The Criminal Diaries

      Two more weeks later. August 30th, 2018. The long-awaited day has finally come. Today, Terrence and Raquelle and Edward and Natalia will officially become husband and wife. All of them, their families, friends, familiars, and everybody who was invited to the wedding, have been getting ready for that since early morning. Anna and Helene went to Natalia’s home at half past eight to help her, and Kylie, Melissa, Cassidy, Blair, Olivia, Odette, Emma, and Jessica arrived a little later. While the stylists are working on their hair and makeup, the brides are sitting in front of the mirror in a gorgeous white robe and trying to distract themselves by talking with their friends, who sometimes fix their hair and dresses in the mirror, just sitting in the bride’s room and admiring the girls.       “Girls, has this day come?” Natalia asks shyly with a wide smile. “Am I really gonna get married already in a few hours? Gosh, three years ago, I couldn’t think it would happen! I thought I was destined to spend my whole life all alone.”       “No, friend, we won’t be alone!” Raquelle confirms with a sweet smile and takes Natalia’s hand. “We’re getting married. To those we love.”       “Yeah, you got truly delicious pieces,” Olivia notices, twirling her silver hanging earring in the form of a drop.       “How many girls around the world are hating you now,” Emma laughs.       “That’s right, friend!” Helene exclaims. “They ruined their hopes for one second.”       “Not getting married to such attractive men would be a sin,” Anna replies, wrapping a tiny strand of hair around her finger.       “Yeah, these men get taken quickly,” Odette notices.       “But our friends managed to take the best men in time,” Cassidy says confidently.       “I can’t wait to know whose wedding we’re gonna celebrate next,” Anna confesses with a mysterious smile.       “We will know it today!” Emma exclaims. “The brides will throw their bouquets and show us our possible future brides.”       “I personally think it’s gonna be Helene.”       “Me?” Helene rounds her eyes.       “Or maybe Anna is lucky?” Cassidy assumes cheerfully, sitting on the bed, wearing a long dark blue dress with short sleeves and sparkling patches, and fixing her hair, which is slightly curled.       “Me?” Anna smiles shyly.       “My bro is definitely thinking about it. Dan is almost ready to propose to you.”       “It’s okay, girls, don’t worry,” Natalia replies confidently. “Your men will decide to do it early or late!”       “Well, at least Pete doesn’t hide that he wanna marry his beauty,” Jessica smiles mysteriously, fixing the edge of her long green dress made of silky material with short sleeves and cuts on the shoulders, and barely fixing her hair, which is brushed up beautifully.       “Now Peter surely may think about it,” Blair replies confidently, sitting on the bed and slightly fixing the skirt of her sleeveless turquoise dress with a cute, careful belt on the waist and having a short length of the skirt on the front and a long one made from a transparent material on the back. “He moved into his own house and moved out everything from his old apartment.”       “So, we have two possible candidates for the role of the next bride,” Kylie replies confidently, holding a little handbag that matches the color of her dark violet sleeveless dress with a long transparent skirt and a cut on one leg.       “Gosh, we must marry Rochester and Cameron off first!” Melissa exclaims with a laugh, fixing the only one sleeve of her tight, soft pink dress with a couple of sparkles patched on the top. “And you think of a wedding of other girls!”       “Whoever that is, we’ll celebrate the wedding of any one of you with pleasure,” Blair replies shyly.       “That’s right,” Raquelle smiles widely, while some of the stylists are wrapping one of the strands of her hair around the curling iron.       All the girls laugh shyly while Raquelle and Natalia twirling the edges of their silky robes look at their reflections in the mirror and see that the work on their hair and makeup is just half done.       “My gosh, friends, you two are so beautiful,” Anna notices with a wide smile. “Even if you’re not ready yet, I already see that the result is amazing.”       “That’s right!” Olivia agrees. “The girls are shining with happiness!”       “Oh, yeah, the grooms are gonna go crazy when they see such stunning beauties in front of themselves,” Emma assures.       “The users can’t wait for the wedding already!” Olivia confesses. “The users of social networks wanna see the members of ‘Against The System’ and their brides.”       “Oh, my God…” Raquelle pronounces in a shaking voice, breathing a little heavily. “I’m so nervous… My knees and hands are shaking…”       “I’d shake too if I got married to that man!” Odette states confidently.       “I’m madly nervous too,” Natalia sighs with a shake as she fingers nervously. “I still can’t believe what’s happening… And… I have some fear of a new life.”       “You’re spending the last hours in this room, in this apartment,” Helene notices. “After the wedding, you’re gonna live with your husband and leave your parents.”       “I know, and I’m a little worried… I’m gonna miss them… But I understand that I can’t live with them ‘til the last day of my life.”       “Your new house is not probably gonna seem very close to you at first,” Raquelle assures. “But later, you’ll get used to the new home.”       “If Edward is by my side, I’ll get used to anything – even life in Spartan conditions.” Natalia blinks often in the hope of getting rid of tears that wet her eyes. “Damn, I can’t…”       “Me too…” Raquelle waves at herself with both hands, with the thought that the heat gets stronger. “A-a-a! Help me!”       “Don’t be nervous, friends!” Olivia says confidently, taking Raquelle’s hand and stroking it. “Hold yourself down and breathe deeply.”       “It’s gonna be okay, girls!” Kylie adds, caressing Natalia’s shoulder softly. “Don’t worry.”       “When the altar pronounces you and Edward husband and wife, you’ll relax immediately,” Jessica promises.       “And we’re gonna have a lot of fun and dance ‘til we fall,” Emma adds thoughtfully, rolling her eyes dreamily.       “I don’t actually understand why you are excited!” Cassidy wonders. “Nobody is gonna leave you, and every single little thing is planned.”       “When you’re gonna get married, you’ll understand my feelings, Cassidy,” Natalia replies.       “I didn’t actually sleep at night,” Raquelle confesses. “And I doubt I will survive until the first marriage night. Because I feel like I’m gonna die of emotions.”       “You will, don’t worry!” Anna chuckles.       “You have to!” Helene laughs.       Everyone in the room laughs shyly.       “Raquelle, don’t turn around!” one of the stylists says with a thin brush and an eyeshadow palette in her hands. “If your makeup is ruined, you will have no time to fix it.”       “Quiet, Natalia, quiet!” the second stylist says and turns Natalia’s head straight with one hand. “Or I’m gonna burn you with the curling iron.       “Sorry…” Natalia exhales sharply, leans back in the chair, and grabs her throat. “Can’t sit quietly… And calm down…”       “Oh, God…” Raquelle pronounces in a shaking voice. “I wish I could handle all of this…”       “Gosh, girls, don’t be so nervous!” Jessica encourages. “It’s gonna be okay!”       “They aren’t the only ones to be so nervous, Jess,” Odette notices confidently. “Look at their families – they’re running from one side to another!”       “Oh, the girls’ wedding is a grandiose event to them,” Helene replies with a slight smile.       “You’re right,” Natalia smiles shyly. “My mother woke up almost at five AM. And Father got up at six AM. And I did it at the same time.”       “Did you see how happy Mr. Cameron is?” Olivia asks.       “We did!” Anna exclaims.       “Mr. Cameron said he woke up very early,” Helene confesses. “He spent the whole morning putting himself in order and ironing his suit.”       “And how Mrs. Middleton is!”       “They lived until this day!” Emma notices cheerfully. “Probably, they still can’t believe we’re getting our beloved Raquelle ready for her wedding with Terrence.”       “Just like Natalia’s parents can’t believe they’re gonna marry their daughter off today,” Odette adds.       “Hey, Natalia, won’t your grandmother be at your wedding?” Cassidy wonders.       “Of course, she will!” Natalia replies. “Father is gonna go to take her out soon.”       “He’s already left,” Melissa says as she looks aside. “Mrs. Rochester just spent him and closed the door after him.”       “Grandma Adriana is also terribly excited about my wedding. She dreamed of being on it before my relationship with Edward and was worried that she wouldn’t live ‘til this day.”       “And Edward won’t have to get used to your family ‘cause he’s like family to everybody here,” Raquelle notices funnily.       “That’s right!” Anna agrees. “The family of our beloved bride adores Edward.”       “Not only, Anna, not only,” Helene smiles mysteriously. “The MacClifes also consider Natalia very close to them and are terribly happy she’s gonna be a part of their family.”       “Yeah…” Natalia nods. “I’m definitely lucky to get the father-in-law and mother-in-law like them… And the brother-in-law…”       “Oh, how do I calm down?” Raquelle exhales sharply and waves at herself with a free, shaking hand since she suddenly feels the wave of heat. “I don’t know what to do to myself! Damn, I wasn’t so excited even when I had my first shooting for the magazine. Or my first walk on the fashion show…”       “You’re not alone, sweetie,” Natalia says softly, caressing Raquelle’s hand. “I can barely hold on, too.”       “At least, I’m getting through all of this with you. That’s how I can feel much quieter.”       “It’s okay, friends, you’re gonna hang out to the fullest very soon,” Helene says confidently. “Being the wives of Terrence MacClife and Edward MacClife!”       “My God, I never thought a wedding would be such an exciting event,” Raquelle exhales sharply, closing her eyes for two seconds.       “Oh, c’mon, you’re not going to be tortured!” Odette exclaims. “That’s the wedding with the man, who’s gonna become your husband soon.”       “What a man!” Emma adds with her head proudly raised. “Anyone would sell their soul for the man named Terrence MacClife!”       “I know, girls…” Raquelle sniffs quietly.       “Hey, Blair,” Kylie pronounces with a slight smile. “I see you’re the bride’s parents liked your younger brother. He hasn’t come to us since we came here.”       “Maybe Mrs. Rochester offered him a cake or something else,” Blair assumes shyly. “Harry loves sweet food but eats it not as often as he’d like to. But he’s a lover of eating a lot.”       “And my mother has always cooked amazing, sweet food,” Natalia notices with a slight smile. “But she has never eaten too much and doesn’t almost eat them ‘cause she watches her body as well as I do. But Dad eats the sweet food she cooks with great pleasure. He especially adores baking food.”       “I adore sweet food, as well,” Cassidy confesses happily. “When I was a child, I often asked my parents to buy me a chocolate bar or a little piece of chocolate. Unlike my bro, who has always treated sweet food kinda indifferently. Danny looks at an incredible piece of sweet cake with an indifferent face.”       “Our Daniel prefers saucy food,” Anna replies confidently. “But sometimes it’s so saucy that it’s impossible to eat it. And I’m surprised by how he can eat it easily.”       “Oh, I’m not allowed to eat saucy food,” Jessica confesses. “My stomach is bad. I always have to keep a diet. I’ve suffered from severe pain in my stomach after eating something that’s been banned for me since childhood.”       “But Terrence eats anything,” Raquelle laughs quietly. “And he’d sell his soul for potatoes! He adores potatoes cooked in any way!”       “And Peter would die for chicken,” Helene laughs. “He’s always been weak for chicken dishes and remembers he’d better share something with others only when he eats everything.”       “Or Edward – for sweet food,” Natalia adds. “If he sees something tasty, think you’ll get nothing. And if it’s cooked by Mrs. MacClife, that man is gonna share nothing with anyone and eat everything.”       “Hope you learned to cook sweet food?” Blair asks.       “Mother has taught me a lot and told me recipes for her personal sweet cakes. And Mrs. MacClife taught me something. Besides, I learned to cook incredible pasta when I was in Italy, which I rarely cook for myself when I wanna please myself.”       “The best way to conquer a man is the stomach,” Cassidy laughs shyly.       “Maybe,” Anna shrugs. “It’s checked on our irresistible Mr. Perkins. He adores what I cook for him and always asks for more during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Or takes it when I say the limit is over.”       “Gosh, ladies, are you ready to spend your life on the only man and obey him immediately?” Melissa asks with a mysterious smile.       “Cook him food, wash his clothes, iron his underwear and socks, give birth to his children, and do your best to be a perfect and attractive wife?” Cassidy smiles slyly.       “And travel around the world with him if you have to?” Blair asks.       “Anything for him,” Natalia says confidently with a wide smile.       “Analogical,” Raquelle adds.       “You have a chance to change your mind yet!” Helene chuckles kindly.       “Think, Blondie,” Melissa insists.       “Before it’s too late, Cameron!” Olivia exclaims.       “Don’t even try, girls,” Natalia shakes her head with a sly smile.       “Nobody can make me give up on my wish to become Terrence’s wife,” Raquelle says.       “I’ve already made my choice and chose to be happy with the one who is ready to give happiness to me.”       “Okay, but remember that we won’t give you to the grooms so easily,” Anna says confidently. “First, we’ll make him swear that they’ll do nothing bad to you and won’t make you suffer.”       “Yeah!” Helene adds with her head proudly raised. “They should try to make us sure that our friends are in trustworthy hands.”       “The groomsmen probably think of the same things and won’t give them to the bride,” Cassidy laughs shyly. “Gonna show up and pretend to be nobody knows who.”       “But don’t worry, friend! We’ll agree with them!”       “And two loving hearts will become one piece…” Anna adds.       “Can’t wait!” Jessica promises funnily.       “And don’t forget that a woman must always be attractive,” Odette says confidently.       “Uh-huh, marriage is not a reason to relax and look bad for your man,” Olivia adds.       “I think they’ll handle it,” Blair assumes.       “Don’t worry, I won’t have this problem.” Raquelle assures.       “You know how much I love dressing up!” Natalia exclaims. “And when we put on some beautiful sexy underwear or a bikini, these pretty boys are at our will. They can’t resist for more than one minute.”       “Nah, one minute is too much!” Olivia laughs quietly, twirling her silver earring. “Not more than one second or one millisecond!”       “Well, okay!” Odette exclaims. “But if you wanna torture the men and ban them from getting close to you, it’s gonna be an unbearable torture to them.”       “Terrence doesn’t rush to resist and gives up shortly when I just call him with a finger,” Raquelle smiles mysteriously.       “Men are really weak in this case,” Natalia notices. “They can’t resist sexual looks.”       “Oh, girls, try hard not to kill them with your beauty,” Emma says funnily.       “Terrence almost killed me personally,” Raquelle laughs shyly. “With everything he does.”       “And Edward almost killed me,” Natalia shakes her head, leaning back in the chair with a slight smile and putting one foot on her other one.       “Natalia, don’t shake your head!” one of the stylists says, turning Natalia’s head as she needs and keeps working on her hair with a hairbrush, curling irons, and much other hair stuff.       “Raquelle, don’t turn, I might get into your eye,” another stylist says, taking a cotton bud from the table and carefully wiping something off Raquelle’s eyes. “Oh, no! I need to wipe off something!”       “Listen, you'd better hurry up,” Kylie says, looking at the screen of her smartphone. “We're gonna leave in two hours, but Raquelle and Natalia aren’t ready.”       “Don’t worry, Kylie, we will do everything,” Helene calms down. “We can powder our noses and fix our hair for like twenty times.”       “Oh, I can’t wait for everything to start…” Natalia wishes quietly, exhaling sharply and closing her eyes for a second. “Honestly, I can’t stop thinking I’m about to wake up and realize that it’s all just my dream. Can’t believe I met such a wonderful man as Edward.”       “Me too,” Raquelle confesses excitedly. “I’ve got a feeling that I’m getting ready for a shooting, not a wedding.”       “Shooting can wait!” Melissa adds. “You’re gonna have a wedding with a pretty boy!”       “And no, my sweeties, you ain’t sleeping,” Anna adds cheerfully. “You’re really getting married.”       “I guess the grooms are getting ready for the ceremony, too,” Olivia assumes with a slight smile. “And hearing stupid jokes from their friends, who can’t miss a chance to mock them.”       “Oh, these idiots are surely gonna play on the grooms’ nerves,” Emma assumes.       “Maybe they’ll pity them on such an important day?” Odette assumes. “They must understand that Terrence and Edward are nervous, but their jokes may drive the guys crazy.”       “The important thing is that the men take care of the grooms before we bring the brides,” Anna laughs shyly.       “I sense that the wedding is gonna literally be the event of the year,” Olivia says confidently. “There are many articles on the Internet that talk about some sources giving details about the wedding ceremony of the MacClife brothers. Something is true, but someone is not. But this thing is really popular now. People are talking a lot about this wedding!”       “Uh-huh, photographers are gonna take lots of photos, which will be published on the Internet,” Odette notices. “The directors are gonna make videos… The journalists are gonna write articles…”       “I have a little plea for you, girls,” Raquelle says with a slight smile, looking at her friends. “Try to pinch me often so that I remember that everything is really happening now.”       “Me too,” Natalia says with a slight smile.       “Don’t worry, girls,” Anna pronounces confidently and claps Raquelle and Natalia softly on the shoulder. “We’ll remind you that you should breathe at least rarely not to faint at the very responsible moment.”       “That’s the important thing,” Raquelle laughs shyly.       “Ah, I can’t wait to see the brides’ final looks!” Melissa shows a wish, sighing dreamily.       “We need just a little,” one of the stylists replies confidently, finishing making Natalia’s hair curly and starting to pin curly strands beautifully, and fixing them with hairspray. “Wait for a few minutes.”       “Hurry up, please,” Olivia says softly.       “Yes, yes, everything is almost ready,” the stylist jabs, fixing something in Natalia’s hair.       “And I’m finishing it,” the makeup artist adds, doing the last things to Raquelle’s makeup.       “Yes, yes, make our brides beautiful,” Emma says cheerfully. “So that the grooms lose their mind.”       “Don’t worry, girls, the brides are going to slay everyone,” the stylist says confidently. “With these hairstyles! With this makeup!”       “Both of the brides have a perfect face with amazing skin,” the makeup artist notices. “It’s really easy to work with them.”       “Listen, girls, doesn’t anyone have an eyeliner?” Anna asks, getting through the mess on the dressing table and trying to find what she needs. “I need to line my eyes a little.”       “Give me that bubble of nail polish, please,” Helene says gently, showing one of the bubbles placed far from her. “I wanna fix my manicure a little.”       Jessica gives Helene what she asks, and Kylie takes the black eyeliner from her handbag and gives it to Anna. While everybody is getting ready for the wedding ceremony so hard, the girls often ask each other for help with something, give some things, hold something, and ask for advice about the best way to do one or another thing. And try not to notice the photographer and the director, who do not stop taking photos and recording videos of what’s happening, but do not bother the friends, who literally turned everything upside down in the room for a wish to make the bride beautiful and clean themselves up to look at one hundred percent.       

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      While there is some time before leaving, Edward and Terrence do not miss a chance to spend some time together. The guys are now in the room full of light of MacClife, Jr., who does not care about the mess here, even if he usually keeps it clean and in order. They are spending time with Daniel and Peter, who became their best men and support the brothers’ fighting spirit. While the grooms are wearing home clothes, their friends are proudly wearing the same dark blue jackets with boutonnieres from lavender, lilac, freesia, and small green leaves, the same pants and ties, snow white shirts, and black shoes. Terrence and Edward’s hair looks like a haystack, while Peter and Daniel have perfectly done hair.       They are also spending time with Sammy, whose hair literally shines from cleanness and is perfectly brushed. By the way, instead of the collar he usually wears, he is wearing a black bow tie. Keeping his tail raised, he shows off for the men, who give him a lot of attention and sing a cheerful, energetic song along with a guitar. Goes without saying, Sammy howls with great pleasure, jumps funnily, and barks happily along with the friends’ singing. And he shows his excitement wildly when their song comes to an end, and the men finish performing it by singing as a chorus.       “Ah, shit, guys!” Peter claps his hands, sitting on the bed next to Daniel. “It was freaking cool!”       “Agree, we sang incredibly!” Edward agrees cheerfully, pressing his guitar to himself and fixing something on the fretboard while sitting on the office chair.       “Just because we’ve got a wonderful mood,” Terrence notices funnily, leaning on the writing table with his buttocks. “I believe this is one of the best warmups we’ve ever had. Which we’re gonna need ‘cause we’ll be singing and dancing a lot.”       Sammy shows his agreement by barking confidently and loudly, sitting on the floor next to Peter.       “Today is such a cool day, lads!” Daniel exclaims with a wide smile, raising his hands. “The wedding! Edward and Terrence are finally getting married!”       “A-a-a, damn!” Edward leans his head back for a second and puts his guitar aside. “I still can’t believe this day has come!”       “I can’t believe it, either!” Terrence confesses.       “I see your parents are getting ready for the ceremony so hard,” Daniel says confidently.       “Oh, yay, they’re freaking excited!”       “They’re gonna marry off both of their sons!” Peter notices cheerfully. “Marrying off one is happiness, but two sons are gonna get married.”       “By the way, Cody and Joe sent me a message and said they’d come here soon,” Terrence announces. “But Parker doesn’t rush to answer.”       “But I got a message from Chris and Kev,” Edward adds. “They’re on the way too.”       “Meanwhile, our girls are making themselves beautiful,” Peter smiles mysteriously.       “Oh, yeah!” Daniel exclaims. “The girls have been helping the brides since the morning! Anna and Cassidy went to Natalia’s home this early morning and took two big packets.”       “Raquelle is with them too,” Terrence says and starts walking in circles in front of the window. “They decided to get ready at the Rochesters’ home since there was much more space there than in Frederick’s apartment.”       “Did you really spend a night separately?” Peter asks.       “Yup. I spent a night here, but Raquelle was with Mr. Cameron and Alicia.”       “Following the tradition?” Daniel laughs. “A groom can’t see a bride before the wedding?”       “I’d say so.”       “Helene should be with them, too,” Peter says thoughtfully. “She went to my home with Sammy and left him with me for a night. There was nobody to watch him ‘cause she was gonna go to Natalia’s home in the early morning. And Mrs. Marshall has no time to watch him. So, the fluffy stayed with me. With a pack of food, a bed, and a box of toys.”       “Will Helene’s grandmother be at the wedding, as well?” Edward frowns slightly.       “Of course!”       “Wow… I thought she wouldn’t come… She’s kinda had blood pressure issues.”       “Yeah, but she feels good today and decided to come.”       “As far as I know, Anna’s parents accepted the invitation too,” Daniel replies thoughtfully. “But I ain’t sure if they come. The Seymours didn’t know if they’d solve their problems.”       “Well, Alicia and Mr. Cameron will one hundred percent come!” Terrence says. “And take Amanda with them.”       “And Blair is gonna come with her younger bro,” Peter adds confidently. “Ben said that the boy wanted to visit the wedding and watch the bride.”       “As far as I know, Violetta was gonna come with her daughter,” Terrence frowns slightly. “I think she won’t feel bored because there will be a lot of children today.”       “Those kids will be happy to play with Sammy,” Daniel assumes, caressing Sammy’s head. “The long-eared will have no time to be bored ‘cause the children are gonna get him exhausted.”       Sammy barks happily two times, wagging his tail amicably.       “They won’t be able to resist the charm of this pretty boy,” Edward says with a slight smile, yanking Sammy by the ears. “Today, Sammy is especially handsome. You just look at his hair! How it’s shining! How it smells!”       “Uh-huh, and he came wearing a bow tie instead of a collar,” Terrence notices.       “It’s actually my bow tie,” Peter laughs shyly, fixing Sammy’s bow tie slightly. “The fluffy stole it and didn’t wanna give it back.”       “But where did he find this thing?” Edward asks.       “When Helene left Sammy with me at my home, he started running around my new house and getting his nose stuck everywhere. You know I’ve finally moved and haven’t sorted out my stuff. So, the long-eared one sniffed everything and ran to all the rooms. And he brought one of the boxes down and found this shit that I forgot about years ago. And I came up with an idea of replacing his collar with a bow tie. Though I had to fix it slightly. Of course, I ain’t a very good seamstress, but I think I did it well.”       “And it fits him so well,” Daniel notices with a slight smile. “Sammy looks gorgeous with this bow tie.”       Sammy barks quietly, wraps around himself, and barks much louder, making the men laugh shyly.       “You’re handsome, Sammy, pretty boy!” Terrence exclaims with a slight smile, scratching Sammy’s hair. “You’re gonna slay everyone!”       “The important thing is not to outshadow the grooms,” Peter insists. “We’re marrying them off, not you.”       Sammy barks quietly again as he wags his tail energetically.       “Listen, we should’ve gotten a suit for him,” Daniel says funnily. “So that he can walk in a suit just like we do.”       “Ha, keep dreaming!” Peter chuckles kindly. “It’s too much! Having a bow tie is enough! Or the fluffy is gonna get the attention of all the guests and give the grooms and brides no chance to get it. Though we can’t let it happen.”       “No, lads, it won’t happen, I’m assuring you!” Terrence replies confidently. “The girls are gonna work hard and make the brides beautiful! Edward and I will dress up too. He will finally brush his haycock in order. And look good. Not like an asshole. And I… I will be a charming prince that everyone dreams about. Just like always.”       “By the way, you should start getting ready already,” Daniel replies thoughtfully. “The lads are gonna come here in two hours, but you just brushed his teeth and took a shower.”       “But you still have time to repeat your oath,” Peter says thoughtfully. “Or aren’t you gonna do? Well… Find words on the go?”       “Oh, my brother…” Daniel laughs shyly. “Even if they came up with something, they’ll one hundred percent forget everything ‘cause they’re gonna be terribly excited and become speechless when they see their soon-to-be wives.”       “Don’t worry, Dan, why do they have you and me? If Edward and Terrence forget what to speak or become speechless, we, their loyal people, will do it instead!”       “Right, the brides are gonna be touched!” Daniel adds funnily. “I promise! Bet my tooth!”       While Terrence, Daniel, and Peter laugh quietly, Sammy barks quietly.       “Thanks, lads, but I will do it somehow without y’all,” Edward replies with an innocent smile.       “Me too,” Terrence says confidently.       “Better make sure everything happens without a hitch. I don’t want something to go wrong and be ruined to the fuck.”       “Don’t even worry about it, Edward!” Peter exclaims, clapping Edward on the shoulder. “Even a fly won’t fly by us without our permission.”       “Since you and your bro trusted us to do such an important mission, we’ll be working on it with responsibility,” Daniel adds confidently.       “And we’ll give you to the brides only after we make sure nothing bad is gonna happen to you.”       “My bro and I won’t give each other to the girls if we don’t know they do nothing bad to us,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised.       “That’s right!” Edward exclaims. “Even if it’s my wedding day, I won’t forget that I need to give my beloved bro to his beauty.”       “Yeah, a wedding is a wedding, but an older brother must remember his duties. And give him to the girl in case she can take care of him.”       “Don’t worry, my caring bro, it’s gonna be okay,” Edward smiles shyly. “And don’t worry about you. If your brunette can’t take care of you, I won’t give you to her.”       “M-m-m, I’ve got the best bro in the world!”       “So, aren’t ya gonna fight today?” Peter surprises. “Or shouldn't we hope?”       “Who knows, brother…” Terrence smiles mysteriously. “Anything may happen…”       “Yeah, we can promise nothing,” Edward adds.       “Okay,” Daniel replies funnily. “Well, while you make yourself pretty and share kicks, Pete, Ben, Joe, and Cody will agree with the bridesmaids, who won’t surely give the brunette and the blonde to you so easily.”       “It’s alright, we’ll make the girls sure that they’re giving them in hopeful hands.” Edward raises his head proudly with a sly smile.       “Yeah, we’ll assure them that nobody’s gonna hurt their friends,” Terrence promises confidently.       “Anyway, we won’t give you to the brides so easily,” Peter says cheerfully, fixing the sleeves of his jacket. “First, Natalia and Raquelle’s oath about taking care of you and not hurting you, and then we give you to her hands with a quiet heart.”       “Don’t worry, men!” Edward pronounces confidently with a wide smile. “I do know who I chose as my wife. And I don’t doubt the rightness of my decision.”       “And I’ve gotten through fire and water with Raquelle!” Terrence recalls. “We fear nothing now!”       “Are you ready to dance attendance upon your beloved girls to make ‘em happy and do everything they want?” Daniel smiles slyly.       “And take anything, even if you’re insulted with the hardest swearing during a strong fight or much worse – get beaten and slapped in the face?” Peter specifies with a mysterious smile.       “And reject any attractive proposals if you had to separate or leave your beloved one?”       “For Natalia, I’d sacrifice anything and do whatever she wishes,” Edward says confidently.       “I’m ready to give the whole world to Raquelle,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised.       “In two hours, it’ll be too late to change your mind, my bros!” Peter jabs. “You have time to change your mind!”       “When you’re in front of the altar, you’ll have no choice!” Terrence warns. “You won’t notice how you’ll become married!”       “There won’t be way back, friends! Think better!”       Sammy barks loudly two times, kind of wishing to tease Edward and Terrence, whom Daniel and Peter are teasing on purpose to find out how confident he is.       “Trying for nothing, guys, you’d get nothing,” Edward laughs shyly. “My decision is final.”       “Mine too,” Terrence says confidently. “I ain’t gonna turn back and refuse what’s really important to me.”       “You thought well, bro?” Daniel specifies. “Are you sure your decision is right?”       “I am.” Terrence and Edward pronounce confidently.       “So…” Peter throws his hands up with a slight smile. “In this case, Dan and I have only to support you.”       “If it gives you good things, we will be happy you’re happy,” Daniel adds.       Sammy shows his agreement confidently by barking loudly, and Edward and Terrence smile shyly as they look at Peter and Daniel, whom they clap on the shoulder. Then the brothers caress the doggy’s head and yank him softly by the ears while the pet looks amicably at him and wags his tail energetically. And later, someone knocks at the door quietly and opens it. Jamie appears on the doorstep, having his hair perfectly done and wearing a gray suit with a blue shade, black shoes, and a white shirt.       “Gosh, Edward, Terrence, haven’t you dressed up yet?” Jamie surprises. “We are going to leave in two hours, but you’re not ready!”       “Uh-h-h, we’re gonna help him,” Daniel replies thoughtfully.       “We just talked a little and helped Terrence and Edward get rid of tension,” Peter explains amicably.       “We have no time for empty talks, lads,” Jamie replies quietly, tying up the tie he was trying to deal with while going to Edward’s room. “We need to do so much, but you’re working your tongues like girls!”       “Don’t worry, Mr. MacClife,” Daniel says confidently. “We’ll have time to do everything and help Edward and Terrence get ready.”       “Alright, guys, take your asses and go dress up.”       “Yes, yes, Dad, we’re coming,” Terrence jabs.       “And yeah, Rebecca just talked to Benjamin. He called your friends and said they’d come soon. And I talked to Jeremy, William, the Johnsons, Mr. Cameron, and Mrs. Middleton. They’ll come here soon, as well.”       “That’s great,” Edward smiles shyly and glances at the window with a slight smile, while the nice wind blows up his face.       “Hey, stop dreaming!” Jamie orders confidently. “Get ready now and clean yourself up!”       “Yes, yes, we’re coming,” Terrence says.       “Faster, bandits, faster! Do I dress you up and brush your hair like children?”       “Okay, okay, Dad, we got it,” Edward raises his hands. “Don’t worry…”       “At least you shaved your face – that’s very good. Or you would’ve had to spend half an hour on it!”       “I did it yesterday…” Edward runs a hand over his perfectly shaved skin on his face.       “Me too…” Terrence pronounces thoughtfully.       “Excellent then!” Jamie exclaims, glances at Peter and Daniel, and claps them on the shoulder. “Help them, guys. And get down in five minutes, please. Rebecca and I need your help.”       “But what do we do, Mr. MacClife?” Peter asks.       “I will explain when you three get down.”       “Oh, maybe, we’ll help you now if it doesn’t take much time?” Daniel suggests, slightly pulling out his collar and tie.       “Oh…” Jamie thinks for two seconds. “Alright, let’s do it now!”       Jamie glances briefly at Sammy sitting near Edward’s bed.       “Sammy, you’re in charge,” Jamie says confidently. “Hurry Terrence and Edward up as hard as you can. If they dream, wake them up from the trance. You got it?”       Sammy barks confidently two times, as if he says, “Don’t worry, sir, I will watch Edward and Terrence!”       “Good,” Jamie pronounces and makes a gesture to call Daniel, Terrence, and Peter. “And you two follow me! You’ll quickly do everything and then come back to help these bandits.”       Jamie leaves the room with Daniel and Peter, while Edward and Terrence watch them with a slight smile until they close the door after them. Then MacClife, Jr., exhales sharply, smiles much wider, and runs a hand over his face, standing in the middle of the room, in which chaos is happening. Edward glances at the mirror he comes to very slowly. And looks at his little sleepy face and hair ruffled after sleep. Terrence moves his eyes to the half-open window and spends some time looking through it, looking sleepy too, and not caring about what’s happening on his head.       

