The next thing I remember is waking up in a soft hotel bed with the sun shining through the white curtains.
I slowly come to my senses and take in the room.
Wait, this is not a normal hotel room, everything is white, there is a huge flower arrangement at the bedside table and I notice that there are rose petals strewn all over the pillow.

I turn around to see a sleeping ginger on the other side of the bed. He looks so cute with his bed slash sex hair. Stop! What am I thinking? I look at myself under the sheets to find I am at least in my underwear.

"Hi Baby," Alan opened his eyes smiling sleepily at me. He pulls me close and gives me a small kiss on the lips.

"Alan, what kind of room is this? What happened last night?" I ask trying not to sound too disturbed.

"Remember when we first met? How I asked you if you would marry me in Vegas? Well, this here-" He sways his arm around "is the honeymoon suite."

Okay I think, maybe there weren't any other rooms available. "So what happened last night?"

With this he takes my hand, holds his own beside it and I can see a golden band on each of our ring fingers. "Last night you became Mrs. Isabelle Ashby."

I jump out of bed "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? Alan are you retarded? We got married last night?" I hold my head because jumping and screaming is not a good idea when you have a massive hangover.

"But how, - I mean why, - " I am so shocked I can't even form a coherent sentence. "Dafuk Alan you dick, I told you to look after me." I punch his arm pretty hard.

"But that's what I did, I did not leave your side once last night." He tries to defend himself.

There is a knock on the door and Austin and Tony walk in, smiling and each holding up two champagne bottles.

"How are our lovebirds?" Austin beams. "We are here to celebrate the coupling of two of my dearest friends"

"YOU!" I shout at them. "Why haven't you stopped me? How could you just watch and do nothing?"

"But-" Tony looks at me hurt. "you told us the whole time that was exactly what you had always wanted".

I sink down onto the bed side and bury my face in my hands. "Oh. My. God. This is a fucking nightmare."

Alan plops back onto his pillow and folds his hands behind his head. "Call me King Of Pranks, guys"

With that Austin and Tony crack up laughing and open the bottles and shake them to give us a champagne shower.

"No way, Alan! You pranked me?" I don't know if I should feel relieved or mad. "How long have you planned this for?"

"I just figured it out last night cause you were so wasted" he sounds awfully pleased with himself.

I jump onto him trying to slap him while he tries to get a hold of my hands. "Fuck you! And fuck you too." I say to the other two.

Tony hands me the half empty bottle and jokes "please don't hit me. I have a very low pain tolerance." I take the bottle and try to kick his leg but he just jumps out of the way.

"You know what Ashby" I take a sip. "I didn't have decent food for days, as compensation you have to take me out to eat, like NOW."

Austin looks at me. " You know Easy you are still only in your underwear."

"Pfft, Bitch, please, as if you have never seen a half naked girl in a hotel room." I snort.

Alan comes up behind me grabbing my waist and planting a kiss on my bare shoulder. "I knew I should have married her for real." Then he slaps my bum. "Get a shower I take y'all out to lunch downtown."

.....

As the fancy diner Alan wants to take us is only a few blocks away, we decide to walk the distance. Alan and Austin walk in front deep in conversation, probably about music.

That leaves Tony and me walking together. He smiles at me and I just take his hand which he answers with a slight squeeze.
We walk in silence until I notice Tony glancing at me. "What?" I ask.

" I couldn't help but notice the scar that runs down your back, is it from the accident you told us about?"

" Oh - ahem- yeah it is" I am startled. I did not expect that. I don't know what to say. I think of the raggedy line that runs down my back from my shoulder blades to my waist, where the rock had cut my skin. "Yeah I know it's ugly I'm sorry."

"Oh my god, no, that's not what I meant" Tony stops, looking at me shocked, then he takes my hand to his lips " no, I still think you're beautiful. It just looks like that hurt a lot."

"Well, yes it did but that was years ago and you forget the pain and the good thing is the scar is on my back so I even forget that it is there or else I would have hid it from you guys."

"You shouldn't have to hide it, no, I'm sorry I even brought up this matter. I'm so stupid sometimes". He mumbles with a sad face.

"It's okay, forget about it. Hey I hope this diner is close, I am so hungry I might have to take a bite out of you if I don't get some food soon." I try to lighten his mood.

"Go ahead, vegetarian." He laughs pulling up his shirt and showing his perfect ribcage. Oh my god, how I would like to take a bite there!

After we sat down at the diner and ordered ridiculous amounts of food and drinks we all just chat and joke while waiting for the meal to arrive.

A familiar figure approaches our table, it's this weird kid Bryan again with mic in hand and camerawoman behind him.

"Yo, guys, what a coincidence, looks like you're having a good time" he greets us with camera already rolling.

"Yeah we're celebrating." Alan blurts out.

"What's the occasion?" Bryan gets interested.

"Come here, baby." He grabs my wrist and pulls me onto his lap where he wraps his arms around me. "Shall we tell them?" I shrug. I don't mind.
Alan looks into the camera."Hi guys, this is Alan Ashby from Of Mice &Men, and this here is the wonderful Mrs. Ashby. He kisses my cheek then pulls me close and we wiggle our hands in front of the camera smiling to show off our rings.

I can see Bryan get all excited. "Whoa this is massive news, Alan. This like comes out of nowhere. How do you think the fans will react?" Now Alan shrugs, clearly he hasn't spent a thought on this but he doesn't seem to care either. "I don't know. Let's see."

I fear he just dropped the bomb.

After lunch the guys want to go on a tour of the attractions but I tell them I'd rather get back to the venue to get some rest because I have to work tonight. So we say our goodbyes and part separate ways.

Notes

Boom ! ;)