Soon, I would find out what he looked like without his ever present slacks. My parents could afford a big church wedding so we got married in the Bapt...st Church on a Saturday in July. It was hot so the air conditioning was a blessed relief! We got many, many presents to help us start off married life without being paupers. They were all deeply appreciated! The reception lasted three hours and we did all the traditional things a couple does like feed each other the first bite of wedding cake.. That said: the individual and specific characters, locations, descriptions, identity manifests, mannerisms, situations, plot elements, etc, ad nauseam: which appear in this story: are (C), (TM), and/or (R) their respective authors.It was a day like any other in the small, self contained, city-state of Blushing. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, it was a balmy 310º Kelvin outside, while within the city, as always, it was 297.6º and the exactly 10,000 inhabitants were going about their routines,. See." To Frank, from Santa," I read aloud as she slid atop my lap, dallying the card before me."Better open it and see what the big guy has to say," she whispered.I took it from her, ripping the seam with my thumbnail. I could see she was anticipating my reaction, that little air of nervousness, the furtive way she buried her nose into my neck. She'd obviously done the card on our computer; there was my wife sitting lotus style in front of the fireplace, an outsized Santa hat creeping down. Were they talking about me? How could they be acting like I was just a guest and I wasnt just locked in a dark basement? See? Shes awake! The loud voice called, and I was instantly terrified. I started to walk towards the front door, but a large figure stepped in front of me, stopping me in my tracks. I looked up to see a familiar face, and I felt somewhat safer. My ex-boyfriends friend Jason was towering down over me. Their other friend Kyle, the softer voice of the two, was standing behind.