[This is the next one. The last one is the next one I put up. Nothing to say really so go on and read the story!!!]
The very next morning I woke up to see Ville sleeping soundly. I looked around and smiled. This was the house I would be living in with Ville. This IS is the house I AM living in with Ville. As lying still for a few minutes, I got up carefully, as to not wake Ville up. I had decided that I needed to take a shower. The entire time I was thinking about the wedding, my life, my future husband, everything. It was all just starting to hit me. I couldn't believe that it was all happening.
By the time I had finished my shower, I was hungry. So I grabbed a bowl of cereal and sat on the couch in the living room. I just sat there eating. I didn't even bother to put on the tv. I was entirely in my own little world, not noticing anything that was going on around me. Before I knew it I was done with my cereal, and I place the bowl on the table. I then started to start at the blank tv screen. Out of nowhere the tv turned on and it was loud. I jumped like two feet in the air and screamed just a little bit. I turned around to see Ville, Jyrki, Jussi, Archzie, Bazie, and Timo-Timo there.
Immediately I jumped up and hugged them all, but leaving Ville for last. It was right then that I turn to them, minus Ville and said, "Now...what the hell are you guys doing here? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I get to see you but what brings you?"
Jyrki smiled, wrapped an arm around my shoulder and said, "We came to see you two. You are going to be married soon so we thought we'd come by."
It was such a great surprise to see them. Yeah I had talked to them but that's something completely different then actually talking to them.
We sat there talking the entire morning. Not one time was there any kind of silence, especially not an uncomfortable. I knew that they had already seen the house but when they asked for a tour I didn't say no. I gave a simple but effective tour. The last stop was the bedroom, mine and Ville's room. Jussi was the first in the room and he stopped right when he got in. He sniffed for just a brief second and then turned to me and Ville. He just smiled. He blatantly said, "This room smells like sex."
"Well Jussi, that is what two people do when they are in love and have a very strong physical attraction. You see, they..."
"I know, I know. I'm not a little kid."
"But I like to have fun with you though."
"You are nuts."
"No...but I was close to some last night."
They just laughed and shook their heads. I was in a mood to have some fun and I was definitely having some. These guys brought out a different side of me for some reason but it wasn't a bad thing though.
Before anything else could happen, I felt something on my ass. Jyrki said, "Sweetheart, I think your butt is vibrating."
I laughed and realized it was my phone in my back pocket. I smiled and laughed again. I took the phone out and answered. "Hello?"
"Hey Kaija. It's Kasey."
"Hey girl. How are you?"
"I'm fantastic. What about you? How's living in Finland so far?"
"I've only been here for a day."
"I know but I'd thought I'd ask anyway. How are you and Ville?"
"Just great. Oh yeah...Jussi, Jyrki, Archzie , Bazie, and Timo-Timo are here."
"Really?"
"Yeah. They just got here this morning. They said they wanted to visit us because we were going to be married soon. You know all of that stuff."
"How fun. Tell them all I said hi. Well, I better let you go and hang out with them since their here. I will see you in a week since that's when all the girls are coming to get dress and to help you pick a wedding dress."
"I will see you in a week. Bye-bye."
"Later."
So I hung up and turned to the guys. "It was Kasey. She says hi."
For just a little bit longer we sat there talking. But for some reason, I just sat there the entire time. I wasn't tired as per falling asleep, but I was tired physically.
Later that evening, we headed out to eat. As it happened, many people recognized us all. It was great. They had said they loved us and all of this and I couldn't help but thank them. They even congratulated me and Ville when they saw the ring. So after being there a little while, I had to use the bathroom so I excused myself to go pee. On the way back, I accidently bumped into some random guy. "Sorry about that."
"No prob...wait, you're Kaija Lahti?"
"Sure am."
"What are you doing here?"
"I've moved here with my fiancé."
"You and Ville are engaged now?"
"Yes we are."
"That's too bad."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean this."
