Papers

Rui Ning and Rui Xing woke up after their alarm clocks rang. It rang at the same time, 9 am. Rui Ning took out his phone to see many messages from Shang Shen.

"Hey, you awake? Either ways I'll send you the message, just be sure to reply me immediately when you've read them!"

"OK, so uhm my wife asked me to invite friends over for dinner tonight. Don't ask me why, I have no idea either, just come over at 7.45 pm."

Rui Ning first reply back to him was, "YOU'RE MARRIED??!"

"Yeah..."

"AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN ASK ME TO BE YOUR BEST MAN?? OR EVEN INVITE ME?!!!"

"Oh here comes the complaining... so we didn't have a wedding! We just signed the papers. We asked you to come over to discuss about the wedding! You are going to be my best man, you dumbass."

"OH YAY and congratulations! Wait wait wait you said you didn't know the reason as to why your wife asked you to ask your friends over and then???! But sure I'm coming. Can I bring my sister?"

"Yeah sure.. end of conversation!"

-

"Rui Xing! Are you free to go over to my friend's house with me for dinner?"

"No! I agreed to have dinner tonight at 7pm with my friends," Rui Xing shouted back.

"Aww OK..."

"Why?" Rui Xing asked as she walked into Rui Ning's room.

"Oh, you remember Shang Shen right?"

"Who's that?" Rui Xing asked another question after thinking for a moment.

"Oh my... your memory sucks!" Rui Ning stated. "OK OK, Shang Shen is Shang Ying's cousin-"

"Woah small world and dory memory?!," Rui Xing cut him off.

"LET ME FINISH!!! OK, so Shang Shen was my best friend-"

"Your only friend," Rui Xing corrected.

"OH WHATEVER, so shut up and let me explain to you. Shang Shen and I were friends since Primary School. He had gotten married recently but he only signed the papers. Thus, he and his wife wants to plan for the wedding ceremony. His wife and himself is hence, inviting people over to their house to discuss about their wedding," Rui Ning explained.

"Oh sounds boring... luckily I'm not going HA HA. Have fun," Rui Xing replied as she walked downstairs to feed their dogs.

Rui Xing poured kibbles into the dogs' bowls and put it down on the floor for them to consume. She then remembered that she bought manga for Rui Ning. She hastily walked up to her room to her luggage. Rui Xing opened up her luggage and took the mangas out. At that moment, she realized that she had forgotten to take her shopping items from Shang Ying, Li Nang and Yi Tian. She texted the group chat saying to bring Wen Xi's and her shopping stuff when they meet up for dinner later on. They replied with an 'okay'.

-

Ning Ning and Deng Deng woke up early that day to sign the papers. Ning Ning woke up at 7 am and to her surprise, her parents still weren't awake. So, she quietly went out of the house so as to not wake them up. They called last night after dinner with Shang Ying that they would be coming in to sign their papers at 9 am. Deng Deng drove over in his Dark Blue BMW to fetch Ning Ning. Ning Ning prepared some sandwiches for them to eat once they signed the papers.

They arrived at the location, registry of marriage, 7 Canning Rise. Deng Deng parked his car in an empty parking lot and they walked to the counter to ask where they should go to sign the papers. The man at the counter showed them the way and led them in. He also told them that they would need at least 1 witness in order to sign the marriage certificate. Ning Ning took out her phone and dialed Shang Ying's number. Shang Ying picked up the phone.

"Hey Ning Ning, what's up?"

"Shang Ying, we need you to come to the Registry of Marriage. They said we need to have at least 1 witness in order to sign the papers. Are you free to come?"

"Now?"

"Yes, I'm sorry to bring you into this situation."

"It's fine, I'll be on my way now."

"Shang Ying said he'll come over now," Ning Ning said to Deng Deng. Deng Deng nodded his head in response.

Deng Deng and Ning Ning waited upstairs with the officiant for Shang Ying's arrival. Shang Ying arrived at the location as soon as he could and took the lift to the upper floor. The officiant was starstruck to see Shang Ying, he, deep down inside was a fan of his. The officiant calmed himself down and took out the papers. They did the paper work, signed the marriage certificate and they were officially a married couple!

The officiant couldn't help but ask Shang Ying for a photograph. Shang Ying didn't ask why and willingly said OK. The officiant thanked Shang Ying and watched the trio leave the room.

"Oh my gosh, thank goodness we don't have to get married and CONGRATULATIONS NEWLY WEDS," Shang Ying said aloud.

"Yeah! And thank you so much for your help, without you, we wouldn't be able to sign the papers and get married," Ning Ning said.

They chatted in the lift till they reached the ground floor. Shang Ying volunteered to pay for their marriage fee as they two hadn't brought any money with them. The couple told Shang Ying that they would pay him the amount he paid that day. However, he declined their offer and waved goodbye to them. He ran to his car and rushed back to work.

"What a nice guy. Why did you choose to marry me and not him?" Deng Deng asked.

"Because you are the one for me, now and always."

"Aww. OK shall we leave now, wife?"

"Yeap!"

-

It was around 2.30 pm and Shang Ying just started digging into his food as it was lunch time. He finished his food in a few minutes and saw his mother sitting in front him. Many doctors and nurses were whispering about them.

"What do you think you are doing here?" Shang Ying questioned.

"Oh son, did you forget? 3 pm? Your suit? I told them that you were off today, why are you here?

"Mom, Ning Ning is married and just because of one fitting doesn't mean I can take a day off work..."

"I don't care and married, you say? Nonsense! Now let's go now."

Shang Ying had no choice but to listen to his mother or else his mother would start raising her voice and cause such a huge commotion and scene.