Generation 01, Chapter 06: Mrs. Calista Cohen

The wedding ceremony is set up perfectly.  Each of my beautiful bridesmaids holds a rainbow bouquet and the aisle is covered with delicate purple flowers that release a sweet and refreshing scent into the air.

My heart is pumping and dad squeezes my arm.

"Your mom would be very proud of you.  I'm very proud of you."

"Thanks, dad," I whisper.

My steps falter but dad helps me keep my balance.  I look ahead for the first time and instantly see Adam.  Just the sight of him causes my nerves to calm.  He looks so confident and proper.  His hair is slicked back and his tuxedo is crisp and dark.  His eyes meet mine and a smile breaks out on his lovely face.

The small crowd stands up and turns to face me, but I focus my concentration on my husband-to-be.

Before I realize it, dad is sending me off and I stand in front of Adam.

"Hi," he mouths.

"Hi," I say softly, searching his eyes for that comfort he so often gives me.

The preacher starts speaking but I'm barely listening.  My eyes stay right on Adam's.  As planned, when we get to the vows, the preacher walks away and sits in the crowd.  He will stay there for the rest of the wedding ceremony.

Adam gazes at me intently.  "Calista Katherine Smith," he begins, "the day I first met you was the first day of our marvelous journey.  I crushed hard and none of it was for naught because today I take you to marry."  He pauses.  "You've fulfilled all of my dreams and I know we will continue to make many more.  You're the love of my life and I promise to care, protect, and love you forever."

Tears come to his eyes and to my own.  I wipe my eyes and begin to recite my own vows.

"Adam Carson Cohen, I'll have to admit, I checked you out the first day we met."  The crowd erupts in laughter and I continue.  "You're kind, passionate, and caring.  You're mesmerizing, funny, and romantic.  You're everything in a man and I would not ask for anything more.  I love you so very much and I too promise to care and protect you and most of all, love you forever.  I cannot explain the happiness I am feeling right now and when I'm with you.  I am overjoyed to take you as my husband."

"Do you, Adam Cohen, take Calista Smith to be your wife?"  The preacher asks from his seat.

"I do," Adam says with confidence.

"And do you, Calista Smith, take Adam Cohen to be your husband?"

I expect my voice to waver but it comes out loud and clear.  "I do," I finally pronounce.

"You may now exchange rings."

"I, Adam Cohen, solidify my love and commitment to you, Calista Smith.  And I shall love you, forever and always."  Adam slips the shiny ring onto my finger.

Before replying, I look over at my father.  He looks proud and tears are welling in his eyes.  He smiles at me and I turn back to Adam.

"I, Calista Smith, use this ring as a symbol of my love and commitment.  And I promise to love you forever and always," I repeat as I slip the ring onto Adam's finger.

"And by the power vested in me, I hereby pronounce you husband and wife.  You may now kiss the bride."

Everyone claps as Adam's lips meet mine.  His mouth whispers into my ear, "We did it."

"We did," I reply and I hold him closer.

I hear a wolf whistle, probably Laura, and the ceremony is officially over.  People are gushing and crying tears of happiness.

Adam and I are finally husband and wife.  Today has been a miraculous day.

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It's not over just yet.  The building for our reception is simple and elegant.  I silently thank Destiny and all of my bridesmaids for the work that they put into this wedding.

The dinner goes well and so does the cake cutting.  Adam allows me to cut the cake that we made specifically for the cake cutting portion of the wedding.  Now that I think about it, it was a crazy idea.

Our other cake sits at the buffet table and is purely decoration (although the cake topper on that cake is apparently edible).

Adam makes me giggle as he snatches the cake topper and eats it in less than five bites.

Before the dance, Adam and I attempt to try our best at karaoke.

It fails miserably but we all have a good laugh and everyone seems to have fun dancing and hooting to it.

After that, the crowd disperses and people munch on sweets and mill around chatting.  Most of the crowd dances in the provided space to the soft sweet music.

I find time to look around at my guests.  My father is entertaining my two sisters, Sophie and Lydia, with some sort of comical story.

