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Wedding bells chime merrily.
Everyone is cheering, gleeful laughter and congratulations are shouted and said across the spacious ballroom.
The atmosphere is filled with happiness and positive vibes.
Everyone is happy.
Everyone is excited.
Everyone is gleeful.
Mizi and Sua dance on the floor, swaying in accordance with the music. Their dresses swish around and their faces look at each other in love and happiness of each other.
Hyuna is happily laughing and Dewey and Isaac's horrendous way of flirting each other. They will most likely get married next.
Luka sings with a soft and genuine smile on his face on the stage with harmonious music playing behind him. He sings so beautifully even at the wedding of a man he claims he hates more than the entire universe.
And finally, said man laughs with happiness at being congratulated for his marriage. Ivan looks beautiful in white and interacting with everyone else happily.
Till smiles solemnly at the events happening before his eyes before he went out to get some fresh air before the main event of the wedding.
"Hey lover boy, you need a smoke?" Hyuna waves at Till as she passes him a pack of cigarette and a lighter when he walked past her seat. Arching her back in an inhume way around her chair just to pass him those items.
Till chuckles softly as he accepts the two objects. He nods and walks to the balcony of the ballroom.
Closing the glass windows behind him, Till lights a cigarette and watches the flame burn.
He breathes in as he puts the cigarette in his mouth, the smoke filling his lungs before he breathes out, the smoke now filling and tainting the air around him. It burns, not the cigarette.
The door behind him creaks and Till turns his head quickly, afraid someone had decided to piss him off on this day. Till is very aware that not many people in the ballroom really like him, it's not his fault he was better than them in many aspects.
But it turns out it was just Ivan, on this day he dawns a beautiful white tuxedo, with some fabric attached at his hips making him look as if he were more of a beautiful princess than anything. He wears a veil to cover part of his face but when he walks in to see Till, he lifts the veil off.
"Hey, hey you don't want your future husband to see your face before the event, would you?" Till chuckles.
Ivan truly is beautiful.
"It's alright, it's just the two of us anyways, we're going to be together soon so I want to stay with you as 'this' longer" Ivan says, smiling at Till while showing off his fangs.
Till shakes his head as he takes another smoke to calm his nerves.
Till from "before" would have thought this was Ivan's way of pulling at his strings, but after all these years even though he still feels that there is a distance between him and Ivan, he knows they are really closer now than ever before.
"You look handsome in black clothing as I thought Till." Ivan says, sighing dreamily and staring at Till with soft eyes.
Till was caught off guard, a deep blush on his face after getting the compliment.
"And you look pretty in white as I thought Ivan..." Till mumbles under his breath before puffing out another puff of smoke.
The wedding chimes ring again, the children in the ballroom are most likely playing around with them again.
"Ivan, the event is going to start soon, we should back head in-" Till says, gesturing Ivan to the glass door but was cut off by Ivan landing a small kiss on Till's lips.
Before Ivan could even let go of Till, the grey haired man dived back on to Ivan's lips, consuming the other's lips like a depraved man.
This will be their last moment as 'this'. They would not be able to get back to 'this' relationship ever again after the marriage. Till knows that, so he kisses Ivan with all the love he can. Till felt happy when Ivan kissed him back, his lipstick smearing onto Till's.
Teeth clack and Till knows his lips are bruised, he feels light headed yet still desires to never wants to let go of Ivan. The thought of losing him makes him want to go berserk, makes him want to yearn for Ivan even more.
But in the midst of them kissingm Ivan pushes him away harshly, and Till thought,
"Ah this was it, this was the end of it"
But Ivan kisses him back again with as much fervour as before, quelling Till’s dark thoughts away, like he wants Till back on his lips too.
Till feels like he is on cloud nine. But he knows he will drop down soon, luckily Ivan's veil and back covers what they are doing through the glass door so no one can see what they are both up to.
"Ivan ! Get your ass back here ! Till you too ! This isn't my wedding, I already got it 3 years ago so Ivan you better get back here ! Or I'm taking this whole venue to remarry Sua again !" Muffled shouts from Mizi could be heard through the glass door, and that's when they both let go off each other's tight embrace.
In Ivan’s eyes, all he can see is his reflection, a relfection of a man utterly in love with Ivan.
"Let's go shall we? My shooting stars," Ivan says with a voice filled with innocence while offering his hand out to Till.
Till snorts but accepts the hand offered anyway.
And they both run into the ballroom back again, this time laughing and never letting go.
The cigarette on the floor left behind slowly stops burning, but it's ashes dirty the white balcony floor. Yet, it looks "artistic" in the way the small bud leaves part of it on the clean floor. "Tainting" the floor with parts of itself even when a cigarette stops burning. Even when it burns and taints everything around it, when it stops lighting up, there will still be ashes left to taint a part of the world. A cigarette is selfish in it's ways, dirtying parts that should stay clean.
"Squeeze in a little more everyone !" The photographer shouts after the vows were exchanged and the "bride" and groom are finally officially together.
Till death do they part, and Ivan laughs happily beside the man he is married too, happy he is by the man's embrace.
Till who stands beside Ivan smiles brightly as well, happy seeing Ivan laughing...
Even if it is not because of him.
The Groom tightens his grasp around Ivan's waist as he leans his head onto Ivan's shoulder like an overgrown puppy.
The sight of the man makes Till feel sick.
He wished.
He wished he could turn back time.
And make Ivan be in love with him instead, but he knows that it is only his disgusting wishful desires.
With a smile, a photo is taken. A happy memory taken for everyone.
Even to Till, especially to Till. Because how else should he feel about seeing your one and only friend and the person you love deeply marry someone else?
Yes, Till should be happy.
Because Ivan is, and because Till was never enough to love Ivan, at least now Ivan can be loved by his husband and always will be loved by him. ( And Till )
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Ivan's husband clings onto Ivan the whole time in the ballroom ever since him and Till walked out the balcony, he knows something is up but can't put a finger at it.
He's taller than Ivan by a whole 9 centimeters so he seemed like a big dog on Ivan but everyone had already gotten used to it.
Well it seems that everyone BUT Till, he knows Ivan loved that man and Till seemed to love him back but now he IS married to Ivan, happily in fact !
So he gives a smug smirk at Till when he catches him staring at HIS Ivan.
Like a way to say "Hah, you can't have him".
But instead of getting angry as he thought Till would, the guy only gave a smile that seemed to say, "One day you won't." And goes walking to the buffet spot to get him two drinks.
He comes back and hands one over to Ivan which Ivan willingly accepts happily.
Ivan's husband stares daggers at Till as they both converse. He hates that man with his GUTS !
Ivan on the other hand has no clue of the storm he accidentally brewed up.