{ "submission_id": "491414", "keywords": [ { "keyword_id": "609", "keyword_name": "bedroom", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "18831" }, { "keyword_id": "54", "keyword_name": "females", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "24975" }, { "keyword_id": "23493", "keyword_name": "flying squirrel", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1033" }, { "keyword_id": "689", "keyword_name": "friends", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "8203" }, { "keyword_id": "1818", "keyword_name": "gun", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "7707" }, { "keyword_id": "152111", "keyword_name": "last day", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "3" }, { "keyword_id": "165", "keyword_name": "male", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1200207" }, { "keyword_id": "185", "keyword_name": "squirrel", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "31146" }, { "keyword_id": "11180", "keyword_name": "wedding", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1288" } ], "hidden": "f", "scraps": "f", "favorite": "f", "favorites_count": "4", "create_datetime": "2013-10-12 13:45:32.659441+00", "create_datetime_usertime": "12 Oct 2013 15:45 CEST", "last_file_update_datetime": "2013-10-12 13:25:54.011619+00", "last_file_update_datetime_usertime": "12 Oct 2013 15:25 CEST", "username": "ElfenSciuridae", "user_id": "17077", "user_icon_file_name": "14671_ElfenSciuridae_fern-inkbunny.gif", "user_icon_url_large": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/large/14/14671_ElfenSciuridae_fern-inkbunny.gif", "user_icon_url_medium": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/medium/14/14671_ElfenSciuridae_fern-inkbunny.gif", "user_icon_url_small": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/14/14671_ElfenSciuridae_fern-inkbunny.gif", "file_name": "638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.png", "file_url_full": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/full/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.png", "file_url_screen": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/screen/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.png", "file_url_preview": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.jpg", "thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.jpg", "thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a_noncustom.jpg", "thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a_noncustom.jpg", "thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "120", "thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "60", "thumb_large_noncustom_x": "200", "thumb_large_noncustom_y": "100", "thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "300", "thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "150", "files": [ { "file_id": "638711", "file_name": "638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.png", "file_url_full": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/full/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.png", "file_url_screen": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/screen/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.png", "file_url_preview": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.jpg", "mimetype": "image/png", "submission_id": "491414", "user_id": "17077", "submission_file_order": "0", "full_size_x": "1200", "full_size_y": "600", "screen_size_x": "920", "screen_size_y": "460", "preview_size_x": "300", "preview_size_y": "150", "initial_file_md5": "13e004257f7d8a1544cc11b26dbdff19", "full_file_md5": "4cb767cefe6f5276dc123afe9dfa1bd3", "large_file_md5": "cfa1ac77eef71ec1601611f0a4ebaf9f", "small_file_md5": "2af045998ae64e48a1782da9aefd988a", "thumbnail_md5": "141d56daec64bdea73cb7342067ffc91", "deleted": "f", "create_datetime": "2013-10-12 13:25:54.011619+00", "create_datetime_usertime": "12 Oct 2013 15:25 CEST", "thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a.jpg", "thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a_noncustom.jpg", "thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/638/638711_ElfenSciuridae_cathys_wedding_day_01a_noncustom.jpg", "thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "120", "thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "60", "thumb_large_noncustom_x": "200", "thumb_large_noncustom_y": "100", "thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "300", "thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "150" } ], "pools": [ { "pool_id": "16423", "name": "True Stories", "description": "Things that had happened in my younger life... no matter how strange they were.", "count": "75", "submission_left_submission_id": "460634", "submission_left_file_name": "596874_ElfenSciuridae_kristen.jpg", "submission_left_thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/596/596874_ElfenSciuridae_kristen.jpg", "submission_left_thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/596/596874_ElfenSciuridae_kristen_noncustom.jpg", "submission_left_thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/596/596874_ElfenSciuridae_kristen_noncustom.jpg", "submission_left_thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "80", "submission_left_thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "120", "submission_left_thumb_large_noncustom_x": "133", "submission_left_thumb_large_noncustom_y": "200", "submission_left_thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "200", "submission_left_thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "300", "submission_right_submission_id": "507299", "submission_right_file_name": "660905_ElfenSciuridae_lifeguad_chair.png", "submission_right_thumbnail_url_huge_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/660/660905_ElfenSciuridae_lifeguad_chair.jpg", "submission_right_thumbnail_url_large_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/660/660905_ElfenSciuridae_lifeguad_chair_noncustom.jpg", "submission_right_thumbnail_url_medium_noncustom": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/660/660905_ElfenSciuridae_lifeguad_chair_noncustom.jpg", "submission_right_thumb_medium_noncustom_x": "105", "submission_right_thumb_medium_noncustom_y": "120", "submission_right_thumb_large_noncustom_x": "175", "submission_right_thumb_large_noncustom_y": "200", "submission_right_thumb_huge_noncustom_x": "263", "submission_right_thumb_huge_noncustom_y": "300" } ], "description": "July 4th, 1981\n\nI waited for her an everlasting eternity of two hours. It was 10'clock when her limo stopped by the park's entrance, and she stepped out in her wedding dress, signalling me to come down from my perch in the branches and join her. As I walked down the hill, she climbed back inside her coach and waited for my arrival. With every step I took, my heart started to pound harder inside my chest the closer I got to the car. Not fully realizing it, but when I finally reached the limo's door, I was out of breathe.\n\nThe door seemly opened by itself, as a white gloved hand reached out and pulled me in and forcing me to take a seat in the rear of the car - face first onto Cathy's lap. With the inside lights off, windows tinted dark, and my glasses blocking out most the extraneous light frequencies I'm used to seeing, I couldn't see a thing. The person I landed on, I thought it was Cathy, instead it was her older sister Carol, as another pair of hands helped me off her and pushes me hard against the seat. Between the limo's sudden acceleration, the push to get me against the seat appeared almost super human when it wasn't. Instead the other person who pushed me ended up being on top of me; it was Cathy's other older sister Corin. Cathy was sitting on the seat by the door, giggling at the sight of her sisters getting into inappropriate positions with me on the rear seat.\n\nWe finally all managed to sit down; Carol at my left and Corin at my right, both staring at me like some angry jury who has already decided on my fate. Cathy on the other hand was not so negatively inclined, inching up on her seat to get closer to us.\n\n\"Cathy?” I asked, trying to move up on my seat towards her. Her sisters push me back against the seat again. So I sit back reluctantly, knowing that there isn't much I can do. She silently laugh to herself. She laughs, but tries to keep her composure nonetheless. Then her mood changes to a more serious tone.\n\n\"Look, we'll talk when we get to my place.\" She hesitantly speaks.\n\nI whisper, \"OK.\" in return.\n\nBoth her sisters stare me down from both sides. The ride to Carroll Street was only a few short minutes, but each minute seemed to last an eternity. Eventually the limo does it final turn on Bergen Street and it's decend on Carroll Street to her building, parking in front of it.\n\nThe door opens up and the driver stands outside waiting, Carol starts to step out of the vehicle, Corin starts to follow her. As they both wait for us to step out; I signal to Cathy for her to step out. She takes my hand, and uses to assist herself to get out of the limo. Her sisters help her out further into the outdoor, as I follow behind her. I step out of the car and notices that her two sisters are standing besides me with their arms crossed. Both of them angered and annoyed about something, something involving me.\n\n\"Girls go to the church and stall for as long as you can, call back in about two hours.\" Cathy orders them.\n\n\"You're not coming with us?\" Carol almost says at the top of her lungs. I cover my ears and bend over from the initial pain as my ears start to ring.\n\n\"We're not going unless you come with us!\" Corin looks at Cathy with a fist clenched waiting to slug her.\n\n\"Ok then, wait for me here...\" Cathy says walking away from them into her building, \"but it may take a while...\"\n\n\"A long while...\" Corin says to herself loudly. Barely recovered and finishing rubbing the inside of me ear.\n\nWith a hard push from behind me, Carol yells, \"What the fuck you're waiting for? Go With HER!\" I stumble on my feet, but regain my footing and speed up to catch up to Cathy, who is entering her building. Corin steps into the limo, but waits at the entrance, saying, \"I bet she's going to fuck him.\"\n\nCarol pushes her twin into the limo, \"We both know that - but for how long?\" She says closing the door behind them.\n\nI finally caught up with Cathy as she opened the door of her building, just like she always has for most of her life. But this day was different, that being her wedding day, in her wedding dress, and soon to never return to this life again. People stared but we both ignored them as we waited for the elevator. With the typical crowd waiting, as soon as the elevator arrived, we entered it, but no one followed. I took my usual corner oppsite of the door. She stood in front of the door, besides the control panel.\n\nOnce the elevator started moving, she turned to me and approached me until she was leaning against me. \"Why do you have to be so perfect?\" She whispered to me. Holding back the tears, she wiped her nose with her glove when she could no longer hold back the sniffles. I just stared back into her blueish/grey eyes. The elevator stops on her floor, and she steps away and gets ready to leave. I move behind her, noticing the powder and perfume she's wearing.\n\nShe hurrily walks out to her door and steps inside her house. I slowly walk behind her - so ever cautious and paranoid, closing the door behind me a Cathy enters her room. I back-step into the living room, expecting nobody to be there.\n\n\"Boo,\" She stated silently, though it was not Cathy. Defensive reactions of fight or flight jump into gear, as I have to fight the responses the body makes when adrenaline has flooded the system to maximum levels. I tilt my head back, looking up but with my eyes closed and let out a deep sigh.\n\n\"Juanita - what are you doing here\" I ask silently.