17 hours until one of the biggest days of Aaron and Aphmau's lives. They were beyond excited for tonight and ready for tomorrow.

Aaron brings down his and one of Aphmau's suitcases from upstairs and sets them near the door. "I can't believe I won't see you until tomorrow afternoon."

"I know! This is the last time I get to call you my fiance."

"I'll live. Because after tomorrow, I get to call you my wife."

"And I'll get to call you my husband." He pulls her closer by grabbing her waist.

"I'll get to wake up next to you for the rest of my life."

"We'll become that fun young married couple."

"This body will be all mine." He flirts while his hands travel down to her hips. 

"I don't mind that at all." She places her hands on his arms. "But the girls are waiting for me. I better get going before they kill the bride."

"We certainly wouldn't want that. The dudes are waiting for me back at Adrian and Stephanie's apartment anyway." He leans in to kiss her but she backs away.

"These lips are for my husband."

"You are so mean." Aaron pouts and Aphmau giggles and kisses his cheek,

"You can have a lifetime of kisses after I say I do at the altar." She takes her hands off of him and grabs her suitcase and duffel bag. "I love you, future husband."

"I love you, future wife."

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An hour into the hotel room and it's already filled with laughter, opened suitcases and champagne glasses and bottles. The girls decided to keep it calm so the bride isn't hungover by the next morning, so they decided to have a slumber party like they had years ago.

Some sat on the floor on a blanket while others sat on the couch. "Okay okay," Melissa laughs while she takes a sip of champagne, "Have you and Aaron had sex before? Like, real sex and not almost there sex. If yes, how recently?"

"Melissa, that's embarrassing!"

"Not as much for me! I just asked my future sister-in-law if she's had sex with my younger brother."

"Well, if you must know, we have a few times." She answers, "Last time was last night." The girls cheer and Melissa gasps, 

"Who encouraged it?"

"Okay!" Aphmau nervously laughs, "I think we should move on to games or gifts or something that isn't about my sex life."

"You're right, I've been dying for you to open mine." Lucinda stands up and grabs her gift from her suitcase. She hands Aphmau a light pink bag that says "I do"  with pink paper spilling out of it, "This is from me and Nana."

Aphmau takes it and starts taking over the paper and the gift, "I'm not even remotely surprised." She sighs, "Lingerie? Really?"

"It's red and you said red was his favorite color, right?" Nana defends, "And we thought you were a virgin so we kinda got you a conversation starter."

"Well, it is pretty. I'll think about using it. Thank you girls." Lucinda nods and Nana picks up her champagne glass. 

"Okay okay my turn!" Stephanie gives her a square box wrapped in purple wrapping paper with a gold bow in the middle, "Adrian did help me a bit with picking this out for you." Aphmau tears out the paper and takes it off.

"Oh my Irene." Aphmau says. Stephanie got Aphmau a white robe that had the letters "ACL" printed in the top right hand corner with a white matching pajamas set, white shorts and a white long sleeve cotton button up shirt with the same letter printed on it. "It's so pretty! Thank you." Aphmau hugs Stephanie.

"Just saying, the bride should be comfortable. Happy wife, happy life." The girls laugh at the joke. Next was Melissa's gift.

"You'll thank me later." She winks as she passes Aphmau a bright yellow bag with white paper inside. She looks inside before pulling it out, "You did not." She pulls out a garter.

"I'm not going to lie, I thought you were a virgin too." She shrugs, "I mean, I kinda wanna see him pull it off."

"Mel, oh my Irene!" Aphmau puts her head in her knees, "Happy place happy place happy place."

"You know what, let's take a break." Katelyn grabs the room phone, "I'm calling room service."

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The guys decided it was a good idea to take Aaron to a strip club, but Aaron, Travis and Adrian were the only ones not enjoying themselves. "Was this your idea?" Adrian asks.

"Hell no. This definitely isn't my scene."

