All day, Alfie had been preparing for his and Joan's wedding, excited and jolly as ever. Encouraging guests, checking out outfits and decorating the Vic with Linda. He was ready to make an elderly lady feel like she was the most stunning, spectacular and sweetest woman on the entire planet. He was ready to plaster a huge, happy smile on her face until she died. He was ready to give her her final marriage in this world so she could die thinking she was the bride of a Moon.
The only problem was, was that Joan hadn't turned up to her wedding. It had been over an hour and there was no sign of her. Leaving Alfie in a panic and the guests in a snicker, they waited, with music and drinks, for Alfie's princess to walk through the pub's doors.
Izzy's p.o.v:
I sat, in the corner of the Vic's building, watching Alfie begin to sweat and worry. He was terrified that Joan wasn't going to walk through the door and marry him; afraid of wasting the time of his friends and family, his money and missing the experience of a lifetime.
I, too, was worried for Alfie. All day he had been so excited to get married to Joan and give her the best day of her life and she hadn't turned up. I knew that, once again, he felt like he had let everyone down, that he had been let down, but I just prayed that his bride would turn up to relieve that sadness and stress he was carrying in his chest and turn it back into a smile.
Narrator's p.o.v:
Alfie began to scan the room and found Izzy, staring at him with wide eyes like a little lamb. She looked worried, worried for him, and she was. To calm her nerves, he decided to go up and talk to her.
"Hello, Izzy, darling, how are we doing?" He asked her, taking a seat next to her.
"Where's your blushing bride to be?" Izzy asked him, confusion and worry present in her voice.
Alfie then sighed, looked down at his feet, and replied,
"To be honest with ya, sweetheart...I don't have a clue. This wedding was meant to be the best day of her life...but I guess, I was just fooling myself. I never bring happiness to people...I just mess everything up"
Izzy looked at him, surprised. Alfie was someone who brought laughter, joy and something new to the people in Walford. Everyday he makes it his mission to cheer someone up or to make it clear to someone that he loves them. He wasn't a mess; if anything, he was a clown...and maybe sometimes because he's stupid...but it was actually because he just tries to make everyone smile.
"That isn't true and you know that. Joan was so excited to marry you, everyone could see it on her face. She would give her last breath to be here...No, I don't know where she is either but I know for a fact that she is gonna show" Izzy told him, powerfully, reassuring him, "I mean, who wouldn't want to marry Alfie Moon?"
Alfie gazed up at Izzy and gave her a small smile, Izzy showing him a warm one back.
"Hey, Alf! Sorry, I'm late, I had a surpise shift at the chippy" Freddie then burst though the Vic's doors and wondered over to Alfie, "I haven't missed anything, have I?"
"No, you're alright, Fred. There might not even be a wedding after all" Alfie told him, patting his shoulder and then walking away.
Freddie then turned to look at Izzy with a confused expression and questioned,
"What does that mean?"
Izzy sighed and answered,
"Alfie's fake fiancée hasn't shown up yet. It's been over an hour and now, he's worried that this whole wedding set up will be for nothing"
"What?"
Half an hour later:
Now, sat at the bar, Izzy was like a watch dog. Watching the door belonging to the Queen Vic, she waited for Joan to stride through. She knew she was coming, she just didn't know why she was taking so long to do it.
Suddenly, an amazing, astonishing, gorgeous figure flew through the door like an angel. Swaying and lifting her arms in the most elegant way, she waved to Alfie, who immediately felt all his nerves and worried emotions fade away.
An applause was heard from the crowd as both Alfie and Joan smiled, contentedly. But all Izzy did was roll her eyes. Joan had had Alfie full of nerves and regret for the past hour and a half and then she just turns up like nothing had happened. It annoyed her, a lot, but she was just relieved that she had the audacity to hold it in just so Alfie could have his wedding. Finally.
"Yes! Ladies and Gents, that's what I call an entrance!" Alfie grinned, as he, excitedly, made his way over to Joan, with a bunch of wedding flowers.
