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Hi!!! This is the SEVENTH installment of WITHIN AMIE
I'm a part time English speaker so naturally, there would be grammar mistakes and confusing sentences here and there LOL so I'm sorry for that.
With love, Jayleen
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Was it a dream? I thought to myself with a little smile of happiness that almost made me dizzy. I opened up my eyes and stared to the ceiling above me. I was slightly aware of Edmund's arm that encircled on my waist, holding me close to his warm toned body. I was beginning to feel the soreness all over my body, it was as if the joints in my bones had misplaced from its socket and rattled under my skin.
"Hey," Edmund whispered to me, a little hint of smile in his voice. I turned my head and looked at him, "It's almost dawn, Amie baby. I have to go soon sadly speaking." He caressed my hair and smiled at me, "I wish I don't have to leave you but I think if I don't, the others might be --," he paused, chuckling as he nuzzled on my neck and then he looked up straight into my silvery-blue eyes, "shocked." He grinned at me.
I knew that he was right. Josephine and perhaps a few more demoness would come knocking on the door about three hours later, just to wake me up and prepare me for our wedding.
A wedding that I didn't orchestra and planned for to be exact, the Elders apparently had thought that we would make an ideal married couple.
And for once, they thought right.
"Yeah," I agreed with him. It wouldn't look nice if they found us naked in bed together. I could imagine the titters and laughter of their gossiping. A girl in bed with her husband-to-be just hours before marriage would provide them the ultimate source of gossip-galore.
Although, I had to say that Josephine might find the discovery a definite turn on.
"I have to admit something though," he said suddenly, his hand circled my skin making me tingled all over. "I did tell the Elders about my desire to marry you and then they told me how perfect it was. How synchronized our minds had become."
I arched my eyebrow at him, sensing a little of devilish planning, "You planned to have this marriage, all along, didn't you?" I accused him in a happy-sort of way.
He laughed, giving me a little kiss on the forehead before getting out from the bed and putting back his clothes on the floor. "Yes but I didn't expect the Elders would set it this week," he bent his head down and kissed the top of my head, "I love you Amie," he continued lovingly. "I'll see you on the altar." He grinned at me, giving me another one last kiss on my lips -- for now anyway.
I watched him went out from my bedroom, giving me a little wave and then closed the door. I looked around in my dark barely-lighted bedroom and then realized at an instant that I didn't have a wedding dress.
Great, what's a demonic bride without a dress?
What a nice sign to a holy matrimony...
But then again, I might be just a little bit pessimistic.
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I was, like my mother would have probably said if she was here, too young to get married. It would have been nice if I had waited till I was in my mid-twenties.
See the life ahead of you, I imagined she would have said that, explore the world! There's more than just Ersta and the mortal dimension!
But Edmund was my world -- the reason of my being. I had realized about it almost a little too late, I had nearly lost him and I didn't want to feel that lost broken feeling again.
Josephine brushed my long auburn hair gently with a comb. I looked at my reflection on the dresser and I noticed she had that naughty smile plastered all over her face. I wanted to ask her about Robert but that smile of hers intrigued my curiousity.
"What?" I asked her, somehow I have a particular idea on why she was smirking.
"Don't act so innocent, Amie, I could hear you guys from all the way to my bedroom!" she grinned at me.
"Oh c'mon! We weren't that loud!" I knew I wasn't! I blushed deeply.
"Ok, ok, you're right, Amie," she grinned at me -- well, at my reflection to be exact, "So I checked your future for last night but don't worry, I didn't pry on today, honest!" she said, promising me. She knew that I didn't like her to check on my future. She could check, I told her, but I warned her to not tell me except it was anything of dire consequences.
My cheeks turned crimson red, "Joey! Did you actually see us -- us -- oh my goodness!" I couldn't bring myself from saying it. I quickly stood up from my seat and covered my burning face with both of my hands.