My sister, Alicia, is getting frustrated chatting with, Dexter Salvan, or as I call him, "the annoying jerk."  I hope he's not attempting to hit on her.

Paisley Parker and my brother Noah are chatting with Kendall, although Kendall doesn't look too happy.  Now that I think about it, he's had quite a mournful face for the entire duration of the wedding.  I hope the conversation is not too awkward for Paisley or Noah considering Kendall's history with me (I didn't want to invite him but I felt bad for not inviting him).  My other brother, Joshua, is talking animatedly on the phone.

"So, would the bride care to dance?"  Adam asks, diverting my attention from the guests.  I look around and see all of the other dancers.

I curtsy and reply, "Of course, handsome."

I take Adam's hand in my outstretched one and he wraps his arm around my waist.  The open back of my dress makes a nice pocket for Adam's hand and I can feel the roughness of his skin against my own.

Our dance starts out slow and Adam's hand slowly lowers to an almost inappropriate position.  Someone wolf whistles.

The music picks up and I swing myself back and forth.  I'm not quite sure what I'm doing but Adam guides me along, our tempo increasing exponentially.

Finally, I grab around his neck and gaze into his eyes, breathing heavily.  We're both oblivious to those around us as our faces come closer.

"You look so beautiful," he finally says.

"You too," I say quickly.  "Today was amazing.  Thank you for making it more perfect than I could ever imagine," I tell him, looking into his shining purple eyes.

He nuzzles his face against mine and replies, "No, thank you for making it more perfect than I could ever imagine, Mrs. Calista Cohen."

Our lips touch briefly and then harder as we come together for a deep and meaningful kiss as husband and wife.

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Bridesmaids (from the left): Laura Johanson, Becks Best, Isabella Austin, Chloe Moreau, Skye Everard, Hadley Reed, Dawn Turner, Paisley Parker, and Destiny Rose

Bride and Groomsman: Simon Simmons and Dexter Salvan

Best Man and Groom: Dexter Salvan and Adam Cohen

Groomsman and his wife: Gabrielle and Simon Simmons

Bride and father of the bride: Calista and James Smith

Bride and brothers (from the left): Joshua Smith, Calista, and Noah Smith

Bride and sisters (from the left): Sophie Lowe, Calista, Alicia Smith, and Lydia Long

Bride and siblings (from the left): Calista, Sophie Lowe, Alicia Smith, Lydia Long, Joshua Smith, and Noah Smith

Bride and guests (from the left): Jayda Moon, Zoe Chomas, Calista, Lindsey Lockhart, and Kendall Johnson

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I

LOVE

YOU.

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NOTE

Thank you so much to those of your who allowed me to have your Sims in my game: Destiny Rose, Skye Everard, Paisley Parker, Chloe Moreau, Becks Best, Hadley Reed, Laura Johanson, Dawn Turner, Izzi Austin, Jayda Moon, and Zoe Chomas (Even though Zoe's Sim was just my interpretation of her description of her simself.  Feel free to let me know if I spelled your name correctly.  I tend to make a lot of mistakes with names and such).

I hope you readers enjoyed the wedding.  As some may know, I had a lot of difficulties with the wedding because a lot of the scenes didn't go the way I had originally planned.  But in the end, I like the result of the wedding.  I think it turned out quite nicely.

Thanks so much for reading and I hope you Cadam fans are satisfied with the relationship between Adam and Calista.  Hehe, now it's time for the honeymoon and then the babies!  I don't know about you but I'm most excited for the kiddos.  I created and posted a preview of possible Cadam children on Facebook and so I know they're going to be gorgeous.  xD

Thanks again!

Generation 01, Chapter 03: Unexpected

It's been a week since the engagement and I've told my siblings as well as my father, all of whom are ecstatic that their youngest sibling/daughter will finally be tying the knot.

I've also moved the cats into Adam's house.  Dream and Chimera don't seem to mind the rambunctious and playful canine but Sunny seems to have no use for the boisterous roommate. Hopefully it's just the stress from the move that's getting at his patience and, once adjusted, he'll like Kadie more.  Or at least tolerate her better.

