As he came off the heels of the third annual Christmas Party that he and Chloe threw for their closest friends and family, he had another big week ahead of him. In just a little over six days, Dominic is to wed the girl of his dreams. Well, not exactly true. The girl of his dreams doesn’t even compare in comparison to his wonderful fiance, Chloe Elizabeth Desireé Jameson. How he got so lucky Dominic would never be able to say.
Here is the guy that was probably the most awkward teenager in Miami Central High School. He stood out like a sore thumb - and not in the good way. He was always picked on by those jocks. He didn’t have many friends while going through those hellish four years. The friends that he did have to help him was his oldest friend, Patricia Webber, though everyone called her Tish. Dominic sure did. He has called her Tish ever since they met when they were still in their awkward, adolescent years.
Dominic had never been able to grasp how he and Tish became friends. He had always been awkward. He was awkward as a kid. And yet, through some stroke of luck and maybe a little hand from something
more, Dominic and Tish formed a bond that would otherwise be deemed impossible. And what’s more, improbable. Still, they proved to have a closer bond than Dominic had with anyone at the time.
Tish wasn’t the only one that Dom had a close bond with. There was his brother, Viktor, too. Despite the growing tensions that had been brewing at home and even to this day, he and Vik had always maintained a closeness that Dominic had always cherished above most things.
This was why Dominic had been experiencing on-and-off paranoia as the plane would arrive in Las Vegas. With all that has happened in his life and all that he tried to get past, there were still things that Dominic struggled with. Even though he’s surrounded by his friends and brother and his beloved’s sister, Dominic couldn’t escape some of his older insecurities. Or maybe it was just the fact that he was several miles high in the sky. Heights never did set well with me. Regardless, Doninic had tried to force that out of his mind while he and his friends enjoyed what time they could with each other on the plane.
There had been several swapping of the seats. Dominic had spent time with just about everyone at some point during the four to five hour flight. When they had arrived at Las Vegas International, they were all smiles. Dominic had his usual peculiar cheek-to-cheek grin, trying to just live for the moment as he and Chloe came out hand in hand, arms locked, and pretty much seeming to be conjoined at the hip.
As they would claim their baggage, their baggage, which took longer than preferred. Apparently eight people going to the same place, travelling together, produced complications, specifically getting their bags in a timely manner. It actually spanned over the course of three hours. Some bags had gotten lost in the mix, so they had to be recovered. But fear not, for the faith in the baggage recovery system of the Las Vegas International Airport was restored when they finally were able to get
all of their bags.
And it wasn’t no more than ten minutes that they hailed a cab. Well, not just one cab, but about four. Due to the large amount of bags and people who own those bags, they had to have two people her cab: Chloe and Dominic had one, the happy couple’s respective siblings shared one, River and Tish took one, and then lastly(but not least), Oberon and Val had one. All four cabs were en-route to the Pink Flamingo Hotel and Cansino.
This should be fun.