She quickly shook her head, waving the comb, "No! Hell! I just saw you guys kissed and he, well, carried you to the bed, that's all, and when I saw that, I quickly disconnected myself from the vision," She told me quickly, "Now, please sit down and let me finish preparing you for the wedding." She said, gesturing with the comb on the seat.
"You're going to make the blushing bride blushes even more Josephine," Kara said suddenly with a little giggle as entered my bedroom, bringing a transparent white plastic cloth-hanger. She placed the plastic covered dress on my made bed followed by three more demoness who brought one plastic-protected covered dress each.
"Is -- is that my wedding dress?" I asked Kara who smirked at me.
"Four dresses to be exact," she corrected me, "Josephine checked the future to see which dresses would catch your eye, should you have the need to find a wedding dress so we gathered up four most likely dresses that you would choose," she gestured to the four dresses on my bed, "So, take your pick, we have exactly six hours to make you the most beautiful bride that Ersta had ever seen, well, when it's my turn, I'll top it off," she laughed cheerily, joking at the same time.
"What? Do you think that we would leave the bride without her dress?" Josephine asked me as Kara went to open a make-up case collection and turned me to her.
I was speechless. It didn't feel like I was going to attend my wedding, it was as if this was someone else's wedding and that I was a wedding crasher.
Josephine and Kara went all over me, teasing my hair into a shinny sleek wavy glow, piling it high up into a bun with a few curly tendrils loose. Josephine even managed to put in a pink diamond-speckled hair clips all over the bun, making it looked like little strawberries. Kara had applied natural-looking make-up on me, stating that natural look was the elegant-classic-do, a must, she told me, for every bride regardless their species. There was no need to go heavy.
When it was time to unveil the four dresses which Josephine had foreseen, claiming that I would love, I was already starting to feel nervous and butterfly-effect in the pit of my stomach, reminding me that I hadn't eaten anything.
"We'll get you something to eat before we put you into the dress," Kara said to me, clapping her hands so that the three demonesses took the dress from each of their protective confinement and displayed it to me one by one.
The first dress was white ironically but it was short up to the thigh, it had a plunging v-neckline on the back and although the dress caught my eye, I didn't think that I would want to wear it.
The second dress was long and tight on the hips and sleeveless. It looked like my favourite sheath dress except for its colour. The dress was green like the colour of an apple but lighter and creamier. I would have picked the dress but then again, it reminded me of my sheath dress and I didn't want to wear something usual on my wedding day even if the wedding wasn't planned by me.
At least I could pick the dress so that was a plus.
The third dress was horrendous at first and final glance. It was tight and skimpy. The material was made from lather. I looked at Josephine and she grinned at me, "It's a joke!" she told me. "We picked just three dresses but we added one more just for the laughs!" I stuck my tongue at her but I was grateful that she had picked the perfect last dress for me.
The final and last dress was perfect. It was as if the dress had been tailored just for me. The dress was sleeveless, long and simple. It had gorgeous pearls on the waistline, accentuating the classic beauty of the silky white dress. The dress looked as if it could hug every curve on my body and I instantly fell in love with it.
"Do you like it?" Kara asked me when she saw me touched the silky material of my chosen dress.
I nodded at her, "I love it," I said with great enthusiasm, "Thank you Kara, Joey." I said with full sincerity.
"I'm just glad that Edmund finally decided to settle down, ugh, all of those past years of dating the wrong demonesses!" Kara added with a grin, "I bet you made him a very happy man last night."
I groaned at Josephine, "You told her!" I said, accusing her.
Josephine grinned at me, "Well, we do share the same power!" she stuck her tongue at me but then broke into a smile.
"Well, what do you want to eat?" Kara asked me as I sat down on the dresser's chair.
"I'm kind of craving for corndogs," I told her honestly.
"Dogs? Yuck, you eat dogs while you were in them mortal dimension, Amelee?" Kara was horrified. "Why can't you just eat normal stuff like blood-filled meatloaves, steaks and crunchy bones mozzarella cheesecake?"
"I don't mean real dogs!" I told her, "It's just a name!"