\n\n\"I was invited to help out... what are you doing here? You were not invited to the wedding for obvious reasons.\" She says as I can hear her get up and approach me.\n\nOnce I think I have recomposed myself, I turn to look at her, \"And how you know that?\" I see her standing there in the same white bride's maid outfits Cathy's sisters were in.\n\n\"Who do you think did the guest list? Between you, Raul and Randal, I could not let a happy day get ruined.\" She said getting closer for the customary hug we usually give each other. She reached up on her tip toes and gives me a peck on the nose and quickly withdraws. \"Green and purple?\" She asked.\n\nI looked at her confused, \"What?\"\n\n\"You eyes - they're green and purple....\" She continues, \"you're not comfortable being here.\" As she steps away.\n\nCathy returns from her room still in her wedding dress - minus the shoes, crown and veil. \"Juanita, help me out of this.\" As she reaches behind for the dress' zipper. Juanita looks at her with a troubling puzzled look.\n\n\"But, what about the wedding?\" She asks with concern.\n\n\"It will happen - when I am ready... now are you going to help me out of this?\" Cathy returns.\n\n\"Wait a minute!\" I yell back, forgetting that Juanita was still in front of me. She remained silent and motionless, in shock. I take her and hold her, being very apologetic as I can.\n\nCathy looks at me negatively and unapproving. I return the look while holding Juanita. She just stays still like a kitten beinging held tightly against it's little will by it's 6yr. old girlie owner.\n\nCathy crosses her arms and continues with the disapproving stare, \"When are you going to let her breathe?\"\n\nI just look at her dumbfounded, eventually slowly letting Juanita go. Juanita slowly walks away into the living room and sits down on the sofa.\n\n\"Well, arent you going to help me out of this thing?\" Cathy looks at Juanita while still reaching for the zipper.\n\nI go to the far end of the sofa and sit down, letting my head fall back against the chair's back rest and the wall. I think to myself, \"How do I get myself into these fixes.\" Cathy kicks at my foot to get my attention.\n\nI straightened up to look at her, surprised and confused. She takes me by the hand and start pulling me, as she turns to her room. Juanita gets up and takes my other hand and pulls me back to the sofa. Being in the middle, I just stand there, helping Juanita to keep me in place - she is so much weaker than Cathy. Cathy stops pulling and turns around, letting me go and taking Juanita by the hand and pulls her across the room and into her bedroom. The door closes behind them, I stood there looking at the door for a while, finally sitting down on the sofa.\n\nAlmost as immediately I sat down, the girls started to call me in unison. \"Fernando...\" They called almost musically. Knowing better, I remain seated but they continue to call again and again.\n\nThe door opened and Cathy stuck her head out. \"Fernando! Get your ass in this room!\" She yelled in anger, but smiled before she retreated back in. I reluctantly decided to head to the room. Taking my time, I get to the door, which opened with Juanita about to come out and get for summon for me. She stood there for a moment, hesitating, thinking to decide what to do next.\n\nShe reached over and grabbed my hand. Surprizingly she pulled me over into the room and onto the bed. Throwing the door closed to a loud slam, she leaps onto the bed next to me, even though I half landed on Cathy.\n\nCathy laughed as I tried to get up off her, and realizing that she was still in her wedding dress even though it was unzipped. As I tried to get up off her, she grabs me and pulls me onto to her and gives me a passionate kiss. I pull away from her.\n\n\"What's wrong?\" Cathy asks trying to be innoncent as she started to take off her wedding dress with Juanita's help until she was in just her silk underwear that I help buy for her weeks before.\n\n\"Cathy! HOW COULD YOU!!!\" I reply half nervously as Juanita started to take off her wedding dress, “...your wedding, Juanita, THIS!\"\n\n\"You don't love me anymore?\" Cathy sadly continues.\n\n\"I do, but we broke up so you can get married to Randal\" I stated softly, looking away from her and sitting by the edge of the bed.\n\n\"Would you destroy everything I have worked for, my happiness?\" She said crawling on the bed to meet with me. Juanita moves over and sits behind me in just her bra and panties.\n\n\"If you mean - go to the church and steal you away from Randal, no.\" I replied.\n\n\"Why not?\" Cathy asked, trying to get in front of me and look into my eyes.\n\n\"I do not break promises, and I promised you that I would not\" I said.\n\n\"You do that for me?\" She continued.\n\n\"As much as it hurts, as much as I think it is wrong, I made a promise to you.\" I said.\n\n\"Told you.\" Juanita said softly in Cathy's ear.\n\n\"You girls made a bet about me?\" I ask.\n\n\"No!\" They both yelled, as they pulled me down onto the bed and pinning me down. Being too emotionally and physcially tired, I do not resist.\n\n\"Why not?\" Cathy continued while climbing on top on of me, straddling herself on me to make sure I was pinned down. Juanita held my shoulders down while Cathy was climbing on top.\n\n\"HUH?!\" Was the only reply I could think of. Cathy looked into my eyes almost angrily, but more in surprize and uncertainty than anything else.\n\n\"Why not would you steal me away from my wedding?\" Cathy demands for an answer. I just lay there staring back at her.\n\n\"Cathy - isnt his promise enough?\" Juanita asked. Cathy looks up at her, surprized that she would even ask such a question. \"Isn't it?\" She asks again, breaking the silence that started to hang around.\n\nI try to inch myself upward to unhinge Cathy's grasp on me. Instead, I bump my head against Juanita, who was knelt down above my head. She looks down at me when I bumped her and in a single motion, she lifts my head by my hair with one hand and plops me on her lap. I just started back at her, amazed and in pain. She just smiles back.