May 18, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction, Original Short Story

The Wait, or The Tame Elopement
©May 18th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

We waited with drumming hearts.  We were breaking a rule.

“Next!” came a voice from the office.  We entered with our friends, Ajit and Randy.

“Sign here,” said the magistrate.  We signed.  I didn’t remember much else in that bureaucratic blur.

“Have sweets,” he ordered us.  The dingy room burst into applause as we exchanged pedhas.

Later, after a wonderful thali lunch, followed by a happy party at W’s house, I went home.

That was precisely one day short of twenty-eight years ago.

Six months later, we were “officially” married in a Hindu ceremony.

And we began our married life.

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With thanks, as always to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother of the whole Flash Fiction universe (listen, all you other flash fiction writers out there!), and to J. Hardy Carroll for that photograph that makes us all think of waiting spaces.

This is a true story.  Obviously, I’ve left out a LOT of details.  It was a whole lot more confusing and crazy and exhilarating than I could say in a hundred words.

And our 28th Wedding Anniversary is tomorrow!  What a wonderful ride it’s been!

Tags: #Elopement(ofasort), #FridayFictioneers, #Marriage, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt