(A marriage that was never meant to be…)
She tried very hard to change his mind. She presented every argument. After all, they were perfectly happy living their lives like this. What did they need a marriage for? By nature, she was an independent spirit. For as many years as she could remember herself, she liked fun, joy, going out. But not commitments. It was her choice, therefore, not to get married and not to have a child. She wasn’t cut out for such things.
Thus, she had also chosen the frequent—very frequent, to tell the truth—changing of romantic partners. She brooked no nonsense. If something didn’t sit right with her, she wouldn’t hesitate, without discussion, to kick the bucket and spill all the milk. Even if, at times, it was very precious to her.
The best ‘boys’ had passed through her hands. Some of them even had class. And she had enjoyed life with them wildly. But when the moment came that every woman awaits with anxiety, and they unveiled a solitaire diamond ring before her eyes, she would leave them dumbfounded, flatly rejecting their proposal.
This time, however, was different. It wasn’t just that he had fallen in love with her. She had fallen in love with him, too! She didn’t feel a simple interest or curiosity. She was in love with him. Yet, she feared the big step. She knew that her moods and feelings changed easily, just as easily as the weather changes. So, if she took the big step and regretted it afterward, the consequences would be disastrous. Both for her and for him, as she understood how much he loved her.
So, when he started showing her brochures for vacations in dream destinations, trying to guess what her dream for a honeymoon was, she discouraged him.
And when, after all that, she couldn’t avoid the proposal she didn’t even want to think about, she tried with all her might to change his mind. She spoke to him about their bad finances, about the commitment she wasn’t ready to accept, about her parents who disagreed (she was lying about this, but they say the end justifies the means), and about many, many other things.
However, he was adamant. And as much as she insisted on her “no,” he insisted on his “yes.” Until he declared to her unequivocally: “Either we get married and stay together, or we break up. I want you as my wife, to spend our whole lives together and grow old together. And I want to have children with you.”
How much that “spend our whole lives together” terrified her. But the dilemma was great. She neither wanted to marry him nor to lose him. So, she was forced to deploy all of her feminine cunning. “Alright, let’s get married,” she answered him. And from then on, she set out on an unenviable struggle to put obstacles in his way. She staged illnesses, work problems, sicknesses in her family. But he saw through it, and the fights began. He wasn’t a fool, you see. He was in love, for sure, but not a fool.
She managed to buy a little time. But the situation couldn’t go on. So, she was forced to agree to setting a date and a church. And as the days went by, her soul became storm-tossed and her mind grew dark. She was on the edge of a cliff and couldn’t stop the fall that was coming.
The day of the wedding was approaching, and while he was sailing on seas of happiness, she was sinking into despair. She had no way to stop the wedding and, at the same time, keep him in her life. Unable to process her defeat, she began to hate him! But why did everyone want not what she was, but what they themselves wanted her to be? Why did no one accept her as she was, but instead dreamed of her as a devoted wife in a robe with hair curlers on her head? No, she would not allow that! And especially to him, who had forced her to feel this way, she would teach him a good lesson!
Thus, she set in motion a crazy plan that was born in her mind. If, after this, he still wanted to marry her, well then, he was completely out of his mind! The day of the wedding arrived. The previous day, the wedding dress, the wedding favors, and everything else had been delivered to her house. She didn’t deign to give them so much as a glance. And her family looked at her with puzzlement and curiosity. Before it was time for her to put on the wedding dress, she asked her parents to go to the church first and wait for her. It seemed strange to everyone, but because they knew her, they didn’t raise major objections.
And as soon as she was left alone, she went to her closet, moved boxes and bags, searched deep inside, opened a package she had acquired days ago, and began to get ready.
A little while later, she was stepping out of the limousine in front of the church. And everyone was left speechless! If they had seen brides and brides, they had never seen one like this! She brazenly climbed the steps, ignoring the looks full of disapproval and the murmur that erupted, and stood there, proud, chin up. She had made sure to arrive before the groom.
It didn’t take long for him to arrive. And as soon as he got out of the car and saw her, he nearly had a heart attack! But this wasn’t the woman he knew, the woman he had fallen in love with and wanted to marry! A mistake must have been made, they went to the wrong place, to another church, or maybe he was asleep and having a bad dream, a nightmare, to be precise.
And indeed, what he was seeing looked like a nightmare. She was wearing a wedding dress with an abyssal décolletage, so abyssal that her nipples were just barely concealed. On one leg, protruding from a slit in the dress, she wore a white garter with a red rose on top! And in her hand, she held a cigarette in a long holder… And as he got closer to her, he realized that her entire back was exposed…
Stunned, he reached her. “How… how are you like this?” he managed to stammer. Only to receive the staggering reply: “Did you come, my little boy? Come on, let’s put the ring on you, since you want it so much!”
Indeed, he managed to restrain himself with difficulty so as not to hit her. He clenched his fists, took a deep breath, let it out, and hesitantly, he turned his back, got into the car, and left…
Giorgis Taxideutis