***

      Everybody at the bride’s home is getting ready for the wedding ceremony so hard. The bridesmaids are wearing the same soft violet long dresses with sparkling patches on the open back and hips, the front covered with diamonds and sparkles, a daring décolleté, and a skirt getting bigger by the bottom. All of them have different earrings, necklaces, and something to wear on the head, but they are all silver. Letitia and Alicia, who help the girls, dressed up too. Mrs. Rochester is wearing a luxurious, elegant, dark red long dress with half-transparent lace sleeves covered with a lace that shows nothing explicit and makes her thin body more beautiful. Her blonde hair is brushed up in a very beautiful way, and only a couple of wavy strands fall down. If you look closely, it’s also possible to see that she is wearing shoes with high heels of the same color as her dress. And Mrs. Middleton, whose short hair is perfectly down and whose eyes are emphasized by dark eyeshadows, is wearing a gorgeous dark blue long dress with sparkling patches on her short transparent sleeves that fit her small silver earrings in her ears and a small handbag that is two tones lighter.       Now almost all the girls are in Natalia's room, while she and Raquelle are in the living room. They are standing in front of the little mirror to fix their makeup and hair.  Also, a little dark-haired boy at the age of ten with puffy cheeks and a snub nose in a gray suit is walking near them. He sometimes fixes the collar of his white shirt and the sleeves of his jacket and admires the girls making themselves beautiful so hard and running from one side to another in search of something. And Alicia came here with her daughter, Amanda, who looks like the mini version of the bride in her puffy crème dress, the edges of the skirt of which are framed with a tender purple satin ribbon, with cute curls and a beautiful headband on her head.       “When will we finally see the bride?” the boy asks with a gloss in his eyes, sitting on the bed next to Blair, who is hugging him and pressing him to herself. “When will they come to us?”       “Soon, Harry, they’re dressing up,” Helene replies with a slight smile, standing in front of the mirror and rimming her eyes with black eyeliner.       “Are they gonna have princesses’ dresses?” Amanda asks, sitting on the bed next to Harold. “Or better?”       “You’ll see everything, sweetie,” Olivia says with a shy smile, fixing Odette’s hair slightly.       “The girls are dressing up yet,” Alicia announces, fixing Emma’s dress. “But they’ll come to us soon.”       “Can’t wait!” Harold exclaims.       “You’re right!” Amanda agrees.       “Can’t you want to see the girls as brides?” Letitia asks amicably, fixing Anna’s hair.       “Oh, yeah!” Harold pronounces cheerfully. “And I wanna look at the grooms too.”       “Well, we all wanna look at them,” Emma laughs shyly.       “I guess they look like princes from a tale,” Amanda assumes.       “Of course, they do,” Melissa smiles shyly, coming to the mirror to fix her hair. “Their friends will do their best to make them imitable.”       “And how are their friends gonna look?” Harold asks.       “They’re gonna be handsome too,” Blair replies. “You’ll see everything when we come to the ceremony.”       “Will there be more guys at the party, except Amanda? Girls, boys…”       “There will be two more girls,” Anna smiles shyly.       “Yeah, my friend Hailey and her mother will come here,” Amanda says happily.       “Really?” Harold surprises.       “Hailey is the daughter of my close friend from London,” Alicia exclaims. “She and Amanda get along, despite their age difference.”       “Yeah, she’s like a younger sister to me,” Amanda confesses. “I love her so much. And she loves playing with me! We can spend hours playing with dolls, while our moms talk.”       “Wait, is your friend gonna be at the wedding too?” Anna frowns slightly.       “Yes, Amelia landed here with her husband,” Alicia says confidently. “And they took their daughter. Raquelle invited them personally. And they could not refuse.”       “Hey, is it true that a dog is gonna be at the wedding?” Harold asks.       “Yeah, there will be the doggy,” Cassidy confirms with a slight smile, fixing her raised sleeves and fixing her big, gorgeous curls beautifully.       “But it’s now with the men, who are helping the grooms to get ready for the wedding,” Olivia adds.       “Is that a boy or a girl?” Harold asks. “The dog is big? Which breed?”       “Boy, big,” Jessica replies. “Do you know such a breed as a gold retriever?”       “Yeah, I know it. My school friend has this doggy.”       “My doggy is very smart,” Helene replies with a shy smile. “We talk to him as people, and he understands everything well.”       “Really? So cool!”       “Yeah, an amazingly smart dog,” Odette notices.       “You know, I’ve always dreamed of a dog I would take care of as well as my mother and sister take care of me. But I can’t get it. Because we need money for that.”       “But if you study well and make me and Mother happy with good grades, and find a good job after growing up, you will have a dog and whatever you wish,” Blair replies softly, fixing her hair slightly.       “Your sister is right, boy,” Kylie says confidently, just coming to the room with a hairspray. “When you grow up, you’ll have to provide for your family and feed it. And you won’t get a good job without a good education. I mean, you’ll get a job but earn little money.”       “I can’t wait for the age when I’m able to work,” Harold says confidently. “I’m only ten, but when I’m allowed to, I will be working at any kind of job to help Blair and our mother.”       “It’s amazing, Harry,” Helene approves with a slight smile. “I’m sure you can do this.”       “Your family would need help at any time, even if they have money, a house, food…” Melissa adds.       “Don’t worry!” Harold exclaims. “As a real man, I will be doing my duty and doing my best to help my mother and sister somehow.”       “Oh, what a good boy you are, Harry,” Amanda smiles widely, “You take care of your family so well.”       “I am a man. My mother and sister always say that even if I’m a kid, they want to count on my help and protection. And I don’t let anyone hurt them. Since my dad died at a very early age, I’m gonna play the role of him.”       “Gosh, boy, I like you so badly!” Letitia smiles widely, coming to the mirror and fixing her hair. “The mother of Blair and you is a gem since you want to help your close people and not to depend on them.”       “Harry does understand what’s happening in our family, Mrs. Rochester,” Blair replies shyly, stroking Harold’s hair down. “We don’t waste any little money for nothing. We spent every single cent on food, clothes, rent, home stuff, and other things.”       “That’s great you’ve been taught not to waste your money for nothing.”       “But I hope someday they’ll be lucky and buy something for themselves,” Cassidy expresses hope, walking slowly in the room and raising the edge of her dress.       “I wish, Cassidy,” Blair smiles shyly, tucking a wavy strand of hair behind her ear.       Silence settles in the air, during which the girls keep standing in front of the mirror and fixing their hair and makeup, while Harold and Amanda get busy playing with each other and talking. At some moment, Anna listens to Kylie, who tells her something, nods confidently, looks in the mirror for the last time, and leaves the room.       “Girls, what about the bride?” Letitia specifies. “Natalia is ready?”       “Anna went to help them put on the dresses,” Jessica replies confidently, putting rouge on her cheekbones with a big tool.       “I will go help, too,” Helene says.       “Me too,” Olivia adds, fixing her hair.       “Yes, I’m coming,” Emma jabs.       “You need help?” Alicia asks.       “Nope, thanks, we’ll handle it,” Helene replies.       “Sure?”       “Yes, yes, Mrs. Middleton, don’t worry.”       Two or three seconds later, Helene also leaves the room, and then Olivia, Odette, and Emma do.       “Hey, where’s Mr. Cameron?” Alicia frowns.       “Talking to Anthony and Mother in the kitchen,” Letitia says.       “Mrs. Lascano has arrived?”       “Yes, she’s here. Madly happy my daughter is getting married.”       “Oh, how happy Mr. Cameron and I are to finally get our girl married.” Alicia puts her hand on her heart. “Blessed Virgin, we’ve been waiting for this moment for years! And I can finally see my Raquelle in a wedding dress.”       “My husband, my mother, and I still can’t believe it’s really happening now.”       “I spent years praying to God about my niece to finally meet a husband. Years, my darling! I was so worried that she would be alone.”       “I get it, my sweetie. I get it.”       “Oh, girls, I’m kinda tired already,” Melissa sighs tiredly, sitting on the bed and fixing the strip on her shoes with high heels.       “Yeah,” Kylie pronounces thoughtfully. “We haven’t even started to celebrate, but I already wanna have a rest.”       “It’s okay, ladies, we’ll come there now and forget about any tiredness,” Cassidy says confidently.       “Oh, who knows…” Jessica pronounces thoughtfully and sits on the bed. “Honestly, I’m tired of walking on these heels.”       “Get used, my darling…” Blair advises. “And get ready to spend a whole day on our feet.”       “And dance,” Kylie adds.       “But I put on sneakers instead of shoes with heels and don’t care about it,” Cassidy says funnily, with her head proudly raised.       “You?” Jessica surprises. “Sneakers?”       “Uh-huh.” Cassidy raises the edge of her dress slightly and shows her sneakers to the girls. “Here!”       “Didn’t you have some flats?” Blair wonders.       “They rub my legs a lot. And these aren’t mine. The dress isn’t mine, either. I borrowed these from Anna. She’s got a lot of beautiful clothes. So, I asked her to give me a dress kindly.”       “I see…”       “But instead, I’d rather put on jeans, a t-shirt, and sneakers. Though if I’d done it, my brother would’ve killed me.”       “You did it right!” Melissa exclaims. “People put on beautiful dresses at weddings. Leave shirts and jeans for walks with your friends.”       “And by the way, you look amazing in this dress,” Blair says confidently.       “Yes, Cassidy, you look very good with it,” Jessica confirms.       “Yeah, Mom and Dad would be madly happy to see me like this,” Cassidy smiles shyly and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “They knew how much I hated girly things, but they put dresses on me. And they swore when I stole Dan’s old clothes.”       “I’m sure your brother is gonna be surprised nicely after seeing you in this dress,” Blair assumes.       “He’s gonna be more surprised by the dress Anna is wearing. He’s gonna wipe his mouth all day as he stares at his red-haired beautiful girl.”       “And the other girls look gorgeous,” Melissa notices.       “Yeah, the bridesmaids worked really hard and don’t look worse than the brides,” Blair agrees.       “Hey, will more people come to the wedding?” Jessica asks.       “Yes, Violetta and her daughter and Christiana,” Blair replies confidently. “But at the wedding ceremony. Terrence and Raquelle gave us a free day so that we could rest before today.”       “They hardly needed your yesterday ‘cause they spent that night in different places,” Alicia says confidently. “Raquelle was with Mr. Cameron and me, and Terrence was with his parents and brother.”       “Will Violetta and Christiana come, as well?” Letitia asks.       “Of course, she will, Mrs. Rochester,” Blair nods.       “But she’s such a baby yet!” Alicia exclaims. “Maybe two or three years older than Hailey, my friend’s daughter.”       “So, is her daughter gonna join Harry and Amanda?” Jessica specifies with a slight smile.       “Yup, Shannon is also gonna be with us.”       “Awesome!” Cassidy exclaims. “I think the kids are gonna have something to do.”       “And they all will be undoubtedly delighted by Sammy.”       “Sammy?” Harold frowns. “Who’s Sammy?”       “That’s the dog,” Alicia specifies softly.       “Is that the dog Blair talked about?”       “Yes, that’s him,” Blair nods confidently.       “Is he kind?” Amanda asks hesitantly. “He will not bite me?”       “C’mon, girl!” Cassidy smiles widely. “Sammy is the kindest dog ever!”       “Yes, sweetie, Sammy is a very friendly and playful dog,” Jessica says confidently. “He loves children and would be happy to play with you.”       “Wow, that’s cool!” Harold expresses happiness. “When can I see him?”       “Soon, brother,” Blair pronounces softly. “He will come to the wedding ceremony along with the grooms, their friends, and their family.”       “Will the dog really not bite me?” Amanda asks with a light scare in her eyes.       “Don’t worry, my sweetheart,” Alicia says softly, sitting next to Amanda and hugging her around the shoulders. “Sammy will not hurt you.”       “Really? You promise me, Mommy?”       “I promise, sunshine, I promise.”       “Don’t worry, Amanda, I will protect you,” Harold says confidently.       “You will?” Amanda rounds her eyes.       “I am a man! A man must always protect girls. That’s what my mother says.”       “Thanks, Harry, you’re so sweet and brave.”       Harold and Amanda hug each other a little awkwardly but very touchingly, while the others get tender feelings as they look at these guys. A little later, Adriana enters the room with a slight smile, looking very elegant in her absolutely closed burgundy long dress and wearing the shoes of the same color with little heels, while her wavy hair is beautifully pinned on her head.       “Oh, girls, how beautiful you all are!” Adriana admires with a wide smile. “How hard you tried! Gosh! What beauty!”       “Gosh, Mother, you’re incredible!” Letitia admires with a slight smile. “You’re so beautiful!”       “Thanks, my darling,” Adriana thanks, fixing a strand of hair shyly and glancing at Harold and Amanda. “Thanks, the children are so sweet! They are just like the little copies of the bride and the groom!”       “Thanks a lot, ma’am,” Amanda and Harold thank with a wide smile.       “My mommy bought this dress,” Amanda confesses. “I mean, I chose it, but she bought it.”       “And I chose this suit, but Blair paid for it,” Harold adds.       “You look luxurious, Mrs. Lascano,” Kylie smiles shyly. “Just like Mrs. Rochester.”       “Thanks, Kylie, you’re very beautiful, as well,” Adriana thanks shyly. “But I can’t get used to your violet hair. It didn’t happen at my time…”       “Many adult people still look at me weirdly. But I’m used to that.”       “If you like it, it’s alright.”       “Yeah, Mom, where’s Anthony?” Letitia frowns slightly.       “Anthony went to the kitchen to drink coffee,” Adriana explains. “I left him with Mr. Cameron. Let them talk for a while.”       “And the girls?” Alicia asks. “What about Natalia and Raquelle?”       “The girls and their friends went to Anthony and Letitia's room.”       “Good,” Letitia nods with a slight smile.       “Can’t wait to see them,” Melissa sighs quietly.       “Yeah, we wanna see the brides in wedding dresses,” Jessica confesses.       “Ah, girls, how much I want this!” Adriana exclaims. “I can’t wait to see my granddaughter in a wedding dress.”       “Oh, I’m really excited too,” Alicia confesses.       “The girls choose incredibly amazing dresses,” Cassidy says confidently.       “And how amazing their makeup is!” Jessica exclaims.       “Yeah, you’re surely gonna be delighted when Olivia, Emma, Odette, Anna, and Helene bring our beauties to us,” Kylie adds.       “Oh, you know, I think I’ll go to the living room,” Blair says thoughtfully. “Harry and I will be waiting for the brides there. There are too many people here. Not enough space.”       “Uh-h-h, I’ll go there, too,” Cassidy replies confidently, wrapping a little strand of hair on her finger and letting it go. “The girls can make themselves more beautiful.”       “We’re ready, too!” Kylie and Melissa say happily at the same time, putting eyeshadows and eyeliners aside.       “Me too, me too!” Jessica exclaims, running her hand through her hair.       “Let’s go to the living room then,” Letitia suggests amicably and goes to the exit of the room.       “Yes, beauties, let’s talk,” Adriana agrees with a slight smile.       All the girls and two children go to the living room, where there is the same mess. A bottle of hairspray, the smell of which everyone can feel in the air, several clasp pins, hairbrushes, curling irons, and some other hair stuff are lying on the coffee table. The women sit on the sofas, moving some boxes and other things aside, while Harold and Amanda take something from the sofa and go to play together.       “By the way, have you already talked to the MacClifes?” Blair asks. “What about the grooms?”       “Anthony talked to Mrs. MacClife on the way home,” Adriana says. “She said the friends are helping Edward and Terrence get ready. I heard the grooms are terribly excited and can barely speak or do anything.”       “You know nothing about Natalia and Raquelle yet!” Cassidy exclaims cheerfully. “The stylists barely made them sit quietly when they were doing her makeup, hairstyle, and manicure ‘cause the girls twisted all the time!”       “My daughter was getting ready for this day so badly,” Letitia smiles widely. “She gave very much attention to her body and appearance over the past two weeks. Went to a gym, to a cosmetologist, to shops… And two days ago, she literally stopped sleeping at night.”       “My Raquelle didn’t sleep last night, either,” Alicia confesses. “And she went somewhere, bought something, and put herself in order for these two weeks.”       “We can understand them,” Jessica notices with a slight smile. “The girls are getting married.”       “Uh-huh, the beloved men,” Kylie adds confidently.       “Beloved and hopeful man,” Letitia fixes with a wide smile. “We would give Natalia to the man like Edward with great pleasure.”       “Just like Mr. Cameron and I are giving our Raquelle to Terrence,” Alicia adds.       “Are you probably very sad?” Melissa asks.       “Of course, sad, babe,” Adriana replies confidently. “But our girl is an adult and must create her family: get married, take care of a husband, give birth to children, educate them… Natalia couldn’t live her whole life with her mother and father. She would have to leave her home early or late.”       “And Raquelle has been a maid for too long,” Alicia notices. “We’ve always told her that the most important thing for every woman is to be a mother and a wife. What happened then must happen now and in the future.”       “The important thing is that the girls’ wish to do it is conscious,” Kylie notices.       “Yeah, something good would’ve hardly happened if Raquelle and Natalia had gotten married much earlier,” Jessica assumes.       “And that’s good Terrence and Raquelle managed to live some time together,” Blair adds. “They’re used to each other and know what they love and hate.”       “If they hadn’t decided to play the wedding, we would’ve started to insist,” Alicia says confidently. “Because Mr. Cameron and I do mind unmarried couples who live together. A husband and a wife are the only ones to be allowed to live together.”       “Tell this to my brother and his girlfriend,” Cassidy says confidently. “Daniel doesn’t rush to propose to Anna at all.”       “I’m sure they’ll make us happy soon,” Letitia replies. “But now we need to marry off our girls. Send them to a family life and finally give them to their husbands’ hands.”       “With the hope that Natalia won’t forget us and will be a frequent visitor at our home,” the man’s voice pronounces.       Anthony enters the living room with a slight smile, confidently, stroking down his perfectly done hair on the walk and fixing the tie and sleeves of his light brown jacket and white shirt. And then Frederick shows up, wearing a brand new gray jacket and pants and a shirt that is one ton lighter.       “It’s very hard to let a child step into adult life,” Anthony notices. “But it should’ve happened.”       “And we’ve finally lived until the day the girls would become married women,” Frederick says confidently.       “You’re right, Mr. Cameron!” Adriana exclaims with a wide smile.       “By the way, girls…” Anthony looks at all the girls. “You’re all very beautiful!”       “Thanks…” the girls thank at a different time with a slight smile.       “You put all your female things for the reason,” Anthony laughs amicably.       “We have time yet,” Jessica replies quietly. “We’ll take everything.”       “Hardly,” Anthony pronounces quietly. “I was told the car will come here soon.”       “What, already?” Kylie rounds her eyes.       “I hope you’re all ready to go.”       “We’re ready to go,” Letitia shrugs.       “Yeah, we’re only waiting for the brides,” Alicia adds.       “We need to hurry them up,” Frederick says thoughtfully. “We’ll have to spend at least half an hour on the way.”       “The MacClifes are going to go on the way,” Anthony announces. “And some guests are going to come to the ceremony place.”       “It’s okay, the brides have the right to be a little late, but the grooms must be there just in time,” Adriana laughs shyly.       “Don’t worry,” Kylie says with a slight smile. “As far as we know, the grooms are getting ready.”       “I talked to Edward and Terrence’s father two minutes ago,” Anthony says. “And he said the cars are about to come for them.”       “The girls will come now, don’t worry,” Olivia says happily with a wide smile.       “They’re almost ready,” Odette adds.       At this moment, Olivia, Emma, and Odette enter the living room with a shy smile and join the girls sitting on the sofa.       “We may be late, girls,” Anthony warns, pulling his tie slightly. “Tell Natalia and Raquelle to get ready faster.”       “They’ll just put on the jewelry and come to us,” Emma replies with a slight smile. “Anna and Helene stayed to help them.”       “I don’t know, Emma,” Letitia sighs tiredly. “Natalia has always gotten ready slowly. If she says she’ll come in two minutes, it doesn’t mean it will happen so.”       “Raquelle has been getting ready for too long, even if she usually does everything quickly,” Alicia notices.       “If they don’t do everything when the car arrives, the girls will do it right on the way,” Anthony says confidently.       “Be sure, Mr. Rochester, the efforts are going to be worth it,” Anna replies confidently.       At this moment, Anna and Helene enter the living room and holding the edges of their dresses with smiles.       “Yeah, you all will be overwhelmed by the beauty you’re going to see now,” Helene smiles widely.       “What about the dress?” Cassidy asks happily. “They look good?”       “Natalia and Raquelle look like princesses,” Anna replies with a wide smile. “We didn’t expect they would be so gorgeous.”       “Really?” Melissa smiles slightly.       “You’ll see everything now,” Helene replies confidently.       “C’mon, ladies, bring the brides here!” Jessica says happily.       “Yes, girls, hurry them up,” Frederick adds. “We may be too late for the ceremony.”       “Don’t worry, Mr. Cameron,” Adriana pronounces softly. “We will not be late.”       “Hey, here they are!” Helene announces happily.       “Girls, why are you standing there?” Anna wonders loudly. “Come here! Show up!”       “Where are our beautiful brides?” Alicia asks. “Let us look at them.”       “Show up, girls!” Letitia exclaims.       “C’mon, c’mon,” Adriana encourages. “Let us admire you.”       Several seconds later, everyone can hear a quiet knock of heels and sees Natalia and Raquelle show up with a shy smile and bouquets in their hands. When everyone sees them, they get up from the sofa, turn on the brides and open their mouths, seeing two beautiful girls with eyes full of gloss.       “Oh, my God…” Letitia pronounces with admiration in her eyes, barely holding down her eyes and closing her mouth with a hand. “Natalia, my girl…”       “Oh, my gosh, daughter…” Anthony cannot believe his eyes, putting his hands folded together to his mouth with a wide smile.       “Natalia, my birdie…” Adriana pronounces with a wide smile, wiping off a tear that rolls down her cheek.       “Oh, Holy Virgin…” Alicia pronounces with admiration. “Raquelle… My sunshine…”       “Jesus Christ, Raquelle!” Frederick throws his hands up. “My girl…”       It’s impossible not to admire Natalia’s amazing snow white dress with open shoulders and quite an attractive décolleté. The top of the dress that shows her slim waist is covered with beautiful manual embroidery with sparkles and a few little diamonds. One of the layers of the big two-layer skirt is also covered with sparkles, and the second one is made from a light chiffon that blows beautifully when the bride makes a movement. The girl’s veil is multilayered and transparent, and its edges are covered with a wonderful sparkling embroidery. Her long golden hair is beautifully curled in big curls, gathered into a big beautiful tail, fixed with a clasp pin, and falling down to her shoulder, and there is a little tiara on her head. Good bright makeup expressed her beauty much more, and a small necklace with small crystals on her neck perfectly fits her wonderful massive earrings of the same color. There is only one thin silver bracelet on her hand. And when she raises the edge of her dress, everyone can see her careful white shoes with a high heel partly covered with diamonds.       Raquelle’s bright makeup expresses her piercing gray eyes, her fragility, beauty, and sexuality given to her by nature. Her glossy, long hair is curled in middle curls and gathered in a hairstyle that is kind of similar to Natalia’s hairstyle, and several different strands fall off her shoulder beautifully. She has a long veil and a headband with beautiful patterns on her head, hanging earrings in her ears, and a brilliant necklace that shines with all the colors of the rainbow on her neck. The snow white sleeveless dress perfectly fits her body and expresses her attractive curves. The attractive décolleté shows her collarbones and fragile shoulders, and the top of the dress is made of lace. One of two layers of the ball gown skirt is made of simple white thin fabric, while the second one is made of a much thicker fabric with the same lace as on the top.       “God, what beauties!” Helene opens her mouth.       “Could you be more beautiful than you are now?” Anna surprises with a wide smile.       “Wow, what a beauty!” Cassidy exclaims happily.       “I didn’t think the result would be so awesome!” Olivia shakes her head, closing her mouth with a hand.       “Gosh, girls, I can’t believe it’s really you!” Odette smiles widely.       “Of course, we know you’re our beauties, but you’re too beautiful…” Melissa adds.       “I like it so much!” Blair admires. “You two look magical!”       “Princesses came out of a tale,” Kylie smiles widely.       “Both of the MacClifes are gonna drool when they see you from afar,” Emma says confidently.       “Gosh, looking at such a beauty, I kinda wanna get married, as well,” Jessica says with a wide smile.       Everybody in the living room laughs quietly, while Natalia and Raquelle getting a little blush close to their faces with their little but luxurious bouquets of flowers.       “Terrence and Edward must be proud to make these stunning beauties their wives,” Anna adds with her head proudly raised.       “Yeah, may men be jealous and bite their elbows ‘cause they missed a chance to get these cuties,” Helene says confidently.       “We’re speechless, girls!” Emma exclaims.       “The result is even better than we expected,” Odette confesses.       “All eyes will be on you two only,” Olivia states.       “Wow, what a beautiful dress,” Alicia pronounces and comes to Raquelle, along with Frederick, to look at her wedding dress better. “What a beauty… Oh, my God…”       “My God, granddaughter…” Frederick pronounces excitedly and looks at Raquelle with admiration from head to foot. “You’re a beauty… But now you look much more beautiful.”       “Thanks, Grandpa, thanks, Auntie…” Raquelle smiles shyly. “You really like it?”       “Honey, you’re stunning!” Alicia exclaims. “You’re more beautiful than we imagined!”       “My God, daughter, you’re flawless!” Letitia pronounces in a little shaking voice. “My beauty… My gosh…”       “I feel like a queen in this dress,” Natalia confesses with a wide smile, trying to pump much air into her lungs that she needs so badly.       “My little girl, you do look like a princess!” Adriana exclaims with admiration in her eyes, coming closer to Natalia. “Gosh, how gorgeous you are! Just speechless!”       “My daughter cannot be ugly at all!” Anthony states with his head proudly raised.       “Jesus Christ, did we finally live until this moment?” Alicia cannot believe it. “Is my girl gonna get married?”       “You’re right! I’ve been waiting for this for several years! Waiting for the day I’d see my little princess in a gorgeous wedding dress.”       “Gosh, I’m gonna cry now…” Natalia blinks her eyes often.       “Me too…” Raquelle barely holds down the tears.       “Oh, girls, I’m gonna cry, too…” Anthony confesses with a slight smile, closing his mouth with a hand.       “Gosh, it’s so nice to know my granddaughter will finally become a married woman and live with her husband,” Frederick says with a wide smile. “This thought warms up my soul.”       “Yeah!” Alicia exclaims. “She’s finally getting married! She finally heard us and thought about her personal happiness.”       “Gosh, Aunt Alicia…” Raquelle smiles shyly. “Grandpa Frederick…”       “Anna, Helene, Olivia, Emma, Odette…” Letitia pronounces confidently. “We’re giving you a hug of thankfulness! You did an amazing job.”       “Thanks, Mrs. Rochester,” Anna smiles shyly. “We tried hard.”       “Yes, we did everything we could,” Helene adds amicably.       “My Natalia looks much better than I imagined in this wedding dress,” Anthony adds.       “And I didn’t think my niece would be so beautiful,” Alicia smiles shyly, barely holding down tears of happiness, as well as everyone, but trying to keep herself down not to ruin her makeup.       “Oh, my God, I still can’t believe what’s happening,” Raquelle says in a little shaking voice, closing her face blushed from shyness, with her hand.       “And I’m so excited…” Natalia pronounces in a shaking voice, waving her hand at herself and blinking her eyes quickly. “My throat is dry… My legs can barely hold me… I can barely breathe…”       Alicia and Frederick take Raquelle in a touching hug, and Anthony, Letitia, and Adriana do it to Natalia. The adults kiss the brides on the cheek sweetly and wipe tears carefully under their eyes, while the brides’ friends stand aside, whisper about something, and watch what’s happening, not hiding their wide smiles and tears of happiness. And at some moment, Harold and Amanda enter the living room and stop their eyes on Raquelle and Natalia.       “Wow!” Harold admires. “How beautiful you are! You two are really stunning!”       “Thanks a lot, Harry,” Natalia thanks amicably, moving a wavy strand off her hair.       “Gosh, Raquelle, you’re so beautiful!” Amanda admires. “You’ve got such a beautiful dress.”       “Thanks, sweetie,” Raquelle thanks. “And I really love your dress.”       “And how gorgeous you are, Ms. Rochester! I am delighted!”       “Thanks, Amanda,” Natalia nods.       Raquelle and Natalia come to Harold and Amanda with a wide smile, take them in an amicable hug, and laugh when they get a sweet kiss on the cheek from them.       “The grooms are gonna be speechless,” Harold says confidently. “They… They’ll forget how to speak!”       “Everyone’s gonna become speechless when they see our beauties,” Letitia smiles widely. “Not just the grooms…”       “Can’t wait for the princess to meet their princesses, marry them, and take them to their kingdom,” Amanda says happily.       “Soon, Amanda, soon,” Adriana replies with a slight smile. “Wait for a while.”       Everyone laughs shyly, while Raquelle and Natalia hugging each other press Harold and Amanda to themselves with a wide smile.       “Hey, Natalia, Raquelle…” Cassidy adds. “What do you think of each other’s looks?”       “Yeah, girls, give your rate,” Jessica says.       “Natalia looks amazing,” Raquelle says confidently with admiration in her eyes. “She’s beautiful!”       “You really like it?” Natalia asks with a slight smile, turning around herself with her head proudly raised so that her skirt blows.       “Edward’s gonna lose his mind when he sees such a stunning beauty.”       “As well as Terrence will when he sees you,” Natalia smiles shyly. “You’re stunning.”       “You like it too?” Raquelle asks hesitantly, raising the edge of her dress and making a slow twist around herself. “You think Terrence will like it?”       “If you show up, the men are gonna have to wake him up ‘cause he’s gonna collapse at this beauty.”       “Not just him, honey. Edward is gonna try hard to stay awake.”       “That’s why they have the men,” Olivia laughs.       “Yeah, let them wake these pretty boys up in case they feel bad,” Emma adds.       “That’s why they need friends!” Odette throws her hands up.       “Oh, gosh, I can’t wait to see Edward and know how he’s gonna look,” Natalia confesses, squeezing her bouquet in her hands.       “And I miss Terrence already,” Raquelle smiles shyly. “And I wanna see him in a suit. In a wedding suit.”       “Wait for a while, sweeties,” Frederick says softly. “We’re only two hours away from it.”       “But some sources told us that the grooms looked incredible,” Alicia smiles mysteriously.       “Oh, I can’t!” Natalia pronounces, shaking slightly, and quietly sniffs. “Gosh…”       Natalia closes her face with a hand and sniffs again, meeting a failure in her mission of holding tears down since they roll over her cheeks anyway. Just like Raquelle does. Seeing this, Olivia, Anna, Emma, Odette, and Helene smiling sweetly, hug the brides at the same time and wipe their tears off carefully.       “Girl…” Helene pronounces with a slight smile.       “Hey, stop crying,” Anna says softly.       “It’s gonna be okay,” Olivia comforts.       “Just don’t worry,” Odette adds.       “Girls, stop!” Emma exclaims.       “It’s good you’re gonna get married!” Kylie notices cheerfully. “Why are you crying? I don’t get!”       “You have such wonderful grooms!” Melissa adds softly. “You’re about to make your dream come true and get married!”       “Sorry, girls…” Natalia whispers in a shaking voice, blinking quickly, sniffing, and exhaling slowly. “I’m too nervous…”       “Me too…” Raquelle pronounces excitedly with a heavy breath. “I didn’t know… It would be so emotional…”       “It’s okay, girls, don’t cry,” Cassidy replies funnily, caressing Natalia and Raquelle’s shoulders. “You’ve got no reason to worry.”       “You’re gonna be dancing from happiness!” Jessica adds cheerfully. “When you and your pretty boys are finally married.”       While the girls try to calm Natalia and Raquelle down, Anthony receives a call on his phone. When he takes it from his pocket, he answers it and goes aside to talk.       “The most important thing is not to faint in front of the altar,” Natalia laughs shyly as she sniffs. “I can easily do… Get too excited and mess up everything…”       “That’s right,” Raquelle smiles shyly. “I’m not sure that I won’t faint in front of the altar.”       “Me too…” Natalia sniffs quietly. “So, girls… If it happens… Don’t be surprised. I’m just too sensitive… And take everything too seriously…”       “And don’t worry if I faint.”       “Don’t worry, ladies,” Emma pronounces cheerfully. “We will watch your condition closely and wake you up if we need to.”       “We count on you, sweeties,” Natalia smiles shyly. “We can’t do this without you.”       “Aw…” the girls pronounce with a slight smile at a different time, hug Raquelle and Natalia, caress their shoulders, heads, or backs, wipe off their tears, and kiss them amicably on the cheek.       “Listen, maybe we should’ve chosen simpler looks for Raquelle and Natalia?” Kylie asks funnily.       “Why?” Emma surprises.       “Why? The grooms are gonna have to say, ‘Yes, I do’ make an oath.”       “Right, if Terrence and Edward see our gorgeous girls, they’ll actually be unable to speak,” Melissa adds. “Or actually collapse!”       These words make everyone laugh shyly.       “Don’t worry, Mel,” Helene says cheerfully. “Terrence and Edward have the groomsmen who can quickly wash their brains. Or speak everything for them in the worst case.”       “Oh, no, don’t better trust the men with this mission,” Anna laughs. “They can say something so that the grooms get blushed.”       “C’mon, girls, they will not care,” Odette says confidently. “When Edward and Terrence see Natalia and Raquelle, they’ll forget about you at all.”       “Well, they’ll need friends when they have to be woken up,” Blair notices funnily.       “I think you, girls, will also have to wake the brides up,” Alicia laughs quietly. “When they see the grooms, they will become speechless. Miss the moment when they have to say, ‘Yes, I do’.”       “Oh, Alicia,” Frederick chuckles kindly. “I think they already can barely speak.”       “You’re right!” Adriana exclaims. “So, we need to watch the girls better.”       “C’mon, there’s nothing bad with the girls’ emotions,” Jessica notices, hugging Raquelle and Natalia around the shoulders. “Even though I haven’t been married yet, it’s easy for me to understand how excited the brides are.”       “It’s okay, Jess, when Raquelle and Terrence and Natalia and Edward are pronounced a wife and a husband, they will dance to the fullest,” Anna says confidently. “We just need to bring the brides to the altar and give them to the grooms safe and sound. And then things will get much easier.”       “Oh, my throat is so dry from excitement…” Raquelle confesses, swallowing nervously and grabbing her throat.       “Relax, Raquelle, you’re too tense,” Emma says softly.       “I can do nothing to me, either…” Natalia confesses. “I’m trying to calm down, but I can’t…”       “Aw, girls…” Frederick shakes his head, hugging Raquelle and Natalia tightly and pressing them to himself. “Why you’re so worried!”       “Relax, beauties,” Letitia says softly, caressing Natalia and Raquelle’s shoulders. “Calm down. Breathe deeply. And remember everything is gonna be okay.”       “I’m shaking so hard…” Natalia confesses in a shaking voice.       “It’s okay, my sweetie,” Alicia calms down, caresses Natalia’s forearms, and hugs her sweetly. “There’s nothing bad with a marriage. It’s just another life stage. And you and your husband are the only ones to make it what you want.”       “I know, but I’m scared.”       “Relax, my sweethearts,” Adriana says softly, taking Raquelle’s hand and stroking it. “A wedding is not a torture. We completely understand your excitement, but trust me, everything will be gone soon.”       “I know, Mrs. Lascano.”       Despite the support of so many people, Raquelle and Natalia cannot calm down just a little. And while everyone does not give up on trying to help the girls, Anthony finishes the talk, puts his mobile phone in the pocket of his jacket, and comes to the others with some important news:       “Ladies and gentlemen, the car is gonna come to take us out in five minutes!”       “We’re ready, Mr. Rochester!” Blair replies confidently with a slight smile.       “I think I have time to drink something,” Adriana says thoughtfully. “My throat got dry from excitement.”       “I’ll drink something before we leave, too,” Letitia replies thoughtfully. “Maybe you want something too?”       “Wouldn’t refuse,” Jessica shrugs with a slight smile, and then the others agree.       “Okay, let’s go to the kitchen,” Letitia says amicably, making a calling gesture. “I will give you something to drink.”       Letitia leaves the living room along with almost everyone, while Helene, Anna, Raquelle, and Natalia stay in the living room.       “This moment is getting closer, girls,” Natalia pronounces shyly with a wide smile, putting her bouquet from one hand to another nervously.       “I’m so scared…” Raquelle confesses. “I’m… Really nervous…”       “It’s gonna be okay, friends,” Helene replies quietly with a slight smile, caressing Raquelle’s shoulder. “We’re with you.”       “Breathe deeply and think of nothing bad,” Anna advises quietly, hugging Natalia around the shoulders.       “Oh, my gosh…” Natalia exhales sharply with a slight smile and breathes in the smell of her wedding bouquet of flowers. “It seems like it's all just a dream…”       “Yeah, I didn’t think it would be such an exciting moment,” Raquelle confesses and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear with a shaking hand.       “You get used to good things quickly,” Anna says with a slight smile, fixing Natalia’s hair slightly. “Yes, maybe, it’s gonna be hard for some time, but you’ll get used to it later.”       “At least Raquelle won’t have to get used to a new house ‘cause she’s been living there for a long time,” Helene notices.       “I know…” Natalia nods, breathing a little heavily and feeling how tense all her muscles are. “But I think I’ll get used to a new place quickly. If Edward is next to me.”       “It’s your day, sweeties,” Anna notices with a slight smile. “Today you’re heroines of the day. The princesses, whom the charming princes are waiting for.”       “And I’m ready to go to my beloved one’s kingdom,” Natalia says confidently.       “And I will live there and set up my rules by law,” Raquelle adds.       “The friends laugh shyly.       “By the way, Anna, Helene, Raquelle, and I have something for you,” Natalia smiles mysteriously.       “Yes, girls, we prepared something for you,” Raquelle says confidently.       “For us?” Helene surprises.       Natalia and Raquelle carefully put their bouquets on the table, come to a small packet placed on the sofa, and take two velvet boxes, which they give to Anna and Helene.       “Wow, what is that?” Anna surprises.       “It’s for us?” Helene opens her mouth.       “We wanna give you a little gift to thank you for all your love and support,” Natalia replies with a slight smile.       “We hope you’re gonna love what you have there,” Raquelle expresses hope.       Being intrigued, Helene and Anna open their boxes and find silver bracelets on a thin chain with an infinity sign.       “Wow, a bracelet!” Anna exclaims with admiration in her eyes, looking at the gift from all sides.       “Gosh, what a beauty!” Helene admires.       “They’re the same,” Raquelle says. “We brought them for both of you.”       “For our beloved friends, who have done so much for us that a whole life wouldn’t be enough to thank you,” Natalia adds.       “I really love it!” Anna confesses with a wide smile. “It’s so beautiful!”       “I’m delighted!” Helene thanks. “Thank you so much, girls! Thank you!”       Helene and Anna whooping happily attack Natalia with hugs that they answer to with pleasure and shares an amicable kiss on the cheek. Then the bridesmaids put their bracelets on their hands with the help of their friends.       “They look incredible!” Natalia admires.       “Amazing,” Raquelle smiles widely.       “I promise to wear it very often,” Anna promises confidently with a wide smile. “I adore such simple jewelry.”       “And I ain’t gonna put it aside,” Helene says amicably. “And it fits our jewelry so well.”       “We’re glad you liked these bracelets,” Natalia smiles shyly.       “Aw, girls, I love you so much!” Anna pronounces with a wide smile.       “And I love you so badly!” Helene adds.       The girls smiling widely make a group hug but step away when Letitia enters the living room and gets their attention by coughing quietly:       “Girls, why are you standing here? Don’t you wanna drink with us?”       “No, thanks, I don’t want…” Raquelle refuses gently.       “I would drink something…” Anna says thoughtfully. “I’ve drunk nothing since we came here in the early morning.”       “Come with me, honey, I’ll give you anything you want,” Letitia replies softly. “Natalia, Helene, come with us.”       Helene not rejecting the suggestion goes to the kitchen along with Anna and Letitia, while Raquelle and Natalia watch them and smile shyly at each other.       “I’m so excited that I can’t eat or drink,” Natalia confesses. “I barely made myself have breakfast to have strength.”       “I get it, honey,” Raquelle says softly and takes Natalia’s hands with a slight smile. “I hope I can speak and breathe when the ceremony begins.”       “Are you afraid Terrence will leave you at the altar?”       “I shake at the thought he may say he doesn’t wanna marry me. The case is not about being left before the guests. The case is about a fear of heating it from the man I love. Now I really wanna become his wife. My wish is conscious. I am attracted to that man and don’t see anyone but him next to me.”        “And I’m terribly afraid that Edward may reject me and leave me before everyone’s eyes. I can’t take that… I can’t… It would be insane, Raquelle… You know… I love that man too much.”       “I hope everything will be alright.”       “Yeah… But it’s so hard.”       “I know. But at least, we’re getting through this together. It’s always easier, huh.”       “And I’m so happy with it.”       “It’s our day, darling. The day we must enjoy. There will not be the same one again. I wanna believe we’re getting married once and forever.”       “I know,” Natalia smiles shyly, sniffs quietly, and wipes carefully a tear under her eye. “But I can’t do this yet.”       “May Etalia and Tequelle live forever.”       “Gosh, I never thought we’d become relatives. I couldn’t dream of becoming a family with Terrence and you.”       “Ah, Natalia, I couldn’t dream of that, either,” Raquelle smiles shyly. “But anything can happen in life.”       “Yeah… We’re gonna be a family that we’ve always considered each other. And that’s cool we decided to play a wedding on the same day.”       “Of course, the preparation for the wedding wasn’t always easy. But I’m glad we agreed on everything.”       “I know…” Natalia sniffing quietly starts twirling her hanging earring. “And we have less and less time… The less time we have, the more I am sure that I may not survive until we come to the altar.”       “It’s okay, sweetie, you and I have a big support group,” Raquelle laughs shyly. “And we are together.”       “Yeah…” Natalia starts blinking her eyes quickly to try to get rid of the veil caused by tears in her eyes.       “My gosh, if you and I don’t put ourselves together, the stylists’ work is gonna go down the drain,” Raquelle says and wipes carefully wet paths under her eyes.       “That’s what I’m afraid of…” Natalia sniffs. “There’s no time to fix the makeup.”       “So, we’ve gotta do something.”       “But what?”       “I dunno. But we have to.”       Natalia chuckles kindly, while Raquelle laughing nervously closes her mouth with a hand. At some moment, the girls take each other in a strong hug, still sobbing quietly while tears keep rolling down their cheeks.       “I love you, honey,” Natalia confesses.       “I love you too, sis,” Raquelle replies softly.       Raquelle and Natalia step away and just look into each other’s eyes as they hold hands. After they put themselves together, they carefully wipe tears off each other’s faces and help fix their dresses and hair. A little later, Helene and Anna enter the living room in a quick step, and then the other girls and the children join them.       “Girls, they’ve come for us!” Cassidy exclaims happily. “They’ve come for us!”       “Mr. Rochester received a call and was told we could get out,” Blair adds cheerfully.       “The car is waiting near the building,” Jessica jabs loudly.       “So, it’s time to go?” Natalia rounds her eyes.       “Oh, God…” Raquelle pronounces excited as she looks at Natalia.       “C’mon, girls, get ready!” Kylie jabs funnily. “Don’t stand like columns!”       “The grooms are on the way, but you just dressed up and got a makeup,” Anna hurries up confidently.       “Go, go faster!” Harold pronounces happily. “The grooms are waiting for their brides!”       At this moment, Letitia, Frederick, Adriana, Alicia, and Anthony go to the living room quickly, taking some little things from the sofa.       “Girls, stop talking,” Anthony hurries up confidently. “They’ve come for us!”       “Now, girls, get ready!” Frederick jabs.       “We have no time for talks,” Alicia adds.       “Yes, girls, did you take all your stuff?” Letitia specifies. “Take anything you need and go.”       “Let’s go!” Anthony exclaims. “Faster! Faster! Hurry up! They will not be waiting!”       “Don’t sleep, girls, don’t sleep,” Alicia jabs, taking her small clutch from the table.       “We’re ready,” Blair replies confidently, placing the belt of her clutch above her shoulder.       “We’re ready too,” Jessica says confidently with a small handbag in her hands as she looks at Cassidy.       Natalia and Raquelle take bouquets of white and violet roses and give them to Anna, Helene, Olivia, Emma, and Odette. Then they take theirs that consist of real white, violet, and tea roses, lilacs, and freesias, while the other girls take their little mirrors from their handbags to fix their hair and makeup.       “Girls, we’re very late,” Letitia jabs excitedly. “They will not be waiting for us!”       “Alright, beauties, you’ll put on lipstick and fix your hair later,” Anthony adds collectedly.       “Yes, yes, we’re coming!” Adriana jabs, putting some soft pink lipstick on her lips and putting it in her clutch.       “Amanda, faster!” Alicia exclaims.       “Harry, come here!” Blair says.       “Coming, Mommy!” Amanda pronounces funnily.       “Running, Blair!” Harold exclaims.       Since it’s hard for Raquelle and Natalia to move in the dress with a big skirt that they might easily step on with a heel and fall, Anna and Helene rush to help them, taking the edge of their dresses, holding the bride’s hands, and holding their bouquets in their hands.       “Go, girls, go,” Anthony orders, opening the hall door of the apartment. “Get out! Now! Faster! Everyone! In the dance’s rhythm!”       “Don’t be nervous, Anthony,” Adriana pronounces softly, holding the edge of her dress. “It’s gonna be alright.”       “We are late!”       “We have time yet,” Letitia says quietly.       “But we'd better hurry up,” Frederick replies.       “Yes, being too late is bad,” Alicia notices.       “Don’t worry, we’ll not be late,” Cassidy assures.       “Everyone’s on the way, but we haven’t even left home,” Anthony resents.       “Don’t worry, Mr. Rochester,” Jessica says confidently, checking the time on her smartphone. “We will come in time.”       “Faster, ladies, faster,” Frederick hurries up.       “Raquelle, Natalia, we have no time to dream,” Alicia warns.       “The grooms are waiting for you,” Frederick adds. “But you’re standing here like columns!”       “Ladies, don’t stand there!” Adriana meddles.       “My God, let’s go, after all!” Anthony gets nervous.       When everyone finally gets out, Anthony locks the apartment with the key. Helene and Emma decide to help Raquelle carry the edge of her dress, while Anna and Olivia carry the edge of Natalia’s dress, and Odette watches them so that none of them falls and holds them in case they need it. Frederick, Letitia, Alicia, Anthony, and Adriana talk about something, and Blair is holding Amanda and Harold’s hands and leading them with her. On the way, they meet some neighbors of the Rochester family, who congratulate Natalia and Raquelle and wish them a happy married life, and the girls thank them for these warm words. After going down in the elevator to the first floor in small groups, they end up outside where a big limousine with a driver is waiting for them.       By the way, the process of preparing for the wedding and the trip to the wedding ceremony gets pictured by photographers and directors, and journalists, who take photos of the brides and their company, record videos, and get the information. And among them, there are some Raquelle knows. For example, Andre Lockwood. The photographer, who worked with her and Raquelle on the photoshoot when they barely stood each other. Seeing his old friend, he waves his hand with a wide smile and greets her with a tight hug and an amicable kiss on the cheek. The girl also introduces him to Natalia and poses with her for him with pleasure when he asks them about it, choosing the best views, which should show the best sides of the brides.       “Women, get in the car now!” Anthony’s loud voice pronounces. “C’mon, c’mon, stop talking! Kids, you will play later! Get in!”       While they are photographed and recorded on video from all sides, the men help the women sit comfortably in the spacious limousine, holding the edges of their dresses, holding their hands, and making sure nobody accidentally hits their head. And when the children get in it safely, they join the brides and their company. The photographers, journalists, and directors come to their personal transports, and the limousine’s driver personally closes the door of the limousine, gets into the driver’s seat, and goes on the road to drive everyone to the place where the brides will get married to their beloved men, while their friends and relatives will become witnesses to this amazing moment.       

