Forever Yours
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Chapter 44: Wedding Daze
“If the mind were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it.”
—Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near
“ISOBEL! WHAT THE FUCK?” Henry yelled, trying to extract himself from the clinging woman. She continued to hold him and attempt to kiss him. She smelled strongly of alcohol.
“I’m here for the ritual pre-wedding fuck!”
“No, Izzy. That’s not happening,” Henry insisted, pushing her away. “Go back to your husband.”
“He’s drunk.”
“So are you.”
“I couldn’t do this without a little liquid courage. It doesn’t affect how ready I am for you,” Isobel said, starting to remove her nightdress.
“I said no, Izzy. Please leave.” Henry got past her and opened his door. “Don’t get undressed. Get out!”
“What? It was fine for you to fuck me the night before my wedding but not to fuck me the night before yours? You’re a hypocrite,” she screamed.
Henry kept the door open wide. If people heard, people heard.
“The past is past. Go, Isobel.”
“I hate you, Henry Pascal! You’re not worthy to touch a hair of my head. You think your two sluts will be so noble when an opportunity to have someone else comes along? Chastity has a whole long list of available men who will pay to have a threesome with her and Lisa.”
“Isobel, you aren’t being rational. Please leave now.”
“Fuck you!” Isobel screamed as she stormed out the door. Henry closed and bolted it behind her.
Henry had fantasized about Isobel since he was in junior high school. At one time he thought he was in competition with Luke for her affections, but soon discovered there had never really been a question in Isobel’s mind as to who she would marry.
That hadn’t stopped them from having sex twice. The first was at the senior prom, just before Isobel went to join Luke. The second was the night before her wedding to Luke. Henry hadn’t felt particularly guilty about either time as they had both been initiated by Isobel and technically, they were both single.
Over the past year, though, Henry had lost interest in her as a sexual object. He wasn’t sure if it was a sense of loyalty to Lisa, or simply a loss of desire for anyone except Lisa and Chastity. He even suspected that if Chastity had not won Lisa as her girlfriend, he would have stopped leaning on Chastity for any kind of sexual relationship. With both of them, though, it was hard to imagine being in that kind of relationship with anyone else.
Just to be sure, he put the chain on the hotel door as well.
Luke missed the 8:00 tee-time in the morning. Josh said he’d knocked on his door and was simply told he’d see them later. Henry hoped everything was okay between Luke and Isobel. She’d been irrationally angry when she left him in the middle of the night.
Being on one of many boards at the university, Beau had arranged their tee-time on the university golf course. He just drove a golf cart as the other four played. Josh was nowhere near as accomplished a golfer as the others, but they spotted him several strokes on each hole. Eventually, Beau handled the drives from the tee and fairway and let Josh handle the putting.
They had a good time and then went to the clubhouse for lunch. Luke joined them there.
“Hey, is everything okay?” Henry asked.
“Oh, yeah! My God! Izzy said she was staying out with the girls last night, but got back about midnight and fucked me nearly to death! Apparently, weddings really turn her on,” Luke said. “Sorry. I know you were being properly celibate last night, but I’m a married man. We kind of celebrated our anniversary a few days late. We really didn’t have time for anything special last Sunday. We had room service for breakfast this morning and then did our best to set another record for sex. It really hasn’t been like that since our honeymoon.”
“Wow! Congratulations,” Henry laughed. “Glad our upcoming wedding was so inspirational!”
The men had a relaxed time over lunch, the fathers and grandfather indulging in a couple of drinks. Luke and Josh each had one, but Henry decided to stay completely alcohol free.
The afternoon for the men was a typical hurry-up-and-wait. They got showered and dressed for the wedding, then went to the church. There they waited for the women in the wedding party.
