Sweet Kisses by Aiden Bates

Author:Aiden Bates [Bates, Aiden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

Part III:

11. Stag Night Delight

Dash can hardly believe he’s about to become a married man, somebody’s husband. He’s an adult, and he has been for quite a while now, that Dash is used to, but to be a real man to somebody else? He can age, but that doesn’t mean he’s grown up in all this time, does it?

But Dash knows this is right, he knew it enough to measure Campbell’s ring finger in his sleep to know what to tell the guy at the jewelry store, and he bought a sheet of velvet to scrunch into his grandmother’s recipe box, he picked a nice restaurant and took Campbell to it after he said yes. Dash thought he’d be proposing over dessert or maybe after driving out to the lakefront, and if the steps were particularly romantic-looking he would propose to Campbell there and take him for a celebratory drink—but he regrets nothing. The goal was to make Campbell say yes and be happy at the same time, and that goal was accomplished. Campbell mooned at him over dinner all evening, and took him to bed all night, and the next day they told Reuben and Saffron the good news, and then those two went into high gear and took over at least half the plans.

“We’re obviously having the wedding at Simmer Down, right?” Reuben asked. “Don’t tell me you have your heart set on some ballroom or mountaintop. That would give me high blood pressure.”

Dash was agreeable to the restaurant as their venue, and so was Campbell, and so Reuben checked that off.

Saffron said she’d handle all the pretty stuff: flowers, invitation design, outfits, agreeable? Everyone said yes to that as well.

The food was an easy one: Campbell’s Canteen would get the ingredients, and Simmer Down would hire some auxiliary staff to cook and serve, and short of spoiled meat or a grease fire, that wouldn’t be any problem at all. Checklists were made and slowly ticked down, and then there was just a matter of the bachelor party. Dash and Campbell weren’t really asked for clearance on any of that—Reuben and Saffron said they knew the grooms better than they knew each other, so they’d be handling the Stag Night.

Dash and Campbell are sleeping at Campbell’s place the night before their party—an all-day affair, on a Saturday. Reuben and Saffron insist that it be as memorable a day as their actual wedding, just three weeks away. Dash doesn’t know how, they certainly never decided officially, but he and Campbell spend most of their night together in Campbell’s tiny one-room garage apartment. Dash’s place is bigger and full of a lot more adult conveniences—newer and more plentiful appliances, better water pressure in the shower, two sinks in the bathroom (one for each of them), and yet still it’s more comfortable here. It’s got more character, Dash thinks; Campbell is all over this place, he clearly surrounds himself with everything he likes and takes comfort from, and that’s a nice place for Dash to spend time since he loves Campbell so much.

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