" Love in Peril "

2nd Part

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            They have beautiful being police, they are not less of them the human beings. Certainly they accomplish their mission, but a friendly gesture of recognition from time to time, reward them of the usual contempt of which they are so often presented. The bursts to laugh, the whims, gush of all sides. The uproar comes back, for the biggest happiness of the bridegrooms that proudly, make their entry in the room of the restaurant. The set of the staff of the establishment, bosses in head, applaud the young spouses before preceding them to reach the room.

            There, a brief instant of deep contemplation united the aid. The forecastings of decoration are passed extensively. It is simply fairy. The posters of Delphine and Laurent, suspended to the ceiling, were not foreseen to the program. Who could therefore have such an idea? The looks of the bridegrooms converge in direction of Patrice that, such a child, pretends to whistle while waddling and casting its eyes toward the ceiling. The couple can progress then in direction of the honor table. While bordering the first arranged of tables, Delphine notices with wonder, every guest's photos in the plate. Small detail of bursary maybe, but that denotes with what love celebrates it has been prepared. It is easier that is true, to recognize its portrait, rather than to look for its name on a bristol board! Bravo, everybody undoubtedly, will remember this wedding a long time.

            The devastating effects of the previous fear, dimmed. The memories of the altercation and the grappling are far. Only now, the happiness to be present prevails. Before getting settled, the bridegrooms come to greet the orchestra and especially the animator who doesn't doubt some, go have a major role to play tonight. Friend of Laurent, this one is informed of what has just happened:

    - I intend on you to erase the traces of the doubt and the fear!&

    - Are You able to make me Laurent confidence!& do I hope that you planned some pampers for your small woman?& Believe me, am I going all to put in Suvre so that these ladies make pee of joy of it!&

            God knows what he reserves! When its friend is in such an euphoric state, Laurent knows it, he is absolutely irresistible. The small wink of eye  between the two men, punctuating the handful of hands, is revealing. Beating iron while it is hot, without losing one instant, the animator starts his show. Presentation of the orchestra above all. History to take the evening in cruise, it declares the open dance:

   - I know that my Laurent friend hates it& all the more reason to ask him to really want to open the dance to the arms of its charming wife!& One applauds them well strong!& Music if he pleases you!& Attention Laurent& Make blunder not to walk on Delphine's dress& It left my kiki!&

            The guests are not yet all installed that already, the bridegrooms whirl in the middle of the track. Joined very quickly by the first couples of dancers, happy of étreiner the polished floor. Station to the falls! It is that announces the animator slyly. Patrice didn't skimp on the layer of paraffin, what promises beautiful slips for the furious phases of rock or other rhythmic dances. In some minutes, almost all the assembly meets on the track. One by one, the animator is going to look for the hesitant people. The shyness is forgotten quickly. To help the most reticent to defeat their fear, it doesn't hesitate to put a bottle of champagne in game:

    - Did You well hear dear friends& do I offer a first bottle of champagne to the couple that will dance the more pain!& too bad for those that dance marvellously!& Then everybody in track& More of hesitation& To whom the first plug?&

              The resonant volume intensifies. The waltzes follow each other, letting place to the tangos and pasos-dobles. The faces blush, the first drops of sweat appear. What allows the orchestra, to the term of this first furious hour quarter, to place a first set of slow numbers. The games of light, the multicolored soap bubbles, the streamers& The ambiance is going up in power. Missing no opportunity to make the clown, the animator undertakes to dance with its microphone& The two guitarists them, cheek against cheek, accentuate the comedy of the situation. As for the singer, it appreciates as it agrees to the caresses of the three choristers! Light sifted, languishing slow number& The first flirtations are being born within this small community, united in the love.

            During this time, the service of the aperitif is raised. All is ready to welcome the guests, as soon as the first pause is announced. It is not all to have fun, again it is necessary to sustain itself to face the continuation! Submissively, each regains its place while letting to the orchestra, the care to come with the beginning of the meal of a soft musical bottom. To several Laurent resumptions its joy demonstrates, while raising the inch in direction of the animator. It is not the only one to be satisfied. Delphine in head, all guests are delighted and happy. The aperitif is symbolic. It amounts to a cut of champagne, accompanied by some appetizers. The musicians are not the last to appreciate the champagne that the waitresses bring them. Small simple gesture, that denotes the respect of the bridegrooms. All the more reason to demolish himself and crescendo, to bring up the volume of the amplifyings. The musical program is foreseen non-stop until two hours in the morning. By experience, the professionals of the stage know it well. In one evening as this one, everybody doesn't eat to the same speed. Permanently, from the beginning to the end of the meal, there are always about ten people that dance. Without counting the youngsters that, is not once custom, have free district tonight! For the biggest pleasure of all, the evening announces itself under the best auspices.