The women had a relaxing morning with brunch at 9:30 at the spa. They had massages and had hair, nails, and makeup done. They got to the church half an hour later than the men and went into isolation to dress. Of course, the restriction of not seeing the bride before the wedding was only adhered to up to the point when photographs were to be taken. Then the entire wedding party was called to the sanctuary and posed for portraits of the bride and groom, the trio, the wedding party, the families, and even the minister. They barely made it to their places before the congregation started arriving.
Lisa was dressed in an informal white wedding dress. It was completely off the shoulder with a full skirt that fell just below the knee. She’d never been much for showing off her body, except to Henry and Chastity. Chastity and Layla were in matching peach dresses about the same length as Lisa’s. Their dresses, however, had plunging necklines. Chastity never wore a bra and her neckline made that obvious. Layla may have been a bit more self-conscious about it, but it was clear that if she had breast support, it was built into the dress.
The men were in dark business suits with simple white rose boutonnieres. They all cleared the sanctuary before people were brought in. Henry sat relaxed with Rev. Jackson in the choir room, next to the chancel. The women were in a ready room at the back of the sanctuary. Josh and Luke doubled as ushers, directing people to the front of the sanctuary. When Luke walked Jackie up the aisle and got her seated, Henry and the minister joined him at the front of the church.
Henry grinned almost as much at Chastity coming up the aisle after Josh and Layla as he did a minute later at Lisa. When Chastity reached the front, Henry leaned toward her and kissed her lightly. Then all attention was on Lisa and Bill. Henry felt a little drunk as he watched his bride approaching. He just couldn’t stop grinning.
All told, the service was simple and the fifty or so attending were happy to be there.
“Nature celebrates unions,” Rev. Jackson said. “I could use all kinds of examples because very little in our world is singular. Not to minimize the single elements. Gold, for example, is one of our most valuable. But when you think of even the most basic building block of life, water, you discover it is indeed a union. We call it H2O. Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom in one of God’s most perfect unions.
“When I discovered Henry and Lisa wanted to include Chastity in their new union, I could only think of the perfection of H2O. And once you get to know them, you will discover how perfect that union is.
“Now as far as legal pieces of paper or the United Methodist Church are concerned, of course, we have a marriage license and certificate for Henry and Lisa. But we also have love that is bigger than that and which we are happy to recognize in this service.”
Henry thought about how Pythia had answered Rev. Jackson’s question of what to speak about at the wedding. Pythia had made the connection between marriage and union. Jackson had taken it the rest of the way. It was a beautiful ceremony as he and Lisa recited their vows and officially asked Chastity to be a part of their family.
“Forever yours,” Chastity affirmed to the two of them. It was the vow they had chosen.
Then Lisa and Henry kissed, Lisa and Chastity kissed, and Chastity and Henry kissed. The three walked back down the aisle together.
The dinner buffet in the hotel banquet room began at 6:30. Everyone had plenty of time to get the few blocks from the church to the hotel since the wedding itself was quite short.
Beau and Solange had paid for the reception dinner and included a band for dancing and entertainment.
It was the first time Henry met Lisa’s other grandparents, Bill’s parents. Her Aunt Leslie and Uncle Bert were also there. Leslie was Bill’s sister. All four lived in Cincinnati. They were pleasant people, though more conservative than Lisa’s parents. They didn’t really understand the concept of having Chastity as a part of Lisa and Henry’s family, but thankfully, didn’t make a big deal out of it.
By nine o’clock, the cake had been cut and served and Henry, Lisa, and Chastity were able to leave their reception to just be together. Beau and Solange kept the party going until eleven and then bid everyone a goodnight.
“I’m afraid Grandma and Grandpa Hartman didn’t actually understand what it meant for us to be a throuple,” Lisa said as the three settled into bed.
The suite they had booked for their wedding night was a room with an attached room and a door between so Chastity could start the night with them and retreat to her own space when she felt she needed to.
“Aunt Leslie was scandalized,” Lisa continued. “She started in with the whole ‘God instituted marriage between one man and one woman’ routine.”
“What did you say to that?”
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