The Criminal Diaries

      After the wedding ceremony ended, the guests went to the place where they were going to be celebrating until late in the evening. The professional barmen, cooks, musicians, waiters, and more people, who entertain the guests and serve them, are responsible for the organization of the party. There are also several girls and women who offer something to drink or eat, serve the delicious dishes, and make sure nobody violates the order.       The wedding is being celebrated in a large private place that is now under trustworthy security. The grooms, the brides, the guests, everyone who serves the party, the photographers, the directors, and the journalists are the only people to be allowed to enter it. The high walls are covered with thin white curtains, the ceiling is decorated with a bunch of lightbulbs and unrealistically beautiful crystal chandeliers, and the floor is covered with a light parquet that really fits the shade of white that is a part of the decoration. It’s possible to see many roses, lilacs, and lavender that also decorate the place of the celebration. A part of this place is for a dance pool, while the other part is taken for little tables with a white tablecloth on them for a company that consists of four people, and beautiful chairs, the backs of which are decorated with flowers and leaves. The violet and white flowers that repeat the composition of the bride’s bouquet are placed in the middle of these tables. There are also absolutely new glasses for champagne, spoons, and forks for different dishes, white plates, and little cups with plates.       There are special places decorated with the same flowers and leaves for Terrence, Raquelle, Edward, and Natalia. A white tablecloth is also placed on their table, and it’s possible to see the signature “Mr. & Mrs.” on it. And even if someone is sitting far, at the end of the room, they can still see and hear the ones who are the heroines of the day. There are special places for the bridesmaids and the groomsmen placed near these that are for the newlyweds. They are also beautiful and decorated with flowers, but less gorgeous than the places for the grooms and brides. Helene, Anna, Olivia, Odette, and Amma are sitting on one side as the bridesmaids, and Peter, Daniel, Benjamin, Joseph, and Cody are sitting on the other side as the groomsmen. While the guests sit on tables in companies consist of two, three, or four people. Sammy is sitting obediently next to Scarlett, who sat down with Victoria, George, and Adriana, watching what’s happening with interest, and getting a little caress from her at times. Amanda, Shannon, and Hailey are sitting at the table with their mothers, and Harold is now with his older sister, Blair, talking to her about something and taking care of her like a little gentleman.       “Alright, ladies and gentlemen!” Raphael gets attention for himself loudly, raising his glass. “Let’s raise our glasses in honor of our amazing newlyweds.”       “Oh, yeah, good idea!” Joseph smiles widely.       “Great idea!” Andre agrees. “We haven’t drunk all together yet!”       “Yeah, the grooms’ best men, the maids of honor, and the family of the newlyweds haven’t said their toasts yet,” Delancey adds.       “So, let’s fix it!” Steven suggests cheerfully.       All the guests get a glass of champagne in case someone does not have one. The waiters fill all the half-empty or empty glasses, while the brides press themselves closely to their men, who do not literally stop looking at them with love.       “So, ladies and gentlemen,” Olivia pronounces cheerfully with a wide smile. “What are everyone’s toasts?”       “Let’s give the first word to the relatives of the grooms and the brides,” Cody suggests.       “Oh, I still can’t believe my beloved niece got married,” Alicia confesses with a wide smile and sniffs quietly as she carefully wipes tears under her eyes. “I wanted to see Raquelle next to her husband for so many years. I dreamed of her living with him and becoming a mother someday. And my girl has finally become a married woman! She will no longer be alone!”       “My God, I can’t even believe that my granddaughter is so adult and just got married,” Frederick shakes his head with a wide smile. “I just recently held her in my arms and was happy to become a grandfather! I just blinked, and I became an honorable guest at her wedding.”       “You’re right!” Anthony exclaims. “I still remember the day when I was told that Letitia and I became parents of a daughter. I remember how I took her in my arms for the first time and pressed her to me. And I almost cried out of happiness. The happiness caused by holding my own child in my arms. My flesh and blood. A little part of me.”       “And I couldn’t stop crying out of happiness when I saw my granddaughter for the first time,” Adriana confesses in a little shaking voice. “My little birdie that I love with all my heart. I only want to see the true happiness in her eyes. My beauty deserved only the best, and I always truly believed that it would happen. She’d meet the man, who would deserve to be her husband. And I think she wouldn’t find a better husband than Edward.”       “When Natalia was born, I told myself my daughter would get the best,” Letitia says confidently. “Anthony and I wanted her to be happy and wanted her to have a wonderful husband. And she finally met the decent man, whom we accepted into our little but friendly family very warmly.”       “Oh, I still can't believe my sons grew up and got married today,” Rebecca laughs shyly, waving her hand. “I just recently left the hospital after their birth! But then I saw them marry such good girls, who got the love of Terrence and Edward at first sight as well as mine.”       “And the fact that they decided to play a wedding on the same day is much more dumbfounding,” Jamie notices. “When one child gets married, it is always an excitement and stress for a parent. But when two children get married, you must have strong nerves. Because you’ve got a lot of emotions. Not less than what you have after your child’s birth.”       Terrence looks at Edward and shares a shy smile with him, while Raquelle and Natalia press themselves to their husbands as closely as possible and snuggle their noses in their shoulders for two seconds.       “But time goes by and doesn’t stop,” Frederick notices. “So, our children grew up and created their own families right before our eyes. And we don’t hide our great happiness for this. It was our dream that seemed unreal for a long time.”       “And it’s a great honor for us to be honorable guests at this wedding and see their happy faces and a gloss in their eyes,” Rebecca adds. “You just look at them, ladies and gentlemen! Is there someone who is much happier than these four? The people who just became husbands and wives!”       “I wish the gloss in their eyes never faded away and the happiness never left their home,” Alicia wishes with all her heart. “Mr. Cameron, Mrs. MacClife, Mr. MacClife, Mr. Rochester, Mrs. Rochester, Mrs. Lascano, and I truly wish the newlyweds to love each other as much as they do now, even many years later after the wedding.”       “I’m so happy for the newlyweds!” Letitia exclaims with a wide smile. “Happy to become a family with such amazing people, who raised amazing people. Edward and Terrence are both wonderful guys, and we love them with all our hearts. And Raquelle is a wonderful girl, whom our family has considered a family member for ages. Whom my daughter Natalia calls nothing but a sister.”       “All these guys are really wonderful and well-educated,” Adriana smiles widely. “And I wanna personally wish happiness to the newlyweds. I want them to forget that love is not just hugs and kisses but also mutual support, care, and friendship.”       “I also wanna wish a great happiness, love, and a lot of patience to all of you,” Anthony adds. “Remember, young people, any relationship is hard work. If you don’t work on it, it will get worse soon. Though we don’t really want such beautiful couples to split up. We don’t want our children to suffer and be sad over the breakup with their sweethearts. We want you to be together until the end of your lives. And we will hope it will happen.”       “Of course, it doesn’t happen like this, but I want to wish you to live your life with no bad times,” Jamie wishes with a wide smile. “Through even despite all the difficulties, marriage is amazing! Living with your beloved person and waking up in their hugs in the early morning is an unforgettable feeling. I wish you to enjoy every single moment of your life and remember your wedding and the happiness you have now when you have sad and hard times.”       “Thank you so much,” Raquelle, Terrence, Natalia, and Edward thank with a slight smile.       “I wish you all the best, too,” Daniel says confidently. “You, guys, fit each other like nobody else. And the more time goes by, the more I am sure about it. I think you’re literally made for each other and should’ve gotten married someday. And I don’t doubt that you will never regret deciding to become a family. And giving a chance when it seemed that your ways would be separated once and forever.”       “And I’m madly happy for you, guys,” Peter confesses with a slight smile. “I wish you to live a bright and colorful life and make your own children someday. After everything you’ve gotten through, your love is strong, without doubt. And it’s gonna get stronger every day. You were young and stupid, but now you’re an adult, experienced, and ready to do what you wouldn’t have done several years ago. And the fact that it happened now, not then, is really cool.       “May your love live forever,” Anna wishes with a wide smile. “We all know how many barriers you had in your way. And how you would’ve suffered if you hadn’t decided to try again. Well… We all know we don’t get things by doing anything! To get something, we’ve gotta fight and never give up. So, the grooms and the brides fought. Fought for their love. For their happiness. For what they didn’t refuse, luckily.”       “Yeah, they overcame all of that with honor and dignity and decided to become a family,” Helene adds confidently. “They made each other better to some extent. And today, we’re celebrating their marriage with the families of the brides and the grooms, their friends, familiars, and everyone who came to share their happiness with them. They are heroes of the day. Our kings and queens who must get all our attention and all our love.”       All the guests say something shortly, even though they say all the same things. However, Raquelle, Terrence, Edward, and Natalia do not care about it, and they smile widely as they listen to all of this. The men hug their sweethearts around the shoulders, and the girls keep their heads on their shoulders. Sammy does not stay aside and also wishes something to these two beautiful couples in his dog’s language and makes everyone laugh with his little show, running after his tail, jumping from side to side, and falling to the floor dramatically with a quiet bark.       “Thanks a lot, Sammy,” Edward laughs shyly.       “Yeah, buddy, we understood you well,” Terrence adds confidently.       “Anyway, he wished us all the same as you all did,” Natalia translates funnily.       “And he’s really happy that we’re finally married,” Raquelle smiles shyly.       “How do you know it?” Delancey chuckles kindly. “Do you understand dogs?”       “If you spend a couple more months with him, you will understand him by just looking at him,” Peter says.       “Uh-huh, I also understood that Sammy wished all the best to the newlyweds,” Helene assures.       Sammy barks happily two times, making everyone laugh shyly.       “Alright, ladies and gentlemen, and now let’s finally raise our glasses,” Steven suggests cheerfully.       “For the newlyweds!” Victor exclaims happily.       “For their happiness!” Lydia smiles widely.       “For Edward and Natalia!” Alicia pronounces confidently.       “For Terrence and Raquelle!” Letitia exclaims loudly.       “For the birth of two new families!” Amelia smiles widely.       “Congratulations!” the guests exclaim, raising their glasses. “Hooray!”       “Hooray!” Terrence and Raquelle and Edward and Natalia repeat happily with a wide smile.       The guests whoop happily as they click each other’s glasses and drink a couple of sips of champagne. Sammy barks happily along with everyone, and the little children enjoy the sweet sparkling water that is given specifically to them.       “Gosh, I still can’t believe it all!” Raquelle confesses excitedly. “It’s hard to believe I just got married.”       “Me too,” Natalia confesses shyly and sniffs quietly. “I think I’m gonna wake up and realize that it’s actually never happened.”       “Get used to your new status, my sweeties,” Alicia smiles widely. “And live with it proudly and confidently. You are wives now! And it sounds very beautiful!”       “Yes, girls, you’re much luckier than anyone else,” Jessica notices cheerfully. “Because you are married to the men whom everyone wants."       “That’s right!” Blair agrees. “You did the impossible!”       “Listen, can someone pinch me and assure me that it’s really happening to me now?” Raquelle asks hesitantly.       “May your husband hug and kiss you instead,” Cassidy says confidently.       “My God, I still can't believe I’m married!” Natalia jabs excitedly and closes her face with her hand for a second. “It… It seems kinda dream! I must be sleeping…”       “No, beauties, it’s not a dream!” Blake protests cheerfully. “We are here! And it’s your wedding!”       “And we’re gonna have fun now,” Jeremy adds happily.       “Dance ‘til we fall and eat the delicious cake!” William exclaims.       “And it’s amazing,” Raquelle pronounces with a slight smile. “Honestly, I barely realize what’s happening. Barely realize what I’m doing.”       “I’m shocked too,” Natalia shakes her head.       “It’s alright, my sweeties!” Frederick pronounces hesitantly. “A little later, you will come to yourself and get used to it.”       “It’s always scary to do something for the first time,” Jamie adds. “But sometimes it’s worth it.”       “Edward and I are shocked, too!” Terrence exclaims. “We can’t believe it’s really happening to us.”       “Speaking the truth, brother!” Edward agrees.       “Get used, guys, get used!” George pronounces cheerfully. “A new chapter is starting in your life.”       Sammy barks several times loudly and confidently.       “And yeah…” Raquelle smiles shyly. “Dear guests… Thank you all so much for coming to congratulate Terrence and me and Edward and Natalia and share our happiness with us.”       “Yeah, dear guests, thank you all so much for putting your business aside,” Edward thanks with a slight smile, taking Natalia’s hands folded on the table in front of her. “We are happy to share our happiness with all of us. And glad to have you as a part of this incredible event in our lives.”       “Thank you so much,” Terrence thanks with a slight smile. “Many of you have to come from different cities and even countries. And we’re grateful to you for that. Of course, we’re sorry about not seeing some people here, but we received their congratulations and amazing gifts and thanked them. And we’re happy that you agreed to share our happiness with us.”       “Thank you so much for all your wishes, warm words, and love,” Natalia adds with a wide smile. “And thanks a lot to those who helped Raquelle, Terrence, Edward, and me organize this celebration and make our wishes come true. Without you, we would not have made such an amazing party. Thank you all so much.”       “We’d like to thank Daniel and Peter, the best men of Edward and me, for helping us get ready for today,” Terrence thanks. “If not for these guys, my bro would’ve surely come to the wedding in old shabby jeans, a ripped t-shirt, and ruffled haycock on his hair. And I… I wouldn’t have been more handsome and irresistible than usual.”       Terrence’s words make everyone laugh shyly, while Peter and Daniel keep their heads proudly raised as they look at everyone as if they accept the thankfulness.       “And then we’ve got a laugh track,” Daniel addresses Peter in a whisper.       “We’ve gotta give the idea to those who’ll edit the wedding movie,” Peter agrees in the same whisper.       “And Natalia and I are deeply grateful to our maids of honor, Anna and Helene, for helping us get ready for this day,” Raquelle says confidently. “If not for our girls, this day wouldn’t have been so magical. Everything wouldn’t have happened so well.”       Anna and Helene smile shyly as they look at everyone and hear them applauding quietly.       “I think we really did a good job as the maids of honor,” Anna notices.       “The best men, you, and I turned out to be a perfect team,” Helene adds.       “And nothing would’ve happened without your help,” Edward notices. “We wouldn’t have had all of this without our guests, too. Dear guests, thank you all so much for making this day miraculous.”       “We’re grateful to all of you,” Terrence adds. “Even those who didn’t come but didn’t forget us. And Raquelle and I congratulate Edward and Natalia on getting married and wish them all the best. Even if I’m having the wedding too, I don’t forget I’m giving my little bro to his beloved girl.”       “Just like Natalia and I congratulate Terrence and Raquelle. I’m giving my big brother to my dear sister-in-law with calm in my soul and giving her the official right to kick his ass as hard as I was allowed to do all alone.”       “We hope you will live a long and happy life together,” Maximilian expresses hope.       “We love you all so much!” Natalia smiles widely and shows a heart with her hands. “You’re the best!”       “And we love the bride and groom!” Derek says funnily.       “Very much!” Gordon adds confidently. “Yeah, people?”       “Yea-a-ah!” the guests shout happily.       “And we love you,” Raquelle smiles shyly.       “Love!” Terrence exclaims cheerfully. “Yea-a-ah!”       Sammy barks along with everybody, wagging his tail amicably, and gets some caress from Scarlett, who softly yanks him by the ears. And after happily shouting a little and drinking some champagne, everyone starts clicking their glasses with forks, calling the newlyweds to kiss each other. At first, Edward and Natalia and Terrence and Raquelle just look at everybody with a shy smile, but when the people start clicking the glasses much louder, and the dog barks louder, both couples get up, look into each other’s eyes for some time, and fulfil the guests’ dream, starting a tender, continuous kiss full of love and warmth for a few seconds. Their hands are lowered at first, but then the girls start keeping one hand on the back of the men’s head and put another on the chest or cheek, while they just hug the ladies tightly by the waist and press them closely to themselves. And the people accept the kiss very well.       Later, Edward and Natalia become the first ones to break the kiss, and then Terrence and Raquelle do it. Both couples get a lot of applause, to which they do not pay attention since they smile widely and look into the eyes of their beloved person, whose face they caress tenderly, and on whose forehead they lean with theirs. And after the four take each other in a strong hug by one, the newlyweds pay attention to the guests who are whooping loudly, making loud whoops and whistling. After several more toasts from those who have not pronounced them before, everyone starts doing different things. Someone is sitting at a table and just talking to fellows. Someone is drinking and eating what they are offered at this party and highly appreciates the taste of the dishes, and someone does not refuse to drink a little bit more champagne. And someone does not want to sit at a table and go on different sides of the room. Nobody is boring. Everybody has something to do. Even the little Amanda, Harold, Hailey, and Shannon, who are talking about something funny, later decide to play with Sammy.       “So, Mr. Rochester, I can congratulate you,” Jamie says confidently, sitting at the table with Rebecca, Letitia, Anthony, Adriana, and Frederick, who just joined them. “Your wife and mother-in-law became a part of our family. Now we are all one big family!”       “I can congratulate you on the same, my dear relative,” Anthony replies cheerfully.       “Oh, gosh, you can’t even imagine what emotions I felt at the ceremony,” Letitia confesses with a slight smile, putting her hand on her heart. “I couldn’t hold down my tears.”       “Ah, Mr. Rochester, how I understand you…” Rebecca sighs quietly. “I couldn’t hold my emotions down. You can’t imagine how happy I am that this wedding happened.”       “I can’t believe my daughter got married! God… She was a newborn baby just recently. But now Natalia’s walking in a gorgeous wedding dress.”       “Yeah, my boys were kinda kids like yesterday, but now they’re both married. Though I was worried that Terrence would keep worrying about his career only, and Edward would keep living without any life goals.”       “Oh, how happy Alicia and I are!” Frederick exclaims, drinking champagne from his glass at times. “You just can’t imagine.”       “That’s right!” Alicia agrees. “We almost lost hope of our girl getting a husband. We literally started to think about working on Raquelle’s personal life on our own. We were thinking about whether we had familiars who had unmarried sons. But now a miracle happened! Our girl fell in love with Terrence.”       “Time flies very fast, and children grow up literally every hour,” Anthony notices cheerfully and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “Now the daughter of Letitia and me got married. And we finally calmed down. We were very worried about her future and wanted her to meet someone and create her family. But then she met Edward. A decent, educated, and shy guy we liked at first sight.”       “Oh, I was also worried my children would be single,” Jamie sighs quietly. “I thought Edward and Terrence should’ve gotten married and thought of children. But the guys didn’t rush to.”       “Same about our Raquelle,” Alicia waves her hands. “She was maniacally obsessed with her modeling career and wasn’t gonna get married until the very end. Mr. Cameron and I told her many times that she must have found a husband and given birth to children while she was young and beautiful.”       “Yeah, we both are for early marriages and think you should get married when you are young.”       “Right. But my niece didn’t even think about it. She was obsessed with her modeling career only.”       “We were worried ‘cause this girl didn’t have any serious relationship before,” Frederick confesses. “She kissed nobody, she never dated. We always told her that she should have tried to pay attention to a man and go on a date with him. But alas, she rejected everyone and refused to try.”       “Though you know how many admirers surrounded my girl. Many guys tried to woo Raquelle, but she never answered them back. She gave a chance to nobody. She rejected one and another… She had so many potential husbands! Can’t remember all of them!”       “Even though she never said she wasn’t gonna get married and give birth to children, we were worried that Raquelle would doom herself to loneliness. Her obsession with her career wouldn’t lead to anything good.”       “I completely understand you, Mr. Cameron, Mrs. Middleton,” Rebecca nods confidently.       “I guess God didn’t let my granddaughter and her friend be around all the men to bring them to such wonderful men as Edward and Terrence,” Adriana assumes confidently.       “But to be honest, I sometimes thought their relationship wouldn’t last for too long,” Frederick notices. “Raquelle and Terrence disliked each other for a long time and, let’s be honest, used each other for their goals. And everything wasn’t good about Natalia and Edward, even if they had a different situation.”       “But as they say, everything happens for the best,” Jamie replies with a slight smile. “It’s clear that Edward and Terrence were destined to meet those girls, thanks to whom he got much better and more confident.”       “Oh, I can’t believe it; Edward and Terrence are married now.” Rebecca shakes her head and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “My boys became so adult…”       “Thank God, we can relax and stop being worried that Raquelle would stay alone,” Alicia says confidently. “You can’t imagine how terrible it is.”       “Yeah, we shook at the thought that our girl would stay alone if something happened to us,” Frederick confesses. “We wanted her to have a trustworthy man. Someone to take care of her when we’re gone someday.”       “Ah, I was also worried that my boys would be single,” Rebecca sighs quietly.       “I’m gonna be honest with you, I almost accepted the fact that Edward didn’t try to find a girl and did nobody the hell knows what at some moment,” Jamie confesses.       “I was happy Terrence actually dated someone. Girls have always surrounded him. That guy has always been really handsome and confident.”       “At least, your sons dated someone, but Raquelle didn’t pay attention to anyone,” Alicia notices. “Yes, of course, we limited her communication with boys when she was studying. But then she was allowed to! Date, fall in love, introduce them to us – it’s okay!”       “Yeah. That girl was in love with her job,” Frederick adds. “She liked working as a model so much that she stopped thinking of anything else. She even left the university to focus on the modeling business, despite my determined protests.”       “When something gives you pleasure and gives you a lot of money, why not,” Jamie shrugs.       “Thank God, she found time for her friends. I would’ve been much more worried.”       “The present time is different nowadays, Mr. Cameron,” Adriana sighs heavily. “Not what we lived in before… People don’t rush to get married and have children, and prefer to work on their career.”       “And it’s really sad. Alicia and I told Raquelle many times that her biggest life goal is to be a mother and a wife. But alas, she didn’t listen to us and didn’t agree with the fact that a woman must be married, take care of her husband, and raise children.”       “We don’t mind her working,” Alicia species. “Nobody makes her stay home and do homework all day. But Raquelle must be married and give birth to at least one child.”       “I don’t know, Anthony and I weren’t so stuck on our daughter’s marriage,” Letitia confesses. “Yes, we asked if she had a plan to get married, but we never pressed her.”       “Yeah, like, when time comes, she’ll become a wife and a mother,” Anthony adds. “And she finally hit the bullseye.”       “Agree,” Adriana nods confidently. “Edward and Terrence both have a very positive energy.”       “Anyway, everything ended well,” Rebecca smiles shyly. “Our children realized that marriage was important, met good partners, and played a wedding.”       “Well, Raquelle didn’t mishear our lectures, after all,” Frederick notices cheerfully. “We taught her life for the reason!”       “Oh, get ready, ladies and gentlemen, we’re gonna stand in the queue to look at our grandchildren soon,” Adriana laughs shyly.       “Gosh, Mother, what grandchildren!” Letitia exclaims. “Anthony and I just married Natalia off, but you’re talking about grandchildren!”       “Someday they will be born! And Mr. Cameron and I will actually be great-grandchildren!”       “And you know, something tells me that I’ll see them very soon,” Frederick replies confidently and takes a sip of champagne from his glass.       “Why do you think so?” Jamie wonders.       “A presentiment. I am sure that your older son will make us happy with the news about giving grandchildren to us.”       “I wish it had happened,” Rebecca expresses hope.       The family Cameron-MacClife-Rochester keeps laughing a lot and talking about their children and grandchildren who are supposed to be born in the future, listening to the nice music, drinking champagne or sweet water, and tasting the dishes that are offered here.       “Hey, do Edward and Terrence know you’re gonna sing?” Liam surprises truly, holding a glass of champagne and standing aside with Daniel, Peter, Terrence, Bradley, and Zachary.       “Of course, no!” Peter exclaims and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “It’s a surprise for the grooms and the brides! Which nobody should know about! It’s a secret! Helene is the only one to know we prepared a song.”       “But how did ya persuade Anna to sing with you?” Bradley wonders.       “Super easy!” Daniel exclaims. “The blond and I thought her voice would sound cool in the song we wrote.”       “Uh-huh, we played this song for Anna once and asked if she wanted to sing for the newlyweds with us,” Peter adds. “And Seymour agreed immediately.”       “We didn’t even have to persuade her! Anna thought it would be a good gift for our friends.”       “She had vocal lessons and learned musical theory. And by the way, Anna explains it well to the guys and me.”       “Listen, that’s cool!” Liam smiles widely. “I’d be happy to hear Anna singing.”       “Hey, would the adults and old people understand ya?” Bradley gets suspicious. “Maybe they have different tastes in music and don’t understand anything about it?”       “Kidding?” Peter surprises with a wide smile. “You know which pleasure they listen to us with when we sing something!”       “Yes, Mr. MacClife and Mrs. MacClife often ask Terrence and Edward to sing something for them!” Daniel adds. “And they’re always delighted!”       “Hey, what are ya gonna sing if it’s not a secret?” Zachary asks. “Something sentimental?”       “Almost!” Daniel smiles mysteriously. “The song is called ‘Wouldn’t Change A Thing’.”       “Oh, that’s gonna be a bomb!” Bradley rubs his hands happily.       “The grooms and brides are gonna love it!” Peter says confidently and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “Not just them but also all the guests!”       “And how nicely the Seymours will be surprised when they hear their daughter, who hasn’t sung for them for like one hundred years,” Daniel adds.       “In this case, I don’t exclude that Zach, Brad, and I can sing something too,” Liam says thoughtfully, squeezing his glass, from which he has just drunk some champagne, with both hands. “But we aren’t sure yet.”       “C’mon, lads, sing!” Peter insists cheerfully with a wide smile. “Everybody’s gonna be happy! And Melissa and Kylie will go crazy if you sing!”       “Yeah… They really adore us.”       “I must confess that they’re pretty good,” Zachary smiles mysteriously. “Kylie, the one with violet hair, is a funny girl, and Melissa, the one with colorful strands, is very cute and nice.”       “Almost all the men got a crush on those girls,” Daniel laughs shyly and takes a sip of champagne. “They just needed to dye their hair an unusual color.”       “What does a color have to do with it?” Bradley wonders and also takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “The girls are really cool! You know, we love that type…”       “Especially such funny and positive ones,” Zachary adds confidently and takes a sip of champagne from his glass.       The men laugh quietly and keep talking about everything, looking at what’s happening around them at times. Although the photographers and the operators do not capture every moment so hard, they still take photos and videos of the guests doing something, having fun, and not paying attention to being photographed.       “We’re planning to start working on the studio very soon and start recording a new album,” Gordon says confidently, standing with Derek and Edward on the other side of the room and drinking champagne from their glass.       “Already?” Edward wonders. “Aren’t ya gonna start touring soon?”       “We are, but we wanna start getting a material right now,” Derek replies amicably. “Gordon and I are full of inspiration. We’re discussing the concept with our team.”       “Yeah, we wanna experiment with different genres and try something new,” Gordon confesses. “We wouldn’t like to be stuck with hip-hop and rap.”       “Oh, you’re so fast, guys!” Edward exclaims and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “How are you able to tour and release albums every year? The lads and I are only gonna release our debut album in a few days, but you've recorded a bunch of them!”       “It’s hard, of course, I don’t deny,” Derek notices with a slight smile. “But we get pleasure from it. We love writing songs and performing them for people. To us, this type of job is a pleasure and fun. Besides, you know we sing on stage and also dance. We work on a choreography for every single song of ours and rehearse for hours at a dance class. It’s also exhausting, but we like it.”       “I get it. The lads and I can’t wait to start a worldwide tour. And starting to get material for a new album.”       “Here’s some advice,” Gordon says confidently. “You'd better take notes about your thoughts when you think of something. If you miss a moment, you’ll regret not doing this.”       “I always do this. If I have no piece of paper, I add a note to my phone.”       “That’s cool!”       “Hey, Ed, would you agree to write another song for us if we asked you?” Derek asks.       “If you propose to me, I’ll be happy to write a full album,” Edward smiles slightly.       “And would Pete, Terry, and Dan agree to work with us? It would be great. Besides, you’ve got experience in rapping since you have it in ‘Electric x Magnetic’.”       “We’re open to collaborating with any artists.”       “Great!” Gordon exclaims and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “We’re gonna get a couple of more hits!”       “Hey, Gordon, imagine us persuading the guys from ‘The Loser Syndrome’ to record a track together,” Derek exclaims.       “A-a-a, it would be cool! Our new tune would be a real bomb!”       “I think you can agree with them,” Edward laughs shyly. “The lads and I sometimes think of recording at least one song with Liam, Zach, and Brad.”       “You got famous thanks to them,” Derek replies confidently and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “If not for them, people would’ve hardly known you.”       “Maybe. But don’t forget that my brother is quite a famous person with good contacts.”       “Yeah, in this case, you got success thanks to a little PR of Zach, Brad, and Liam,” Gordon says.       “I know. But if you record a song with them, your chance to get famous may be higher. So, guys, don’t miss your chance. It may be unique.”       The men laugh quietly and keep talking about the desired collaboration with “Against The System” and “The Loser Syndrome” that Derek and Gordon from “Lost In Time” dream about. Meanwhile, Sammy runs by them as fast as a bullet after Harold, Hailey, Amanda, and Shannon, not stopping to play and having a lot of fun while everybody is busy.       “Yeah, Terrence…” Andre pronounces thoughtfully, taking Terrence aside and drinking champagne. “I didn’t think Raquelle, and you wouldn’t just start dating but also get married.”       “Still remember our joint photoshoot?” Terrence laughs shyly.       “Huh, of course, I do! You couldn’t work together and were ready to kill each other. You held on, held on, but you kept releasing thunder.”       “I was sure that the girl would be mine early or late. Because I always get what I want. And Cameron was just pretending. She actually wanted me to. She dreamed of me every night.”       “And I congratulate you, friend. You did what other men could not do before. You conquered the all-favorite queen of photoshoots and runways.”       “I love working on hard missions.” Terrence takes a sip of champagne with his head proudly raised. “I promised that Raquelle would be mine, and she became mine.”       “But I must confess that I had a lot of problems with you,” Andre notices. “You know how hard it was to choose something from the photos I took? You were tense all the time! There was no contact between you!”       “Yeah, Raquelle decided to show off a little.”       “And you weren’t shy and broke all her personal boundaries. I did hear everything you told each other back then.”       “I dunno, I still consider that time funny. Even if that girl irritated me to death.”       “You know, she didn’t admire you either. While literally all girls who worked on that shoot were running after you, Raquelle was the only one to stay indifferent.”       “That’s what had me on the hook. The fact that she didn’t rush to do the same. And I wanted to do my best for her to pay attention to me. I wanted to tame that restless lady.”       “And as I see, you did it.”       “When Terrence MacClife does something, everything literally burns in his hands,” Terrence says with his proudly raised.       “And would you work well if I were asked to work with you again?” Andre asks.       “Don’t worry, Andre. If Raquelle and I are proposed to work together, we’ll do our work brilliantly. Though we already worked together after the photoshoot with you. We were the face of the fall collection of clothes from the famous brand.”       “Ah, yeah, I remember! Those photos were cool, I liked them.”       Terrence and Andre keep talking about something with each other and laughing at something shyly, watching what’s happening around them at times.       “Look, Natalia, don’t hurt Edward and do your best for him to be happy with you,” Benjamin insists with a glass of champagne in his hand as he is with Natalia, Joseph, and Cody.       “We gave the boys to Raquelle and you with the hope that you’d take care of them much better than their mother,” Cody adds.       “Don’t worry, guys,” Natalia pronounces confidently with a slight smile. “Edward won’t regret deciding to get married to me. You can be absolutely quiet for your friend and not worry that I can do something bad to him.”       “We aren’t worried,” Joseph says confidently. “And we know we gave our friends to the trustworthy hands.”       “And it couldn’t be otherwise!” Cody exclaims. “Edward literally spreads the happiness while standing next to you. A marriage with you is gonna be good for him one hundred percent.”       “And we just like you. You seem a cool girl, who will make MacClife happy, without any doubts.”       “Thanks a lot…” Natalia smiles shyly. “Joe, Cody, Ben… I’m so happy you approve of his choice and accepted me so warmly.”       “How could we not accept such a charming beauty?” Benjamin shrugs with a slight smile.       “Don’t make me blush…”       “It’s true, my darling. You look really stunning!”       “Uh-huh, the friends of Raquelle and you did a good job,” Joseph says confidently. “They dressed themselves up and didn’t forget about you.”       “They made you so beautiful that people were overwhelmed when you showed up on the path to the altar,” Cody adds.       “You, guys, also worked hard and dressed the grooms up,” Natalia laughs shyly. “I was personally delighted when I saw Edward at the altar. As it turned out, he’s really handsome in a suit.”       “We tried hard, beautiful.”       “And we look pretty good too,” Benjamin says with his head proudly raised. “Young, beautiful, by far not poor…”       “We’re getting much more attention than others,” Joseph says with his head proudly raised.       “That’s how!” Natalia exclaims.       “They’ve got good taste!” Cody notices. “We three are freaking attractive, incredibly charming, and very attractive people.”       “Copying Terrence, who talks about his love for himself all the time?” Natalia smiles slyly.       “No, my darling, he is copying us,” Benjamin says confidently. “Looking at us and puffing his peacock’s tail.”       “Uh-huh, but he puffed it too much,” Joseph laughs quietly. “I see that it’s getting less spacious in the room since it’s taken by MacClife’s peacock tail and big crown on his head.”       “Yeah, that’s Terrence,” Natalia chuckles kindly. “And Edward is taking after him.”       “It’s okay, they can do anything today!” Benjamin exclaims. “Let the boys have fun.”       “If you manage to catch the garter, there’s a chance that you’re gonna be lucky.”       “We’re ready to catch,” Benjamin says confidently. “At any time. Even now.”       “And who’s gonna catch it?”       “Me!” Joseph, Cody, and Benjamin pronounce at the same time.       “Oh, guys…”       Natalia laughs shyly and spends some time talking to the groomsmen about her friends, wedding, and something else. And then the girl agrees to drink some champagne with them after they take glasses from the tray of the waiter going by them.       “How happy the parents of the newlyweds are,” Victoria notices with a slight smile, sitting at the table with Victor and Lydia with her hands folded in front of her. “You just look at their happy faces! The mothers still can’t stop crying from happiness.”       “Oh, Mrs. Richardson, their faces would be much happier when the young people start making children,” Victor replies confidently, eating what’s placed on his plate with a fork and a knife. “Their mothers will be crying as well as their fathers and grandfathers.”       “Well, we should wait in the case of the birth of children,” Lydia smiles mysteriously. “The young people just played the wedding, but you want them to make children immediately.”       “They will, don’t worry,” Victoria replies confidently. “They’re young! Whole life lies in front of them! They don’t have children now, but then they’ll make one after another!”       “And trust me, they will get all the best from their fathers and mothers,” Victor says with a wide smile.       “The newlyweds will give wonderful genes to their children. Raquelle and Natalia are very attractive girls. And Edward and Terrence are handsome. And how kind, educated, and sweet they all are!”       “Yeah, decent people are gonna carry on the MacClifes,” Lydia agrees confidently and takes a sip of champagne from her glass.       Victoria and Victor agree with Lydia and keep eating incredible food that is offered here, and talking about the wedding and future children of the newlyweds. It should also be noticed that Ashton is brilliantly working on his mission to pick up music for the party, turning it on not only on the music system, but also experimenting with a DJ set and doing this very well, as a professional.       “They all were so excited but happy when the priest was getting them married,” Anna notices with a slight smile, talking to Helene, Olivia, Emma, Odette, William, and Jeremy. “Everybody thought they’d forget everything they wanted to say in their oaths.”       “And did you see how excited the grooms got when the girls showed up?” Emma asks.       “They drove them crazy already!” Odette exclaims.       “You just made them cuties!” William notices. “So, the brothers of Jer and I were delighted.”       “We admire the grooms too,” Olivia confesses. “You and the guys worked hard by dressing up the grooms and making them pretty boys. Of course, Terrence and Edward are very handsome men, but they slay everyone with just one look.”       “That’s right,” Emma agrees. “As if the guys did know Raquelle and Natalia would be delighted after seeing them so undressed and wonderful.”       “But we’re begging you, don’t tell too much about it,” Anna says funnily. “The men are right that the MacClifes have their peacock tails growing when they’re overpraised.”       “Yeah, but we can’t deny that they’re really gorgeous,” Odette says confidently. “I know many men, but I haven’t met many more handsome guys than Edward and Terrence. They… They stand out a lot… They can show themselves… They’re very confident… They know who they are…”       “I guess they’re all dreaming of going to the hotel, locking themselves in the room, and spending the first marriage night,” Jeremy assumes.       “Especially our bros,” William adds with a sly smile. “They can’t surely wait to see their cuties naked.”       At this moment, William glances aside and sees Terrence laughing in the company of Blair and Ryan with a half-filled glass of champagne, and Edward is having the pleasure of spending time with Jessica and Andre.       “Look how relaxed they are now!” Olivia says. “When they were pronounced husband and wife, everyone calmed down immediately. The girls and the men are ready to shout and dance!”       “It’s okay, guys, we’ll hang out now,” Helene replies confidently with a wide smile. “Moreover, we’ve got such a cool DJ!”       “Oh, yeah, Ashton is doing his mission very well,” Jeremy smiles shyly. “Tries to please everybody: turning on music for an old and a new generation.”       “It was a wish of the grooms and the brides,” Anna confesses. “So that everybody enjoys and dances when it’s time.”       “Hey, I heard that Edward, Terrence, Daniel, and Peter are thinking of giving him a job as a second assistant to the band.”       “They already did, Jeremy,” Helene confesses.       “Yup, Ashton is the second helper of the band,” Anna says with a slight smile. “The guys offered him a job somehow, and he agreed.”       “But what about Blake?” William frowns slightly. “What to do with that guy?”       “Keep working,” Helene replies. “The guys just have two helpers now.”       “I think they should learn to trust Blake. The boy is so good, funny, and very young. The guys and I liked him immediately.”       “Actually, they trust,” Anna confesses. “The relationship of Blake with the guys has lately been much better.”       “Uh-huh, and they kinda forgot about their conflict already,” Helene expresses hope.       “Yes, of course, he behaved badly and shouldn’t have treated the guys like that,” William notices. “But Connor said he was sorry and apologized.”       “Don’t worry, William!” Anna exclaims. “Blake has whitewashed himself for the guys and is trying to be nice to them now. He’s trying hard for a wish to make new friends, not a fear of losing his job.”       “If our little stars don’t wanna befriend him, my brother and I will be happy to talk with him,” Jeremy replies confidently.       “Yeah, we like Blake,” William agrees. “And the others like him. Chris, Ben, Kev, Ryan, Joe, Cody…”       “And he got along with Ashton, as far as I know,” Anna notices.       “They’ve gotta work together,” Jeremy smiles slightly. “But you’d better get along with your workmates not to get problems.”       “That’s right!” Helene agrees. “So, I try to get along with all the people I have to work with.”       Silence settles in the air for two seconds, during which the girls smile shyly and glance at the other guests, while Scarlett, Frederick, and Alicia go by them as they talk funnily.       “Wow, guys…” Raquelle pronounces with a slight smile, talking with Delancey and Steven. “You keep talking even after you broke up.”       “Yeah, we decided to remain friends that we were back then,” Delancey replies confidently.       “And we consider our short affair a little misunderstanding,” Steven adds. “Something that shouldn't have happened. Something we don’t remember.”       “I wonder why you actually thought you were in love with each other?” Raquelle wonders.       “Think a glass of champagne impacted us a little,” Delancey smiles mysteriously. “We drank, relaxed, and realized that we were attached to each other.”       “Yeah, drunk sex wasn’t the best idea,” Steven adds thoughtfully.       “Yeah, Steve, you definitely hid some things about your personal life from me,” Raquelle notices thoughtfully.       “Sorry. I thought I’d solve it all by myself. I didn’t wanna get you involved in my problems. You had a lot of yours.”       “Anyway, I’m glad you managed to establish your relationship.”       “And we’re happy you got married to Terrence. You got along with him and started to consider him something more than a beautiful picture or a sexual object.”       “Though we didn’t think you’d go so far,” Delancey confesses. “Remembering how sparks got out of your eyes during your joint photoshoot.”       “I am shocked too!” Raquelle confesses. “At first, I wanted to strangle Terrence with my own hands. And I didn’t do a very good thing by deciding to use him for my goals. Though he used me for his goals, too, and didn’t hide it.”       “Yeah, life is a really strange thing,” Steven notices.       “We never know where we can meet our destiny. And we hardly imagine it may be someone we can’t just stand.”       “The truth is true!” Delancey exclaims.       The three people say nothing for two seconds, looking around with slight smiles and being amazed by how beautiful everything is.       “Gosh, I can’t stop admiring this place…” Delancey confesses with admiration in her eyes. “Everything is so beautiful… Everything fits so well…”       “Agree, I love it so much too,” Raquelle confesses with a slight smile. “Terrence, Natalia, Edward, and I did a good job.”       “But I love food much more. I do really wanna eat everything I see here! And how delicious the drinks are! M-m-m… We can drink something other than champagne so that we can drink one glass during the entire party.”       “The guys and I personally chose cookers and approved of all the dishes and drinks. We took only the best ones, listening to our feelings and asking for the opinion of some people.”       “In this case, you all have amazing taste.”       “Can’t disagree,” Delancey agrees. “I tasted many dishes for the first time in my life.”       “Wait, guys,” Raquelle smiles mysteriously. “They will bring a big cake here soon. It’s really tender and delicious. The guests are gonna love it.”       “M-m-m, can’t wait to eat my most delicious piece,” Steven says funnily.       “I’m afraid Terrence will take it. Or Edward. You know he’s our lover of sweet food! He loves sweet food and would literally sell his soul for it!”       “If it’s so, I am surprised that the guy keeps himself in good shape.”       “Self-praise led to some good results,” Delancey laughs. “Everyone would consider them gorgeous even if the greasy donuts impact their bodies badly.”       “That’s right!” Raquelle laughs. “Edward was very shy at first, but he was getting more confident every day and began to repeat it all after Terrence.”       “A bad example can be contagious,” Steven notices.       “You’re right, friend!”       Delancey and Steven laugh shyly, and Raquelle fixes her hair a little. At some moment, Natalia decides to come to them after talking to almost all the guests.       “Oh, here’s the second bride,” Steven pronounces with a wide smile.       “Listen, girls, you look stunning,” Delancey notices. “I am delighted by your dresses.”       “We found them with our friends’ help,” Natalia smiles shyly, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.       “Good job, beauties!” Steven encourages. “If I had a camera in my hands, I’d start a photoshoot for you now.”       “You were literally born with a camera since you think of it all the time!” Natalia notices funnily.       “I just love my job. And I love working with beautiful girls.”       “And you’re doing this well. I really love all the pictures you take.”       “Thanks, Natalia.”       “By the way, I think it's been a while since you and I worked together,” Raquelle notices.       “Yeah, I noticed it too. Though I used to work with my favorite star much more often.”       “You’ve gotta fix it!” Delancey notices.       “I’d like to. I’ve never hidden that I love working with Raquelle. But I can’t do this.”       “You’ve actually got an amazing team,” Natalia notices with a slight smile. “A talented photograph and a gorgeous photomodel make a killer mix.”       “We’ve gotta talk about this after I’m back from my honeymoon,” Raquelle says confidently.       “I’m always ready!” Steven exclaims. “I’m ready to put all my business aside for you!”       “Can’t wait for our next shoot.”       “We’ll talk about it later. But now let’s celebrate the birth of two new families.”       “Oh, yeah, Tequelle and Etalia are as real as ever before!” Natalia notices funnily.       “You got pretty boys, girls!” Delancey smiles shyly. “Terrence and Edward are both gorgeous! It’s hard to say who’s more handsome.”       “We didn’t get them. They came to us!”       “Yeah, I personally never ran after MacClife,” Raquelle adds. “He’s the first one to start this game.”       “Anyway, we’re very happy for you and wish you happiness,” Steven says confidently.       “Thanks a lot, Steven,” Natalia thanks. “Thank you so much, Delancey.”       “Thank you, my sweeties,” Raquelle smiles widely.       The brides hug Steven and Delancey tightly by one and share an amicable kiss on the cheek. And after a short, warm talk, the former lovers go aside, and the girls decide to walk together in the room, talking about something sweetly and running into Amelia and Raphael at some moment.       “Raquelle, Natalia…” Amelia pronounces with a slight smile. “You look gorgeous!”       “Thanks, Amelia,” Natalia smiles shyly.       “Wow, they make really amazing dresses nowadays… someone definitely spent a lot of time creating these masterpieces.”       “They were made by the personal order,” Raquelle confesses. “And they were changed several times.”       “Fit the size?”       “Nope, we just disliked something all the time…” Natalia replies. “We wanted our dresses to be perfect.”       “Wonderful…” Amelia smiles slightly. “When it was my time to get married, I didn’t care about it a lot and bought a simple dress and some jewelry. I didn’t wanna put on everything.”       “But I wanted nothing simple,” Natalia shakes her head. “It’s my first wedding. I wanted to look amazing so that everyone remembered me.”       “And trust me, you two slayed everyone.”       “The important thing is that our husbands like them,” Raquelle smiles shyly.       “Oh, my darling, they go crazy for you,” Raphael smiles mysteriously. “Everyone saw Edward and Terrence’s faces when you showed up and went down to the altar.”       “We noticed them too.”       At this moment, Natalia and Raquelle glance aside and see Edward and Terrence talking warmly to all the guests and trying to pay attention to everyone.       “By the way, Amelia, I’m really happy to see you,” Raquelle says. “Glad you accepted my invitation.”       “Yeah, it’s been a while since we last met in London,” Amelia notices with a shy smile.       “Aunt Alicia and I talked about you often. She told me a lot about you, your husband, and your daughter…”       “And we often talk about you and your family.”       “Do you know your aunt became a goddaughter of the daughter of Amelia and me?” Raphael asks.       “Of course, I do. Aunt says she tries to give much attention to her goddaughter.”       “And we’re madly grateful to her,” Amelia smiles shyly. “Her help is very good. Especially when I’m home alone, and Raphael is working.”       “I get it,” Natalia pronounces. “But I think you’re supposed to have no problems because Hailey is a wonderful girl.”       “Yeah, but now we need to watch her closely,” Raphael laughs shyly. “Hailey has learned to walk and recently said her first words. Our daughter is curious about everything and may do something wrong, put her fingers in an outlet, or turn something hot on her.”       “But it’s alright, we will get through it,” Amelia says confidently. “Do and get a second child.”       “Second child?” Raquelle rounds her eyes. “Do you want to become parents again?”       “Yeah, we’d like to have another baby,” Amelia says. “Not sure if I can get pregnant at my age. But we’re able to do IVF or take someone from an orphan house.”       “If you’re able to raise them, it’s alright. Children are amazing!”       “One beautiful day, you’ll have to get through the mother trouble,” Amelia says with a mysterious smile.       “We don’t wanna rush yet. When it happens, it will happen. We don’t have a goal to become parents immediately.”       “Anyway, don’t delay this thing for too long,” Raphael advises. “When you’re ready, start working on it. We couldn’t do this for several years. We almost lost hope when we received the news about the long-awaited pregnancy.”       “I sense that my aunt and grandfather are gonna tell me that I need to give birth to a child as soon as possible,” Raquelle laughs shyly.       “They just don’t want you to be alone,” Amelia notices. “You know how it’s bad to be alone! Ask your grandfather and aunt! Their close people died: Mr. Cameron’s wife and son, Alicia’s husband, sister, and parents… They only have you. And who would they live for if they didn’t have anyone?”       “It will surely happen, Amelia,” Natalia assures. “Don’t worry. I will surely have a child with my beloved man.”       “And I will surely introduce my children to your Hailey,” Raquelle promises.       “My daughter easily gets along with children on the playgrounds,” Raphael notices. “Hailey always tries to join a company, plays with them in the sandbox, and builds something. And she got along with Amanda quickly. Although the girls have a big age difference, they have pleasure playing together when Alicia brings her daughter to our home.”       “I’m happy,” Raquelle smiles shyly. “And I hope Hailey will become smart and beautiful.”       “I wish, Raquelle, I wish.”       “By the way, Raquelle, do you remember I told you your trouble would be over soon?” Amelia asks.       “Erm, yeah…” Raquelle nods hesitantly.       “So, they are over now! Now everything is going to be alright in your life. I don’t see any suffering in your life. I don’t see any losses or shocking things. The lines on your hands let me know it clearly.”       “Erm, that’s how…” Raquelle stutters as she bites her lip.       “The same about you, Natalia.” Amelia moves her eyes to Natalia. “Your life with your husband will be calm and happy.”       “Really?” Natalia surprises.       “Yes, sweetie. The lines on your hands say you’ll live in peace, too, after your wedding.”       “Did you know Terrence would be my destiny?” Raquelle asks.       “No, I didn’t. Palmistry can’t tell us about these things in all details. But as you can see, you met your destiny. You met the one you were destined to spend your life with. And… I guess I made you believe in a miracle for a moment.”       “Yeah, right… I’ve actually never believed in divination and magic. But what happened to me is a real miracle.”       “And after I found out about your talk with her, I wanted you to read my hands too,” Natalia confesses shyly. “I wanted to know if I’d get married to a good man. Or I’d have to spend my whole life all alone.”       “You’re destined to have just one marriage, darling,” Amelia notices. “If you and Edward work hard, your relationship will be strong and bring happiness to both of you.”       “I’ll do my best to make it real.”       “Terrence and Edward will be amazing husbands and literally give you the whole world if you don’t give a damn about them and become good and loyal wives to them.”       “No, Amelia, I’ll no longer make the same mistakes,” Raquelle promises. “It’s all different now. I’m no longer the one to be obsessed with her career that you knew back then. Now, a family is more important to me. The decision to get married is conscious. And I didn’t make it under the pressure of my family, my friends, or anyone else.”       “I know. But I want you and Natalia to remember that the men are waiting for you at home and want your attention, love, and care. They don’t want just to give. They also want to get.”       “Anyway, thank you so much for your divination,” Natalia thanks.       “If you ever need my help, you can always ask me about it. If you wanna know something about your present or future, I will be happy to tell you everything.”       “Thanks, Amelia,” Raquelle smiles shyly.       “Congrats on your wedding again,” Raphael congratulates. “I really like your husbands and believe you made a good choice.”       “Thanks, Raphael,” Natalia wishes.       After sharing a slight smile, Raquelle and Natalia take Amelia and Raphael in an amicable hug. And when they step away from each other and want to talk about something else, they are stopped by the quiet bark of Sammy coming to them along with Benjamin, Blair, Cassidy, and Kylie.”       “Hey, guys, what are you doing here?” Benjamin asks.       “Well, just talking,” Natalia smiles shyly.       “Go now! Ashton is gonna turn on the music for the wedding dance.”       “Really?” Raquelle surprises. “It’s time?”       “Let’s go, girls!” Kylie exclaims happily. “I wanna look at you dance with the men.”       “Okay, we’re leaving then,” Amelia says softly.       “Yeah, guys, join us,” Raphael adds.       Amelia takes Raphael under her arm and goes to the place where everyone starts coming together.       “Whatcha waiting for?” Cassidy wonders. “C’mon, girls! Let’s go! The grooms wanna dance with you!”       “And then we all will be dancing!” Kylie adds happily.       “C’mon, let’s go!” Blair jabs excitedly. “DJ is about to turn the music on!”       Blair takes Benjamin under his arm and takes him aside, while Cassidy and Kylie push Raquelle and Natalia forward, take them under their arms, and go to the same side, while Sammy runs after them quickly with his tongue.       “Oh, where are the brides?” Daniel wonders, standing with Anna, Helene, and Peter, and waiting for the wedding dance. “Where did they go?”       “Yeah, the girls have been too busy talking with the guests,” Peter says thoughtfully.       “Uh-huh, the grooms are waiting for them, but these cuties don’t show up,” Anna notices.       “Relax, guys!” Helene exclaims. “The girls are coming!”       At this moment, Raquelle and Natalia show up and come to Terrence and Edward, while Benjamin, Blair, Cassidy, and Kylie join the guests.       “Finally, girls!” Terrence exclaims. “Where have you been?”       “We’ve been waiting for you!” Edward adds.       “Sorry, guys, we got busy talking with Amelia and Raphael,” Natalia apologizes shyly. “About our destiny.”       “Uh-huh, she said we’d get married to the irresistible pretty boys, who would make me happy. And whom we’d give to nobody!”       “And we will not give you,” Terrence says and hugs Raquelle by the waist. “You can’t run away from us now, dollies!”       “And you’re proudly called our wives now,” Edward smiles widely, hugging Natalia around the waist.       “And you’re called our husbands,” Raquelle smiles shyly.       The newlyweds fall into silence and just smile shyly at each other, while the guests whisper about something with each other with slight smiles on their faces, and fix the clothes and the hair of the little children after they spent a lot of time playing together, and with Sammy being next to Helene and Peter, who put the dog in order too.       Some time later, the lights turn off in the room. Everybody sees only bright lightbulbs placed on the ceiling. The guests hear Ashton’s announcement of the wedding dance of the bride and the groom and greet them with his plea. Natalia and Edward and Raquelle and Terrence, holding their sweetheart’s hand, go to the center of the room along with the loud applause. The men keep their leads proudly raised and shoulders spread, while the beauties, who took off their veils, keep their backs perfectly straight and disarm everyone with their stunning charm. When the applause ends, Ashton presses some buttons for two seconds on the remote control so that slow piano music starts playing in the room, along with which the men hug the girls by the waist with one arm and take their hand, while the girls put their second hand on their shoulder.       While the intro plays, the newlyweds look into each other’s eyes and start dancing very slowly and smoothly. The guests watch it with wide smiles on their faces, noticing that the girls and the men are very confident, have good dancing skills, and feel the rhythm. Many gloomy and severe at first sight men cannot stay indifferent, and the relatives of the grooms and the brides barely hold down their tears of happiness. The guests do not notice that they start shaking with the rhythm, and the taken men hug their beloved women tighter, kiss them sweetly, and share a tender glance with them.       The newlyweds themselves are dancing for their pleasure, not paying attention to what’s happening around and looking into each other’s eyes. Edward and Terrence can turn Natalia and Raquelle around themselves or lean them beautifully back, holding them tightly so that they do not fall. Both couples dance confidently and graciously in the entire room, following the rhythm and not caring about the photographers and directors picturing them from all sides, as well as the guests with smartphones.       “Gosh, Terrence dances so beautifully!” Alicia admires with a wide smile.       “Uh-huh,” Frederick nods. “He’s very confident.”       “And how imitable Edward is!” Letitia exclaims.       “My gosh!” Rebecca admires with a wide smile. “I didn’t know my sons could dance so well.”       “Can’t deny,” Maximilian agrees. “The guys are really amazing!”       “Agree,” Jamie agrees. “Edward and Terrence are awesome!”       “Where did they learn to?” Lilian wonders.       “You'd better look at how smoothly and graciously Natalia and Raquelle move!” Rebecca smiles widely. “How gracious, tender, and feminine they are…”       “Yeah,” Anthony agrees with a slight smile. “The girls are awesome.”       “You’re right!” Alicia exclaims. “All their movements are so smooth, tender… And they can hear the music and dance with the rhythm.”       “I didn’t know my granddaughter could dance so beautifully…” Frederick confesses thoughtfully.       “Several years Natalia spent at a dance school were worth it,” Letitia smiles shyly.       “Really?” Rebecca surprises. “Natalia went to a dance school?”       “Yes, ball dances. My daughter began to dance when hearing some music at an early age. And she did it really well. When Anthony and I asked her if she wanted to go to a dance school, our daughter agreed. So, we brought Natalia to a dance school where she went for a few years.”       “But why did she stop to?” Jamie asks.       “She began to get exhausted due to studies and dances. And since the first thing was more important, we insisted that Natalia was focused on her exams.”       “And when she went to the university, she was choosing between a dance, an art, and a design faculty,” Adriana confesses. “And since Natalia got really interested in fashion, she chose the third one.”       “But it’s clear that the girl didn’t forget everything she learned,” Rebecca smiles shyly. “She keeps her back straight! Keeps her neck up! Gorgeous! She’s got grace!”       “Yeah, you better tell me how Edward and Terrence learned to dance so well?” Anthony surprises. “They move wonderfully and remain very confident!”       “I think the guys took after Rebecca,” Jamie smiles shyly. “When she was young, she danced wonderfully and loved that.”       “But I didn’t go to a dance school, I went to a gym school,” Rebecca confesses.       “You went to a gym school?” Adriana surprises.       “I did it for several years when I was a kid. My parents decided to bring me to a gym school because I was flexible since childhood. They wanted me to be a famous gymnast. Yes, I had the pleasure of going there, but I somehow got a serious back trauma, after which I spent a lot of time recovering and almost ended up confined to a wheelchair. No one talked about continuing. So, I had to quit it.”       “Whoa…” Alicia surprises.       “But the consequences of that trauma let me know about it at times. That’s why I had two caesarean sections when my boys should’ve been born. If I’d decided to give birth by myself, it would’ve led to some very serious consequences.”       “Edward definitely got your flexibility,” Jamie assumes. “When he was a kid, he sometimes struck some poses that I was scared of! I was worried he’d break something. But no, he felt good! But I couldn’t do that even when I was eighteen!”       “But you’ve also always danced well.”       “Right,” Jamie raises his head proudly with a slight smile. “I was a king of the dancepool somehow… Edward and Terrence’s daddy gave everybody a hot, and they shouted in admiration! M-m-m…”       “Your sons are really incredible,” Frederick says confidently. “They move well and feel the rhythm. They are very confident! Doing a good job!”       “Yeah, Mr. and Mr. MacClife have much to be proud of,” Alicia smiles shyly.       “Absolutely agree with you!” Victoria exclaims. “Edward is just imitable. He sings beautifully, plays a guitar, writes songs, and dances perfectly.”       “He is so confident while dancing that it seems like he has spent half of his life at a dance school,” Frederick notices.       “Or several months to learn this dance,” Adriana smiles shyly.       “No, they didn’t learn any dance,” Alicia replies confidently. “Just like in the case of their pledges, they are doing what they want.”       “Anyway, Natalia and Edward and Raquelle and Terrence are dancing amazingly.”       “Wow, how fast a shy, hesitant boy turned to a confident man, who knows who he is,” Victoria says with her head proudly raised.       “But now we know everything he can do!” Frederick exclaims cheerfully.       “Ah, how beautifully he moves!” Victoria smiles much wider. “I’m delighted! And his gorgeous partner is no less beautiful.”       “The truth is true, Mrs. Richardson,” Rebecca smiles shyly. “The two are incredible.”       “I like Terrence and Raquelle, too, though. They are all doing a good job!”       “Can’t disagree with you!”       At some moment, the guests start clapping their hands quietly, while Edward and Natalia and Terrence and Raquelle start dancing much more confidently, throwing any insecurity aside. The brides’ long skirts and long wavy hair move from one side to another, while the men dance with them in the whole room, twist them around themselves, and lean them back, holding them by the back. Somewhere in the middle of the song, they add some romantic moments, letting themselves a little bit of flirt and tender caress. And they hear the loud applause when Terrence and Edward lift Raquelle and Natalia from the floor and wrap them around several times, taking them in their arms at some moment. While the brides themselves do not hide their wide smile and literally whoop in happiness along with someone in the crowd, who says something like, “C’mon! Do it again!”       At some moment, silence settles in the air, during which the eyes of the grooms look into the eyes of the brides, while they all freeze in different poses, feeling the smell of the expensive perfume getting into their noses. There is a great temptation to start a tender kiss before everybody. And they cannot hold down a laugh when Sammy’s demanding bark breaks the silence as if he says, “Kiss each other, at last!” Nevertheless, the newlyweds put themselves together quickly and keep dancing in the entire room along with the claps of the guests. Closer to the end, Raquelle and Natalia spend some time dancing together around themselves and twist around together several times as they hold each other’s hands, while Terrence and Edward go aside and just watch them with wide smiles, keeping their heads proudly raised and their backs perfectly straight. But at some moment, the brothers join the dance of the brides beautifully, twisting the girls around themselves and starting to hold them tightly with both arms after leaning them back graciously.       While the lovers look closely into each other’s eyes, not holding down their smiles, everyone in the room starts applauding loudly, whistling, shouting, and telling a lot of compliments, along with the loud bark of the jumping Sammy. Breathing a little heavily, Edward and Natalia and Terrence and Raquelle keep their positions for two or three seconds before the men place the girls on their feet, hug them tightly, and lift them up for two moments while they put their arms around their necks. Along with applause and such shouts like, “Bravo!”, “Well done!”, “Good job!”, the brides hold their sweethearts’ faces with both hands and give each other a tender kiss on the lips, which they answer with pleasure, putting a hand on the back of the girls’ heads and running their second hand through the female hair falling off beautifully from their shoulders. After they step away, the four stand in the line, take each other’s hands, turn to the guests, and bow at them, while everyone keeps applauding loudly.       “That was cool!” Harold encourages with a wide smile. “Dance again!”       “Yes, yes, dance!” Amanda claps her hands happily. “Dance!       “Plea-a-a-a-ase!” Shannon pronounces.       “I want more!” Hailey exclaims. “More!”       “The children are right!” George agrees confidently.       “Indeed, newlyweds, make us happy one more time,” Scarlett says cheerfully,       “No, folks!” Edward protests with a wide smile, looking at everybody. “We all will dance! Get out and rock on!”       “Yea-a-ah!” Gordon whoops happily. “Time to dance”       “I’ve been waiting for this forever!” Derek confesses with a wide smile.       “So what, ladies and gentlemen!” Terrence pronounces cheerfully. “Let’s start our party! And dance while our legs can hold us?”       “We’re asking everyone to get out!” Natalia pronounces cheerfully.       “C’mon, folks, get out!” Raquelle encourages funnily.       “Get out, everyone!” Terrence exclaims. “No shyness, damn all the problems!”       “Ashton, turn on the best music!” Edward says. “Make everybody come here! From children to adults!”       “So, everyone, I pronounce the party in honor of the long-awaited wedding open!” Ashton says confidently. “I hope you are ready to have fun until late at night?”       Everyone in the room whoops happily, even though the young people are much more active than the adults.       “No, no, I can’t hear you! Louder! Cheerful! You’re ready or not?”       “Yea-a-ah!” the guests pronounce loudly at a different time.       “Then have fun along with your favorite hits of all time! Children and adults are welcome! Everyo-o-o-o-o-one!”       Several seconds later, the music starts playing at full volume in the room. Everyone here likes it at the first chords. Someone hesitates at first. Someone rushes into the dance pool and starts dancing hard. But some time later, all the guests join the grooms and brides. Even Sammy goes to the dancepool, showing his talents in dancing and entertaining the people with his funny tricks. Recognizing their favorite songs, the adults and the elderly decide not to stay aside and dance for pleasure, in the way they can, due to their skills and age. Everyone leaves their doubts and shyness behind and lets themselves have fun to the fullest and sing along with the famous songs, even if they do not always know all the lyrics.       Anyway, the young people and the children hang out much more. They all laugh a lot, sing along, play the fool with each other, laugh at those who do something funny, and do not forget to take a couple of photos and videos on their phones. Long dresses and heels do not stop the girls from hanging out to the fullest, and everyone easily finds company without having to dance all alone. They do it without a so-called train, silent competitions, and a surprise dance from the drunk groomsmen that makes everyone laugh until they cry. And encourages the bridesmaids to call them for a funny battle, in which they all honestly try to show everything they can do, but do not miss a chance to make an innocent joke at someone. And every romantic moment between the guests and the newlyweds always happens along with the wild applause and whoops.       The photographers and the operators keep picturing what’s happening, and some guests take several photos and videos on their phones and pose for everyone alone, in couples, or with the full company. They pronounce some toasts and drink for the health and the happiness of the newlyweds, repeating the same wishes again and again for Edward, Natalia, Terrence, and Raquelle, while Sammy congratulates the newlyweds in his own language. The grooms and the brides also have the pleasure of dancing with their parents and each other’s relatives, hugging each other touchingly, and saying something warm in the end. The adults and the old people behave shyly most of the time, but they do not refuse to dance and laugh, while the young people have much more fun and are not shy of anything. If they want loudly, they do! Make silly faces for the cameras of mobile phones and cameras of the photographers and the operators – no problem.       The newlyweds do not forget each other and often come together to raise their glasses, say a couple of toasts, dance, and just talk about something, relaxing fully by this moment and forgetting that they did not know what to do about their panic attack and the fear they had been obsessed with before being pronounced as husbands and wives.       “Congratulations, newlyweds,” Amelia says with a slight smile when she comes to the newlyweds at some moment. “You made the right choice.”       “Thanks a lot, Amelia,” Edward thanks.       “I’ve already said it to the girls, and I want to say to you, guys. If you want to live in a healthy, happy marriage, you should make an effort. And do not get stuck on yourself. Otherwise, you will not avoid problems.”       “Don’t worry, Amelia,” Terrence says confidently. “We will do our best for our marriages to be strong and happy.”       “I warned Raquelle about the consequences before, but she didn’t listen to me back then. She didn’t understand that I said all of that for a reason.”       “Did you really know everything that was happening in the life of Raquelle and Terrence?” Edward surprises.       “Well, not everything, of course. But a lot. I knew they’d have relationship issues. I know the third person may be standing in their way. I knew their relationship wouldn’t always be wonderful, and their life together would be like a volcano.”       “Is that palmistry?”       “Exactly, my sweetie! It can’t give you such detailed forecasts. But it can tell you something about their past, their present, and their future. Drop some hints, so to speak.”       “Uh-h-h… Yeah… But…” Edward scratches his temple. “Honestly, I treat all of that skeptically.”       “You don’t believe?”       “We both don’t believe in magic,” Terrence confesses. “We apologize to you, but Edward and I don’t believe in psychics, fortune tellers, and others.”       “It’s not magic,” Amelia protests. “And I am not a wizard or a psychic. Palmistry is a very old way of reading. No magic. You should just know the meaning of lines on a palm and know how to connect everything.”       “Nobody knows what’s waiting for us,” Edward shrugs.       “Want me to prove that I am not wrong. Your passive hand can say what you’re destined to, and your active hand can say what’s changed in your life after your actions.”       “So what, do I read?”       “No… No, thanks, Amelia, don’t do.”       “Why? Don’t be afraid!”       “I’m not afraid. I just don’t care about it.’       “I would quickly look at your hands and say what’s waiting for you.”       “But it doesn’t mean your words may come true?” Terrence specifies.       “There are cases when palmistry says one thing, but another thing happens in someone’s life. But I’m actually never wrong.”       “That’s how…”       “So what? Let’s check?”       “No…” Terrence shakes his head. “I don’t want.”       “Alright. But I want to say one thing: I don’t actually need to see your hands to say something. I mean, I don’t have to look at Terrence’s hands. I’ve seen the lines on his palm thanks to photos on the Internet.”       “Yeah?” Terrence frowns slightly.       “Although it was barely possible to see something, I managed to see a lot.” Amelia smiles mysteriously. “For example, I guessed something was threatening you when your uncle was threatening you. I saw you’d run into something terrible. And discover something that would change much in your life.”       “Really?” Terrence surprises truly.       “Besides, I knew trouble would happen to your sister-in-law from now on.”       “You looked at her hands, too?” Edward surprises.       “Natalia asked me to read her fate and sent me photos of her hands through Alicia. So, I saw she should’ve experienced several bad things, one of which would have impacted her a lot. I mean, the rape attempt, the breakup with her sweetheart, and the kidnapping by your uncle.”       “So, did you guess that something could happen?”       “I did,” Amelia smiles slightly. “And I’m gonna say more: I knew something bad would happen when Terrence and Raquelle reconciled, and Alicia was ready to return home. And yeah, let’s remember that there was a moment when you all thought Edward was bad and thought he was an accomplice of his uncle and hiding his real identity. But something told me that he wasn’t actually so terrible, as it seemed. He was just misunderstood.”       “Okay,” Edward exhales sharply. “You can check my hands if you want.”       Amelia spends several seconds looking at the hands Edward reached out and looks closely at the lines, noticing something silently.       “So, man…” Amelia pronounces thoughtfully. “Everything is clear.”       “What’s clear?” Edward frowns slightly.       “I won’t get you exhausted with talks about what you know. I’ll just say that your life will be full of new impressions. Good impressions. You will not be happy with a quiet life. You’ll always look for something that would keep you in shape. And I think… Many things will happen to you. A family life, a work with your band, a work with other artists… You will have no time to feel bored. You will always find a way to spend your energy that you’re full to the brim with.”       “Just like we thought,” Raquelle smiles shyly. “Edward will never live quietly.”       “But don’t worry, this guy will not give you any problems,” Amelia assures with a slight smile. “He’s already found a way to spend his endless energy. And all Edward did before was made for attention on him and for a wish to release adrenaline.”       “Let’s believe you’ll be right,” Terrence expresses hope.       “Thanks, Amelia,” Edward thanks. “You definitely gave us relief.”       “Glad you’re happy now.” Amelia glances aside. “Oh, I think it’s time for slow dances now. So, go dance a little. Enjoy this day and get used to your new status and the wedding rings on your hands.”       Amelia smiling mysteriously turns around and comes to Raphael waiting for her at the table alongside Hailey sitting on his lap and pointing at something with her little finger. Terrence, Natalia, Edward, and Raquelle watch her questioningly, look at each other, and shrug.       “You think she told us the truth?” Edward frowns slightly. “Or she just calms us down?"       “I dunno…” Terrence replies thoughtfully. “But she hit the bullseye!”       “At least, she’s confirmed your words about Edward never being able to stand in the same place and live a quiet life,” Natalia notices.       “That was obviously clear!”       “At least, she didn’t say we’d have serious problems in our lives,” Raquelle notices. “Amelia somehow said there would be many terrible things in my life before peace would finally come into my life. And it seems that her words are coming true.”       “Alright, maybe there’s some meaning to all of this,” Terrence exhales sharply. “I ain’t look like magic.”       “Okay, guys,” Natalia pronounces quietly, clapping Terrence on the shoulder. “Let’s talk about it later.”       “Yeah, let’s better dance a little,” Raquelle suggests, keeping her hand on Edward’s shoulder.       “Uh-huh, surprise everyone with our dance skills again,” Terrence smiles slyly.       “Although they saw everything, I don’t mind showing who’s the best here again,” Edward says with his head proudly raised.       Terrence, Natalia, Raquelle, and Edward laugh shyly and come to the talking Daniel, Anna, Peter, and Helene, while some guests get ready to dance with someone in a couple and are waiting for Ashton to finally turn on the music.       “Finally, guys!” Helene exclaims. “Where do you always go?”       “We’ve been looking for you!” Anna adds.       “We didn’t disappear,” Terrence shrugs. “Just talked to each other and Amelia.”       “Yeah?” Daniel surprises. “We thought you were finding out who looked better!”       “Uh-huh, and take the crown of the king home,” Peter laughs shyly.       “Listen, it’s strange that the MacClife bros hug and shower each other with compliments more than fight today,” Anna notices.       “Oh, we’re shocked too!” Raquelle throws funnily.       “Of course, the boys sometimes talk about their awesomeness, but they take it kinda quietly,” Helene adds.       “I am kind today!” Edward exclaims. “Don’t wanna hurt my bro, who’s got such an important day today.”       “And I’ve got a much more interesting thing than kicking the ass of my little bro,” Terrence smiles slyly, hugging Raquelle by the waist. “I’ll do this later.”       “Oh, everything’s clear about you!” Peter waves his hand.       “It’s okay, the MacClife bros will rock on later,” Daniel adds. “Make up for the whole lost day when they said nothing bad to each other.”       “We’ll think about it tomorrow,” Edward says confidently, hugs Natalia by the waist, and looks at Terrence, Raquelle, Daniel, Anna, Helene, and Peter. “But now let’s dance and have fun!”       “It’s gonna get freaking hot here!” Daniel says confidently with his head proudly raised, hugging Anna by the waist. “We will give a free dance lesson and show ‘em how to dance.”       “Uh-huh, but don’t hurt Anna’s feet,” Terrence chuckles kindly. “Or the girl will never wish to dance with you ‘cause you haven’t learned not to be a log.”       “Oh, okay, it’s good!” Peter exclaims confidently, putting his arm around Helene’s neck. “We trained him a little, and he learned something. He was pretty good during dance battles and a dance of the groomsmen!”       “Everyone laughed at you during those dance battles,” Helene says with a slight smile.       “Why laughed?” Daniel surprises. “Everybody was delighted by what we were doing!”       “Everybody admired what we were doing!” Anna smiles innocently. “Because the girls and I were the best.”       “Of course, you were awesome, beauties,” Peter replies with his head proudly raised. “But I think the boys and I weren’t worse. Maybe even a little better.”       “Yeah!” Daniel exclaims. “We can’t do something badly! Everything we do is just incredible!”       “Okay, boys, stop bragging to yourself,” Helene rolls her eyes. “Get ready to dance.”       When Ashton finally turns on the music, which is good for slow dances, some couples go in the middle of the room with their sweethearts, hug them tightly, and start just shaking in the same place as they talk about something with their partner. Some adults do not stand aside and get out to dance, too. Cody fulfils his dream of dancing with Olivia, and Joseph pays attention to Odette and gets along with her easily. The children have fun together and play with Sammy in the view of their families, and the single men are standing aside and still looking for a couple among the single girls. But they do not rush to. And they prefer to talk to each other more, eat something they are offered by the waiter, drink champagne, laugh a lot, and do not forget to take photos and videos of the most interesting moments.       “Gosh, I can’t believe you and I are married now,” Raquelle says with a slight smile, shaking slightly with the rhythm of the music along with Terrence.       “I still can’t believe it, either,” Terrence smiles shyly. “Can’t escape the feeling that it’s not happening to me. And I’m glad Edward and Natalia got married, too.”       “I’m so happy we’re a family now. And my friend finally fulfilled her dream and got married.”       “Both of them are so happy. Can’t stop admiring them when I look at them.”       At this moment, Terrence and Raquelle watch secretly Natalia and Edward dance not far from them and talk about something as they hold each other in a strong hug.       “They’re kinda made for each other,” Raquelle notices with a shy smile. “None of Natalia’s exes can be compared with Edward. I didn’t like any of those I knew personally.”       “I think Edward always chose decent girls,” Terrence assumes. “I must admit that he’s got good taste. He’s quite picky about girls and only pays attention to special ones.”       “Maybe his exes were really good. But they can’t be compared with my friend.”       “My bro is madly lucky to get such a wonderful girl.”       “There were many candidates for her heart, but there’s just one guy who appreciated Natalia the way she should’ve been.”       “I hope they will be happy together. May their life be full of positivity, and may their family be strong.”       “I sense that our families are dreaming of us introducing them to grandchildren already.”       “That’s right!” Terrence laughs shyly. “The parents of Edward and me have already begun to talk a lot about introducing them to their grandchildren as soon as possible.”       “Now, when you two are married, they’re gonna talk about it literally during every one of your visits to their home.”       “Someday they’ll surely take their grandchildren in their arms and spend a lot of time with them.”       “Of course, sweetheart. You should always make a child with someone you love.” Raquelle puts her arms around Terrence’s neck and kisses him sweetly on the lips. “The one to be my husband now.”       “It warms up my soul.”       “Mine too.”       Terrence smiles much wider, presses Raquelle closer to himself, and kisses her sweetly on the cheek, while she smiles widely and takes his hand that she is holding tighter.       “Hey, how are ya feeling?” Terrence asks. “Tired?”       “It’s amazing, but nope,” Raquelle confesses. “Though I had to wake up at six o’clock to do everything.”       “Not just you, Raquelle. Not just you.”       “But all of that was worth it. The wedding turned out to be much better than I expected. So… We can be happy with ourselves and each other.”       “And we can relax fully. Talk with the guests, eat, dance, drink champagne.”       “The important thing is not to drink too much,” Raquelle notices funnily. “We must not be ashamed of the guests, among whom there are many respectful people from the show business.”       “Well, as I can see, the groomsmen have already drunk a lot since they’re so funny and wanna dance so badly.”       “Is it possible to sit when Ashton turns on such amazing music? Legs go to dance by themselves!”       “Gotta agree!” Terrence twirls Raquelle around herself and keeps moving along with the rhythm with her, holding the girl’s free hand. “It’s a great honor for me to dance with a beauty like you. Who is now all mine by law.”       “I was thinking of you when choosing my look,” Raquelle smiles shyly.       “Of course, you’re my sexy chic, who can have me excited by doing nothing. But today, you drive me much crazier.”       “I knew you’d like it. I tried hard for you.”       “You make me feel prouder and prouder.”       “I’ve gotta match my pretty boy.” Raquelle leaves a short kiss on Terrence's chin and brings her face close to his. “Who looks stunning, too, today.”       “Did you doubt it?” Terrence leaves a couple of kisses on the corners of Raquelle’s mouth. “Did ya doubt the beauty king would dare to lower the bar?”       “I would never dare!”       “By the way, I must also match one of the sexiest girls in the world.” Terrence runs his hand over Raquelle’s back up and down and presses her much closer to himself. “Prove that you chose me for the reason.”       “I didn’t choose ya. You came to me.”       “Ar-r-r! If only you knew how much I want you.”       Terrence twirls Raquelle around herself again.       “How much I wanna take this dress off you and give all my love to your body,” Terrence confesses in a much lower voice.       “I’m sorry, but you have to hold yourself down now,” Raquelle upsets. “You can’t undress me and fuck me hard right here. Because there are people around. Many people.”       “But I want you so bad…” Terrence leaves a short kiss on the area behind Raquelle’s ear and runs his lips over it, while she smiles shyly. “I want you as my wife-in-law.”       “You’ll get, but you’ll have to play by my rules first,” Raquelle replies confidently and runs her fingers shyly over Terrence’s chest as she looks into his eyes. “I wanna undress you too and admire your gorgeous body. Give my love to the one. And drive you crazy as hard as never before.”       “My body is so ready for your caress and kisses.” Terrence leaves a short kiss on Raquelle’s lips. “And my ‘buddy’ is impatiently waiting for you to work your lips and please it.”       “Well, I’ll think about it…” Raquelle fixes Terrence's collar slightly and runs her thumb over his lips. “But know that it’s gonna much hotter than ever tonight. The untamed tiger is gonna go wild and show everything she can do.”       “You know, doll, I ain’t gonna be sweet and fluffy tonight,” Terrence smiles slyly and runs the front of his hand over Raquelle’s cheek. “I’ve got very many plans for you. I’m gonna have fun to the fullest on our first marriage night. By law, just saying.”       “You will. If you handle what I’m gonna do.”       “M-m-m, decided to tease me?”       “Nope, not at all. Just preparing you for having my hands to caress your body enough. The naked one…”       “Okay, okay, babe, you can keep resisting and exciting me,” Terrence smiles shyly. “I’ve already found the keys to your door and can open it without problems.”       “They won’t fit tonight.”       “Don’t worry, when my hands touch your most sensitive areas, you’ll melt immediately. You’re gonna bend like a cat and moan sensually.”       “Don’t be so confident, MacClife.”       “You won’t dare to argue with me now. Because you’re my wife. You belong to me only. And I’ll give you to nobody.”       “If you dare to escape from me, you’ll regret it!” Raquelle grabs Terrence tightly by the collar as she sets her eyes into his eyes. “I’ll take you by force and punish you hard.”       “Oh, I’m so scared!” Terrence laughs shyly.       “I warned you, pretty boy. You’re on my hook.”       “Just like you are, queen of my heart.” Terrence caresses Raquelle’s cheeks with both hands and puts them to the curves of her waist. “Do you remember I somehow said I’d make you mine? When you protested so hard and said you’d never love me!”       “It was one of the craziest things I’d done,” Raquelle confesses. “Loving you is a real madness.”       “Your body understood it much earlier than your head.” Terrence starts caressing Raquelle’s back with both hands. “It answered me back after the first touch. Even though you showed up and pretended to be hard to reach.”       “But you’re gonna have to work hard to get my gorgeous body that all men in the world dream about, just like you did back then,” Raquelle smiles mysteriously. “To get a chance just to touch it.”       “It’s not a big deal to me.” Terrence leaves a short kiss on Raquelle’s lips. “I’m ready to caress and kiss your body forever. Ready to admire what I got with blood and sweat. As a result of long and hard work.”       “Ar-r-r, I can’t wait to take this suit off you, lie you on the bed, and start to caress every part of your body,” Raquelle growls irritably. “Kiss all your most sensitive areas slowly…”       “Aw, bitch, you get me excited!”       “Tame your lust, horndog!”       “It’s okay, you have a little time. I’ll hang out to the fullest and give you the best night of your life. Our first sex won’t seem to you as memorable as our first marriage night.”       “M-m-m…”       Terrence gets Raquelle involved in a continuous kiss on the lips, which she answers to with pleasure, putting her hands on his cheeks, while his hands are placed on her back and thighs. Despite a wish to go further, the newlyweds do try to behave discreetly, talking about everything sweetly and dancing for pleasure. Even though they do not miss a chance to say something dirty in each other’s ears to excite them a little.       “We’ve finally become spouses,” Natalia says with a slight smile, dancing with Edward on the other side. “And I’m still thinking this is a dream…”       “It all seems something unreal to me, as well,” Edward confesses shyly. “But I finally married you, and you became a part of my family.”       “My head literally goes around because of what’s happening. So many emotions, so many events…”       “Agree. My head also goes around.”       “As I said in front of the priest, I promise to do my best to make you much happier. And I hope you won’t be disappointed in choosing me.”       “No, Natalia, I won’t disappoint,” Edward shakes his head. “I did know what I was gonna do and thought about my decision very well. And I promise we would be very happy together. You will not regret it, sweetie.”       “If only you knew how happy I am that I’m gonna live with my beloved man and have the proud status of his wife,” Natalia smiles shyly.       “Just like I am proud to call myself your husband,” Edward replies confidently with a slight smile.       “Aw, Edward…” Natalia kisses Edward cutely on the cheek with a wide smile and rubs the tip of her nose against it. “Sweetheart…”       At some moment, Edward twirls Natalia around herself and keeps moving with the rhythm, hugging her by the waist with one arm and taking her hand with his free hand.       “You know, beautiful…” Edward pronounces with a slight smile. “Of course, I didn’t doubt you’d be incredible today. But I didn’t think you’d be so attractive and radiant.”       “It’s all for you, sweetheart,” Natalia smiles shyly. “I was thinking of you when reflecting on my look. So that you liked everything. So that you’re admired.”       “I’m more than just admired.” Edward kisses Natalia on the cheek with a wide smile and kisses the corners of her mouth. “Wanna always look at you and admire you.”       “Look as much as you want. I can wrap around me so that you can see me from all sides.”       “Ah, it’s too bad that we have to be shy before the people,” Edward says quietly, running his hand slowly over Natalia’s back. “If there were nobody around, I’d have the pleasure to give you all my love and caresses.”       “M-m-m, you can’t wait?”       “I can’t!” Edward brings his face closer to Natalia’s ear to whisper something. “I want you… Wanna make you mine…”       “Wait for a while, kitty,” Natalia replies in a low, nice voice with a mysterious smile, caressing Edward’s cheek and running her hand over his chest. “Soon, we’ll finally stay alone. I’ll finally undress you and look at your gorgeous body. Give it much more attention than ever.”       “M-m-m, how impatient you are…” Edward purrs.       “As if you’re ready to wait.”       “If you keep walking in front of me like this and start teasing me, I will not be able to be responsible for my actions.”       “Then I won’t tell you what I wanna do to you in advance. Though I shall show you everything I can do tonight. Everything I’ve wanted to do for a long time.”       “If I get through what I’ve been wishing to show you for a long time.”       “You’re gonna work for a long time, honey. I’m even kinda sorry for you.”       “It’s okay, my blue-eyed beauty, you won’t pretend to be hard-to-reach for too long and will give up on me quickly,” Edward says with a sly smile in a low voice.       “We will see!” Natalia exclaims with her head proudly raised. “See who’s gonna be the first one to lose their mind!”       “Get ready to moan and bend, babe. I advise you to warm up your vocal cords and your body enough.”       “Get cool, pretty boy. You’re at the wrong place.”       “Too bad… I’d start undressing you slowly…”       “Wearing the suit?”       “Well, if you wanna look at my gorgeous naked body, which I worked really hard on for several weeks before today, you can take it off.”       “By the way, have I told you that I’ve got a thing for men in suits?”       “I believe all girls love guys wearing suits.”       “I’m falling in love with you more and more because you’re wearing this gorgeous suit. And… I would be very happy if you wore it often. Wear jackets to provoke me, make me want you, and lose my mind.”       “Okay, I’m gonna take a note…”       Edward twists Natalia around herself while dancing with a sly smile, puts his hand on her waist, and presses the girl to himself. After sharing a tender glance, they look around quickly and notice Terrence and Raquelle laughing shyly and dancing.       “So…” Natalia pronounces thoughtfully. “Our families are gonna start annoying us with questions about a child.”       “We’ll get them someday,” Edward replies confidently and caresses Natalia’s cheek tenderly. “Not just one. I want a big, amicable family. Who knows, maybe I’ll be the first member of the MacClife family to have a daughter. Nobody has done it yet. Everybody has had only boys.”       “But our sonny would be so handsome…”       “Just like our daughter. And if my beauty is expecting a child, I’ll surround her with much more love and care. I’ll do anything she wants at her first plea.”       “Aw, sweetheart…” Natalia smiles widely and gives Edward a couple of tender short kisses on the lips, putting her arms around his neck and pressing herself closely to him. “How caring and careful you are.”       “Because I love my little girl,” Edward smiles shyly and does the same thing as Natalia, hugging her by the waist with both arms. “My baby that I’ll give to nobody. As I said in front of the priest, we’ll be together until death do us part.”       “Never, my sunshine. Never.”       “Natalia… My beauty… My…”       Edward does not speak his mind because Natalia shuts him up with a kiss on the lips, which she stops two seconds later. Then she looks into his eyes with a kind of challenge. He waits for a while with a sly smile and brings his lips sharply to the girl’s lips, grabbing her face softly, while she has her arms wrapped around his waist and runs her hands shyly over his back. When they step away, the lovers keep teasing each other, laughing, kissing, embracing, and dancing.       “One of the cases when Sammy doesn’t care about us at all,” Peter laughs shyly. “We don’t hear or see him.”       “Yeah, Sammy liked playing with the children so much that he doesn’t leave them,” Helene smiles shyly.       “If there were a doggy of female sex here, that boy wouldn’t even come to us. Now he runs to us at times if he gets tired or wants to eat a treat, but if a doggy were here…”       “Still waiting for someone to get it.”       At this moment, Helene and Peter watch Sammy play with Amanda, Shannon, Harold, and Hailey in the game they chose not far from them. The man kisses tenderly on the temple, caresses her head, presses her to himself, and looks around everything he sees, noticing Raquelle and Terrence dancing funnily and Natalia and Edward kissing with no shyness.       “Our friend have their own atmosphere,” Peter notices.       “Yeah,” Helene pronounces, moving her eyes to her friends. “I’ve probably never seen Natalia and Raquelle much happier than now.”       “And you look how happy Terrence and Edward are! Some time ago, they were shaking with excitement and afraid of being left, but now they’re smiling widely and laughing as if nothing happened.”       “Everything was the same about the girls: at first, they were crying out of happiness, shaking, and were terribly afraid to faint in front of the altar, but now they’re dancing and playing the fool.”       “We worked hard. Helped our lovebirds to have a wedding everyone would remember for a long time.”       “It’s an honor for me to become a maid of honor.”       “Being the best man is a hard thing. It’s a great responsibility. But… I think Perkins and I did it at one hundred percent.”       “Seymour and I did a good job, too! We’re awesome!”       At this moment, Peter twirls Helene around herself, leans her back for two seconds, puts her on her feet again, and keeps moving with the rhythm of the music. A little later, they pay attention to a quiet bark of Sammy playing catch-a-rope with Harold. The lovers watch him with kind chuckles, but keep dancing and shaking slowly with the rhythm of the music. And later, the girl smiles slightly when moving her eyes to the man watching the doggy, gives him a tender gaze, and kisses him sweetly on the cheek that she caresses softly. Rose looks at Marshall with a sweet smile and kisses her tenderly on the nose, which he rubs the tip of his nose.       “You’re so beautiful today,” Peter notices with a slight smile and caresses Helene’s cheek tenderly. “So charming… So hot… M-m-m…”       “You like?”       “I admire you and can’t stop looking at you.”       “Thanks, sweetheart…” Helene thanks softly. “I was reflecting on everything and got the brides’ permission. And thinking of you, of course.”       “The brides do know how to make their friends much more attractive.” Peter hugs Helene by the waist a little tighter. “I’m admired by you, and the lads go crazy over their beauties, who look incredible too.”       “We didn’t expect this result. It’s much better than we thought.”       “That’s clear! Judging by how the men are busy with the girls.”       “Right,” Helene laughs shyly and looks around. “Especially, the grooms and brides.”       “Let those lovebirds flirt a little. But I’ll have the pleasure to be with my charming beauty, who, sadly, rarely wears such beautiful dresses and shows her gorgeous body.”       “I don’t want this to become an everyday thing,” Helene smiles mysteriously. “But you look at me and admire me like for the first time.”       “M-m-m, are you teasing me?”       “Think what you want.”       “Aw, Helene, sweetheart…”       Peter moves some strands of Helene’s hair off her eyes with a slight smile, kisses her sweetly on the forehead, and leans with his forehead on it, holding her face softly in his hands. At some moment, he takes the girl’s hand and touches the front of it tenderly with his lips, glancing at the ring made of silver with a big purple diamond in the middle with little brilliants that shine brightly under any source of light.       “Everyone’s so busy with the wedding that nobody has asked how I got this ring,” Helene laughs shyly.       “Someone hardly cares about it now,” Peter assumes. “And someone will hardly think something like this, seeing which hand you’re wearing it on.”       “It’s okay, when everyone comes to themselves a little, we’ll finally tell them we’ve been engaged for several weeks.”       “Yeah, but when do we do it?”       “I dunno, sweetheart. But I’m dying of the wish to do it as soon as possible. I can’t hide this piece of news anymore. Can’t pretend that nothing is happening.”       “Wait for a while, my sunshine.” Peter kisses Helene sweetly on the cheek. “We’ll tell them everything soon. Tell them they’re gonna be celebrating another wedding in the near future.”       “We enjoyed it for some time, and now it’s time to let others do it.”       “Hey, does your grandmother still know nothing about the engagement, too?”       “Nope, I’ve said nothing yet.” Helene smiles slyly. “But Sammy kinda suspects something. He’s lately shown too much attention to my ring.”       “Let’s pretend that he just liked this little thing that sparkles so beautifully under the light.”       “It’s a little thing to him, but for me, this is the most valuable and dearest jewelry from my beloved man.”       Helene puts her arms around Peter’s neck and leaves several kisses on his lips.       “With a diamond of my favorite color.”       “I understood that I should’ve bought it immediately,” Peter confesses. “Understood that I need this ring with a purple diamond.”       “I always wear it with great pleasure.”       “I chose it with love. I imagined the way this jewelry would look on your hand.”       Peter leaves a much more continuous kiss on the lips, which she answers with pleasure, looking into his eyes with a tender smile full of admiration. At this moment, his arms are wrapped around her waist and press the girl closely to his body, while she keeps keeping her arms wrapped around her sweetheart’s neck, preferring to hold down the feelings while they are with people, among who there are children, who should not see this, and adults, who are not used to anything like this and judge those who do not aim to keep just something behind the closed doors.       