            In the middle of the meal, in manner of " hole Norman ", the animator proposes the first games. The bridegrooms in a first time, are going to submit to the requirements of the first among them the: " It is him or her ":

    - Is It very simple& do I ask a question as for example, what is the one of the two who makes the dish& does Delphine have in its hands two cupboards& On the first he is written " HIM "& On the second, can one read " ME "& Laurent naturally, does have the two same cupboards& In their soul and conscience, they should give their answer& Him and Me at the same time& There& will It be maybe for the intimate part of the game!& who will One know maybe takes the initiatives?& don't Make this Laurent head& one moment of shame it passed quickly!& The goal of the game, being to see if the bridegrooms know themselves really well& is One ready?& did it leave Then!&

            After only about ten questions, everybody is surprised indeed. In good it goes of either! The animator the first is obliged well to admit that the spouses perfectly know well themselves and that in more, they play the game in depth. Without cheating, nor to try to pass the ointment to the conjoined, the answers are authentic and straightforward. What reinforces if need was, in what harmony they evolve daily. This game, under insignificant appearances, is a lot deeper than one can imagine it. Beyond the comic aspect sometimes, notably when the bridegrooms confess at the same time all two to small shortcomings, in the present case, it puts in inscription the complementarity of the couple. So much so that the animator exhausts his questionnaire quickly. Not being to court of imagination, it solicits the contest of the public. With an equal pleasure, the bridegrooms are suitable willingly to the game of the answers. Strength is to note that they are incollables. For not that the game degenerates, the animator puts a term there. Because very sensible, the small roguish questions begin to dawn on the horizon!

            Alternating the phases of games and dance, the animator contributes to create an atmosphere one is not able to more cordial. Of the youngest to the oldest, everybody is on the track. The sets of jokes make place to the mimes& Without forgetting the sacrosanct karaoké, that knows its instants of franc success. No one will die of hunger that is guaranteed! The ducks fly in tight squadron, for the biggest happiness of the guests. What imports that is not the talent, but the spontaneous desire to make itself pleasure and not to take itself seriously. There is nevertheless it is necessary to underline it, one or two young women who make a lot more that a simple benefit! The voice, the rhythm, nothing misses. A pity that there is not an imprésario in the room. The minutes, the hours, pass to a dizzy speed. Not one second of dead time. The room is white-hot. What makes that each is nearly surprised, to hear the animator announced the arrival of the piece gone up! Hey well yes& It is already nearly midnight. What means that soon, the feast will be finished. To benefit this fully of it is not then as much?

            The bridegrooms are beaming. In the room of restaurant, the ambiance is divine. The two families only make one of it. Going from table to table, Delphine and Laurent dedicate to every guest, a same time of presence and affection. Everybody, touched, admires them in secret. Hand in hand, they come to offer in the heat of their looks, the happiness that they taste with pleasure. Kissing by here... Smiles by there... They make the admiration of each. After a short dance, tenderly embraced, they sit down in turns to every table. However, something is being afoot. No one is sucker. In spite of Laurent's discretion, the guests suspect well that in less than one hour, the bridegrooms are going to slip out. The complicity between the couple and one or two near friends are revealing. While conversing with them, they don't stop looking at the guests, as dreading to be sensible. More they try to be discreet, more they are marked. What amuses and moves the guests who follow closely, the evolution of the plot.

            Benefitting of a musical lull, before their departure, the ceremony of the " garter " arrive at the right time to make say nothing about the hasty speculations. The animator asks for the silence:

    - Dear friends& The instant that you wait for all and all arrives finally& do I want to speak of the garter!& If you want to regain your places if it pleases you& After having made work your legs, you are going to can generously, to make work your wrists!& to avoid the cramps, to change you of hands every time that you put down a ticket in one baskets foreseen to this effect!& do I need the reinforcement!& has two or three voluntary people to come to carry the baskets?& You miss, is it kind& You as lady?& But attention& doesn't to Carry the baskets dispense you to put down you your donation also!&

            Quickly, all is put in place. Delphine, perched on a chair put on a table, is placed in the middle of the room. Radiate, she is even more beautiful. The animator approaches of the bride. Discreetly, as the tradition wants it, it asks him to really want to raise his dress:

    - Has the instant that I prefer!& The bridegroom a few less but too bad!& But yes my dear, do raise your beautiful dress& Again& Again& has!& can I fix the sacred ribbon now& did everybody see it?&

            It is important that everybody sees the famous garter well. This one, is put to height of the knee. The amount of the bids is fixed to ten francs. So that all is well clear, the animator specifies that he will go up or will take down the garter, following the proposed bids. More they will be high, more it will move the ring of cloth consequently. If the bid remains to ten francs, it won't displace the garter that of some millimeters. It left:

    - do we open the bids Then& don't you beat especially& The first ten francs on the right& Bravo dear small lady& What?& do You want to make take down the garter already?& For ten bullets is necessary to not to exaggerate!& do I see the gentleman over there, who shows its ardent desire to make bring up it!& Oh!& The beautiful ticket that here is!& Music maestro!&

