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Well he was, I wasn’t…

Mikey wanted to throw him a bachelor party of sorts. You know a last night of being single type of party. But seeing as it was Wednesday and all it was gonna be like a wild raging party! At least I hoped not. Donna said they could use her house and all so that’s where we were heading now. I was gonna just drop Gerard off, let him hang out with the boys and all, have a few drinks –whatever…

But I was gonna just leave him there, I mean everyone knows its bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding. And even though we weren’t having a traditional kinda wedding. I didn’t want anything to jinx it… So when we got there I was really wasn’t going to get out, but Gerard insisted I did. He wanted to go congratulate Bobby on his first divorce. He said seeing the way Bobby was running through chicks this was gonna be his first divorce of many…

“Gerard stop!” I swatted at his arm as we went inside. “You leave Bobby alone.” I tell him and he laughed looking around the room.

“Dude what's up with the decorations?” He yells over at Mikey and I giggled looking around the room myself now. I don't know what the fuck he and Frankie were doing! They had a mixture of every fucking party decoration known to man. Fucking happy birthday balloons, and a St. Patrick’s Day banner, and streamers that said ‘it’s a girl!’ tossed all over the place...

“Told you.” Mikey punched Frankie in the arm roughly. Frankie responded by letting his half inflated balloon go and shoving him back.

“Did not bitch.” He replied and nudged Gerard to make them stop, but of course he didn’t. He just picked up a balloon off the floor and examined it.

“Happy 3rd Birthday.” He reads smirking a little. “Spelt with one ‘p’ look Elle.” He shows me and I smiled at it. “These are nice guys.” He nodded a little sarcastically at them. “Um who put them in charge of fucking decorations?” He announces and I grabbed a beer off the table and quickly took a gulp from it.

“Elle did.” I hear Mikey say and I sheepishly looked back up at Gerard.

“Did she now?” He sorta teased me and I continued to take a long drink of it so not to have to answer him back. But I didn’t really have to cause just then the doorbell rang and Gerard kinda flicked the balloon back across the room, grinning at me as he went to go answer it.

“Shit Frankie! What the fuck did you do?” I snapped at him once Gerard was gone.

“You said decorations! And cheap!” He cried out and I shushed him. I mean I did say cheap! But I never said it to Gerard. He told me to get what I wanted. And I did. I wanted a quick wedding and to have a quick wedding meant it had to be cheap. I got a plain white satin dress right off the rack. It needed to be hemmed slightly, but not altered, so Helen was gonna do it for me. And Mikey’s girlfriend Audree worked at a florist shop so I was getting plain ordinary flowers from there, nothing expensive, or specially ordered… Ray said he knew a guy who could do the food cheap, well he said reasonably priced but it was the same thing. And Bobby offered to provide most of the alcohol, sorta as his present. Which left Frankie in charge of the decorations. Mikey said he was gonna help him but I should've known better.

“Frankie… oh god!” I sighed looking over the mess. “Where the fuck did you get this crap from?” I asked him and he sorta made a face like he was hurt.

“Um Mad Mel’s Party Warehouse.” He tells me with a straight face. “Everything is 70 percent off there.” He added and I reached for another beer. “I saved you a lot of money Elle.” He tells me and I nodded.

“Yeah, and I appreciate that Frankie, but didn’t they have anything wedding-y?” I asked him and he shook his head no. “Congratulations? Nothing? Nothing like that?” I insisted and he shuffled through the crap he hadn’t hung up yet.

“This one says Congratulations it’s a boy.” He shows me and I took another long gulp of my beer as I felt someone come up behind me.

“How bout one that says ‘Congratulations you’re an ass’?” I hear Bob say and I giggled as I spun to face him. “Hey honey.” He says kissing my cheek lightly. “You want me to fuck him for up you?” He says nodding towards Frankie and I giggled.

“No its okay.” I tell him and it didn’t really sound like my voice. I shouldn’t have really been drinking. I mean I didn’t eat anything since breakfast and now I slammed these two beers on an empty stomach.

“Dude these decorations kick ass!” Frankie continues to maintain as he pulled out what I could only describe as an inflatable jack-o-lantern type thingy.

“Elle baby you okay with this?” I hear Gerard say and I was spun around once more, my beer splashing slightly on me as he pulled me towards him.

“Mm hmm.” I mumbled but I don't know that he heard me.

“Seriously? I don't wanna hear that this is a bad sign-“ He tries to say but I silenced him with a kiss.

“I don't give a fuck about the decorations, or anything anymore Gerard.” I tell him and he laughed.

“What are you drinking?” He teased me and I smiled.

“I just wanna be your wife.” I tell him and he brushed the hair from my face.

“One more day and then we’ll have it all.” He says and I nodded a little as he spoke. “maybe you should tell Frankie to save that it’s a boy sign for later hmm?” He whispered at me and I didn’t answer him. I just pressed my head up against his chest and hugged him tightly to keep myself from crying. Its been three fucking years that I've been with him. Sleeping with him and just… nothing… It wasn’t gonna happen. I mean I don't understand how he can be so logical about everything else but that… He keeps maintaining that when I want it, well when we want it that it will just happen…But I don't know… He picked up on my silence and squeezed me back a little. “Or maybe a girl is better?” He whispered and I forced a smile.

“Sure Gerard.” I tell him pulling back a little. “But whichever would be great though.” I say which seemed to satisfy him cause he let me go. “I'm gonna go home now.” I tell him and Frankie started to freak.

“You're not staying?!” He cried out like it was outrageous.

Frankie being the fucker that he is, insisted that I stay. Said it wasn’t only Gerard's last night of being single party, that it could also be like a first and only night of being single party for me, seeing as Bob and I were now divorced. And it was the first time I was ‘single’ in a long time…I mean how could I say no to that! I insisted that if I stayed that it also had to be Bobs first divorce party too, which Frankie eagerly drank to… The more Frankie drank the more reasons he found to celebrate. Before long we were celebrating at the Mikey got a new hat party. Then the Ray found a quarter party, followed by the slighter more somber Ray lost his quarter party…

All this partying and none of the guests had even arrived yet…Shit, it was gonna be a long night…