And within a second he tried to kiss me. But before he could, I pushed him away. "I swear, you do that again and you will not be concious much longer."
He tried one last time and I stopped him. This time I punched him in the face, knocked his head on my knee and then push him away, which in turn made him fall again a wall. I smiled and said, "Told you."
Without any other words, I walked back to the table. The guys were just looking at me. All I said was, "When you see a guy coming out here that looks a little off...that was me."
They still looked at me strangely until that guy walked out of the hall-way. With one look at the guy, they busted up laughing. The guy just looked at me and I smiled, and pretty evilly back. He definitely learned his lesson. As dinner went on, the guys still couldn't get over what I did to that guy. But when I told them why I did what I did, Ville got pissed. Of course I made sure that he couldn't be anything. I grabbed his hand and kissed him gently. He calmed down a little bit but not completely. That night Jussi, Jyrki, Archzie, Timo-Timo and Bazie went back to Ville and My place for a little bit before heading home.
Over the week since that first day, I got used to everything more and more. I went out in the town and started going to some places that mostly spoke Finnish. I was getting so much more used to speaking Finnish as I was constantly surrounded by it. So it was exactly a week later when Kasey, Anita, Ape, Linde's girlfriend Sarah, Mige's Girlfriend Acara, and Ryan's girlfriend Kiera came to Helsinki to go and get dresses. I had gotten to know Sarah, Acara, and Kiera pretty well so that's why I asked them to be a part of the wedding as well. So they came to the house, right when I was cleaning it. I heard the knock on the door and opened it without them seeing me. I hid behind the door and then jumped out onto Kasey's back. She jumped and playfully slapped me on the back of the head. "As I'd like to say to you...Tervetuloa!"
There was a pause before I said, "Welcome!"
They smiled and I lead them into the kitchen. I let them grab a drink before we headed out for the entire day, or at least until we'd find something.
I drove around with the help of Anita directing me. I may have gotten to know the city a little better but I didn't know it that well. It took about twenty minutes to get to the first shop. From the front of the building, it looked kind of small. There was two semi-big windows on neither side of the door. The brick-layered building looked homey. The minute I stepped inside, I was definitely surprised. The place was beautiful and was bigger then we thought. Almost immediately, we were welcomed by an older woman. Her name tag said Anastasia. "How may I may I help you ladies." She spoke in Finnish.
In English, I said, "Only two of us actually speak Finnish. Anyways, we are here to look at a wedding dress and the bridesmaid dresses as well."
"I do not have to ask who the bride-to-be is. I can tell by the smile on your face."
That just made me smile even more.
Dress after dress was brought out for the bridesmaids and Maid of honour. Many of the dresses were nice but nothing seemed to look the way we all wanted them to look. Once they finished trying on dresses, it was my turn. Many shape, sizes, styles, and colours were tried on. They ranged from looking nice to looking like I was coming out of a fluffy, moldy cupcake. Some, as I said, looked good, but nothing stood out to me. Nothing made me want to get it right then and there.
It was like that for the first couple of stores. But then we reached this one small boutique called 'Kukka -lta Ehtoo' (Flower From Night). The first thing I noticed was this dress for the bridesmaids. We were helped and I had the girls try it on. It was perfect. The dress was a burgundy halter dress that want to the knees. The dress was beautiful and everyone liked it. Since it was a hit, I got it so the bridesmaid would wear them. Now there was some amazing shoes that were there, that matched the dress perfectly. They were these strappy red, high-heeled sandals. That made my day go rather well. Now I had to find my own dress and a dress for Anita.
Nothing else was found there but then there was the next store, Ankea Ehtoo (Dark Night). Everything else that I was looking for, I found there. I saw this dress and loved its look for Anita. It was beautiful. I knew it would be great for her. It was similar to the bridesmaid dresses but a brighter colour, had a couple more emblishments (ie: shiny things), and had a black ribbon around the waist.. After finding Anita her dress, we all went looking around for possible dresses for me. I found on and instantly I was in shock. I loved it immediately. Before the other girls could see it I took it into the dresses room. It was one of those dresses that I loved on the rack but loved even more on me. I hadn't seen a dress so far that did that for me and this one did. I knew that it was the dress I would wear at my wedding.