            Accompagnied by the orchestra, the master of ceremony officie with a real pleasure. It is necessary to admit that the bride is indeed very beautiful. The raised dress, let appear to the loud of its thigh. Curved finely, Delphine's leg is admired by all. There is what to accentuate the effects of the alcohol that, since the beginning of the meal, didn't fail to flow! Among the most admiring spectators, the old are not the last to contemplate without moderation, the beauty of fairy's body. To big strokes of thick tickets, they have the garter brought up. Alas, immediately after, their wives with an even thicker ticket, make take down the ring immediately, at the same time as the dress! The rivalries, friendly nevertheless, sometimes lead to exchanges sinewy between the two camps. Of a table to the other, the guests rush in turns, of the looks and the comical enough invectives:

    - With this that there are in the baskets, there is already what to pay for the aperitifs& provided that the boss makes us gift of the appetizers!& Notice one makes fun some, since that are you that will pay the difference!& does one remove the sea urchins of the purse Then& does One benefit from this to remove the canvases of spider who find themselves of it& does One make blunder of step pinch itself the fingers in closings nevertheless& And does one call these charming damsels generously,& Bravo gentleman& Hundred francs to go up& The garter only one agrees well!& No but that you did imagine?& You are not ashamed ?& But that is a scandal!& A ticket over there& to descend?& Speak stronger I am hard of the leaf!&

            With an incredible dexterity, it succeeds in extracting all pockets, of the more and more thick tickets. Difficult to resist to him. That naturally, roof the bridegrooms of joy. In some small minutes, it has just pulverized the record of the restaurant concerning garter. The precedent had been of twelve thousand francs. There, it has just cleared the rod of the fifteen one thousand! It is not finished far is necessary to himself of it. Every bid is the object of an adequate accompaniment. The clan of those that is delighted to see Delphine's thigh, opposed to the one that wants to preserve its intimacy! The partisans of the " rise " are of as much motivated that with the agreement of the bride and its spouse, the happy winner will come to look for the garter... With its teeth! Without giving the impression of it, the ringleader of the game examines the generous donors attentively. Because, and it is human, the legend wants that the garter is destined to the no one that will have offered the more of money! The fight is rough. The struggle set against between several parents is simply marvelous.

            The good things always having one end, the solemn instant finally arrived. The recipient is marked. It is necessary to make therefore very quickly, not to risk a bid of last minute. It is there, that Laurent appreciates to its just value, the animator's quality. Not only it puts a great ambiance but in more, it looks after the respect of the traditions. Everybody it is certain, sees one of Delphine's uncles, to appear indeed very generous, well. It was to foresee. His uncle, the brother cadet of his deceased mom, had promised to put the thickest sum of money the day of his niece's marriage. Since the beginning of the garter, it didn't stop coming himself to put tickets worth hundred francs in the basket, calm to its niece's feet. It is necessary to say that Delphine looks feature for feature like its mom. Voluntarily, in good professional, the animator is mistaken regularly in the sums that are reached. Of ten one thousand it leaves to nine, go back up to ten, and comes down again to nine one thousand five! Of whims in jokes, it forbids the guests to take their breath. Nothing of as the good mood, to stir the generosity.

            Adds It reaches an extraordinary level. In spite of the misinformations distributed by the animator, each is able to count! In less than one half-hour, the baskets gather more than thirty thousand francs! It is in any case, that to what waits for the bridegrooms that them, are simply purified. They knew that they were liked, but to this point!& Nevertheless, judging that the reached sum is extensively sufficient, they decide to finish some with the garter. How far they could go in this wild ascension? To say truly, they don't want to know it. Delphine acquiesces in this sense. This time, respecting the bridegroom's conventional sign, the ringleader of game is going to put a term to the garter. It announces the next clearing of the finish line. What means that it grants to the stragglers, the possibility to make amends. The two young women are not able to some anymore to run in all senses. A bid or two... Then, fast as the lightning, it confers the garter to the uncle:

   - Three times& Conferred!& Mr. if it pleases you& Want to approach you& Under the cordial applause of this noble and beautiful aid, you are going to be able to recover your good!& Rolling of drum if it pleases you&

            The ambiance is even hotter, since the instant where it undertakes to recover its good. Submitting willingly to the requirements of the tradition, it is therefore with the teeth that it makes take down the precious ribbon along Delphine's leg. The bride is red like a peony! What adds to its beauty, an even more marvelous burst. In the crowd, good number of males intends to come to help it! Quietly, the uncle finally succeeds in extracting the precious ribbon. Delighted, happy, it waves its trophy under the cheerings of the guests. Elegant, it helps Delphine to come down from its perch. Then, with a non hidden emotion, it takes it in its arms and hugs it tenderly. Which of the two is the fondest? Difficult to say in truth. The uncle cries the tears of happiness for its niece that, on its side, let come those of its grief out of not to have its parents in this blessed day. It had appeared strong until there. Alas, in these minutes of an exceptional intensity, the bride's heart turns toward its related deceased. The silence falls on the room. Fortunately, the animator is there to avoid that the feast doesn't turn to the mourning. Quickly, surrounding the shoulders of the bride and its uncle, it undertakes to walk them in periphery of the dance track. Then, arrived once to the orchestra, it proposes the uncle to open the dance while inviting the bride for a furious waltz.