\n\n\"Where are you going?\" Juanita asks.\n\n\"What are the both of you want from me?\" I ask.\n\n\"I just want some answers from you.\" Cathy stated.\n\n\"I made a promise to you, and I shall keep that promise.\" I tell her.\n\n\"Then I need you to keep more promises... and I need to know if you can keep them.\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"Then ask, and I'll see what I can do.\" I replied.\n\n\"You think he is not capable of keeping them?\" Juanita asks.\n\n\"I know is he capable, but to what extremes will he be pushed before he can break them?\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"You don't trust me? Ater all we ben through?\" I ask as I look at the both of them, first at Cathy, then Juanita and back to Cathy.\n\nJuanita reaches into the back of Cathy's bed, and pulls out something that she quickly hands to Cathy and tries to keep me occupied make me not see what was passed to her.\n\n\"What was that?\" I ask of them.\n\n\"What was what?\" Juanita says, trying to play dumb.\n\n\"That thing that you gave Cathy.\" I said.\n\n\"Oh, that?\" Cathy said. \"That would be this...\" She added as she draws a gun to my forehead and places the cold muzzle against my skin.\"\n\n\"That's where it disappeared too.\" I said as I recognize the gun I made in machine shop the year before.\n\n\"You know it's loaded...\" Cathy tells me, as she pulls back on the hammer.\n\n\"Why would you want to kill me?\" I ask.\n\n\"I don't know if I can trust you, Fernando. You love me and I love you, but will that love be the reason why you would break a promise to me?\" She tells me.\n\n\"I would never break a promise to you, not ever, Cathy. Not to you.\" I tried to explain.\n\n\"If I kill you, it's only because I love you.\" Cathy said.\n\n\"I think we better stop before we get carried away.\" Juanita stated.\n\n\"After I kill him, I'm killing you, then I'm killing myself, and they'll find the three of us here when they realize that I'm not going to show up to my own wedding.\" Cathy stated, with a nervous twinge in her voice.\n\nI slowly take take my hand over hers on the gun, but not to make any sudden moves. I feel the edge under the sliding mechanism and feel for the safety - a pin that slides along the width of the mechanism. If it's on the right side, it's armed, if it's on the left side, it's disarmed; pushing the pin from either side determines the state. The pin extended out from the right side, meaning that it's armed. Slowly with my thumb, I pushed the pin back to the left.\n\nI let out a deep sigh and remain silent for a while, still holding onto her hands and the gun.\n\n\"Any promise I make to you, I will keep to my grave.\" I tell her.\n\n\"You promise to not interfere with the wedding?\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"I don't know where the wedding is, so how can I?\" I ask.\n\n\"Cathy - he does not know...\" Juanita stated, \"I made sure of that myself.\"\n\n\"He doesn't?\" Cathy asks, \"But what if he follows us? I need to know...\"\n\n\"Cathy, do you want to get married today?\" I ask her.\n\n\"No...\" Cathy answers, \"but I must.\"\n\n\"Do you want me to stop it?\" I ask.\n\n\"No!\" Juanita shouted. We both stare at her in silence.\n\n\"You want to have sex with him and maybe get pregnant and have his baby, before I kill him?\" Cathy asks Juanita nervously.\n\n\"If having sex with him would save his life - Yes. But you said that after him, you would kill me...\" Juanita started to say.\n\n\"And then I would kill myself, but do you want to die a virgin? Or you want a few minutes with him and know him as I do, enjoy the pleasure that he can give you? As a lover, Jaun, he is like no other I ever had, in a word, he is wonderful...\" Cathy started to slowly rant. The gun in her hands begins to tremble.\n\n\"Cathy...\" I call out her name, \"Cathy...\"\n\nShe looks down at me, scared and worried.\n\n\"Cathy, I love you...\" I tell her.\n\n\"I love you too.\" Cathy replies.\n\n\"You want to give me the gun?\" I ask her.\n\n\"No...\" Cathy says.\n\n\"Why?\" I ask.\n\n\"At what extreme will you break a promise to me?\" She asks.\n\n\"I would never break a promise to you.\" I tell her.\n\n\"Never?\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"Never...\" I tell her, \"And I also promised you that I will continue to be your friend and be there for you when you need somebody, even if your husband to be won't.\"\n\n\"You would?\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"Yeah... now and forever.\" I tell her.\n\n\"Why? Why would you do that for me?\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"Because I love you.\" I answered.\n\n\"I love you too.\" Cathy stated, almost about to cry. But she holds back the tears.\n\n\"Cathy, It's over.\" Juanita stated.\n\n\"You want him?\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"Want Him?\" Juanita asks.\n\n\"To have, to hold, to kiss, to go... and make babies and have a life with him?\" Cathy asks.\n\n\"Yes, but what about you?\" Juanita asks.\n\n\"He'll be there for me, he promised that to me. And you heard him say so.\" Cathy stated.\n\n\"What if I won't let him...\" Juanita said.\n\nCathy suddenly raises the gun off my head and puts it in between Juanita's breasts, at her heart. My hand slips off hers, but I continue to reach and grab hold again.\n\n\"Cathy - don't!\" I shouted out at her.\n\nShe looks down at me for a second, closing her eyes, \"I'm sorry Fernando.\"\n\nI can feel her finger tensing up. The trigger is pulled, the hammer begins to fall, and I pull hard against her arms down to me. The hammer's loud metal clack is heard. We all look at each other for the moment, looking at where the noise came from: above my chest, the gun pointed at my heart.", "description_bbcode_parsed": "July 4th, 1981

