"Mr. & Mrs. John Anderson Sr formally invite you to join us to celebrate the marriage of our son John junior and our future daughter in law Katherine Johnson at St. Johns Church on Saturday Sept 1 followed by a reception at the Plaza Hotel Ballroom on 1000 Main Street" the wedding invitation read.
August 31: Typical family wedding rehearsal.
The bride the groom and priest run through the ceremony and then off to the rehearsal dinner time to meet the family!
.John Junior was a 22-year-old aspiring architect with an internship at one of the most top architect firms in the northwest Turner&Russ. Katie was twenty-four and had just finished nursing school. the world looks so promising to them. John juniors' family were oil fields rich, so money was not a problem, but junior did not want to live off of Daddys name but did quietly accept a monthly "allowance" payment. He was also referred to as "Johnny "by his fiancé Katie or "Junior" to the rest of the family.
They rented out the plaza restaurant for the rehearsal and wedding night literally closing it for them for 2 nights.
Katie's mom Suzanne was also a rich widow because her husband worked a startup tech company but unfortunately died when Katie was young, but they had a very sizeable five million dollars life insurance on Frank Johnson *the deceased* and Suzanne furthermore sold the start up to an LLC making more than twelve million dollars.
Junior and Katie met while in college together. Typical college frat party situation. Katie had given him a lap dance as "entertainment" from her sorority and in a drinking game Junior scored a kiss from her that night. Sparks seemed to fly way too fast.
It was not even their third date, and they were having sex in a supply closet. A month later he started bringing Katie home to family events she really was the perfect social butterfly.
But it was not till Katie introduced him to her mother Suzanne the thought of marriage popped up in his brain.
Suzanne asked him directly "What are your intentions with my daughter?" he said "I want to marry her someday!" he proclaimed.
They rarely fought had so much in common from music to fashion, movies you really could not have asked for a certain pairing.
But that rehearsal dinner is when things started to change.
Katie had sat her mom in her table right across from the Andersons and they were very cordial.
But then John's Sr's elderly mother walked in. Suzanne was stunned.
"Mom, are you ok?" Katie asked her mother.
"I'm fine," Suzanne kept repeating while drinking as much as she could to calm down.
24 years 9 months earlier.
Suzanne and her husband Frank were told they could not have children on their own. They would need to adopt and in Virto was still in clinical trials. Needing something more they decided to adopt.
A powerful woman was looking for a home for her teenage son's girlfriend who was seventeen. Suzanne and Frank met with John senior's mom and arranged the deal.
A baby girl was born, and the mother never got to hold her, but Suzanne was waiting in the next room. The woman was John's seniors mother Barbara.
The rehearsal was also hard for junior's mother Diane to get through. She kept thinking about the daughter she never got to know, and she hated Barbara for bribing her parents to sign away her rights.
September 1, 2008
Suzanne was panicking since last night. "This can't be happening this can't be the family I adopted my daughter from." The thought kept racing through her head like an out-of-control freight train.
Katie was glowing the church was lit up with thousands of flowers as she arrived by limo with her father in tow.
The wedding was going off without a hitch and then Suzanne had enough she had to tell As the I dos were being said Suzanne had enough, she pulled Diane Junior's mother to into the side of the church and demanded they talk claiming it was an emergency.
"This better be good for you to drag me from my own son's wedding." Dianne blasted at Suzanne.
"I don't know how the hell to say this but I'm going to say this. Did you give birth to a daughter 25 years ago?" Suzanne asks.
"How on earth do you know about that?" Dianne asked perplexed.
"I know I must sound completely nuts, but I know John's mom is the woman I arranged Katie's adoption. Katie is your birth daughter John is marrying his biological sister," Suzanne confessed.
"No one outside me and John and our folks ever knew I had a daughter at 17. John does not even know he has a sister. Do you have any clue what this could do to them? THEY ARE ALREADY SEXUALLY ACTIVE. I appreciate you telling me this, but I refuse to embarrass my son on the most important day of his life," Dianne scolds Suzanne.
"I can't keep the truth from her." Suzanne pleaded.
"You listen to me, and you listen good. They did not grow up as siblings they met in college. If they decide on children, we can have a talk with them, but I am not going to ruin sons and ruin my daughter's life at the same time. We will tell them when they get back from their honeymoon." Dianne seems to be a schoolteacher trying to calm an out-of-control child.
"What if she gets pregnant with an incest child?" Suzanne suddenly asked in a semi defeated tone.
"Just stop." Dianne scolds as she walks off to return to the ceremony.
Priest: "I Now Present To You Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson Jr.
"OH MY GOD" Suzanne screams to herself.