            The dance can take, carrying away the guests in a whirlwind of happiness. Delphine's uncle, the garter surrounded around the skull, finishes the waltz with the bride. The floor is heaped. The couples jostle themselves, the cotillions fly in all senses. A long time ago probably, that the boss of the restaurant had not seen similar ambiance. In spite of some falls, the legs in air, the bursts to laugh don't stop. Especially when the slips are provoked voluntarily! Fond, it doesn't lose some eyes the inside of its restaurant. While seeing the bride's dress, it cannot contain its mad laughter. The laces of the low are black as coal. She is so happy, that she doesn't pretend to raise the legs to dance. It is true that she is cute to crunch! They form a very beautiful couple indeed. It knows the bridegrooms well. Without being however of true friends, they are not less good buddies of it. The staff to the suit, comes to attend this surge of joy of to live .

            The waitresses and the staff's other members, delight themselves in the same way. Of the cook to the diver, while passing by the women of services, the same pleasure reads itself on all faces. Who would get tired of such a spectacle? Where are the two families? Are there some unknown in this ebullient aid? Of the youngest to the most aged, everybody is on the track of dance. The tables are desolate. There is even some that, not to lose one second of track, eat the standing cream-puffs, while moving the buttocks! What is rather positive for the staff who can thus in all quietude, to prepare the continuation of the evening. For a success, this is a masterly of it. Sudden, to the general surprise, Laurent interrupts the orchestra and takes the speech:

    - Reassure yourselves my friends, I would be brief& Merely to tell you that the sum that we have just gathered, thanks to your extreme generosity, will fully be poured to our two venerated grannies& So, according to the calculations of my dulcinée, our adored doyennes will receive each an envelope worth sixteen thousand six hundred francs!& Thank you for the bottom of the heart for your love, that more that money, fill us with happiness!&

            Benefitting  of their last instants of happiness within this teeming community, the spouses appear of a moving kindness. At the same time as an exemplary generosity. The money that they have just harvested to the "garter", is put back officially to equal parts, to the two doyennes of the families. That that very sensible triggers a loud stream of applause and scream of joy. After what, Laurent puts back the microphone between the singer's hands and the feast can take. Hand in hand, with his wife, they head toward the two grannies. During some minutes, these are them that are going to become the heroes of the evening. Kneeling before the grannies, the couple offers them the precious envelopes. This time, the tears flow to stream on all faces! The homage returned to the two forebears is moving. The words are useless, the superfluous gestures. The intensity of the love that reads itself in the eyes is simply divine. Accompanied by a stretching melody, the bridegrooms invite the grannies to make some steps of dance. These instants will be immortal. In spite of their age, fatigue and the noise the doyennes appears especially, at the height.

            One by one, the other couples join the dancers. The languishing slow number that simply unites the lovers of one evening, the future bridegrooms, or the couples, created a real osmosis around the heroes. On all faces, the smiles of joy illuminate the room. One only and same family is born. The teasings about the garter dim, to the profit of an authentic love. Since music offers him the possibility of it, the animator benefits from this to sustain themselves. It finished his benefit and was able to lawfully, to savor the fruit of his work. Rare indeed, are the meals of marriages that generate similar emotional climate. When it is not alas, of the tragic and bloody ends! Of the middle of the track, the bridegrooms in turns, address him the small characteristic hand signal, to mean him that it was terrific!

            To tower of role, the guests come to wish him a good appetite, at the same time as they congratulate it for the quality of its contribution. These are as much as the looks, that reward the animator these gestures, these words and these smiles. The seal only represents the tenth of its satisfaction. On the other hand, to see the totality of the guests present to more of two hours in the morning, it is the proof that no one thinks about leaving; therefore, everybody is happy to be present. The kids the first, usually pest of these hours, appear one is not able to more endearing. The some dance with their " beautiful "& The other help the staff to go against the tables& Some row the papers on the floor& Brief, none of them causes the least hindrance for parents that very sensible, give themselves of it to heart joy to explode themselves! The less that it can say, while delighting itself of this ambiance, it is that the restorer will have difficulty imposing closing!

            Tired, crammed of intoxicating and euphoric moments, Delphine and Laurent decide to leave the restaurant. After one feeling day, full of love and pleasure, they have just closed the ceremonies by this fabulous marriage meal. Gastronomy, ambiance, music and cotillions, nothing missed during all this evening. It would not be necessary many of them, so that they remain here until the end. All guests have fun of good heart. The two grannies in head, the caterpillar who is starting, are not made to erase this newborn nostalgia. Yet, the hour turns. To regret the bridegrooms take the bull certainly, by the horns. It is hard to slip out, when one feels as well! This time yet, the things become clearer. Discreetly, not to stir the set of the guests, the couple greets the family. It is very late and these last are not going to linger to join their penateses. It is therefore with fingering that the bridegrooms take leave of their parents.