***

      Several weeks ago.       Today, Helene became a visitor at the house, which Peter finally bought some time ago after doing all the formalities, paying the money, and getting the documents and the keys. Even though he is just starting the process of moving to his new place, he can live here since there is everything he needs here. After showing everything in his new house that is much bigger than his small apartment he wants to leave as soon as possible, the man brings his girlfriend to his bedroom where there is nothing but a big two-sided bed and a closet/ But even in this case, the girl is really happy with this place and secretly imagines herself living here as a wife of this man and raising children from him.       “My God, the house is amazing!” Helene admires as she looks around herself again and again. “I already love this place! It’s a wonderful one!”       “I’m starting to move my stuff here little by little,” Peter confesses, putting his hands on his hips with his head proudly raised. “But I’ll get rid of half of it or give it to someone.”       “Oh, yay, you’re gonna have to spend a lot of time moving your clothes, assessors, and other things that you’ve bought here.”       “And I’m surprised that I’ve found several things I didn’t remember at all. Though I just started to move in here.”       “Familiar case…”       “Aw, sweetie, I can’t really wait to say goodbye to my current hole that associates with bad things only for me.”       “M-m-m… Does it mean, a new house, a new life?”       “Yes, I want the new house to give me positive moments only. I wanna leave all the shit and dirt in the past since it’s has nothing to do here.”       “It’s a sin not to be happy when living at this big and light house.”       “It’s a sin not to be happy when you’ve got such a wonderful girl, without whom I can’t imagine my life.”       Peter comes to Helene confidently, grabs her by the waist with both hands, presses her to himself, and kisses her tender lips, making her feel like her heart stops and her legs get weak.       “Helene, my little girl… My happiness…”       “Congrats on successfully buying the house!” Helene smiles sweetly, grabbing Peter’s face and kissing him on the tip of his nose. “It’s a very good thing to spend your money on.”       “Thanks a lot.” Peter hugs Helene around the shoulders and looks around along with her, not hiding his admiration. “Now I finally feel like a human. I feel like I’m finally where I deserve to be.”       “Magnificent house, I’m delighted!”       “Not just you!”       Helene and Peter move their eyes sharply aside when they hear a strange crush somewhere on the down.       “Sammy’s getting pleasure too, as I can see,”       “I hope he won't break anything while running here and examining everything,” Helene expresses hope, putting her hand on Peter’s chest.       “Don’t worry, sunshine, he has nothing to break here! The house is almost empty yet! There’s only what I need for life: a bed, a refrigerator, a toilet, a bath, and something like this. The previous owner took almost all the furniture and left only that.”       “That little walking trouble can break even what can stand still while running everywhere like a hurricane.”       “Let him do it! He’s got so much to do here. He’s gotta examine the large territory and choose the place to have a rest after a delicious dinner.”       “If he likes it, he’s gonna ask me to drive you here all the time.”       “I don’t mind it. I even made a duplicate of the keys for you. Since his owner is gonna come here too. Which means I can spend some time with her.”       Peter gets Helene involved in a much more continuous kiss on the lips and leaves a couple of kisses on the corners of her mouth.       “M-m-m, that’s right…” Helene smiles mysteriously. “We’ve got a wonderful refuge. The place where nobody can bother you and me.”       “You can’t imagine how long I was waiting for this moment. Waiting for the moment when I can bring you to a good place. The place that my charming girlfriend deserves.”       “I guess you’ve got grandiose plans.”       “Really grandiose!”       Helene squeaks quietly when Peter takes her in his arms, twirls her around himself several times, carries her to the bed, and seats her carefully on the edge of it.       “Now I can surely have a lot of fun and let myself relax.” Peter sits next to Helene and touches the area behind her ear tenderly with his lips, running them over it, putting his hand on her knee. “Not thinking about having some old ladies dislike it.”       “Does it mean I can be much more confident and stop holding myself down at all?”       “Express your pleasure as loud as you want,” Peter purrs, running his lips very tenderly over Helene’s auricle. “Nobody minds it now. Nobody’s gonna hit the battery with a hum and shout to stop this bullshit right now.”       “Oh, gosh, Peter…” Helene pronounces blissfully as she closes her eyes with a sense of the shake in her whole body growing.       “I know, babe, I know…”       Helene leans her head back with a quiet moan when Peter’s soft lips touch the sensitive skin on the curve of her neck tenderly but confidently, leaving a couple of kisses with a loud breath.       “Damn, Helene, you’re such a goddess…” Peter pronounces blissfully in a low voice and runs his lips over the other parts of Helene’s neck, putting his hand between her legs. “So sweet… And so hot…”       “Oh, I sense that one super jealous doggy is gonna bite your pants now…”       “Don’t worry, sweetheart, he’s got something to do. The house is so large, but he’s alone… So little… And so curious…”       Grabbing Helene’s face, Peter brings his lips to her lips for a continuous, more assertive kiss, during which she makes a long-lasting moan in his mouth and presses him closer to herself, putting her hands on his tough back.       “M-m-m, you’re on fire today, pretty boy!” Helene notices. “So sassy, so confident, so hot…”       “Can’t be depressed when you’re near,” Peter replies. “And I don’t wanna hold myself down.”       “Do you understand there will be no way back if you don’t stop in time?”       “Okay, tell me to stop then. Tell me to get off you so that nothing happens next.”       Peter leaves several short kisses on the other curve of Helene’s neck, running his fingers through her hair at the roots.       “C’mon, Helene, make me stop it all. Just say, ‘Peter, stop!’ That’s all. Everything will end.”       “Are ya crazy?” Helene laughs playfully. “Are you suggesting that I do it after you’ve been kissing me and feeling up all parts of my body for nobody the hell knows how long?”       “I have the right to hug and kiss my girlfriend as much as I want. On everything I want. When I want.”       Peter’s hands slide smoothly over Helene’s arms, slide to the curves of her waist, and stay on her buttocks, which he squeezes tightly with his fingers.       “So, blond, can’t you want to brag with your gorgeous torso?” Helene bites her lip, walking her fingers over Peter’s chest. “Want me to caress and kiss it a lot?”       “Oh, yay, caress me everywhere!” Peter purrs, runs his hands over the curve of Helene’s neck and collarbones, and runs his fingertips around her breasts. “But I’ll be happy to answer you back and drive you crazy with my caress.”       “I wasn’t the one to start it.”       Helene brings her lips to Peter’s lips and squeezes and pulls the top and bottom one by one with a sensual moan, feeling that his heavy hot breath burns her skin. Her hands get underneath his t-shirt at some moment and start rubbing his chest and stomach confidently. Her fingertips can feel every single muscle of the male torso and send the electric impulses underneath his skin so that the owner of this body feels unconsciously tension that keeps growing rapidly every second.       “Would ya prefer to go to a shower and continue it there or do it on the bed, as usual?” Helene asks in a low, seducing whisper, looking into Peter’s eyes with a mysterious smile. “Or let’s do it on the kitchen table? Where would you get more excited at the sight of my naked body?”       “M-m-m, how many choices…” Peter smiles smugly.       “Just tell me what you’re dreaming about so that I fulfil your wish.” Helene runs her fingers over Peter’s bottom lip. “Ask anything you want, sweetheart. I’ll do anything for you to feel good.”       “I feel good just because you’re with me. I can feel you. Nobody can separate us anymore.”       “I’d die from grief and sadness if it happened.”       “I was dead inside when thinking I lost you.”       Peter takes Helene in a strong hug and kisses her touchingly on the cheek, caressing the girl’s head and running his fingers through his girlfriend’s hair.       “I never wanna feel anything like this again.”       “Peter, my sweetie…” Helene pronounces tenderly, leaves a short kiss on the corner of Peter’s mouth and smiles widely when their eyes meet. “Sweetheart…”       After caressing Helene’s cheek, Peter grabs her by the chin softly and gets her involved in a tender, continuous kiss on the lips. And he laughs shyly when the girl runs the tip of her tongue over his palate, making him feel how the goosebumps run over his skin like a hurricane.       “Whoa, whoa, easy, not so fast!” Peter gets blushed. “Why do ya rush to eat the dessert?”       “Give me just one reason why I can't do this,” Helene says confidently, holding Peter by the nape of his neck with one hand and running another hand through his little ruffled hair.       “We just have a lot of time. We don’t have to rush. We can make the pleasure last for the entire day.”       “M-m-m… Don’t you want me at all?”       Looking closely into Peter’s eyes, Helene runs her fingertips slowly over the open part of her breasts that show up from her simple white crop top, above which she is wearing a short denim jacket with ripped edges.       “I’ve got such a beautiful body… Which wants love. The love of the strong man, in whose arms I feel madly happy. Absolutely safe…”       “Don’t provoke me, Marshall,” Peter advises in a low, hoarse voice and swallows nervously as he caresses the front of Helene’s naked thigh. “Don’t play on my weakness.”       “Am I playing, huh?”       At first, Helene leaves a short kiss on Peter’s lips and then brings her lips to his neck, which she caresses tenderly with her open mouth, doing all of this very slowly, while he, breathing heavily, twirls nervously on the bed and tenses all his muscles.       “I’m just warming up. Playing. Relaxing.” Helene runs her hand underneath Peter’s t-shirt, runs it slowly over his chest, and barely touches his tough nipples with her fingertips. “It’s a game. Which doesn’t have to lead to something more.”       “It seems like you got a master class from your friends, who always knew how to torture my friends.”       “Can’t tame my fantasy every time I look at you. When I don’t know what to do at the thought that I want you. Want my beloved man. Wanna feel him next to me out and out.”       “Ar-r-r, it gets me freaking excited!”       Peter’s strong arms squeeze Helene’s waist in a circle, and his hands are placed on her perfectly straight back, while their hot lips connect for a hot, assertive kiss, which makes both of them dizzy, and loud and uneven sighs get out by themselves. The girl's thin fingers grab the man’s blond hair tightly and pull it strongly when the skin on the neck is burned by the extremely hot breath of the one who covers it generously with exciting kisses.       “Oh, Peter…” Helene moans blissfully and barely realizes something when Peter’s slightly shaking lips cover her lips, running her warm hand confidently over the male chest and stomach over his t-shirt. “M-m-m…”       “Quiet, quiet, beautiful, quiet…” Peter pronounces in a whisper, runs his lips over Helene’s auricle and the area behind her ear. “Relax… Think of nothing…”       “You think I can really think of something and remember something now?”       “Think of us. About us feeling freaking good.”       “M-m-m, I feel very good…” Helene rolls her eyes with a quiet sigh when Peter squeezes her breast tenderly with his fingers. “SO good that I may pass out…”       “Me too… I’m on edge too…”       Helene presses her whole body closely to Peter and sinks her nails into his shoulders, feeling that the tormenting tension kind of breaks her inside and tortures her like an unbearably long and exhausting torture. And seeing the girl get excited for real and beg him not to stop with just her eyes, the man suddenly steps away and caresses her blushed, burning cheek with a slight smile as if nothing had happened.       “Hey, have you already noticed that there’s a balcony in this room?” Peter smiles mysteriously.       “Gosh, Peyer, do you wanna continue this business on the balcony?” Helene laughs shyly, clapping Peter playfully on the forearm. “Before the eyes of the neighbors? Are ya crazy, huh?”       “It’s very beautiful and comfortable there, just saying…”       “M-m-m, as it turned out, you’re a bad boy!”       “You can get some strong coffee and a big fresh croissant and sit in the armchair, enjoying the taste of it and watching the breathtaking view of the sunrise and the sunset.”       “If my visit takes much longer, we can watch it together. We can eat the croissant together.”       “What would we wait? We can go there right now and look at what’s happening outside?”       “Well, erm…”       Helene does not realize anything when Peter gets up from the bed, takes her hands, pulls her onto his lap, hugs her by the waist when he brings the girl to the door that leads to the balcony, and lets her go first after opening it. There is really a breathtaking view of the green mountains that reach the high, bright blue sky with no clouds on it from the spacious and wide balcony. Time would obviously fly fast if you stand here, leaning on the glassy railing or sitting on an armchair, and leaning back with a glass of something sweet in your hands.       “Wow…” Helene pronounces with admiration, looking at what she sees. “It’s really breathtaking… It’s so beautiful…”       “There are several rooms at this house, but I chose this one ‘cause there’s a balcony here,” Peter confesses, hugging Helene by the waist. “I’m gonna wake up every morning and go here first to admire the sunrise.”       “My God, I am jealous of you already! You’re gonna live at such an amazing place!”       “It’s super easy to fix.”       “What?”       “Take your stuff and move here,” Peter suggests, turning on Helene. “Let’s live together. You, Sammy, and me. We’re gonna feel good.”       “Ah, I’d be happy to…” Helene puts her head on Peter’s shoulder. “And Grandma would mind it. You know what she thinks of these things. Nothing like this before a wedding.”       “And why? You’re my adult girl and can decide how to live. Your grandfather no longer controls you, and your grandmother can just sigh heavily.”       “I dunno, Pete, I’m not sure…” Helene sighs heavily and puts her hand on Peter’s chest. “She still doesn’t know you and I slept when we were friends. And if she did, she’d kill me.”       “First, their generation is just educated like this – nothing must happen before a wedding, they get married as early as possible, and have children immediately. And second, even if you and I suddenly get obsessed with a crazy passion, we always remember it’s important to have a contraception.”       “It doesn’t give you a 100% protection.”       “Anyway, I’d be happy to live with you at my new house. Where I can finally bring you with a sense of pride and dignity.”       “I’ll try to talk to my grandmother And if she doesn’t mind, we can try to.”       “Your friends are living well with their men without marriage. That’s okay! Yes, maybe not everyone approves of their decision. But they do understand they’re not kids anymore.”       “At least, Raquelle is gonna get married soon and live with Terrence at the same house by law.”       “And Daniel and Anna have been living together literally since they started an affair. Literally, since they were just friends. And they feel pretty good, being unmarried.”       “So, did you decide to follow their example?” Helene laughs.       “I don’t insist upon anything. But I’d be very happy if you reflected on my suggestion. I bought this house with the wish to accept you here one beautiful day. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been a meaning in buying this large house. I would’ve been happy with a small one.”       “M-m-m, do you have plans I don’t know about yet?” Helene puts her arms around Peter’s neck.       “I do. Very grandiose ones.” Peter presses Helene to himself by the waist and puts his hands on her buttocks. “And I truly hope you’re gonna agree with me wishing to add you to them.”       “I promise I’ll be happy to live with you at this wonderful house if my grandmother agrees. We’ll make it better together. You earn money, and I have a good job with a good salary. We won’t be poor, as they say.”       “And if your grandmother doesn’t agree, will you make me live all alone at this big house?”       “But, sweetie…” Helene whines with pity.       “I’m afraid of loneliness so badly…” Peter complains. “I don’t wanna be alone… But I’ll feel good with you. I can press you closely to me and sleep tight.”       “This is an attempt to play on pity.”       “This is an attempt to persuade you not to force me to spend evenings alone.”       “What if I come to visit you? Spend a whole evening lying with you on the sofa, cuddling, eating something tasty, and watching a movie?”       “Oh, no-o-o-o-o… It’s not good. I want you to be with me all the time. I wanna sleep with you in one bed. I wanna have breakfast, lunch, and dinner in your company.”       “Everything depends on Grandma’s decision. I don’t wanna upset her somehow.”       “What if I persuade her? If I give her the best argument she can’t argue with?”       “The best argument for a joint life for her can only be a marriage certificate and a wedding ring on her hand. No other way.”       “Well…” Peter smiles mysteriously, taking Helene’s hands. “What if we have it? What if we really get married?”       “What?” Helene rounds her eyes. “What do you mean?”       “I do! We can do this!”       “Hey, wait, wait… You… Are you serious now?”       “More than.”       Peter smiles much wider, trying not to show that he starts shaking slightly from excitement.       “I…” Peter takes Helene’s hands. “I was waiting for this moment for too long. I decided that I wanted to see you as my wife. And I don’t see any other girl next to me.”       “Peter…”       “The day when you and I met became the best one in my life. The day Jessica introduced us to each other. Yes, I thought you’d be another familiar of mine. But the situation changed. You became a close person. For whom I wanted to be better. For whom I was ready to stop doing crimes. Stop trying to harm innocent people, on whom I projected the pain I had gotten. I was doing my best to get rid of the wish to do it to you, too. I told myself, ‘Anyone but her!’ If I’d done the same thing I did to them to you, I would’ve never forgiven myself for that.”       “Meeting you became the best thing that’d ever happened in my life, too. I was surprised that fate brought me to such an amazing man after everything I had done.”       “I think… If the situation had been different… I would’ve hardly found the courage to confess that I started to like you. I would’ve kept living, hiding my feelings and pretending that I was happy with that type of relationship. Happy with being just a friend to you. Though I was horrified at the thought that you could come to me someday and tell me about an affair with another man. It would’ve broken my heart. But I wouldn’t have shown it. I would’ve befriended you. Being happy you were happy.”       “But as you can see, it happened differently.” Helene kisses Peter sweetly on the cheek. “We both found the courage to admit it.”       “I was madly scared, but the risk was worth it. I got the girlfriend I wanted. I didn’t need any other girl – just you. Nobody compares with you. Nobody can outshine you. You’re the only one to love so much. The only one to give me so much amazing care. The only one to keep me on the surface. The only one, next to whom I can feel happy. Yes, maybe I didn’t always trust you and expected something bad. But I’ve become the happiest man in the world anyway. Been living the best moments in my life. Getting as much love and care as I never had before. Getting everything I didn’t get from others when I was a kid and begging about it.”       “You know I’m ready for anything for you. You just need to say it aloud and ask me to help you.”       “I love you so much and am afraid to imagine that I may lose you for one or another reason. I thought it happened once. And… I’m done. I don’t want it again. I don’t wanna delay what I should’ve done a long time ago. Do what I’ve been dreaming about literally since we started to date. Well… Since I started to fall in love with you. I… I was sure that I wouldn’t find anyone better. And… I seriously dreamed of us living together, raising our children, getting older… It was my secret dream. I… I dreamed of having a big, friendly family. Having what I was deprived of. Having what I’m able to create. I don’t wanna die without leaving anyone after me. I want my children to carry on my name. I want them to leave the legacy after them too.”       “If you want you’ll have many children. As many as you’re able to provide for.”       “And now I’m sure I’m able to provide for all of them. Two, three, or five. I can provide for my children and do my best for my wife not to need anything and not to have to count pennies until the next little salary, working hard at the place where nobody respects her.”       “Thank God, I’m lucky with my job. It’s not always easy. I sometimes get a wish to get fired. But I still work there. I stay where my workmates value me and pay me as much as I really deserve.”       “I promise you’ll need nothing. I’m planning to play in the band, release albums, and travel around the whole world. I’m planning to try to work as a composer. I wanna try to create music for other artists. Moreover, I’ve received a couple of proposals like this. Because… I have some experience with it. I loved it when playing in Albert’s band. Even though my work was destroyed with no pity.”       “I don’t doubt that you can do this. Music is your element. Even if you work, you should only work in the sphere related to music.”       “Anyway, now I’m sure I’m ready to start a new stage in my life. Ready to take the responsibility for what I work so hard for. Why I fight myself again and again. Figure myself out and try to solve my problems. I'm still not alright, I can’t deny it. But I’m really working it out. And I know I can do this. Because you’re with me, sweetheart. You pull me out of the endless abyss. You breathe into me and help me survive when I think there’s no hope for the best. When it seems like my world is about to be crushed. You’ve always been with me. And I’m still here thanks to your effort.”       “I’m trying.”       “I can’t leave it unnoticed. And I really want you to know that I am madly grateful to you for all your effort. Thanks to that, I am living. I am breathing. I am planning to keep living and being happy. Happy next to the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. For better or for worse, in sickness and in health. And… I hope death will do us part when we’re old. Like in forty or fifty years. Or even more.”       “My God, Peter…” Helene smiles widely with a heavy breath, closing her mouth with a hand.       “The only reason why I didn’t propose to you much earlier was my home. I didn’t wanna bring you to my hole where they wouldn’t let us live well. I didn’t wanna bring you to the place you didn’t deserve. I wanted to give you a life in a much better place. Because you don’t deserve anything worse. You don’t deserve to live in the hole where I was ashamed to bring you. And since I’m now able to do this… And I’ve got the keys from my house… I don’t see the meaning in delaying and wasting time. It’s time to do it. It’s time to ask you the question, which every girl wants to hear but which is really hard for every man.”       “Peter, my sweetheart…”       Peter takes a small black velvet box from the pocket on his jeans, opens it with his shaking fingers, and gets down to his knee with a heavy from excitement breathe in front of Helene. While she gets tears of happiness in her eyes and cannot believe it’s really happening to her right now, in this minute.       “Helene Miranda Marshall…” Peter pronounces in a shaking voice. “My sunshine… My guiding light… The love of my life. Will you marry me?”       “My God…” Helene pronounces in a shaking, exciting voice, putting her hand on her heart, the fast beat of which echoes in her head.       “Do you agree to become my Mrs. Rose and live the rest of your life with me? With our future children and grandchildren. And be with me, no matter what.”       Helene sobs two or three more times as she looks at Peter being tense and excited and the open velvet box in his hands before she finds the strength to give the answer he is waiting for so badly:       “Yes…” Helene sniffs quietly and nods energetically. “I will… Yes! I will!”       “Yeah? Don’t I mishear it?” Peter cannot believe what he hears.       “I will! I will! I will!”       “Please, say it again. I wanna hear it again.”       “I’ll marry you, Peter! I will! I agree! I want it so badly! I want it so badly! I agree!”       Helene reaches out confidently her hand to Peter smiling widely, and he takes the ring from the box and puts it on her index finger with shaking fingers. Then she closes her mouth with both hands, crying quietly or laughing nervously, while her heart starts beating faster, her body is super tense, and she can barely breathe. At this moment, the man gets up on his feet he can barely stand on too and squeezes his sweetheart tightly in his arms, and she answers it immediately, putting her arms around his neck and snuggling her nose in his shoulder.       “Helene, my little girl…” Peter pronounces in a shaking, low voice and sniffs quietly, lifting Helene up from the floor.       “I was dreaming of this so badly…” Helene cries. “I dreamed of the day when you’d do it. I am so happy!”       “I can’t believe it… Can’t believe it’s the truth. Can’t believe you agreed to become my wife.”       “I would’ve gotten married to you literally on the day when we started to date! Or much earlier! If you’d proposed to me, I would’ve said, ‘yes’ immediately!”       Smiling widely, Peter does not hold down his nervous laugh that turns to uneven sobs full of a shake. He squeezes Helene much tighter in his arms for a moment, steps away, grabs her face, and brings his lips to her lips for a continuous kiss full of tenderness and love, to which she answers with pleasure, putting her arms around his waist. But a little later, the girl takes the initiative and kisses her sweetheart with much more pressure, putting her warm hands to his chest, through which she can feel his fast heartbeat.       Later, their foreheads contact one another, a wide smile shows up on their faces, and their eyes are full of true happiness both of them are full to the up with. While Helene does not hold down her wish to shout loudly, Peter lifts her up from the floor and turns her around himself several times. When he places his sweetheart on her feet, he covers her blush face generously with short kisses with a sense of a lack of air. She still keeps shaking strongly from excitement, her legs can barely hold her, and the dizziness makes this thing much harder.       “Oh, God…” Helene tries to calm down and jumps several times with happy whoops. “My Go-o-o-o-od!”       “My sunshine. I’m so happy now!” Peter chokes. “So happy! I… I was so afraid… Afraid you wouldn’t agree…”       “I want this! I surely know I want it! I wanna get married to you! I wanna live with you! I wanna get old next to you and die in your arms!”       “Damn, I’m gonna cry now!”       Peter closes his mouth tightly with his hands, while tears show up in his eyes and roll down his cheeks slowly.       “I’m not alone… I’m no longer alone! I have you! I’m gonna have a family… The real family…”       “Yes, my happiness, we’ll always be together now.” Helene kisses Peter on the lips sweetly, putting his hands on his cheek. “Always, hear me! I’ll never leave you. Always be with you.”       Peter squats down and keeps crying bitterly but quietly with his face closed with his hands, not being able to hold himself down. Not being able to believe he has an amazing chance to create his own family and surround himself with close people who will not leave him when he is old and helpless.       “Peter, honey, c’mon…” Helene pronounces with pity in her eyes, gets down to her knees in front of Peter, caresses his forearms softly, and squeezes him in her strong hug. “Quiet, quiet, it’s okay, my sweetheart, it’s okay. I’m here. My sweetie. Quiet, quiet…”       “I can’t…” Peter keeps crying. “Can’t believe… I can’t be so lucky.”       “Your black path is over. There will be the white one only. Only people who love you. Only the paths you choose.”       Not saying in reply, Peter keeps crying bitterly on Helene’s shoulder, while he presses her as closely to his chest as possible, and she caresses his head tenderly and strokes his matted blond hair.       “Okay, okay, sweetie, stop. Don’t break my heart anymore. Or I’m gonna break down.”       “Helene, my girl…” Peter pronounces in a low whisper, caresses Helene’s cheeks with both hands, grabs her head with them, and leans on her forehead with his forehead. “My little star…”       “You’re not alone anymore,” Helene says softly. “You’ll never be alone. I will not leave you.”       “Tell me you really agree to get married to me. Please, Helene, don’t tell me you joked. Don’t tell me you don’t need me.”       “I’m ready to go and get the documents for registering our marriage right now. Without any ceremony.”       “Really?” Peter sobs loudly. “Aren’t you really lying to me? Please, tell me the truth!”       “Now we will go in one direction until the very end.” Helene runs her hand over Peter’s hair. “Always. Until the day we die.”       Still crying bitterly and shaking from a strong tension his whole body is possessed with, Peter squeezes Helene tightly in his hug, putting his arm around her neck and running his fingers through the girl’s hair on the back of her head, while she runs her hands slowly over the back of her man and snuggles her nose in his shoulder.       “Please, Pete, don’t cry,” Helene begs in a shaking voice. “For God’s sake. My heart is breaking… Please, my sweetheart, please…”       “I’m gonna have a family…” Peter cannot believe it. “The family I’ve never had. I will… For the first time in my life. I’m no longer alone… Not alone!”       “Not alone, my sunshine, not alone.” Helene kisses Peter tenderly on the cheek. “I’m here.”       When Peter steps away from her a little, Helene leaves a short kiss on his lips, strokes his hair down, and caresses his cheeks that are wet from tears.       “Okay, sweetheart, it’s okay, it’s okay…” Helene assures and sniffs quietly, blinking several times to get rid of tears, which are the reason why everything is blurry before her eyes. “I’m gonna cry, looking at you, too.”       “Helene, baby… My little baby…”       Peter kisses Helene sweetly on the forehead, holding her face in his hands, and touches the front of his girlfriend’s hands with his lips. And he caresses the one to have the ring from him that shines bright with all possible colors under the shoots of the bright sunny sun. The thin rim is covered with small brilliants that frame the diamond placed in the middle. The squad, purple one that shines under the sun probably much brighter than the others. A simple and usual but gorgeous and elegant jewelry that was chosen with love.       “It’s magnificent!” Helene looks at the ring for the first time and closes her mouth with a hand with a wide smile. “So beautiful. I’m delighted!”       “With the diamond of your favorite color,” Peter notices, still caressing Helene’s hand with both hands. “And the size fitted you perfectly.”       “I’ve never had such a beautiful jewelry before.”       “I chose what my girl really deserved. What I was ready to pay a lot of money for.”       “Gosh, Peter, sweetheart…”       Putting her arms around his neck, Helene leaves several short kisses on Peter’s lips and rubs the tip of her nose against his cheek. While he laughs shyly as he holds the girl in his strong hug and runs his hand over her long, straight, loose hair that blows slightly in the wind.       “I love you so much…” Helene says with a wide smile. “So much, so badly…”       “I love you so much too,” Peter replies softly. “My fiancée… My hotly beloved fiancée.”       “Gosh, I dreamed of hearing it so badly. Just like I dreamed of you calling me like this. Dreamed of being able to call you my fiancé.”       Peter smiles much wider and holds Helene in his hug for some time before he sobs quietly, gets up on his feet, and helps the girl do the same. Then they wipe each other’s tears carefully under their red eyes, fix their hair slightly, and let their lips connect for a kiss full of love and tenderness. After he breaks it, they smile blissfully and breathe heavily as they look into each other’s eyes and have the girl’s arms wrapped around the man’s neck, and his arms are wrapped around her waist.       “So, what do you think of my suggestion related to a joint life now?” Peter purrs.       “Now I’m gonna have a powerful argument for my grandma,” Helene replies, showing the ring on her hand proudly. “Against which she won't protest.”       “You can start packing your stuff and move it here.”       “Hey, right now?”       “Why not?” Peter caresses Helene’s head and grabs her face tenderly. “I don’t know what about you, but I’m personally not gonna delay our wedding again and again. I wanna marry you as soon as possible.”       “Yeah… Now the idea of taking the documents and going to register our marriage immediately we came up with when being drunk doesn’t seem such a bad idea now.”       “If you’re brave, we can really do it right now!”       “Right now?”       “Uh-huh! I’ve already learned which documents we need and how much we should pay. Nothing hard.”       “M-m-m, do ya want us to get married secretly from everyone?”       “Why secretly?” Peter rounds his eyes. “A little later, we’ll make everyone happy with this piece of news and invite everyone to the wedding ceremony.”       “Yeah, but we shouldn’t say anything yet. We’ve gotta wait for the guys to get married. It’s gonna be bad if we dare to get the attention on us.”       “I wasn’t gonna. I’m gonna say more: I didn’t tell the guys anything about going to propose to you.”       “That’s how?”       “It’s good for me that everyone’s waiting for Daniel and Anna’s engagement now. Nobody annoys me and insists that you and I should have a wedding.”       “Listen, let’s really register the marriage officially! Secretly from everyone! And then come to the guys and make them overwhelmed by the news about being married already.”       “I think you and I shouldn't refuse pleasure to have the status of fiancé and the fiancée for a while. But I’ll just move my stuff here, buy something, and repair something. To make this house the best place by the time you move in here.”       “I don’t mind living with you even in the half-empty house where there is only water and electricity.”       “Don’t worry, my sugar…” Peter caresses Helene’s cheek with a slight smile. “I promise I will not delay the move for too long and will prepare everything here as soon as possible.”       “Anyway, our engagement must be a secret at the moment. Nobody should know it.”       “Nobody will. We’ll enjoy this moment together.”       “That’s good Perkins’ house is two doors down here. He’d obviously be sitting at the balcony and watching us with binoculars.”       “The truth is true…” Peter smiles slyly. “By the way, not only did the MacClifes leave him behind, but also me. But he doesn’t know it yet.”       “So what, pretty boy, can I call you my fiancé now?” Helene smiling mysteriously runs her hand over Peter’s torso. “Soon-to-be husband? Who is gonna be mine to the core?”       “I suggest we celebrate this event.” Peter presses Helene to himself and squeezes her buttocks with both hands. “You and me. Just us being close to becoming a family.”       “So what, let’s continue with the point where we stopped?” Helene purrs, running her hand through Peter’s t-shirt and feeling that his muscles tense after this. “Or you have a better idea?”       “We can do a lot. No reason to rush, everyone’s busy with their business, nobody’s gonna bother. So, use the moment, babe.”       Peter brings his lips to Helene’s lips, pulls them tenderly, and squeezes them before he slides to her neck and makes a path down from short but assertive kisses on the curve of it. That’s why the girl presses herself tightly to her sweetheart and puts her hand on his back with the thought that her legs get weak, a sense of slight dizziness, and her heartbeat that echoes in her temples.       “Oh, gosh, Peter, what are you doing to me?” Helene makes a quiet, sensual moan, sinking her nails into Peter’s shoulder, and closes her eyes blissfully. “My God…”       “I’m getting closer to doing this by law,” Peter replies in a low voice. “By the moment when nobody can ban me from hugging and kissing you as much as I want.”       “But it doesn’t mean you can get access to me whenever you want.”       “It’s okay, I’ll handle it. The guys have already taught me to break any wall and get what I want, even from the meanest and sassiest girl.”       Now Peter covers generously the other curve of Helene’s neck with kisses generously, and she makes quiet, uneven sighs, while the hot breath on the skin burns the skin so that the heart beats two times faster, and the muscles shake from a sweet tension that shakes something nicely.       “M-m-m, you’re getting wild…” Helene laughs and exhales loudly with closed eyes. “Getting wild…”       “I see no reason to refuse to get pleasure,” Peter purrs, stands behind Peter, puts his arm around her waist, moves her hair aside, and caresses the nape of her neck with his lips, not refusing to cover it with short kisses. “I see no reason not to make my baby happy.”       “Yeah, you don’t even need alcohol to get wild.” Helene makes a quiet moan and rolls her eyes. “Because I can barely think now…”       “No, no alcohol.” Peter leaves several short kisses on the area behind Helene’s ear and runs his lips over her auricle, while one of his hands holds the lady’s breast from the bottom. “I wanna be sober. I wanna remember this moment. Remember every moment I spend with you.”       “M-m-m, I will not forget this even if I'm drunk.” Helene shakes slightly as she feels Peter’s heavy breath near her ear, and his hands slide slowly over her stomach. “Just like I didn’t forget the way you drove me crazy when we both drank.”       “Because we both wanted it. We wanted to be together. And alcohol broke all the barriers to the fuck.”       “I would’ve given myself to you in a sober condition. You just should’ve said three worlds… I want you.”       “And now?” Peter whispers in Helene’s ear. “Would ya give yourself to me? If I told you I want you. I want my fiancée. Like crazy.”       “Resisting you is impossible,” Helene replies in a low, seducing voice and feels that her heart stops when her eyes meet Peter’s piercing glance. “Resisting such an irresistible pretty boy. Who smells so sexually.”       “There’s no better way to celebrate the engagement.”       Peter brings his lips to Helene’s lips and gets her involved in a slow, continuous kiss on the lips, which makes her feel dizzy and have her legs weak, and makes her make a deafening moan in his mouth. One hand of his slides slowly over the girl’s belly, and the fingertips of his other hand burn her with touches to the sensitive skin on the neck and collarbones.       “Oh, Rose, you’re imitable…” Helene smiles blissfully. “You’re the only one to be able to do it…”       “Just doing what my goddess deserves,” Peter replies in a low whisper and runs his thumb over Helene’s lips. “What I wanna give her.”       “We both know why we’re doing this.”       “I know. But I don’t and won’t do this so fast. I wanna enjoy you first. Show you how much I admire you.”       “You wanna make this sweet moment much longer?”       “I see you’re freaking impatient!”       Peter covers the curve of Helene’s curve generously with much more assertive kisses and pinches or bites some areas slightly. If these are especially sensitive ones, it makes her make long and loud moans and press her back and buttocks closely to the body of her man, not being able to resist this unbearable affection and this sweet tension.       “I completely understand you, though,” Peter adds and runs his half-open slowly over the front of Helene’s neck, letting his hand slide over her belly and collarbones and clench or unclench her breasts tenderly. “Resisting me is really hard. I mean, it’s impossible.”       “I’m not trying to,” Helene replies in a low, hoarse voice. “It’s beyond my strength.”       Helene rolls her eyes with a sensual moan, leans her head back, and swallows loudly, feeling a super light touch of Peter’s lips to the front of her neck and the way he tickles this part playfully with the tip of his tongue. Which the man runs carefully into her mouth after connecting his lips with the lady’s lips for a slow but exciting and assertive kiss that makes them feel a fast heartbeat in the throat and start breathing much heavier due to the lack of air.       “M-m-m…” Helene pronounces in a low voice, while Peter runs the tip of his tongue slowly over her palate and touches her tongue with it, literally letting it fight the one.       “I love kissing and hugging you so much,” Peter confesses in a little hoarse voice and leaves several short kisses on the curve of Helene’s neck, while his hand covers the lady’s breasts. “I love doing this with no rush. Making the pleasure longer.”       “M-m-m, kiss me everywhere… Caress anything you want… It drives me crazy…”       “Not less than me.”       After giving Helene a much more assertive kiss on her neck and running the tip of his tongue over the area behind her ear, Peter takes the girl moaning sensually in his arms and leaves the balcony, while she puts her arms around his neck, the smell of which she breathes in and on which she leaves a couple of tender kisses. When he comes to the bed, the man puts her carefully on the one, bends to her, and presses his lips to her lips so tenderly that she immediately takes her breath away. She puts her hand on her cheek and presses him closer to herself, taking the initiative for some time and making the blond make a deep, long-lasting moan with her tender caress of his tongue that makes his heart beat like crazy and makes the sense of the sweet anticipation much stronger.       “Come to me, pretty boy,” Helene pronounces in a tender, velvet voice, looking into Peter’s eyes from the bottom to the upper and biting her dry lips at the sight of his dilated pupils. “Show me everything you can do. Show me how you can drive me crazy.”       “A little bit before there’s no way back,” Peter purrs, running his fingers through Helene’s hair at the roots and running his fingertips over her scapula. “Think better…”       “I did…” Helene shakes, pressing Peter closer to herself, putting one hand on the back of his head, and sinking the nails of the other hand into the nape of his neck. “Very well…”       “So, aren’t ya gonna take an example from your friends and pretend to be hard to reach?” Peter puts his legs on the bed and caresses Helene’s face with both hands, looking closely into her eyes with a bedroom glance and noticing how dilated her pupils are. “Aren’t ya gonna pretend that my caress doesn’t excite ya?”       “I won’t. Though you’re gonna have to work really hard so that I’m happy.” Helene puts her arms around Peter’s neck and runs her index finger over his lips, on which she looks closely as she bites hers. “A couple of kisses on the neck wouldn't be enough for me, huh.”       “Don’t worry, abbe, I’ll do my best for you to ask me for more. You’re gonna come back home well-fed but still freaking hungry.”       Helene does not realize how Peter brings his lips greedily to her lips, acting like a possessed one as he presses the fragile girl to his heated body with his strong arms, letting his hands slide to her buttocks, which he squeezes confidently with his long fingers. The girl’s hands move chaotically over the entire male body, on which she can feel every single muscle and tough nipples through the cotton fabric. Choking, the lovers pull intensively, squeeze, suck, and lick each other’s lips to express their pleasure with loud sighs and squeeze their beloved person in a hug tightly as if they are madly afraid to let each other go.       “You’re a goddess…” Peter whispers, leaving tender, short kisses around Helene’s mouth, on her cheeks, and on her forehead, while he runs his fingertips around the lady’s breasts and caresses them with his warm hand. “You smell so delicious…”       “It’s gonna be all mine soon…” Helene smiles smugly, running one hand chaotically over Peter’s hair and caressing his shoulders and arms with a second one. “All mine… By law…”       “You’re only mine anyway. Because I want it. Because you’re the love of my life.”       After putting her softly on the bed and raising himself above her, Peter covers Helene’s neck generously with different kisses: from short and tender to long-lasting, wet, and burning ones. It makes the girl lean her head back with sensual moans, stretching herself up, bending her back strongly, and spreading her hands powerlessly aside.       “Oh, Peter, my god…” Helene whispers in a horse voice and shakes slightly due to the electric wave that gets through every single muscle of hers. “You’re imitable…”       “No, you are imitable,” Peter replies with tenderness in his low voice, squeezes Helene’s breasts with his fingers, and runs his hand over her belly, the curve of her waist, and her thigh. “My little girl…”       Another long-lasting, deafening moan gets out of Helene’s mouth when Peter’s lips barely touch the tender skin on her belly and leave the print on it after his shaking from tension hands throw the edges of her denim waistcoat aside and raise slightly the white crop top. And when she runs her fingers through his blond ruffled hair, he presses her thin wrists to the bed and covers her collarbones generously with kisses as well as the open part of her breasts. He controls the tension temperature really skillfully, slowing down when she is on edge and not thinking of holding herself down, but fastening when she looks too relaxed and calm.       “Oh, damn, Helene…” Peter pronounces with a heavy breath in a seducing bass voice, breathing in the smell on the skin of Helene’s neck, which he caresses with his open mouth as he smiles widely. “You’re the only one to smell so-o-o-o dizzying…”       “You’re so hot…” Helene pronounces hoarsely, closing her eyes with a sense of dizziness and bending her back much more. “So sexy… M-m-m…”       Peter covers determinedly Helene’s dry lips with his lips, squeezes or pulls them along with her heavy breath and sensual moans, runs his tongue slowly in her mouth, and runs it slowly around her tongue, over it, and over her palate so that it brings the girl to a sense of an all-embracing ecstasy and tormenting tension in every part of her body. Her soft, warm hands caress the man’s blushed, burning cheeks, and her fingers ruffle his hair much more. A little later, they slide over his tough biceps, his tough chest, and clearly seen muscles on his flat stomach, and slide underneath his t-shirt. The electric impulses send a signal to the man’s brain so that he holds his breath unconsciously and shakes sharply.       Kisses on any part of the body make Helene lose her mind and moan from a strong wish, the fire of which gets stronger and stronger every second. A touch of the man’s lips to her collarbones lets her feel a fast heartbeat. A long-lasting, sensual moan gets out of the mouth from the way his fingers clench and unclench her breasts. The warmth of the hand sliding over her naked belly tenses all the muscles to the unbearable pain that drives her crazy, but gives her a lot of pleasure. Peter notices silently how hot it is between the girl’s legs when he caresses the front of her thighs, which she squeezes tightly.       The man himself also gets a lot of the lady’s caress and enjoys the way Helene’s hands caress his face, shoulders, and arms, the way her fingers squeeze and pull his hair, and the way her lips leave the invisible prints on the skin in the areas she looks at with a bedroom glance. He is delighted by the way his girlfriend’s hands rub his tough chest tenderly, as if they taste it, and caress his stomach. Impressed, he helps her take his t-shirt off himself, giving her a chance to feel every single muscle of his better and admire the view that has always made her hold her breath and subdue her will like hypnosis so that she obeys the owner of it.       Helene uses it obviously when she easily lies Peter on the bed, lies over him and takes the situation under her control, mixing tender and passionate kisses, covering the whole body of her fiancé from this moment on with them and just letting him stretch himself from pleasure like a well-fed cat, caress the curves of her waist and press the girl as closely to himself as possible. Confidently, with pressure. As if he is letting her know that he is not going to let her go and thinks he has a right literally to sink his nails into the body of the one whom he can call a fiancée starting this day.       

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      “What if we walk somewhere after the party?” Peter suggests in a low, nice voice, while Helene’s head rests on his shoulder. “Sammy would go home with your grandmother, and you and I would go somewhere to a quiet place and spend some time alone.”       “Are you sure my legs won’t get weak from tiredness?” Helene purrs quietly with a mysterious smile.       “I dunno, I’m not personally tired. Even if it’s been a few hours since the beginning of the party, and the preparations began in the early morning. I was also watching Sammy: feeding him, walking him out, washing, brushing… You know that washing that thirty-kilogram creature that doesn’t like washing in a bathroom is a very exhausting thing.”       “After which you have to take a shower.”       “Yeah! But despite all of that, I’d have the pleasure of having fun until the morning.”       “No, we won’t be hanging out ‘til the morning. The guests will get tired, and the newlyweds will want to spend their first night of marriage.”       “That’s right…”       Helene says nothing, presses herself closely to Peter with a slight smile, and puts her head on his shoulder again, while he hugs her tightly by the waist and caresses her head with a free hand.       “So what, my sugar?” Peter asks. “Are you accepting my invitation to walk when the people go home?”       “I wouldn’t dare to reject such a pretty man,” Helene smiles widely. “Refusing to walk with such a good company would be a sin.”       “Wonderful!” Peter kisses Helene on the top of her head, holding his hand on her cheek. “We’ll walk together.”       “And if I get cold, I surely know I can steal my beloved man’s jacket.”       “If you need it, I’ll give it to you. Just one word, my sweetheart. Before I do everything you want.”       “One word of mine before you kiss me. Right now.”       “So… Since my beauty wants it…”       Peter gives Helene a slight, short kiss on the lips, hugging her tightly by the waist with his arms, steps away a little, and waits for her reaction. The girl grabs the man’s face softly with a sweet smile and gives him a more continuous kiss full of love on the lips, to which he answers with pleasure. They hug or kiss before the eyes of people, play the fool together, and laugh shyly or dance with pleasure along with the slow music.       “Everybody’s so happy,” Daniel notices with a slight smile. “And the grooms and brides are the happiest ones.”       “Yeah, my friends are finally married,” Anna smiles shyly. “Natalia finally fulfilled her dream. She was whining for so long! Complaining that nobody paid attention to her. And worried she was that Edward could stop talking to her! She thought he needed her to meet his brother.”       “These lovebirds look so cute together. And I’m glad they didn’t break up after that terrible story and continued to date.”       “And Raquelle and Terrence finally went to the altar and will live as a wife and a husband from this moment on.”       “They’re fine fellows, they overcame everything. They’re the same beautiful couple as Edward and Natalia are.”       “Yeah, but how many tears the girls cried while coming here. The girls and I thought the stylists’ work would’ve been destroyed, and Natalia and Raquelle would’ve come to the altar with tousled hair and destroyed makeup. We tried to calm her down.”       “Huh, the grooms were dressing up for two hours!” Daniel laughs shyly. “And then they fell into a trance several times. So, the guys and I could barely wake them up. We had to give a couple of glasses of champagne on the way to the ceremony, after which they felt a little better.”       “The brides had the same problems: they were dressed up and ready to go, but then they suddenly needed to fix something, change something, curl something… Though the cars were about to come for us.”       “But the girls had everyone overwhelmed. Thanks to three talented beauties, who made them so beautiful that we barely woke Terrence and Edward up. When they saw Raquelle and Natalia, they got stuck.”       “Uh-huh, but now they can’t stop looking at her.”       With these words, Anna watches Edward and Natalia not hiding their wide smiles, and Terrence and Raquelle talking about something with sly smiles on their faces and their heads proudly raised.       “And their tension is all gone,” Daniel notices with a slight smile, watching the newlyweds, as well.       “You’re right,” Anna smiles shyly. “Now they’re acting as if nothing happened.”       “The guys deserved it. Let them have fun.”       “Anyway, I really liked being a maid of honor,” Anna laughs shyly.       “And I loved being a best man. It was really cool.”       Daniel and Anna pay their attention to Helene and Peter laughing shyly and dancing funnily.       “They don’t care about what’s happening around,” Anna chuckles kindly.       “I wonder what Helene is telling Peter since he’s laughing as loudly as a horse?” Daniel wonders.       “Probably joking at Sammy. The fluffy kinda forgot them and doesn’t leave the kids alone.”       “Yeah, the long-eared one has something to do while the people are having fun, and his owner is flirting with the blond.”       “They’re lucky there’s a very good doggy that’s ready to run and have fun for hours.”       “Uh-huh, but Sammy is gonna get tired soon and try to hide from these restless kids.”       Anna says nothing and just smiles shyly, while Daniel twists her around herself and keeps leading her in a dance quite well. At some moment, the girl presses herself closely to the man and kisses him sweetly on the cheek while he holds her by the waist with both hands.       “Hey, I didn’t have time to say you look just magnificent,” Daniel says softly with a slight smile. “You and the girls did a good job! Made the brides beautiful and didn’t forget you. The lads lost their yawls when they saw all of you.”       “And did you lose yours when you saw me?” Anna asks through a shy laugh.       “Of course, my beautiful!” Daniel kisses Anna tenderly on the temple, keeping a hand on her cheek, and caresses her head. “I can’t stop looking at you!”       “It’s so nice to hear…” Anna replies softly, getting blush from shyness.       “And I can’t stop being proud to have such a wonderful and attractive girlfriend.”       “I can say the same about you, pretty boy,” Anna smiles shyly, stroking down Daniel’s hair. “You’re gorgeous in this suit. So proud, irresistible, confident…”       “I am!” Daniel raises his head proudly with a sly smile. “Literally fell in love with me when I looked at the mirror and saw such a handsome guy that you were lucky to get.”       “I’m imagining myself taking it off you slowly.” Anna grabs Daniel by the tie, looking into his eyes with a mysterious smile. “By one cloth.”       “M-m-m, wanna be a bully?”       “As if you don’t want to!” Anna exclaims and slaps Daniel’s nose with a finger slightly. I do know you madly wanna help me take off this dress.”       “Very much…” Daniel pronounces with a mysterious smile in a low, nice voice. “But I will do this later, when we go home. I will tell my sister to go to sleep and lock myself in the room with you. And nobody will bother us.”       “In case we…” Anna puts her arms around Daniel’s neck. “Don’t fall asleep from tiredness…”       “I can’t fall asleep without making my beauty happy,” Daniel purrs with a slight smile and runs the back of his hand over Anna’s cheek. “My gorgeous lady…”       “Oh, gosh, Daniel, don’t make me blush! I…”       Anna does not speak his mind because Daniel shuts her up softly with a short kiss on the lips, after which he looks confidently into her eyes with a slight smile. The girl smiles much wider and kisses the man sweetly on the cheek, against which she rubs the tip of her nose. He answers her with a kiss on the cheekbone and gets involved in the game “Tease your sweetheart”, during which both of them laugh a lot. However, Anna chooses a moment to bite Daniel’s nose, making him squeak. Then he puts a hand on her cheek and gives his sweetheart a confident, continuous kiss on the lips, which she accepts very well. While some adults and old people sit on the tables to have some rest, and single men and girls talk with someone about something, drink something, take pictures on their phones, and check something on the social networks quickly.       “Hey yo, men, let’s go dance, too?” Christopher suggests cheerfully. “Why are we standing here like idols?”       “Right!” Kevin agrees. “We’ve gotta warm up our bones!”       “Hey, I will be dancing with Perkins’ sister!” Blake states confidently.       “Perkins’ sister?” Christopher laughs shyly. “C’mon, buddy! He’s gonna cut off your head!”       “Indeed!” Kevin exclaims. “That dude is playing an evil brother who lets nobody come to her!”       “And what?” Blake surprises. “I wanna meet that girl!”       “Hey, who’s Daniel’s sister among those girls?” Liam asks, looking at all the single girls.       “She’s there!” Ryan points at Cassidy standing with the other girls. “With short hair in a dark blue dress.”       “That’s her?” Derek wonders. “M-m-m! Listen, guys, she’s a cutie!”       “Uh-huh, cutie!” Bradley agrees. “Pretty funny!”       “Listen, men, does she always wear dresses with sinkers?” Zachary asks.       “Daniel says Cassidy can’t stand heels,” Jeremy shrugs slightly. “And she’s actually not a fan of girls’ clothes. Dresses and jewelry aren’t for her.”       “Uh-huh, that’s why she took sinkers from her bro’s girlfriend,” William chuckles kindly.       “Didn’t she have other shoes for that dress?” Zachary wonders. “There are shows without heels!”       “She says these shoes hurt her legs!”       “Oh, c’mon, lads!” Gordon waves his hand. “I don’t really care what a girl wears! even a mink coat with slippers!”       “Exactly!” Liam agrees. “Who cares about it since that girl is really very cute!”       “They all are sweeties!” Bradley exclaims. “But the girls with colorful hair are freaking cool!”       “So, invite one of them to dance,” Kevin suggests cheerfully.       “I think I wanna dance with that blonde,” Christopher says thoughtfully, looking at Jessica smiling widely. “There’s something attractive about her, despite the lack of femininity.”       “Oh, I’ll dance with her after you!” Kevin drinks some champagne from his glass. “But now I’ll just stand here and watch all these happy men and their cuties.”       “Uh-h-h, okay, men, stand in the line,” Blake strokes his hair down. “But I will go to dance with Daniel’s sis.”       “M-m-m, I sense that someone’s gonna lose his head today,” Ryan says with a mysterious smile.       “Indeed, dude, don’t keep your head down,” Jeremy warns. “Although the lads started to treat you well, they’re still watching you.”       “Relax, Jer,” Blake replies confidently. “Perkins has a more important business than his sister. Look at Dan’s happy face while Anna is charming him hard!”       “Huh, you’re a risky boy, Blake!” William laughs quietly and drinks some champagne from his glass.       “If you wanna meet a beautiful girl, you must be determined.”       “Okay. Anyway, you know that Perkins is gonna skin you for his sister.”       “He won’t, Will, don’t worry.”       “Okay, man, go!” Christopher smiles slyly. “Go while Dan is busy with his red-haired beauty and forgot about his sister.”       “Alright, gang, you decide who to invite, but I’ll show you how you can easily pick up a sympathetic girl. Watch and learn!”       Blake turns around and goes confidently to the side where all the single girls are standing with his head proudly raised. Some time before, Jessica, Melissa, and Kylie go somewhere and leave Cassidy alone, and she smiles slightly as she watches several couples that are still dancing. But when the boy coughs to get attention from her, the girl turns around and moves her eyes to him.       “Uh-h-h, hi,” Blake pronounces amicably.       “Hi,” Cassidy greets.       “Cool music is playing here… Don’t you want to dance a little?”       “Dance?” Cassidy smiles shyly. “With pleasure!”       “Let’s go…”       Blake suggests that Cassidy take his hand with a much prouder look. When she does it, they go to the dance pool and start moving with the rhythm of the music. The young girl’s face gets blushed from a strong sense of shyness, and all her actions are hesitant and kind of awkward. However, the boy has the same situation, even if he does not show it and tries to stay confident enough.       “I saw you when you came to the ceremony,” Blake starts a talk. “But I didn’t see you dancing.”       “I danced, you just mightn’t have seen me behind a big crowd,” Cassidy replies shyly.       “Yeah? I dunno… Maybe.”       “But you were hanging out to the fullest.”       “Love having fun in good company.”       “And I must confess that you move well.”       “Glad you liked it.”       “Hey, I believe I saw you somewhere…” Cassidy frowns slightly. “Your face seems quite familiar to me.”       “Maybe you understand something if I say I’m working as an assistant to the band, in which your older brother sings?”       “Right! I remember! The girls and I viewed the photos from the bachelor, and I saw you. And they told me you worked with the guys.”       “And I also saw you in the photos from the bachelorette. And when I said you were very sympathetic, your brother literally got excited.”       “Huh, don’t pay attention!” Cassidy waves her hand. “Daniel now pretends to be an evil older bro. Sometimes I joke that if I had a boyfriend, Danny would take total control of him or hit him regularly with a club.”       “So, doesn’t Daniel let you date anyone?” Blake laughs.       “I don’t aim to do now. But if I fall in love with someone or wanna speak to someone, no brother will stop me.”       “Aren’t you afraid that he mayn’t like the fact that I’m dancing with you? You agreed so easily… I thought you’d refuse.”       “Huh, why should I be afraid?” Cassidy chuckles. “Should I ask Daniel who to dance with? He can keep dreaming! Of course, he’s playing the role of a harsh daddy, but it doesn’t mean I must obey him. Besides, I sometimes don’t miss a chance to make him mad and play on his nerves.”       “M-m-m, you’re a rebel!”       “C’mon, don’t worry! Dan doesn’t care about me now. That silly boy is too busy with his beloved girl. He has such a gorgeous, stunning red-haired beauty that makes him crazy.”       “Anna is really very stunning. And today she looks just magnificent.”       “My bro had his yawl falling in the abyss when he saw her like this.”       Silence settles in the talk, during which Cassidy and Blake just laugh shyly, still shaking with the rhythm of the music.       “By the way, you’re the first one to invite me to dance…” Cassidy notices amicably. “Connor… This is your name?”       “No, Connor is my surname,” Blake replies with a slight smile. “My name is Blake.”       “Blake? Cool name! And I’m Cassidy. But you can call me Cass.”       “Nice to meet you, Cassidy.”       “Me too.”       “Hey, Blake, why did you have a tense relationship with Dan, Pete, Ed, and Terry?”       “I was the one to blame,” Blake confesses a little hesitantly. “The lads were nice to me at first. But I made them turn their backs on me by mocking, insulting, humiliating, and blaming them for getting famous thanks to Terrence’s money and fame, not their talent. He used to be an actor… Very famous one…”       “But why? What did the guys do to you? They’re cool guys. I personally adore them!”       “I was just jealous of their life. They have fame and money, date beautiful girls, and befriend many people… I was hurt ‘cause life was so unfair to me.”       “But that was wrong!”       “I know. But I understood it too late. When the guys said openly that they fired me and found someone else instead of me. I was reflecting on what happened for a long time… And finding the courage to talk to them and try to apologize for much longer.”       “So, as I understand, did you solve your misunderstandings? If you came to Edward’s wedding!”       “Yup, luckily, the guys gave me one more chance. I befriend them and do everything they say. And everything isn’t so bad yet.”       “I’m glad you did it,” Cassidy smiles shyly.       “Me too. I felt lonely for a long time. While the guys have each other and many other people, I have nobody. I have nothing at all! And I’ve never had! I’m just a little boy who grew up in an orphan house. Living at that place, I could only dream about a beautiful life.”       “You grew up in an orphan house?” Cassidy rounds her eyes. “You have no parents?”       “As long as I can remember, I lived all my life with many other children and educators. Literally since birth.”       “But why?”       “I dunno. I didn’t find out why I ended up there. I don’t care about it a lot, though.”       “And you lived your whole life in an orphan house?”       “Not a whole… My twin brother and I escaped from there when we were fifteen.”       “Wow! You have a twin brother?”       “I had. He died three and a half years ago from a drug overdose.”       “Oh, shit…” Cassidy gets horrified. “I’m so sorry, Blake… Really…”       “We were always stuck together and got along. We did everything together. We could go against anyone except each other. I thought our connection would be strong. But drugs ruined everything… They destroyed Matt, my brother… That shit made him a different man. He stopped being my brother I loved so much.”       “I get it…” Cassidy pronounces with sadness in her eyes. “I also almost died from these fucking drugs.” Got involved in that because of a bad company. Which used my grief and suggested that I forget about my pain with drugs. But I felt so desperate that I agreed.”       “Did you wean yourself away from that?”       “I did. Thanks to Daniel. He found a clinic where I was for a few months. Which I left as a different person. Healthier than ever. But I still keep fighting. It’s not the end of my way. I still get therapy and do everything doctors tell me. I speak much to those who are the same as me. We’re getting through it together.”       “Great,” Blake smiles slyly. “I’m very glad you got over that shit. My brother could’ve gotten therapy, as well, if we’d had money for that. But what I was earning wasn’t enough to bring him to a clinic. Even if I’d tortured myself with starvation and sold everything I had, I wouldn’t have found money and helped my brother.”       “I wouldn’t have survived if not for my brother. He was ready to pay any money to help me. And kept his promise. As you see, I’m here. Alive.”       “You’re very lucky. Don’t take that shit again. If you start it again, you will surely die.”       “No, no, I won’t be bad to the old ways! Anything but drugs!”       “I don’t want you to end your life in the same way as my brother, who died in a den where he got worse after a great dose of drugs. Maybe he would’ve survived if he’d gotten help. But nobody did it. Everybody didn’t care.”       “I’m very sorry about your brother’s death…” Cassidy says with pity in her eyes. “And sorry about you having no Mom and Dad…”       “My brother’s death became a great shock to me. But I found the strength to keep moving on. Accept the fact that I have nobody and survive somehow. I’m lucky I managed to find a good job as an assistant to Daniel’s band. Of course, earning this money isn’t enough for my own home, but I can at least buy food, clothes, and all the necessary things. And sometimes I even have money for some fun and little purchases.”       “You’re young yet! You’ll be rich! Nineteen years is just the beginning of life!”       “Actually, I recently turned twenty.”       “Oh, me too! I turned twenty on February 14th. On Valentine’s Day!”       “Wow! You were born on such a cool day!”       “That’s right!” Cassidy agrees funnily.       “And I was born on January 20th.”       “Of course, I hint at nothing…” Cassidy says thoughtfully. “But if you want, we can keep speaking. Moreover, we can talk about what we’re united by and support each other.”       “It would be cool to talk about it to someone who has overcome that, as well. But on the other hand, I wouldn’t like to remember that nightmare…”       “I don’t want to do, either, but it’s impossible to forget and struck out of life. The memories of that hell will always be with me.”       “Anyway, I feel much better now. I… Take it much easier.”       “And I calmed down a little… I used to have hysteria from a mention of that story, but now I accept it all quietly. Maybe time helped… Maybe the clinic did… I dunno. But I feel better now.”       “You know, maybe your brother loves showing off, but he’s a cool man anyway. Responsible, caring, decent…”       “I’m terribly happy I have such a cool brother! Without him, I would’ve been dead! But Danny is a hero! He saved me from one sick pervert, who was obsessed with sex and young girls, and sent me to the clinic to get therapy.”       “I know who you mean… And I hope you’ll get well soon and won’t take that shit again.”       “No, I’ll no longer be an idiot! I don’t wanna destroy myself!”       “That’s good.”       Cassidy says nothing and just smiles shyly, looking aside for a second at some moment.       “Okay, in this case, I suggest we get to know each other better and try to find common interests,” Cassidy suggests. “If you want, I can tell you something funny about my brother. And… Funny things from my life.”       “Deal!” Blake exclaims. “I can also tell you a couple of funny stories about my bro and friends. You’re gonna love it.”       “Would listen with pleasure.”       Blake and Cassidy keep talking about something at ease and laughing a lot, feeling much more comfortable, and entertain each other with funny dances. Meanwhile, Christopher invites Jessica to dance, and Kylie and Melissa’s idols from “The Loser Syndrome,” Liam and Bradley respectively agree to dance with them with pleasure, Emma gets attention from Kevin, and Odette talks to someone from the important guests at this wedding. While the other single men keep standing aside and watching everyone who is now dancing and busy with their partner.       “Oh, it seems like someone invited your sister to dance,” Anna smiles shyly when she glances aside and sees Blake and Cassidy dancing and laughing together.       Daniel moves his eyes immediately to Cassidy and frowns his eyebrows strongly with a quiet growl.       “Connor?” Daniel frowns surprisingly. “She’s dancing with Connor?”       “They got along, huh!” Anna exclaims.       “Damn! I did tell the kid not to come to her. Why the hell didn’t this asshole listen to me?”       “Don’t you like that your sister is dancing with someone?”       “I don’t like that she’s dancing with Connor.”       “What’s wrong with it? She can dance and talk with anyone she wants.”       “Uh-h-h… Listen, Anna, wait for me here…” Daniel steps away from Anna softly. “I’ll go solve something quickly.”       “What?” Anna rounds her eyes. “Where are you going? Don’t do this, Daniel. Let them talk,”       “Don’t worry, sweetie, I ain’t gonna fight with Connor. I’ll just remind him that if he washes Cassidy’s brains, he will have to deal with me. Let him know he’s on my hook.”       “Don’t do, sweetie… Please!”       “I’ll be back now, my little star. Wait for me here or somewhere aside.       Daniel caresses Anna’s cheek softly and leaves her alone, coming confidently to Blake and Cassidy, passing through dancing couples and by the guests, the photographers, the operators, the journalists, and those who are responsible for the party walking everywhere.       “Oh, oh, something’s gonna happen now,” Blair says thoughtfully as she dances with Benjamin. “Daniel went to Blake and Cassidy.”       “Yeah, it’s gonna be hot now!” Benjamin replies confidently. “Call everyone here! The poor guy is gonna get kicked by the evil older brother of that girl.”       While Benjamin and Blair keep watching what’s happening and dancing, Daniel comes to Cassidy and Blake and knocks his finger slightly at the boy’s shoulder, saying quietly:       “Connor, come to me for one minute.”       “Hey, bro, I wanna remind you that slow dances can’t be performed by three people,” Cassidy smiles innocently. “So, get out!”       “What’s up, Daniel?” Blake asks with a sly smile. “Wanna dance with your sis again? Sorry, stand in the queue! Many guys wanna dance with her!”       “I think I already told you not to hit on my sister,” Daniel replies thoughtfully.       “I don’t hit on anyone.”       “Yeah? What are you doing now?”       “Don’t I have the right just to talk to the girl I liked? It’s just a dance and an amiable talk! Not a date, sex, a wedding, and something like that!”       “Ah, talk? Okay…”       “Relax, Dan!” Blake exclaims. “Nobody’s gonna steal your flesh and blood! Cassidy and I are just talking.”       “I do know what you can talk with girls about.”       “Gosh, bro, settle down already!” Cassidy sighs tiredly. “Why are you annoying the boy? The MacClifes, Rose, and you should stop hurting Blake! He’s very good and sweet!”       “M-m-m, I see one birdie whispered something in your ear.”       “Listen, bro, no matter if you want it, but I will be speaking to anyone as much as I want!”       “Ah, did you get charmed and start to listen to this kid open-mouthed?”       “We’re talking about funny stories. He’s telling me about his brother, and I’m entertaining him with stories about moments when everybody was laughing at you.”       “Listen, Perkins, I understand that you’re worried about your little sis and something like that,” Blake replies quietly, putting his hands on his hips. “But don’t overact while playing an evil brother who lets nobody come to her. Do you want to be the one to blame for the fact that Cassidy has no friends or a boyfriend? I doubt she’ll forgive you for that.”       “The kid is speaking a lot!” Daniel chuckles kindly. “Too much!”       “Hey, let me ban you from getting close to Anna and start to say she allegedly impacts you badly?” Cassidy suggests. “Ya would like it? Wasn’t the fact that her mother and father didn’t wanna hear anything about you somehow enough to you?”       “I am an adult man, my dear sister,” Daniel replies confidently. “And you’re a kid. A little girl who must listen to me.”       “Yeah, when am I gonna be an adult? At the age of thirty? Forty? Seventy!”       “When you’re adapted to a normal life!”       “Gosh, get out of here now! I don’t wanna listen to your lectures about how I should live.”       “If you talk a lot, snap and protest, you will immediately go home!”       “Get off, Dan! I speak to whoever I want and ain’t gonna get your permission. C’mon, get outta here. Go flirt with Anna a little. Lemme have fun and talk to good people.”       “Oh, yeah, good people…”       “I don’t care about your confrontations with Blake. I speak to him, no matter how you, Peter, Edward, and Terrence treat him.”       “I said everything, Cassidy! You are banned from speaking to Connor!”       “Hey, why are the other men except me allowed to talk to Cassidy?” Blake wonders with widely open eyes.       “You can easily wash the girl’s head and then leave her with a broken heart. I don’t want anyone to hurt my little sister and betray her.”       “Huh… That’s why!” Blake smiles widely and nods. “Now I see everything… You puffed your tail because you’re afraid Cassidy will fall in love with me? That’s why you wanna ban her from speaking to me?”       “Yes, that’s why!”       “Listen, Dan, do you know people can’t fall in love after just one dance and a small talk?” Cassidy smiles innocently. “Blake and I just met, but you got excited and believe we have eternal love.”       “They really can, Cassidy,” Daniel replies confidently. “And you know nothing about love. And you can easily fall in love with anyone who points a finger at you with a finger.”       “Relax, bro, I ain’t gonna have sex with the one I barely know.”       “Hey, what kind of sex! I see you’re dreaming too much!”       “Hey, would you get out of here? Or do I have to see your face and speak to people under your hard control until the end of the celebration?”       “Speak to whoever you want. But I highly recommend that you do not open your mouth and listen to Blake too much. I’m gonna be honest, he’s a womanizer. A real womanizer who dates girls only for sex.”       “Damn, get out of here! You’re starting to annoy me already.”       “Accept it, Daniel, your sis will fall in love someday,” Blake smiles innocently. “You can’t always play the role of an evil brother who growls at everyone, who gets closer to her.”       “Cassidy is my younger brother, Blake,” Daniel recalls confidently. “And I will be closely watching everybody to go around her. Especially, you, Connor.”       “Relax your butts, man, I ain’t gonna take your sis to my bed. I just wanna talk to her a little. Talk to the one who is the same age as me.”       “Oh, don’t listen to him, Blake!” Cassidy waves her hand. “My bro has always loved pretending to be a hero and showing off. Now he’s got a good chance to play a daddy. Mom and Dad are gone, and there is nobody to watch me. So, my bro is having a lot of fun.”       “You’re talking too much!” Daniel exclaims       “Blah, blah, blah!”       “Okay, sister, wait. When we go home, I will talk to you seriously.”       “Oh, oh, oh, how scared I am!”       “I am serious, Cassidy!”       “Ready to bet anything that you’ll take Anna to your room and get busy with her after coming back home. What do you have on your mind? Open her dress, undress her, caress her whole body, kiss her on the neck… What else do you love to do to her?”       “You know everything!”       “Not too much to know!”       “It’s none of your business, darling. We’re adult people, and you must not meddle in it.”       Cassidy says nothing and just snuffs with her eyes rolled. And two seconds later, Anna comes to her, Daniel, and Blake after watching what’s happening for some time, and then decides to join the talk.       “Oh, Anna, it’s so good you came!” Blake smiles widely. “Help me, please!”       “Yes, Anna, take this creature with you so that he leaves me alone?” Cassidy asks with pity in her eyes. “I wanna talk to Blake quietly, but Dan doesn’t let us do it and plays on our nerves.”       “Don’t worry, Cassidy,” Anna replies with a slight smile, taking Daniel under his arm. “Talk to him as much as you want.”       “You imagine, I just invited her to dance and wanted to talk to her, but he got excited already,” Blake says with a slight smile. “He acts like a jealous boy who saw his girl with another man!”       “Keep dancing, guys. Nobody’s gonna bother you.”       “My brother is so hilarious…” Cassidy laughs shyly. “He seriously thinks I’ll fall in love after just a friendly talk.”       “Daniel just doesn’t want you to speak to bad people.”       “But Blake isn’t bad!”       “I know. But your brother cares about you.”       “Yeah, he’s so obsessed with it that he bans me from talking to men,” Cassidy crosses her arms over her chest with pursed lips. “I’d watch him if he were banned from speaking to you.”       “Take it easy, Cassidy.”       “I wanna talk to girls and men! Wanna have fun! But this idiot doesn’t let me do!”       “Gosh, nobody bans you from talking to men and girls!” Daniel moans tiredly. “Speak to whoever you want! I just want you not to trust Blake because you may expect anything from him.”       “Hey, bro, I don’t kinda get it… Are you afraid that I’ll fall in love with Blake? Or don’t ya want me to speak to him ‘cause you’ve got a confrontation with him?”       “I don’t know what I’m gonna do to you if you go home and say you’re in love with him.”       “Gosh, Daniel, what are you talking about?” Anna smiles shyly. “Can’t your sister just talk to the boy? At her age, just saying!”       “Yes, dude, can’t we talk about our common interests?” Blake wonders. “Besides, we have many common things we had wanted to talk about before you came here with a wish to kick my ass.”       “Alright, Danny, stop acting like a jealous man!” Cassidy exclaims. “And stop finding Blake a threat. He will do nothing to me.”       Daniel says nothing for two seconds, exhales sharply, and runs his hand over his face, saying quietly:       “Okay, go to hell! Do what you want!”       “Wonderful!” Cassidy smiles shyly and sends an air kiss to Daniel. “But now grab your feet and get outta here.”       “But I’m warning you, Blake…” Daniel points his finger at Blake. “I’m watching you very closely. And I will not stop doing that. And if I find out you hurt my sister, you’ll have to regret it a lot. You got it well?”       “I got it, got it!” Blake raises his hands. “Not an idiot! It’s gonna be cool, dude!”       “I hope you also understood me, Cassidy. Listen, but don’t open your mouth. And don’t believe everything he tells you.”       “It’s okay, bro!” Cassidy exclaims with a wide smile and kisses Daniel sweetly on the cheek, grabbing his face. “Have fun with your red-haired beauty and think of the areas you’ll kiss tonight.”       “I am watching you two. Remember this.”       “Okay, guys, I’m taking this pretty boy with me,” Anna smiles shyly. “You have fun, speak, dance… Come to us if you need something.”       “Thanks, cutie, you’re the best!” Cassidy exclaims.       “Aw, you’re my sweetie!” Blake sends an air kiss with a wide smile. “My savior!”       Laughing shyly with blushed cheeks, Anna takes Daniel under his arm and takes him away to the other side of the room, while Blake and Cassidy watch them with a slight smile and shrug as they look at each other.       “He’s so clingy,” Cassidy blunts gloomily. “Stubborn donkey! The idiot, who really liked his new role. Being an evil daddy-bro.”       “It’s okay, give a damn about him! Let him show off. He needs it very much. As well as Terrence must hear at least one compliment per day.”       “Of course, it’s a pleasure to me that he cares about me like this, but sometimes Daniel annoys me a little. I do wanna grab a pan and hit him in his beautiful face.”       “Relax, Cass, he’ll now get busy with Anna and forget about us,” Blake smiles slyly. “So, we can keep talking quietly.”       “Okay, damn my bro! So, how do you say everything was over?”       “Well, everything was over when…”       Blake and Cassidy keep talking about something very interesting with wide smiles on their faces and laugh at times, not forgetting to dance along with the song that started playing literally a few seconds ago. Meanwhile, the adults and old people are sitting all together on several tables that are pasted together with a glass of champagne or some food, and talking about the young people they watch with interest at times.       “Gosh, I can’t stop admiring my daughter,” Letitia confesses with a wide smile, watching Edward and Natalia dancing and laughing at something shyly. “God, she’s shining with happiness!”       “And I’m enjoying the thought that my niece is married and having the status of a wife,” Alicia replies confidently as she watches Raquelle and Terrence talking about something sweetly. “I feel so quiet for her now.”       “Oh, I calmed down too,” Rebecca smiles widely. “I wish the families of my sons were strong and happy.”       “I still can’t forget how they performed their first dance,” Violetta confesses amicably. “Natalia and Raquelle looked so gracious, soft and tender, and Edward and Terrence were very confident.”       “Can’t disagree!” Victor agrees and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “The dance was just magnificent. Did a choreographer do it?”       “No, they did nothing,” Jamie replies thoughtfully. “Everything was done, as people say, as the heart wanted.”       “Great,” Lydia smiles shyly. “That’s why their oaths were very emotional.”       “You noticed it right, Mrs. Johnson,” Christiana agrees confidently and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “I was personally touched.”       “Anyway, the newlyweds did it well,” Anthony says confidently. “And finally became husbands and wives.”       “Wait, ladies and gentlemen,” Lillian says confidently. “Some time later, their children will be born. You’ll be arguing about who’s going to be the first one to take your grandchildren in your arms.”       “Oh, we need to live until that moment!” Victoria waves her hand with a shy smile and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “The young people will live for themselves for two or three years and then make babies.”       “Yeah, but we’d like them not to delay it too much,” Frederick smiles mysteriously.       “Don’t worry, folks!” Maximilian asks. “They will have children! Don’t worry! They are still young! If they want, they will have many babies!”       “Moreover, Terrence and Edward are positive for the idea of becoming fathers,” George adds confidently.       “They will, fellows, don’t doubt,” Amelia says with a slight smile and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “They will have at least one child.”       “I wish!” Adriana exclaims.       “Just wait for a while!” Raphael exclaims. “The important thing is their wish and their ability to provide for children.”       “We will be waiting, Mr. Sanchez,” Scarlett replies with a slight smile.       The people sitting together pay attention to Edward and Natalia, who play the fool with each other more than they dance, and Terrence and Raquelle hugging tenderly with wide smiles on their faces.       “And something tells me Terrence and Raquelle will grow up for a child first,” George assumes and takes a sip of champagne from his glass.       “I agree with you, Mr. Smith,” Letitia nods.       “Me too,” Victoria agrees. “Edward is not ready to be a dad yet. He just recently grew up for a marriage. So, don’t tell you to make children immediately.”       “You’re right, Mrs. Richardson,” Anthony says confidently. “I don’t see Natalia as a mother, too.”       “The important thing is a wish,” Lydia replies. “If you don’t have a wish, your child is gonna suffer all his life.”       “Wise words!” Raphael clicks his fingers and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “You should want a child, not give birth just because your family, your wife, or your husband wants it.”       “Yeah, it’s a very great responsibility,” Adriana adds confidently. “A child is not a toy. You can’t get rid of the one when you’re sick of it.”       “At least, they’re lucky to have so many helpers,” Victor notices. “All of them can ask you for advice or help.”       “Right,” Jamie nods. “Our newlyweds are very lucky in this case.”       “We know not everything but a lot about educating children,” Lillian adds. “And we can always help the young people.”       “Oh, I am always ready to help the young people with a child,” Frederick replies confidently. “And Raquelle knows it well.”       “I’m always at her service too…” Alicia nods and takes a sip of champagne from her glass.       “I see she’s come to herself after the miscarriage,” Rebecca notices.       “It can’t be forgotten,” Amelia notices. “The pain from losing the child will always be alive in her heart.”       “Say, Mrs. Sanchez, did you know she’d have a miscarriage?” Frederick specifies. “Could the lines on her palms say something like this?”       “Yes, I did. There’s a line on Raquelle’s palm that means the unborn child.”       “You told her?” Alicia asks.       “Nope, I didn’t. I didn’t wanna upset her. I knew literally everything that happened to her, but I told her just a part of it.”       “I guess there’s something about it,” Rebecca notices. “I remember I met a fortune teller when I was a teenager, who looked at my hand and foresaw the marriage with a man I would break up with for some time, but come together with and the birth of two children.”       “I don’t believe in these things,” Scarlett confesses and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “At all.”       “I remember one girl read my palm too and said so many stupid tales that didn’t come true,” Anthony confesses thoughtfully. “That’s good she didn’t at least want my money.”       “But can Raquelle give birth to a child after the miscarriage?” Scarlett specifies.       “Of course, she can,” Amelia smiles shyly. “She’s supposed to have several children by fate.”       “Oh, you reminded me of how I was expecting my daughter…” Lillian confesses with a slight smile. “When I was pregnant with Anna, I always felt very sick. I was only lying. And even if I did everything I was told, my daughter was born earlier and barely survived.”       “I felt sick only for the first two months,” Rebecca confesses. “During both of my pregnancies. I was literally flying like a butterfly. I actually learned about my second pregnancy accidentally when the baby Terrence started to caress my belly too often. He was just learning to speak, but he clearly said I had a baby inside it. As if he sensed something. In the end, I went to the doctor and found out that the second son was really growing inside me.”       “And I actually worked until the childbirth and never felt sick,” Letitia confesses. “My pregnancy was very easy. But I always wanted to drink red wine and eat salt cucumbers with whipped cream. I drank a glass literally every day.”       “Oh, I didn’t actually feel anything,” Scarlett confesses. “And I learned about my pregnancy accidentally when my husband dared to make a claim about getting too fat and eating too much. At first, I got really mad, but then I went to get examined. And I found out that I’d become a mother soon. I gave birth easily, with no problems, just in time. And after she was born, I looked like I wasn’t pregnant. But it’s not surprising because I became a mother at the age of nineteen. A young body restores quickly.”       “I survived the pregnancy easily, but my childbirth was hard enough,” Amelia says with a slight smile. “I guess the age was the reason. I wasn’t a young girl. Besides, I didn’t always keep a healthy diet. But when Raphael and I ran into the conception issues, I changed my food habits.”       “And I’m still surprised that I was dying of a wish to eat saltwort, which I don’t usually eat, during the pregnancy,” Lydia replies quietly. “Not exactly that I like it… I just don’t like its smell… But I could eat it every day.”       “Alright, men, our ladies decided to fall into nostalgia,” Maximilian laughs shyly.       “Yeah, turned on the wrong path,” George chuckles kindly.       “I don’t know, I personally liked being pregnant,” Letitia confesses. “The childbirth wasn’t really the best experience for me. But it’s all worth it when a doctor brings your child to you and lets you hold them. When you look at the baby’s hands, legs, nose, eyes…”       “I hope Raquelle will get through that,” Alicia expresses hope. “Sadly, I didn’t give birth to a child.”       “And God didn’t give me children, either,” Victoria notices sadly. “But while you were absolutely healthy, I had serious problems with it.”       “Though I still remember the day my sister gave birth. When we all looked at the baby, who was brought to us by the nurse. It was so touching…”       “You’re right, my darling,” Lydia assumes thoughtfully. “When you see your child, you forget any pain you felt when you had contractions. You’re full of happiness that weakens any pain.”       “Can’t wait for the girls to survive this moment,” Frederick sighs. “I do want Raquelle and Natalia to get through this and understand that it’s really good to be a mother.”       “They will, don’t rush them,” Amelia assumes. “As we said before, it must be the wish of the young people.”       “That’s right,” George agrees. “Any child must be desired and deserves love and attention.”       “Real truth…” Victoria pronounces thoughtfully. “My heart bleeds when I watch TV and see little abandoned children.”       “Mine too,” Scarlett confesses. “Moreover, my granddaughter Helene was also left by her irresponsible mother. It’s a very painful thing to me.”       “Thank God, she had you and your husband,” Violetta replies confidently.       “It’s okay, we can be quiet for our grandchildren,” Jamie notices cheerfully and takes a sip of champagne. “Terrence, Raquelle, Edward, and Natalia are gonna be wonderful parents when they wanna make a child.”       “And we will not leave them,” Victor adds with a slight smile. “We’ll always help them and share our experience.”       With these words, Victor smiling slightly moves his eyes to Terrence, who kisses Raquelle on the temple at some moment and hugs her touchingly. While Edward and Natalia are dancing not far from them, shaking with the rhythm of the music and talking about something sweetly.       “Ah, it’s so nice to see everyone so happy!” Maximilian exclaims with a slight smile.       “Are you probably as happy for your daughter as I’m happy for my granddaughter?” Scarlett smiles mysteriously.       “Obviously, Mrs. Marshall.”       “And my heart is absolutely quiet for my daughter,” Lillian smiles widely. “Daniel is an amazing man! So kind, decent, and caring… The one Anna needs.”       “I’m gonna be, ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been dreaming of their engagement for a long time,” Maximilian confesses.       “Ah, I’ve been sleeping and dreaming of the wedding of my granddaughter and Peter for ages,” Scarlett sighs with a slight smile and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “When I saw him, I realized that my girl would be happy with him. But I was upset because Helene didn’t want to pay attention to him and always called him just a friend. She had many admirers, but I liked Peter much more. And Roger liked him too. Though my husband didn’t accept any boy she knew.”       “By the way, fellows, do you remember that the grooms and the brides will throw the bouquets and garters?” Lydia smiles mysteriously. “And I’m kind of sure that one of those guys will be lucky today.”       “Of course, we do!” Alicia exclaims. “And I’m sure that some of these guys will be lucky today.”       “I want my granddaughter to be lucky today,” Scarlett confesses. “If only you knew how much I want her to get married… Her to have a family, her children… She’d have nobody if I died. I want to know she has a husband and at least one child. That’s what would make me calm down.”       “Don’t worry, Mrs. Marshall,” Adriana calms down with a slight smile. “Your granddaughter will surely get married. And you will be at her wedding as well as I am at the wedding of my beloved Natalia.”       “I wish, Mrs. Lascano… Moreover, she’s got such an amazing boyfriend. With Peter, she will be very happy. Living with him, Helene would need nothing. He’s got enough money, and he recently moved into a large, gorgeous house where there is much space for them and their children.”       “You know, my darling, money isn’t the most important thing,” Victoria notices confidently. “The most important thing is that a person truly loves you and is by your side at good and bad times. My late husband was a regular man from a modest family and never earned a lot. We never had enough money. But we loved each other anyway and were together until the end. Until he died.”       “Anna has the same opinion,” Lillian smiles shyly and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “My daughter doesn’t consider marriage the most important thing in life. She says the most important thing to her is that a man loves her, respects and takes care of her. Like, when you love, it doesn’t make sense if you’re married and have a lot of money.”       “Excuse me, of course, Mrs. Seymour, but I don’t believe that she thinks so,” Adriana confesses carefully. “Any girl dreams of marriage when her time comes. Nobody wants to be just someone’s girlfriend, be a de facto union, and be literally a servant at a man’s home.”       “Daniel doesn’t make her. Anna does everything at her will. Cooks, washes, cleans, and irons. She’s never given him claims. And she doesn’t even tell him to marry her. Waiting for him to decide to.”       “No, I think Anna is actually dreaming of a wedding. Your girl is just too educated to talk about it. She is not one of those ladies who take a man to the altar by force.”       “No, my daughter doesn’t make Daniel get married to her by force,” Maximilian protests and takes a sip of champagne from his glass.       At this moment, almost everybody looks at Anna and Daniel dancing, flirting, and giving each other a shy, continuous kiss on the lips, during which the man leans the girl back, holding her tightly by the waist with both arms.       “It’s okay, fellows, they’ll want to get married soon,” Violetta says confidently. “Look at their married friends and decide to have a wedding too. Daniel will understand that there’s nothing bad about a marriage, and he’s living with Anna almost like a husband and a wife.”       “And Peter will get ready for the wedding early or late,” Christiana adds amicably. “Despite everything we know about him, he is a very good guy. A good boy who just should’ve gotten some love and care.”       “By the way, this morning, I found out that his father died last time,” Victor announces.       “Come on?” Scarlett opens her eyes widely. “Marcus? Marcus Longbottom died?”       “Yes. He had a heart attack. The doctors tried to save him, but they could not.”       “Which means he paid for his sins,” Maximilian says thoughtfully.       “Honestly, I am not sorry for him,” Frederick states confidently. “I think it’s the fair end to him.”       “Agree,” Jamie nods. “The inglorious end of the man, who killed so many people and wanted to get rid of his own child.”       “By the way, his twin brother died last time too,” Victor confesses. “Felix Longbottom died first. He fell accidentally from the window on the fifth floor and died before the arrival of the ambulance.”       “Does Peter know it?” Rebecca asks. “Or haven’t you told him about it yet?”       “I called him this morning.”       “I think he doesn’t look upset,” Lydia notices. “He’s having fun as if nothing happened.”       “Why would he be worried about the man, who wanted to sell him to nobody the hell knows who and kill him and harm his girlfriend?” Scarlett wonders. “I am also happy Marcus is dead and paid for everything he had done. Paid for almost taking my granddaughter from me.”       “Minus one bastard, as they say,” Alicia replies determinedly.       “I think the boy can sleep tight now,” Maximilian says confidently. “His own father will no longer try to kill him.”       “Yeah, with family like his, he doesn’t need enemies!” Lilian exclaims. “Though the boy has always been unlucky with his surroundings.”       “You’re right!” Victor agrees. “But now he’s got wonderful friends and a good girlfriend, thank God.”       “The girl who literally saved his life!” Scarlett exclaims. “If Helene hadn’t been next to him, that guy would’ve hardly been alive. My granddaughter breathed into Peter and let him know that his love for her wasn’t one-sided.”       “Since he survived what happened to him, it means the boy isn’t as weak as he thought,” Adriana notices.       “Oh, when the guys told us about what he told them someday, we had our eyes popped out!” Alicia confesses. “It was hard to believe the poor boy really went through those terrible things.”       “It’s so good the man, who did those horrible things to him, died in such a tormenting way,” George states.       “It’s true,” Victor confirms. “Garret Vernon died several years ago.”       “Is this confirmed?” Anthony rounds his eyes.       “Absolutely. I made inquiries for curiosity.”       “Wasn’t he caught on other crimes?” Letitia asks.       “No, that man was officially clean for the law. He was charged with nothing. Though knowing about the lawlessness in the neighborhood where Peter lived and all his stories, that bastard is worse than Marcus.”       “There can’t be holy people in the place where drug addicts, alcoholics, and thieves live,” Alicia replies.       “Anyway, thank God, everything finally ended,” Scarlett says confidently. “Finally, all the biggest enemies of Peter paid for his suffering. And I really hope his other enemies will suffer for ruining the life of the innocent boy, who dreamed of nothing but care and love.”       “Cruel but fair,” Victoria notices. “There are people who don’t deserve to be forgiven even after death.”       At this moment, Peter and Helene, who the adult people look at, are dancing energetically along with fun music, laughing a lot, and playing the fool together. And a little later, they share a tender, continuous kiss on the lips and rub their noses against one another.       “Oh, why are we talking about bad things?” Frederick waves his hand. “We must have fun and be happy for the newlyweds instead of talking about some bastards.”       “We’ll talk about it later,” Lydia says softly. “And now let’s be happy.”       “I wish all the single men and girls we have here found their happiness,” Rebecca wishes with a wide smile. “My sons are happy already, and now it’s time for the others to find their love.”       “With God’s help, my dear Mrs. MacClife!” Letitia exclaims.       “Oh, I think this is a good reason to drink!” Victor notices cheerfully.       “Nice idea, honey,” Lydia smiles widely. “Drink, ladies and gentlemen?”       “Would be happy to drink with such wonderful people,” Maximilian replies confidently.       “I’m with you, fellows!” George exclaims.       Everybody takes their glasses, raises them up, clicks each other’s glasses with wide smiles on their faces and quiet whoops, and drinks some champagne. While Ashton turns on another song, which is absolutely different from the previous one and not similar to the one that is good for slow dances.       “Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know what about you, but I’m delighted with the music,” Jamie confesses cheerfully and puts his glass of champagne on the table. “Seems like the DJ decided to please people of all ages.”       “Definitely,” Lilian agrees.       “Ah, I remember my young years when I was dancing at parties with my friends,” Frederick calls up the memories. “When I was a secret king of dances…”       “Oh, Mr. Cameron, I think you still dance rock on now,” Victoria laughs amicably. “I am nicely amazed by your optimism and energy at such a great age!”       “This is my secret, my dear Mrs. Richardson. A positive mood and regular activity have never been bad. I hate sitting in the same place! If I’m told to stop moving, it’s gonna be my most terrible torture.”       “I wish we could explain it to some young people who don’t think of these things…” Adriana sighs tiredly. “They have a sedentary lifestyle at a young age and wonder why they’re so ill and have health issues at an older age.”       “That’s why I taught Raquelle to watch her health closely since childhood. You don’t have to work out until exhaustion and go to a doctor with any little pain. A short workout and a run in the early morning, swimming in a pool, and an annual examination at the hospital would be good.”       “Listen, fellows, let’s join the young people?” Anthony suggests cheerfully. “My legs start dancing now! Especially now, when the song I adore is playing!”       “Indeed!” Raphael exclaims and takes a sip of champagne from his glass. “Let’s go to have fun?”       “Uh-huh, when would we shake off the rust so good and recall the old times?” Maximilian asks funnily.       “Oh, dear men, I’m afraid you won’t outshine the young people,” Alicia laughs shyly. “Especially, the men. Did you see how hard they danced?”       “You’re hurting us, Alicia!” Frederick exclaims.       “Yes, Mrs. Middleton, do you think we can do nothing?” George surprises and puts his glass on the table. “I’m not so old to write me off, by the way! I am only forty-four!”       “You know how I was hanging out at dances at weekends when I was younger! And I love to dance along with good music now. I never stay aside and dance with everyone. My late wife Rosella would’ve told you what kind of star I was! And she was my partner with pleasure!”       “And I danced a thousand times better than all these young people when I was younger!” Anthony says confidently with his head proudly raised. “Letitia can confirm my words.”       “Huh, I was freaking irresistible when I sometimes went to parties and dance clubs while being young,” Jamie says cheerfully with a wide smile. “Of course, when I had children, I had no time to dance. But I’d be happy to dance the lambada along with good music. And I’m ready to prove that nobody can be better than Jamie MacClife.”       “Would you really go and start dancing with the young people?” Lillian chuckles kindly.       “Of course, we will!” Maximilian exclaims. “I will not miss this chance!”       “Those young people wrote us off and believe we can do nothing,” Victor notices confidently. “So, we must prove that we can dance one hundred times better than they!”       “Alright, fellows, stop sitting here!” Anthony encourages cheerfully. “Mr. MacClife, Mr. Cameron, let’s show those silly guys how to dance!”       “With great pleasure!” Jamie smiles widely. “Ah, we will shake off the rust! And prove to the young people that they underrate us. Let them watch those who know how to dance.”       “Oh, the men got excited,” Lydia laughs shyly. “So excited!”       “Yeah,” Scarlett agrees. “They couldn’t resist.”       “A little baby lives inside a man of any age,” Adriana says confidently and takes a sip of champagne from her glass. “You should just give them a reason to let it go.”       “Gosh, how much Mr. MacClife reminds me of his older son now,” Alicia smiles mysteriously. “Now I understand who Terrence took after. Whom Edward started to imitate.”       “Do you think you can write me off just because I am fifty-five?” Jamie surprises truly. “No, people! I can do a lot! And now you will see everything Jamie MacClife, a still attractive real king of dances, can do. See everything, such an irresistible and talented man who does everything perfectly.”       “Terrence is an image of his father!” George chuckles kindly. “The sonny says the same things as his dad!”       “Alright, stop sitting here! C’mon, get up! Faster! Faster! In a tango rhythm!”       “Yes, yes, gentlemen, come on!” Frederick exclaims. “Join us as well, Mr. Johnson. And you, Mr. Seymour, and you, Mr. Sanchez, and you, Mr. Smith!”       “Dance, everybody!” Raphael pronounces funnily.       “Exactly!” Victor agrees. “We sat a little, had a rest, and it’s enough. It’s time to warm our bones, shake up our young people, and shake off the rust. The young people are kinda boring there.”       “Get up, men, get up!” Maximilian encourages cheerfully. “Ladies, join us! Don’t be shy!”       “Come on, women, get up!” Anthony says cheerfully. “Show us everything you can!”       Anthony, Jamie, Frederick, Victor, Maximilian, Raphael, and George get up from the table and go confidently to those who are dancing now.       “Hey, youth, get out!” Frederick gets attention, pushing aside some of the young people softly. “Now the real professionals will be dancing!”       “Hey, DJ, turn on something cheerful and funny!” Jamie says funnily with a raised hand. “The secret king of dances is dancing for you! The secret legend of the dancepool at his young age that gets better every year, just like wine.”       “Watch and learn, youth!” Anthony encourages loudly with a wide smile. “Learn to hang out! While you still have those who can teach you.”       While the adult men start to dance confidently along with the music Ashton turns on for them, the women still hesitate a little and look at each other with a kind chuckle.       “Women, don’t sit!” Raphael encourages cheerfully as he comes to the women, who are sitting. “Go to dance with us! Amelia, Alicia, everybody…”       Raphael claps softly Alicia and Letitia sitting next to her on the shoulder, takes Amelia’s hands, and pulls her on himself. After hesitating a little, the women get up from the table and join everybody, starting dancing shyly and hesitantly along with the song that is very old but loved by the adults, the old, and young people. Even the little Harold, Amanda, Hailey, and Shannon start moving laboriously. Sammy cannot stand near the DJ and refuses to join everyone to have fun and show everything he can do, while the photographers and the operators keep doing their work, capturing every single moment and changing the settings or replacing uncharged batteries with reserved ones.       “Wow, Mr. Cameron is rocking on!” Benjamin surprises truly, who was funnily dancing with Amanda and Harold, and started to watch the men dancing funnily.       “Look, guys, they didn’t wanna just sit on the table and talk,” Ryan says confidently, who was dancing with Blake and Kevin.       “We’ve just got such a cool party that nobody can sit,” Blake replies with a wide smile.       “Speaking the truth, boy!” Kevin agrees.       “Hey, Dan, you can’t do this!” Cassidy smiles slyly, who was dancing and playing the fool with Daniel, Derek, and Gordon.       “Why I can’t do!” Daniel rounds his eyes while having his arm wrapped around Cassidy’s neck. “I can do! Even better!”       “The one to be a log from a birth can never be flexible.”       “Who you called a log?”       “It’s not a secret to anyone!”       “You will ask for trouble!”       “Try then!” Cassidy starts hitting Daniel slightly on his hands, and he answers her back. “Come on! Come on!”       “The old people rock on!” Derek exclaims cheerfully.       “Come on!” Gordon pronounces loudly. “Come on!”       “Listen, I like this party more and more,” Christopher says confidently, spending time with Hailey and Shannon, whose hands he is holding.       “I don’t regret getting a day off,” Jessica confesses, playing the fool with Kylie, Melissa, and Helene.       “Even Grandma couldn’t resist,” Helene smiles shyly. “But she doesn’t usually dance and loves sitting with a book in her hands.”       “Our party is more than just cool!” Joseph notices, having fun with Cody, Olivia, Emma, and Odette.       “Uh-huh!” Cody agrees. “Since the old people decided to dance, we can say the party is amazing.”       “It’s success, guys!” Emma exclaims.       “The grooms and the brides can be proud of each other,” Odette adds cheerfully.       “These men rock on much better than all of us!” Olivia exclaims.       “Hey, hey, guys!” Raquelle jabs through a laugh, coming to Terrence and Edward, who are funnily dancing, playing the fool together, teasing each other, and thrilling with a loud laugh, and clapping them on the shoulder. “You just look at your father! Look at what he's doing there!”       Edward and Terrence move their eyes to Jamie and see their father dancing with Anthony and Frederick, trying to scream out the song and shouting something at times to encourage those who are dancing.       “Wow, I didn’t know Father is such a lover of hangouts,” Edward confesses surprisingly. “He always seemed so serious, but he’s now hanging out like a young boy.”       “Uh-huh, hanging out much better than all of us,” Terrence notices with a slight smile. “I can literally see you in him, bro. If you start something, you can the fuck hardly be stopped.”       “Just like you.”       “Gosh, Grandpa, don’t do this…” Raquelle laughs shyly, putting her hands folded together to her mouth. “Your heart… Your legs are hurt…”       “Father and he got along quickly,” Terrence notices, watching Frederick and Jamie perform a funny dance while everybody chuckles kindly.       “They need only a reason to hang out. No matter how old they are.”       “Hey, you better watch my father,” Natalia laughs shyly, coming to the three and putting her hands on the shoulders of Edward and Raquelle. “Look how he turned from a serious and severe man to a carefree and funny one.”       “He also got along with Father and Mr. Cameron,” Edward notices, seeing Anthony join Jamie and Frederick’s dance at some moment and show much more funnier movements that literally make everyone roll on the floor from a laugh.       “Oh, gosh…” Raquelle shakes her head.       “Not only do our beloved men go crazy sometimes when they come together,” Natalia chuckles.       Terrence and Edward say nothing and just chuckle, still watching the old generation have fun with their friends and relatives.       “My gosh!” Anna exclaims, closing her mouth with both hands, while Maximilian and Lilian are dancing together. “Mom and Dad are dancing! I’ve never seen them like this!”       “Your parents really felt the taste of freedom,” Peter assumes confidently, scratching the hair of Sammy, who is obediently standing next to him, Anna, Liam, Zachary, and Bradley, and wagging his tail. “Or they just succumbed to everybody’s mood.”       “I haven’t had so much fun in a long time, guys!” Liam confesses confidently. “Long time!”       “Being here is much better than on a show,” Zachary smiles widely.       “Look, look, guys, they decided to perform a chicken dance!” Bradley jabs funnily.       Sammy barks quietly, while Anna, Liam, Peter, Zachary, and Bradley laughing shyly at times keep watching the old generation dance. The adult men and women get the attention of all the guests and make them smile a lot. Someone encourages everyone by saying something and clapping their hands. Someone takes photos and videos on their phone. Someone shouts out something to thank Ashton, who is warming the crowd up with words and music. The photographers take lots of group photos, for which the guests come together in groups consisting of two or more people and pose with pleasure. And some of them do not miss a chance to drink some champagne for the grooms and the brides and eat the tasty food that is offered by the waiters.       At some moment, Daniel, Peter, and Anna come together and decide that it’s time to show their surprise for Terrence, Raquelle, Edward, and Natalia, and aside to get ready and take what they need. By the advice of the girl, the men take off their jackets, loosen their ties, take their shirts out of their pants, and open the buttons on the sleeves. While the people look at them with interest, whisper, and guess what they want to do.       “Hey, bros, what are ya gonna do?” Edward laughs shyly, looking at Daniel and Peter from head to foot. “Being like this!”       “You’ll see everything now, buddy,” Peter replies with a mysterious smile.       “I hope you ain’t gonna have the people shocked by dancing and undressing?”       “Relax, man!” Daniel smiles slyly. “We already danced and undressed on the bachelor. But today, we’re gonna have a more intelligent surprise.”       “Is Anna a part of this, too?”       “I am,” Anna smiles shyly.       “Did you really agree to participate in their plans? Did they blackmail ya? Gave you no right of choice?”       “Don’t worry, buddy, you’re gonna love it.”       “Hey, guys, speak out what you came up with?” Terrence demands the answer, coming to Edward, Anna, Daniel, and Peter.       “And why did you take your guitars?” Edward surprises. “Are you gonna sing?”       “Guessed right,” Daniel nods confidently.       “Seriously?” Terrence rounds his eyes. “Sing? Without me? Without Terrence MacClife?”       “Yup,” Anna shrugs. “We prepared a little surprise for you, Edward, Raquelle, and Natalia.”       “And there will be a song from Dan and me personally,” Peter smiles mysteriously.       “Oh, yeah!” Daniel exclaims. “The blond thought he didn’t have any files of the song he worked on when we worked with Albert after Marty deleted everything from the computer. As Rose recently found out that he copied a bigger part of them on a flash drive.”       “So true! And I decided to finish the song at the studio that I organized at my home. The final result is even better than the first one. Especially after Perkins recorded some lines that I originally sang.”       “In short, it’s gonna be a bomb! Of course, we had to change the lyrics slightly for this day and clean them of explicit words. But it’s cool anyway. There are two versions of one song called ‘CTRL+X’.”       “M-m-m, that’s how…” Edward smiles slyly. “I thought you’d decide to kick me outta the band after my wedding.”       “Uh-huh, use my name to get famous and then kick me out to start singing as a duo,” Terrence adds.       “Damn, guys, I can’t believe you actually dared to think such bad things about us,” Peter puts his hand on his heart. “Us kicking out the wildest motor of the band and the best vocalist in the world?”       “We won’t let you leave even if you show your wish to do this,” Daniel replies confidently and places the belt of his guitar above his shoulder. “So, bros, you will be singing with us until the very end. Until you die as old, helpless dogs.”       “Thanks, ya made me happy!” Edward exhales sharply.       “Okay, we’re leaving!” Peter exclaims and places the belt of his guitar above his shoulder. “This song is a bomb too!”       “Yeah, guys, enjoy,” Anna says amicably, squeezing the shaker in her hand. “I’ll replace both of you.”       After clapping Edward and Terrence on the shoulder, Daniel, Peter, and Anna leave the grooms frowning slightly. They think of something for two seconds and come slowly to the guests, who do not doubt that they are going to sing something and get nicely surprised at the thought that they will hear Anna’s singing and Peter’s guitar playing for the first time. At some moment, the host of the party gets his attention and announces the surprise from Peter, Daniel, and Anna. Along with loud applause, the three show up in the middle of the room, set up the microphones quickly that they get from the host, and put two of them on mic stands, while Edward and Terrence come and stand with Natalia and Raquelle and take their hands.       “Dear guests, dear grooms and brides…” Anna speaks through the microphone she is holding, standing between Daniel and Peter. “Daniel, Peter, and I really have a surprise for the newlyweds.”       “Many of you probably guessed that we’d be singing since you see the guitars in our hands,” Peter adds, holding the fretboard of the acoustic guitar. “And… We will really be singing.”       “We kept this surprise secret until the very end,” Daniel says with a slight smile, holding the board of his guitar. “Of course, Helene learned about it at the last moment, but she promised to keep silent. And nobody else knew about it.”       “And we hope you’re gonna love the song ‘Wouldn't Change A Thing’ that we wrote on our own,” Anna expresses hope.       The guests encourage the guys with quiet applause, and then Anna, Daniel, and Peter start their performance. While the men play a slow melody on their guitars, the girl looks at them or the guests with a slight smile as she squeezes the microphone in her hand and uses the shaker. Her soft, well-trained voice sounds amazing with the voices of the men, who decide to change the sassy style that is typical for them and try something more melodic and tender. Being nicely surprised by this gift, Edward, Natalia, Terrence, and Raquelle rate highly the vocals of Anna and have the pleasure of listening to the song that they like starting with the first lines. And seeing shy smiles on the faces of the newlyweds and noticing the guests react positively to their song, Daniel, Anna, and Peter look at each other and keep singing much more confidently.       “They’re doing this fine!” Adriana notices with a slight smile. “They sing well. I like it.”       “My gosh, I can’t believe my daughter is singing,” Lilian covers her heart with both hands with a wide smile. “I haven't heard her singing for ages.”       “Yeah, I’m so happy to hear Anna singing again,” Maximilian agrees. “She used to sing a lot for our family, but later she stopped doing it at all.”       “Gosh, Max, you just listen to this girl singing. Her voice kind of got better than before.”       “Yeah… I’m madly proud of our daughter!”       “They’re doing this well,” Letitia says. “Though I can see that Anna is a little nervous, while Daniel and Peter look quiet.”       “That girl has an amazing voice,” George says confidently. “IT’s clear that she worked a lot with a vocal teacher.”       “Agree,” Rebecca smiles shyly. “If she wanted, she could obviously become a singer.”       “Our Anna is a good girl!” Maximilian says with her head proudly raised. “Whatever she does, she does everything well.”       “You don’t know how she can play a piano yet!” Lilian smiles mysteriously. “Every time Anna played for our guests, everyone admired.”       “By the way, I heard that Daniel was teaching her to play guitar,” Jamir recalls with a shy smile.       “Yeah, he’s teaching her. But she’s shy of showing her progress and says she needs to practice a little more.”       “Lilian and I somehow asked Daniel about the guitar lessons, and he said Anna had learned to do a lot already,” Maximilian confesses.       “Yeah, he’s noticed many times that my daughter can learn very quickly,” Lilian notices,       “And nobody taught my sons to play,” Jamie confesses with pride he cannot hide. “They learned everything on their own.”       “The guys’ just got a talent for music from nature,” Victoria notices thoughtfully. “They can be bad at something else, but they’re the best at music.”       “You’re right,” Letitia says confidently. “They’ve got a talent for music in their blood.”       “I always knew my boys should’ve chosen this way,” Rebecca confesses. “Music. That’s their real element.”       “But it’s bad that Edward was hiding it for a long time and didn’t aim to show himself,” Jamie adds.       “But that’s good Terrence, Daniel, and Peter realized that they must not have missed a chance,” Frederick says confidently. “Realized that Edward was the one they needed!”       “Agree,” Scarlett nods confidently. “These guys are amazing. I admire them infinitely.”       At some moment, the people start clapping their hands to support Daniel, Anna, and Peter, and shaking with the rhythm of the music. The youngest guests dance funnily with wide smiles on their faces and try to sing along quietly, and Sammy howls at times just like he loves to do every time he hears music or someone singing. And when Peter and Daniel look at Terrence and Edward at some moment, the grooms blink at them with a slight smile on their faces as if they let them know that the guys are doing everything well. While Natalia and Raquelle smile sweetly at Anna and dance shyly, their husbands hug them tightly from behind and kiss their shoulders, temples, or cheeks at times.       The photographers and the directors come up with a good idea for shooting and picture the performance from all sides in different angles. Some guests raise their hands up and wave them smoothly, and someone records a couple of videos on their smartphone. And while Daniel and Peter continue to show their skill of guitar play, Anna starts dancing, shaking her head, and clapping her hands as she walks around the men at times and shares a true smile with them. The trio also laugh at Sammy walking around them all the time and not stopping to howl along with them. By the way, the girl gives him a chance to perform a short solo, bringing the microphone to the dog’s mouth so that he starts howling or barking loudly and makes everyone laugh.       After the last words are sung, and the last chords are struck, everyone in the room starts applauding loudly and making happy whoops along with the dog’s bark. Someone shouts something like “Bravo! Good job!”, and the men whistle loudly. Being nicely touched by the surprise, Edward, Natalia, Terrence, and Raquelle clap literally much louder and longer than everyone, wishing to thank their friends. At some moment, Anna calls Daniel and Peter to herself with a gesture, and hugs both of them, so that they all bow to everyone and smile widely with their heads proudly raised.       “Thank you!” Daniel, Anna, and Peter thank. “Thank you so much!”       “Guys, that was incredible!” William exclaims with a wide smile. “Well done!”       “Powerful performance, guys!” Blake pronounces confidently.       “You were incredible!” Liam encourages happily.       “But how?” Edward wonders. “When did you prepare the song?”       “Yeah, we didn’t kinda work on this song!” Terrence recalls. “Did you write it without us?”       “So true!” Daniel replies with a sly smile.       “When George asked you two to come to him and help him with something, Perkins and I talked about some stupid things at first,” Peter says. “And then we thought we could make a little surprise for the newlyweds. As a song.”       “Uh-huh, and we decided to write a new one, from the beginning. Then we started to meet regularly, secretly from everyone. We worked on the lyrics and then picked up a melody.”       “Hey, but how did Anna end up involved in your idea?” Natalia surprises.       “Yeah, guys, how did you persuade her to sing with you?” Raquelle asks.       “One day, we were rehearsing at Daniel’s home,” Peter explains. “But Anna came back a little earlier than she planned. We were a little nervous since we didn’t expect it.”       “But since we were caught, so to speak, we decided to tell her everything, play the song, and find out what she thought of it,” Daniel adds. “Anna liked it. And she gave us some advice to make the song better.”       “And since we knew this girl got professional vocal lessons, we came up with an idea of suggesting that she sing with us.”       “And I agreed shortly,” Anna confirms confidently. “And from that moment on, we started to rehearse as a trio and made a lot of changes to make everything right.”       “Ah, we got it!” Terrence pronounces cheerfully. “You decided to have the girl stand by your side so that she doesn’t tell anyone about it.”       “Why not?” Daniel surprises. “By the way, I wanted to give Anna a chance to show her vocals and make her parents happy a little for a long time.”       “In case someone didn't know, she’s learning to play guitar now,” Peter adds. “But we can’t persuade her to play something ‘cause Anna is not sure about her skill.”       “Good job, guys!” Natalia admires truly. “Good job! I dunno what to say!”       “Thank you so much for such an incredible surprise,” Raquelle thanks. “I really liked it.”       “It couldn’t be otherwise,” Peter replies proudly.       “Our sweet girl Anna was really incredible,” Natalia notices. “We’re delighted!”       “Although this genre isn’t typical for you, men, you did it well,” Edward adds. “And you, Anna, surprised me nicely. I knew you sang well, but I didn’t think you’d do it so well.”       “Yeah, you could replace any of us in the band,” Terrence adds funnily.       “That’s my girl!” Daniel exclaims with his head proudly raised, hugging Anna around the shoulders and kissing her on the temple. “My best and most talented girl.”       Sammy barks confidently, while Raquelle, Terrence, Natalia, and Edward show their thankfulness to Anna, Peter, and Daniel with words and amicable hugs, while Helene comes to them at some moment.       “Listen, ladies and gentlemen!” George exclaims loudly, raising his index finger, while Peter and Daniel put their guitars away. “People! I have one idea!”       “Idea?” Blake frowns slightly. “What?”       “If you didn’t know, I want to let you know that we have three bands on the wedding – ‘Against The System,’ ‘The Loser Syndrome,’ and ‘Lost In Time.’ So, why don’t all these three bands sing together?”       “Have the three bands to sing?” Cassidy wonders and claps her hands happily. “Yes! Yes! Come on! It would be a bomb!”       “Uh-h-h, what could we sing?” Gordon asks hesitantly.       “Of course, we don’t mind…” Liam says thoughtfully. “But we didn’t prepare anything. We rehearsed nothing.”       “Yeah, we weren’t sure we’d come here,” Bradley confesses. “And we didn’t know the three bands would be at the wedding.”       “But I personally like George’s idea,” Terrence notices with a mysterious smile. “Let’s really sing together? All together! Three bands, one song!”       “Okay, what are we gonna sing?” Peter throws his hands up.       “We’ve gotta pick up the song we all know,” Zachary notices.       “You talk and decide what to sing,” Kylie suggests with a wide smile. “We will wait and then dance with pleasure.”       “Listen, guys, I have one epic idea!” Derek clicks the fingers of his hands and calls the members of all three bands. “You’re gonna love it! Come here, everybody! Come on, come on! Edward, Terrence, come to us too! DJ, we need your help too! And you, photograph! And you, director! Come to us! Everyone!”       With these words, Derek brings everybody to Ashton, while one of the operators and one of the photographers come to them.       “Hey, guys, guys, I have one idea too!” Steven announces, coming to the male company. “Listen…”       The men start discussing something excitedly, while the guests whisper and look at each other questioningly. All of them join the process quickly and start suggesting their ideas, and Edward starts showing some dance movements that several men repeat at some moment. And one minute or two, the men from the three bands, Ashton, Steven, Andre, and the director, turn on everyone with happy whoops as if they agreed on something.       “Attention, ladies and gentlemen,” Ashton addresses the guests loudly. “Get ready to dance until you fall! The great mix is waiting for you! The legendary moment! The moment that will probably happen again! It’s your unique chance! Don’t miss it! And have fun with the guys from such cool bands as ‘Against The System’, ‘The Loser Syndrome’, and ‘Lost In Time’. Welcome them!”       While the fingers of one hand of Ashton slide over different pinwheels and press buttons, and the other hand presses the headphones to his ear, an energetic melody starts playing in the room, and makes everyone dance unconsciously. All the men go on different sides, take off their jackets, put them on the backs of the chairs, loosen their ties, and pull their shirts out of their pants. Along with cheerful shouts, Edward starts singing and dancing first, and then Peter and Bradley join him, standing behind the groom and repeating all his dance movements. Later, Terrence, Liam, and Gordon join them, and Daniel, Zachary, and Derek join them at the end of the first verse. Someone repeats all the movements after the grooms, and someone comes up with something different, showing their wide vocal range and their skill of rapping.       When it’s time to perform the chorus, the members of all three bands come together to perform the same dance, while the guests start clapping their hands much more actively, dancing, and trying to sing along, while Sammy howls along with them again. The photographers and the directors picture the men the way they were asked and find more angles and good moments. The men walk in front of cameras a lot and do not forget to play the fool with each other and the guests, some of whom they pull on the middle of the room so that they dance together, and their voice sometimes crack due to the wild laugh. The taken men from “Against The System” flirt a lot with their girlfriends and get them involved in the dance, and Daniel plays the fool with Cassidy. While the single men from “The Loser Syndrome” and “Lost In Time” have fun with all the girls and make them and the men dance. And seeing that the adults and the old people are not active enough, the men from the three bands encourage them and take them in the middle of the room personally. And they do not forget to pay some attention to the little children and the dog Sammy, who do not stand aside and participate in this joy actively.       