I waited for her an everlasting eternity of two hours. It was 10'clock when her limo stopped by the park's entrance, and she stepped out in her wedding dress, signalling me to come down from my perch in the branches and join her. As I walked down the hill, she climbed back inside her coach and waited for my arrival. With every step I took, my heart started to pound harder inside my chest the closer I got to the car. Not fully realizing it, but when I finally reached the limo's door, I was out of breathe.

The door seemly opened by itself, as a white gloved hand reached out and pulled me in and forcing me to take a seat in the rear of the car - face first onto Cathy's lap. With the inside lights off, windows tinted dark, and my glasses blocking out most the extraneous light frequencies I'm used to seeing, I couldn't see a thing. The person I landed on, I thought it was Cathy, instead it was her older sister Carol, as another pair of hands helped me off her and pushes me hard against the seat. Between the limo's sudden acceleration, the push to get me against the seat appeared almost super human when it wasn't. Instead the other person who pushed me ended up being on top of me; it was Cathy's other older sister Corin. Cathy was sitting on the seat by the door, giggling at the sight of her sisters getting into inappropriate positions with me on the rear seat.

We finally all managed to sit down; Carol at my left and Corin at my right, both staring at me like some angry jury who has already decided on my fate. Cathy on the other hand was not so negatively inclined, inching up on her seat to get closer to us.

