When my mother roused me awake at 8 a.m. on the morning of my wedding day, I was still in a drunken stupor. My eyelids felt heavy, as if weighed down with bar bells. My brain was still spinning from my wild evening at Nastytown. My pussy felt wrecked. She was in shambles, not even a reasonable facsimile of a pussy, but more like a pot of steaming, overcooked noodles. With the right sort of nose one could smell the singe of burnt and charred flesh down there. I hadn't washed. I was still dripping with cum--not his, but mine.
My mom had the right sort of nose. She looked at me with a pinched expression.
"Git up, gurl. We gots to be gittin' you off to the hairdresser."
She hustled me into the shower and, when I didn't wash fast enough, she shed her housecoat, hopped into the shower with me and scrubbed me up, paying close attention to my naughty bits.
"I just s'spect you won't want yo' husband smellin' this stankin' coochie of your'n. Chile, I never see the like."
She washed my hair, too, knowing that the hairdresser would wash it again.
"Hair smellin' like a pack o' cigarettes," she grumbled. "And DICK."
I was too fucked out to complain.
"I reckon I'm gon' have to dye this white dress of your'n blue."
"Coffee," I mumbled.
"We ain't got time for all that. You shoulda thought about that last night when you was out fornicatin'. An' lift your leg up so's I can wash yo' nasty doodihole!"
"MAMA!!"
"Don't 'MAMA' me. I thought you was a Christian woman, sellin' all them magazines and them books. Don't you never crack none'a them books in my face never again."
If her goal was to shame me, she was failing miserably. She never paid attention to my religious entreaties, anyway. And I hadn't been fucked like this since that junior year Valentine's Day weekend in my dorm room at Purdue. I was too drunk to be ashamed.
Mama finally got me into some semblance of order and off to the hairdresser. I fell asleep in the chair and stole another three precious hours of slumber. When I awakened I looked like a bride-to-be. My mom smirked and made another crack about dyeing my wedding dress blue. By then my moral compass seemed to be rounding back into form. I couldn't look her in the eye. She noticed, and dialed back her acerbic commentary some. I was her youngest daughter after all. My sister was there, too, and she didn't look too happy at my mom's snide comments.
Shelby said, "Mom, chill. Everybody ties one on now and again. I'm sure Tammy will tell us about it when the time comes. Right now we have to get her into her dress."
My mom grumbled something or other and frowned. Then she shrugged and shook her head.
"C'mon, gurl. Let's go get you married."
We hustled home, where we found my dress and all of my JW bridesmaids waiting. I put on my best "I'm such a good girl" smile and took up the healthful pattern of words familiar to this group of friends. My mom and my sister took up their Janeway family smiles, too. I knew they wouldn't drop hint of my evening in Nastytown, although I also knew they intended to rag me about it until I came clean.
We had a good time getting everyone dressed and primped. Gradually, my drunken torpor faded. It's a good thing I wasn't in charge of the event; my mom was a gracious, if overbearing host. She and Shelby made sure everything came off properly. Even though they weren't baptized Sisters of the faith, they made everyone feel welcome. I overheard my spiritual Sisters making vague overtures about bringing my mom and sister into the Truth. I would have been disappointed if they hadn't.
The wedding was scheduled to start at four p.m. Shelby piled the bridesmaids into several cars and herded them off to the Kingdom Hall. I drove up afterward with my mom and dad. By the time I got there the service had started. Kingdom Halls tend to be plain buildings without basements or backrooms, so I had to make my final adjustments in the library. We had the main edifice closed off so that Donnie wouldn't see me until it was time for my dad and I to walk the aisle.
And then the music started.
I'd chosen a Kingdom Hymn to announce my entrance. When the doors opened I saw Donnie standing with his groomsmen up front. He looked so handsome in his tuxedo. In that moment I knew nothing else but he and I. Though the Kingdom Hall was packed with well-wishers, I was focused on my husband-to-be. My evening in Nastytown was a long forgotten memory.
Brother Bradley Wheeler gave the wedding talk. He made sure to point out the biblical principle of headship. Donnie, as the man, was going to be the head of our family. My job was to trust his judgment and support him through good times and bad, in sickness and health, for richer or poorer.
At the end of the talk, Brother Wheeler directed Donnie to lift my veil and open our marriage with a kiss. In truth, this was our first kiss, as Brother Wheeler proudly noted. Donnie gripped me tightly and kissed me--no tongues. I could tell that he already had an erection.
I was now a married woman, Sister Donnie Samuelson. We turned to the congregation and beamed. Donnie and I started back up the aisle. We started acknowledging our well wishers. We got halfway back up the aisle and....
SONUVAMUTHERFUCKIN'BITCH!!!! IT WAS CHAD FINNERAN!!! HE'D COME TO MY WEDDING!!!
I don't remember anything after that except the vision of my night in Nastytown. I remember nothing of my reception. My sins had come back to haunt me. I tried to smile my way through it, but I really wanted to cry. Why had he come? I kept waiting for him to start screeching out my name like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate.