The Stelter City Saga: Ultranatural by Stefany Valentine Ramirez

their
pictures.
    Shortly after the session was over,
Rose had announced that she and her husband were going to change
into their more-than-willing-to-be-drenched-in-alcohol outfits.
Since Ace and Lee didn't have to change, they would head straight
for the reception and the newly-weds would arrive half an hour
later. But it was starting to grow to an hour and there was still
no sign of them.
    For the fourth time one of the
champagne holding Krome members had suggested they call them. But
before any one else could make a rude comment, a light blinked from
atop the elevator indicating that someone was ascending. All around
the crowd grew silent save for a rowdy person shouting, "I thought
you were supposed to be on look out!"
    "We have been watching!" the girl with
an up turned nose and an annoyingly naggy voice objected. She was
standing with a group of her friends not too far away peering down
at the hotel’s entrance. "It's just so cold up here!"
    "Maybe you shouldn't have been wearing
that skank of an outfit, Chelsea." the guy in the crowd yelled
back.
    Chelsea had hollered something vulgar
in response, but all eyes were glued to the tinted elevator as DH's
head first slid into view. He was looking down at his wife probably
mentioning how old fashioned she looked in that velvet and lace
dress of hers.
    Rose wore a 1990's inspired black
velvet gown with a humongous white collar. It was so big, it looked
like a miniature cape as it hung about her shoulders. An equally
enormous creme colored bow sat on the back of her head. The
material looked like something made of half plastic and half silk.
Ace couldn’t help but to snicker at her sight. She looked like she
was about to attend a funeral and go study in a private school all
at the same time.
    DH, on the other hand, actually didn't
look too bad. It was evident that his flavor was in the same era as
his wife's, yet it was just a suit and tie. It was the material
that made it look old. The coat of his outfit looked as if it had
been speckled with random shades of grey and looked wooly- not
smooth and silky like his blue tie and even lighter blue button
up.
    The elevator arrived with a ding now
and the doors slid open. Ace popped off the lid of his champagne
bottle. He was among the first to spray his comrades and joined the
crowd between shouts of, "What took you so long?!" and "We've been
waiting up here all night!"
    By the time Ace had downed the bottle,
he had managed to get half of his shirt soaked and sticky before
wiggling his way out of the crowd and setting the empty bottle in a
trash can. When he looked back, Rose and DH had already made it to
the bright blue pool with the flock of foam- spraying gangsters
surrounding them.
    Rose looked up at DH and wiped away a
clump of alcohol from her eyes. Her scarlet hair clung to her face
with stickiness. She hopped into DH's arms and he cradled her there
like a baby. When the last bottle was used to drench DH's coat, he
leapt into the pool.
    Rose let out a startled shriek before
they both hit the water with an enormous splash. Fortunately, the
hotel managers had kept the pool heated, so it was like jumping
into a large warm bath tub.
    The crowd cheered and slowly began to
fade into the party as DH kissed his bride all the way to the edge
of the pool. Aaron was waiting for them there with a matching pair
of towels. "You done?" he asked over their tangle of lips and wet
limbs.
    "Yes," Rose gasped pulling away and
gazing up at her husband. "For now anyway." she glanced up at Aaron
noticing him for the first time. "Are those for us?" she asked
eyeing the towels in his hands as water clung to her heavily
mascaraed lashes.
    "This is the only present I bought you
so, I hope you like it." replied Aaron.
    "Love it!" DH exclaimed as Aaron
extended a hand to lift Rose out of the water.
    Just then Malachi Sarzanouski rushed by
and shoved the High Krome in the back. With a gigantic splash,
Aaron crumpled into the warm chlorinated water-