"Cathy?” I asked, trying to move up on my seat towards her. Her sisters push me back against the seat again. So I sit back reluctantly, knowing that there isn't much I can do. She silently laugh to herself. She laughs, but tries to keep her composure nonetheless. Then her mood changes to a more serious tone.

"Look, we'll talk when we get to my place." She hesitantly speaks.

I whisper, "OK." in return.

Both her sisters stare me down from both sides. The ride to Carroll Street was only a few short minutes, but each minute seemed to last an eternity. Eventually the limo does it final turn on Bergen Street and it's decend on Carroll Street to her building, parking in front of it.

The door opens up and the driver stands outside waiting, Carol starts to step out of the vehicle, Corin starts to follow her. As they both wait for us to step out; I signal to Cathy for her to step out. She takes my hand, and uses to assist herself to get out of the limo. Her sisters help her out further into the outdoor, as I follow behind her. I step out of the car and notices that her two sisters are standing besides me with their arms crossed. Both of them angered and annoyed about something, something involving me.

"Girls go to the church and stall for as long as you can, call back in about two hours." Cathy orders them.

"You're not coming with us?" Carol almost says at the top of her lungs. I cover my ears and bend over from the initial pain as my ears start to ring.

"We're not going unless you come with us!" Corin looks at Cathy with a fist clenched waiting to slug her.

"Ok then, wait for me here..." Cathy says walking away from them into her building, "but it may take a while..."

"A long while..." Corin says to herself loudly. Barely recovered and finishing rubbing the inside of me ear.

With a hard push from behind me, Carol yells, "What the fuck you're waiting for? Go With HER!" I stumble on my feet, but regain my footing and speed up to catch up to Cathy, who is entering her building. Corin steps into the limo, but waits at the entrance, saying, "I bet she's going to fuck him."

Carol pushes her twin into the limo, "We both know that - but for how long?" She says closing the door behind them.

I finally caught up with Cathy as she opened the door of her building, just like she always has for most of her life. But this day was different, that being her wedding day, in her wedding dress, and soon to never return to this life again. People stared but we both ignored them as we waited for the elevator. With the typical crowd waiting, as soon as the elevator arrived, we entered it, but no one followed. I took my usual corner oppsite of the door. She stood in front of the door, besides the control panel.

Once the elevator started moving, she turned to me and approached me until she was leaning against me. "Why do you have to be so perfect?" She whispered to me. Holding back the tears, she wiped her nose with her glove when she could no longer hold back the sniffles. I just stared back into her blueish/grey eyes. The elevator stops on her floor, and she steps away and gets ready to leave. I move behind her, noticing the powder and perfume she's wearing.

She hurrily walks out to her door and steps inside her house. I slowly walk behind her - so ever cautious and paranoid, closing the door behind me a Cathy enters her room. I back-step into the living room, expecting nobody to be there.

"Boo," She stated silently, though it was not Cathy. Defensive reactions of fight or flight jump into gear, as I have to fight the responses the body makes when adrenaline has flooded the system to maximum levels. I tilt my head back, looking up but with my eyes closed and let out a deep sigh.

"Juanita - what are you doing here" I ask silently.

"I was invited to help out... what are you doing here? You were not invited to the wedding for obvious reasons." She says as I can hear her get up and approach me.

Once I think I have recomposed myself, I turn to look at her, "And how you know that?" I see her standing there in the same white bride's maid outfits Cathy's sisters were in.

"Who do you think did the guest list? Between you, Raul and Randal, I could not let a happy day get ruined." She said getting closer for the customary hug we usually give each other. She reached up on her tip toes and gives me a peck on the nose and quickly withdraws. "Green and purple?" She asked.

I looked at her confused, "What?"

"You eyes - they're green and purple...." She continues, "you're not comfortable being here." As she steps away.

Cathy returns from her room still in her wedding dress - minus the shoes, crown and veil. "Juanita, help me out of this." As she reaches behind for the dress' zipper. Juanita looks at her with a troubling puzzled look.

"But, what about the wedding?" She asks with concern.

"It will happen - when I am ready... now are you going to help me out of this?" Cathy returns.

"Wait a minute!" I yell back, forgetting that Juanita was still in front of me. She remained silent and motionless, in shock. I take her and hold her, being very apologetic as I can.

Cathy looks at me negatively and unapproving. I return the look while holding Juanita. She just stays still like a kitten beinging held tightly against it's little will by it's 6yr. old girlie owner.

Cathy crosses her arms and continues with the disapproving stare, "When are you going to let her breathe?"

I just look at her dumbfounded, eventually slowly letting Juanita go. Juanita slowly walks away into the living room and sits down on the sofa.

"Well, arent you going to help me out of this thing?" Cathy looks at Juanita while still reaching for the zipper.