            Laurent is very touched. His charming wife the notices very quickly. It would have liked so that its in-laws are here in this exceptional day. Alas, they have been killed a few years ago, in a horrible accident of circulation. Victims of an odious drunkard!... The look that it exchanges with the grandmother is of an incredible intensity. Some tears flow out in silence. All the more reason so that it wanted to appear so generous with regard to Delphine's grandmother, who will have served him of mom since the drama. It is not that it is in the God need thank you. The gesture is merely symbolic. Of as much as he has been decided spontaneously by the bridegrooms. Delphine is at least as generous as her husband. Besides, she adores her grandparents. It is therefore normal, to see it now, to embrace Laurent's grandmother tenderly. Contrary to their desire to want to pass unobserved, the bridegrooms remain petrified while arriving to height of the entry door.

            While the orchestra begins the hymn of the " goodbye " all guests start applauding while looking at them. The watered waterer! They wanted to provoke a cold shower way while slipping out, these are them that at the moment, feel the effects of it. A frozen shower will ever yet, have produced an effect as salvateur. Ever either, similar case of conscience won't have put itself to a couple of newly-weds. Do they have to leave really? All in their look, attest of envies them to remain. Delphine and Laurent look at themselves with to the bottom of the eyes, the same questioning. A few as if an unspeakable strength, summoned them the order not to take the road. A brief return behind some hours, is sufficient to give to this hesitation, a nearly exaggerated size. Is it necessary to take it seriously? Yet, it is necessary to go well there! If it is necessary to stop to simple presentiments, life would not have any sense! Upset, Delphine and Laurent decide to close this friendly ovation, by a languishing to kiss. A to stretch gesture of the hand, underlined by the multiple kiss consignment, they disappear then, in the hallway.

            Indifférents or to the testimonies of recognition and congratulations, emanating the staff in general, the couple isolates itself nearly, in the depths of its meditation. It is not that they are superstitious but nevertheless! The aperitif, the accident and now this desire to remain, are not made to let them insensible. Discreetly all the same, the bridegrooms exchange their point of view. Are they going to modify the court of their destiny? Delphine, sharper concerning faith, explains to her husband that anyway, what must arrive occurs. Today or tomorrow, if The Almighty foresaw to impose them a test, whatever they make, she will take place. Besides, it is exhausted indeed. It longs for to sleep at least one hour or two before the arrival of their friends for roasted it. This day will remain engraved a long time in their memoirs. Useless to tarnish the burst, with hazardous speculations, of it. Delphine is right. Rather than to lose as much precious minutes, in useless endless discussions, to take the bull by the horns. Laurent the first, fate of the establishment, to value the temperature. It immediately comes back close to his wife:

    - It is necessary to cover itself my love... Brrr... A cold weather of duck!...

    - do I intend on you to warm me my treasure?...

            The transition is abrupt between the sweetness and the heat of the inside, and the outside cold. The holdings of the bridegrooms are not suitable it is true, to the rigors of the cold weather of the winter. What allows Laurent to surround his wife of an attention and a marvelous attention. Don't want her to be warmed? What of more natural than to come to embrace it and to kiss it tenderly! The friends show their impatience:

    - will You have the whole time in the chalet the turtledoves!& don't You go nevertheless not to take the risk to entangle your dentures now?&

            The comedy of service, to accentuate the effects better, takes a vase that it embraces and caress languidly:

    - It is beautiful the celibacy& But only when one sees the couples hitting itself/themselves over!& doesn't take cold Especially& OH& My divine princess!&

            Very pathetic, it starts a languishing dance, tightening strong the vase against its heart, its very steady head against the rounded side. While caressing his " imaginary companion " finely, it describes nebulous movements with its eyes. Its mouth, put down loving kisses tirelessly. The benefit is appreciated as it must. The effect wanted being naturally, to loosen the atmosphere. Because it is not sucker. The bridegrooms are not to best of their shape. What allows him, by the slant of this masquerade, to give back them the smile. Having gotten that that it wanted, it puts a term to its small number. It kisses the vase, before putting back it at its place. Then, always as tip by train, readjust its jacket before taking the path of the parking lot:

    - am I going to make heat the coach!& do You have hot clothes in the cloakroom& But& do You have the whole time hey?& mechanics it is not the human body!& is a certain time necessary to make heat it!!!&

            All had been foreseen very fortunately. In the hall of the restaurant, some hotter clothes wait for the couple. It would not be necessary to catch cold now! While Delphine is donned of a shawl and a thick jacket, Laurent takes care to pay the note. It is necessary to say that the boss of the restaurant appeared remarkable. From where his desire to pay it immediately. With his wife, they had agreed thereon. Not question to let parents pay for the totality. They had poured the thirty percent of deposit, it is extensively sufficient. To Laurent and Delphine to balance the addition. The bridegroom trust to sign the first check, in the name of lady and gentleman! The director of the establishment, touched by this delicate attention, appears once besides to the height of its reputation:

    - Hold my friends& That, it is my wife and I& And this, it is on behalf of the whole personal& to thank you for your kindness and this marvelous feast&

            In addition to its personal gift, it offers in the name of all its staff, an immense garnished basket. Bottles of champagne... Foie gras... Salmon... Without forgetting some specialties house, as the rillettes or the terrine of rabbit! This gesture, moves Delphine and her husband considerably. They already liked many this place. They came there regularly since more from five years. It is besides for this reason, that they had chosen it for their marriage. Rather than to get lost in useless words, spontaneously Laurent kisses the boss then the waitresses, imitated by Delphine. This time, the previous worries are forgotten. The gifts of the boss and the staff, are confided to the friends. Golf is not planned to transport packets as voluminous.

