A New Old Watch. 9th in the STOPWATCH Series
Copyright© 2013 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 52
While they were sailing in circles waiting for the C-130, the Twins asked David to marry them. No ... not David ... Chris and Sarah ... C'Twin and S'Twin asked David to perform a wedding ... Damn it all.
The Twins asked Chris and Sarah to be their respective brides and then they asked David, in his office of Captain to marry the four of them ... No ... Not David taking the four of them as brides ... Damn it all.
"David, Sarah and I want to get married, will you perform the office?" asked Twin.
"What's your mother say?" asked David.
"I say Ok," said Wendy.
"Damn it, Wendy. Quit that," declared David.
"Quit what? Sneaking aboard in the middle of the Atlantic?" She laughed.
"Yes, but you're here now. The Twins want to marry the girls ... what say you?" David questioned.
"They're 18 ... Oh My God! They're 18 and I missed their birthday!! Did you have a party? You can't be 18 ... I'm only 25." She started slapping them with some rolled up papers... whack whack whack "Shame on you ... You're 18 and now I'm old..." She stopped hitting and unrolled the papers ... the papers were a little ragged now. She handed Chris one and Sarah one.
"Here, your marriage licenses. All signed and official ... Look, they even have the Princessapality seal. License number one and license number one. Twins, don't you know." She passed her arms around the soon to be brides waists and said, "Somebody get a picture ... and don't tell me you don't have a camera."
The prospective daughters in law were in sweatshirts and jeans and Wendy was dressed in her official Princessapality Princess outfit ... June Cleaver dress and a bib apron. *Leave it to Beaver," had just had its final episode in June of '63 ... so everyone knew who she represented ... the quintessential suburban housewife and mom. The girls hair was flyaway and both had been in the engine room cleaning so they had assorted grease smears and dust bunnies ... not at all the kind of pre wedding pictures they expected.
Andrea took pictures and promised copies. As it happened, the rolls of film taken during and after the wedding got mixed up with the film for the Geographic.
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