I go to the far end of the sofa and sit down, letting my head fall back against the chair's back rest and the wall. I think to myself, "How do I get myself into these fixes." Cathy kicks at my foot to get my attention.

I straightened up to look at her, surprised and confused. She takes me by the hand and start pulling me, as she turns to her room. Juanita gets up and takes my other hand and pulls me back to the sofa. Being in the middle, I just stand there, helping Juanita to keep me in place - she is so much weaker than Cathy. Cathy stops pulling and turns around, letting me go and taking Juanita by the hand and pulls her across the room and into her bedroom. The door closes behind them, I stood there looking at the door for a while, finally sitting down on the sofa.

Almost as immediately I sat down, the girls started to call me in unison. "Fernando..." They called almost musically. Knowing better, I remain seated but they continue to call again and again.

The door opened and Cathy stuck her head out. "Fernando! Get your ass in this room!" She yelled in anger, but smiled before she retreated back in. I reluctantly decided to head to the room. Taking my time, I get to the door, which opened with Juanita about to come out and get for summon for me. She stood there for a moment, hesitating, thinking to decide what to do next.

She reached over and grabbed my hand. Surprizingly she pulled me over into the room and onto the bed. Throwing the door closed to a loud slam, she leaps onto the bed next to me, even though I half landed on Cathy.

Cathy laughed as I tried to get up off her, and realizing that she was still in her wedding dress even though it was unzipped. As I tried to get up off her, she grabs me and pulls me onto to her and gives me a passionate kiss. I pull away from her.

"What's wrong?" Cathy asks trying to be innoncent as she started to take off her wedding dress with Juanita's help until she was in just her silk underwear that I help buy for her weeks before.

"Cathy! HOW COULD YOU!!!" I reply half nervously as Juanita started to take off her wedding dress, “...your wedding, Juanita, THIS!"

"You don't love me anymore?" Cathy sadly continues.

"I do, but we broke up so you can get married to Randal" I stated softly, looking away from her and sitting by the edge of the bed.

"Would you destroy everything I have worked for, my happiness?" She said crawling on the bed to meet with me. Juanita moves over and sits behind me in just her bra and panties.

"If you mean - go to the church and steal you away from Randal, no." I replied.

"Why not?" Cathy asked, trying to get in front of me and look into my eyes.

"I do not break promises, and I promised you that I would not" I said.

"You do that for me?" She continued.

"As much as it hurts, as much as I think it is wrong, I made a promise to you." I said.

"Told you." Juanita said softly in Cathy's ear.

"You girls made a bet about me?" I ask.

"No!" They both yelled, as they pulled me down onto the bed and pinning me down. Being too emotionally and physcially tired, I do not resist.

"Why not?" Cathy continued while climbing on top on of me, straddling herself on me to make sure I was pinned down. Juanita held my shoulders down while Cathy was climbing on top.

"HUH?!" Was the only reply I could think of. Cathy looked into my eyes almost angrily, but more in surprize and uncertainty than anything else.

"Why not would you steal me away from my wedding?" Cathy demands for an answer. I just lay there staring back at her.

"Cathy - isnt his promise enough?" Juanita asked. Cathy looks up at her, surprized that she would even ask such a question. "Isn't it?" She asks again, breaking the silence that started to hang around.

I try to inch myself upward to unhinge Cathy's grasp on me. Instead, I bump my head against Juanita, who was knelt down above my head. She looks down at me when I bumped her and in a single motion, she lifts my head by my hair with one hand and plops me on her lap. I just started back at her, amazed and in pain. She just smiles back.

"Where are you going?" Juanita asks.

"What are the both of you want from me?" I ask.

"I just want some answers from you." Cathy stated.

"I made a promise to you, and I shall keep that promise." I tell her.

"Then I need you to keep more promises... and I need to know if you can keep them." Cathy asks.

"Then ask, and I'll see what I can do." I replied.

"You think he is not capable of keeping them?" Juanita asks.

"I know is he capable, but to what extremes will he be pushed before he can break them?" Cathy asks.

"You don't trust me? Ater all we ben through?" I ask as I look at the both of them, first at Cathy, then Juanita and back to Cathy.

Juanita reaches into the back of Cathy's bed, and pulls out something that she quickly hands to Cathy and tries to keep me occupied make me not see what was passed to her.

"What was that?" I ask of them.

"What was what?" Juanita says, trying to play dumb.

"That thing that you gave Cathy." I said.