"I'm a married man, Katelyn can't know I was here or I'll never hear the end of it." Travis chugs down the rest of the beer he had in his cup. They watched the others enjoy themselves, some dancing with strippers. And by some, that means Garroth. Blaze, Dante, and Laurence were watching the strip show and throwing dollars to the woman.

"I never liked strippers, even before I met Aphmau. I'm certain not about to start now." 

"At least I know you're faithful." Adrian comments, "But come on, it's your last night of freedom. You could be out there, letting a stripper grind on you, I won't say anything to Aphmau."

"Aphmau is the only girl I let dance on me."

"My sister grinds on you?"

"What? No," Aaron says. "I'm just saying. I don't want another woman touching all on me the night before my wedding."

"I respect that, dude." Travis says, "If I wasn't married, I'd totally be over there with Garroth. But I love Katelyn and I promise her I wouldn't allow that kind of stuff to happen." A girl started walking over to the men but stands in front of Aaron.

"I can give you a special." She flirts but Aaron shakes his head, 

"No thanks, I'm getting married tomorrow." He declines.

"Oh a bachelor, huh? Then you should definitely let me work my magic." Aaron pulls out his wallet and a ten dollar bill from. He puts his wallet away and gives the lady the bill.

"The man over there looks like he could use one of your special deals. Tell him I paid for it." He waves. She rolls her eyes and walks away.

"What the hell? You just giving out money? How rich are you?" Travis asks.

"Well, she certatin just wanted money."

"Or you, but let's change the subject, shall we?" Adrian sips his whiskey, "Are you ready for tomorrow?"

"100%. I can't wait to call her my wife. I'd marry her tonight if I could."

"And how do you think she feels?"

"Like she's ready to call me her husband."

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It's 3 am and the girls were already asleep. Well, except for one. While the girls were in the room, Aphmau was in the living room on the couch, criss cross applesauce, drinking straight out of a champagne bottle.

"You know, that's not healthy." Aphmau gets scared by the voice that came out of nowhere, "Drinking a whole bottle. You should really use your glass." Melissa passes her glass to Aphmau.

"Thanks." Aphmau takes it from Melissa and pours some champagne into it.

"What's wrong, wifey-to-be? You should be in bed, getting your beauty sleep for tomorrow." Melissa sits down to the couch.

"I can't sleep. I can't get tomorrow off my mind and now there's one question on my mind: Am I doing the right thing? Marrying Aaron?"

"Of course you are. You love him. He loves you. This wedding is meant to take place."

"I don't know if it's pre-wedding jitters or whatever, but it almost feels like a mistake. We were together for almost two years when he proposed. Is that a little too early?"

Melissa tsks and stands up, "I was supposed to give you this tomorrow when you were getting ready to walk down the aisle, but I don't think I can wait much longer." She pulls a gift that's wrapped in white wrapping and a white box in a corner, "This is from Aaron."

Aphmau rips it open and throws the wrapping paper on the floor. She chuckles and looks up at Melissa. "It's a scrapbook." She opens a large book that's purple and red with golden glitter. Engraved in gold writing was "Aaron and Aphmau Lycan". She flips through the pages and it's a timeline of their relationship, along with pictures. 

When she makes it to the back, there's a note Aaron wrote:

Dear Aphmau,

When you see this, you're about to be Mrs. Aphmau Lycan. Or Everton-Lycan. Even Lycan-Everton. Whichever you choose, I just want you to know before you walk down the aisle, I love you so much. These past four years have been stressful, frustrating, beautiful and exciting. I can't believe you're still with my dumbass after everything I put you through.

You are such an strong amazing woman to me. You inspire me to become a better man, you have been for four straight years and I can't thank you enough. I can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together.

I love you, 
~Aaron, your future husband

P.S: I've been learning to make oatmeal cookies, so be prepared for a bake-off after our honeymoon!

"I love this man so much." She reviews over the album.

"So you're gonna marry him tomorrow?" 

"Without a doubt." Aphmau responds. Melissa pours champagne in her glass and holds it up.

"Well, cheers to that." Their glass clank together and they both take a sip together.

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