Smiling bigger than ever, Joan took the flowers from Alfie and hooked her arm around his. Heading over to the alter, with hearts above their heads, Joan turned her head to look at her husband to be, with a beautiful pink blush noticeable on her face.
Making her way over, closer to the couple, Izzy stood next to Freddie and Jay and waited for Alfie to tell Joan about Felix.
"Awh, I love a wedding" Freddie grinned, watching Alfie, full of happiness.
Izzy then pifted and giggled,
"Too bad you're never gonna have one then, innit"
Freddie turned to look at her confused and asked,
"Why?"
Looking up at him, Izzy answered, an amused grin widely showing on her face,
"Well because all you do is fuck girls and then leave 'em, never once in your life have you ever planned for any of them to stick. You don't care about that part"
"No, it's just because I'm quite fast at moving on. There is enough of Freddie to go around, you know. There is a bunch of baby girls that need a daddy" Freddie smiled to her.
Disgusted by his last sentence, Izzy replied, scrunching up her nose,
"Ew. I don't think you are a...daddy to anyone. Maybe just a sex robot because I believe that no girl has ever begged you to stay"
"Oh, you'd be surprised" Freddie answered, now too scrunching up his nose, in a representation of annoyance.
Reaching the alter, Alfie twisted to Joan and said,
"Now, Joan, I know you're a religious person deep at heart but vicars are hard to come by this time of day. So, instead, I present you our celebrant for the wedding of the year, the one, the only, the honourable, Miss Tara Misu!"
And with that announcement, Felix, as Miss Tara Misu, leaped out of the shadows and shimmied all the way to the flowery alter, everyone applauding her amazing appearance and outfit.
"That is spinning my head in so many ways" Freddie said, with a smile.
"Is that a fella?" Joan asked.
This then made Alfie's nerves come back as her answered, sheepishly,
"Yeah, is that alright?"
Pifting, joyfully, Joan replied,
"I love it"
Landing her eyes on the bride, Miss Tara Misu, astonished, told her,
"You are the most sensational bride I have ever seen. Shall we do this!?"
"Yes!" Everyone shouted, excited.
Getting Alfie's attention, Kat passed him and asked,
"Alfie, can I have a word?"
With another fifteen minutes passing by:
The wedding was back on track and once again, Alfie and Joan stood hand in hand at the alter.
"Alright, you beautiful, beautiful people! The time has come! The hour is now! Let's join these two in unholy matrimony!" Tara announced, smiling.
"Yeah!" Alfie shouted.
"But! Before we begin, let's check to see there's no skeletons hiding in their closets. If anyone knows any reason why this sham-glam wedding can't go ahead...let's hear it" Tara told the crowd.
Stepping forward, an old friend of Joan's came out from the crowd and confessed,
"Erm, actually, yes. I just wanna say...you've been in my life for 53 years...and from the moment I first set eyes on you..."
Starting to stutter, the man turned to Alfie. Helping him, Alfie muttered,
"I knew I was never going to meet anyone as incredible as you."
"Yeah, what Alfie said" He agreed.
Izzy giggled, amused, as she watched Alfie help him remember the speech the man pretended he owned.
Continuing, he added,
"You're my closest friend. My one true companion."
Now edging over to her, he reached for her hands and said, with a contended smile on his face,
"I love you, Joan...and I'd hate myself if I never asked"
The man then began to get on one knee, assistance from Alfie present.
With the man's eyes full of hope and happiness, he asked the beautiful bride,
"Joan, will you marry me?"
With a shocked and timid look on her face, she answered with no hesitation,
"Yes"
With Alfie helping him back up, the two leapt into eachother's arms. Once again, an applause came from the crowd and a shout came from Freddie.
"That is so beautiful!"
Then, with the confirmation of Miss Tara Misu, the two were married and were ready to spend the last of their days with eachother to help, to hold and to love...
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