            The accomplished formalities, the ultimate recommendations of prudence are transmitted to the last two accomplices of the couple. These are them, with the three other volunteers, who are going to have the heavy responsibility to drive all extra others in the chalet. The road is like that sufficiently dangerous, without adding the risks of a conduct there in state of insobriety. The bridegrooms are reassured quickly. All drivers designated, are perfectly respectful of the security orders. None among them drank the least drop of alcohol. Laurent is relieved. It would be so stupid, to blemish the marriage, by an accident provoked by this artificial curse of the alcohol. It knows of what it speaks!

            Because of a drunkard, its in-laws lost life. No one nearly results from him rigor of its requirements excessive. Himself, didn't drink all in all, that a glass of whisky to the aperitif, a red wine glass to table, and two cuts of champagne. When one wants to be demanding with the other, it is necessary to know how to show the example! The less that one can say, it is that to this level, it is rather blameless. It is not as the politicians! More the deadline of the departure approaches, more the stage fright invades Laurent. Delphine tries to appear less anxious, but its uptight smile translated its heart of hearts well.

            Ultimate embraces, last handfuls of hands between the young people. Without disregarding for as much, a supreme look toward the inside of the restaurant. Small friendly signs of the hand to those and those that, intrigued, wonder what the bridegrooms make again over there well. They left the room for soon one half-hour and they are always to the entry. Besides, clothed as her the East, Delphine risks to die of hot! Happy, happy, the bridegrooms set tenderly. Their smiles are of an extreme sweetness. Some kids sigh, a to offer to kiss... This time, it is necessary to go there. By dint of to delay the deadline of the departure, they are going to end up taking root to the welcome! Clothed warmly, they now face the rigor of this icy night. The contrast is striking. Immediately, the tip of Delphine's nose turns to the red color. Her husband's cheeks are tinted of the same color just as quickly. What is worth sensible well, a few small whims on behalf of the friends who come with them:

    - did I well have told you not to drink& did You see your noses?& should not you take the road in my opinion in this state!& am I going to drive you&

            Fortunately, the first accomplice had the car of the bridegrooms heated. While seeing them on the stairway of the restaurant, it approaches the bridal car. Consistent of a magnificent white plume, provoked by the gases of exhaust to the contact of the cold weather, Golf immobilizes itself before the couple. The driver descends and joins the temporary side of the car. Elegant, it first opens Delphine's door, that it kisses with ardor to the passage. The inside of the auto is heated comfortably. What allows Delphine to remove at least the thick jacket. Otherwise, after one hour of road, it would risk to melt! During this time, its friend with the same emotion, kiss Laurent. The two pals know themselves of long dates. Of the benches of the school while passing by the army, they never got lost of view more than fifteen days. Their friendship is at least as deep as the one that unites Laurent to Patrice. It say if the emotion that invades the cSur of the comedy, is sincere and pure.

            In spite of the cold weather, and of its holding rather light, it tightens Laurent against his heart and surround it with all his affection. So Delphine didn't know the two men, she would have been able to put themselves of the questions! Although to the staying, it has no prejudice towards the homosexuals. However, it prefers to know Laurent attracted by her rather than by the boys. However that may be, after this exchange of tenderness between the two men, the moment of the separation came. It would be nevertheless a pity to take a stroke of cold weather now. It has beautiful strong and resistant being, in shirt sleeves by a temperature of less ten... Above all, it doesn't want to make wait for the bride that, the leaned head, begin to show its impatience. Will he/it resist this call of siren? The eyes fill desire, pussy and roguish, the bride attracts her spouse in its nets. What doesn't escape the accomplice, fond by this mark of interest. It also knows that in some hours, the feast will do begin only. They will have all night long to celebrate the event as it agrees! It is therefore by a straightforward handful of hands, that the friend takes leave of the couple:

    - I am indeed happy for you old brother!& It is idiot but& I am going to be obliged to review my principles on the marriage& You make a couple so harmonious, that I am ready to marry the first that will tell me yes!& After six years of survey of the land nevertheless!&

            Célibataire hardens, after a divorce excessively painful, Laurent's friend doesn't have really desire to get once again the strings around the neck. It say if his compliments are sincere. Him that never knew that the suffering at the time of his marriage, is really moved. The handshake doesn't finish some. However, conscious that the cold weather risks to hurt his friend, the bridegroom gets settled to the wheel:

   - Thank you again& were You really supers, all!& do I intend on you to carry away all gifts?

