Page 14 of Fall to Me
She’s so beautiful.
I wish this was real.
It’s not. We agreed. Bingo. Win. Poof. Gone. Poof marriage. Before the real wedding. Our friends’. The real one. Wedding,not friends. Wait. Yes. Friends. They’re real too. Am I real? I am real. Real drunk.
Ha!
I laugh. All three Rivers laugh too.
River. My wife. My fake wife. Fuck it. I don’t care. I’ll take what I can get.
Five minutes.
Forever.
Whatever.
She’s my dream girl. I think I love her.
“I love you,” I blurt.
She giggles. “I love you too.”
“See? I knew it!”
What’d he say? Said to do something.
Oh. Rings. Yes. That!
“Say, I do,” the guy says.
“I do!” I shout.
“I do.” That’s my wife.
Mywife.
Everything’s fuzzy.
“You may kiss your bride,” the guy says.
Alice Cooper? Holy shit, he’s close. Way too close. And scary. Dark. Goth. Looks like him but there’s two. No. Four. Wait. Two again.
He said I can kiss her.
Fuck, yes!
Snapping. Flashing. Cameras? Magic? More snaps. More flashes.
Buzzing? Are those bees?
Water. I hear water.
Fuck! I can’t see for shit.
“Sir, Ma’am, you have to come down from there,” the robot says.
Or is that security?
