A book theme where everything is stacked on top of books. There’s something peaceful and simple about it, though I’m not sure it makes sense for either of us. We don’t spend a lot of time reading. Then again, before I met Etna, I used to read. Now Etna makes up my entire world.
Wow, that was tacky. Also, maybe a little sweet. I’ll have to remember it for later so I can say it to Etna.
“Look at this one. Steampunk. That’s really cool,” Etna says. “Not for us, but still super original. I love what you can do with a few gears.”
“Wait, look at this one.” It’s an all-white cake that’s shaped into a castle tower. There are two dragons on it, one climbing up the side to meet the one that’s leaning down from the top. “That’s sick as fuck.”
“It is. If one of us had a dragon tattoo, we could say that we’ve always had a long-time obsession with dragons and pull that off.”
I laugh. “Next.”
Mirrors.
Twine.
Candles.
In one search, there was a man in a dark blue suit, but the end of his suit jacket fell to the ground and flared out around him like the train of a dress. I’ve never considered myself feminine in any way nor interested in anything feminine for myself, but I have to say, I couldn’t stop staring at that picture.
It should have looked feminine, but damn, that guy? He wasn’t feminine, which made the entire look far more masculine.
“I don’t think I could pull that off with the same effect,” I say.
Etna tilts his head as if he wants to look at it sideways. “I don’t know. I think you could.”
The next thing that catches my eye is a white cake, but over it are black gothic windows that remind me of an old haunted house. It’s fucking awesome.
There are DND dice tied to a garter, a completely black tiered cake that looks elegant, even with the spider decorations. There’s a short video of a gothic wedding in a cemetery. Or a place that looks like a cemetery, but everything is black—the benches, the arches, the tombstones, the statues. Hell, even the twigs. Okay, it must be fake.
There’s an image of a bride and groom in a fighting pose like you might find on a movie poster. The woman is holding a huge bow, getting ready to shoot. The man is crouched in front of her with a bo staff.
There’s a love never dies theme with a skeleton cake topper, the bride skeleton is straddling the groom skeleton and they’re about to get frisky.
The one that maybe disturbed me a little is the image of the entire wedding party holding rifles. No, not kidding.
“Okay…” I groan and drop my head back. “I’m feeling hopeless here.”
Etna sighs and clicks the tablet off. “I know.” He wraps his arm around me and pulls me close. I smile when his lips press tomy forehead. “Maybe we’re overthinking this. Let’s skip a theme and just choose some colors we like and see what we can do with that.”
I relax against him. “Yeah. Okay. Let’s do that. I’m so tired of looking at all these andnot a single onejumps out.”
“We can go back to hockey.”
“To be honest, I’m not really feeling that either. I think a few subtle nods to hockey would be cool because it’s such a huge part of our lives.”
“And it’s how we met.”
I grin. “Yeah. But I don’t know. I’m not super stoked about a hockey theme either.”
“Should I ask what colors you’re feeling now, or should we save that for another conversation?”
I groan, and not in the sexy way. “Let’s save that for tomorrow’s struggle. I need a break from today’s. At this point, I don’t even know what my favorite color is. They’re all blending together and I’m not a huge fan of any of them.”
“I know what’ll make you feel better,” Etna says.
Before I can ask, Etna pulls his arm from around me and drops to his knees. Immediately, I look around, but we’ve been so focused on the tablet and wading through wedding boards, I barely noticed that the sun was setting. It’s almost dark.
I don’t have breath to object when he tugs my swim trunks down, nudging my hips to make me lift them so he can. Once, I’d have said that I get hard pretty easily. I’m not sure if that was the entire truth or not. What I can say is a single look from Etna thatI knowpromises an orgasm, makes my dick inflate so quickly, I almost feel lightheaded.
