in her charming trap and made you fall in love so much that you decided to get married,” William replies funnily.       “Yeah, I realized I needed that girl.”       “The girl you fell in love with so much that you even drank to the fuck due to a temporary breakup with her,” Christopher says with a kind grin.       “Drunk?” Terrence rounds his eyes. “When did he drink?”       “It happened somehow… And I see nobody’s aware. Judging by your amazed faces.”       “No, I know nothing about it.”       “Okay, I will tell you sharply. In short, I called Ed, who wasn’t Ed but was Justin to me, and invited him to go somewhere, drink, and talk. I thought everything would’ve been cool, and we would’ve spent a cool time. But we didn’t! This creature first drank his drink of whiskey on my account, then bought another for his money and took mine. In parallel, he was talking some shit and behaving like he was disappointed in all girls. He got drunk after the first glass!”       “Do me a favor, Christopher Ashley Morgan,” Edward throws gloomily. “Shut up, please.”       “If you call my fucking middle name that I can’t stand, you’ll regret it much.”       “Should you have started this talk?”       “If you weren’t pleased to tell, I have to do this.”       “Don’t dare, Chris!”       “Sorry, Ed, I have to.”       “Shut up, dude, please…”       “I can’t! I started to speak!”       “Hey, Chris, what happened next?” Blake asks.       “Next, what made me wish to be swallowed by the ground happened. It’s okay he drank whiskey. Even if hell began after the first glass, and I was overwhelmed by his behavior after a third one. But later, Edward started to harass a girl, a member of the bar staff… Tried to get her number and said she was similar to his ex. She almost called an administrator and literally threatened to call the police, but I solved everything quickly. And then this brainless idiot began to sing some stupid songs at the top of his lungs and, barely standing on his feet, decided to dance. And undress himself to his underwear. Look, ladies, what my ex lost! Even a couple of my slaps didn’t make him wake up and stop getting me and himself ashamed.”       “Wow…” Peter laughs quietly.       “I was terribly dying of a wish to leave this drunk guy alone. But my coincidence didn’t let me do. Because I invited him and was kinda responsible for him. And I didn’t want Edward to get into trouble and end up at a police station for a riot at the bar.”       “Wow…” Joseph shakes his head.       “So, after I took him under his arms and got him outta the bar, I took him to my home. Where this bonehead drank half of the alcohol I had and barely dragged him from. And then he was vomiting for half of the night and started to pass out in a restroom.”       “Yeah, you had a funny time,” Cody notices thoughtfully.       “I had to sleep on a sofa because Justin Ledger, who wasn’t actually Justin Ledger, went to my room, fell on my bed, and fell asleep. So deeply that I couldn’t wake him up. But I decided not to carry his body. But fuck… You know how much my back was hurt after spending a night on the sofa! I barely woke up in the early morning and didn’t sleep! And this creature was sleeping until the middle of the day. And then he was creeping on the wall from a hellish headache and terrible pain in his body. And I had to get his memories back ‘cause he forgot everything, and looked at me with his widely open eyes when listening to my story about his tricks. And when I showed him a scar on my hand he gave me.”       Due to the influence of alcohol, Edward barely understands everything, but even in this situation, he knows that he would not like to tell everybody about how he drank on one of his worst days during a meeting with Christopher in a cafe. While the surprised men say something like “Oh-h-h!” or “Uh-h-h!”       “What a twist…” Daniel pronounces thoughtfully.       “Yeah, what a twist…” Terrence wonders. “I hear about Edward drinking because of breaking up with Natalia for the first time.”       “Shouldn’t we expect something like that now, when he drinks a little bit more?” Peter asks.       “Huh, of course, we should!” Christopher chuckles kindly. “I realized Edward went the wrong way after the first glass. He must not actually drink. This guy stops controlling himself after the first sip. He gets drunk immediately!”       “Look, look, Edward is silent,” Ryan smiles slyly. “Seems like he’s got nothing to say.”       “Oh, yeah…” Edward barely pronounces. “I drank. I confess. But I needed it so badly. Because as much shit happened to me as never happened in my whole life. Problems with Natalia, who didn’t wanna tell me the truth, my sick uncle annoyed me, I fought with my brother and sister-in-law… I had the reasons. I wanted to drink. And Chris called me at the right time.”       “By the way, I didn’t know almost anything about Edward and wasn’t aware of the shit he got into,” Christopher confesses. “He always pretended to be someone else. But he was revealed by the reportage about Michael and his gang. I made Ed tell who he was. Even if he first tried to avoid the answer.”       “Fuck, Chris, I’m begging you, let’s not tell everything and make our mood worse,” Edward moans tiredly. “I don’t want to and won’t be talking about that, neither now nor later.”       “We aren’t gonna,” Terrence shrugs and drinks some drink from his glass. “But I’m surprised that I knew nothing about it.”       “I had often visited a bar to drink a strong drink before that happened. But I drank to the collapse for the first time. I repeat, I needed it. Because I couldn’t take it all anymore. And the events that happened on that day broke me down.”       “Yeah, sorry, buddy…” Cody replies thoughtfully, scratching the back of his head. “No matter what it was like, I’m very sorry.”       “But be happy it’s all over,” Daniel smiles slightly. “Nobody hunts your ass anymore.”       “Yeah, it won’t happen again,” Peter adds amicably.       “Oh, c’mon, dude!” Jeremy says funnily. “What’s wrong with the fact that our bro was drunk ‘cause he didn’t know how to solve conflicts with his girlfriend?”       “Exactly!” Joseph exclaims.       “I was also so upset by the breakup with one of my exes when I was sixteen or seventeen that I overdrunk. I mixed so much that I almost died while having a hangover. My friends persuaded me to drink. And I succumbed.”       “And I wanted to drink to the fuck after my ex left me,” William confesses. “But Jer washed my brains a little and made me sure that drinking would’ve changed nothing.”       “Oh, I think all of us have wanted to drink when girls left us, betrayed or humiliated us at least one time,” Blake says confidently. “This is the real shit that you can barely take, but it’s quite possible.”       “Hey, guys, why do we talk about it?” Christopher pronounces cheerfully. “The most important thing is that everything ended well in the case of our sentimental lovebirds.”       “That’s right!” Benjamin agrees. “If we’re having a bachelor, it means we’re gonna have a wedding.”       “If not for the older MacClife brothers, I would’ve either lied on the sofa at home or gone somewhere to a striptease bar to admire cuties and drink a glass,” Joseph says.       “And I would’ve been spilling at the ceiling with beer and chips in my hands and watching football, hockey, or rugby,” Kevin replies thoughtfully. “Well, or I would’ve opened PornHub and watched videos for a couple of hours. Or would’ve read one of the old issues of Playboy from my rich collection. Looked at sexy cuties with big boobs… M-m-m…”       “I would’ve watched my godchildren and entertained these two with the same faces,” Christopher says thoughtfully.       “I would’ve gone to my friend’s home to help him improve his studies at the university,” Ryan assumes.       “And I would’ve one hundred percent been helping Blair’s younger brother do his homework,” Benjamin says funnily. “At least, I would’ve been trying to solve a thousandth fucking mathematical problem for Harry…”       “Oh, here’s a professor of mathematics!” Terrence chuckles loudly.       “May Blair’s brother ask Peter for help,” Daniel says confidently, pointing at Peter sitting next to him. “He’s our lover of the shit called mathematics.”       “Well, judging his drunk face, I doubt he can remember what’s two plus two,” Edward laughs quietly.       “Actually, four!” Peter says confidently. “And do you, drunk creature, remember why we all come here together?”       “Huh! Of course! My loyal people agreed to come to the bachelor party of my brother and me with pleasure and wish us happiness and well-being in our marriage.”       “Oh, fuck, I kinda see your brother about you,” Benjamin replies with a kind chuckle and takes a big sip from the glass. “He says almost all the same words.”       “And you remember that?” Terrence laughs loudly. “Bravo, Parker, doesn’t your perfect memory leave you even when you’re drunk to the fuck?”       “Oh, MacClife, all your life has been flashing before my eyes since your early years. I was a witness to everything that was happening between you and your brunette. Your love story began almost before my eyes. I was the one to spend hours listening to your sentimental stories about how gorgeous Ms. Cameron was, and how crazy you went crazy from her. And listened to you resenting that she was a little bitch who dared not to bow down for you and tell you tons of compliments.”       “Uh-huh, and you dreamed of fucking her!”       “Who didn’t dream of fucking Raquelle Cameron herself?” Benjamin smiles mysteriously.       “You also almost took Natalia to bed. And you would’ve done if she hadn’t saved herself by going to Mexico with her parents.”       “I had a right to do that. Because your soon-to-be sister-in-law was single.”       “Anyway, I am very happy you won’t get married to that girl, but my bro will do.”       “Well, I am much happier we’re at the bachelor, where we can have a good rest.”       “Oh, right!” Cody exclaims.       “Yes, yes, a bachelor is a party that lets you hang out to the fullest and have fun after fighting because of the wedding, being nervous, and everything about that,” Kevin replies cheerfully with a wide smile. “A bachelorette is made for the same goals.”       “I absolutely agree with you about it, Kev,” Edward says thoughtfully, drinking a little from his glass. “I finally waited for the day to hang out with the men after all of those troubles and fucking exhausting preparation for the wedding.”       “Oh, yeah, there was too much shit lately,” Peter sighs tiredly, putting his hand on his forehead.       “Oh, fuck…” Edward runs his hand over his face. “I didn’t think it all would be so-o-o hard… Yeah, I knew it would be hard. But I wasn’t ready for many things.”       “I also had thought everything would be easy before the hell called ‘Getting ready for the wedding’ began,” Terrence confesses and takes a sip from his glass. “I’m gonna be honest, I was overwhelmed! Because it was hard to accept the fact that my beloved girl and I had different opinions. That’s why Raquelle and I fought very much.”       “Really?” Benjamin frowns slightly.       “Really.” Terrence leans on the armrest of the sofa with an elbow and covers half of his face with his hand. “And somehow we fought so hard that we almost canceled everything.”       “What do you mean?” Ryan specifies.       “We wanted to cancel the wedding and our engagement.”       “Come on?” Peter gets truly amazed.       “Yeah. It’s the truth.”       “So, did you get a hit on your head because of the plan to hang out with some girls at a bachelor party?” Blake chuckles kindly.       “I told you all that I wanted to see no stripteases and any other gals,” Terrence replies confidently.       “But why’d you and Raquelle fight?” Edward asks.       “I said, different wishes and opinions. I was trying to solve the conflict so hard, but Raquelle was too stubborn and wanted to do what she wanted. She gave a damn about my wishes and whether I would’ve liked that. We had argued much, but the situation was never so serious. But somehow, we had such a scandal that we almost cancelled the wedding and almost broke up. Everything led to the moment when Raquelle gave me the ring I gave her for the engagement. I mean, she took it off her hand and threw it at me, shouting, ‘Fuck yourself, scumbag!’”       “Well, you know, everything happens with time,” Daniel notices cheerfully. “You and your brother made the same mistakes, but understood your mistake in time and fixed everything quickly.”       “Maybe. But I’m glad everything went well. Raquelle later confessed she wasn’t right and apologized, and I did the same and said I was wrong about something and could give up on her if she’d wanted so. Well, we agreed about everything. But Cameron didn’t become sweet and fluffy after that. She’s still a mean and stubborn bitch who loves fucking my brain.”       “That’s cool when everything ends well!” Christopher notices funnily.       “But we understood one rule: if you’re dating, it requires hard work. You can’t forget the person and get busy with work. It happened to Raquelle and me, and we didn’t notice we got cold for each other. I’d say sometimes we irritated each other, sometimes. Like… We got what we wanted and calmed down. I seduced and fucked her, but she calmed down her family and kept working much harder. And it got much clearer when the bastard named Simon came into our lives.”       “Oh, everyone kinda has a wedding with a rich experience and lots of lessons,” Joseph rolls his eyes.       “Right. The most important thing is to think very well before doing something. You can’t divorce after the first fight without even trying to solve a conflict.”       “And we will be learning from the experienced man!” Kevin exclaims. If the MacClifes are gonna get married, we should listen.”       “Oh, shit, I still can’t believe our bros are gonna marry soon!” William confesses happily.       “Yes, lads, we’re gonna be witnesses of a historical moment!” Jeremy exclaims cheerfully. “Will and I never thought Edward would wish to get married cuz our bro had been such a dolt, wanted to pay for nothing, and thought only of looking for trouble.”       “As if you and Jer kind wanted to,” Edward chuckles loudly.       “We don’t wanna, now. But anything might happen. Maybe, in a few years, we will make everyone happy with the news about marriage.”       “But you didn’t lose love for mockeries.”       “Do we mock at someone?” William rounds his eyes.       “You still love laughing at me. And I see you began to kick Terrence’s ass.”       “Actually, we treat you well now.”       “Yeah, but then? No matter what would’ve happened, you always blamed me! And I had to take undeserved shakeups from my father, stepmother, and lots of people!”       “Sometimes it was deserved, Eddy,” William smiles mysteriously.       “You were waiting for a moment to fly to Dad on the wings of happiness and tell him about me!”       “A little shakeup from Dad would’ve been very good to you,” Jeremy replies confidently. “If you don’t get kicks on your ass with a belt, you get lost and become too insolent.”       “I will now kick you two with a belt if you don’t calm down!”       “And yeah, bro…” William smiles mysteriously, putting a finger on his lip. “When Jer and I told Terrence, Daniel, and Peter about your pink hair, we forgot to remind them of the scandal Dad started when he saw that beauty on your head.”       After hearing about the pink hair and understanding what it is about, Terrence, Daniel, and Peter start thrilling with a loud laugh and smile stupidly, while the others are a little confused but chuckle quietly.       “What, what?” Ryan asks with a laugh. “Pink hair?”       “Come on?” Christopher wonders. “Ed was a lucky owner of pink hair?”       “Why do I know nothing?” Cody wonders.       “Indeed, men!” Joseph exclaims.       “Hey, guys, didn’t you know it?” Jeremy gets truly amazed and glances at Daniel, Terrence, and Peter. “We thought these three told you and showed everything!”       “Okay, tell us more about it, please,” Blake gets interested, happily rubbing his hands.       “So, since you don’t know, we will tell you with pleasure,” William smiles mysteriously.       “Okay…” Edward blunts under his nose. “Another minute of shame has begun…”       Edward drinks a little bit of a strong drink from his glass without emotions on his face, exhales sharply, and shakes his head.       “In short, guys…” William says with a wide smile. “When Eddy was a little teenager and lived with Jer and me, we added pink paint to his shampoo. He was sleeping and knew nothing. But we didn’t hurry and started to wait for him to wake up and wash his hair. We got busy playing PlayStation. We had many games that we could play for hours.”       “And when Eddy already added shampoo to his hair and looked at himself in the mirror, he screamed at the whole house, started swearing, and almost killed my brother and me,” Jeremy chuckles kindly. “We were standing near the door of the bathroom and closely listened… And then this creature got outta the bathroom absolutely naked and started to scream at us with his widely open eyes, wave his hands, and something like that.”       “Buy, guys… The hair was really incredible! We didn’t expect it to be so cool! The color was so beautiful, bright, pink… Ah!”       “Our bro was just a cutie!”       “We made sure that the color was made for him. Pink hair looked just incredible on the owner of the pretty face.”       All the men thrill with a loud laugh and clap them on their foreheads or knees, while Edward silently listens to them, slightly shakes his head, and just drinks alcohol, silently moaning and dreaming of this to be over soon.       “I’ve got nothing to say!” Benjamin exclaims with a wide smile.       “Come on!” Christopher pronounces with a loud laugh. “Aren’t you kidding?”       “No at all, Chris!” Terrence replies funnily. “Dan, Pete, and I saw a photo of that masterpiece and literally rolled on the floor when looking at Edward’s pink hair.”       “Photo?” Kevin rounds his eyes.       “Is there a photo?” Blake wonders.       “There is,” Daniel, Peter, Terrence, Jeremy, and William smile mysteriously.       “Okay… Show it to me right now!”       “Me too!” Ryan says, and then Kevin, Cody, Joseph, Christopher, and Benjamin repeat the same.       “I must see that masterpiece!” Benjamin says confidently.       “And send that creature to me!” Christopher says.       “We’ll surely send it to you, dudes,” William promises cheerfully. “We always have it in the phones of my brother and me. We care about it like a brilliant ‘cause this is a priceless shot. The reason why our gloomy day gets better and brighter.”       “Where’s my fucking phone?” Jeremy asks loudly, checking his pockets on his short jeans in search of his phone, but later finding what he needs. “Ah, pardon, I found it! Second, now… I’ll find…”       Despite a little blurred vision and a not very good mind clouded with alcohol, Jeremy finds the photo on his phone for a few seconds and shows it to the men with pleasure, who jump and surround one of the MacClife brothers. The friends need just one second to start laughing hysterically because of Edward’s pink hair and his terrible fridge. Even Peter, Terrence, and Daniel, who have seen this photo, laugh loudly along with the others, while the former owner of this hair is sitting on the sofa and watching everybody with a glass of whiskey in his hand.       “Fucking shit!” Blake pronounces with a laugh, grabbing his stomach. “Listen, men… You want me to die from laughing?”       “Oh, damn, guys, I’m gonna laugh for the year ahead because of you,” Ryan thrills with a laugh. “I’ve got nothing to say!”       “A-a-a, I’m gonna die from laughing!” Joseph pronounces funnily.       “Listen, Jer, Will, you are geniuses!” Christopher exclaims cheerfully, showing his thumbs up. “It’s one of the best photos I’ve ever seen!”       “The color is really cool!” Blake notices. “It do-o-o-oes fit Edward!”       “Oh, shit, what a moron did this terrible hairstyle?” Benjamin asks with a laugh. “Of course, I understand puffy fringes were trending at those times, but this one looks like nobody the fuck knows what.”       “Who cares what kind of shit he had on the head!” Ryan exclaims. “You just look how perfect this color fits Edward’s pretty face!”       “Right!” Cody agrees. “The color is perfect!”       “Eyes, eyes!” Christopher pronounces loudly, pointing at the phone screen. “You just look at them! They’re about to be outta his head!”       “Hey, didn’t Ed know what a hair salon was?” Kevin thrills with a loud laugh. “Didn’t anyone think of getting this shit outta his head?”       “I thought the hair of my grandmother was terrible! A big pot with a perm! But as it turned out, her hair looked much better! Now I can think the worst hair is Edward’s.”       “So, who do we thank for waking MacClife up?” Joseph asks. “Whose hands do we kiss for getting rid of this shit from his head?”       “Dad managed to bring our brother to a hair salon only multiple times: Jeremy replies thoughtfully. “He was ashamed of going out in public with the sonny having that hair.”       “Seems like Eddy realized he looked ugly with this hair and got a good haircut,” Kevin says confidently. “When we worked as delivery guys together, he had the same hair.”       “Ha, if he lowers his standing hair down and stops cutting it, he’ll have the same fringe that will close a half of his cute face six months later,” Terrence chuckles loudly.       “And because he can’t let it happen, we’ll luckily no longer see that horror,” Benjamin assumes confidently.       “I will personally shave Edward if he gets that freaking fringe back.”       “I will shave you if you cut at least one strand of my hair!” Edward says loudly.       “Don’t dare.” Terrence fixes his hair with a proud look. “Because my head is one hundred times more important than yours, only a professional can touch my hair.”       “Huh, who said your head is worth something?”       “Someone said your head is so important?”       “Hey, MacClife, you had cool hair!” Blake exclaims with a loud laugh and shows his thumbs up. “Pink is your color! My word! Dye your hair, and everyone’s gonna be delighted!”       “Uh-huh, start to dress like a Barbie doll!” Kevin chuckles loudly.       “Buy pink clothes and become a glamour chick,” Cody adds funnily. “And we’d find someone to become Ken for you.”       “Guys, who understands something about pants and knows what kind of them would keep a color better?” Christopher smiles mysteriously. “Let our groom get married with pink hair! The guests would be admired!”       “Yes, Jer, Will, where did you buy that dye?” Blake specifies.       “We didn’t buy it,” William confesses.       “Our friend told us what kind of pants to buy when we said we wanted to play a joke on our bro,” Jeremy confesses funnily. “She once played fool of her older brother like that, and we used her idea and asked her to tell us what to buy. So, she shared ours. She had a pack after that case.”       “We should’ve found the one that would’ve been able to be washed off. If it hadn’t been washable, our Eddy would’ve had a heart attack. Because he would’ve had to cut off his hair to grow his hair with a natural color.”       “And you were very lucky I washed off that paint,” Edward replies confidently, barely connecting words and holding a glass in his hand. “Because if it’d stayed on my head forever, and I’d had to shave my head, it would’ve been your funeral. And I would’ve given a fuck about what my father, stepmother, or someone else would have done. Because my hair is very important to me.”       “We were sure you would’ve done nothing to us ‘cause we knew you could really wash off that paint,” William says confidently. “Well, we quietly took your hysterical shouts and a great piece of hard swearing. We weren’t afraid.”       Edward says nothing and just imitates funnily the way William said the last words.       “Ah, it’s been so much time, but I don’t stop laughing when looking at MacClife’s famous hair,” Daniel confesses funnily. “I have this photo and won’t delete this masterpiece not for anything. I take care of it like a brilliant.”       “And I view it when I have a lousy mood,” Peter says cheerfully, thrilled with a laugh as well as everybody else does. “You know how much better I get when I find this photo on my mobile phone and view it! My day gets better!”       “Listen, send this photo to me,” Christopher says confidently. “I will view it when I wish to strangle my boss.”       “He’s so terrible?” Ryan wonders.       “That man is just intolerable! He always washes everybody’s brains and is unhappy with something! He’s the reason why I go home with a bad mood and wanna kill someone. But if I have this legendary photo, it will make my mood better and help me keep quiet.”       “I think it would make the mood of all of us better,” Benjamin assumes with a slight smile.       “Listen, let’s post it on the Internet?” Terrence suggests cheerfully with a wide smile. “This photo is gonna spread everywhere and become the most popular meme!”       “Oh, tons of memes would be made by using this photo!” Blake notices cheerfully. “Write anything, and it would be good!”       “Let’s do this when we get sober!”       “Hey, glutton giraffe, if you don’t shut up, I shall shave your head now!” Edward threatens loudly. “As well as all of you!”       “MacClife’s nervous, nervous…” Kevin smiles mysteriously.       “I’m warning all of you, idiots: if I see this photo on the Internet, you will pay me for that.”       “C’mon, Edward, relax!” Ryan exclaims funnily. “It’s a cool photo!”       “I am not kidding, idiots! Don’t even dare to shame me and leak that fucking photo on the Internet!”       “Don’t listen to him, Ryan,” William pronounces cheerfully. “Edward’s nervous ‘cause he’s terribly afraid someone would cut off at last one itch of his hair or do something to him to have to cut everything off.”       “So, he started a hysteria because of getting his hair dyed pink,” Jeremy chuckles kindly, drinking a little from his glass. “Dyed his hair to a girly color.”       The men thrill with a hysterical laugh again, doubling over or grabbing their stomachs while Edward takes one more sip of whacky but then gives someone a slap on the back of the head or just pushes on a hip, the back, a shoulder, or a forearm. And Sammy sitting aside with a toy probably makes sure that these men must not drink because they behave like crazy idiots.       “Oh, listen, guys, you made me laugh so hard,” Blake confesses funnily, holding his stomach. “I’ve never laughed as much as I’m laughing now!”       “Wait, Blake,” Jeremy replies confidently. “When we get sober, you’ll be laughing much louder and much more after you find out how Will and I kicked Edward’s ass and gave Dad a reason to wash his brains a little.”       “Oh, if I’m laughing like a moron now, I’m afraid to imagine what’d happen to me if you told more,” Ryan chuckles kindly, rubbing his forehead with a hand.       “Yeah…” Cody exhales sharply.       “You rock on…” Joseph adds.       “It’s okay, Terrence, Daniel, and I also have what to tell,” Peter replies confidently, taking a couple of sips of whiskey. “Just wait for a while! When we get sober and get over a terrible hangover, we’ll tell absolutely everything.”       “But before we’re back to normal, we’re gonna get a headache, vomiting, and pain in the body,” Daniel replies with a glass in his hands.       “Fuck it all!” Edward says funnily, waving his hands. “Fuck up everything! We have a party, men! Let’s hang out and have fun!”       “Ha, can you at least tear your ass off the sofa?” Kevin chuckles loudly. “He’s gonna hang out!”       “Huh, easy!” Edward sharply gets up from the sofa, but feels a little dizzy and slightly shakes, barely standing on his feet, and grabs an armrest of the sofa. “Here!”       “Now you see that he went on the wrong side?” Christopher asks thoughtfully. “After two or three glasses, he barely thinks and stands on his feet!”       “Why barely?” Edward gets loudly amazed, barely connecting words and smiling like a brewer’s horse. “I can also dance! And I will! I have a party! I have a right!”       While Edward smiles stupidly and laughs for some reason, all the men look at each other.       “Okay, guys, don’t give drinks to this creature anymore,” Terrence says with his arms crossed over his chest, being not quite sober, as well. “He’s drunk to the fuck.”       “Huh!” Edward grins kindly. “Said by the one who was also drunk, barely standing on his feet and smiling like a moron.”       “We’re all drunk here, buddy,” Daniel chuckles kindly. “I’m personally feeling a fucking dizzy! And I’m absolutely sure I’d shake after trying to get up. But I give a fuck! Absolutely! Now I will be hanging out, as well! And dancing ‘til I pass out.”       “You? Dancing?” Peter wonders and chuckles loudly, grabbing his stomach. “Don’t make me laugh, Perkins! I feel bad!”       “Indeed, dude, what kind of dances!” Terrence says funnily. “You are a log! It would be easier to teach Sammy to speak than to teach you to dance.”       “I’m a log?” Daniel wonders loudly with his widely open eyes. “I am not at all! When I was a teenager, I was dancing on hangouts so well that everybody asked me to teach them to dance!”       “I wouldn’t go to dance lessons with a teacher like you,” Peter says thoughtfully.       “And I was singing along at a karaoke with a score of one hundred points on hangouts,” Christopher says funnily, being absolutely drunk. “Everybody was freaked out by how good I was doing that!”       “Sing a karaoke with one hundred points?” Edward grins loudly. “Damn, curly, you better shut up! A bear or chicken would sing better than you, the one not to take notes and be deprived of an ear!”       “To your info, girls always whooped when I was singing!”       “Girls whoop not because of your singing but because they see a young, attractive guy.”       “It’s another reason…” Christopher smiles widely. “Besides, I’m also an incredible dancer! The dancer you all should learn to dance from. Trust me, thanks to Chris Morgan, you’re gonna hit any dance pool.”       “And if you wanna learn a striptease for a girl, go to him!” Terrence says confidently, pointing at Benjamin. “Everyone would be admired! Even men!”       “And this peacock is gonna teach you not to screw up while singing along at a karaoke,” Benjamin points at Terrence.       “There are people to ask for help,” Cody notices.       “In short, men!” Edward pronounces loudly, funnily, and cheerfully. “Alright! We sat, drunk, talked and laughed… That’s enough! It’s time to shake our butts! So, I suggest we turn on music and hang out to the fullest.”       “Oh, good idea!” Blake agrees with a wide smile. “I’d be happy to dance along with cool music and show you how to dance.”       “Right!” Peter exclaims, raising his hands up and waving them while speaking. “Turn on music at full volume, move off everything to the fuck and hang out ‘til we pass out!”       “Leave drinks, but move the other things to the fuck!” Daniel pronounces funnily.       “Okay, who’s less drunk to organize everything?” Kevin asks with a quiet chuckle.       “Not me, definitely…” Ryan pronounces, barely shaking while standing on his feet.       “And not me…” Joseph pronounces with a silly smile. “I’m already feeling dizzy…”       “C’mon, we’ll move off everything now,” Christopher says cheerfully. “Put everything in the same bunch! If someone wants, he will go and take anything!”       After getting control over their condition somehow, the men look around, going to ask the service staff to move everything they do not need. Sammy watches what’s happening questioningly, moving his head slightly, and pays his attention to Daniel, who is checking something on his phone and chuckling loudly.       “Hey, guys!” Daniel exclaims funnily. “Guys! Came here! Seems like the girls sent us something! I got a bunch of notifications on my phone.”       “What?” Edward gets excited with a wide smile. “The girls sent photos?”       “Yeah, the first report about celebrating the bachelorette!” Peter pronounces funnily.       All the men quickly surround Daniel, looking forward to seeing beautiful photos and videos from the girls’ bachelorette party that is happening now.       “They sent us a few photos and videos,” Daniel says, checking something on his smartphone.       “Show them!” Benjamin hurries up cheerfully.       “Let’s see how the girls are hanging out there,” Terrence happily rubs his hands, looking forward to something interesting.       “Faster, Perkins, what you’re doing there!” Joseph exclaims.       After a few actions, Daniel shows the men the first photos and videos from Natalia’s bachelorette party with her friends, who definitely had a great time at their party. Judging by what they posted on a group chat. The first posts are funny and positive photos, and the girls’ selfies with several stickers and signatures on them. Although the men like them, they pay attention to the video of the girls dancing along with loud music funnily with no caress, singing along with a song, screaming out something, playing around with each other with no shyness, and hugging each other while dancing. There are also several photos of the girls standing in attractive poses and wearing only bikinis against the gorgeous view of the ocean, showing their slim bodies as the wind blows up their faces, and the sun burns their faces slightly.       “Uh-h-h-h, I wanna go there!” Christopher moans with pity. “Girls, take me out! I wanna have fun with you!”       “M-m-m, the girls are so beautiful,” Kevin says with a mysterious smile. “Just dolls! Everybody’s wearing bikinis, shorts, tube tops… Ah, what beauties!”       “I believe they aren’t too sober there. Look, a bottle of champagne is placed on the table! And a few glasses.”       “Listen, guys, do I have hallucinations, or are there two girls with colorful hair?” Ryan specifies, frowning slightly.       “Yup, colorful…” Benjamin confirms and points at the phone screen of Daniel’s phone. “That one has blue hair… Or violet… Or blue… I don’t the fuck know!”       “Why are they, by the way?” Edward frowns slightly. “I don’t know them! Did some girls decide to dye their hair or play with wigs?”       “Nope, it’s their hair, but I don’t know any one of them, either,” Daniel replies thoughtfully.       “These are Olivia, Emma, and Odette!” Joseph exclaims.       “Uh-huh!” Cody smiles slightly. “They are.”       “Hey, is that Jess?” Peter stares surprisingly at the video on the phone. “Is she dancing alongside the girls?”       “Right!” Daniele exclaims. “Her!”       “You mean that blonde with dark roots, who is dancing on the table?” Christopher specifies.       “She is,” Peter nods.       “You know her?”       “Uh-huh, I do! It’s Jessica, my classmate and a good friend of Helene, who introduced me to her.”       “That’s how… Sympathetic girl… She’s gonna be at the wedding?”       “She’s supposed to.”       “But why are you asking, Chris?” Ryan laughs quietly. “Did you keep an eye on her and think of picking her up?”       “Yeah, I would definitely hang out with her!” Christopher says confidently. “The girl is beautiful but not very feminine and tender. But I think it’s fixable. If she wears something beautiful, she would be a cutie.”       “Well, if you get attracted to girls who are a little older than you, do what you want, Morgan,” Edward replies funnily.       “Older? What’s her age?”       “Jessica has the same as Peter’s one: she’s twenty-six, as he is.”       “Twenty-six? Huh, it’s okay! I had girls who were much older or younger than me!”       “Yes, yes, we know you’ve got a rich experience with women of any age.”       “But be careful with her then, buddy!” Terrence advises with a quiet grin. “That girl is by far not quiet and could easily hit even a strong man and leave a bruise under his eye.”       “Uh-huh, Jess is not Natalia, Anna, Raquelle, or Helene,” Peter chuckles kindly. “You know how hard Sammy runs away from her! He hides when he sees Jess one foot from him.”       Sammy barks quietly, reacting to his name, still sitting aside and watching the men shaking slightly after drinking too much alcohol. The friends keep watching the video of the dancing girls, who have a lot of fun, shout something funnily, play the fool with the camera of the one to record it, and slowly drink champagne from their glasses, saying some toasts or drinking without a reason.       “Hey, hey, stop!” Daniel jabs, staring surprisingly at his phone. “I didn’t get it… Is that my sister dancing and shouting out something?”       “She is,” Edward confirms.       “Oh, yeah, Cass is hanging out with all the girls,” Terrence replies cheerfully. “So, who said she didn’t get on well with girls and liked a male party much more?”       “You know, everyone has fun with our girls,” Daniel says confidently.       “Agree! Even Blair is hanging out!”       “Oh, shit, what she’s doing!” Benjamin wonders loudly, watching Blair dance funnily and freely alongside all the girls, and not looking shy and hesitant. “Come on, girl! Go, Blair Jennifer Stewart! Show me everything you can!”       “That’s what alcohol does to people, men,” Ryan chuckles kindly. “Even the shyest people could be more confident and braver.”       “Ha, I did say that they aren’t quite sober,” Christopher says confidently. “The girls didn’t wanna just eat sweet food and take pictures against such cool views.”       “Yeah, they decided to have fun to the fullest…” Jeremy replies thoughtfully.       “What the fuck?” Daniel resents, frowning strongly. “Hey! Cassidy! Get off the table now! Stop dancing on it! Hear me, crazy girl, what I told you!”       “The girl got her mind blown,” Peter shrugs.       “What? And Anna, too? No, you look at them! They got up on the table and are dancing! Took the clothes off to the fuck and started to dance in just one bikini! That my sister stole from my girlfriend!”       “You say you let your sister go to the bachelorette under the responsibility of your girlfriend?” Edward smiles slyly.       Meanwhile, Cassidy is laughing loudly along with all the girls and amusing them with her jokes and dances. And at some moment, she runs to the camera and, looking into it, gives a greeting and says something funny to her brother and his friends. And then Anna starts hanging on her, playing a fool on the camera, and warns her about Perkins’ order. Then the young, laughing girl says she is doing whatever she wants and is not going to ask Daniel for permission for anything.       “What, what?” Daniel resents. “No, you just look at her! Look at this walking headache! Do you think you’re kinda adult? Decided that you could do anything?”       “The girl definitely feels good…” Terrence smiles mysteriously.       “Ah, that’s how? Okay, sister, I will kick your ass at home… I will kick your ass! It was your first and last bachelorette! Next time, you will stay home! And I give a fuck if you want it or not!”       “Hey, Perkins, is that your younger sissy?” Blake wonders, looking at Cassidy with great interest. “Wow, what a sympathetic girl! Didn’t know you had such a good sissy.”       “Hey, hey, kid, don’t open your mouth too widely!” Daniel jabs, barely slapping Blake on the nose.       “What’s wrong? I just said she’s sympathetic!”       “I know what you thought about. And I don’t allow you to get close to my sister!”       “Hey, come on!”       “Don’t even dare to come to her. You got it?”       “Oh, oh, lads, it seems like Perkins turned the ‘bad older brother’ mode on,” Edward chuckles kindly. “Just like my older one does when he gets some thoughts.”       “Hey, why can all the men talk to that girl, but I can’t?” Blake resents, putting his hands on his hips. “She’s of the same age as mine! We’d have a lot of fun together!”       “Because I said so – that’s all!” Daniel replies confidently. “I’m warning you, Connor, if I see you next to Cassidy, you will lose your head! Don’t wash her brains!”       “Oh, what an asshole you are, Daniel! What’s wrong with just talking to the girl? I ain’t gonna marry her, huh!”       “I said everything, Blake.”       “Don’t pay attention, Connor,” William replies funnily. “Our bro is absolutely right: Perkins is playing the role of a bad brother, who wouldn’t give his little sis to anyone. Pretends to be her daddy and is acting like he decides everything.”       “Actually, I decide everything as her older brother. We have no parents. I have to educate that hooligan. And I will educate her! Kick her ass for these filthy dances on the table so hard that she will remember that!”       “You know, brother, you aren’t kinda better,” Peter notices with a slight smile. “Your sis loves hanging out, and you’re ready to climb up to the table and start dancing. You’ve got the same blood!”       “That’s right,” Kevin agrees funnily. “I feel he would stop pretending to be a daddy and hang out harder than his sister when we turned on music.”       “I’m allowed!” Daniel says with his head proudly up. “I’m an adult boy! Almost thirty years! And that girl is a baby yet!”       “Hey, tough guy, do you know that older people should give an example to younger people?” Christopher asks.       “Yeah, exactly!” Cody agrees. “I do give it to you as the oldest one of you.”       “As far as I remember, Terrence is the eldest one,” Blake fixes.       “Seriously? I am actually thirty-five!”       “Come on?” Ryan surprises.       “Hey, really, thirty-five?” Kevin cannot believe it.       “You look good for the second tenth, huh,” Peter chuckles kindly.       “Oh, yeah!” Cody exclaims. “So, Terrence is the same kid to me as all of you.”       “Ha, ha, ha!” Edward laughs so hard. “Hey, he did pretend to be a daddy of everything and everyone.”       “But he’s pretty good at educating three little brothers,” Christopher notices.       “Glad you admit it,” Terrence smiles smugly. “I am a perfect older brother!”       “Well, I’d bet,” Edward says thoughtfully.       “Us too!” William adds, looking at Jeremy.       “Yeah, so perfect!” Daniel chuckles. “Drunk as fuck, dance on the table naked, and shake their genitals for girls.”       “Ph, I would’ve started hanging out if not for this sweet message from our girls,” Edward says cheerfully.       “Uh-huh, now we’re aware of what those beauties are doing,” Benjamin shrugs with a slight smile. “And as we can see, they have great fun.”       “We’re gonna have more fun than they do! I promise.”       Someone of the men would say something, but the girls’ voices on the next video that they watch after the one, in which the friends dance funnily and walk in different swimming suits. They come all together and, looking into the camera and hugging each other, say “Hi!” at the same time with a wide smile and a quiet chuckle and wave their hands funnily. And then every one of them says a couple of funny phrases for the men and tells them excitedly how much fun they have.       “Oh, we’re having a lot of fun too!” Kevin notices funnily.       “We’re gonna dance!” Benjamin exclaims.       At the end of the video, the ladies give a greeting to the men again and say they recorded the previous video to give them a lesson in dances and showed how to do it, letting them know they need it so much. Then the girls say goodbye to the men, wish them not to drink too much, to have a good time, and say something else that makes them laugh, even after they stop recording the video.       “I didn’t get…” Terrence pronounces surprisingly. “Is that a hint at the fact that we dance badly?”       “How they dared to think so!” Kevin resents. “I am fucking resentful!”       “They didn’t just see everything we could do!” Jeremy chuckles kindly. “So, they think we all are logs here.”       “I’m protesting!” Christopher jabs funnily. “Protesting categorically! I’m a freaking amazing dancer! The girls don’t know how well I move my ass along with any sort of music. If they knew, they wouldn’t say that!”       “Seems like they silently challenged us, lads,” Ryan assumes with a kind grin. “They think we can’t surprise them with our dances.”       “Huh, since they challenged us, we’re accepting it!” Daniel says cheerfully.       “As real men!” Cody exclaims.       “They’re gonna open their mouths after seeing what we’re gonna show them!” Joseph adds.       “I don’t know what about all of you, but I’ll surely show high class and bring everybody down!” Peter replies confidently with his head proudly raised.       “Keep dreaming, Rose, I will bring all of you down!” Blake protests cheerfully.       “Get cool, stud, I’m gonna be the best!” Christopher says with a sly smile. “None of you can repeat what I’m gonna show you!”       “Come on?” Terrence puts his hands on his hips. “Ha! I’d do it two times better! I am a man with many talents. Dancing is one of them.”       Sammy comes to the men and barks confidently and loudly two times, as if he says he will bring everyone down and show what a real dance is with pleasure.       “So, we’re accepting this challenge!” Edward says loudly, barely speaking and gesticulating actively. “We, men, don’t get cowardly when facing troubles!”       “Then let’s show the girls how we can have fun and rock on!” Joseph suggests cheerfully, raising his hand.       “Let’s have fun to the fullest, men!” Terrence suggests. “We deserved it!”       “Take everything off the table, leave the drinks, turn on cool music, take off the clothes, and announce the time for real fun,” Daniel suggests funnily.       “Oh, someone will take everything we don’t need and carry it away,” Peter replies cheerfully. “There’s almost nothing to take off! We ate more than half of everything we had.”       “Okay, let me solve this question quickly,” Edward suggests.       “I will help!” Terrence says.       Edward and Terrence take as much as they can – and what they can hold while being drunk – and go somewhere to leave it all. But then the guys decide not to do this anymore and ask the service staff to take away the other things and bring them something. Meanwhile, their friends and brothers leave the drinks and their glasses they fill to the full on another table and discuss the music they are going to dance to. By this moment, everyone has already taken their t-shirts off to wear only shorts and is going to jump in the warm water soon since the yacht stops at some moment.       “Hey, let’s sing and play something?” Daniel suggests funnily.       “Oh, I’d like to have something like a karaoke,” Kevin agrees cheerfully.       “Wi-i-i-i-ith a great-a-a-a-at plea-a-a-asu-a-are!” Terrence loudly sings on high notes. “We have guitars… They’re lying on the sofa… So, we can have not only dances.”       “Oh, I wish we had drums or a cajon here,” Peter says, barely being able to speak. “I’d start the show of the century here!”       “Huh, you can barely stand!” Daniel exclaims. “What fucking drums! You can’t even differentiate a drum from a cymbal.”       “And you?” Peter smiles stupidly. “You can differentiate a major from a minor? Or you give a fuck and only want something to play here?”       “We-e-e-ell… Yeah… You speak the truth, dude. The fucking truth. Pardon for taut… Tauto… Ta-a-a-a… Fuck, I forgot! Ta-a-a-a… Oh, fuck it!”       “No comments… Just no comments.”       “Shut up then, drunk pal!”       “Yes, I am drunk! Just like you are. Just like all of us here.” Peter puts his hands on his hips. “I’m having trouble with my coordination. But I am still a musician. A drummer! It sounds proud! Fucking proud!”       “We are all drunk to the fuck, blond,” Edward replies funnily. “And barely stand on our feet. But it won’t stop us! We will be hanging out until we pass out. At least, I’m gonna be a tough soldier ‘til the end!”       “We will be ‘till the very end!” Terrence says confidently.       “The girls will cut off our heads if we don’t watch the groom,” Cody notices.       “Yes, we must take care of you two,” Joseph adds. “We promised Natalia and Raquelle. We must not betray the brides. No, no!”       Sammy barks loudly, as if he says he will be watching the groom especially closely and taking care of him until the wedding.       “No, no, we can’t lose our grooms not for anything!” Blake jabs loudly. “And we won’t let it happen! Whose wedding would we be hanging out at?”       “And since you’re so caring, I’m pleased to give you a chance to hang out and remember this day for a long time,” Edward replies cheerfully.       “Have fun, guys!” Terrence raises his hands in front of him. “Enjoy this party!”       “Listen, everything is bluer before my eyes, and I barely the fuck can read the list of songs,” Ryan winces slightly, trying to read just something on a CD with songs. “I don’t know what to turn on!”       “Oh, turn on anything you want!” Christopher exclaims, impatiently, slightly shaking at the same place. “Just give us music now! I wanna dance!”       “But let’s first drink a little to shake up and relax,” Daniel suggests cheerfully.       “Oh, oh, oh, yeah!” everybody whoops happily by one.       The men come quickly to the glasses filled with whiskey and come together in a crowd.       “So what, men, let’s drink for our grooms and us,” Benjamin suggests cheerfully.       “For us to remember this bachelor for a thousand years,” Kevin wishes funnily.       “And for not having the last one!” Jeremy smiles slyly.       “In short, just for us and all the best!” William exclaims funnily.       “Hoora-a-a-ay!” all the men pronounce happily and slowly at a different time.       Smiling widely and whooping loudly, the men raise their glasses, barely click each other’s glasses, drink a little bit of burning but nice alcohol drink, exhale sharply, and shake their heads. Then Edward runs to the empty coffee table in a jump, climbs up to it, and raises his hand up, getting the attention of his friends and brothers.       “And now, men, it’s time to announce that the bachelor is open!” Edward says loudly, funnily, and solemnly.       “Yeah!” Terrence whoops cheerfully, raising his hand and clenching it into a fist. “Let’s rock on!”       “Let’s make this party the best one we’ve ever had!” Daniel says confidently.       “It’s time for the bachelor!” Edward exclaims. “The time of real fun has come! You will remember this for a long time!”       “May our excellent time begin!” Joseph pronounces cheerfully.       “Funny dances and much alcohol!” Cody exclaims.       “I wanna see your happy faces and hear your loud whoops!” Edward lets know loudly. “Where are they? Come on!”       All the men support Edward with loud and happy whoops, raising their hands, and Sammy supports them by barking happily and loudly.       “Oh, I like it!” Edward exclaims loudly with a wide smile. “Excellent spirit! Keep going, bros!”       “And yeah, get your phones ready!” Terrence says. “Record everything! The best stuff will be sent to the girls! So that they know how to have real fun!”       Sammy barks loudly two times, wagging his tail amicably and watching Edward standing on the table.       “Let’s have fun!” Edward suggests cheerfully. “Our bachelor is starting right now!”       After he jumps off the table to take the remote control from the sofa, Edward presses some buttons and comes back. A loud, energetic music starts playing on the deck, and everybody definitely likes it. While the men make happy whoops, start to dance – or just shake – the way they can, the grooms warm up their friends and brothers by dancing funnily on the table, shaking their bodies energetically with a rhythm of the music and starting singing loudly along with a song a little later. But later, they join the others with a loud, happy whoop, while everyone starts literally fighting for a chance to dance on the table and records everything on the phone. Even Sammy jumps up to the table with great pleasure and shows everybody his talents in dances, standing on his hind paws and starting wrapping, jumping funnily, or doing something else that makes everybody laugh.       