As I was looking at myself in the mirror. There was a knock on the dressing room door. It was Acara. "You done trying on this dress you didn't show us?"
"Yes."
"So get your ass out here and show us!"
I smiled and waited for her to get away from the door. Once I heard her footsteps, I went to the door and walked out. I was in this. 
No one could say anything. There just sat there. I took this as a good sign. Anita got up and walked to me. After putting her arm around my shoulder, she said, "I can see now, why my son love you so much. Not only do you have so much in common but whether or not you are in casual, normal clothes or dressed up, you are absolutely gorgeous."
Without warning I hugged her. "Thank you."
"I really mean it. I can't wait for you to become my daughter-in-law. And I know that Kari feels the same way. As Jesse can't wait for you to be his sister-in-law. We all love you."
Before I could stop myself, a few tears fell. At first no on noticed it, but then I felt Anita wipe away a couple of those tears. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. I really am. It's just What you said. I never expected all of this. I never knew you guys would like me this much and the fact that you're Ville's family and you love me, makes....it makes...I don't know but do you get what I'm trying to say?"
She nodded. I took a deep breathe and said, "Noe it's enough of the crying. Let's buy Anita's and my dress, then we can try and find mine and Anita's shoes."
And that was what we did. We looked around the shop and found our shoes.
I thought that we were done but the girls had other ideas. Anita took the keys and took us some where. I was pretty sure that the other knew where we were going but they wouldn't let me in. When we were close to where we were going they had me close my eyes and made sure that I kept them closed until they told me to open them. We got out of the car and they helped me out. We walked into a store and we stopped dead. Finally I opened my eyes and there we were standing at the entrance of....dun-dun-dun...a lingerie store. I looked to all of them and Kasey said, "You got to have something for your honeymoon right? You got to give him something sexy for that first night as a married couple."
I just shook my head. How did I not see this coming? I had no chance to say anything before a woman who worked at the shop came up to us. "I'm Kateriina. How may I help you ladies?"
Before I had a chance to say anything or move, Sarah said, "Miss Kaija here, is going to be married soon and we want to get her something for her honeymoon that will excite her husband. You know, something for that first night as a married couple."
Kateriina smiled, knowing exactly what the girls where thinking of. She gently grabbed me by the hand and pulled me towards a back section of the store. She asked my sizes and I told her. She also measure me to make sure they were correct. They were. She had me sit down in a chair by the dressing rooms as she went around this little area to get some things for me to try on. I looked to my friends and glared. They just smiled.
After a minute or so, Kateriina came back with a few pieces for me to try. I went into the dressing room and tried each of them on. It was a total of 9 total 'outfits' that I tried. It narrowed it down to two. They were
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When looking at them one after another I chose the second one. I knew Ville would love it. Boy oh boy, was my wedding going to be interesting.
It was over the next few months that Ville and myself really started batting down the hatches and planned the wedding. We did it together because it was our day and not just mine or his. I put in my ideas and he put in his. We knew that everything was going to be great and turn out so well. I was ready for this wedding and so was Ville.
When we were finished at that shop, we went back to Ankea Ehtoo to pick up the dress and then head back to my and Ville's place. Before Ville could see my dress, the shoes, or the lingerie, I ran up to the spare room where the closest had a lock and I had the only key. I put my things in there along with the receipt for the girls dressed. We were to get them in about two weeks because they would have to make them so that they would fit to their measurements. Of course Ville tried to see what I had gotten but I wouldn't let him and neither would the girls. The girls left that night. Anita went home while the others just went to a nearby hotel. They all insisted that they go so that me and Ville would have alone time. I couldn't help but laugh when they said that. That night went as normal. We went to sleep together but this time we didn't do anything.
