Chapter 21 - Are We Getting Married Or Not? Um, hi, this is Lolita! I'm just filling in for Nicholas because he's watching tiny men run around in the magic box. Oh, he and Alexander are tossing fluffy corn around . . . Anyway, Nicholas's mother, Serena, had managed to arrange our garden wedding while still in China. She arrived home satisfied with the arrangement, although she thought we needed more flowers.
I was certainly excited, and enacted our romance through the dolls in the nursery.
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Oh, Nicholas! Of course I'll marry you! 'Lolita, let's go away to our cloud palace in the land of the unicorns!' How wonderful!"
Our wedding day arrived, and Nicholas and I spent much of the party kissing, even in front of the guests! This would have been considered quite indecent at home, but I suppose things do change in 60 years.
Gunther and I were certainly not as in love as this, the storybook love. Our marriage had been arranged, and over the course of such we developed respect for each other--respect and love, perhaps, but not this sort of love at all. We Woohooed only when necessary, then only to provide a grandchild for Gunther's mother, and I learned that after my death Gunther married my friend, Cornelia. I hope she was happier than myself.
I had looked forward to my wedding in this new, happy life, with great excitement--but the worst happened. We could not marry! Nicholas says it's because I have no "papers." I know not why we need papers for marriage, but perhaps it's because of the Landgraabs and Altos, who now are more powerful than the Goths. I find this quite inconceivable.
Nicholas asked if I was willing to wait a little longer for a baby--he didn't want to ruin my reputation by having a child out of wedlock. I agreed, although I want a child badly and Alexander's former lover, River, had many children without being shamed.
I think I am willing to do almost anything for Nicholas. He's so sweet, and kind--and he wants a baby just as badly as I do. His choice to wait for marriage only increases my love for him, and I hardly care that he can always tempt me into "making out" in public.
Fortunately, our guests were too busy watching Alexander woo Anne Ursine to comment on our own behavior! I certainly hope Holly Alto doesn't hear of this tryst--even if she's the daughter of my former family's rivals, no one deserves a broken heart.
I must give Alexander credit for taking all the blame for being unfaithful to Holly, thus keeping Anne from public disgrace.
Nicholas and I spoke of this, and other things, as we--ah--
cuddled that night. We have already Woohooed several times, but Nicholas tells me it is often the case with modern couples.
In the prime of the Goth family, when Gunther lived in the big mansion with his trophy wife (A.K.A. me) . . . I knew the life was beginning to stir within me, the doctor had already confirmed pregnancy. Gunther was on his way home from work, and I noticed the stereo was unplugged so, still dripping wet from the rain . . . and so on. Now I have this second chance to be a mother, and I want, I need, to take it. We are so tempted to just go ahead and conceive . . . but how could our baby look on its parents with pride, knowing they were not even married?
The next day, as luck would have it, was Love Day. Nicholas and I celebrated our chemistry at the kissing booth, while confetti rained down on us.
Kaylynn and Nicholas aren't a bad couple, either. Nicholas assured me that I am a far better kisser, however. Not quite so assured, I took him out to behind the bathrooms in order to practice my technique.
I decided I might as well try out the female kissing booth, and soon had quite a lineup of men. Oh, my . . .
Kaylynn invited her boyfriend, Michael, out to the fair as well! They demonstrated the Love Tester to us, and were told that they "Had Some Awesome Make-Outs."
Nicholas and I learned that we remind the Love Tester of a passionate night it spent with the Claw machine. How adorable!
He then guided me to the dance floor, where we spent several happy hours swaying to the music emitting. Quite frankly, he swept me off my feet.
Nicholas took me out to eat at the bistro. He tells me this is the same table his mother and father sat at during their first date! Oh, isn't it romantic?
Speaking of Serena, she appears to be developing a taste for younger men.
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So, Seneca, how are you enjoying school? Your father tells me you're top of the class!"
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It's okay, I guess. I didn't think Dad knew that. He kinda doesn't leave your house."
Nicholas brought me on another date that night--to France! There, he once again proposed--and I, of course, accepted.
Too full of love to wait a moment longer, we were married right then and there outside the base camp. I later learned that Serena had paid a visit to City Hall and told the mayor that if he did not give her a grandchild, she would turn him into a toad.
In that moment, there was only Nicholas and I.
After the wedding, we honeymooned by raiding tombs! How very exciting! Nicholas insisted on doing all the heavy smashing, but in my day I would not have been allowed to go at all!
We consummated the marriage within the depths of the crypt, where no one could happen upon us. The experience was certainly . . . enlightening.
I soon left for home, as I felt something change, and there aren't any hospitals in Champes Les Sims. Nicholas tells me his adventures following my departure weren't overly exciting--mainly crushing fruit.