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      The celebration of the bachelorette is in full swing now. The girls do not contain their wish to have a lot of fun, dancing funnily, singing along with their favorite artists, drinking champagne or some juices, and not forgetting to take a few selfies with each other and group photos against the ocean, and record two or three videos they already sent to the men getting out of their minds at the bachelor.       Nobody refuses to dance on the table alone, in couples, or as a trio – depending on how much space there is. The friends always play the fool with each other and play with some things the brides took with them. For example, they like a light chiffon material that reminds them of a veil. As well as funny bunny ears, two pairs of star glasses, a pink hat, a flower headband, and a couple of colorful wigs. The girls are playing with these things and putting them on, imitating someone kindly or walking from the hip on the entire deck with a rhythm of the music. Someone even uses something as a microphone and imagines themselves to be singers on the stage before a big crowd, while the others laugh loudly, clap their hands loudly, and support their friends with enthusiastic applause.       “Is this kinda the end?” Cassidy wonders loudly, wearing star glasses, when the music on the deck ends. “Where’s music?”       “Seems like all the songs are played,” Natalia assumes, wearing a transparent white material around her neck. “Repeat it again or change a CD?”       “Repeat!” some girls reply happily.       “Change!” the other girls protest loudly.       “Maybe, take a break and drink something?” Raquelle suggests with a little heavy breath, fixing a flower headband on her head.       “Oh, I’d drink juice with pleasure,” Jessica replies confidently, being a little red and holding a beautiful mask on a thin stick.       “Me too,” Kylie agrees, running a hand through her violet hair and moving some strands off her face. “My throat is so dry.”       “Oh, let’s take a break,” Olivia suggests tiredly.       “Yes, yes, I’m tired,” Odette confesses.       “Let me drink…” Emma says. “I’m dying from dryness…       At first, Kylie, Olivia, Emma, Odette, Jessica, and Raquelle take a glass of juice and drink a little, and then the others do the same, wishing to get rid of dryness in the throat and get cool after hanging out so hard, being a little tired, red enough, and a little sweaty.       “Oh, girls, I’d be very grateful if someone gave me something cold…” Melissa moans tiredly, drying off her face and waving her hand at it. “Or better take ice from the refrigerator… Because I feel really hot. Even in my suit.”       “Agree, I’ve got a sore throat after shouting and singing,” Helene notices with a glass of juice in her hand, starting to wave at her face with her hand, and coughing at times.       “Ah, girls, I haven’t had so much fun for ages,” Anna says with a glass in her hands, falling on the sofa like a stone and fixing the bunny ears on her head with a slight smile. “I can’t remember the last time we spent time like this.”       “We would’ve probably hardly come together today if the brides hadn’t had a bachelorette,” Blair says confidently, sitting on the sofa and drinking juice from her glass.       “Yeah, Natalia and Raquelle gave us such a cool reason to have fun and distract from our cares at least for one day,” Cassidy replies funnily, jumping in front of the others cheerfully.       “Oh, you wait, girls, we’re gonna have one more reason to have fun,” Raquelle replies funnily, taking a sip of juice and keeping her free hand on her hip.       “But knowing that we are gonna be at the wedding as well as more adult people, we won’t be able to play the fool like this,” Natalia replies, pressing some buttons on the music system.       “Uh-huh, our beloved men won’t do what they’re doing now on their bachelor,” Helene laughs quietly.       “That’s good!” Jessica exclaims. “Or they’re gonna get outta their mind! And they won’t be able to stop! And they won’t care where and who they are with.”       “If only they didn’t start to…” Anna replies thoughtfully.       “Oh, yeah!” Emma exclaims. “Missing such a good chance to get outta their mind and have fun while they can stand on their feet. It’s not about our boys.”       “Hey, girls, do you think they saw our great greeting?” Kylie asks with a mysterious smile.       “Hope we sent it before they drank themselves to hell,” Helene expresses hope. “Well, if the boys are drunk, they won’t surely reach their phones and will forget how to at least unblock them.”       “That’s right!” Olivia agrees.       “Let’s drink and then find out if there’s an answer from those idiots and whether they saw our message?” Natalia suggests funnily.       “Nice idea, friend!” Raquelle agrees cheerfully.       The others fill their half-filled glasses with tasty, sweet juice, which they sometimes mix with a little bit of champagne. If someone sits, they get up and come closer to the others.       “So what, girls, drink for our beloved brides again?” Melissa suggests with a slight smile.       “But what about us?” Blair wonders. “I suggest we drink for all of us, the brides’ friends!”       “For us, girls!” Kylie says cheerfully.       “Let’s cheer all the best!” Cassidy suggests funnily.       “Hooraa-a-a-ay!” Jessica whops happily.       “Hora-a-a-a-ay!” the others pronounce in the same way.       Whooping with joy and smiling widely, the girls raise their glasses, click each other’s glasses, and drink some juice, the taste of which makes everybody thrilled.       “Okay, now let’s check out the men’s reaction,” Anna says cheerfully, reaching her hand to the table near the sofa and taking her smartphone.       “C’mon, c’mon!” Odette jabs funnily.       While Anna checks her phone, her friends grab their phones, as well, and start checking them, wishing to learn the men’s reaction to their greeting for them. And a few seconds later, Natalia finds something on her phone and chuckles quietly when she says:       “Girls, seems like these idiots understand something. They sent us something in reply.”       “Oh, I did know they didn’t get out of their mind at all!” Jessica replies funnily.       “Hey, hey, hey, show me my bro,” Cassidy jabs with a wide smile. “I wanna laugh at his drunk face!”       After sitting on the sofa comfortably and surrounding Natalia, the girls open the first post from the men on a group chat, which is their common selfie, on which they look absolutely drunk and little red, smile stupidly, or laugh and hang on each other.       “Oh, you just look at these handsome men!” Helene chuckles kindly.       “Gosh, they are all drunk to the hell!” Blair exclaims.       “And smashed!” Emma adds.       “Pull your shorts up!” Kylie exclaims. “You’re about to lose them! Your genitals are about to be released!”       “Dan finally got it!” Cassidy smiles slyly. “Got a chance to drink as hell! He’s got such a red and happy face!”       “They’re all red!” Jessica exclaims. “One is better than another!”       “Wow, is that Ryan?” Anna rounds her eyes. “He’s with them, too?”       “Ryan?” Melissa frowns slightly. “Who’s Ryan?”       “That’s him!” Anna points at Ryan on the phone screen. “That’s my good friend. We’ve been friends since our teenage years.”       “He became the guys’ friend,” Helene smiles slightly.       “If it’s so, I’m really happy for him. Glad the men accepted him to their party.”       “Joe and Cody are there, too!” Olivia notices with a wide smile.       “Uh-huh!” Emma nods confidently.       “It’s amazing, but the man stopped speaking to them almost at the same time we stopped speaking to you,” Raquelle confesses.       “Yeah,” Olivia smiles shyly. “Cody and I talked very well the last time. But we kinda forgot each other and got busy with our businesses.”       “And Joe seemed very nice to me,” Anna confesses. “But alas, at some moment, he disappeared, and I haven’t communicated with him yet.”       “If they come, we won’t have time to be bored,” Emma says confidently. “There will be so many handsome, single boys at the wedding.”       “As they say, to every taste and requirement,” Helene laughs shyly.       “Blake’s with them, too!” Raquelle exclaims.       “Right! Baby Connor, as the guys call him!”       “Alcohol unites even enemies, girls,” Natalia notices funnily. “A couple of drinks of vodka or something stronger before they’re best friends.”       “Yeah… You’re right.”       “Hey, is Blake the one to have light hair?” Kylie specifies. “The one to look too young?”       “Yup, that’s him,” Raquelle confirms. “He turned twenty on January 20th.”       “But why do you say he doesn’t get on with the men?”       “Terrence, Daniel, Peter, and Edward didn’t get on with Blake when he started working as their assistant. That boy began to provoke conflicts, mocked at them somehow, and showed his contempt, even though the men never did a bad thing to him. But they solved a conflict some time later. Though our men still remain suspicious.”       “But as we can see, that boy doesn’t give them a reason to kick him out,” Natalia adds confidently. “And even more – they became friends. Our heroes are hugging Blake in these photos and having fun with him! He’s kinda their close person!”       “M-m-m, he’s a good-looking boy…” Cassidy notices with a slight smile. “And doesn’t look like an asshole… Why are the guys so mad at him?”       “Don’t tell Daniel that,” Anna replies funnily. “Or he’s gonna kill you.”       “Yeah, Perkins’ gonna be shocked if he knows that his sister liked Blake,” Raquelle smiles slyly.       “It’s okay, girls, Daniel will have to accept the fact that I speak to those I want,” Cassidy replies confidently. “He can ban me and kick all the boys with a mop in his hands as much as he wants, but he can’t choose who I’m able to speak with.”       “Asking for troubles, Cass…” Anna smiles mysteriously, slapping Cassidy on the nose. “Great troubles.”       “Don’t worry, Anna, it’s gonna be okay! If my bro pretends to be a daddy too hard, I will quickly bring him down.”       “Hey, who are those two?” Jessica asks, pointing at Kevin and Christopher. “The light-haired, curly one and the dark-haired with shaved temples?”       “That’s Christopher and Kevin, Edward’s friends,” Natalia replies amicably. “He met the first one somewhere and worked with the second one many years ago. They got on well with the others and often met them. Very funny and cool guys, but they are terrible womanizers and perverts.”       “Oh, all the men are kinda perverts!” Cassidy waves a hand. “If only you knew what kind of pervert my brother has always been!”       “There’s a part of the truth. Even such a sentimental and romantic man like Edward sometimes dreams of what he shouldn’t kinda think of.”       “Hey, Jess, why did you get interested in those men?” Helene smiles mysteriously. “Did you like someone? Finally?”       “Nope, I just asked,” Jessica shakes her head sharply. “Because I don’t know those two and the one with dark hair and almost the same height as Terrence. And I don’t know those two, as well… Who are kinda similar to the MacClifes.”       “It’s Benjamin, Terrence’s childhood friend and my boyfriend,” Blair says with a slight smile. “Of course, he’s a little dolt at first sight, but he’s a very good and kind person. And so caring and careful. My brother adores him and can’t wait for Ben to visit us at home.”       “And those two are Jeremy and William, the younger brothers of Terrence and Edward on the father,” Raquelle explains. “Cool guys, as well. I personally like them.”       “Listen, girls, good-looking guys came together there!” Jessica exclaims with a slight smile. “Very handsome…”       “You are right!” Olivia exclaims.       “The grooms invited lots of friends to their bachelor party,” Blair notices thoughtfully. “And Sammy is with them, as well!”       “They could’ve had more people,” Natalia confesses. “They wanted to invite the guy, who’s gonna be responsible for the music on the wedding, and the guys from ‘The Loser Syndrome,’ who they’re close friends with. But they couldn’t come ‘cause the first one has some businesses, and ‘The Loser Syndrome’ is busy with giving interviews and performing. Ah, yeah, the guys from ‘Lost In Time,’ Edward’s friends, for whom he wrote two or three songs some time ago, were supposed to come, as well, but they have business.”       “What, what, what did you say?” Kylie jabs loudly with widely open eyes. “‘The Loser Syndrome?’ The band that consists of the three handsome men with angelic voices?”       “Come on?” Odette cannot believe. “The lads are their friends?”       “Aren’t you lying?” Emma wonders.       “No, the men are really friends of the bad that helped ‘Against The System’ come into the show business,” Anna confirms with a slight smile. “By the way, all those guys are supposed to be at the wedding. But I’m not sure… They didn’t give a clear answer.”       “Are you serious?” Melissa jabs excitedly. “Such famous people would be at the wedding, but you said nothing! Damn! Why didn’t you say it so many handsome men would be there?”       “It’s not confirmed yet,” Helene replies amicably. “That band has a schedule for months! They can’t cancel everything for a wedding ceremony.”       “Okay then… No matter if they come, I don’t care! I should think of everything and look imitable. I should pick up the most beautiful dress, in which I could look fabulous.”       “Gosh, you’re incorrigible, Melissa Cooper,” Natalia shakes her head with a slight smile. “Just like you are, Kylie Stoner… I’m sure the men would surely pay attention to you and start getting stuck on you thanks to your hair. Especially, when it’s time for dances.”       “But we must be ready for getting attention from such good-looking guys,” Kylie replies confidently with a slight smile. “And the guys from ‘The Loser Syndrome’ are gonna be there! You know how much I adore them! I must take a photo with them and talk to them!”       “Don’t worry, Kylie, we’ll all have a good time and talk to all the guests,” Raquelle promises. “On that day, the men won’t be able to drink as much as they’re drinking now. And they will be very good and shy.”       “Oh, gosh!” Anna closes her mouth with a hand for a second. “What did those idiots do to Ryan? He’s never been such a dork! And haven’t even drunk!”       “Excuse me, where’s he?” Blair frowns slightly. “I missed when you talked…”       “That’s him! The pettiest of the lads. Playing the fool with Daniel and Edward in the photo.”       “Ah, him…” Blair slightly nods. “Sympathetic…”       “Yeah, he’s sweet…”       “Oh, gosh, Rose got outta his mind at all…” Jessica slightly shakes her head. “Where’s a quiet and shy guy I knew? Pete, stop calm down! Get sober!”       “How much alcohol did these idiots give him?” Helene asks. “How much did he drink? You just look at Peter’s face! He’s laughing so hard!”       “C’mon, let the boy relax!” Cassidy says. “After the shit he got through because of his mentally unstable father.”       “Peter does look sober!” Natalia chuckles kindly. “You look how drunk Edward is! Smiling like an idiot and hugging everybody!”       “Terrence didn’t go further from him,” Raquelle notices confidently. “If you ask him something, this irresistible and attractive one won’t even understand what to say.”       “Grooms can do it,” Odette says confidently. “That party was made for them.”       “Oh, I did tell you that my brother would climb up to the table and start dancing!” Cassidy exclaims funnily, cheerfully. “Here’s the photo of Daniel being drunk as hell and dancing on the table like a log. Isn’t he ashamed of showing his terrible dancing skills? Don’t get you ashamed, Dan, you won’t be a ballerina!”       “He’s so red!” Anna chuckles shyly. “How much alcohol did those handsome men give our incomparable Daniel?”       “Huh, he probably drank himself! The lads don’t need to drink him! He’s always loved drinking with his pals! Oh… God… Dan, don’t get ashamed! You won’t become a ballerina!”       “It’s okay, girls, I think everything isn’t so bad,” Kylie notices. “The most important thing is that there are no girls, and they didn’t come with anyone from a striptease club or somewhere else.”       “I don’t think they need some girls,” Melissa chuckles quietly. “They feel good with each other! Drinking to hell, embracing each other, laughing loudly, and having a great fun.”       After viewing all the photos, the girls see a few more short videos, on which nothing is seen for two seconds, but everybody can hear a hysterical male laugh, the sounds of rock music, and Sammy’s loud bark.       “Oh, it’s starting now,” Natalia smiles slyly.       Two seconds later, the men finally move the camera on themselves. The members of the bachelorette can see that they all came together and start hanging on each other with stupid, wide smiles, looking much redder than in the photos. After getting control of their condition, the friends give a greeting to the girls and wave their hands, and some of them start chuckling again.       “Everything’s worse on the video than in the photos…” Raquelle slightly shakes her head. “They’re as red as tomatoes… And smiling much stupider…”       “Gosh, how did those drunk fellows find a button to record a video on a phone?” Jessica laughs shyly. “They’re drunk to the heck, and they can barely speak. The lads hang on to each other not to fall.”       “You’re right, honey,” Odette slightly shakes her head.       “How long are y’all gonna be laughing, you, drunk idiots?” Cassidy asks loudly. “Speak something!”       “You actually mustn’t drink and come together,” Anna adds confidently.       The men barely stop laughing and talk about their perfect time with stupid smiles, noticing that they miss their beloved girls so badly. And while someone says it, Edward laughs loudly because the men standing next to him either tickle him, pinch him by the hips, or do something else.       “And all of these men are almost thirty…” Helene says thoughtfully. “It’s okay the twenty-year-olds go crazy, but those…”       The men say they saw the photos and videos from the bachelorette and thought the ladies called them for a challenge they accepted with no doubt.       “Not you, brother, I’m begging you…” Cassidy begs, putting a hand on her heart. “Don’t get ashamed of the men and make yourself a greater idiot by showing an inability to dance.”       And meanwhile, Daniel pushes all the men aside, comes closer to the camera, hangs on Edward holding it and Peter, gives a warm greeting to Cassidy, waving a hand, and loudly threatens to punish his sister for dancing on the table and making him resentful.       “Oh, oh, how scared I am!” Cassidy grins loudly. “You’re gonna be lying drunk at home and forget what you wanted to do tomorrow!”       Daniel keeps swearing at Cassidy and says it was the last time he allowed her to go somewhere.       “You’re banning?” Cassidy surprises. “Ha, would I ask you for permission, you, drunk fool? Better get ready for what’s waiting for you! Anna and I will cruelly punish you for drinking as much as a long-time alcoholic!”       The men give a greeting to the girls again, give a special one to their second half, and say they are going to have fun and dance. Then Edward moves the camera to Sammy, who barks at the one two times, as if he gives a greeting to the girls and his owner, and lets them know he is watching everything.       “Don’t get them out of your control, Sammy!” Natalia says cheerfully. “We believe in you, baby!”       Two seconds later, the video comes to the end and ends with Terrence taking the phone from Edward and saying something stupid with a silly smile while Daniel and Peter hang out on him, ask for hugs, make very silly things with their faces, show their tongues and do funny faces to themselves, their friend and each other, not stopping to laugh loudly and waving a hand to say goodbye. The camera also pictures the way Rose and Perkins start running after each other with whoops on the entire yacht, and start a funny fight before one pushes the other in the water with a strong kick on the ass, but falls when he dares to give his hand to a friend to help him get on the deck. Then they keep fighting on the water, while the other men laugh behind the camera and do not miss a chance to picture this moment.       And before the camera turns off, the phone records Edward singing along with a song loudly playing at full volume, not taking all the notes due to being drunk, waving his hands like an idiot, and shaking his body with the rhythm. And the way Rose, Perkins, he, and his brother get thrown overboard with no shame after they perform a short but madly silly dance. And the way the four men thrilling with laughter and coughing at times, get on the deck and do not miss a chance to play the fool with each other again.       “Gosh, how good it is I left Sammy with Rose,” Helene exhales with relief, while the camera pictures the way the men get to the water surface and get to the deck again. “My boy is surely gonna keep them under hard control.”       “And is that doggy yours, Helene?” Kylie wonders.       “Yup, it’s my doggy. His full name is Samuel, but we call him Sammy. We call him Samuel only when we swear on him for something.”       “Oh, what a good doggy,” Melissa gets tender feelings with a wide smile.       “What a cutie…” Emma smiles widely.       “Could this cute pet deal with that drunk gang?”       “C’mon, Cooper!” Natalia exclaims. “Everybody’s gonna be soft and fluffy for Sammy if he gets a command to do it. If the girls and I need to find out something from the men or do something to them, we ask Sammy to deal with these gentlemen. And they become obedient to us. Because going against Sammy is impossible.”       “If my Chelsea had been taught, she would’ve kicked everybody’s asses!” Cassidy replies confidently. “Sorry that my baby is not alive anymore…”       “Why not?” Jessica frowns slightly. “She died?”       “Yup, when I was a kid… Chelsea was very old… She lived with my parents before the birth of Daniel and me. And when she died, I was really worried… All of us grieved… Chelsea was like a member of our family. We loved her so much…”       “I also suffered for a long time when my cat Lassie died,” Kylie confesses with sadness in her eyes. “A white one, the Persian breed… She was so attracted to me and purring when lying on my laps. I adore listening to a purring cat! It kinda calms me down…”       “And I miss my dog Piper,” Olivia confesses. “She died a long time ago. But not from old age, but an illness. The doctors did their best to make her life longer, but we had to put her to sleep.”       “She was very beautiful,” Emma notices. “I remember you showed a photo of her.”       “Yeah, I adore German Shepherd,” Odette says confidently.       “Oh, oh, look, girls!” Cassidy jabs funnily. “The three ones climbed up to the table! My muzzy brother is one of them!”       “And the fourth one joined them!” Blair laughs shyly.       The girls see the video of the men not refusing a wish to jump up to the coffee table and start dancing on it with no fear of looking silly. Just like Peter, Edward, and Daniel do it first, and then Terrence joins them, not being too happy that they did not invite him. While the other men laugh loudly and whistle, the four are dancing on the table, playing the fool, hugging each other, and singing a song at the top of their lungs, not caring if they hit notes and having nothing against being pictured on the phones.       “Oh, damn, those idiots mustn’t drink,” Raquelle moans tiredly. “You just look what they’re doing!”       “Hey, they don’t take notes!” Anna exclaims. “They can’t hear themselves!”       “They aren’t singing but screaming!” Cassidy adds confidently. “Finding out who’d scream louder! And who’d fail it more!”       “It’s hurt to hear for me as the person who got vocal lessons.”       “And then those idiots are gonna be blinking their eyes surprisingly, and saying they didn’t do that,” Helene chuckles kindly.       “Hey, ladies, does someone know how to save all these photos and videos?” Jessica specifies. “Let’s show our gentlemen that and laugh at their faces when they get sober!”       “Just take screenshots,” Kylie suggests confidently. “And record a video! But you can save any files on this app without problems.”       “Yes, yes, we’ll save everything,” Natalia replies confidently. “There’s so much interesting.”       Edward, Peter, Terrence, and Daniel start shouting at the top of their lungs at the endless ocean with their hands spread aside, still entertaining their friends with their silly dances on the table, while those do not stop laughing, joking, and recording their tricks on their phones. But at some moment, Sammy creeps to them from behind and jumps easily on the bed, pushing the four off the table. All of them get down not very softly and get mad because of what the dog did. While the retriever himself starts dancing on his hind paws, jumping, wrapping, and doing some funny things, getting attention in all ways. And the men thrill with a loud laugh and clap their hands, and someone whistles and encourages the retriever with funny words.       “Gosh, what Sammy is doing!” Helene laughs shyly.       “Pushed all these drunk idiots aside, kicked the four off the table, and climbed up to dance,” Jessica notices funnily.       “The doggy is cool!” Emma exclaims.       “Doesn’t let the men relax,” Odette notices.       But Edward jumps up on the table again and hangs out on it and warms up the fellows along with Sammy, shaking his body with the rhythm of the music the way he wants and singing the current song along with his friends and brothers. At some moment, the doggy stands on his hind paws and gives one of the grooms his front ones, as if he invites one of the grooms to dance, and the man plays along with him with pleasure, along with a loud whistle and shouts like “Come on, groom! Come on!!”       “We used to know Edward as a shy and quiet guy…” Natalia notices with a slight smile. “But he’s doing that…”       “Ha, friend, you look at Ryan!” Anna chuckles kindly. “He doesn’t sit aside and is dancing with the others, shouting and singing songs so hard.”       “Yeah, here are the shy guys…” Raquelle says thoughtfully. “They do pretend! Pretend they’re kinda shy and innocent, but it’s not true.”       “That’s right!” Blair agrees. “If you let them, they’re gonna lose their minds!”       The video suddenly ends, but there are others in which the other men become stars. Cody, Joseph, Blake, Ryan, Christopher, Benjamin, Jeremy, and William dance energetically to loud rock music, looking terribly awkward at times.       “You know, maybe, they’re all drunk to the hell, but many of them dance quite well even when being like this,” Kylie notices thoughtfully. “The grooms move well! The curly one is good, as well… And I like the young boy with light hair.”       “And the pettiest one of them also moves well,” Melissa says with a slight smile. “And these three with dark hair also do that well.”       “I think Edward is the one to be the best in dances from them,” Anna tells her opinion. “And Chris is very good…”       “Peter moves cool, as well!” Cassidy exclaims. “And Terrence’s good…”       “Alas, I can’t say the same about your bro. Sorry, Daniel, but you aren’t as good at dancing as you are at singing and playing a guitar.”       “Uh-huh, we should’ve told the guys to learn that idiot to move well,” Cassidy chuckles kindly. “I’m surprised that he hasn’t stepped on the other’s legs yet.”       “But he’s shouting much louder than everybody!” Jessica exclaims.       “Gosh, brother, sit on the sofa! Take a break! Don’t waste your energy. You'd better take a guitar and sing something!”       A very short video starts, in which all the men are separated into couples and kind of compete with each other, performing the same dance when the camera of the phone is pointed at them. There is also Sammy wrapping around on his hind paws, running after his tail energetically, jumping a lot, and barking loudly.       “Oh, hold your phone straightly,” Natalia throws gloomily. “It’s impossible to watch! It’s shaking!”       There are two more videos of the men dancing the way they can by virtue of their condition and their dance skills, and playing the fool with each other. Even if someone steps on something, fails at singing, or cannot keep a balance in the same place, it makes everybody get hysterical. On the next one, they come together with a glass of a strong drink, click each other’s glasses with happy whoops, and drink, while someone records it on a video with a shaking hand. The members of the bachelor do not miss a chance to play the fool for it, say something loudly, show a funny face, tongue, or make a sign of the horns, and sing some lyrics from a song.       “But now imagine how everyone would be discussing it if these photos and videos were on the Internet,” Blair smiles mysteriously.       “Oh, I hope they haven’t posted anything or some photos on their social networks,” Olivia expresses hope.       “Well, they got brains only for sending us these photos and video,” Raquelle replies.       “For a while, Raquelle, for a while…” Cassidy says thoughtfully.       The drunk men say nothing in one of the next videos and just stare at it while hugging each other and playing with filters and making funny and stupid faces, putting a sign of the horns above each other’s heads, doing funny things to their faces with their hands, and laughing loudly at what they get after playing with many effects. Two or three photos are just funny selfies of the men and funny signatures for them. And in the last video, they say goodbye to the girls. Edward and Terrence get their faces almost in everything, smile stupidly, laugh loudly, hug everybody, hang out with their brothers and then their friends, and do not forget to hug Sammy tightly, caress him, and kiss him on the nose while the dog looks like he just takes it. After viewing this whole collection of photos and videos, the girls say nothing and just look at each other for two seconds.       “Okay, not everything is bad,” Natalia concludes. “At least, they didn’t think of going on the roof of the yacht or running on the entire deck, being naked… And didn’t bring half-naked girls there… That’s very good. And I really hope the men wouldn’t lose the rest of their minds and wouldn’t do that.”       “Even if Sammy has fun with everybody, he keeps them under control,” Helene replies confidently. “He’s watching all of them. Because I promised him a bone and tasty dinner if he watched them closely.”       “Yeah, it’d be better if they were hugging and kissing each other, making funny faces on a camera, dancing like idiots, and laughing,” Kylie notices quietly.       “Wait, girls,” Anna pronounces. “Maybe they’ll publish something else later or give us their answer to our photos and video.”       “Hey, did you notice they really resented ‘cause we said we wanted to teach them to dance and dances?” Emma notices.       “Oh, yeah!” Odette exclaims. “The lads got excited immediately when someone dared to doubt their skills!”       “And I must confess that they made me happy with their talents even if they’re drunk,” Melissa notices with a slight smile. “There’s something to work with, but it’s fixable.”       “The next thing they’d make us happy with is singing and playing,” Cassidy replies confidently. “Not along with songs but with a guitar. My brother took it with him. So, they’ll record a video or two.”       “And while they’re getting ready to amaze us again, we can make them happy with something tasty,” Blair smiles mysteriously. “Dance kind of provocatively… Try to sing along with our favorite songs… Or tease them somehow…”       “Right!” Raquelle exclaims. “Let’s make it a runaway! Find some attractive things and walk beautifully. From the hip! Like models! I’ll show you!”       “I think we’re wearing pretty good clothes,” Natalia replies with a slight smile, fixing her white bikini slightly. “The lads stare at us when we wear shorts. And if we only wear a bikini, they do really drool. Checked by me on Edward. If I tease him a little, he literally lies at my feet!”       “Of course, we don’t wanna annoy them, but I would try to charm these drunk lads with pleasure,” Anna smiles mysteriously.       “Then I suggest we just fix a makeup, brush our hair, fix our bikini, and keep dancing,” Helene suggests cheerfully. “Believe me, a girl needs a little bit for a man to get caught in the trap and her charming webs.”       “Oh, ladies, I’m afraid they drank too much that they mightn’t care about us,” Cassidy assumes. “The important thing to them is to have a lot of fun. And to have enough drinks.”       “C’mon, Cassidy, they’d get a crush on us even if they were mortally drunk,” Raquelle replies confidently, putting her hands on her hips and showing her white bikini that is similar to Natalia’s bikini. “But if they don’t, it’s okay. We’re having fun too! And we’re doing what we want!”       “Exactly!” Jessica exclaims. “Why are those gentlemen able to drink to the hell and go crazy, but we aren’t? We also have a right to laugh a lot, have fun, and play the fool!”       “So, girls, let’s just have a lot of fun and do our best to remember this bachelorette for a long time,” Melissa suggests. “I wish it wasn’t the last one, but now we must make it unforgettable.”       “I suggest we drink some champagne and change something about our appearances before we continue our party,” Natalia suggests cheerfully. “Take a lot of photos and videos for social networks and our men.”       “No party happens without champagne or cocktails!” Kylie exclaims cheerfully. “So, fill your glasses and get ready to dance! I wanna have fun!”       Wo-o-o-oho-o-o-o!” Olivia whoops funnily.       “Party is on, again!” Blair whops happily.       “Hoora-a-a-a-ay!” the girls whop almost at the same time much happier and funnier.       The friends start filling their glasses with champagne and take one to drink. After saying some toasts quickly, they raise their glasses with happy whoops, click each other’s glasses, and drink some champagne. And then Natalia turns on the music system not to spend time in silence, and goes to the cabin along with the girls to fix their hair and makeup and make sure their bikinis and swimming suits look good on them. Then they return to the living room and continue dancing with all their heart, taking their glasses again at some moment and drinking some champagne after pronouncing a couple of toasts.       The girls act as naturally and freely as the men do and let themselves do whatever their hearts tell them to do. A little later, they turn the table to a mini runaway for walks, moving funnily or seductively, playing with what they found before, and not being afraid of looking stupid or awkward and clumsy. The friends do not refuse the pleasure of getting in the water again, jumping off the yacht with deafening shouts full of happiness. First, Anna, Natalia, Helene, and Raquelle do it, holding each other’s hands, and then their friends decide to follow their example, while someone pictures it all on the camera of their mobile phones.       

