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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Clair De Lune--Chapter 2
It was only a year and two months later that everything was scheduled and ready. Her eighteenth birthday had arrived, and with it, her wedding day. She was so nervous and frantically running about to get ready.
"Calm down child. He'll be worried sick if you are. Just calm yourself and everything shall be fine. I cannot get your dress over your head with you running about!"
Her dear friend and mentor for years now, Maddie, was telling her not to fret. How could she not? It was her birthday, and also the day of her wedding to the man she loved most. She was frantic for a reason, at least. She took a deep calming breath and stood still, allowing Maddie to pull the dress on over her head and zip up the back. It fit like a dream. It was a light, light silver color, slender and accenting her curves. She smiled and thanked her friend.
“Maddie, what would I do without you? I’m so nervous. It’s a double celebration, and it’s a big leap in my life. I’m not sure what I should do.... I love him dearly, and I would do anything for him, but at the same time... I’m so scared. I’m taking a big leap of Fate in doing this... but I feel it’s what’s right. Oh! I’m so nervous Maddie!” she cried into the strong arms of the older woman.
“There, there child. All is well. You are just having a fit of the jitters and it’s only normal. Heck! If I didn’t go through the same, and your mother with her wedding too!” the woman boasted. She laughed heavily, then absently rubbed Elise’s back. “Elise... dear child, I know you are nervous, but he’s a good man. I see he will treat you well, and he wouldn’t dare to not, risking crossing me and unleashing my temper and switch across his back side!”
“Oh Maddie!” They both laughed. She always knew how to cheer Elise up. “Maddie, I think I can get done from here. If I need help with my hair, I shall call for you, alright?”
“Alright dear. Remember, call if you need anything.” She winked before she left the room, closing the oaken doors behind her.
Elise ran to her balcony, needing the fresh air and sight of the moon and stars. It was perfect, as she’d wanted it. Joey, as he liked to be called, was going to be there soon... out in her garden, the moon full and bright and the stars shining down upon them as if it were some magical faerie tale. She took in a deep breath of air, looking down at the place around her.
“This is my home... this is the land I grew up in.... He loved me enough to come here and ask to spend his life here with me, giving up all he had.... I love him...” she cried into her hands, thinking of the past year.
Joey and Elise had been spending so much time together, going out to have sweet talks in the woods, riding their beautiful stallions or just walking. He’d shared with her everything he’d left out since she’d first met him, and she did the same for him. They’d shared everything, from their darkest fears, to their most painful memories. She was so happy she could open up to him like she had. How long had it been since she’d felt so alive in life?
She sighed. “It’s been far too long since I was able to be myself with another. I miss him now... even if I shall see him in a few hours... it’s still too long. Maybe... I should go and see him? No... it is bad luck to do such....” she sighed once more. “Maybe I am ready now? I must go and wipe away these tears of frustration and joy. I must put on my jewelry and fix my hair. Yes. I shall go and do that now.”
She composed herself, smoothed her dress, went to sit at her antique vanity set and began to comb out her hair with the ivory combs given to her by her mother before her passing two years ago. She’d cherished them dearly since then, and even before. After putting on the silver rose necklace Maddie had laid out for her, Elise had finished combing her hair, and was setting to braiding it in the Irish tradition she’d grown to love so well, when a knock at her door startled her. She paused in mid-braid and asked for them to come in.
“Elise...” she heard him breathe. “You look so amazing.”
“Joey! What-” she stammered, letting her hair fall about her shoulders. “You aren’t supposed to be in here yet! Don’t you know it’s not good luck to see one another before everything begins?”
He nodded. “Yes, but I wished to see my beloved before then. I could not take the suspense of not being able to see you until then.” He came to fold her into his warm, comforting embrace.
“Oh, my love... I needed to see you too... but fear of traditional customs told me not to, for fear something would go wrong.” She wrapped her slender arms around his waist, holding him closer to herself.