It is now Wednesday and I'm going to ask Adam what's so important about today's date.  It can't be his proposal and it can't be ring shopping.  As of Sunday, I now sport a gorgeous 18-karat gold ring with a glistening amethyst gem resting within center.  Adam has a a blue band.  We've decided to not follow tradition and are actually wearing our actual wedding rings (we'll just take them off for the ceremony so we can put them back on, silly, I know).  I find Adam downstairs doing pull ups.

"Adam?  What are you doing?  Actually, let me rephrase that.  Why are you doing pull ups?  You don't want to hurt yourself."

Adam doesn't answer and I can see why.  His muscles are straining under the weight of his body and by the looks of the sweat swelling up around his armpits and chest, I can tell he's been at this for quite some time.  Either that or he's unfit, but judging by his muscularity, I think it's the first option.

"I have... to look... good... for the wedding," he finally rasps in between his heavy breaths.  Finally, he collapses and gets down.

"You don't have to look good for the wedding.  Whatever are you talking about?  It's not like you're going to strip in front of the congregation.  I'm the only one who'll see you topless anyway..." I grin.  Fantasies about our much anticipated honeymoon drift around my head.

"But-"

"It's a no.  You're strong enough for me.  And even if you weren't, I'd still love you."  I plant a kiss on his cheek and he picks me up and carries me upstairs.  It feels good just leaning against his body.  "Ugh, sweetie, you're very... wet.  Please put me down."  He obeys and sets me down once we get to the top of the stairs.  I grab his hand as a compromise and we walk to the house together.  "Hey, I forgot to ask you, what's going on later today...?"

Adam tells me that I should go pick up some stuff from my house.

"That's the surprise?"

Adam shrugs sheepishly and I shake my head.  I walk upstairs to change and just for kicks, I put on a nice dress.

"Okay, I'll be back in a few," I tell him.  He kiss me, tells me I look beautiful, and releases my woozy self to the taxi.

It makes me sad, going back to my beautiful blue house.  And the fact that I'm going to be meeting with the renters doesn't help one bit.

I struggle opening the lock but finally get it on the third try.

"God, that's embarrassing," I think aloud.  "I hope no one saw tha-"

"Calista!  You made it!  I can't believe Adam succeeded in getting you here.  And here I was, thinking he didn't have a poker face," Laura admits.

WTF?  I'm speechless.

"Wha... huh?"  I stand there like an idiot, staring at my two bridesmaids.

And then I realize that they must be throwing me a party.  My face instantly brightens and I squeal.

"You didn't?!"

"We did," Destiny grins.

"You girls are so awesome!"

Just then, four of my other bridesmaids march in.

"Dawn Turner, Becks Best, Chloe Moreau, and Isabella Austin," I say their names.  "You girls are awesome!"  They all give me their congratulations and we group hug until Laura ushers us into the living room.

"Time for gift giving!"

We all settle down and I sit on the little blue stool that I sat in when I dyed my hair for the first time.  Destiny, my matron of honor, sits on her own chair.  The rest of the women sit on the couches.

"Ooooooh, open mine last," Laura exclaims excitedly when we've finally settled down.

I give her a strange look.  "Okay...?"

First, I open a collaborated gift given by Dawn, Becks, and Chloe.  It's ginormous and isn't even wrapped.

"Oh my God, that's hilarious!"  I break down laughing.  In front of my are two of the biggest stuffed bears I've ever seen.  One is a blue fairy, which I'm assuming is me, and the other is a purple werewolf, which is probably Adam.  We carry them out to the front entry because they're too big to fit anywhere else.

"Thanks girls!"

Secondly, I open a heavy gift from Destiny, which is also very large.

"Cat food?"  I ask myself.  I guess it makes sense.  I do have a lot of cats....  "Thanks, darling."

I go and set that next to the bears.

Next, I open a smaller gift from Izzi.  The box is labeled fragile so I decided not to open it too quickly. It's a mood lamp.  I turn it on and it emanates a light turning the room a beautiful blue color.