***

      Everyone at the bachelor party is having a lot of fun. A loud rock music is playing in the living room at full volume. The men being absolutely drunk are having a great time and refusing nothing. Even Sammy, who was sitting aside with a bone in his teeth, is having fun with everybody and entertaining the men, who do not forget to give him some love and attention. The friends find something that could replace a microphone and sing along with loud heavy music, imagining themselves to be worldwide famous celebrities on a big stage. But they really like to warm up the crowd with their crazy dances on the table, on which everybody has climbed multiple times, singing along with their favorite music as loudly as they can, dancing the way they want, sometimes drinking alcohol, taking photos, playing the fool, and making funny faces on cameras of their mobile phones that capture the best moments.       Maybe they are very good friends, but now the men have become kind of a family and act like they have known each other and had a perfect relationship for their whole lives. And they also try to teach each other to perform some. Someone does it well after a first attempt, and someone does it not very well and correctly, because of either being drunk or having no ability to dance. However, nobody cares about it. Everyone can laugh at themselves. They even start funny dance battles with each other and try to perform some movements from various types of dances or just some easy acrobatics elements. Yes, they do it not very well… But everyone, saying shortly, cares. The fellows keep shouting out something, whistle, and clap their hands. And Sammy’s performances always make them applaud and whoop loudly, and the dog definitely gets a lot of pleasure from it.       A little later, the man decide to jump into the ocean and swim a little in it. They start a so-called competition for the best jump from the yacht, which is getting recorded on video or photographed. To be clear, Blake is the one to work on filming for most of the time since he honestly confessed to his friends that he cannot swim and was not sure if agreeing to go to the bachelor party on the yacht was a good idea. But he was really happy that everyone accepted his words with understanding and did not dare him, deciding to do it with someone else. And some of the men accidentally let some of their things fall into the ocean and do not even try to jump to get them back, saying goodbye to them in their minds.       “Okay, guys, a little stand down!” Terrence pronounces tiredly, raising his hand with a little heavy breath and doubling over with his hands leaning on his knees. “Or I’m gonna die from tiredness…”       “Agree!” Benjamin nods and exhales sharply. “I also wanna have a rest at least for two minutes…”       “Yes, yes, I want a break,” Joseph says with a heavy breath, putting his hands on his hips.       Edward makes the music quieter on the music system but does not turn it off, sits down on the sofa like a stone, and leans back on it. Someone sits down to catch a breath and get cool. Someone just walks on the deck or takes something to drink and waters their throat. And Sammy just watches them with interest, wagging his tail amicably with his tongue out.       “We've been having a cool time, men!” Terrence notices cheerfully, sitting on the sofa frivolously and putting his arms behind his back on the sofa. “Even Sammy couldn’t resist and joined us!”       “Yeah, someone to sit on the sofa and keep drinking would be the one to be born in another world,” Daniel replies funnily, running a hand through her hair.       “None of us was like this,” Cody notices.       “Oh, guys, I haven’t had such a cool hangout for so long!” Jeremy exclaims cheerfully. “I don’t regret saying something to the teachers from the university to get two or three free days.”       “But it wasn’t easy to make those annoying old people give up on us,” William adds confidently. “However, my bro and I eventually got what we wanted.”       “So, can you talk to people the way your bro Edward can?” Peter chuckles kindly.       “Maybe… But we’ve already found a way to talk to our teachers and know how to persuade them not to swear at us for doing some work late, coming late rarely, and not attending lessons.”       “But I’m definitely lucky with my teachers in the university,” Ryan notices with a slight smile. “I’m gonna say more: I’m their favorite boy. They support and help me with everything.”       “Right, teachers just love such nerds like you,” Christopher chuckles kindly, leaning back on the sofa. “And if a nerd loves – oh, shit – to study, they literally carry the one in their arms.”       “Don’t deny, I love to study and discover something new. But there’s much that I don’t like at all. For example, I love mathematics and physics but hate economics and politics. I understand nothing about it!”       “I know a bit of it,” Kevin chuckles kindly, walking on the deck in front of the men’s eyes.       “Oh, no, I’m fucking bad at it!” Blake says loudly, holding a glass of some drink while standing in front of the men. “And I admit that I ain’t very good at history.”       “Oh, fuck, lads…” Edward moans tiredly. “Let’s not talk about a political situation and the economy of our country.”       Sammy barks confidently, loudly two times.       “Ha, I doubt we can reflect on such things and discuss them right now,” Christopher replies with a stupid smile. “At least, I can’t do, at all…”       “I already got it, seeing your stupid smile,” Benjamin laughs quietly.       Christopher says nothing and just grins kindly and drinks something from a little glass, while almost everybody sits on the sofas, enjoying the way the warm wind blows their faces and hair.       “Hey, gang, do y’all think the girls saw our message for them?” Daniel asks with a mysterious smile. “Does my sis know what I’m gonna do when she’s back home?”       “They’re supposed to,” Peter assumes, “They’ve got their phones. The girls do need to take a couple of photos with kissy faces and smiles to show their thirty-two teeth. They surely see our greeting.”       “Oh, yeah, a thousand photos at all the views is such a female thing,” William grins kindly.       “So true!” Cody agrees.       “One ex of mine was obsessed with perfect photos and adored making duck lips. But it irritated me so badly! I asked her not to do that many times, but she just promised and didn’t do it. And every time we walked somewhere, I was literally working as her photographer and taking about a million photos of her during a date. And she pictured every single step.”       “Well, typical girl – I can’t say more!” Terrence throws his hands up. “A man would be happy to have two or three photos, but a girl can take hundreds and thousands of… The same. And then she’d be picking up the best for one hour. Choose filters, get rid of weaknesses, make herself skinnier…”       “Uh-huh,” Jeremy pronounces with his eyes rolled. “Just to show how good she put on her makeup on her face, how many flowers someone gifted her, how cool her clothes, jewelry, and something like that are, and what a perfect body she got from nature.”       “But that body isn’t always real,” Ryan notices confidently. “The same girl is studying at my university! Quite sympathetic when she’s natural and not stupid, but lacks confidence. She does heavy makeup, retouches her photos, and makes herself much skinnier… Makes herself a doll! Hides her real face.”       “Yeah, girls can’t be understood…” Benjamin replies thoughtfully.       “Okay, lads, let our girls take photos on their bachelorette,” Edward says confidently and smiles slyly. “And then we’ll admire those beauties.”       “Oh, I think we saw what sort of beauties they are,” Blake replies with a slight smile. “But if the girls give us one more greeting, I will watch them with pleasure.”       “They did,” Terrence says, looking at something on his smartphone. “Sent two or three photos…”       “That’s all?” Peter wonders. “Only photos? What about videos?”       “But what sort of photos!” Blake smiles slyly, looking at the photos in Terrence’s phone. “The girls do tease us with such seductive photos on purpose.”       “Uh-huh, everybody’s bodies, legs, and everything like that are cool…” Kevin nods with a mysterious smile. “M-m-m… I’d have the pleasure of working as a stripper for them on their bachelorette… Of course, I ain’t a professional about it, but I’d give everything one of those beauties to touch me.”       “Hey, hey, don’t open your mouth too widely, honorable Kevin Jack Spenser!” Daniel exclaims, giving Kevin a slight clap on the back of his head. “Half of the girls are taken! Don’t even look at my girlfriend! Anna is only mine!”       “Quiet, brother, I don’t steal taken girls, no matter how much I like them.”       “And yeah, Prescott, I’m aware you were trying to pick Anna up. So, it has to do with you, too.”       “You didn’t date her,” Joseph recalls. “She was a single girl who could speak to anyone she wanted.”       “Anyway, you, boneheads, don’t open your mouth too widely,” Terrence says confidently. “I won’t give my Raquelle to anyone.”       “Don’t even dream of!” Peter exclaims.       “And Natalia is only mine!” Edward adds. “And I haven’t forgotten Parker somehow tried to pick her up.”       “She didn’t know you,” Benjamin recalls. “And was able to speak to anyone. But I don’t exclude that we could have something if Natalia hadn’t sharply broken contact and left the country for a few months.”       “Thank God, fate saved her from another womanizer,” Terrence replies funnily. “The girl wasn’t lucky in love. Someone in heaven decided that it was enough. And my bro was brought to her.”       “I really liked her, to your information. I had the pleasure to spend time with her!”       “But now Natalia is mine,” Edward recalls confidently. “So, don’t even dare to look at her. Moreover, you have Blair.”       “Okay, okay, we ain’t idiots,” Christopher raises his hands. “Of course, your girls are just dolls, but we don’t pay attention to taken ladies.”       “Yeah!” Ryan exclaims. “We have a crush only on single girls. There are quite enough of them among the brides’ friends.”       “We’ll look at them and decide who we’re gonna spend time on the wedding with,” Kevin adds confidently. “Who we’re gonna surely dance with.”       “Anyway, that’s cool the girls don’t forget us and feed us with sweet things while we’re getting outta the mind,” Edward says with a mysterious smile.       “Huh, you’ve been outta your mind for a long time, Edward!” Jeremy chuckles loudly. “You were hanging out and dancing so hard!”       “Much harder than all of us!” Cody exclaims.       “Uh-huh, I was worried you would’ve lost your head ‘cause you were shaking that so hard,” William adds funnily.       “If you drink so much, you’re gonna be dancing much harder,” Christopher laughs. “Ed was so hammed while we all were dancing!”       “Wait for some time, lads,” Kevin pronounces cheerfully. “MacClife is gonna drink to the fuck and run to dance on the deck in only underwear.”       “It’s my right!” Edward exclaims with a stupid smile. “I’m having a party! I’m able to do what I want! If I wish, I will take off my clothes and climb up to the table to dance.”       “Okay, men, stop!” Ryan jabs. “Don’t let Edward drink more this time. Do not let. Or the bride is gonna cut off the heads of all of us if we don’t watch her fiancé.”       “Yeah, guys, watch this hooligan very closely,” Terrence says confidently, hugging Edward around the shoulders and clapping him on the head. “My little bro can’t do stupid things while he’s drunk as fuck.”       “Huh, I ain’t gonna listen to anyone!” Edward chuckles loudly, pushing Terrence off himself. “If I wish to do something, I will do it! And I give a fuck about those who mind it.”       “Don’t test my patience, kid! Or I’ll kick your ass fucking hard!”       “Get off, Terrence! I ain’t a child and can decide what to do!”       “Actually, I’m responsible for you.”       “Better be responsible for yourself. I will take care of myself on my own.”       “M-m-m, typical behavior of my beloved sissy,” Daniel replies thoughtfully. “That ass does pretend to be adult, as well, but she’s a kid and doesn’t know anything about life.”       “This is a fate of all older brothers,” Terrence throws his hands up. “They don’t listen to us! Our brothers and sisters do what they want, even if we’re like almost their parents.”       “At least, I’m surely replacing our parents for Cass.”       “By the way, these two idiots didn’t listen to me when we lived together,” Edward says confidently, pointing at Jeremy and William. “Even though I’m older than them, and they must obey me.”       “Oh, Eddy…” William smiles innocently. “Do you really think I’d listen to you? No! You can’t decide what I should do!”       “Yeah, if I want, I will do anything,” Jeremy adds with the same smile. “And we give a fuck about what you think.”       “Because you’re morons!” Edward throws gloomily. “Who haven’t changed at all!”       “We love you, too, bro,” Jeremy and William reply at the same time with a stupid smile.       While the other men laugh quietly, and Sammy makes a weird sound, Edward leans his head back and growls quietly.       “Okay, men, let’s give him some drink,” Benjamin jabs funnily. “And drink then. MacClife is kinda angry!”       “It’s a good idea!” Edward barely pronounces. “Let’s drink a glass! In honor of me!”       The men take their glasses with stupid smiles, and Christopher fills them quickly with some whiskey from a half-filled bottle, while Sammy just sits near them and watches everybody.       “In short, we’ve wished very much for our groom,” Cody says cheerfully.  “So, it doesn’t the fuck make sense to tell words of love just like girls.”       “Yeah, so, I suggest we just drink without any toasts,” Joseph adds. “Yeah, men?”       “Yea-a-a-ah!” all the men happily whoop at the same time, click each other’s glasses, and drink some whiskey from their glasses.       “And now let’s have a musical b-b-b-brea-a-a-a-ak!” Kevin suggests funnily.       Sammy starts barking happily, wagging his tail energetically.       “Oh, look, Sammy wanna sing something for us,” Blake notices cheerfully, tweaking Sammy’s ears. “He doesn’t mind!”       “Bring your musical instruments here!” Christopher says loudly, waving his hands. “We’ll sing something now!”       “One second!” Daniel exclaims and starts pushing Peter in the back with his feet and hands. “Rose! Rose, go to the car for your cajon now! C’mon, blond, don’t waste our time! Get your ass to the cabin and bring the instrument here!”       “Uh-huh, what if I fall and pass out on the way?” Peter smiles stupidly. “Maybe you go take that thing? But I can add some whiskey to your glass for that!”       “What if I pass out? Who would care about me if I passed out in the cabin? I can’t surely count on you, drunk fools, because you’re about to pass out soon… Somewhere.”       “Oh, why do we the fuck need that thing?” Ryan chuckles kindly. “We will sing anyway!”       “We have guitars – that’s very good!” Cody adds funnily.       “We can do something without them!” Terrence exclaims funnily. “Sing acapella!”       Terrence starts clicking his fingers and singing a song, doing this not quite right due to his condition, but with all his heart. However, the drunk men do not care about it at all, and Sammy listens to the song closely, moving his head slightly as if he tries to hear every single word. A little later, Daniel recognizes what his friend is singing and starts performing it along with him, shaking slowly and competing with MacClife, Sr., secretly for who would sing louder.       “Maybe, sing it?” Daniel asks cheerfully. “It’s sad, but it’s so cool…”       “Let’s go!” Terrence throws funnily, waving his hand and clicking his fingers. “Erm, give us the guitars, please!”       Sammy goes to the cabin down the stairs, grabs a belt of every single guitar with his teeth, and brings them to Terrence and Daniel, who are not sure if they can play everything right, but have a wish to sing a song so badly.       “Hey, musicians, do you remember how to play?” Benjamin chuckles kindly, putting his arms on the back of the sofa.       “Yeah, celebrities, what if you screw it up?” Joseph crosses his arms over his chest.       “Oh, c’mon, give a fuck!” Ryan waves his hand. “Everyone’s fucking drunk and doesn’t know what major or minor is!”       “Huh, don’t worry!” Terrence chuckles with his head proudly raised. “Us screwing up everything while playing guitar and singing? It can’t be happening at all!”       “Exactly!” Daniel exclaims. “So, shut up, listen, and enjoy!”       After counting down to three, Daniel and Terrence start playing their guitars and singing the song they sang. Of course, they are singing and playing not as perfectly as they usually do, but they give their heart to this. Peter and Edward become the first ones to get their mind blown out, jump up from the sofa at the beginning of the song, and start dancing with happy faces along with it, and playing the fool with each other. To be clear, the groom gets out of his mind first, and then the blond decides to join him. However, the others also shake with the rhythm, clap their hands, and try to sing along, being sure these two play incredibly and do not fail it, and Sammy howls quietly at some points.       “Oh, look, how these two are getting outta the mind,” Blake chuckles quietly, pointing at Edward and Peter going crazy.       “Uh-huh, they are so hard,” Ryan laughs shyly.       “Another reason to laugh,” Cody notices.       “And get a couple of photos and videos,” Joseph adds, taking a couple of photos on the smartphone,       “C’mon, it’s another reason to laugh,” Benjamin notices cheerfully. “You can’t see the drunk and half-naked members of the band ‘Against The System’ every day.”       “We will see, don’t worry,” Kevin replies confidently. “We’re gonna have other bachelors.”       “Yeah, Daniel may grow up for it…” Christopher says thoughtfully.       While Peter and Edward keep dancing funnily and stupidly at times, laughing loudly, and trying to teach each other to do some movements, the other men, except Daniel and Terrence, get up and join the friends climbing on the table and starting dancing so hard.       “C’mon, men, rock on!” Edward encourages loudly. “Repeat after us!”       Sammy joins the others and sometimes howls along with Terrence and Daniel, who are not quite happy that everybody has fun without them, but keep singing as a duo and playing for pleasure. But what Edward and Peter are doing does not allow them to focus on a play, and they laugh when just looking at the two.       “Get off, Edward!” Peter throws with a laugh, pushing Edward off when the brunet hugs him too tightly. “I’m not Natalia! Don’t feel me up the way you do it to her. Hear me, MacClife? MacClife! I am addressing you! Fuck, you’re a sucker…”       However, Edward keeps doing something like this at times, laughing loudly when Peter, for example, tortures him with a tickling or drags him on the entire deck while having his neck in his armpit. Somewhere at the end of the song, which Daniel and Terrence are performing, Sammy wants to jump up to the table. But instead of playing with Edward and Peter, he jumps up on it and pushes the blond in the back with his front paws. That’s why the man falls to his knees after not a very good jump on the floor.       “What the fuck?” Peter resents and sharply gets up, shaking slightly after this. “Sammy! Come here now! You hear me? Come to me! What I said! Sammy! Sammy! Samuel, the fuck!”       Sammy manages to have some fun on the table before Peter climbs up on it again. The dog jumps down from the table and runs from the blond on a different side of the living room, jumping up on the sofas and running on them quickly.       “Samuel, stop!” Peter exclaims and gets up from the table. “What I say? I swear I will tell Helene about your bad behavior! And you can only see about your meat bone in a dream!”       Peter shaking slightly starts following Sammy, who keeps running from one side to another, running into all the possible corners. And at some moment, he quickly runs right over Terrence and Daniel, who stop playing sharply because of this.       “Fuck, Sammy!” Daniel winces slightly, grabbing the bottom of his stomach. “You almost kicked my balls! Keep an eye on the holy thing! Are ya fucking crazy?”       “And almost hit my eye with a paw!” Terrence exclaims, running a hand over his hair.       “No, you just look at this asshole!” Peter exclaims, putting his hands on his hips. “He pushed me off the table again and decided to mock me again! There is nobody the fuck else!”       Sammy starts hitting his tail sharply against the floor and barking at Peter with displeasure.       “Hey, come here, you, long-eared idiot!” Peter jabs. “You will ask for trouble now! Come here, I said!”       When Peter gives a start, Sammy runs away somewhere and does get caught because the blond is too drunk to run quickly and is shaking slightly from one side to another. While it all happens along with a laugh of the other men, who have fun watching their friend running after the dog.       “You’ll surely pay for calling him an asshole,” Terrence laughs quietly, pressing his guitar to himself.       “What can I do if he’s really an asshole?” Peter throws his hands up. “The asshole, because of whom I kicked my ass and knees against this fucking floor.”       Sammy suddenly appears from nowhere, strikes Peter easily down by pushing his back, gets above him, and starts nuzzling his face, trying to bite his ear or nose, and pulling an edge of his shorts.       “Okay, okay, you’re a good one, good!” Peter jabs through a laugh. “Good! Not an asshole! Okay! Get off me! And stop biting me and pulling my shorts! I ain’t gonna go home naked! Samuel! Samuel!”       Some time later, Sammy decides to leave Peter alone after torturing him a little, while the men cannot stop laughing.       “He will remember this insult forever,” Daniel chuckles, pressing his guitar to himself. “Remember this. And don’t be surprised if he pees on your shoes someday.”       “If he does something like this again, he will get no food and toys,” Peter says confidently, gets up, shakes slightly, and shakes his head. “You know it’s harsh in my case: if you’re guilty, you must pay!”       Sammy looks at Peter questioningly, moving his head from side to side, while the man smiles smugly with his head proudly raised.       “Hey, I didn’t get!” Edward wonders, still standing on the table and putting his hands on his hips. “Is the music break over? Where’s music? Where’s singing?”       “Everything was sung while you and Rose were outta your mind, and while you were accosting him for being drunk!” Blake exclaims.       “Me?” Edward rounds his eyes. “Accosting Rose?”       “Not us!” Joseph exclaims.       “You probably thought he was your fiancé!” Cody laughs shyly.       “Or Eddy just loves hugs,” William adds. “So, he hugs everyone. Of course, we don’t mind answering the feelings of our sentimental boy, but still…”       “I want this show to go on!” Edward starts waving his hands. “Bro, sing us something! The guys and I are bored! We wanna dance and have fun!”       “Why don’t ya wanna make us fun?” Terrence smiles slyly.       “Me? Why?”       “I gave you fun, and now it’s your time to do it for me.”       “What?”       “C’mon, Edward, you’re now standing at the table,” Benjamin notices funnily.       “Uh-huh, so, make us happy with a song,” Cody suggests.       “Huh, with pleasure!” Edward grins loudly. “But I’d be bored singing alone! Maybe someone will join me?”       “Wait, Ed, I will sing now!” Christopher says funnily, barely moving his tongue, and cleans his throat quickly. “Now…”       Christopher sings his favorite song loudly, confirming Edward’s words about not having an ear.       “Chris, I’m begging you…” Edward moans loudly, closing his ears. “Shut up! Take care of our eardrums… You hear what I say?”       But it does not stop Christopher, who keeps singing in a terrible voice before Benjamin and Kevin standing near him and not being happy with what they hear close his mouth.       “Okay, Morgan, end your show,” Kevin throws gloomily.       “Yes, Chris, don’t sing,” Ryan says quietly.       “You do this terribly…” Joseph adds. “Edward was right.”       “The most important thing is not a talent to sing but singing with all your heart,” Christopher replies confidently. “When I sing, I give all my heart to that.”       “Thanks, Chris, no more,” Blake crosses his arms over his chest. “Hearing it was more than just enough to us.”       “Wait, men!” Daniel exclaims cheerfully, getting up from the sofa with his head proudly raised and coming to the table with a little shaking walk. “I’ll show you how real professionals sing! Get aside, bros!”       Daniel climbs up to the table and starts singing a song loudly, and Edward standing near him recognizes it two or three seconds later and joins him.       “Second, second!” Terrence raises his hand. “Let’s start from the beginning! I will play a guitar, and you will sing!”       “Nice idea, bro!” Edward says loudly, funnily. “Let’s make it hot!”       “Maestro, music!” Daniel says with his head proudly raised, pointing at Terrence and clicking his fingers along with his friends’ loud applause.       Terrence nods confidently and starts playing the guitar, while Edward and Daniel start singing the song they were singing less than a minute ago, while the others dance, play the fool, laugh, and support the musicians with a whistle and applause.       “C’mon, guys, rock on!” Jeremy shouts funnily.       “Show everything you can!” William shouts at the same time as Jeremy does.       Terrence does not hide his laugh as he plays guitar and notices that Daniel is going crazy while being next to Edward. They dance for pleasure, sing the lyrics loudly but not always correctly, and play some funny scenes, not being shy of looking like idiots. At some moment, the friends keep singing while hugging each other and waving their hands funnily to warm up the crowd even if they do not have to. Somewhere at the end of the song, Daniel and Edward jump down from the table and keep hanging out with their friends, while Terrence is still singing. Christopher fills the glasses with some whiskey and suggests the others drink, and they raise them with loud whops, click each other’s glasses, and drink everything. And when they do, the song ends.       “Yeah, it was cool!” Peter notices funnily, while the men applaud, and Sammy thrills with a bark.       “Awesome!” Cody pronounces.       “Excellent!” Joseph agrees.       “That’s right!” all the men agree almost at the same time.       Sammy barks confidently to show he agrees with it.       “But MacClife, Sr. missed everything!” Benjamin jabs loudly with a silly smile. “Was standing aside and playing guitar.”       “Huh, nobody made him!” Ryan chuckles kindly. “Terrence wished to play and missed the fun.”       “Right, I missed everything,” Terrence replies confidently. “But now may one of you play! While I’m having fun and hanging out at the bachelor party.”       “Hey, maybe you perform as the four?” Kevin suggests cheerfully. “Well, or as a duo, without the grooms…”       “Oh, it’s the idea, Spenser!” Christopher agrees funnily.       “Let’s go, men, if you rock on, do it as a full band!” Joseph exclaims.       Sammy barks loudly two times, as if he says, “Yes, yes, let’s go, sing as the four! I wanna hear you and have fun along with your songs!”       “Oh, no!” Terrence exclaims with his head proudly raised. “I don’t wanna stand aside for the third time!”       With these words, Terrence climbs to the table and looks confidently at everybody in front of him from a height.       “I will sing and dance for you!”       “Ha, keep dreaming!” Edward chuckles loudly, climbs to the table as well, and looks at everybody. “You won’t be dancing there alone! I won’t give you this pleasure!”       “Don’t dream of getting away with me!” Daniel says confidently and sits on the edge of the table. “Since I’m in the band, you won’t get off me!”        “No trio – only quartet!” Peter says with his head proudly raised and sits on the edge, too. “You won’t get away with me so easily!”       “And yeah, if you wanna pass out, please, don’t take the cabin!” Terrence says confidently. “I’ll be spending a night there!”       “Uh-huh, keep dreaming, you’ll sleep on the sofa on the deck,” Edward chuckles loudly. “If you reach it, of course, and don’t pass out somewhere on the floor.”       “I don’t even know how we’ll go home after this hangout,” Christopher says confidently and hiccups quietly. “Oh!”       “We’ll think about tomorrow,” Cody adds. “But now get the fuck everything out of our mind!”       “Listen, there would be more space if the girls decided to take these five alcoholics at home, the four of whom climbed up to the table, and the fifth one is shaking with a stupid smile and a bandaged leg,” Kevin notices funnily.       “Anyway, Terrence and I warmed all the girls they could find us on the yacht,” Edward confesses confidently. “Which… They have to find in the ocean first…”       “Oh, they don’t care about us now!” Peter waves his hand. “They have so much fun! So, men, we have a whole evening to hang out!”       “I’ll be hanging out while I can stand on my feet and moving,” Daniel says confidently. “Until I pass out! Before that moment, nothing can stop me!”       “Huh, even my hurt leg won’t stop me!” Benjamin chuckles loudly, funnily waving his hands. “I give a fuck about falling at the same place and twisting it! And feeling pain when stepping on it! I wanna have fun! Wanna remember this day all my life!”       Sammy jumps funnily with a loud bark.       “Join us, long-eared!” Joseph suggests funnily.       “Let’s have the best party in honor of our grooms’ bachelor!” Cody adds.       Sammy barks happily, loudly again, jumping and running around himself two times.       “Okay, stop talking!” Kevin jabs cheerfully. “Where’s music, songs, fun? Let’s keep celebrating!”       “Oh, yea-a-a-ah!” Edward exclaims cheerfully. “We just need to turn on the music loudly!”       Edward jumps off the table and presses some buttons on the remote control, searching for the song he needs.       “Oh, dude!” Ryan exclaims, stopping his eyes on the tattoo on Edward’s back. “Why did I just notice the tattoo on your back?”       “What?” William wonders. “Tattoo? Hey, man, you’ve got a tattoo on your back?”       “Yeah,” Edward confirms, still pressing buttons on the music system. “By the way, that’s good you reminded me. I wanted to go to current it.”       “I’m gonna go to get my tattoo soon,” Peter confesses. “I wanna do this before the wedding.”       “Really?” Blake surprises. “Where? Are ya gonna paint your back too?”       “Nope, my hands. Wanna hide the scars on my wrists.”       “What are ya gonna paint?” Daniel asks. “You have some ideas?”       “It’s a secret yet. But I can only say one thing – my tattoos on my hands are gonna be connected with music. I know the approximate sketch. I downloaded some photos on my phone to show them to the master.”       “Does it happen that the kids are gonna have tattoos now?” Terrence puts his hands on his hips.       “If you want, you can get a star on your forehead,” Edward snaps with a sweet smile. “A big one, a bright one! So that everyone knows you’re a special folk.”       “Get a dick on your forehead, little rutrag!”       “Make sure I don’t paint it on your face with a permanent marker while you sleep deeply and shake the walls with your snoring.”       “What?” Terrence resents loudly.       “Hey, Eddy, when did you get a tattoo?” Jeremy gets excited. “Why did we know nothing?”       “Long ago,” Edward shrugs. “Did you really just notice it, drink fools?”       “Oh, yeah, sure!” Kevin exclaims. “We kinda see your naked back every day and know every mole and all the pants on it.”       “My body is so gorgeous that it doesn’t have a place for some moles and birthmarks.”       “C’mon, men, the boy just decided to become tough and adult and got that tattoo,” Christopher says funnily. “After he made me give the address of my familiar tattoo master.”       “So that everyone finally considers him an adult man, not a little boy with a pretty face?” Blake chuckles kindly.       “Sorta,” Terrence pronounces. “And then he became an absolutely insolent and annoying donkey that got really loose and doesn’t listen to me.”       “Oh, brother, I am too far from you,” Edward replies confidently. “Someone would hardly reach that high. You’re unreachable, dude!”       “Yeah, I’m unique. Unique and just irresistible!”       “Who said it?”       “Everyone!”       “Oh, fuck, MacClife, shut up, please…” Kevin moans tiredly. “I’ve got a headache!”       “I have a rare name and last name, I’m an eternally handsome man, whose opinion is always very important… The one who has a great authority in the show business. And I have many amazing talents and always do my job perfectly… Nobody does it as…”       Terrence does not speak his mind because Edward grabs someone’s shirt from the sofa and slaps him strongly, wishing to hit him in the face but not reaching it because his brother is standing on the table. But at some moment, MacClife, Jr. climbs to the one and makes his wish come true, giving him no chance to answer. And when the MacClifes start a funny fight, Peter and Daniel get up from the table and go aside, thrilling with a laugh.       “Any girl can only dream about such a perfect, handsome man like me!” Terrence says confidently with a laugh.       “Yeah, any girl!” Edward exclaims.       “You’re jealous!”       “I wish I had a reason!”       “C’mon, Edward, kick this narcissist!” Daniel encourages loudly. “Don’t bring him down!”       “Shit him up!” Peter exclaims funnily. “The way you always do that!”       “C’mon, men!” Cody whoops loudly.       “Yea-a-a-ah!” Joseph exclaims.       At some moment, Edward and Terrence jump off the table and start running after each other on the entire deck, barely standing on their feet and hitting all the corners they meet in their way.       “Yeah, but they say guests should entertain the grooms at the bachelor party,” Peter puts his hands on his hips. “But it actually happens differently in our case.”       “What’s wrong?” Daniel leans on the side with his buttocks and elbows. “We arranged such a cool party! Which means we have a right to have a rest.”       “Right!” Benjamin agrees. “We spent so much money and strength to make these fools happy. I’m personally so tired…”       “Hello, idiots, don’t destroy the yacht in passion!” Cody demands loudly. “You’re about to start a riot here! And then have to pay damage personally!”       At this moment, Terrence and Edward start jumping on sofas, walking on them, and trying to climb over them somehow as they try to hide from each other.       “Hey, they give a fuck!” Joseph waves his hand. “The important thing is to kick each other’s ass.”       “Listen, men, let’s kick the grooms outta the party?” Benjamin suggests confidently. “Throw them overboard, for example. And keep having fun!”       “What?” Terrence resents, squeezing Edward’s neck in his armpit and ruffling his hair. “What did ya say?”       “Why would you do?” Edward resents.       “You’ve gotta get ready for your wedding with your beauties instead of drinking here like long-time alcoholics,” Benjamin says with his head proudly raised.       “I’m not an alcoholic!” Terrence and Edward protest determinedly at the same time.       “Indeed, men, actually, a bachelor is a party for grooms’ friends!” Peter adds funnily. “So that they can relax after an exhausting preparation for the wedding.”       “Right!” Daniel agrees. “I think we deserved a good hangout. But the grooms have nothing to do here!”       “Hey, empty-headed idiots, you all will be thrown overboard if I hear something like this again,” Terrence threatens.       “Hey, I wanna remind everyone that I can’t swim!” Blake says confidently, raising his index finger. “And some of you would have to save me in case something bad happened.”       “I wouldn’t mind having the entire yacht at the service of my bro and me,” Edward smiles slyly, putting his arm around Terrence’s neck.       “And we wouldn’t mind getting rid of you,” Jeremy smiles slyly.       “Uh-huh, and then we can have a party of the ce-e-entury!” William adds, starting to dance funnily along with the music that is playing on the deck. “Yea-a-a-ah!”       “I do lo-o-o-ove parties!” Daniel states, joining William.       “We can drink a little more to feel a greater pleasure!” Peter suggests, deciding not to stay aside, as well as Jeremy.       Little by little, all the men join the dance of their friends, and someone tries to sing along with the current song shyly or at the top of their lungs. And noticing that at least Peter and Daniel are dancing closely enough to the place, from which everyone jumped in the water, Terrence and Edward look at each other with a sly smile as if they have come up with something. They come to their dancing friends from behind when these guys sing the song loudly with their faces turned toward the ocean and push both of them with a powerful hit on the ass without any warning. That’s why Rose and Perkins fall into the water with deafening shouts. They get up to the surface two moments later and cough quietly.       “So what, pretty boys, you felt the pleasure to the fullest?” Edward asks loudly.       “We didn’t expect anything else from ya!” Daniel states, swimming on the surface of the water.       “Okay, now get your precious asses down!” Peter demands. “C’mon, c’mon! Faster!”       “Fuck yourself!” Terrence shows his middle finger on both hands. “Don’t wait!”       “Sammy, friend, help us!” Daniel exclaims. “Push them in the ass a little!”       “Guys, do a good thing, please!” Peter says. “We’d buy some beer for ya!”       “Huh, calm down, men, we’ll solve this quickly!” Christopher chuckles with a proud look.       “Have a nice swimming, mermaids!” Benjamin pronounces.       Edward and Terrence do not understand anything when Christopher and Benjamin respectively kick them in the ass. The other men thrill with a laugh when the brothers fall in the water with shouts, but get up quickly enough, cough, and wipe their faces.       “Hey, you’re fucking crazy!” Edward resents. “Who gave you the right to do this to the reason for this party?”       “You all must have your asses kicked for that!” Terrence adds. “Put you on a stake! You’re all even worse than my brother.”       “Thanks, men, you’re the best!” Daniel shows his thumbs up. “We’re indebted to you! We owe you beer!”       “Alright, we kicked the grooms out, and we can finally get out,” Peter says confidently.       But when Daniel and Peter want to swim aside and get to the deck of the yacht, Terrence and Edward get their heads underwater. However, the guys get out quickly and answer their friends back, even if they were ready for this and held their breath. The men thrill with a laugh and have fun to the fullest, splashing water, trying to drag each other as deeply as possible, and waving their hands and feet in hope of getting out. Meanwhile, the other men watch what’s happening, leaning on the railing of the yacht with their hands and elbows, and not forgetting to take several photos and record some videos on their phones.       “So what, men, leave them here and keep sailing?” Kevin asks funnily.       “I’m in!” Blake shrugs with an innocent smile. “We’ll drink something strong and keep having fun!”       “Bye-bye, little mermaids, we’re leaving!” Ryan pronounces as he waves his hand.       The men pay attention to Sammy jumping from the deck into the water on the run and swimming to Edward, Peter, Daniel, and Terrence, whose funny fight is still on.       “Oh, Sammy decided to get out at his will,” Blake laughs. “He’s sick of being here with a lot of drunk men.”       “You’d better jump into the bathroom so quickly instead!” Peter adds loudly. “You’d be the best one!”       “Oh, okay, boys, tell the helmsman to keep sailing!” Cody jabs. “And they can keep having fun here!”       “We’re leaving, guys!” Joseph announces, putting the edge of his hands to his mouth. “Hey! Do we leave you here? Or are you with us? Hello! I am addressing you, cuties!”       “If you don’t want, it’s okay!” Ryan adds. “We can hang out well without ya!”       “What? What do ya mean without us?” Daniel opens his eyes widely. “Did ya overheat under the sun?”       “Hey, hello, what did ya come up with, boneheads?” Peter resents. “You’re fucking shameless!”       After getting Edward and Terrence’s heads underwater, Daniel and Peter swim to the yacht and get up to the deck.       “Where are ya gonna without us? You have more genitals since you’re so sassy?”       “We aren’t grooms, we’re the best men!” Daniel recalls. “Which means you must not throw us overboard!”       “Don’t worry, gang, we didn’t forget about the best men,” Benjamin assures with a sly smile.       “But we can say goodbye to the grooms,” Kevin adds. “Let them hang out with fish. I guess they’ll swim to the beach and get rid of their tails by the wedding day.”       The men thrill with a laugh, make funny whoops and nod energetically, while Sammy gets up to the deck with their help, shakes the water off his hair sharply and barks loudly along with them.        “Seriously?” Terrence pronounces loudly. “Kick me outta my own bachelor?”       “You are the fuck kidding us!” Edward resents. “Alcohol struck the rest of your brain out!”       “The guys are right, dude!” Blake says confidently. “You’ve got nothing to do here!”       “Yes, guys, we’ve gotta be responsible for you for your beauties,” Joseph says confidently.       “Who won’t like the fact that you drank to the fuck,” Cody adds.       “Go home, the MacClifes, go!” Ryan exclaims funnily. “Work your tails to go to your sweet home!”       “Don’t even dream, idiots!” Terrence and Edward throw at the same time.       “You won’t get off me so easily,” Terrence says.       Using the fact that Edward’s attention gets weaker, Terrence gets his head underwater, swims to the yacht, gets up to the one, and gets up on the table, on which he wanted to sing before. However, his brother does not leave him behind and also wants to get on the table after he is on the deck. But he cannot do this because his brother kicks him all the time. At some moment, MacClife, Sr., actually starts hitting him with someone’s t-shirt that he sees first. Edward cannot keep his balance, falls down the table, and winces slightly after falling on his elbow painfully.       “Okay, the kid finally got out! Cough, cough…” Terrence coughs loudly and raises his head proudly. “Alright, gang… I’m gonna sing a cool song for you! A very cool one! You’re gonna love it, I bet my tooth! So, turn the music louder! Because the expert in his business is singing for you! Who’s gonna hang out with everybody!”       “Hey, we agreed we’d only sing as a full band!” Peter jabs.       “So true!” Daniel exclaims. “So, you won’t get off us! Get aside, pretty boy! C’mon, c’mon, drunk princess, move your paws!”       Daniel pushes Terrence slightly from the edge of the table, and he and Peter sit where they were sitting before. Meanwhile, Edward gets up slowly, shaking slightly and rubbing the small of his back, and fixes his tousled hair.       “Hey, boneheads, don’t take the whole table!” Edward exclaims. “Free a place for me!”       Edward also climbs up to the table, pushing Terrence slightly to free some space. But then the guy hugs his brother tightly, presses him to himself, and moves his eyes to the others with his raised hand.       “Attention, attention, gentlemen…” Edward takes a word, funnily waving a free hand and barely moving his tongue. “The fucking drunk members of ‘Against The System’ are singing for you! They don’t know how long they’re gonna hold on before they pass out. But these guys will be holding on ‘til the end. Because I want it! The future groom and reason for this party! And because we’re gonna hang out enough to remember our party forever.”       “Let’s go then!” Jeremy exclaims cheerfully. “Surprise us with your performance!”       “Go, men, rock on!” Benjamin, Ryan, Christopher, and Kevin shout loudly at the same time.       “Show everything you can, guys!” Blake encourages with a wide smile.       “We wanna dance ‘till we pass out!” William states.       “C’mon!” Joseph pronounces funnily.       “Go!” Cody agrees.       “We’re starting right now!” Edward, Peter, Terrence, and Daniel claim loudly at the same time.       Edward finds a necessary track by pressing some buttons several times and turns it on to full volume. The loud, energetic music starts playing on the deck, and it makes everybody start dancing. And the whole band “Against The System” starts singing two or three lines at the top of their lungs as a solo, and then start singing a chorus all together. The others sing along, too. And they do not care that all of them – even the members of “Against The System” – do not take all notes due to being drunk, hear no music, and sing as they want. Sammy takes an active participation in the fun, standing in the dancing men’s way and sometimes howling along with the song, while the men encourage him with loud applause and play the fool with each other. The dog gets some caresses from Edward and Terrence and sits behind Daniel and Peter sitting on the edge of the table, hugging each other and shaking as they sing, and puts his paws on their heads and shoulders, making them laugh shyly and yank him by the ears.       By the end of the song, Terrence jumps off the table first and runs to everybody to take a drink he gets from the others with pleasure. Edward sits between Peter and Daniel, puts his arms around their necks, and sings the rest of the song with them at the top of his lungs. Sammy nuzzles the back of the guy’s head, tries to lick his ear, and puts his paws on his shoulders, on one of which he also puts his face, pressing him closely to him for some hugs he gets, after all. And when Daniel gets up from the table, runs to Terrence, and starts hanging out on him, he takes a glass of whiskey offered to him by Blake with pleasure, while the youngest members of “Against The System” get up from the table and dance wildly before Christopher and Kevin offer them glasses with alcohol. Sammy uses the moment and starts hanging out on the table all alone, jumping cheerfully, wrapping around himself, performing his own dog dance, howling in random moments of the song, and still getting showered by the attention that he loves so much.       Every one of them is a ringleader and initiator of loud, carefree fun. After drinking alcohol, everybody got very close to each other, accepts each other’s hugs with pleasure, and asks the others to hug them for nothing. It happens especially often when they sing along with songs like in a karaoke. But the real fun starts when Blake, Edward, Joseph, Cody, and Ryan start hitting each other with t-shirts with a loud laugh and whops, jumping on the sofa and trying to avoid an attack. The others join them later, as well. And then they start a funny fight, during which the men give hits and try to avoid each other's attacks. Someone has to protect and use moments when someone loses a weapon or distracts themselves, and take them to avenge someone to attack and beat them. Sammy is having fun with them like a child and taking an active participation in this game, running on the deck like crazy, jumping on sofas, striking the men down, licking their faces, funnily biting their ears, or pulling the edge of their shorts. Sometimes the male company takes a little break and drinks some whiskey, plays the fool in front of a camera, and takes photos and videos. And when they hear a very, very amazing track, to which not dancing or not shaking their head would be a sin, they rush to start dancing and take their place on their favorite table, on which everybody dances. Sometimes they use their own t-shirts that they wrap around their heads. And Sammy tries to steal them as a joke when he gets a chance, and makes the men run after him to get them for some time before he puts the clothes carefully on the floor and lets them take these things back.