After the members of “Against The System” make everyone whoop and applaud by taking high notes at the end of the bridge, they perform the final chorus alongside “The Loser Syndrome” and “Lost In Time”. And perform the dance, which some guests memorized more or less, and try to repeat it. A little more dancing and vocal parts before the men come together and strike the final poses, standing, getting down to the knee, or lying on their side. So that Edward and Terrence are standing in the middle with their backs pressed against each other, with their arms crossed over their chests. The guests start applauding loudly, shout words of praise, and whistle a lot, while Sammy barks happily along with them. The members of the three bands breathing heavily give each other a five and hug each other tightly to praise for a good unplanned performance.       “Bravo!” Jessica whoops loudly, clapping her hands. “It was incredible!”       “Excellent!” Blair exclaims with a wide smile. “You did it!”       “You can rock on, guys!” Violetta notices.       “I don’t know what to say!” Christiana shakes her head.       “Do it again, guys!” Cassidy says happily. “Sing again! And dance!”       “Yes, yes, guys, come on!” Rebecca agrees. “An encore!”       “Sing, youth, sing!” Frederick encourages funnily. “Let us, old people, have a lot of fun!”       “Yes, we want more!” Scarlett exclaims cheerfully. “My husband and I didn’t have as much fun when we were young as I do now. I mean, we didn’t have fun at all.”       “The old men wanna warm up their bones!” Anthony states.       To encourage the men a little, the guests start clapping their hands, while they look at each other at some moment, and shrug as if they do not mind it.       “Hey, folks, let the grooms and brides throw the bouquets and the garters!” Ryan suggests.       “Right, right!” Benjamin exclaims. “They haven’t done it yet!”       “We’ve got two chances, folks!” Cody notices funnily.       “We’re gonna have four lucky folks!” Joseph exclaims. “Two men and two girls!”       “May the grooms and the bride throw the bouquets and the garters first, and then the men will sing something else,” Delancey adds.       “And we will be eating the cake!” Blake notices funnily. “A delicious, big cake! Yea-a-a-ah!”       “I wonder who’s gonna be lucky today?” Joseph rubs his hands happily.       “Ha, do ya think the luck will be by your side?” Christopher chuckles. “Okay, okay, keep dreaming, naive guy!”       “Relax, men!” Kevin exclaims with his head proudly raised. “I am gonna be a lucky man.”       “We will find out who must get married after Edward and me,” Terrence says confidently, coming in the middle of the room.       “Come here, guys!” Edward exclaims, following his brother. “C’mon, c’mon, get out!”       While the single men come together in a big crowd, Terrence and Edward get the garters from Raquelle and Natalia and stand in front of their friends. Who turn themselves on luck in all ways: jumping, warming up, rolling the sleeves, and showing off for each other somehow.       “So what, guys, who wants this garter?” Edward asks loudly, wrapping the thing that many people wish to get with his head proudly raised.       “Hey, hey, don’t fight there,” Terrence warns. “I don’t want my wedding to end with a fight.”       “And we hope you and your brother won’t tease us and will throw the garter now,” Jeremy adds funnily. “Throw one of them to me!”       “And me!” William exclaims.       “Do you really want to get what’s gonna remind you of my magnificent wedding?” Terrence smiles slyly, wrapping the garter on his finger. “The wedding of Terrence MacClife himself!”       “Nobody’s gonna remember Edward and you!” Benjamin says funnily. “Everyone’s gonna remember the stunning brides, who drove everyone crazy with their appearance.”       “Yeah, but actually, we married these stunning brides,” Edward notices.       “Accepting bets, fellows!” Andre announces. “Who do you choose?”       “We have two possible candidates,” Steven replies with a wide smile.       “So, people, if someone here bets my bro can do it, give your money to me,” Cassidy says loudly.       “And who bets the blond, give your dollars to me!” Kevin adds.       “Don’t go bankrupt!” Zachary exclaims.       “Uh-huh, if I catch it,” Ashton adds funnily.       “Or me!” Blake exclaims.       “Why you, kid?” Christopher chuckles loudly. “You’re too young to get married!”       “Why you? You feel good in your apartment alone!”       Sammy barks loudly two times, standing in the crowd along with all the men.       “Hey, Sammy, are you gonna catch the garter too?” Benjamin laughs shyly.       “C’mon, he’s a boy!” Derek exclaims. “Let him test his luck. And disappoint when I will catch the garter.”       “Listen, throw this thing to me!” Ryan adds. “I promise to keep this thing very well! And I will be happy to put it on the one who’ll catch the bride’s bouquet.”       “Ha, keep dreaming!” Benjamin adds funnily. “Don’t listen to him, bros! Throw the garter to me! Both of them! Do your best for me to be much luckier today than all these losers.”       “Uh-huh, we’d get older sooner than you get married,” Cody chuckles loudly.       “That’s right!” Joseph agrees, while the other men laugh shyly. “Parker is too far from being a perfect family man.”       “I’m gonna tell you honestly, men, I don’t have any hope in my dearest childhood friend luck in catching the garter,” Terrence says confidently.       “There’s a chance that a miracle can happen after he celebrates two more weddings of his friends,” Edward adds. “But now don’t even hope to have fun at his wedding.”       “I will take care of this thing very carefully!” Benjamin promises. “The thing worn by Raquelle Cameron and Natalia Rochester themselves.”       “Relax, Benjamin,” Christopher says confidently. “You don’t need these things.”       “Listen, I’m ready to pay personally to the one to bet that Daniel will catch the garter,” Anthony says confidently. “I’m for him.”       “Come on, Mr. Rochester, he won’t catch!” Ryan protests.       “Why not?” Maximilian wonders.       “Bet on Peter better!” Jamie exclaims. “You wouldn’t lose!”       “My dad speaks the truth!” William replies confidently. “The blond is the best! I’m for him!”       “We will see!” Cassidy chuckles loudly. “My bro is gonna be lucky today! And Daniel will finally marry his gorgeous beauty.”       “Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but my friend, Rose, is gonna be lucky today,” Jessica says confidently. “I’d personally give to anyone to bet on him.”       “Would you pay me?” Peter asks with a sly smile. “I’m betting on me!”       “Uh-huh, keep dreaming!” Daniel cuts off confidently. “I shall catch the garter!”       “Not me!” Terrence pronounces funnily, making the guests laugh shyly.       “Oh, no, better bet on me!” Liam encourages funnily with a wide smile. “I’m young, hot, and attractive… Girls always go around me! The place of my girlfriend is free yet.”       “They like you just because you’re a lead singer,” Zachary grins kindly.       “Uh-huh, bands’ leaders always have greater love of fans,” Bradley adds confidently, making the guests laugh shyly.       “Hey, chatters, how long are ya gonna work your tongues there?” Emma asks loudly.       “Uh-huh!” Olivia exclaims. “And they say girls talk a lot. You, men, are much more talkative!”       “Terrence, Edward, throw it already!” Odette demands cheerfully. “Don’t waste time!”       “Yeah, MacClifes, throw the garters now!” Cody agrees funnily. “Or I will take them from you and pretend that I caught one of them.”       “Listen, guys, maybe I can leave this thing with me?” Edward smiles mysteriously and looks at the bride’s garter for two seconds. “Well, why do you need it? I don’t wanna share what belongs to my wife with you.”       “Throw it now!” Ryan demands loudly.       “I don’t want! I won’t be throwing!”       “Hey, guys, my gut tells me someone wanna fool us…” Kevin assumes confidently.       “Alright, get out!” Terrence pronounces funnily. “You’ll get nothing today!”       “You want us to take that thing from you by force?” Benjamin smiles slyly. “You want war?”       “I said you wouldn’t get this garter.”       “Throw the hell this thing out!” Christopher exclaims loudly. “I want a cake! They’re gonna give us the cake, but you aren’t throwing!”       Everyone in the room starts laughing quietly.       “You know, Christopher…” Edward shakes his head. “If I had known you wanted to come to my wedding only to eat a cake, I wouldn’t have invited you at all.”       “You’re hurting me!” Christopher exclaims. “I came here for you and Natalia. And for Terrence and Raquelle.”       “Oh, yeah, we see it!” Terrence nods confidently.       “Alright, MacClife, don’t hold the people and throw the garter,” Ryan says confidently. “The girls are getting ready to catch the brides’ bouquets.”       “Listen, let’s solve it quickly,” Blake suggests with his head proudly raised. “You just throw one of the garters to me, and I catch it, pretend to be surprised, and pretend that I became the lucky man. And I will keep this thing very well.”       “It’s too early for you to marry!” Edward exclaims. “You’re a kid!”       “Agree!” Peter adds funnily. “Don’t give the garter to Blake!”       “Throw! Throw!” Gordon starts saying loudly. “Throw! Throw!”       All the men start repeating this phrase and clapping their hands, while Sammy barks along with the others in a jump.       “Alright, alright, alright!” Edward raises his hands. “I will give you a chance to fight for this thing.”       “Hey, everyone, get ready!” Terrence adds.       While the men take a position and get ready to catch the thing they want so badly, Terrence and Edward turn their backs on them with a sly smile.       “Are you ready?” Edward asks loudly.       “After the three!” Terrence pronounces.       “One! Two! Three!” Terrence and Edward count down along with the guests.       The grooms throw the garters at the crowd of unmarried men, who start pushing with a wish to catch them. But Peter is the one to get lucky first, catching this thing in a jump without making too much effort, and then Daniel does it, almost losing his balance after jumping back. Sammy barks at them hard as if he tells them to give the brides’ things to him, while the best men smiling slyly as they shake their trophies in front of everyone. Terrence and Edward turn on everyone and start applauding excitedly, along with everyone, at two proud, happy guys.       “Yea-a-a-ah!” Jessica whoops. “The blond rocks on!”       “Awesome, Rose!” Emma pronounces cheerfully.       “Perkins, you rock on!” Olivia adds funnily.       “You kicked all these losers, bro!” Cassidy smiles widely.       “So, who wanted to catch something?” Peter asks loudly through a laugh, wrapping the garter on his finger. “Huh? Who said he’d catch the garter?”       “Bite your tongues, pretty boys!” Daniel adds with his proudly raised. “I’ve got the garter!”       “So, I think we know whose wedding we may be celebrating next,” Raquelle says funnily, smiling mysteriously at Helene and Anna, who look at everyone a little shyly.       “Yeah, get ready, Mrs. Marshall, Mr. Seymour, Mrs. Seymour!” Natalia exclaims. “Wait for the news!”       “Save money for a ring for your girlfriend, boys,” Odette adds funnily. “And we’d collect money for gifts for you.”       “Rose and Perkins rock on!” Ryan exclaims cheerfully.       Peter and Daniel congratulate each other by sharing a homely handshake and hugging each other amicably, accept them from the men, and caress Sammy’s head. And a little later, Terrence, Edward, Natalia, and Raquelle join them, say some nice words, and hug them tightly, and the girls also kiss them amicably on the cheek. As well as Helene and Anna, who come a little later, along with the loud applause.       “So, everybody, who was for Daniel and Peter, give your money to me,” Kevin says funnily. “All the money would be spent on gifts for the future newlyweds!”       “Alright, Marshall and Seymour, you must catch the brides’ bouquets now,” Melissa notices cheerfully.       “Save your whoops for later!” Benjamin exclaims. “What if other girls catch the brides’ bouquets!”       “Alright, folks, let’s find out who’s gonna catch the bouquets,” Jamie says confidently. “Again, we have two candidates!”       “Make your bets!” Lilian exclaims cheerfully.       “We’ll find out who’s gonna be lucky!” Natalia announces funnily, goes confidently in the middle of the room, and kicks all the men out with a gesture. “Get out, men! Get out of here! You have nothing to do here!”       “C’mon, c’mon, get out!” Raquelle jabs funnily. “Get out, I said! Sammy, get out, as well! You’re a boy! Boys don’t catch bouquets.”       “Move your butts! Don’t waste time!”       Natalia and Raquelle push the men out of the center of the room with bouquets in their hands, while they go aside, barely holding their quiet laugh.       “Come here, girls!” Natalia exclaims.       “Get out, cuties!” Raquelle encourages.       The girls whooping happily and smiling start coming together in the crowd.       “So, girls, who’s ready to catch the bouquet?” Natalia asks funnily, teasing the girls with her bouquet.       While the girls whoop funnily and loudly and shout out something like, “Me! Me!”, the other guests and the men, who go aside, laugh quietly, starting to bet on those who can get the bride’s thing.       “Of course, me!” Kylie says confidently.       “No, it’s my time to get married!” Jessica adds funnily. “Everyone gets married, but I’m still single!”       “Relax, ladies, you’ll get nothing today!” Melissa states with her head proudly raised. “Because I will catch the bouquet.”       “C’mon, Anna, I believe in you!” Cassidy exclaims with a wide smile. “You must catch the bouquet! Since Daniel caught the garter, you have no right not to catch the bouquet!”       “No, Helene is gonna be a star today!” Jessica says confidently. “She will catch it and let us know we’re gonna be hanging out at the wedding of her and Pete.”       “What if actually Blair catches it?” Christopher assumes cheerfully. “What if it makes Parker think of the proposal sooner!”       “I’m begging you, buddy!” Terrence laughs shyly. “Parker and a wedding…”       “Or the one not to have a boyfriend would catch the bouquet,” Kevin assumes cheerfully.       “But I am sure that Helene or Anna will catch the bouquet,” Ashton says cheerfully. “These girls have been dating such cool guys for a long time and could count on some nice news.”       “We’ll find it out now,” Ryan replies with a wide smile. “Natalia, Raquelle, throw the bouquets!”       “Right!” Kylie agrees. “Don’t waste time, bride!”       “Or give the bouquet to me, so I get happy to be honored,” Blair suggests funnily.       “Or me!” Jessica exclaims. “It’s my time to get married! But nobody proposes!”       “Find a boyfriend first!” Peter advises funnily along with everyone’s laugh. “And then you will put on a wedding dress.”       “M-m-m, listen, girls…” Natalia smiles mysteriously, looking at her bouquet. “Are you sure you wanna get this beautiful bouquet?”       “Hey, Rochester, I didn’t get!” Cassidy resents.       “MacClife, now!”       “Throw it now!”       “No, ladies, I will probably leave the bouquet with me…” Natalia says confidently. “You don’t need it.”       “Yes, girls, I’d prefer to leave the flowers with me and give them to nobody,” Raquelle says funnily.       “Listen, cuties, if you don’t throw it to us now, we’ll take it away from you by force,” Anna threatens.       “Yeah!” Kylie exclaims. “We will take it quickly!”       “Hey, hey, don’t fight, beauties,” Daniel says. “Please…”       “Yes, girls, don’t do!” Peter adds loudly. “We don’t want the wedding to become a mass slaughter.”       “That’s right!” Benjamin agrees. “You got so wild as if you’re fighting for the man who’s in love with all of you.”       “Said by those who jumped outta the pants to get the garters,” Olivia protests.       “Oh, yeah!” Emma laughs. “You can’t teach us!”       “So, stand aside and say nothing,” Odette says confidently.       “Uh-huh, friendship is the friendship, but the competition always goes first,” Olivia adds.       “As well as the opportunity to show off for each other,” Emma adds.       “Hey, dear beautiful brides, throw the bouquets now,” Victor says cheerfully.       “Don’t worry, folks,” Helene replies confidently. “Everything will be over when I catch this bouquet.”       “Uh-huh!” Jessica exclaims. “I will catch it!”       “Maybe, I will be lucky!” Melissa assumes.”       “Don’t be happy, ladies!” Cassidy says confidently. “One of the bouquets will be mine.”       “Why do you need it?” Daniel wonders.       “Why? I will get married!”       “Yes, for me!” Blake teases with a sly smile and hits Daniel slightly in the forearm with a fist. “I’m gonna be your relative, Dan! To your happiness!”       “Right!” Cassidy agrees funnily.       “Uh-huh, keep dreaming!” Daniel shows his fist threateningly. “Don’t even dare to think about it!”       “Hey, Cass, will ya marry me? Wanna become Cassidy Connor?”       “I will!” Cassidy states without hesitation. “I’d do right now!”       “Ye-e-e-es!” Blake whoops loudly. “She said, ‘Yes’!”       “We’ve solved it, folks! Come to the wedding of Blake and me! I’m gonna get married to him and become Mrs. Connor.”       “Hey, I won’t let you marry Blake!” Daniel meddles and shakes his index finger in front of Blake’s face, while the guests laugh shyly. “And you close your mouth! You’re too young to get married!”       “Relax, Perkins!” Melissa chuckles kindly. “I will quickly catch the bouquet, and it’s gonna be cool! And your sister’s wedding can wait!”       “No, I will catch!” Blair protests.       “Me!” the unmarried girls exclaim by one.       “Hey, Natalia, Raquelle, throw the bouquets now,” Lilian laughs shyly. “Or the girls are gonna fight here.”       Sammy barks loudly two times.       “Throw! Throw!” the crowd starts pronouncing, clapping their hands, while the girls join them later.       “Okay, okay!” Raquelle exclaims. “Calm down, everyone! Quiet! We’re ready to throw!”       “Alright, jokes aside!” Natalia adds. “Get ready, cuties!”       Natalia and Raquelle turn their backs on the girls and share a wide smile, while their friends stand in a fighting position.       “So, everyone’s ready?” Natalia asks.       “Count down until three!” Raquelle exclaims.       “One! Two! Three!” all the guests count.       Whooping funnily, the brides throw the wedding bouquets into the girly crowd. All the unmarried beauties start pushing too, but Helene and Anna are the only ones to be lucky. The bouquets literally land on their hands, and they only have to grab them tightly. After calming down, the other girls make happy whoops, and the others start applauding at the bridesmaids, who raise their hands with the bouquets and show them proudly to the guests, while Sammy barks happily along with everyone. When they turn around, Raquelle and Natalia open their mouths widely with a wide smile and start applauding at their friends. While all the girls and the brides hug the lucky ladies with one touchingly, share an amicable kiss on the cheek, and congratulate them, Daniel and Peter feel mysterious glances of some men on them and hear them whooping happily and whistling.       “Oh, oh, oh, okay, bros!” Terrence exclaims with a mysterious smile, clapping Daniel on the shoulder. “Now you just must marry Anna and Helene.”       “So what, dudes, when are ya planning to marry, to buy a ring, and to propose?” Edward asks funnily. “And when do we keep a gift? How much?”       “Yeah, you won’t feed us with promises and say, ‘Soon! Soon!’ anymore.”       “We’ll see, guys,” Daniel smiles mysteriously.       “Not see!” William exclaims.       “Alright, we’re now waiting for the wedding of Rose or you!” William adds confidently.       “Listen, men, we’re gonna watch the battle of the year!” Ryan exclaims cheerfully, loudly. “Peter and Daniel caught the garters, and Anna and Helene caught the bouquets. Which means some of them are gonna play a wedding!”       “Oh, guys, it’s gonna be a hot battle!” Blake notices funnily, rubbing his hands. “Rose vs Perkins! Who’s gonna be the first one to decide to propose to his cutie to marry! Bet, folks! Let’s open a mini tote for those who wanna test their luck and earn some money.”       “C’mon, guys!” Terrence chuckles kindly, waving his hand. “Perkins is gonna be thinking of getting married for there more years, and Anna’s gonna be dreaming of a wedding dress.”       “All my hopes are only on Rose,” Edward adds. “Our blond, who can surely think about it now.”       “Agree with you, bros,” Benjamin agrees cheerfully. “Dan is living with Anna in the same house very well, being unmarried. Even Cassidy can’t bother the two lovebirds.”       “Yes, Rose, I think you bought a house and moved in there at the right time!” Cody smiles widely, clapping Peter on the shoulder. “It’s time to think about a wedding! Work on a home for your future wife.”       “And her doggy, surely,” Joseph adds. “You can’t leave it alone.”       “I’m gonna say what Dan said one minute ago,” Peter smiles mysteriously. “We’ll see, guys.”       “Hey, men, what if two weddings happen on the same day!” Liam assumes cheerfully. “We’d have so much fun!”       “Uh-huh, hanging out all day, all night!” Zachary adds funnily.       “Celebrate the birth of two more families!” Bradley smiles widely.       “Time will show, friends,” Daniel says confidently.       “Let’s first celebrate this wedding,” Peter suggests. “And then decide whose wedding we’re gonna have fun at next time.”       “Warn about the wedding earlier,” Gordon says.       “Yeah, what if it happens that we have to perform and are not able to come,” Derek adds.       “Or Jer and I have to study or work,” William says confidently.       Meanwhile, Anna and Helene are happy to accept the congratulations from the girls and the other guests with a wide smile and happy whops, hugging them sweetly and sharing an amicable kiss on the cheek and caressing Sammy’s head while he jumps around them. After talking enough, the men come to the lucky ladies and hug them one by one with a wide smile, kiss them, and say nice words. And then Daniel and Peter hug their sweethearts touchingly and caress their heads, while the girls press the men closely to themselves with happy whoops and kiss them sweetly on the cheek.       “So, Mrs. Marshall, Mr. Seymour, Mrs. Seymour, get ready,” Letitia says confidently. “Someone from your family will get married very soon.”       “I was kind of sure that one of the single girls would catch it,” Anthony confesses thoughtfully.       “But it happened otherwise!” George notices with a slight smile. “And we will wait for one of my wards to get married.”       “It’s alright, we will wait,” Alicia laughs. “We’re patient people… Hurry nowhere. It’s alright.”       “Come on, folks, don’t make the guys blush,” Raphael says funnily. “We need to celebrate this wedding, but we’re planning another already.”       “Exactly!” Victor exclaims. “We will celebrate this wedding and wait for a new one.”       “Yeah, about hangouts!” Lydia pronounces confidently. “The lads kind of promised to sing one more song…”       “Don’t worry, ma'am!” Blake waves his hand. “We’ll have time to dance along with one or two songs of the guys before the big cake is brought here.”       “So, in this case, we could make the people have fun,” Gordon says thoughtfully.       “We’re in!” Gordon exclaims.       “So what, guys!” Derek pronounces with his head proudly raised. “Sing one more song together? And then every band can sing something else?”       “Yes!” Bradley exclaims happily. “Show them how to hang out!”       “Hey, Ash, didn’t you forget what we talked about?” Zachary asks loudly.       “Just give me a sign, and it’s gonna be hot here!” Ashton says proudly with a wide smile.       “Rock on, guys!” Terrence exclaims loudly. “Repeat after the best men!”       “C’mon, Ash, start the music!” Edward gives a sign.       Again, the men from “Against The System,” “The Loser Syndrome,” and “Lost In Time” rock on along with the other famous songs, making everyone dance and sing along with every line starting from the first minutes. Every band shows what they are much better at: vocals, energetic dances, rapping, or all together. The men sing the chorus all together again and dance under the leadership of the best men and the grooms themselves. The guests have the pleasure from dancing alone, in a couple, or small companies, and the taken members of “Against The System” bring their sweethearts in the middle of the room and have fun with them, while the girls have fun to the fullest on the heels, laugh a lot, and do not refuse to play the fool with their friends. Just like the single men, who choose some girls and invite them to join the fun. Sammy does not stay aside and does not let anyone forget he is here, and Harold, Amanda, Shannon, and Hailey dance awkwardly, jump, laugh, play the fool with each other, and have fun with the adults.       While many people try to repeat their dance, the grooms’ best men push Benjamin, Cody, and Joseph in the middle so that they hang out with them. The brides and their friends talk about something with each other, thinking it would be unfair if only the grooms and their company made everyone happy with their performance, which they did not play, however. The beauties manage to discuss something with Ashton before the men invite them to finish the joint dance all together. And the girls do it brilliantly. Next, the members of “Against The System” make the demanding guests happy with their solo tracks, still remaining energetic, funny, and confident, and getting a lot of applause after the end of the performance. Raquelle, Natalia, Olivia, Odette, Emma, Anna, and Helene show up in the room in black leather waistcoats, crop tops, and black shorts. They kick the men out and give a sign to Ashton, who turns on the energetic song, along with which they start performing a dance they saw in a music video, while the guests support them with loud applause and happy whoops.       “Ah, girls, girls…” Scarlett sighs sadly. “Why do you all love open clothes so much nowadays? Everything is seen! Your man is the only one who is allowed to see it. Your husband. But you… And these dances… My God…”       “C’mon, Mrs. Marshall, let the girls dress up while they’re young and beautiful,” Victoria replies softly. “If they feel comfortable, they can wear what they want. The girls are adults and can decide what to wear.”       “Am I not right, Mrs. Richardson? Wouldn’t it be better to put on a closed dress and paint the eyes so that nobody sees the makeup? The brides could obviously choose closed dresses, without décolletés, with sleeves. And the bridesmaids chose too open dresses, in my opinion. The décolleté again! The chest is seen, everything is too tight… Oh, Jesus Christ… I’m sorry about having to look at all of this…”       “I don’t know, I think all the girls are dressed very well,” Victor says confidently. “And isn’t now the best time to show their bodies? When they’re forty or fifty, yes, they won’t be able to put on a short skirt. And they’ll have to change the décolleté. Or actually remove it.”       “Oh…” Scarlett shakes her head. “I remember Helene wore such wonderful dresses in her childhood. So sweet… They fitted her so well… M-m-m! It was so cute! And then she started to wear what made my eyes pop out. Short top tubes, shorts, bikini…”       “I see nothing critical about it,” George replies. “The girl was growing up and wanted something beautiful and adult. My daughter refuses to wear what she wore before. She says it’s all too childish, but she’s an adult. She takes her mother to the shops and asks her to buy something good, as she says. Of course, my wife and I are sometimes shocked by some of her looks. But she feels okay! She’s happy!”       “My gosh, why do children grow so fast? Why can’t they be kids forever? I wish my granddaughter were the little girl with sweet pigtails wearing the good sarafans and dresses she wore. Not what Helene wears now.”       All the girls move amazingly and look confidently, making their sweethearts and all the men look at them closely with their heads proudly raised and a slight smile on their faces. And somewhere in the middle of the song, the other young beauties join them. Some of them know the movements, while others try to repeat them or dance something similar. All the guests like this performance and applaud loudly when the dance finishes, with the girls sticking different poses but standing so that the brides are in the middle.       “The Loser Syndrome” sings a couple of their most popular songs, and then “Lost In Time” does it too. Peter and Daniel do not also leave the guests without a surprise and perform the song, the work on which was begun when they worked with Albert Sanderson and Marty Patch. All the guests like this song a lot, which is the mix of rock, metal, and rap with a powerful vocal, as well as the energetic dance movements the guys show. The young men and girls dance probably much harder than everyone and often bother the performers from performing, making them laugh a lot, while the others do not stand aside and try to sing along, and Sammy puts his nose in everything, howls along with every single song, and stands in everyone’s way.       The guys from “Against The System” do not leave the guests without something tasty, performing their own song, for which they did a simple but epic choreography some time before this day. For this performance, the men put on black jeans and black leather jackets or waistcoats but did not put on shirts to show their naked torsos proudly to everyone, while every girl looks at them closely. Some adults sigh sadly and talk about the men dressing up too explicitly, as they think, but they stop these talks some time later. Everyone likes the mix of two tracks performed by these guys, as some guests understand. And after the end of the performance, the four get loud applause that makes them smile widely and bow to the guests after they stand in the queue and hug each other.       The time of dances and songs flies fast. Some time later, several people bring a big multilayer cake along with loud applause and shouts from the guests. It’s partly decorated with edible violet roses, lavender, and lilacs. The guests literally wipe off their saliva and look forward to having plates with pieces of the cake on their tables. Raquelle, Terrence, Natalia, and Edward, holding the knife together, cut the cake with wide smiles on their faces, along with loud applause and whoops, and taste their first piece of the cake from the hands of their sweethearts. And then they cover each other's faces and the hair of each other with it as they thrill with a laugh.       “Ha-ha-ha-ha!” Terrence claps his hands with a wide smile. “You look cool with a moustache, brother!”       “And you look good with white hair!” Edward pronounces through a laugh.       “Pretty boys!” Natalia throws funnily, squeezing Terrence’s jaw slightly and pinching his cheeks.       “You’re right!” Raquelle agrees, ruffling Edward’s hair and covering his face with the cake again.       “Pity your husbands, babes,” Scarlett laughs. “The friends were helping the grooms get ready for the whole morning, but you coated their faces and suits with the cake.”       “Oh, come on!” Jamie exclaims. “These bandits ruffled each other’s hair, too. And they have crème on their heads.”       “And I am not surprised…” Rebecca sighs.       “Hey, people, the cake is just incredible!” Natalia confesses with a wide smile. “You’re gonna love it!”       “Yeah, yeah!” Cassidy claps her hands happily. “We’re gonna eat the cake!”       “M-m-m, listen, I’m delighted!” Edward smiles widely, enjoying the taste of the crème on his face. “I’d eat everything!”       “Too much!” Jeremy laughs loudly. “You’re gonna be a very, very big, cute boy.”       “With a big ass and big cheeks that everyone would pinch,” Blake adds funnily.       “It doesn’t threaten us, buddy!” Terrence replies confidently, wiping the rest of the cake off his face. “We eat anything we want and keep incredible shape.”       “For a while!” Benjamin chuckles kindly.       “Hey, people, attack the cake before the grooms eat everything,” William says loudly. “Or we will get nothing.”       “Don’t forget about me!” Daniel exclaims funnily.       “You?” Cassidy chuckles loudly. “You do hate sweet food!”       “I don’t hate sweet food! Don’t dream up! I just take it quietly and don’t get excited from a piece of chocolate or something like that, unlike someone.”       “Then give your piece to me!”       “Uh-huh, keep dreaming! When I’m offered to eat something tasty, I never refuse.”       The guests surround the big cake quickly, and the waiters cut it and give everybody small plates with a desired piece that looks so yummy. Then everyone sits down at tables and starts tasting this sweet food. Which everyone is delighted by. With the thought that they can forget about any diet for this delicious thing, stop counting the calories, and let themselves eat the full piece of it, and even ask for one more. Or maybe two. Just like in the case of the children, who use the moment when they can eat a lot of tasty food. Just like in the case of men, who do not care about the laughter of their friends about gaining weight and eat everything to the last crumb.