“Elise... customs be damned if it means I don’t get a moment to see you in our last few moments before we are joined by marriage. I love you... nothing would have stopped me from seeing you now.”
She smiled. “I’m glad... I need the reassurance. I am so nervous, Joey.... I am so glad I got to see you too....” She hugged him close again before he leaned down for a kiss.
“Elise, I am nervous myself, which... is why I came. I wanted to see you, and reassure myself.” He gave her a sweet, comforting grin. “Looks like it did us both some good. Now, I must go, my angel. I do not want Maddie to come in here and find me, then chew us both out, alright?”
She nodded, and he leaned down to kiss the tip of her nose, then her forehead. She whispered her last “I love you” that she would get before they became a married couple, and watched him leave through the same doors Maddie had exited through earlier. She smiled, sighing a deep, calming breath of relief. To know he felt the same as she... nervous and yet overjoyed at the same time, it was comforting.
“Until later on, my love.... Until then,” she whispered.
Maddie came in a few moments later to help her with her hair, setting about braiding it and pulling them back in a crown around her forehead into one, spiraling braid down her back. The rest of her hair was curled and left flowing about her shoulders in bouncing waves of auburn. Elise looked at herself in the mirror. She looked just like her mother had. Only, her mother’s dress had been white, and her mother’s eyes were a deep, sad green, compared to her bright blue.
“Maddie... is it time now?”
Maddie nodded from the balcony. “Yes, child. They are ready for you. Now, you best hurry, and I shall be down in a moment after you, sweetie.”
Elise went to hug Maddie once more. “Oh! Maddie... I thank you for all you’ve done in my life, in all the while I’ve known you...”
“No problem, dear. No go on! You don’t want to be late for your own wedding, do you?” The older woman smiled, looking Elise over and pushing her to the door, tears stinging her eyes.
Once Elise had hugged her once more, she ran out the door and down the long corridor. Maddie let her tears slip by just a little. Her smile was one of joy as she saw the woman she’d helped raise run off to her future.

The priest was waiting patiently, and Joey stood, smiling. He was handsomely dressed in a traditional suit. She smiled, and couldn’t help the tears forming in her eyes, but she wouldn’t let them fall. Her father waited for her, dressed as he used to, handsomely in his favorite suit attire, as when her mother was alive. He was as she remembered.
Clair de Lune played softly in the background as she and her father made their way to the front of the reception. She kissed his cheek lightly, and then she looked at Joey. His own eyes were filled with tears of joy, his brilliant black eyes shining brightly with hints of green.
The priest started the reception, and everything went silent. He asked that Elise and Joey exchange the vows, written by each of them.
Joey smiled, his voice soft, but heard over the entire garden. “Elise... I love you. I love you more than words. I love you more than emotions can express. I love you more than life is worth. I would gladly give all I have just to see you smile. I would gladly give everything to spend life with you. I would gladly give all I am for your love. I would gladly give my life if it meant saving yours.
“I only ask for you to be safe. I only ask for your happiness. I only ask for your love. I only ask for you, Elise. I promise with all that I am and shall ever be... I shall love you until our dying days, until all the world blackens and leaves us behind.”
Elise smiled, her tears shimmering in her eyes, almost unable to be held back, but somehow she managed, and said her own vows. “Joey... I love you. I love you more than anything. I love you more than I could imagine. I love you more than poetic words could describe. I want you by my side forever. I want you to always be happy. I want you to know how I feel. I want you to know I love you eternally. I want only you... I only ask for you... I would gladly give all for you... I love you....
“Joey, I shall do all I can to make you happy, keep all your pain away, and be there for you no matter what you may need. I promise this forever and more, my love.”
The priest continued with the reception, and everything went better than could have been expected. Elise let her tears fall at the end, as she and Joey shared the first kiss of their new life together.

~~~~Chapter two...enjoy...I hope to have Chapter three finished when I get home, but won't post it until tomorrow. Ja...~~~~
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