    - TO your place would I mistrust!& Of times that it takes us the desire to make a picnic on the side of the road while going up to the chalet?& Go& Spin, don't I want anymore to see you!&

            The auto starts slowly. After having greeted of the hand its friend, who goes back very quickly inside the overheated room, Laurent and Delphine look at even some instants the restaurant. Wisely, Laurent stops one instant, to savor these marvelous moments better. Useless to speak. They would probably risk to propel themselves mutually in the meanders of their previous torments. To savor the present, such instant appears to be their resolution. The minds converge definitely, toward the pomp of this noteworthy day. Of the youngest to the oldest of the guests, to the unanimity, everybody has been filled. Without the least exaggeration, nor the least excess, all has been perfected. Touched, the turtledoves kiss tenderly. Mildly then, the car moves away on the parking lot. So Laurent watches in his mirror, its wife puts her head finely, on its husband's shoulder. Of its languishing eyes, escape of the millions of multicolored flashes. Madwoman in love of his spouse, she admires it without getting tired. Laurent, fond by this look full of gentleness and affection, puts down a small kiss on the nose again frozen of its wife. That that very sensible, allows him to add a whim! :

    - I hope that the rest of your body is not as cold!&

    - But my love& You only have to control by yourself!&

            While finishing its sentence, Delphine raises her dress until the hips. The curve of its thighs, the suspender belt& Laurent has difficulty keeping the cold head! Of as much as his right hand, is caressing the passenger's legs. It would not be necessary that this merry-go-round lasts because they are going to end up knocking something. On less than hundred meters, the car made two or three swerves at the very least spectacular. Certainly they roll to weak speed but all the same! After a last kiss, Laurent takes a more decent attitude. To Delphine's big prejudice that, always as teaser, provoke his husband. Since weeks, it dreams to make the love in the car. Why put not its fantasy tonight to execution? Accelerating a trifle the pace, Laurent is sudden intrigued by bizarre noises. His wife on his turn, wonder that that can really provoke similar uproar. Is the auto falling in breakdown? What would be a gift for Delphine! No& Laurent appears to understand what happens. The smile that it displays says some long:

    - I believe to have understood Bibiche&

    - But again?&

    - in a little while on the parking lot& while I greeted Bernard, I am certain that the other hung us a set of kits in the car&

            Difficile to pass unobserved when one drags behind the car, tradition obliges, of the pans, of the canned foods empty, and different utensils of household! Even to reduced speed, the noise resounds in this opaque night. The music of the car radio is there, hardly a few stronger, to cover the hubbub of the containers. So long as no one complains about this noise? On this point, the bridegrooms stay skeptics! With the concert that they generate since the restaurant, even a deaf would have been attracted! It is necessary to put a term there. What obliges Laurent to immobilize its vehicle, out of the view of the possible curious. Courageously, he leaves the car, without even to take the time to thread his jacket. Air is icy.

            The outside thermometer of the restaurant indicated a temperature of less ten degrees! It doesn't matter. Laurent prefers to remove the instruments that at these hours, could really displease to the policemen. Respectful of the environment, he places the utensils in the case. Not question to abandon them on the pavement. His accomplished mission, him réintègre with pleasure, the snug inside of his car. Hardly installed, Delphine benefits from this to rub it tenderly. The thorax, the back, without really forgetting sensible, the stomach and& Ben yes, it holds on to the ideas! Mad - laughter, languishing looks, to offer to kiss, the couple doesn't get tired of these gestures of an infinite sweetness. This time, all is in order. They can finally take the direction of their chalet.

            The streets of the city are desolate. Not a soul that lives. Some noctambulists, try to keep an obvious lucidity somehow. The some cheerful, the revengeful others... The alcohol alas, is not foreign to these flashy demonstrations. What doesn't fail to remind to Laurent, the drama that his in-laws knew. He is very early in this Sunday. The icing covered all vehicles that stake out the course of the bridegrooms. The heart of the lovers him, is burning of desire and passion. Conscious of the risks incurred, in this early hour, Laurent increases in vigilance. To the detour of a street, an intoxicated driver would have made to break the harmony in which the bridegrooms snuggled up again early. Delphine, always languidly supported against her husband's shoulder, begin to give some signs of fatigue. Her pretty small eyes have difficulty remaining open. What causes some characteristic grimaces. Slowly, the car disappears in the night, quitting for some days, the badly illuminated alleys. So much that they were in city, the lovers could exchange to leisure all kisses that they wanted. A few farther, while attacking the sinuous roads, the reason prevails over the passion.

            They take the direction of a small chalet of mountain, placed at their disposal by a couple of industrial. It is here that most courageous of the hosts, will come to dislodge them as the tradition wants it in France. The famous "roasted", mixture of champagne, chocolate cream, and cookies, presented in a chamberpot, is ready. Laurent cannot stop from inventorying the list of everything of which they will have need. Champagne is in a cool place. The cookies... The sweet... Without forgetting the copious garnished basket that they received! Nothing misses to finish this marvelous day. This festive horizon tour finished, Laurent takes a more solemn physiognomy. The features crease on its face. Would he have forgotten a detail? Not the less the world. His mind focuses on the drivers to whom it confided the responsibility of the transportation of the other merrymakers.

