Holly looked at herself in the full length mirror one more time and bit her full bottom lip. Her fingers tangled and untangled in front of her, she lifted one hand to play with her red hair that cascaded in gentle ringlets at her bare, freckled shoulders then stopped herself. "Don't be so nervous dear," Her mom said coming up behind her smiling at her daughter in the mirror, "This is your special day." She gave Holly a small hug. Holly smiled back, knowing what her mom was saying was true, this was her wedding day her very own wedding day and she should enjoy it but looking at herself in the mirror, the white dress spotless and sparkling she still felt the butterflies threatening to exploded out of her corseted waist.
"How do I look?" Holly asked again, her voice trembling with nerves.
Tanya sighed loudly, "You look amazing, for the hundredth time," though truth be told Tanya had only said it a handful of times she was getting tired of telling her sister the same thing over and over. She knew Holly looked better than she did in her lemon yellow bridesmaid dress that clashed with her own short cropped red hair and felt a twinge of anger at the colour choice.
"Richard is going to be blown away when he sees you," Joy added as she came out of the hotel room's bathroom smoothing the front of her own bridesmaid dress as she walked over to Tanya sitting on the bed.
Their mom turned and looked at her other two daughters her eyes wet and threatening tears, "You are all so grown up," she said a smile spread across her face. She had been surprised when they had announced twins, even more so when it turned out she was having triplets "Now just to get you two married off," they all laughed at that the stress and tension of the day ebbing slightly. "I'm going downstairs to help get everyone seated I will be back up in an hour or so." She gave Holly one more kiss then speedily left the room tears streaming down her face.
"She'll have you hooked up by the time we cut the cake you know," Tanya said to Joy, "some lovely young man who she doesn't know but liked the look of." Tanya was in the clear, Brian had proposed to her only last month leaving her in the clear Joy was not so lucky.
Joy put her hands on either side of her slender waist, "Well, a one night stand wouldn't hurt at the moment." She looked at herself in the mirror that Holly was still stood in front of and hating the colour yellow as the minutes ticked by the only good thing was the way her long red hair was delicately braided and pinned up. "You know the last time I had sex was almost two months back."
"Poor you," Tanya mocked.
"Poor me indeed, what's wrong with a little cock now and then." Joy replied.
"Excuse me!" Holly said turning around suddenly and looking a little shocked, "This is my wedding day less gutter talk please." Her two sisters 'oohed' together in a high falsetto then laughed like the witches in Macbeth, "anyway it's a big cock you want not a little one," she said feeling a bit naughty saying it dressed in virginal white.
Joy flung herself on the bedstead Tanya moving off it just in time, "Big, little, medium as long as it is one or a close approximation of one I will be happy." She said staring up at the ceiling.
Holly smiled wearily then turned to look at herself in the mirror once more, Tanya could see Holly's brow knitting together, her teeth biting her bottom lip and her hands clasping and unclasping, "You really do need to calm down Hol' you're likely to black out before you get down stairs if you keep this up."
"I'll be fine, just wedding day nerves," if she could have a drink, maybe some Brandy, she thought, perhaps that would help settle my nerves. "I need a drink!" she said out loud.
"I bet we can go one better than that. Give her the present." Joy said, her eyes lighting up as she spoke a cheeky smile forming on her lips. Tanya walked over to the bags they had piled in the corner of the room and started to sift through them before stopping at her own little black suitcase which she unzipped and reached into. Tanya pulled out a small box roughly the size of shoe box wrapped in red paper and a white ribbon. "It's a little something from the two of us." Joy said sitting up on the end of the bed her feet tapping away on the floor with excitement. "Something old, something borrowed and something blue," Tanya and Joy exchanged a look and both laughed.
Holly was not delighted by the laugh her sisters were not unknown to be wicked to Holly. She was the last one out so the youngest always got picked on. "This better not be some sort of joke." Holly said cautiously as Tanya handed her the box before sitting down next to Joy. Holly undid the ribbon on the box, feeling a little bit of weight inside, for the moment her nerves had slipped now all she felt was apprehension. She tore the paper free and was not surprised to see it really was a shoe box, though an old one that suddenly made her blush. She looked at her sitting sisters their faces all big eyes and wide smiles. "Where..." her words trailed off as her eyes were drawn back to the shoe box. She lifted the lid already knowing what she was going to find.
It had been a dare when they were sixteen and bored one Saturday afternoon while in the city centre. They had headed to the markets not really interested in buying anything but it was a bit more fun than the shopping centre. The market stalls were so tightly packed together that you could barely move in a row of three down any aisle, the first time they had been here was as little girls the fascination with the calls, the smells the people had stuck and they came here whenever they could.
Just past the market the town turned to run down, shabby and cheap quickly, here you could find the dodgy pub where you could buy everything from a pint of bitter to the recent cinema blockbuster on a VHS tape. It was also home to the lower budget stores and one sex shop that had stood the test of time. All three girls had grown fascinated by the store as they grew up, the town evolved yet this one store remained the same, they had dared one another since they were twelve to go in but none of them had taken the dare, until today. "Bored," said Tanya, who at sixteen had the longest red hair out of the triplets reaching all the way to her lower back.
They had followed the usual path, down through the market counting how many hands pinched their backsides and seeing who got the most that day. Joy had won hands down as she had actually got one groping hand on her breast as she passed one dishevelled old man. "What do you want to do then?" she asked as they walked aimlessly down the road. They sat down on the usual bench and in unison looked at the plain grimy, white and blue frame work and blacked out windows of the sex shop across the road. "How about you go in there and get a dildo?" Joy said, she had read about a dildo in a magazine she had gotten off one of her friends, it had sounded comical but also quite exciting making Dildo the word of her summer. 'You are such a dildo!' being one particular ribald that their mother had overheard with the resulting grounding lasting a week.
"You go first and I'll follow," Tanya replied, as she always did. Holly sighed and shook her head, "What's your problem?" Tanya asked.
"You are never going to go in there you know?" she responded sitting back on the wooden bench, as she spoke her eyes remained on the sex shops front door, opened but with beads hanging from the frame to the floor. "Not now, not ever because your all talk and no action."
Joy whistled and looked at Holly with a new found respect, Tanya on the other hand was less than impressed, and "You think you are better than me? Braver?" she asked her sister, Holly replied with a shrug, "okay wall flower, I dare you to go in there. You don't even need to buy anything just walk in spend one minute..."
"Three!" Joy added in quickly
Tanya nodded as she continued to speak, "three minutes and walk out, if you're braver than me."