"Wow, that's gorgeous.  Thanks, Iz."

Laura is acting as though she's going to split her pants, or her dress, more like it.

"Okay okay, I'll open your present now," I say as she practically throws her present into my lap.  It's surprisingly small and light.  I unwrap the smaller, thinner box first.  Non-latex condoms.  My cheeks flame with embarrassment.  Unfortunately, it's a little too late to hide the present because everyone has already seen it.

A flood of laughter comes from everyone, and surprisingly, from my own lips.

"I'm almost too scared to open the next gift," I admit humorously.

"I think you'll like it as much as the first one," Laura laughs.

Oh God.

I carefully unwrap the second box....

Take-home pregnancy test.

Actually, I was expecting something worse than this so I wave the box above my head.

"Hallelujah!"  I shout, not mentioning the fact that Adam and I haven't had sex.  We all share a good laugh.  It's a little too early to crack out the champagne so we all chat a bit.  Dawn and Destiny share some lovely stories about their own marriages and the rest of us talk about our funny gift giving moments.  Some are way worse than mine.  Like way worse.

It starts to get dark and we all pile up in the music room (with our champagne) to dance our hearts out.

We dance for a long time and plenty of us get drunk before we've even realized it.  Even when the air starts to get musty and sweaty and smells of alcohol, we keep our dancing up.

Later, Becks, Chloe, Dawn, and I go out to the bubble station that Destiny rented for the night.  It was a good plan on her part because I get even more woozy and very hiccup-y from the thirty minutes of blowing those bubbles.

"They're so beautiful.  I just want to poke them," Dawn slurs.

Chloe gives everyone the fish lips and even tries to kiss Becks.  Becks almost shoves the bubbles tube down her dress and we all giggle incessantly.  I've never been this drunk and this crazy about bubbles.

Becks slumps out of the bubble bar seat and goes over to make more drinks.  Izzi practically crawls out of the dance room and we yell and encourage Becks to make more drinks.

Eventually, everyone filters into the bar area, grabs a drink, and start talking.  Somehow, Laura and Dawn found some pillows and are now hitting each other with the fluff.

"Take that, you bitch," Laura yells and they continue to hit each other until they're hitting each other with invisible objects and the pillows are laying on the floor.

My drunkenness wears off as the night goes on and into the morning.  I begin to notice that my wise and saintly matron of honor has not one drop of alcohol in her system.  I silently praise her for her responsibilities and it's probably good that one of us has a blood alcohol level lower than 0.1.  Destiny shuts down the drink bar and sets out a pitcher of lemonade.  Everyone starts to return to their normal and "mature" selves.

At around 3:30 am, Becks, Dawn, Chloe, and Izzi leave for home.  They thank me a wonderful wedding (although they'll all be there) and thank Laura and Destiny for throwing such an awesome party.  I thank them as well and begin to head out the door.

"Wait!"  Laura commands.  "Your presents aren't all opened."

She gestures to the ground near the cat food and I gasp.

"Oh my gosh, you got me a cat?!"

"Destiny and I did," Laura informs me.

I squeeze my two best friends and then pick up the cat (luckily I've sobered up a bit so it's totally safe for me to handle a live animal) and cuddle with him.

"I'm going to name him Royal.  Royal Smith, welcome to the family," I say to him and he snuggles up against my chest.

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NOTE

Actually, the cat is from a good friend of mine, Salline Trish, so thank you so much, Salline!

Also, thank you to a few of my bridesmaids that were able to come to the party: Destiny Rose, Becks Best, Chloe Moreau, Izzi Austin, Laura Johanson, and Dawn Turner.  I would have have all of the bridesmaids at the party but decided to but I didn't want to have the house so stuffed because that lot is a bit laggy in my game when there are over 8 people in the household.

Also, the lighting looks really weird in the photos because it was a full moon and I didn't realize you could turn the lunar cycle off.  -_-

Thanks for reading!  :)  I hope you have a great day (or night)!