            Considering the inherent dangers to the journey, every person responsible of car received for order not to drink anymore that of reason. Laurent the first, followed these instructions scrupulously. He is happy, delighted, even filled, but the clear mind! He is intoxicated... Of love only! So long as the other appear as respectful? Okay, while leaving they were quite goods. Will they be enough serious and responsible, not to forget their promises after the departure of the bridegrooms? He certainly has confidence. Alas, the temptation can sometimes drive the most resistant to excessive gaps. Five cars are going to transport a good twenty individuals. That that redoubt the more Laurent, these are the incoherences of some friends, once under the ascendancy of the alcohol. Even though the driver of the car is perfectly lucid, could he stop one of the his passengers from grabbing the wheel?

            While thinking about it, Laurent reviews with a lot of emotion, the pictures of the drama that he could avoid exactness has one year and half. They had left to make the java outside. Everybody was a little tipsy. To different degrees certainly, but the euphoria was omnipresent. Sudden, whereas the car in which Laurent was started a tight enough turn, one of the passengers threw itself on the driver to kiss it. Immediately, the car made a swerve and took the direction of the ditch. Of one gesture extraordinary reflex, Laurent could have grabbed the wheel, to cut contact and to pull all his strengths on the handbrake. While his buddies exploded to laugh, not understanding what had just happened, he showed with violence his disagreement.

            That naturally, triggered some hostilities in the cockpit. At the end of some minutes, of a rough quarrel, the antagonism dimmed. The minds pacified, calmness could come back. What allowed Laurent to make the point of the situation. To some centimeters, the fall was almost assured. If of adventure he was a candidate to the suicide, it was the moment. If one of the passengers had left by the right door, he would have finished his evening hundred lower meters! There, the lucidity immediately came back, at the same time as the eyes in front of the holes! Bigre. Here is why tonight, while thinking about this troublesome adventure, Laurent worries.

            Not to sink prematurely in the pessimism, he turns toward his wife. A few less resistant physically, she feels more and more difficulties to keep contact with the reality. What drives Laurent to advise him to sleep. They have a good tip of road again to make. According to the hour, the pursuers should start in one hour about. The bridegrooms, take the road therefore with a comfortable advance on the written down people to roasted it. Only, the drivers know where the heroes of the day are. The goal to reach, being to walk the guests almost everywhere in " cherchant  " the bridegrooms, before succeeding instead of final appointment. For that to make, it is indispensable that most guests left the restaurant!

            Since it is at home, that the pursuers are going to stop in priority. While imagining the stages, Laurent sketches a fond smile. In spite of the night, and of the surrounding cold weather, a thin bracing air net penetrates by the window before Laurent. There is a long road again to make. Fatigue, the euphoria, would risk to drag the bridegroom to a legitimate sleepiness well. Two precautions are better than one. He is worth to warn better than to heal. Since the window is open, as much to benefit from this to grill a cigarette. His wife doesn't have more even strength to open the eyes. Submissively, she accepts her husband's offer. In the intense circulation absence, she benefits from this to undo his seat belt, and topple his seat. She is going to lie down a little in spite of the discomfort of the cockpit. His husband will watch over her. Prudent, Laurent activates the bellows of the heating. In such a way that the cold air doesn't come until Delphine.

            Recroquevillée up on herself, the charming wife gives way to the sleep. Some small seconds are sufficient so that she leaves the present. Not to disrupt it, Laurent stops music. He throws a look furtively on his wife. The poor! He wonders how she can manage to sleep in such a position! Such a fStus, the bent knees and the buttocks on the heels, she fell asleep on the side. His left hand serves him of pillow, while the other always rests on his husband's thigh. For nothing on earth, he doesn't want to remove it. Finely, he caresses him hairs, while addressing him a to offer to smile. It is true, he measures the size again now of it more, Delphine is all for him. Without her, he is not anything. This climate of sweetness, beguiling and intoxicating, moves away it momentarily of his previous anguishes. Like what, if he had need of it, the proof is given him of the fundamental role held by his wife.

            The first kilometers take place without clutters. Rocked by the memories of this marvelous day, the happy married lets explode his happiness. Yet, with the passing of the kilometers, his physiognomy alters somewhat. He is incontestable that he is preoccupied again. His looks on his wife make themselves more and more sneaky and discreet. Did he forget something? It is obvious that the memories dim, to the profit of the nocturnal reality. The frilly eyebrows, he fixes intensely beyond the luminous bundle of lights. Some drops of sweat, form on his forehead. The jerky breathing, he appears more and more far. In fact, Laurent is all over again under the influence of his thoughts of in a little while while leaving the restaurant. It relives with a lot of regrets, the altercation to the bar, the accident and especially, the fact to hesitate as they made it before taking the road.

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