***

      Some time before going to the wedding ceremony, almost all the friends of the grooms come together at the home of Rebecca and Jamie. Jeremy, William, Christopher, Kevin, Cody, and Joseph. The men are wearing beautiful suits of different colors and shades: from gray and white to brown and light green. Their shirts are also different, but are from white to gray colors, their ties fit the color of their suits, and their hair is perfectly brushed and done. Someone has a careful light bristle on the face, someone shaved the face, and someone is wearing watches on the hand. As the groomsmen, Cody and Joseph are wearing the same suits as Peter and Daniel and have boutonnieres pinned to the lapel of the jacket.       “Come on?” Christopher wonders, installing himself comfortably on the sofa, pulling his tie slightly, and fixing the sleeves of his brown jacket and white shirt. “Peter! Did you finally move?”       “No way, dude!” Kevin exclaims happily, fixing the shoulders of his gray jacket slightly. “Did you really get out of where it smells like a cat’s urine?”       “Yup, it’s true,” Peter confirms with a slight smile, sitting on the sofa with a glass of some drink. “It’s official now! I’ve got the keys, I’ve got the documents, the house is all mine!”       “Finally, man!” Cody pronounces funnily.       “When I got the keys, I started to move my stuff from the old apartment to my new house. With the help of my bros, of course.”       “Does it mean we can visit you and celebrate your housewarming?” William asks funnily, fixing the sleeve of his khaki jacket.       “You can!”       “Oh, that’s cool!” Joseph smiles widely.       “When we celebrate Edward and Natalia’s wedding and wait for their return from the honeymoon, I’m waiting for you all to come to my housewarming. I don’t advise you to count on drinks, ‘cause there will be girls too. But I promise we’re gonna have a lot of fun.”       Sammy sitting next to Peter barks two times happily.       “Oh, I see, Sammy can’t also wait to look at your new place,” Jeremy assumes cheerfully, strumming one of the buttons on his champagne jacket.       “He’s already examined my house,” Peter chuckles kindly.       “Already?” Cody surprises. “We haven’t seen anything, but the fluffy examined everything?”       “A long time ago! When I just got the keys and documents. Yesterday, he was running from one room to another for the whole evening after Helene had left the fluffy to spend a night with me. Told me to watch him.”       “That’s how!” Joseph smiles slyly.       “Yeah, in case you didn’t know, the bow tie he’s wearing was actually mine. He liked it, but I changed it slightly and put on instead of a collar.”       “You said you didn’t need it,” Daniel recalls cheerfully, leaning back on the sofa.       “I don’t need it. I just give the fact.”       “You wait a little, blond,” Kevin assumes funnily. “Sammy is gonna move in with you forever.”       “Oh, I’m sure it’s gonna happen,” Daniel says confidently, throwing one little nut in the air after he takes it from a small packet and catching it with his mouth. “The blond’s house is really amazing.”       “Hey, did you already see Rose’s house?” Christopher surprises truly.       “Huh! Man, I’m gonna say more: I’d been there many times before Peter wanted to move.”       “What?”       “Rose bought the house of my neighbor, who decided to move to another place.”       “Come on?” Kevin surprises.       “That’s right, Perkins and I are neighbors now,” Peter says confidently.       “No way!” Joseph exclaims.       “It happened that I really liked the house that the man was selling. When I saw it, I decided I’d buy it.”       “And it was an honor for me to meet this dude on the doorstep of my house one beautiful day,” Daniel adds. “See the keys in his hands and hear him saying something like, ‘Hey, yo, salut, I’m your neighbor now!’”       “Cool!” Jeremy exclaims with a slight smile.       “Not gonna hide that I’m very happy with it.” Daniel smiles slyly. “Now there is the one whom I could quietly visit to eat if my food was gone. And taking the blond’s clothes is gonna be much easier. And… I’ll be hiding there if Seymour wanna run after me with a pan in her hands, and my sister grabs a broom. Besides, the blond and I exchanged the duplicates of the keys from our houses just in case. So, I can visit him at any time, and he can come to me.”       “Uh-huh, give me your old debts first!” Peter chuckles kindly. “You’ve taken a lot of clothes from me but haven’t brought them back!”       “Don’t worry, buddy, I will bring everything back. When we celebrate the wedding, I will give.”       “I’ve heard it a million times.”       “It’s gonna be the last one. You’ll see. When we celebrate, you’ll take everything that’s yours.”       “Hey, blond, why’d you decide to buy that house?” Cody asks, stroking down his hair.       “Yeah, you kinda said you liked another!” Joseph says thoughtfully. “The one that is placed in the quietest place of the city!”       “Yeah, I liked that initially,” Peter confirms. “But its owner opened his mouth too widely and wanted an unreal price. Though the prince of that house is much less than what he offered. It’s not worth the money he wanted. That man didn’t even wanna bargain and wanted to sell his house for half of all the money I have. If I had agreed, I would’ve gone bankrupt! Though… I paid a lot of money for my house. But that’s good concerts don’t let me get deeply in the ass.”       “You should’ve taken Edward with you, buddy,” Kevin laughs quietly. “He would’ve quickly made that dude sure and agreed about the price you needed. Ed is a master at that!”       “May that asshole fuck himself! And live in his house, which isn’t actually so cool! I wouldn’t give half of the amount he wanted. After arguing with him for a long time, I fucked him off and started to look for different suggestions.”       “And you liked the house where you moved?” Christopher asks.       “Yup. I thought about Dan telling me that his neighbor was selling his house, and asked him to introduce me to him. That man showed me the house, told me everything, and answered all my questions. And since I liked everything, I agreed to buy it and agreed with him about everything. We quickly agreed on the price and concluded a deal.”       “Cool!” Jeremy exclaims cheerfully. “Congrats on moving, dude!”       “Thanks, Jer! Of course, I wanna change something and make a little repair, but it doesn’t matter.”       “Hey, what’s gonna happen to the old apartment?” Daniel asks with a quiet grin. “To Marta? To her ‘sweet’ screaming cats?”       “It’s going to be empty for a while, I won't sell it. We’ll see it later. Maybe someone is gonna be so desperate that they will buy it. Though there’s a small chance. Well… Unless there’s a student wishing to leave their mom or dad somewhere.”       “Got it…”       “And yeah, guys, I’m asking you not to go there anymore. I ain’t gonna live there and spend nights at my new house now. And I go to that place to take my stuff.”       “Yeah, may those cats give shows to themselves and their owner,” Joseph chuckles kindly, taking a glass of a drink and taking two big sips. “Or they can give birth to kittens and start a real hell there.”       “I don’t care about it anymore! They can scream, give birth to kittens, and pee anywhere. When I take all my stuff out, I will not come back to the hell where I lived for years.”       “That’s right!” Daniel exclaims. “You should’ve gotten out of that hole a long time ago!”       “But it was sad for me to say goodbye to Mrs. Larson, my neighbor, with whom I got along. She was the only one to be good to the others.”       “Now imagine what’s gonna happen after the last man left that place,” Christopher says funnily, leaning back on the sofa, behind which he puts his arms. “Where there are only women!”       “The young man!” Kevin chuckles kindly. “It’s like on a job when there is one attractive single man among lots of girls, or there’s one hot single lady among many men.”       “Oh, you can forget about peace in this case!” William exclaims funnily. “I think those women just needed men. So, they were so nervous. Because having one man at the place is kinda not good.”       “And they’re gonna kill each other there,” Jeremy laughs shyly. “No men will be there, and they’ll fuck each other’s brains.”       Sammy barks quietly.       “And nobody’s gonna hurt Sammy and say he is bad,” Cody says confidently, caressing Sammy’s head and yanking him softly by the ears.       “Right!” Peter agrees. “Every time Helene brought Sammy to me, real hell started. Started because of Marta, the main lover of cats, who has always loved giving lectures.”       Sammy whines quietly with sadness in his eyes and inclines his head slightly, making all the men smile.       “Okay, boy, don’t whine,” Daniel says cheerfully, caressing Sammy’s head. “Nobody will longer say you’re bad. And you’re gonna have much more space for playing and having fun in Pete’s new cool house. And the pool where you can swim as much as you want. M-m-m…”       Sammy barks happily two times and runs around in circles, chasing his tail.       “Listen, men, hasn’t anyone but Perkins seen the blond’s new house?” Christopher wonders. “MacClife, haven’t you and your brother seen that?”       “I haven’t shown my place to the MacClifes,” Peter confesses. “Helene, Daniel, and Anna are the only ones to see my new place yet. And Sammy, too.”       “Hey, how do we find your new place?” Christopher asks.       “My house is two houses from the one in which Perkins is living.”       “That’s how!” Cody exclaims.       “No need to go further to visit each other, drink some beer, watch a movie or a soccer game, and sing something loudly. Without fear that a neighbor would come to you and scream, telling you to turn off this shit. My new neighbors are good people. They wouldn’t call the police for any little reason. Besides, I have an idea of making a little music studio where I could sing some shit for soul and heart.”       “Cool!” Kevin exclaims cheerfully, rubbing his hands happily. “Someday we’ll visit you all together and have a cool hangout!”       “Next time, friends!” Christopher meddles. “Today we have a more interesting event that we must celebrate very well to remember this for a whole year.”       “Right, men!” Daniel exclaims. “It’s a wedding day. A double wedding!”       “Yeah, who would’ve thought!” Cody exclaims. “Terrence and Raquelle, who their fans wanted to see together so badly, became a couple and decided to get married.”       “Fuck, will that beauty no longer be an enviable bride?” Joseph wonders with sadness, spreading his legs widely.       “Alas, Prescott, we lost a chance to get her. And we lost a chance to get the attention of our gorgeous blonde.”       “Ah, guys…” William sighs quietly, leaning back on the sofa and raising his unbuttoned jacket. “I still can’t believe Edward is gonna become a hubby today.”       “Agree, bro,” Jeremy agrees, putting his hands in an inside pocket of his jacket and fixing it slightly. “It seems like I’m sleeping and seeing what can’t be combined.”       “Their father and Mother can’t believe these assholes are gonna get married,” Daniel chuckles kindly. “And seems like our grooms don’t also understand what they wanna do.”       “Imagine what eyes they’re gonna have when we see the brides coming to them,” Cody says funnily. “When they become husbands and wives.”       “I don’t doubt that the brides are gonna be stunning and slay everyone,” Peter says with a sly chuckle.       “M-m-m, the bridesmaids are probably working so hard to get Natalia and Raquelle ready for our dearest Terrence and Edward,” Joseph rolls his eyes dreamily. “And dressing themselves up… Hair, shoes, dresses… Something like this…”       “Oh, yeah!” Cody exclaims. “The bridesmaids are not gonna be less beautiful…”       “Can’t wait to see them all and admire the eternal beauty of the brides.”       “Me too.” Cody smiles mysteriously. “And I hope I’ll be able to have much more fun with Olivia.”       “I have to look for someone else ‘cause Anna is taken already,” Joseph sighs tiredly.       “You think right,” Daniel smiles slyly. “That beauty is mine.”       “Nah, it’s okay! There will be so many beautiful girls at the wedding! I hope there will be someone to agree to hang out with me. The son of the famous director, just saying.”       “Uh-huh, enough for everyone,” Christopher adds confidently.       “Which means we’ll hang out with single girls while the grooms and the brides flirt as they stand aside,” Kevin adds. “Maybe we’re gonna be lucky today and even persuade them to give us their numbers.”       “Can’t wait to come and see these cuties,” Jeremy sighs with a slight smile.       “We should pick up all of them!” William exclaims.       “Yeah, talk to everyone. Watch them.”       “As Parker said, bridesmaids are necessary to help a bride dress up so that she disarms her man,” Cody smiles mysteriously. “And to make happy groomsmen and spend a cool time with them.”       “Well, since almost all of them are single, we’ve got a good chance to hang out with them,” Joseph smiles mysteriously.       “Oh, yay, I hope we’re gonna fucking lucky today!”       “Yeah, we’ve gotta do something while Terry and Ed are getting congratulations from all guests and listening to compliments about being handsome and irresistible,” Christopher says funnily.       Sammy barks quietly at this moment.       “Enjoy this moment, Sammy!” Kevin advises cheerfully, caressing Sammy’s head. “Because it’s truly legendary! You’re freaking lucky to become a special guest on such an event like the wedding of Edward MacClife and his gorgeous blonde, and Terrence MacClife and his sexy brunette.”       Sammy barks quietly two times and makes a weird sound, looking at the men questioningly, while they do not stop smiling and laughing.       “Hey, about the guests!” Christopher exclaims. “Can someone tell me where Parker, Connor, and Clayton are?”       “Who the fuck knows!” Daniel throws his hands up. “We’ll go out soon, but they haven’t come!”       “Yeah, where’s our fucking fifth groomsman?” Peter wonders. “Where’s our uninterrupted supplier of alcohol?”       “Maybe they haven’t come to themselves after the bachelor?” Jeremy assumes funnily. “What if those three are still coming to life?”       “Uh-huh, I don’t exclude that the drunk Connor may come up with an idea to climb up to the roof in underwear again,” Christopher chuckles kindly.       “And if you see Clayton wearing a ballet tutu, take it away immediately,” Daniel says confidently. “We don’t need a fucking ballet at the wedding. That’s not a bachelor! Very important people we don’t better get ashamed of are gonna be at the party.”       “And make sure Parker doesn’t overdrink and go to dance on the table, being naked,” Cody adds funnily.       “Right, right, or the older conservative generation is gonna get a heart attack,” Joseph adds.       The men start laughing loudly, despite their hoarse voices.       “No, no, men, it’s a little thing!” Jeremy exclaims funnily. “I still remember what Edward and Terrence were doing after drinking to the fuck on the bachelor.”       “Uh-huh, as we said, they drank to the fuck, jumped up to the table, started dancing and singing songs loudly,” Peter replies through a laugh. “Ran on the entire deck like idiots, shouting, and almost jumped in the water with no clothes.”       “Uh-huh, that’s good we managed to hold their asses and not to let them go so far,” Daniel laughs.       “Ha, I told you Ed must not drink at all!” Christopher exclaims. “He gets drunk very quickly! And starts doing shit that makes everyone overwhelmed.”       “We got it…”       “Uh-huh, judging the fact that he almost jumped in the water, being naked,” William adds with a louder laugh. “Along with Terry, who wanted to show his genitals to marine inhabitants.”       “Fuck, too bad my phone fell in the water when we pictured their tricks!” Cody sighs resignedly. “There were really cool shots of these pretty boys!”       “We drowned many things when being drunk!” Joseph notices. “I lost my glasses, Pete lost his bracelet, and Blake lost a whole bottle of whiskey he was drinking alone. Many things – I can’t remember all of them!”       “Ha, is Perkins better?” Christopher chuckles kindly. “He almost went after the grooms! And almost got outta the water without shorts.”       “If my memory doesn’t betray me, he’s a lover of walking naked,” Kevin says thoughtfully.       “What?” Daniel wonders with his head proudly raised. “That’s very good! The body breathes, and you feel much more irresistible and sexier!”       “Hey, guys, did I tell you he somehow met me at his home in a costume of Adam?” Peter asks through a laugh.       “Kinda remember…” Jeremy pronounces thoughtfully with a mysterious smile.       “Yeah, you did…” William nods confidently.       “Oh, yeah!” Cody claps his hands with a wide smile. “This dude was so shameless that he opened the door while wearing no underwear or putting something around himself!”       “Nah, it’s okay he covered his trophy with a blanket,” Christopher laughs. “His head barely worked after a drunk hangout.”       The men thrill with a laugh again while Sammy shakes his head and looks at them questioningly.       “If not for us, men, the same things would’ve been waiting for Edward and Terrence,” Kevin assumes confidently. “They would’ve woken up somewhere in the ocean. Swimming on the tiny board with a naked ass.”       “And we would’ve had our asses kicked by the brides for not watching these hooligans enough,” Cody adds.       “Oh, c'mon, men!” Joseph waves his hand. “They wouldn’t have cared at all. Especially, the older brother. It’s not a secret to anyone that it was how he rose to fame. Rose to fame by running half-naked in front of cameras for the role of the all-favorite Mason.”       “Listen, guys, we’ve gotta ask the guests to be more restrained in compliments,” Peter says confidently. “Or MacClife is gonna puff his tail and start showing off as if he’s the most irresistible man ever.”       “Yeah, while he has such an irresistible and sexy cutie like Raquelle, Terry is gonna talk about it very frequently.”       “That’s right!” Daniel agrees. “He’s already walking in front of us with his nose up and pretending to be a rooster.”       “Oh, I just recalled how I filmed in a movie with him several years ago,” Cody says thoughtfully. “Oh, Terrence annoyed everyone… He fucked everyone’s brains about him being a handsome boy, whom all girls around the world had a crush on.”       “It’s his favorite thing to do,” Joseph laughs shyly. “If he doesn’t praise himself, you can think he pissed the day of his life away.”       “And it would be okay if he said he was confident one or two times. But it happened all the time. MacClife couldn’t get sick of saying he was unique and desired. And I noticed that the more he heard compliments about him, the worse the situation got.”       “We completely understand you, men,” Peter nods confidently. “That peacock has been fucking the brains of Perkins and me about me. For a long time. And his little bro decided not to leave him behind.”       “As I understand, when he became an actor and began to hear compliments from girls, his tail became puffer and puffer,” Daniel assumes.       “You’re right, dude!” Joseph exclaims. “Honestly, we’re fucking sick of showing him where he belongs.”       “But Edward is never sick of kicking his ass,” Christopher says confidently.       “Oh, their brotherly fights are something like a masterpiece!” Peter smiles widely. “We can admire and laugh forever!”       “All the men thrill with a laugh, while Sammy barks quietly along with them.       “C’mon, men, let’s make an exclusion today and let him show off a little,” Cody says confidently. “Hold ourselves from jokes about him.”       “I’d be happy to, but I’m afraid I can’t do this,” Kevin assumes. “Because I can’t stop laughing at him pretending to be sassy and teaching his bro to be the same.”       “Let’s not forget that MacClife is a cool man, despite this great shortcoming,” Joseph says confidently.       “That’s right!”       “And his bro is cool!”       “Yeah, Edward is really a good guy,” Cody agrees. “He can win your trust quickly.”       “With his own demons in his head, of course, but it ain’t make him worse,” Christopher adds.       “Okay, guys, let’s really hold ourselves down,” Jeremy suggests. “Don’t hurt our beloved brothers. We’re asking you in a brotherly way.”       “Yeah, we all love them so much deep inside and wish them the best only,” William adds.       “Thanks to our joint effort, we chose fucking amazing looks for the grooms,” Joseph says confidently. “So, today, Terry and Eddy have a right to be called the heroes of the day.”       “Today only,” Cody chuckles, raising his index finger. “They can do anything today. But tomorrow, we’ll kick the asses of the MacClifes if they do something wrong.”       “Okay, alright, we’re kind, sweet, and fluffy today,” Daniel smiles mysteriously.       “The MacClifes are lucky,” Peter adds.       “Right!” Joseph laughs shyly.       “That’s why we need friends!” Cody exclaims. “To support them at a very responsible moment.”       “And not to let them get in some shit and do stupid things.”       “Trust me, guys, Edward can find trouble even if he has thousands of friends and familiars,” Daniel chuckles kindly.       “The most important thing is to have someone by your side,” Christopher replies cheerfully. “Especially when you’re drunk as fuck. And it’d be good if they were absolutely sober.”       “You know, Chris, I think we completed our mission to watch Edward and Terrence even if we were drunk to the fuck,” Peter replies confidently with his head proudly raised. “And thanks to our efforts, our grooms are gonna go to the altar with their gorgeous blonde and brunette.”       “If these two with the same face aren’t gonna get ready for two more hours,” Kevin adds confidently. “If they don’t put on suits and bring their asses here.”       “Huh, if they don’t come in the nearest time, we’ll go to the room and do it personally,” Daniel chuckles loudly. “Put on these fucking pants, shirt, and jacket. Or bring them here even if they’re only wearing underwear.”       “Well, or Mr. MacClife and Mrs. MacClife will kick their asses,” Peter throws his hands up.       When the men talk to each other, someone rings at the door, Jamie opens the door quickly, greets the guests, and leads them to the living room. As it turns out, Blake and Ryan arrived here, wearing suits of gray and jet colors, respectively. Whispering about something with each other, they come confidently to the men and greet them:       “Hey, guys!” Blake pronounces happily, and then Ryan does the same.       “Hey!” all the men make a happy whoop.       “Finally!” Daniel exclaims loudly. “Where have you the fuck been?”       “We wondered where you were!” Joseph adds confidently.       “Sorry, men,” Ryan apologizes. “I had to get stuck in a traffic jam because of one girl who crashed into a car and closed half of the road.”       “Me too,” Blake pronounces. “And when I came here, I got confused about the address. Whoever I asked, nobody knew, nobody lived in this place. That’s good I met Clayton on the way, and we went here together.”       “And specified the address by stopping the woman, who didn't live too far.”       “Okay, we got it!” Cody nods. “C’mon, come to us!”       Ryan and Blake greet all the men, sharing a homie handshake or hugging and clapping them on the back or a shoulder. They do not forget about Sammy, who barks quietly and comes to them confidently, asking for a caress.       “Hey, Sammy!” Ryan and Blake greet happily at a different time.       “You’re handsome today, man!” Blake exclaims, showing his thumb up and caressing Sammy’s head. “What soft and glossy hair!”       “Good, buddy, good,” Ryan pronounces amicably, yanking Sammy by the ears. “Good…”       Sammy barks loudly two times, wagging his tail amicably, then jumps happily and proudly shows himself from all sides, as if he lets everybody see how handsome he is. The men laugh again, and Blake and Ryan install themselves on the sofa comfortably.       “So, where did you hide the grooms?” Blake wonders. “Speak out! Who doesn’t want him to get married?”       “And where’s Ben?” Ryan frowns slightly. “I thought everybody was here.”       “The grooms can’t get ready yet, and our honorable Mr. Parker is hanging around nobody the fuck knows where,” Kevin explains with an innocent smile. “Short and clean.”       “What about the girls and the brides?” Ryan asks cheerfully.       “Getting ready so hard,” Peter smiles mysteriously. “Hair, clothes, cosmetics, jewelry – everything they need.”       “Yeah, the girls have been at Natalia’s home and getting ready since the morning,” Daniel adds confidently.       “Ah, men!” Blake smiles slyly, putting his arms behind the back of the sofa. “I sense that the party is gonna be incredible. So many wonderful beauties are gonna be there.”       “Single ones,” Ryan pronounces dreamily.       “Not only beauties, buddy,” Christopher replies confidently, fixing the collar of his shirt and tie with a sly smile. “There are gonna be many handsome men like me.”       “Many handsome men like me,” Cody protests with his head proudly raised.       “Or me!” Joseph adds funnily.       “No, guys, our beloved MacClife bros are gonna share the crown,” Daniel adds. “So, sorry… You have to play a secondary role.”       Sammy barks funnily as he wags his tail amicably, while the men laugh quietly.       “Oh, Sammy, do you also wanna create your family?” Blake chuckles quietly.       Sammy barks happily two times, wraps around himself and barks again, looking at everybody with his tongue out.       “It’s okay, buddy, if you’re lucky to catch one of the bride’s garters, we’ll be waiting for you to meet a beautiful female dog,” Christopher promises.       “Ah, right!” Ryan claps his forehead. “We’re gonna watch throwing the bouquets and the garters.”       “Besides, we have two chances!” Joseph shows two fingers.       “So, what, men, who do you bet on?” Blake asks cheerfully. “Whose wedding are we gonna celebrate next?”       “Not on MacClife, Sr., surely,” Peter replies funnily.       “And it's hardly gonna be Parker,” Christopher laughs shyly. “Although he’s dating Blair, he has no thought about the wedding.”       “Huh, before Parker grows up for a wedding, we’re gonna start getting our pensions!” Cody says loudly. “He needed nobody the fuck knows how many years to get a permanent girlfriend. But you wait for his wedding! C’mon, men!”       “So, Parker is gonna be a feeble old man with a cane in his hand and glasses with thick lenses when going to the altar with the bride,” Kevin replies through a shy laugh.       “Nah, don’t worry about him,” Blake says funnily. “He will meet a sympathetic old lady and spend the rest of his life with her.”       “Or maybe he will even make a baby,” Jeremy adds. “Men can do this even at an old age, for your information.”       The men start laughing loudly again, while Sammy makes a quiet sound that does not show his improvement, telling his opinion that does not definitely fit what the men think. And they laugh shyly and give the dog some attention, saying something to him and each other at the same time. While they keep funnily discussing something, someone rings at the doorbell again. Rebecca reacts to it and meets the guest, walking in her shoes with small heels, the color of which perfectly fits her tender blue suit that consists of a jacket and a knee-length skirt. After opening the door, she sees Benjamin having a clean-shaven face, perfectly done hair, and wearing the same suit as the groomsmen with a boutonniere on the lapel.       Benjamin enters the house by her invitation, greets the woman, answers some of her questions, and goes to the living room. While Rebecca herself quickly goes to the kitchen, fixing her hair brushed in an elegant hairstyle on the way and shaking something off her skirt.       “Hey, men!” Benjamin exclaims happily. “Here I am! Same to you, Sammy!”       All the men glance at Benjamin and make loud whoops, while Sammy barks at the same time.       “Fuck, Parker, finally!” Christopher exclaims loudly.       “Where are you the fuck hanging around?” Kevin wonders. “We’re gonna go soon, but you were not here!”       “Excellent groomsman!” Ryan throws.       “Exactly!” Jeremy agrees. “Dan and Pete have been here since the early morning, but you warned your stomach about the sun.”       “Unforeseen circumstances, guys,” Benjamin replies quietly. “Don’t be mad!”       Benjamin greets the men by shaking them by the hand or hugging them and clapping them on the shoulder or the back, and caresses Sammy’s head while the dog wags his tail amicably.       “I’ve been getting through crazy things this morning. I almost burned my jacket down with an iron ‘cause I was distracted on a call with a bastard, who, as it turned out, called the wrong number. And my taxi arrived at the wrong address initially. I waited for half an hour before it finally arrived.”       “As for your jacket, we know well that your hands came out the wrong way,” Cody laughs.       “Just like your legs,” Joseph agrees. “One of which you’d turned two weeks before the wedding.”       “And MacClife somehow said you broke your nose so hard that you still can barely breathe.”       “Oh, oh, shut up!” Benjamin throws. “I don’t have money for rhinoplasty. That’s why I accepted what I have. Though I’m about to go bankrupt because of nasal drops.”       “C’mon, Ben, give a fuck!” Blake waves a hand. “It’s okay.”       “Yeah, dude, relax, you’re not late,” William agrees. “They haven’t come for us yet.”       “By the way, where are our beloved bros?” Benjamin looks around. “Did I miss the grooms’ appearance?”       “No, you missed nothing, buddy,” Jeremy smiles slightly. “Edward and Terrence haven’t even come to us.”       “Uh-huh, they’re still powdering their noses and putting mascara on their eyelashes,” Joseph adds funnily.       “And if they have acne, they’ll steal their mom’s cosmetics and put on foundation on their faces,” Benjamin laughs.       “We’d go home and come back while these cuties make themselves pretty,” William chuckles.       “Yeah, they’re such slowpokes!” Christopher adds. “Natalia and Raquelle would come to the right place faster than Edward and Terrence put on their suits, shirts, and shoes, brush their hair, and come here.”       “Hey, does someone know when they’re gonna take us out?” Kevin frowns slightly. “When are we leaving?”       “Very soon, somewhere in half an hour,” Ryan replies thoughtfully, raising the sleeve of his jacket and looking at his watch on his right hand. “As far as I know. If nothing happens.”       “The father of these hooligans keeps us aware,” Daniel says confidently.       “Yeah, if the cars come to the house, he’ll let us know,” Peter adds. “And kick Edward and Terrence’s asses a couple of times if these two unbearable bandits ain’t come here in two minutes.”       “I think he should’ve done it a long time ago,” Blake chuckles kindly.       “Hey, what do you want, guys?” Daniel throws his hands up. “When Peter and I came here in the early morning and went to wake these pretty boys up with Mr. and Mrs. MacClife’s permission, both of them were sleeping. The older was embracing the pillow and the blanket between his legs, and the younger was sleeping tight in his underwear only.”       “Oh, yeah, we barely woke them up,” Peter laughs quietly. “They slept too deeply! But while Terrence got up quickly, it was harder with Edward.”       “He was moaning in his sleep. I don’t know what he dreamed, but this creature slept tight.”       “But when we reached out to him, he blurted something like ‘I’m up, dad, I’m up!’”       “And when he saw us standing and staring at him, he jumped like a kettle boiling and stared at us surprisingly with big eyes.”       “Yeah, lads, too bad you didn’t see his face!” Peter chuckles kindly. “It was much better than we saw in the photo with pink hair.”       “Of course, we could take a couple of pictures for you and laugh at him. But today is the day when not making an exclusion and not containing ourselves would’ve been wrong.”       “C’mon, guys!” Cody exclaims. “Let them have some fun.”       “Yeah, Eddy slept in his bed alone the last time,” Jeremy says thoughtfully and grins quietly. “And he’s probably worried that he won’t be able to take a whole bed anymore. After getting married, he’s gonna share his bed with his wonderful blondie.”       “Nobody made them,” Ryan notices funnily. “Natalia and Raquelle didn’t make Edward and Terrence go to the altar by force. They personally proposed that they marry, and they just agreed.”       “The important thing is that our bros don’t get hurt,” William replies with a slight smile. “If they feel good, we’re gonna be happy.”       Sammy barks loudly two times.       “I think Sammy is happy with the wedding much more than all of us,” Benjamin laughs shyly, stroking down Sammy’s hair.       “He doesn’t know yet how much food there will be on the celebration,” Joseph smiles mysteriously. “He’s gonna drool when he feels the amazing smells.”       Sammy barks again in a jump and licks himself, making the men have fun and laugh quietly. And when the dog gets some caresses and attention, the excited Jamie quickly comes to the men.       “Hey, guys, didn’t Terrence and Edward come to you?” Jamie specifies.       “No, Mr. MacClife, he didn’t,” Benjamin throws his hands up.       “Yeah, still cleaning the feathers and putting powder on their noses,” Blake adds funnily.       “Damn, slowpokes! We’ve gotta leave in a half-hour, but they’re getting ready!”       “You’re right, Edward and Terrence are getting ready as long as girls,” Daniel laughs shyly. “Of course, I understand it’s a wedding, a celebration, and something like this… But they shouldn’t spend so much time putting on suits and shoes and doing something to their hair.”       “They’re just nervous and nervous,” Rebecca says confidently, going by the men. “Sometimes you may forget even the easiest things while being nervous.”       “Listen, guys, what if they changed their mind about getting married and ran away through the window?” Christopher chuckles kindly.       “Uh-huh, maybe they realized they rushed and aren’t ready for such a serious thing as a wedding,” Kevin laughs shyly.       “Oh, who knows what these two have on their minds!” Ryan throws funnily.       “Stop saying stupid things, guys,” Rebecca says quietly. “Edward and Terrence didn’t change their mind.”       “Gosh, Rebecca, we’re joking!” Jeremy replies funnily. “Edward and Terrence won’t do that! They can’t live without their beauties!”       “That’s right, Rebecca, we all know they can’t live without Natalia and Raquelle!” William adds confidently. “To you and Dad, it’s especially not a secret!”       “We know, but you'd better save your stupid jokes for later,” Jamie replies quietly. “The guys are really excited. And your comments wouldn’t make them feel good.”       “Yeah, the boys are excited and afraid that something might go wrong, but you’re mocking them,” Rebecca shakes his head.       “We aren’t mocking, Mr. MacClife!” Joseph protests. “Vice versa! We make the situation easier!”       “Yeah, we actually help Terrence and Edward,” Cody adds.       “Right, the guys are acting like sentimental girls who are about to faint,” Blake adds.       “Don’t say that, Blake!” Rebecca exclaims.       “What? That’s the truth!”       “Hey, bandits, instead of sitting here and thrilling with a laugh, you'd better go to these slowpokes and help them dress up,” Jamie replies harshly. “Daniel, Peter, Benjamin, Joseph, Cody, don’t you wanna tear your asses off the sofa and go to help my children?”       “They said they’d do it,” Daniel throws his hands up with an innocent smile.       “Hm! So-called groomsmen! You can only laugh at them!”       “Okay, okay, Mr. MacClife, don’t be so nervous,” Peter raises his hands up. “We promise if they don’t get down in two minutes, we will come to them and give them a great kick on the ass.”       “But actually, Edward and Terrence aren’t little boys,” William adds confidently. “They’re able to dress up.”       “Yeah, the boys have legs and hands,” Jeremy says confidently. “So, they can do this without our help!”       “Oh, my God…” Jamie moans quietly, putting a hand on his forehead. “What do I do to you, idiots?”       Jamie exhales sharply, goes aside, and starts talking to Rebecca about something while she is holding her blue clutch made of atlas. Sammy looks around questioningly, and the men laugh quietly, saying nothing for several seconds.       “Hey, the grooms have been there for too long,” Blake notices thoughtfully. “Maybe they really changed their mind and escaped through the window?”       “Yeah, guys, I sense that the brides will one hundred percent be waiting for the grooms,” Ryan laughs shyly.       “Yeah, Ed is a real slowpoke,” Christopher chuckles kindly.       “I didn’t think Terry would get ready for so long,” Benjamin confesses.       “I would go to my home or to a cafe to drink coffee and come back here while the MacClifes brush their haycock, put on shirts, pants, and jackets, and tie their shoes.”       “We’re gonna be late because of them!” Joseph exclaims excitedly.       “Quiet, men, we’re guilty of nothing,” Kevin replies confidently. “We all came here in time. And if we’re late at the ceremony place, we’ll blame the grooms, who are getting ready for the wedding, as long as the girls.”       “I don’t understand what they’ve been doing for so long!” Cody wonders. “What’s wrong with putting on a suit, fixing his haycock with their mom’s hairspray, brushing it, and coming here?”       “What if they fainted from getting too many emotions?” Benjamin assumes.       “Listen, men, indeed!” Daniel closes his mouth with a hand. “What if they’ve been lying unconscious there for a long time?”       “Uh-huh, Edward is so sentimental and romantic that he can easily cry over a love movie just like a girl,” Peter adds.       Joseph, Cody, Daniel, and Peter squeeze their faces with a wish to pretend that they cry.       “Hey!” William exclaims. “Don’t dare to hurt my brothers! Especially, on such an important day to them!”       “Why can’t we joke at him?” Peter surprises loudly.       “Yeah!” Daniel agrees. “When you mock at Terrence and Edward, you’re the first one in the line. But when we wanna say something, we must not dare to mock.”       “Because brothers are the only ones to have a right to do it,” Jeremy smiles slyly and fixes the collar of his jacket slightly. “Will and I are the only ones to be able to mock Edward and Terrence as much as we want.”       “Don’t you have too many rights?” Benjamin resents.       “That’s unfair!” Ryan exclaims. “We aren’t allowed to say a word just because Edward and Terrence are your brothers!”       “Half-brothers,” Blake notices. “Half-nobody, I would say!”       “Yup,” Jeremy and William nod.       “Well, maybe Terrence and Edward can also mock each other,” Jeremy adds. “You know they love it so much.”       “And they hardly let someone mock them,” William adds.       “By the way, Dan and I are their so-called brothers!” Peter adds. “So, we aren’t deprived of this right!”       “Exactly!” Daniel exclaims. “We can do anything we want to him. Kick on the head, shave their heads, pull their underwear on their noses, or dye their hair green or pink.”       While the men thrill with a loud laugh, Sammy barks loudly two times.       “Okay, okay, we’ll tell them what you said,” Jeremy threatens.       “We’ll see how you’re gonna excuse yourself for them,” William adds.       “Shut up!” Cody exclaims.       “We’d tear anyone for our bros.”       “Oh, yeah, but when you have a chance to mock them, you never miss it,” Ryan notices.       “Those who don’t have brothers and brothers can’t understand it,” Jeremy smiles innocently. “So, those who are the only children must shut up.”       “Just in case, I’d tear anyone for my sister too and won’t let anyone hurt and insult her,” Daniel says confidently. “Those who touch her with a finger are gonna be burned on a fanner!”       “Actually, everything depends on the MacClifes,” Benjamin says confidently, crossing his arms over his chest. “If they’re good and nice boys, we won’t hurt them.”       “And if they show off, they’ll get a strong kick on the ass,” Blake chuckles kindly.       “It’s fair,” Joseph says confidently.       The men start laughing shyly, looking at each other, and hurting their throats a little because of so much laughter. And after Sammy gets their attention by barking quietly, Jamie comes to them again and leans on the sofa with his hand, asking:       “Haven’t come down?”       “No, getting ready yet…” Ryan shrugs slightly.       “Gosh, what a crazy house!”       “You’re right, Dad!” Jeremy agrees.       “We’re resentful too!” William adds.       “Okay, Edward doesn’t surprise me ‘cause he always got ready for school for two or three hours, or actually,” Jamie exhales. “That’s why I woke him up much earlier than usual. But why the hell has Terrence been getting ready for more than two hours?”       “Gosh, the guys will go down now!” Christopher replies confidently. “And if they don’t get ready before the cars come, they will be dressing up right in the car on the way.”       “Alright, I’ll go to hurry them up. Or we’re gonna be late. And if I have to, I will be dressing them up by myself. Like little children.”       Not waiting for the answer from the men, Jamie turns around and goes confidently to the stairs. But when he takes two or three steps, everybody hears quick steps on the second floor that are getting louder and louder while getting closer.       “Oh, look!” Cody exclaims.       “Are the grooms coming?” Joseph surprises.       “Ladies and gentlemen, here the grooms come!” Benjamin announces solemnly.       The men get up sharply with happy whoops and start applauding loudly at Edward and Terrence, who come down and come to their friends and brothers by this moment. Not saying about the untied tie Edward cannot deal with, he looks irresistible. His black shining hair is perfectly brushed into a beautiful hairstyle with his fringe up, and he is walking proudly in a new black suit, a white shirt, and shiny shoes. Terrence’s perfect but little ruffled hair shines brightly under the sun, which gets into the room through the big window. And he looks magnificent in a similar black suit, the lapels of which shine under the light, a white shirt, and lacquered shoes. A boutonniere is pinned to one of the lapels of their jackets, and it consists of a purple rose, a baby’s breath, and green leaves – the same flowers that the brides’ bouquets consist of.         “Hello to those we haven’t seen yet,” Edward greets a little excitedly.       “Hello to those who just came,” Terrence adds.       Edward and Terrence greet those who have recently come here with amicable hugs and a homely handshake.       “Gosh, Terrence, Edward, you’ve finally pleased us with your appearance!” Benjamin raises his hands.       “Listen, slowpokes, how could you brush your hair and put on a suit for almost two hours?” Jamie wonders. “I don’t get! What were you doing there?”       “Uh-huh, we were waiting for you!” Christopher exclaims. “We thought you had changed your mind and escaped through the window!”       “Or fainted from getting too many emotions,” Kevin chuckles kindly.       “Sorry, guys,” Terrence pronounces. “When you’re excited, you forget even the simplest things.”       “That’s right!” Edward agrees. “Hands and legs are outta your control, and your head can barely work.”       “Okay, guys, let me look at you,” Jamie says confidently and looks at Edward and Terrence for several seconds from head to foot. “Wow, you’re my handsome boys!”       “Damn, guys, you’re really handsome!” Joseph says with a wide smile.       “The result met all our expectations,” Cody adds cheerfully. “The suits fit you perfectly!”       “We can congratulate you on not getting fat on your mom’s chocolate cakes,” Blake adds funnily.       “It couldn’t be different,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised, pulling his tie slightly. “I’m gonna be an imitable groom in this look.”       “Yeah, you’re gonna be the stars of the day,” Benjamin replies, coming to Edward and Terrence and hugging them around the shoulders.       “I know, I’m freaking attractive,” Edward says confidently with a sly smile.       “Hey, attractive boy, what’s this?” Jamie wonders and starts shaking Edward’s tie wrapped around his neck in front of his nose. “Don’t you wanna explain it? What did you do to the tie? What the hell?”       “Oh, Daddy, this is the case when your hands don’t grow where they should,” Terrence chuckles slyly. “If someone wanna know what someone has on their mind, just look at the way they untie ties.”       “I tried to tie this thing honestly,” Edward states. “But I could not do this.”       “Yeah, actually, we were stuck in the room for nobody the hell knows how long because of you. Because you didn’t the fuck understand anything when I showed you how to do it.”       “Are you serious?” Jamie rounds his eyes. “You spent so much time on a tie?”       “I don’t know how to tie it up!” Edward exclaims. “I don’t know! I can’t do this!”       “Come on, Edward! I’ve shown you many times how to tie a tie! And you did it well before today!”       “Well, sorry, Father, I forgot,” Edward shrugs as he looks at Jamie guiltily. “But I was honestly trying to do this! And learned a lot!”       “Learned, learned but didn’t learn,” Terrence chuckles kindly as he crosses his arms over his chest.       All the men start laughing quietly after Terrence, while Edward just looks at everybody and shakes his head.       “Listen, maybe I can do this without this thing?” Edward suggests. “Why do I actually need it? I look hot and sexy without it anyway!”       “Because you have to,” Joseph replies.       “Yeah, look, all the men put on ties,” Cody adds. “And they did it well.”       “I do hate them!” Edward confesses. “Since my childhood.”       “If you tired them well not to strangle yourself, nobody was guilty of it,” Christopher smiles innocently.       “Yeah, man, you’ve gotta learn!” Kevin exclaims.       “Oh, oh, here are advisers!” Edward throws gloomily. “Help me instead if you’re so smart!”       “Oh, come here, ninny,” Jamie exhales sharply. “Let me tie it correctly.”       When Edward comes to Jamie, his father starts tying up the tie correctly.       “Gosh, what did you do?” Jamie horrifies. “How do I untie all of this? Oh, Edward, Edward, my walking trouble…”       At this moment, all the men quietly laugh, looking at each other, while Sammy barks.       “I truly hope Natalia can tie ties up,” Jamie adds confidently, barely untying what Edward tied and starting to do everything right. “Or it’s gonna be hard for you, sonny.”       “He just needs to wear ties often so that he has to learn to tie them up,” Daniel laughs. “See one or two times and try multiple times. From theory to practice.”       “Do I tell you when I put this thing on the last time?” Edward asks. “At school! We were all made to wear a special uniform and ties. You weren’t allowed to go to school without just one thing. Or it would’ve been bad for you!”       “Oh, I remember that,” William smiles shyly. “It was really beautiful.”       “And it fit you so well,” Jeremy adds. “You were so handsome when you wore it.”       “Uh-huh, we could admire you forever.”       “Well, okay, I could stand the uniform somehow,” Edward says quietly. “Even though it was madly uncomfortable, and it was very hot in the warm weather. But ties… The school is the reason why I hate them.”       “You didn’t almost wear them,” Jamie notices confidently. “And your teachers gave me claims not only for ignoring the rules of the private school that demanded everybody to wear a school uniform but also for your terrible behavior.”       “Why did he behave well?” Terrence crosses his arms over his chest. “Right! Never!”       “Thank God, he studied well! Isabella spent a lot of money on paying for your brother’s studies at school for this reason.”       “I don’t like ties!” Edward exclaims. “I don’t and will not love them. They don’t let me breathe!”       “They will do if you don’t tie them too tightly as if you’re gonna strangle yourself.”       “It’s alright, Mr. MacClife,” Peter replies confidently. “The lads and I are gonna have many appearances that would require wearing suits and ties. Your son will have to get used to ties and learn to tie them up.”       “You know, Peter, I kinda doubt… Edward always got claims for a bad look. He didn’t wear ties and often forgot about his uniform. Put on nobody knows what and ended up at the headmaster’s office.”       “I’m not surprised,” Terrence smiles innocently. “Edward wouldn’t be Edward if he didn’t violate rules and look for problems and troubles.”       “You’re right about it, Terrence,” Jamie laughs shyly. “I’d definitely stop recognizing Edward if he turned into a good boy and lived a quiet life.”       “We all agree with you, Mr. MacClife,” Joseph replies cheerfully.       Sammy barks quietly two times, and the men laugh quietly.       “Okay, it’s better!” Jamie exclaims and claps Edward on his shoulders after he fixes the collar of his son’s shirt. “You’re handsome now! Just imitable! Just like your brother.”       “I don’t know what about you, Mr. MacClife, but it’s weird to see Edward like this,” Kevin confesses confidently.       “Yeah, Edward, finally you got your hair brushed!” Blake laughs shyly. “You always have a haycock on your head!”       “Right, but today you’re such a proud, handsome man!” Cody adds.       “This suit gives me one thousand points to my attraction,” Edward notices proudly.       “Uh-huh, but you forgot to spend more time learning to tie the tie,” Benjamin replies confidently. “Not to stay in your room for two hours and come to us a few minutes before leaving.”       “I’m ready to go!” Edward throws his hands up. “Here I am! I’m standing in front of you, dressed up!”       “And I’m ready to go, too!” Terrence exclaims. “Drive me to the ceremony!”       “But before we go, my bro and I are ready to hear some warm words with wishes before. Well… Or you can just drink a glass of champagne for luck with us…”       “Hey, no champagne!” Jamie meddles, giving a slight clap on the back of Edward’s head.       “What do you mean, no champagne?” Terrence and Edward surprise.       “No drop of alcohol! Drinking and going to the altar while being drunk would be too much!”       “Hey, I believe a sip of champagne before the ceremony has never been bad,” Blake notices cheerfully. “Vice versa, it would help them relax and calm down.”       “No champagne!”       “But, Dad…” Terrence pronounces with pity.       “There would be a cool article on the Internet: ‘Terrence and Edward MacClife go to the altar with Raquelle Cameron and Natalia Rochester, being drunk!’”       “Oh, nothing will happen to them if they drink some champagne,” Benjamin says confidently.       “I said no! And it has to do with Edward and Terrence and you all, young men.”       “Just a little bit, Dad,” William pronounces with pity in his eyes.       “Yeah, Dad, just one sip,” Jeremy adds confidently.       “Gosh, wasn’t celebrating the bachelor enough for you?” Jamie wonders. “Decided to get loose and drunk as hell! Thank God, you didn’t drown yourself in happiness! We didn’t have to call rescuers to search for you!”       “But we did nothing bad!” Kevin protests. “Just drunk, talked, laughed, had fun, and danced! We were swimming in the ocean a little! There was warm water back then! It was really cool!”       “I don’t want you to get you and the grooms ashamed.”       “Come on, Mr. MacClife!” Daniel exclaims. “We’re going to be good guys! We bet our tooth! We bet our arms!”       “Don’t take a sip of alcohol until the ceremony! And don’t dare to drink on the celebration! Ruining it would be too much!”       “Come on, Mr. MacClife, we would drink just a little,” Christopher replies with pity in his eyes. “Let your sons relax a little! They’re too nervous. Champagne would help him relax.”       “Yeah, you just look at them!” Cody exclaims. “Both of them shake from excitement. What if they actually become speechless during the ceremony after they see Natalia and Raquelle? And the poor girls think the men wanna leave them?”       “I said everything, guys,” Jamie orders harshly. “Don’t think of getting my sons drunk, who would barely speak in front of the altar after your ‘a little’.”       “But, Dad, we aren’t gonna drink as hell!” Edward exclaims.       “Stop, I said! No drinks!”       “Just a sip!” Joseph exclaims. “Just to relax!”       “You heard what I said?”       “Please, Mr. MacClife...” Blake pronounces with pity.       “Don’t argue with older people, youth,” Jamie orders. “Sit here and wait for the guests and the drivers to come! Or we will go in the same car together, not two cars. All together.”       The men say nothing and just look at each other with some despair in their eyes, while Sammy barks quietly as he watches everybody with interest. At some moment, Rebecca comes to them and stops her eyes on her sons.       “Gosh, Edward, Terrence, my sweeties…” Rebecca pronounces with admiration in her eyes, looking at Terrence and Edward from head to foot. “You’re irresistible! Pretty boys from a tale or a cover of a magazine!”       Rebecca smiling shyly takes Terrence and Edward in her amicable hug, which they accept with great pleasure, smiling much wider when she kisses them sweetly on the cheek.       “Honestly, I feel a little uncomfortable in the suit,” Edward confesses a little hesitantly.       “Why?” Rebecca surprises. “It looks so good on you!”       “I’m not used to it…”       “By the way, you look incredible in a suit.” Rebecca fixes the collar of Edward’s shirt. “You'd better wear them often. Wear something official. Not shabby and torn t-shirts and jeans.”       Sammy barks quietly at this moment.       “By the way…” Rebecca pronounces thoughtfully. “The Johnsons are about to come here. And the cars will come for us soon. So, everyone must be ready.”       “We’re ready,” Peter says confidently.       “Yeah, we were only waiting for the grooms,” Joseph adds. “But since they’re here, we can relax and just wait.”       “Alright then,” Rebecca pronounces softly.       “Is there some news about the bride?” Edward smiles shyly. “What’s happening to them?”       “The girls are getting ready so hard. Dressing up, doing makeup, brushing hair…”       “Can’t wait to go there,” Cody says cheerfully. “I wanna look at our beauties.”       “The car will come for them soon.”       “Cool, we still have time to make Terrence and Edward think better about their decision and change their mind before it’s too late,” Daniel says funnily.       “Uh-huh, the grooms have time to repeat their oaths,” Cody adds cheerfully. “What if they forget everything in excitement and can’t say anything.”       “We learned nothing,” Terrence laughs shyly.       “Yeah, we’ll speak what our hearts are gonna say,” Edward adds.       “What we’ll come up with while looking at our gorgeous cuties.”       “What if you really forget?” Rebecca expresses anxiety.       “We will not, Mom,” Edward smiles shyly. “Don’t worry.”       “Don’t worry, Mrs. MacClife!” Daniel adds. “As the dearest best men of the grooms, Peter and I will give oaths on behalf of Terrence and Edward in case the grooms can’t do this.”       “Yeah, choose the words so that Raquelle and Natalia will get emotional,” Peter adds. “Don’t dare to doubt us!”       “Thanks, guys, we will do this without you,” Terrence chuckles kindly.       “No, buddy, you will not. If you didn’t have us by your side, you would do nothing. Thanks to Dan, Cody, Joe, Ben, and me, you’re gonna have a wedding people will remember for many years.”       “You don’t better lose the wedding rings, our irreplaceable heroes,” Edward advises.       “Yeah, boneheads, don’t make us regret giving the rings to you to keep them safe,” Terrence adds.       “Calm down, MacClife!” Daniel exclaims with his head proudly raised. “They’re with us.”       “It’s in a safe place,” Peter adds.       Daniel and Peter smiling mysteriously take the small velvet boxes from the inside pocket of their jackets.       “Keep these rings safe, guys,” Jamie smiles shyly, clapping Peter and Daniel on the shoulder. “And don’t let them fall when you come to the grooms and the brides.”       “Don’t worry, Mr. MacClife, the rings will be safe with us,” Joseph assures, clapping Edward on the shoulder.       “Yeah, we’re giving you an honest word of the groomsmen!” Cody exclaims, putting his hand on Terrence’s shoulder.       “We’re gonna be the best groomsmen ever,” Benjamin says with his head proudly raised.       “But don’t dare to go wild,” Terrence insists. “Do not drink too much and do not start any fights! Or we will kick you outta the celebration! You go it?”       “It’s gonna be okay, MacClife,” Joseph replies cheerfully and claps Terrence o on the shoulder.       “Everything must be awesome,” Edward insists. “Without any accidents. We don’t need dirty articles on the Internet about the ruined wedding.”       “Relax, buddy, the guys will watch everything,” Benjamin promises. “The guests are gonna be under our close view. And we will deal with anyone who violates the order.”       Sammy barks two times loudly, while everyone smiles shyly at Edward and Terrence, who answer them back and then think about something, looking a little excited and tense, and trying to get rid of the thought that something may go wrong. To be clear, they were excited before, but they tried to keep inside. But it’s getting harder and harder every second since the ceremony will begin very soon.       “Don’t be nervous, boys,” Rebecca says with a slight smile, caressing Edward and Terrence’s shoulders. “It’s gonna be okay. The girls will not leave you at the altar and will become your wives soon.”       “I hope, Mom, I hope…” Edward smiles shyly.       “We can’t wait to see them,” Terrence adds.       “Soon, guys, soon,” Jamie pronounces softly. “Wait for a while.”       While the men look at each other silently and smile slightly as they watch what’s happening, and Rebecca and Jamie try to calm their tense sons down, softly caressing Edward and Terrence’s shoulders, someone rings at the door.       “Here are the guests!” Jamie exclaims.       “Excuse us, guys,” Rebecca smiles shyly. “Jamie and I will go to meet them.”       Jamie and Rebecca turn around and go to the hall door. After they open it, they met Victor and Lydia Johnson standing on the doorstep with a slight smile on their faces.       “Oh, good morning, Victor, Lydia,” Jamie greets amicably.       “Same to you, Jamie, Rebecca,” Lydia replies with a slight smile.       “Hello, everybody,” Victor pronounces confidently.       “As always, you’re in time, friends,” Rebecca notices cheerfully.       Rebecca and Jamie hug Victor and Lydia, and the wife of the police captain greets the MacClife spouses by sharing an amicable kiss on the cheek. Then the Johnsons come into the house by the invitation of the owners. By the way, both of them gave enough attention to their looks: a new dark brown suit with a black tie and shirt fit the man so well, and the woman is incomparable in her modest burgundy knee-length dress and shoes with a heel of the same color and having a perfect hairstyle.       “So, fellows, are the grooms ready to marry?” Lydia asks with a mysterious smile, holding a little burgundy clutch in her hands.       “They are, my darling,” Rebecca replies confidently, closing the door. “But they were getting ready for too long and just came down to us.”       “Hey, Jamie, didn’t Edward learn how to tie up ties?” Victor chuckles kindly. “Or something changed?”       “Nope, Victor,” Jamie shakes his head. “He has not learned. And if not for the etiquette, that guy would’ve actually refused to put on a suit. He likes old, shabby jeans, shirts, and sneakers.”       “Is everything the same about Terrence?” Lydia asks.       “No, it’s vice versa in his case! Terrence suits and ties with pleasure. He’s now proudly walking in a suit before his friends in the living room.”       “Judging their laugh, they’re having fun,” Victor assumes thoughtfully, listening to the male laugh in the living room.       “Oh, Victor, the guys have been laughing in the living room for two hours, even at something,” Rebecca replies confidently.       Rebecca and Jamie bring Lydia and Victor to the living room while the men are talking about something actively and funnily, and not missing a chance to play the fool with Edward and Terrence. But when the guests come, they stop talking and move their eyes to the Johnsons' spouses.       “Good morning, young men!” Victor exclaims cheerfully. “I see you’re having fun!”       “Hello,” the men greet at a different time.       “Could it be otherwise, Mr. Johnson?” Peter wonders funnily. “It’s a wedding!”       “And I believe you’re happy more than anyone?” Lydia laughs shyly.       “As real friends and loving brothers, Mrs. Johnson,” Daniel replies with a slight smile.       Lydia and Victor laugh shyly, greet the men warmly with a slight smile on their faces warmly, shaking them by the hand and hugging, give some attention to Sammy by caressing his head, and meet those they do not know yet.       “So what, Edward, Terrence…” Victor pronounces with a slight smile. “Are you ready to marry?”       “Absolutely, Mr. Johnson!” Edward says confidently with his head proudly up.       “I can’t wait to see the bride,” Terrence adds.       “Haven’t changed your mind?”       “No, no way! We will not change our minds.”       “We heard the girls are gonna be gorgeous,” Lydia smiles mysteriously.       “They will always be incredible to us, Mrs. Johnson.”       “Hope your friends help you relax and calm down a little?” Victor asks.       “Undoubtedly, Mr. Johnson,” Daniel replies confidently. “We understand that a wedding is an exciting moment and try to help Terrence and Edward relax.”       “Keep doing the same, gentlemen,” Lydia advises with a slight smile. “The girls and relatives are calming the brides down, and the groom’s friends, brothers, and parents should support them.”       “We’re trying to do our best,” Benjamin smiles shyly.       “But we believe we’re doing that very well ‘cause the guys kinda started to get much more worried,” Cody assumes       “No, guys, you’re doing this well,” Lydia encourages.       “Any help would be good to Terrence and Edward, guys,” Victor notices cheerfully.       “We hope, Mr. Johnson,” Ryan smiles shyly.       “Doing our best,” Blake adds.       Sammy barks quietly, as if he says he is doing his best to do it too.       “M-m-m, I see Sammy doesn’t stay aside and,” Lydia assumes, caressing Sammy’s head and softly yanking his ears.       “Yeah, the long-eared is really helping us relax,” Edward smiles shyly.       “And don’t worry, guys,” Victor encourages. “It’s gonna be okay. Nobody is going to leave you.”       “I’d like to believe it.”       Victor amicably hugs Edward and Terrence and claps them on the back. And Lydia says a couple of words of congratulations, for which they thank her warmly, hugs them, and shares an amicable kiss on the cheek.       “By the way, I must confess that you all are irresistible,” Victor notices with a wide smile. “All of you!”       “Yeah, it’s nice to look at the men being dressed up beautifully,” Lydia adds shyly.       “We must look flawless for such an event,” Benjamin replies gently, folding his hands in front of himself.       “We’re trying to meet expectations,” Kevin adds confidently. “We’re marrying off the famous guys, not just some regular ones. The musicians.”       “So what, bandits, how are the men playing the role of the groomsmen?” Victor asks with a slight smile.       “Just wonderful,” Edward smiles shyly. “We’re definitely lucky to have our friends.”       “At least, they chose amazing suits for you,” Lydia notices. “They fit you so well.”       “Their irresistible appearance is a merit of our friends and me,” Joseph says with his head proudly raised, clapping Edward on the shoulders and pointing at Daniel, Benjamin, Cody, and Peter.       “So, ladies and gentlemen, we’re ready to accept compliments for our great job,” Benjamin says.       “Well, if it’s really you, I can congratulate you on doing a good job,” Victor says confidently. “The grooms look stunning.”       “It couldn’t be otherwise, Mr. Johnson,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised. “I am Terrence MacClife. Everything fits such a gorgeous man as me.”       “Oh, Terrence, you’re in your element,” Jamie laughs shyly.       “A miracle should probably happen so that you doubt yourself a little,” Rebecca assumes.       “Why should I doubt myself?” Terrence throws his hands up. “I see no reason! Terrence MacClife is perfect in everything!”       “Don’t forget you’re not the only star today,” Edward smiles sweetly. “Because I am the main pretty boy today.”       “Pretty but not main.”       “I am actually a groom!”-       “Who am I?”       “My unbearable big brother!”       “And you’re an unbearable little rag!”       “Creeping reptile!”       “Mangy dog!”       “Shut up!”       “You shut up!”       “M-m-m, the boys are in their element again,” Victor laughs shyly. “Nothing changes.”       “Yeah, I hope the idea of making the double wedding won’t lead to a catastrophe,” Lydia adds.       “Trust me, Mrs. Johnson, we were also shocked when we found out that the MacClifes wanted to get married on the same day,” Daniel says confidently.       “Well, since they wanted it, let them share the crown and the throne,” Cody says funnily. “They agreed to do it at their will.”       “And don’t even wait for Terrence doubting himself a little,” Peter chuckles. “Sammy would rather speak like a human than Terrence would say he doubts himself and is not sure.”       “That’s right!” Joseph agrees. “Terrence wouldn’t be Terrence if he didn’t talk about his awesomeness to everyone.”       “And Edward wouldn’t be Edward if he didn’t aim to look for trouble and hurt his ass that has suffered one hundred times,” Daniel adds funnily.       “You see what a bad influence can lead to!” Jeremy throws funnily. “Edward watched his older brother and also started to consider himself irresistible. Even with non-brushed hair and in shabby clothes.”       “Yeah, Terrence did influence our groom too much,” William notices cheerfully.       “Actually, I’ve never doubted that I’m sexual and attractive,” Edward says with his head proudly raised. “Yes, I had many reasons to doubt myself, but as for my appearance, hiding what’s clear is impossible. Nature gave me the best, but I helped myself a little.”       “But we can’t deny that you really started to behave much more freely after you watched your brother and became more confident,” Rebecca notices.       “Maybe. But be sure that the guy you knew before no longer exists. There is the one you see in front of you now.”       “We got it, dear,” Jamie smiles shyly.       All the men laugh shyly, looking at each other, and Sammy barks quietly and gets some attention from Rebecca, who caresses his head and yanks him softly by the ears.       “Alright, folks, when are they gonna take us out?” Victor frowns slightly.       “I was told they’d call me when the cars come to the house,” Jamie replies quietly.       “But I think we have about fifteen or thirty minutes,” Rebecca assumes.       “Yeah…” Lydia laughs shyly. “Enough… The grooms have time to think about their decision better.”       “Oh, Mrs. Johnson, please, stop…” Edward moans with a shy smile. “This gang has tried to make Terrence and me refuse what I want about one hundred times.”       “We should know if you really want it,” Rebecca notices.       “They want, Rebecca,” William laughs amicably. “The guys and I made sure that Terrence and Edward would not give up.”       “Not only because they’re stubborn donkeys, but also because my bros love their gorgeous girls too much,” Jeremy adds       “So, people, you can just give up,” Daniel adds cheerfully. “We tried, but we failed it.”       “We’ll see what you’re gonna offer to the girls so that they give the brides to the grooms,” Rebecca laughs shyly.       “Don’t worry about that, Mrs. MacClife,” Peter says confidently. “The groomsmen, I mean Daniel, Cody, Joseph, Benjamin, and I, will do this easily.”       “The girls will hardly give the brides to the grooms so easily,” Victor assumes with a slight smile.       “Oh, do you think we’ll give the grooms so easily?” Ryan surprises and shakes his head sharply. “No, no, people, not at all!”       “That’s right,” Cody exclaims and hugs Edward tightly around the shoulders. “We will not give the grooms for beautiful eyes!”       “First, they should agree with us and make us sure the grooms will feel good with the bride,” Joseph adds. “And the lads and I will think.”       “And then, okay, our sweethearts will become one piece,” Jeremy claps his hands.       “And our bros are gonna live with their sweethearts happily after,” William adds funnily.       “Listen, ladies and gentlemen, the war of the bridesmaids and the groomsmen is coming,” Victor chuckles quietly.       “Oh, everything is going to end well!” Jamie waves his hand. “Don’t even worry!”       “The groomsmen will easily agree with the bridesmaids,” Christopher says with a mysterious smile.       “Of course, they will!” Kevin exclaims confidently with his head proudly raised. “Anyway, we will help the lads.”       “Oh, guys, being bored with you is impossible,” Lydia notices with a laugh, fixing her hair slightly.       “And while waiting for the cars with drivers, I suggest we drink or eat something tasty,” Rebecca suggests confidently.       “Oh, I wouldn’t refuse from something cold,” Lydia replies thoughtfully.       “But I just want to wet my throat,” Victor says quietly.       “Alright, ladies and gentlemen, let’s go to the kitchen,” Jamie suggests. “May the men talk here. Or go with us if they want to drink, as well.”       “Yeah, let them gossip about their male things.”       Talking about something actively, Rebecca, Jamie, Victor, and Lydia go to the kitchen, while Sammy starts playing with something on the floor, and the men look at each other.       “Yeah, men, the moment X is getting closer,” Daniel smiles mysteriously.       “Ah, the girls are probably gonna leave…” Kevin assumes with a slight smile.       “Oh, the girls are gonna stand in front of the mirror for two hours!” Jeremy replies.       “It always happens, buddy!” Peter notices quietly. “A man must be at the right place at the right time, but a girl may be five or ten minutes later. As well as in a case of a groom and a bride.”       “But we will not be late!” Christopher replies confidently. “We’ve finally kicked the grooms outta the room! Ed finally got his tie tied up and got his hair brushed!”       “If they don’t wanna change something one minute before leaving,” Blake chuckles kindly. “What if they don’t like something or need to fix something… Wanna powder their noses!”       “Don’t worry, Connor, I look good and ain’t gonna change anything,” Edward smiles innocently.       “I’m ready to get into the car right now!” Terrence exclaims.       “Okay, okay, guys!” Benjamin throws funnily, clapping Edward and Terrence on the shoulder. “You will now marry your beloved sweeties! Don’t worry!”       “Think they are already married,” Ryan says cheerfully.       “Well, since these guys have been married to Natalia and Raquelle for ages in their mind, we can congratulate them right now,” Cody replies with a wide smile.       “Congrats, brothers!” William whoops happily.       “Congrats!” Jeremy pronounces funnily. “Hoora-a-ay!”       “Horra-a-a-ay!” all the men, except Terrence and Edward, whoop. “Congrats!”       The men clap their hands with a wide smile and clap Edward and Terrence on the shoulder, the back, or the head, while the grooms wait for everybody to stop whooping to quietly.       “Stop, guys, stop!” Edward raises his hands. “Wait! I haven’t gotten married, but you’re congratulating me already!”       “Why not?” Daniel gets funnily amazed.       “You’re married in your dreams!” Peter notices cheerfully.       “You’ll congratulate us when we’re officially married,” Terrence replies shyly and points at the ring finger of his left hand. “When I get a marriage ring on this hand, you can attack me with congratulations. And I’ll accept them with pleasure.”       “Do you dare to doubt you wouldn’t get married?” Kevin gets truly amazed.       “People don’t congratulate in advance. As they say, haste makes waste.”       “Oh, don’t be afraid, men!” Joseph exclaims. “It’s gonna be cool!”       “Uh-huh, MacClifes, stop whining!” Christopher encourages funnily, clapping Edward and Terrence on the shoulder.       “Honestly, my hands are shaking…” Terrence starts shifting his weight from one foot to another and rubbing his sweaty hands nervously. “I’m so excited…”       “Calm down, brother, relax,” Benjamin jabs, clapping Terrence on the back. “We’re here. It’s gonna be okay.”       “Damn, I didn’t think I’d be so nervous,” Edward exhales sharply, running his hands over his face.       “Just don’t forget to breathe,” Blake advises, massaging Edward’s shoulders. “Or you’ll faint right here, and we’ll have to wake you up.”       “I wasn’t so excited even when the world saw ‘American Love Affair’,” Terrence confesses. “The movie, in which I played my first starring role…”       “Fuck, you just need to meet Natalia and Raquelle in front of the altar, listen to the priest with her, say, ‘Yes, I do,’ give an oath, share the rings with her, and hear you’re pronounced husband and wife,” Christopher notices. “That's all! It takes like ten or fifteen minutes!”       “And then we’ll have fun!” Ryan says funnily. “Dance, eat something tasty, meet new people… Sing songs… Have fun to the fullest, in short!”       “If I live until that moment,” Terrence swallows nervously.       “Damn, men, don’t be scared!” Joseph encourages with a wide smile. “Stop shaking like scared rabbits!”       “Sorry, guys, but I can’t help myself at all,” Edward exhales sharply.       “You’re gonna visit your wedding, not a mournful event!”       “I know, Joe,” Terrence says quietly. “I know…”       “Relax, men!” Benjamin says cheerfully. “Nobody’s gonna leave you at the altar.”       “We completely understand you, guys,” Peter says softly, putting his hand on Terrence’s shoulder. “But Raquelle and Natalia have no reason to leave you. They love you, you love them, and you wanna get married and live together.”       “Listen, men, one friend of mine was also fucking nervous when getting married to his girlfriend,” Cody says confidently. “But when he and his girl were pronounced a wife and a husband, he calmed down immediately and started to dance wildly at the celebration and joked a lot.”       “Yeah, you’re gonna need time to get used to your new status,” Daniel replies confidently. “But this process is gonna be easy when your beloved person is by your side.”       Even though Edward and Terrence try to hide their excitement, they cannot stop shifting their weight from one foot to another, shaking their hands, head, or legs nervously, and touching some parts of their faces with the thought that it’s hard for them to breathe.       “It’s okay, man, we will drink champagne on the way, and you’ll relax,” Ryan adds cheerfully. “You’ll go to the altar funnily and easily! And when the ceremony begins, you will get much better!”       “And then we’re gonna be hanging out and celebrating,” Christopher adds with a wide smile. “You’ll be dancing with your wives for a whole evening… And then you’re gonna stay alone, have a first marriage night and something like that…”       “M-m-m, and tomorrow, our sweethearts will go on their honeymoon and be warming themselves under the sun, swimming and tanning for two weeks,” Peter says confidently.       “Yeah…” Daniel pronounces dreamily. “But Rose and I will have to be here, working for these pretty boys and doing the band’s business as a duo.”       “I don’t know how we’ll perform without them, but we’ll do our best to introduce the band worthily.”       “Ah, I am jealous of them!” Joseph confesses.       “I am begging you, don’t drink to the fuck and don’t start a drunk riot,” Edward says quietly. “I don’t want to be ashamed of you. There will be the parents of Natalia and me and many more people who may think you’re idiots.”       “Yeah, there will be many politicians, directors, and actors,” Terrence adds.       “No, no, today I’m gonna stop myself from drinking!” Kevin raises his hands. “Today, I will be sweetly talking to girls and dancing with them. And I won’t forget you.”       “I won’t drink much, either!” Peter exclaims. “I don’t want Helene to tell me everything she thinks of me! Her to leave me or make Sammy do a bad thing to me.”       “And I don’t wanna all the bad things about me from Anna,” Daniel chuckles kindly. “And I don’t wanna be kicked by Cassidy.”       “And I don’t wanna make Blair disappointed in me,” Benjamin says confidently. “And even if her brother is a kid yet, he can kick my ass for his sister.”       “Oh, men…” Jeremy notices thoughtfully. “We’re all about to get married someday.”       “And lose each other…” Kevin expresses sadness and sniffs falsely. “We’re losing two of us… The guys are getting married… Leaving the club of single men.”       “C’mon, lads!” Edward laughs shyly. “It’s just a wedding! I’m not leaving and not saying goodbye to any of you.”       “Right, life doesn’t stop after that,” Terrence adds cheerfully. “Everything remains the same. I’ll keep spending time with my best and doing my business, just like I did before.”       “Ah, where do you find such amazing girls who don’t limit you in anything and do let you live your usual life?” Joseph asks with a slight smile.       “And who knows, maybe some of you are lucky today,” Terrence adds. “There will be many single girls at the wedding.”       “I count on nothing but real luck,” Christopher says.       Some men chuckle kindly, and some of them glance aside, seeing that Sammy gets too busy with something he is playing now. And a little later, Rebecca shows up in the living room with a glass of sweet water in her hand and comes to the men, saying:       “Guys, does someone want to drink sweet water?”       “Excuse me, don’t you have something from red or black currant?” Christopher asks gently.       “Or strawberry?” Ryan specifies.       “I’d be happy to drink a glass of Coke…” Cody sighs dreamily.       “With ice…” Joseph adds.       “Don’t worry, guys, we have everything,” Rebecca assures with a slight smile. “If you want, follow me to the kitchen.”       “Excuse me, guys, I’ll be back now,” Benjamin jabs, glances at the man. “Wanna drink some lemonade.”       Benjamin, Ryan, and Christopher follow Rebecca first, and then Jeremy, William, Kevin, and Blake join them.       “Uh-huh, they’ll drink a lot and then start running wild to a restroom several minutes before leaving,” Peter laughs.       “C’mon, they’d have time,” Edward crosses his arms over his chest.       “Oh, bros, I can’t really wait to go to the place!” Daniel sighs tiredly. “I do wanna see the girls.”       “I wanna go there, too,” Peter agrees. “And I miss the girls so badly.”       “M-m-m, the groom can’t wait to, either,” Daniel chuckles kindly, moving his eyes to Edward and Terrence. “Shifting his weight from one foot to another and biting their nails!”       “Oh, when the eternally beautiful brides are about to appear in front of them, they can’t be insecure.”       “You can’t understand, guys,” Edward smiles shyly. “When you decide to get married, you’ll get it.”       “Not true, man!” Daniel protests cheerfully, clapping Edward on the shoulder. “We do get it!”       “No, guys, to understand something, you need to get through this,” Terrence replies with a slight smile.       “Listen, men, stop being so nervous!” Peter encourages with a slight smile, clapping Edward and Terrence on the shoulders and massaging them. “Relax, breathe deeply, be happy.”       “It’s gonna be okay, dudes!” Daniel exclaims. “We’re here and will always support ya!”       “I can’t do anything with it,” Edward throws his hands up. “I wasn’t so nervous even during the announcement of the sentence for the case of the murder of Father’s friend… When I was on a trial…”       “Listen, we know sentimentality woke up in you at this exciting moment,” Daniel says quietly. “But damn, you’re worried for nothing! You and the girls decided it all! Nobody made you marry! You did propose to them, and they agreed.”       “I know…” Terrence nods. “I’m really trying to hold myself down, but I barely can do this…”       “Hey, if something goes wrong, the guys and I will solve everything,” Peter replies confidently. “You can count on Dan and me in everything.”       “You say it as if we don’t look happy at all,” Edward laughs shyly. “As if our relatives insisted upon our marriages for some goals.”       “It’s okay, pretty boys!” Daniel pronounces funnily, hugging Edward around the shoulders. “We will give you a glass of champagne, and you will calm down quickly.”       “Uh-huh, and Father will kick our asses,” Edward laughs shyly.       “He won’t do,” Peter assures and hugs Terrence around the shoulders. “Your father won’t even know what we’re gonna do. Your parents will be in another car alongside the Johnsons, and you, the lads, and I are gonna have fun in another car.”       “But if Father feels that Edward and I smell champagne, he’s gonna be mad,” Terrence adds. “And give us a lot of kicks on the ass.”       “Relax, Terry,” Peter claps Terrence on the back. “Nothing will happen to you and Ed if you drink some champagne on the way. Of course, we won’t let you drink as fuck before the wedding ceremony. But we’ll insist on one glass.”       “Ha, you all wanna find any reason to drink and start a riot,” Edward crosses his arms over his chest.       “We didn’t say we’d start a riot!” Daniel protests. “We’ll just drink a glass of champagne and laugh at something funny.”       “You’ll explain everything to our parents and say who decided to have their sons drunk,” Terrence says quietly.       “It’s gonna be okay!” Daniel exclaims.       “We’re gonna do our duty as the best men at one hundred percent,” Peter says with his head proudly raised.       “Oh, guys, what we would do without ya…” Edward laughs.       Daniel and Peter raise their hands with a slight smile and give Terrence and Edward a give and encourage them with a clap on the back or the shoulder. At some moment, Jeremy and William run into the living room, drinking something from their glasses.       “Hey, guys, taste the drink that Rebecca gave us!” William pronounces cheerfully.       “That’s magnificent!” Jeremy admires. “I’ve never drunk a more delicious drink! Coke can’t be compared with it!”       “I will go!” Daniel replies confidently. “Get some fresh. I got kinda hot in this suit.”       Daniel goes quickly to the kitchen, waving the edge of his unbuttoned jacket on his face.       “Me too!” Peter exclaims. “Join us, bros!”       Peter follows Daniel in a quick step, fixing the shoulders of his jacket on the way and stroking his blond hair down.       “Won’t ya go?” William looks at Edward and Terrence surprisingly.       “Nope,” Edward refuses. “I can’t even take a sip of water.”       “Me too,” Terrence promises.       “Okay, as you want…” Jeremy shrugs.       Jeremy and William turn and, starting to talk about something, quietly go to the kitchen where everybody but Terrence and Edward came together, while the brothers stay alone in the living room.       “Excited?” Terrence asks amicably.       “A little bit…” Edward shrugs with a slight smile.       “A little bit?”       “Okay, it’s a lie! I’m fucking excited! I’m shaking! My legs can barely hold me! And I can’t breathe!”       “I get it. I don’t know what to do to myself. My heart hits my temples like crazy.”       “I didn’t think it would be so hard…” Edward says nothing for two seconds, looking aside. “Are you really afraid that Raquelle may leave you before the altar?”       “I am,” Terrence nods confidently. “I always tell myself, ‘If only she didn’t refuse to marry me!’ It became such an annoying thought that I can’t get it out of my head.”       “I’m freaking afraid that Natalia will leave me. It doesn’t make sense why! The case is not a shame for the guests. The case is that her refusal is gonna hurt me.”       “Get it. I’m also terribly afraid that Raquelle and I may be over. Yes, we’ve been living together for a long time, but… I can’t. I am really scared.”       “I don’t know what I’m gonna do if that girl leaves me. Really. I don’t know…”       “I think it won’t happen,” Terrence smiles shyly. “Natalia would’ve married you even when she barely knew you. She jumped with happiness after you proposed to her. And how happy that girl got after you came back together! It kinda brought her back to life!”       “No, I won’t handle one more breakup with her. I surely know that I need only that girl. I need nobody else.”       “And she thinks the same about you. No man but you exists for her. Natalia sees her life only with you by her side and – I’m sure – wants you to be a father of your future children.”       “Natalia makes me happy and smile, and I’m doing everything for her to be happy,” Edward smiles shyly. “I love seeing her smile and the gloss in her eyes. That’s what makes me happy.”       “I’m sure she’ll smile for you every single day, and you’ll do everything for that.”       “And she’s happy. I know it for sure.”       “I think you shouldn’t be worried too. Raquelle loves. What happened between you taught you a lot. It taught you to be a real couple.”       “Who knows, Edward… Maybe Raquelle will be afraid of something… Or succumb to some emotions… I can expect anything. I can’t be sure about anything.”       “No, Terrence, you have no reason to be worried. Raquelle and I took the hard way to your happiness and are now as close as never before.”       “Right. Now I love Raquelle much more than I did at the beginning of our relationship. Her body was the only thing that I liked, but now I love her soul too.”       “The important thing is that you wanna be together. Raquelle is not getting married to you under her family’s pressure. You don’t consider her just a sexy and attractive girl with a gorgeous body that you wanna take to your bed.”       “And I’m glad we’re getting married now. Really. Really happy.”       “And I’m glad I didn’t get married to Natalia when I barely knew her. Even if I really wanted to.”       Edward and Terrence say nothing for two seconds and just smile shyly at each other, while they can hear the men’s loud laughter from the kitchen.       “Yes, I could just keep living with Raquelle in the house and tell everyone I feel good living with her without a marriage,” Terrence says. “But I can’t. I want her to be my wife. I want that girl to have my surname. I want to call her a part of my family.”       “I don’t wanna say it in advance,” Edward replies. “I don’t wanna guess and be too sure about something. I just wanna live with Natalia in the present and enjoy the moments spent with her. Spent with the girl I wanna make a part of my family.”       “We’re taking on a responsibility for our wives and future children, brother. We have no right to disappoint their families and not to meet their expectations.”       “Yes, I completely understand what kind of burden of responsibility I’m gonna carry. And… Maybe I’m scared… Maybe I’m afraid… Maybe I doubt I’m doing everything right. I have many fears. But I am used to being responsible for my actions and words. And I wanna get married. I am ready to take care of the one I chose as my life partner.”       Terrence glances aside with a slight smile, seeing Sammy barking quietly at something.       “That’s good Natalia is gonna be your wife,” Terrence smiles shyly. “I’m glad I won’t have to get along with the one you chose ‘cause she’s my friend. My sister.”       “And I’m happy Raquelle is gonna be your wife,” Edward replies. “She’s an amazing girl. My friend. My sister. My soon-to-be sister-in-law, whom I love so much. Who can always count on me.”       “Natalia can be loyal to those she loves. We’ve made sure that she’d easily sacrifice much for her close people.”       “It’s one of many reasons why I love her.”       “That girl can love, befriend, and give. Not just to get.”       “Just like Raquelle. Yes, at first, it seemed that she didn’t need a family. But I think she just should’ve wanted it. Understand that she really needed it. And I’m glad she decided to marry when she wanted it, not her family.”       “Anyway, you made the right choice, buddy,” Terrence smiles shyly. “I approve it and don’t doubt that it will make you happy.”       “And I will.”       “Let’s enjoy this day together. As Daniel said, the first time happens only once. Let’s think the girls won’t really leave us.”       “Trying so hard to hold myself so hard.”       “Trust me, I feel the same. I’d say I’m having a panic. Some anxiety…”       “The same is happening to me…” Edward pulls his tie and exhales slowly and silently. “Now I believe I can’t breathe… Something kinda strangles me… And my heart is beating as fast as a rabbit’s.”       “Okay, bro, let’s not think about bad things,” Terrence says softly, takes Edward by the shoulders, squeezes them slightly, and claps on them. “Besides, you know you just need to start, and then it’s gonna be easier.”       “The important thing is that we don’t have our tongue numb when we need it,” Edward jokes. “I guess it’s gonna happen to me… I’ll hardly be able to handle the full ceremony and not to fall off due to my numb legs.”       “Don’t worry,” Terrence laughs amicably. “Why do we have our groomsmen? Daniel and Peter will do everything for us if we can’t do this.”       “Or we can make them our representatives.”       “You’re not alone, brother. We’re getting through this together. And we have people who will always come to help.”       “Yeah…” Edward nods. “And I’m grateful to Daniel, Joe, Ben, Peter, and Cody for being near and supporting us.”       “We wouldn’t do all of this all alone.”       “Oh, yeah, the preparation for the wedding almost drove me crazy… And it would’ve happened if I hadn’t had anyone by my side.”       “Who said it would be easy?”       “You can do all of that if you have friends… The loyal friends and the cool older brother,” Edward looks at Terrence with a wider smile. “And I'm really glad we’re doing this shit together.”       “The guys can laugh at me ‘cause I didn't refuse to have a double wedding. But I don’t mind it. I don’t mind getting married on the same day as my beloved little bro.”       “Anyway, thank you so much, Terrence. Thank you for being such a cool brother. Many things would be different if you weren’t by my side. If… I didn’t have the one I can surely call my best friend.”       “We’re brothers and will always be,” Terrence notices. “Besides, I have not one but three brothers. But you’re the closest one to me. My best friend, whom I love with all my heart.”       “Same, bro,” Edward smiles shyly. “I love you too.”       “Father and Mother are right that we should be together. When they’re gone, I’m gonna have Will, Jer, and you. We’ll have each other.”       “I’m glad William and Jeremy came to support us. Glad we reunited. Yes, I wanted to strangle them in my childhood. And I sometimes wanted them to never be born. But we’ve been much closer over the past several months. And I can say I really love these hooligans. They turned out to be cool dudes.”       “I’m glad all my close people are at my wedding. My family. My best friends. Everyone I love.”       “You’re right.”       Edward and Terrence glance at the kitchen and see all the men laughing loudly at something that Blake tells them as he gesticulates actively.       “So what, bro, let’s hold on together?” Edward suggests cheerfully.       “Undoubtedly,” Terrence pronounces confidently with a shy smile. “I’d feel much quieter at the thought that I’m getting through this with you, not alone.”       “And I’m gonna be less nervous if you’re next to me.” Edward puts his hand on Terrence’s shoulder. “If I have someone special and very important to me.”       “Count on my help. Always. You know I’ll never leave you. Do anything to help me.”       “Just like me. I’ll never leave you. Everyone can leave. I will not do.”       “Thanks, brother.”       Edward and Terrence take each other in a strong, amiable hug with slight smiles on their faces.       “You’re the best, Terrence,” Edward pronounces with a slight smile. “Best!”       “Same, bro,” Terrence smiles shyly.       After clapping each other on the back and the head, Edward and Terrence step away from each other with a much wider smile. A little later, MacClife, Sr., claps his brother on the cheek, while the guy fixes his tie a little. And two or three seconds later, Rebecca comes into the living room, fixing her hair on the way.       “Guys, we’re gonna leave and go in five minutes,” Rebecca says with a slight smile. “Your father just received a call.”       “What?” Edward rounds his eyes. “In five minutes?”       “Oh, God…” Terrence pronounces in a shaking voice.       “You can go to the kitchen and drink some cold juice?” Rebecca suggests. “Everybody is there!”       “No, Mom, I don’t want,” Edward shakes his head.       “Yeah, sorry,” Terrence pronounces.       “Why?” Rebecca surprises. “Drink a little. You’ve probably got a dry throat!”       “I can’t eat anything from excitement.”       “Aw, my dears…” Rebecca caresses Terrence and Edward softly on the shoulders. “Are you so worried about the responsibility you’re gonna have after you get married?”       “I could say so…” Terrence pronounces thoughtfully.       “And I’m afraid I can’t do everything I have to,” Edward confesses. “I’m afraid to disappoint someone. Me… Natalia… You and Father… The Rochesters…”       “I’m sure you can do this,” Rebecca assures. “You’re responsible guys. You’re used to paying for what you do.”       “You know…” Edward locks his fingers tightly. “I’m not so afraid of the future and the responsibility… I’m afraid Natalia will find just one reason to reject me. I’m afraid that she may leave me before the altar.”       “And what if Raquelle wanna do that to me?” Terrence fears. “What if she understands she isn’t ready for a marriage yet and leaves me?”       “That’s fine you two are afraid and nervous,” Rebecca notices. “Your father and I were also excited when we got married.”       “Were you afraid one would’ve left another before the altar?” Edward smiles shyly.       “Exactly, my sweetie! But Jamie was afraid much more in this case. He was worried I’d leave him, being worried that he had nothing because of Michael. He was sure I’d prefer someone else after meeting another man.”       “But you didn’t think of leaving him?” Terrence asks.       “No, I never hid that I wasn’t scared by that situation. I was ready to stay with Jamie, no matter what. Because I loved him. And I was ready to get through fire and water alongside him. As they say, a paradise is any place you live with your sweetheart.”       “He was worried he wouldn’t be able to provide for you,” Edward says with sadness in his eyes. “I understand him.”       “But you’ve got nothing to worry about because you have money. You’re earning enough money by playing in your band and working on songs for other artists. As a songwriter, you earn a part you should get.”       “Yeah, but now the case is not money.”       “Trust me, sonny, you and your brother will be worried many times. Even more than now. For example, when you have a child. You will be worried that something may happen to your baby. You will not be able to educate him or her. You may even doubt you’re ready to educate the one. But it will be gone, too.”       “Really?”       “When the doctors let me hold Terrence for the first time, I was a little confused at first. I didn’t know what to do with the little baby they brought. I was scared. I was afraid I wouldn’t be a good mother. And your father looked at him and was as shocked as I was for the first few minutes.”       “That’s how…” Terrence pronounces thoughtfully.       “But it was different in Edward’s case because we already had experience in educating children. We didn’t look at him like something surprising when the doctor brought our second child to us. We believe we’d handle this. Despite a hard situation that we had back then.”       “Oh…” Edward exhales sharply. “If I’m so nervous now, I’m afraid to imagine what’s gonna happen when I have my first child. I’m gonna probably have a panic.”       “Everything’s gonna be fine, my dears. Think of nothing bad and think positively. Enjoy this day and get pleasure. It’s your wedding. Your first wedding, guys. One of the most exciting moments in a human’s life.”       “You know…” Terrence pronounces thoughtfully. “Although I can barely stand on my feet, choke from a lack of air, and can feel the beat of my heart in my head, I… I love this process. Really!”       “Yeah…” Edward agrees. “It’s kinda like a show before many people… A little different… But the feelings are kinda the same.”       “You calm your nerves before going on stage. So, try to do it now,” Rebecca notices. “Terrence got through the excitement when filming in movies. So, try to do this now.”       “I remember how nervous I was before the first performance with the guys. When everyone found out that I became a new guitarist. I was nervous so much that I almost refused to go on stage.”       “I remember that too,” Terrence cracks a slight smile.       “I was… Going crazy, so to speak… Felt hot and cold… I could barely breathe… I had a panic… I was terribly afraid to go and perform. I sang for my close people, but then had to sing for strangers. Everyone looked at me. Everyone wanted a perfect performance. I had no right to be mistaken. The pressure was too high…”       “And how did you get through it?” Rebecca asks.       “The people called us, but we didn’t go for a long time. Because I refused to go out. I regretted starting to do all of this. I was really scared. Wanted to leave everything and run.” Edward exhales sharply. “But the guys were next to me and made me sure that I should’ve gotten through me and taken a first step. We all had a talk for a long time before we went on stage and sang. Sang together for the first time.”       “I understand you, Edward. But you’re with your close people, you have no reason to be ashamed and afraid. Maybe some of them are gonna be excited too! Just like your father and me!”       “At least, you have experience,” Terrence notices. “But it’s something unknown for Edward and me.”       “It doesn’t matter, my sweetie. Your father and I are marrying off our children. Our own children. And we’re as excited as you are.”       “We know, Mom,” Edward flashes a slight smile.       “You two know everybody’s very happy for you.” Rebecca takes Edward and Terrence’s hands. “Your father and I are happy with the choice you made. You understood that your personal happiness is always more important. I think you should choose love in any case. When you love someone, you may get some success early or late. Someone may try hard not for themselves but for the one they love. The one to motivate them to get better.”       “I would’ve hardly decided to create my own family if I hadn’t met the love of my life,” Edward smiles shyly. “And if I hadn’t met Natalia, I wouldn’t care about my age and the time gone by. I didn’t use to think about it and listen to those who said something about loneliness at an old age. But now I understand I’m ready for a new stage in my life. Ready to be a husband. Learn to be the one. And get ready to become a father someday.”       “You two took a long way to your happiness, but you overcame it proudly and worthily.”       “But how many mistakes I’ve made!” Terrence exclaims. “How many times we’ve made mistakes! How long we were scums for everyone! We made ourselves ones because we were obsessed with anger.”       “No matter which mistakes you’ve made, your father and I are proud of you and love you very much anyway,” Rebecca says confidently.       “Maybe my way was really very long and hard,” Edward says thoughtfully. “But now I can say I regret nothing. And I am even glad I ran into what has happened to me. It let me learn from my mistakes and gain experience. And of course, I could’ve not met my beloved girl if something had been different. I could’ve never found my family and reunited with it…”       At this moment, Terrence hugs Edward by the shoulders with a slight smile.       “You’ve really grown up lately,” Rebecca says confidently. “In all senses. You’ve become a real man, whom nobody is ashamed to talk about. Who makes me feel incredibly proud.”       “Yeah…” Edward flashes a slight smile. “I had to get through a lot to turn from a hesitant boy who was afraid of literally everything to a confident man… Who is young to look but is adult deep inside.”       “Nice to hear it,” Rebecca caresses Edward’s cheeks tenderly with her hands, while he smiles shyly. “I wish you always had this happy smile and these shining eyes that I see. I really wanna see you happy and smiling. Just like you are now.”       “I will.”       “And you too, Terrence.” Rebecca caresses Terrence’s cheeks tenderly. “I wanna see you happy and smiling. Just like you are now.”       “We will,” Terrence nods with a slight smile. “And we will do our best not to disappoint anyone.”       “I believe in you, my sweeties,” Rebecca replies. “You can make me and your father happy if you are happy with the ones your heart chose.”       “It will happen, we promise.”       “Edward, Terrence, my sons…”       Rebecca can barely keep her emotions under control as she sniffs, but a tear of happiness rolls down her cheek, leaving a wet path on her face. Edward and Terrence look at each other with a slight smile, caress their mother’s cheek tenderly, wipe tears under her eyes carefully, fix her hair, and take her in a touching hug, which she answers with great pleasure.       “I love you, Mom,” Edward confesses softly. “Love very much… You’re the best.”       “I love you, too, my sweetheart,” Rebecca smiles widely and caresses Edward’s head tenderly as she sobs quietly. “Very much…”       “I love you so much, too,” Terrence confesses with a wide smile.       “Me too, sonny,” Rebecca caresses Terrence’s head, too. “I love you! You’re the best thing I have in my life.”       After kissing their mother on the cheek, Edward and Terrence step away from Rebecca, who fixes the hair of her sons, their ties, and their boutonnieres, and shakes something off their jackets. And she does not notice that Jamie enters the living room confidently at some moment.       “So what, my children, are you ready to go to the altar?” Jamie asks cheerfully.       “Ready,” Terrence and Edward nod confidently.       “By the way, while we have time, your father and I would like to say something to you,” Rebecca says confidently.       “Yeah, let’s do it now.”       “What happened?” Terrence gets suspicious. “You have problems?”       “No, no, sonny, no problems, don’t worry. It’s about the wedding gift for your wedding with the girls.”       “Jamie and I somehow hinted that we were preparing incredible gifts that would be good for you and your soon-to-be wives,” Rebecca recalls. “And now it’s time to tell you more.”       “Maybe you should do this later when we’re married and celebrating?” Edward suggests.       “Of course, we will announce our gift for our children to the guests again,” Rebecca promises. “But we wanna tell you about it in a much quieter place.”       “Alright, what’s the gift?” Terrence asks. “I am excited about what you’re gonna gift!”       “Terrence, your mother and I spent a lot of time thinking about the gift for you, honestly,” Jamie confesses. “You’re a provided guy with a car, a house, and money. It was really hard to decide what to make you happy with.”       “I’d be madly happy even if you gifted me a little thing,” Terrence smiles shyly. “It would be from you, my beloved parents.”       “Yeah, but we decided to take the above and gift you something special,” Rebecca replies. “What we want to believe you will appreciate a lot.”       “Hey, did ya register the star in the sky in honor of him?” Edward asks funnily, crossing his arms over his chest. “I think it would really be a cool gift for the one to put himself in the same line with Apollo.”       “Yeah, we really registered something, but it’s much better,” Jamie smiles mysteriously. “And maybe it’s going to be good for him and you, too.”       “M-m-m, you’re really intriguing me!” Terrence exclaims.       “In short, let’s not waste time!” Rebecca says confidently. “Jamie and I are thrilled to tell you that we’re gifting you your own entertainment agency. Your band and you can work with. And other artists can sign with it too if they want.”       “What?” Terrence opens his eyes widely. “Entertainment agency?”       “You can decide which direction it should work on and with whom: artists, musicians, someone else…” Jamie exclaims. “Or, for example, you can continue your music career with ‘Dark Side Management’ and ‘Five Seconds Records’ but take control of your acting career.”       “Yes, you can decide which movies you want to film, on which condition,” Rebecca adds. “Your agency, your rules. You’d work on your condition and sign contracts that you like, not your agents. And you’d get all the money. You wouldn’t have to give half of it to your agency and work for pennies. You’d only pay a salary to your working staff and pay all the taxes.”       “It’s…” Terrence flashes a slight smile. “It sounds good! Are you serious?”       “Absolutely, sonny! We found a perfect place for the office and registered all the documents. You only need to come up with a name and register the company.”       “But… I don’t have any experience in managing. I don’t even know what to start with.”       “Don’t even think about it!” Jamie exclaims. “I will explain and tell you everything. Help you solve money issues and find smart specialists who wouldn’t mess up with taxes, incomes, and outcomes. Don’t even worry. You won’t be deceived, you won’t go bankrupt. You’re gonna have the best lawyers, helpers, and many other people at your service.”       “I…” Terrence smiles much wider. “I don’t even know what to say. It’s… It’s really a cool git. My own agency…”       “And you’re the only one to decide if it’s going to be another source of money or you’re gonna be the only artist represented by this one.”       “Yes, maybe you and the guys will want to work on your own projects,” Rebecca adds. “You can release them as independent artists to keep all the rights. Divide your band and solo activities, so to speak.”       “Or maybe you actually fight with your agency and label and want to end your contract with them,” Jamie says confidently. “Maybe your manager wants to leave the company. Something else may happen. Who knows! But thanks to your agency, the band can continue to work. And the rights to your new music would be yours. Only yours. Nobody would steal it. Well… Unless the guys and you fight and sue each other.”       “My gosh, Mom, Dad…” Terrence pronounces happily, bringing his hands folded together to his mouth. “Thank you so much. Thank you! Can’t believe I really have my own agency now.”       “If you want, it can represent models too,” Rebecca notices. “If Raquelle fights with her managers and wanna leave the agency, she can work with yours and continue her career and have full control of her activity.”       “In short, the owner rules!” Jamie exclaims. “The office for the agency is found, the workers will be hired, and I am always ready to help with financial things.”       “Thank you so much!” Terrence thanks. “Thank you so much! You’re the best parents in the world!”       Terrence hugs Jamie and Rebecca tightly in happiness, not hiding his wide smile and kissing his mother on the cheek.       “We hope you’ll be happy with this wedding gift,” Rebecca expresses hope. “Choosing it for you was hard. But we did it.”       “Moreover, it’s gonna be good for you and others,” Jamie notices.       “I had an idea of opening my own agency or my label several years ago when I got problems with my acting career, and I couldn’t help with my music career,” Terrence confesses. “But I forgot it quickly ‘cause I didn’t know what to start from. There are so many things about it. I wasn’t sure if I could manage it. And I didn’t have enough money to have fun to the fullest. I was even worried that I’d have to sell my house and rent a small apartment again. Because… I need to serve it…”       “But now you have a wonderful chance to renew your acting career at least,” Rebecca notices. “Choose what you really like. And surround yourself with a team of professionals who would tell you everything if you have problems.”       “It’s really a cool gift! A really cool one! I can’t wait to see the office and start managing it.”       “After you get married, Rebecca and I will drive you to the place where it is,” Jamie promises with a slight smile. “So that you look at everything, examine… Change something if you want. In short, it’s all up to you! We’ll help you with everything if you need it.”       “Thank you so much!” Terrence thanks with a wide smile. “I couldn’t dream of a better gift!”       “And if Rose thought of opening his own music label, it would be a bomb!” Edward notices cheerfully. “We’d record songs that would belong to us only!”       “Since I have an agency now, we can do a lot! We’ve got so many opportunities now!”       “Of course, that’s not a planet named after you, but it’s a cool gift too.”       “Shut up, little rutrag!” Terrence laughs.       “Don’t be sad, Edward, we didn’t forget you,” Jamie says confidently. “And we have an amazing gift that you’re gonna love too.”       “Yes, sonny, your father and I prepared something interesting for you and your wife, too,” Rebecca smiles mysteriously.       “Did ya buy a personal island where these romantic guys would spend time alone?” Terrence surprises. “Under the hot sun, on the hot sand, against the ocean…”       “No, we had to buy nothing. Because we want to give something ours.”       “What do you mean?” Edward frowns slightly.       “Edward, sunshine…” Rebecca pronounces softly, taking Edward’s hands. “Jamie and I are happy to tell you that we’re giving this house to you and Natalia as a gift.”       “Yes, sonny, you are the owner of this house from this moment on,” Jamie says confidently, putting his hand on Edward’s shoulder.       “What?” Edward opens his eyes widely. “Me? The owner of the house? This one?”       “Rebecca and I talked about it a long time ago. And your mother and I decided that you, your wife, and your children would feel very good here.”       “But what about you? Where would you go? It’s your house!”       “But we’re moving into a smaller house, my sweetie,” Rebecca announces. “We two don’t need such a large house. We’d be happy with a smaller one. Without tens of rooms, restrooms, and something like this.”       “Yeah, we chose a very good house a long time ago and started to work on a deal to buy it,” Jamie announces. “It’s small, but we really liked it: it’s light, spacious, with the back of the house and the pool… In short, it has everything we have here, but the house is half the size. We’d feel very good together.”       “And speaking the truth, I started to think about moving before Terrence decided to date Raquelle. I was thinking of gifting this house to him on his wedding. But since he bought his own house, I was thinking of just selling it and buying something smaller.”       “The incomes of ‘The MacClife Shipping’ have lately grown. So, we’re quite able to buy a house and buy the office for your brother’s agency.”       “We really love this place. I’ve thanked Terrence many times for such an amazing purchase and was in euphoria after moving into the place that seemed like a real castle to me from a small apartment. But sadly, I’m not getting younger. I’m no longer able to serve it alone, but I don’t wanna hire servants. That’s why we decided to change our place. Jamie agreed with me completely and said we should’ve really bought something smaller and given this house to someone who needed it much more.”       “Yes, son, you’ve said many times you love this house. You’ve always loved living here. If it’s so, you can keep living here. With your family now.”       “But…” Edward pronounces thoughtfully. “Do you remember that Terrence bought the house? He spent his money to buy this house?”       “It’s okay,” Terrence smiles shyly. “Our parents decided to talk to me several months before the wedding, and I said I wouldn’t mind if you became the new owner of the house. And how could I decide this when the house belonged to Mom by documents? She is the owner. She decides what to do with it. I just did my duty of giving her an opportunity to live a good life so that she didn’t need anything.”       “Do you mean you knew they wanted to make me the owner?”       “I’d say so.”       “And actually, the idea of creating the agency was yours,” Jamie recalls. “You suggested that we gift your brother a music label or an entertainment agency.”       “Yeah, so, boys, we chose these wedding gifts after listening to your opinion,” Rebecca smiles mysteriously. “And we really hope we didn’t hurt anyone. Terrence would be happy with managing his own agency and controlling some aspects of his life, and Edward would keep living at this house as the full owner with his wife already.”       “Hurt?” Edward surprises loudly. “I cannot describe how happy I am! I am happy to keep living here! I really love this place so badly. And I was even kinda sad that I’d have to leave it. I loved this place with all my heart, all the time I lived here. Every corner became like my home.”       “So, now you can stay here as the owner,” Jamie replies. “You can do anything you want to this house. Change everything to the last chair if you want. It’s your right now! It’s yours!”       “Yeah, but… What do I do to my house? Did I… Did I repair it for nothing? I bought it for nothing?”       “Why nothing? You can rent it! Make a good repair to make it a wonderful place that would bring much money to you. You’d always need it: pleasing yourself, paying for something, or just saving it for a bad hair day. You never know what’s gonna happen tomorrow or in one year.”       “Oh, yeah, you shouldn't have been worried about not repairing it in time!” Terrence adds cheerfully, hugging Edward around the shoulders. “It happened for a reason. Someone in heaven definitely knew something. I did.”       “So what, Edward, are you happy with your wedding gift?” Rebecca asks.       “Absolutely!” Edward pronounces happily. “Madly happy! You’re really the best parents in the world!”       Edward takes Rebecca and Jamie in his strong hug, while he cannot stop smiling widely.       “Thanks a lot, Mom!” Edward kisses Rebecca on the cheek. “Thanks a lot, Dad!”       “And yeah, to show we don’t talk to the wind…” Jamie says confidently, taking one of the folders Rebecca gives him. “Here are the official papers that confirm your rights to what Rebecca and I gave you as your gifts.”       Jamie and Rebecca give Edward and Terrence the same folders, which the guys take and open. And they see several pieces of paper, which have their names written and clearly talk about the rights to the office for the agency and the house, in which they are now.       “I think Natalia is gonna have a lot of space here,” Rebecca says thoughtfully. “She can bring all of her stuff here.”       “And if she wants, she can hire helpers to help her serve the house,” Jamie adds.       “I’ll do anything she wants,” Edward assures as he looks at his name in the documents for this house with admiration.       “And you, Terrence, need to come up with a name for your agency,” Rebecca recalls. “To register it officially.”       “I’ll think about it later,” Terrence promises, examining all the documents in the folder. “I wanna choose something special. Something that would mean a lot to me.”       “Let us know when you decide,” Jamie says. “We’ll be happy to help you solve all the document issues.”       “So, here are the gifts we decided to make for you!” Rebecca throws her hands up. “If you’re happy with them, your father and I are very happy.”       “I couldn’t wish for a better gift!”       “Agree!” Edward exclaims.       At this moment, they stop talking because they hear a loud, happy laugh from the kitchen that belongs to some of the young men who are having a wonderful mood.       “The men go wild!” Terrence laughs. “Thrilling with a laugh hard!”       “Almost all your friends are there,” Jamie replies. “But some of them went to a restroom.”       “Alright, my dears, I will go to make sure the guys don’t break everything,” Rebecca says with a slight smile. “The boys are really getting too wild.”       “Go, go, sweetie, watch all of them!” Jamie exclaims. “What if someone really starts fighting with everyone for something tasty.”       “Hey, don’t the Johnsons watch them?”       “They went to the restroom. Lydia wants to fix her hair, and Victor dirtied his jacket somewhere.”       “Got it. I’m leaving then. These bandits must not stay alone.”       “But I’ll talk to our bandits. Who can barely stand on their feet from excitement.”       Rebecca laughs shyly, turns around, and goes to the kitchen, knocking quickly at the laminate floor with her heels. Terrence, Edward, and Jamie watch the woman with a slight smile until she hides on the turn.       “You’re afraid Natalia and Raquelle will reject you?” Jamie asks. “Or are you worried you’re gonna accept a great responsibility?”       “The first and the second,” Edward smiles shyly.       “And we wanna believe that Mom was right that it would be gone,” Terrence adds.       “It will really be gone, my dears,” Jamie replies confidently. “And the fact that you’re nervous and shaking is absolutely fine. There’s nothing bad about it. Everyone’s worried when a new stage of life begins.”       “It’s amazing how fast everything changes…” Edward flashes a slight smile. “You live quietly for your pleasure and then suddenly get a great responsibility…”       “Well, marrying Natalia and Raquelle was your wish. Nobody made you do this by force. Rebecca and I insisted on nothing, even if we were worried you’d be alone.”       “Yes, yes, we know,” Terrence nods. “And we’re ready.”       “When Natalia and Raquelle were your girlfriend, you were already responsible for them,” Jamie notices. “You must’ve loved and protected them, taken care of them, and done what they wanted. And you’ve been doing that just amazingly. But now your responsibility remains the same. You just get a goal of providing for your wives and your future children.”       “The mission is quite hard because Natalia is used to a beautiful life,” Edward notices. “She’s been living in luxury for a whole life and is used to getting what she wants. I’m not sure she’ll get used to a poor life if I have nothing. If I were a beggar.”       “No, Edward, you’re wrong. Natalia is not a spoiled girl. She doesn’t care about your money and your job. The important things to her are love and care. If she gets them, she will answer you back with pleasure.”       “I know. But… Sometimes I’m afraid I won’t be able to do this. Afraid I won’t be able to make her wishes come true if they were too impossible for me. Though I wanna make her happy and do something nice for my beloved girl.”       “You can do a nice thing for her. Just keep doing what you’re doing. If you keep doing this, Natalia will be very happy.”       “It’s my duty to her, her family, and myself. And I will do this.”       “If the band’s business is well, we will be earning much more than now,” Terrence says confidently. “Or maybe we’ll even get a job that’s not related to the band. Just like Edward did by writing songs for other artists. Maybe I… I’ll come back to my acting career and continue to film in movies.”       “You can do this, guys,” Jamie says confidently. “Believe in you and your strength. And don’t forget your girls need attention. You must not forget those who are waiting for you at home.”       “We know, Dad,” Terrence nods.       “Natalia has always been and will be my queen, for whom I would do anything,” Edward smiles shyly.       “I’d do anything for Raquelle,” Terrence adds.       “Glad you understand what you’re doing,” Jamie smiles slightly and puts his hands on the shoulders of Edward and Terrence. “I don’t have to teach you. You, guys, know everything well.”       “Yes, Dad, we get it,” Edward replies.       “And it’s a great honor to me to be at your wedding and keep my head proudly raised while telling everyone my children are getting married. My children, whom I adore.”       “And we’re honored to have you as a guest at our wedding,” Terrence replies.       “Not just you, but also Mother, brothers…” Edward adds. “All friends and close people. We’re happy to share this moment with all of you.”       “If you’re happy, we’re happy too,” Jamie replies amicably.       “Now I am really happy,” Edward smiles slyly.       “I’m as happy as never before,” Terrence states.       “It’s gonna be a hard but interesting adventure.”       “It’s so nice to see you so adult and responsible.” Jamie puts his hands on Edward and Terrence's shoulders with a shy smile and claps on them. “You’ve grown up and changed. Suddenly. You surprise me, especially, Edward. You were a little boy with an uncontrolled character, who refused to pay for something and think of his future, his family, and his job… But now I see the adult, confident man. A real lion and warrior.”       “There is no timid and stupid boy anymore,” Edward smiles shyly. “From this moment on, there’s only me, Edward MacClife, who is gonna get married today and live with his beloved girl, who he would never stop finding his queen.”       “I personally want to wish you and Terrence a strong, long, and happy marriage and well-being for you, your wives, and your future children.”       “Thank you so much,” Terrence smiles shyly.       “We promise we won’t disappoint you,” Edward promises, hugging Terrence around the shoulders.       Terrence and Edward still smiling shyly and shifting their weight from one foot to another, swallow nervously, look around with excitement, and exhale quietly. Jamie massages their tense shoulders a little and then takes both of them in a strong hug and claps them on the back. The brothers accept the attention from their father with pleasure, exhaling with relief and then smiling widely. While their father being not less excited barely holds down a wish to shed a tear.       “Thanks a lot,” Edward thanks.       “Thank you,” Terrence smiles widely. “We’re so lucky to have such a cool dad like you.”       “Remember, I love you two, no matter what.” Jamie caresses Edward and Terrence’s heads softly. “No matter what you do and say. Even if it’s not always right.”       “We love you, too,” Terrence and Edward say at the same time without agreeing.       When Jamie steps away from his sons, he looks at Edward and Terrence from head to foot with admiration in his eyes, puts a hand on their cheeks, and claps them, making them smile much wider. Also, the man fixes his tie slightly and shakes some dust off their jackets. Not noticing that Jeremy and William being happy return to the living room, while Ryan, Benjamin, and Kevin follow them.       “Get ready, guys,” Jamie says confidently. “We’re about to be taken out!”       “Mrs. MacClife talked to someone on the phone and said the drivers would come in two or three minutes,” Ryan says.       “Great, get ready then! Do everything you need quickly and wait here.”       Jamie cleaning his throat quickly goes confidently to the kitchen, while the men stay alone and just smile for two seconds.       “Hey, where are the others?” Edward frowns slightly, looking at everybody. “Where are Rose and Perkins? Where are Prescott and Freeman? And Connor and Morgan?”       “Dan, Joe, Pete, and Cody are emptying the refrigerator, and Connor and Morgan can’t share a restroom,” Kevin replies funnily.       “They kinda did,” Ryan says thoughtfully, glancing aside. “As they say, agreed in a good way.”       “Okay, what about the Johnsons?” Terrence specifies, putting his hands on his hips.       “They’ll come now,” Jeremy replies quietly.       “And Sammy? Where’s Sammy? Did someone see him?”       “Stuck in the kitchen with our gluttons. He wanted to drink water. And steal a couple of butters.”       “Uh-huh, it seems like the groomsmen decided to fill his stomach before the ceremony,” Kevin laughs quietly, watching what’s happening in the kitchen.       “Yeah, got stuck to the refrigerator…” Edward says thoughtfully, glances at the kitchen, from where he hears a male laugh.       “C’mon, guys, they’ve got a great responsibility,” Ryan adds. “To marry their friends off.”       “It’s weird that Parker is not with them,” Terrence laughs shyly. “He needs the strength, too.”       “No, Terrence, it’s not weird, it’s weird that you’re not with them,” William replies confidently.       “We’re lucky he doesn’t have an appetite now,” Jeremy adds. “Or we wouldn’t be able to eat so well.”       “I’ve always been amazed by how he eats as much as a mammoth but remains as slim as a stick,” Benjamin chuckles kindly, crossing his arms over his chest.       “Hey, do you think we’re gonna get at least one little piece of the wedding cake?” Blake asks, entering the living room, pulling down his jacket, and fixing his hair.       “Oh, don’t worry, man,” William replies funnily. “The cake is gonna be eaten by our beloved Eddy ‘cause sweet food is his passion.”       “C’mon, men!” Ryan pronounces confidently, fixing his hair and tie. “Today, Edward and Terrence aren't gonna care about sweet food. They’re gonna be super busy with Natalia and Raquelle.”       “Nope, in their mind, the MacClifes are already spending a first marriage night with their beauties,” Christopher assumes, returning to the living room and buttoning some buttons on his jacket and sleeves. “And dreaming of lying on a beach under the sun and swimming in the warm sea.”       “By the way, the hotel where our lovebirds would spend their first marriage night is incredible,” Benjamin replies confidently. “Serve, food… Everything’s at the highest level! Luxury rooms are expensive, but they’re really cool! They’d literally carry you in their arms!”       “I’ve always dreamed of going to an island, lying under the sun and swimming in the sea,” Kevin confesses. “But I can’t save money.”       “Yeah, I’m a little jealous of them,” Blake crosses his arms over his chest.       “Don’t worry, guys, Natalia and I will surely send you a couple of photos to tease you a little,” Edward promises with a sly smile.       “Raquelle and I will also show you how we spend time,” Terrence says confidently. “If we don’t forget you, of course.”       “Hey, will we finally leave?” Kevin asks, putting his hands on his hips. “When’s a coachman gonna give us a carriage?”       “Very soon,” Edward chuckles kindly.       “Can’t wait!” Jeremy exclaims. “I wanna see the brides and the other girls.”       “Hey!” Edward glances at the kitchen. “How long are they gonna empty the refrigerator?”       “Indeed!” Terrence exclaims. “Where are these boneheads, whom we decided to choose as the groomsmen?”       “We’re here, groom!” Joseph, Cody, Daniel, and Peter pronounce funnily at the same time as they enter the living room and laugh loudly.       “Hey, when will we start having fun?” Joseph asks, while his arm is wrapped around Peter’s neck.       “Turn on songs so that we can dance!” Cody demands funnily, as he hugs Daniel tightly.       Joseph, Peter, Cody, and Daniel start singing a song loudly and dancing along with it. At some moment, Benjamin decides to join them and starts playing the fool with them. While Terrence and Edward look at each other questioningly and then shake their heads as they cross their arms over their chests.       “Jeez, where did these idiots get drinks?” Edward asks gloomily.       “We didn’t drink!” Peter replies funnily. “We’re just having fun!”       “Yeah, our so-called bros are gonna get married!” Daniel notices cheerfully. “That’s cool!”       “It’s a great event in our lives!” Benjamin exclaims. “I’m marrying off my childhood friend and his little bro!”       “Hey, boneheads, behave well at the ceremony!” Edward demands confidently. “Or you all will be kicked out as fast as a hurricane!”       “Don’t worry, Eddy!” Joseph replies cheerfully. “I’ll be happy to watch everything in such a cool company.”       “Yeah, Terry, why did ya the fuck tell us nothing about such wonderful friends as Pete and Dan?” Cody wonders.       “Uh-huh!” Daniel exclaims. “Why the fuck didn’t you introduce us to Joe and Cody before?”       “That’s why I befriend them,” Benjamin replies as he keeps dancing along with the other groomsmen. “We’ve always had a lot of fun together.”       “I hope you understood it all about your behavior,” Edward says loudly. “Be as sweet and obedient as babies sleeping in bed!”       “Or we’ll have to replace the groomsmen!” Terrence threatens. “All of you!”       “We got it, bros!” Daniel throws funnily. “Got it! Don’t worry.”       “It’s gonna be okay,” Peter guarantees. “We bet a tooth! An arm! Anything ya want!”       Thrilling with a loud laugh, Joseph, Cody, Benjamin, Daniel, and Peter give each other a five and hug each other.       “Yeah, it’s called the idiots got access to the refrigerator,” Terrence shakes his head.       “We shouldn’t have trusted Rose and Perkins to keep the wedding rings,” Edward says gloomily. “They’ll lose them somewhere one hundred percent.”       “We will not!” Peter and Daniel exclaim.       “We just ate a little,” Cody notices.       “Exactly, we drank and ate a little before leaving, and we’re now ready to go,” Kevin adds funnily.       “Yeah, everyone loves eating for free…” Terrence chuckles kindly.       “Thanks, that was really delicious!” William replies with a slight smile, running his hand over his stomach. “Yum, yum…”       “Uh-huh, buns with raspberry jam were incredible!” Christopher smiles slyly. “If we didn’t have to go, I’d ask Mrs. MacClife to give me a couple of them with me.”       “Yeah, you emptied the refrigerator and are walking happily now,” Edward puts his hands on his hips.       “Rebecca offered us some food and drinks,” William notices confidently.       “Dad talks about her food for the reason ‘cause it’s incredible,” William smiles mysteriously. “Mom would never cook that.”       “I can’t actually remember her standing in front of a cooker and cooking something. It was done by people she brought home.”       “Y’all gluttons!” Terrence exclaims funnily. “Just gluttons!”       “Said by the glutton!” Benjamin throws funnily.       “C’mon, we ate just a little,” Christopher says cheerfully. “I was hungry since the morning.”       “But being hungry all day long is not allowed!” Ryan exclaims. “It harms your stomach.”       “By the way, that’s weird that MacClife, Sr., didn’t go with us,” Daniel says confidently. “He’s the greatest glutton eating trucks of food.”       “And who ate everything we had at the bachelor,” Ryan laughs, crossing his arms over his chest.       “Uh-h-h, I don’t hear ya, guys,” Terrence jabs loudly, rolling his eyes. “I can’t hear…”       “When you need it, you’ll hear what they say on Mars,” Peter chuckles kindly.       Terrence and Edward say nothing and just fix their gorgeous, well-done hair proudly and tie it with a boutonniere. And a few seconds later, Jamie and Rebecca enter the living room quickly.       “Guys, the drivers have come!” Rebecca announces.       “What?” Terrence opens his eyes widely.       “The cars are waiting for us near the gates.”       “It’s time?” Edward rounds his eyes.       “Yes, guys,” Victor nods, coming to the living room alongside Lydia, whom Sammy follows. “Get ready, guys. They’re waiting for us.”       Sammy barks quietly and happily two times, wagging his tail amicably.       “They’ve come for us!” Kevin whoops happily. “They’ve come for us!”       “We’re gonna see the bride!” Blake exclaims. “Yeah!”       “A-a-a-a, we’re gonna the girls now,” Ryan smiles widely.       “Alright, fellows, we have no time to talk,” Jamie says confidently, hugging Terrence and Edward around the shoulders. “The grooms must come first.”       “Get ready, guys!” Rebecca exclaims. “The drivers won’t wait for us.”       “Listen, where’s my handbag?” Lydia frowns slightly, coming to the sofa. “Where did I put it?”       “That’s it!” Rebecca exclaims, pointing at the small handbag placed on the table near her clutch.       The women find their handbags quickly, and the men take their phones and other things. And the dumbfounded Terrence and Edward keep standing in the same place and start breathing a little heavily, pulling the tie slightly, and shifting the weight from one foot to another. And the brother would probably keep standing if not for Lydia’s light touch to the shoulder that wakes them up immediately.       “Edward, Terrence, don’t sleep,” Lydia says softly.       “C’mon, guys, we’re waiting for you outside,” Victor says. “Hurry up!”       Victor and Lydia come to the exit and go outside, talking about something with a slight smile on their faces.       “We’ll go outside, too,” Blake says confidently.       “We’re waiting for you there,” Christopher adds.       “Oh, wait for a sec,” Rebecca calls the memory. “I forgot something! Now, second! Now!”       “Damn, I got a spot on my suit!” Jamie looks at his suit. “Devil! When I’ve gotta leave, something happens!”       Rebecca and Jamie rush to go on different sides, while Christopher, Kevin, Ryan, Blake, Jeremy, and William go outside, talking funnily and laughing quietly.       “Hey, groom, why’d you get stuck?” Daniel asks funnily, clapping Edward on the shoulder.       “Hello, pretty boys, move your asses!” Peter exclaims as he claps Terrence on the shoulder.       “Hey, dude, hear me,” Benjamin jabs and clicks his fingers in front of Terrence and Edward’s faces. “You… C’mon… Wake up from your trance!”       “MacClifes, the fuck!” Cody exclaims. “We’re talking to you! The earth is calling you!”       “Wake the fuck up!” Joseph demands.       “They’re fucking pale,” Peter notices with anxiety, looking closely at Edward and Terrence.       “Hey, bros…” Daniel jabs. “You… Don’t be so excited… It’s gonna be okay! We’re here just in case!”       “Hello, men, having one sentimental man is enough for us!” Benjamin exclaims. “Having a deal with two would be too much!”       “Fuck, Edward, Terrence!” Cody throws loudly. “Wake the fuck up!”       “Huh?” Terrence shakes, looking at the men hesitantly. “What?”       “You remember where you are?” Joseph puts his hands on his hips.       “It’s okay, guys,” Edward pronounces quietly, couching quickly and shaking his head. “I was just thinking…”       “Me too…” Terrence says in a little hoarse voice and clears his throat. “Sorry…”       “We hope you ain’t gonna faint from too many emotions?” Benjamin expresses hope. “At the same time!”       “We’ve got no time to wake you up now,” Joseph adds,       “We won’t, our caring lads, don’t worry,” Terrence promises.       “Oh, bros, it’s okay!” Peter waves his hand. “Parker took a bottle of ammonia. Which we’re gonna need surely.”       “Uh-huh, you’ve got no reason to worry!” Daniel laughs. “We’d let you sniff that thing so that you come back to life in five minutes!”       “Huh, hilarious!” Edward shakes his head.       “Think of nothing!” Cody insists. “Leave it all to the guys and me. And enjoy this moment.”       “We’re counting on you,” Terrence says.       Sammy comes to the men and barks quietly two times, wagging his tail amicably. Edward and Terrence yank him softly by the ears, stroke his soft and thick to touch hair, glance at the watch in the living room, and look at Daniel, Cody, Benjamin, Joseph, and Peter with a slight smile.       “Okay, bros, we’re getting out,” Cody says confidently.       “Join us!” Benjamin exclaims.       “Don’t stand here, or we’re gonna be late,” Joseph adds.       After paying some attention to Sammy and clapping Edward and Terrence on the shoulder or head, Joseph, Benjamin, and Cody come to the hall door and get outside, where all their friends are.       “Get ready to play the role of the best men, guys,” Edward says with a slight smile.       “Yes, guys, don’t let us down,” Terrence adds, fixing his boutonniere. “We’re hoping on you.”       “It’s gonna be fucking good, friends,” Peter promises.       “You won’t regret choosing us,” Daniel adds and hugs Peter by the shoulders, while the blond flashes a slight smile at him. “I’m gonna be responsible for the older one.”       “And the younger one for me.”       Sammy says something in his language by barking quietly. While the men laugh shyly, Peter pays attention to the dog’s tie that does not look good now, calls him to himself, and gets down to his knees to fix it. And when he does it, the men look at each other and fix their ties or boutonnieres so that all of them look great. Since the grooms still look really tense, the best men get them involved in a group hug and clap them on the shoulder, head, or back, letting them know that they can count on them in everything. Not noticing that Rebecca and Jamie enter the living room.       “Hey, why are you still here?” Jamie surprises. “You must be standing near the cars!”       “C’mon, guys, you’ll talk later,” Rebecca jabs confidently. “Grab your legs and get out!”       “Go, go, lads, move your butts!” Jamie pushes Edward, Terrence, Daniel, and Peter slightly in the back. “C’mon!”       “Sammy, don’t sleep! Faster!”       Sammy fastens the step obediently and follows everyone coming to the hall door, which Jamie locks with a key after everyone leaves the house. Then he follows them, going behind the men alongside Rebecca. Daniel, Peter, and Sammy are almost in the same line, and Edward and Terrence go further, looking at what’s around them a little hesitantly with a feeling that the heart is about to get out of the chest. At some moment, the brothers stop, turn back, look at their friends and parents, smile at them shyly, and keep moving on much more confidently. Some time later, they all come to the gates, near which Victor, Lydia, Cody, Joseph, Christopher, Ryan, Blake, Kevin, Benjamin, Jeremy, and William are standing. Two big metallic limousines with drivers wearing black suits are waiting for them. After saying something to each other quickly, everyone starts getting into these cars: the adults get into one limousine, and the men and the dog jump into the other. When the drivers close the door and get into the driver’s seat, and the cars start moving, Edward and Terrence get another wave of a panic attack. The mouth is dry, the hands are sweaty, the muscles are tense with pain, and the invisible hands kind of squeeze the throat tightly. The brothers feel extremely hot in their suits and start waving at their faces with the edges of their jackets at times after they open them at some moment. However, the guys try to hold on somehow and act funnily, like nothing happens, having pleasure in talking to their friends and friends on the way to the place where the brides will come soon.