"Oh, that?" Cathy said. "That would be this..." She added as she draws a gun to my forehead and places the cold muzzle against my skin."

"That's where it disappeared too." I said as I recognize the gun I made in machine shop the year before.

"You know it's loaded..." Cathy tells me, as she pulls back on the hammer.

"Why would you want to kill me?" I ask.

"I don't know if I can trust you, Fernando. You love me and I love you, but will that love be the reason why you would break a promise to me?" She tells me.

"I would never break a promise to you, not ever, Cathy. Not to you." I tried to explain.

"If I kill you, it's only because I love you." Cathy said.

"I think we better stop before we get carried away." Juanita stated.

"After I kill him, I'm killing you, then I'm killing myself, and they'll find the three of us here when they realize that I'm not going to show up to my own wedding." Cathy stated, with a nervous twinge in her voice.

I slowly take take my hand over hers on the gun, but not to make any sudden moves. I feel the edge under the sliding mechanism and feel for the safety - a pin that slides along the width of the mechanism. If it's on the right side, it's armed, if it's on the left side, it's disarmed; pushing the pin from either side determines the state. The pin extended out from the right side, meaning that it's armed. Slowly with my thumb, I pushed the pin back to the left.

I let out a deep sigh and remain silent for a while, still holding onto her hands and the gun.

"Any promise I make to you, I will keep to my grave." I tell her.

"You promise to not interfere with the wedding?" Cathy asks.

"I don't know where the wedding is, so how can I?" I ask.

"Cathy - he does not know..." Juanita stated, "I made sure of that myself."

"He doesn't?" Cathy asks, "But what if he follows us? I need to know..."

"Cathy, do you want to get married today?" I ask her.

"No..." Cathy answers, "but I must."

"Do you want me to stop it?" I ask.

"No!" Juanita shouted. We both stare at her in silence.

"You want to have sex with him and maybe get pregnant and have his baby, before I kill him?" Cathy asks Juanita nervously.

"If having sex with him would save his life - Yes. But you said that after him, you would kill me..." Juanita started to say.

"And then I would kill myself, but do you want to die a virgin? Or you want a few minutes with him and know him as I do, enjoy the pleasure that he can give you? As a lover, Jaun, he is like no other I ever had, in a word, he is wonderful..." Cathy started to slowly rant. The gun in her hands begins to tremble.

"Cathy..." I call out her name, "Cathy..."

She looks down at me, scared and worried.

"Cathy, I love you..." I tell her.

"I love you too." Cathy replies.

"You want to give me the gun?" I ask her.

"No..." Cathy says.

"Why?" I ask.

"At what extreme will you break a promise to me?" She asks.

"I would never break a promise to you." I tell her.

"Never?" Cathy asks.

"Never..." I tell her, "And I also promised you that I will continue to be your friend and be there for you when you need somebody, even if your husband to be won't."

"You would?" Cathy asks.

"Yeah... now and forever." I tell her.

"Why? Why would you do that for me?" Cathy asks.

"Because I love you." I answered.

"I love you too." Cathy stated, almost about to cry. But she holds back the tears.

"Cathy, It's over." Juanita stated.

"You want him?" Cathy asks.

"Want Him?" Juanita asks.

"To have, to hold, to kiss, to go... and make babies and have a life with him?" Cathy asks.

"Yes, but what about you?" Juanita asks.

"He'll be there for me, he promised that to me. And you heard him say so." Cathy stated.

"What if I won't let him..." Juanita said.

Cathy suddenly raises the gun off my head and puts it in between Juanita's breasts, at her heart. My hand slips off hers, but I continue to reach and grab hold again.

"Cathy - don't!" I shouted out at her.

She looks down at me for a second, closing her eyes, "I'm sorry Fernando."

I can feel her finger tensing up. The trigger is pulled, the hammer begins to fall, and I pull hard against her arms down to me. The hammer's loud metal clack is heard. We all look at each other for the moment, looking at where the noise came from: above my chest, the gun pointed at my heart.", "writing": "", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "", "pools_count": 1, "title": "Cathy's Wedding Day, Part 01", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "image/png", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "1", "rating_name": "Mature", "ratings": [ { "content_tag_id": "2", "name": "Nudity", "description": "Nonsexual nudity exposing breasts or genitals (must not show arousal)", "rating_id": "1" }, { "content_tag_id": "3", "name": "Violence", "description": "Mild violence", "rating_id": "1" } ], "submission_type_id": "1", "type_name": "Picture/Pinup", "guest_block": "t", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "9", "views": "169" }