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Chapter 4: James proposes to Daylenne

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Chapter 4: James proposes to Daylenne

It's another beautiful day at Daylenne's house. The girl is inside keeping herself busy reading, all while waiting for Ed to return from the fair. Unbeknownst to her, two familiar figures, one of whom was wearing a tuxedo, were watching the place from the bushes.

"Heh! This is great!" Jay exclaimed. "Daylenne will get a huge surprise in her like, right James?" He asked James with a grin.

"Yes." James answered, while holding a tree branch. "It is her lucky day, today!"

James leaves and then he let go of the branch, it smacks Jay right in the mouth, leaving some leaves in it. James doesn't bother and care, heads to a group of people that he had invited to his so-called "wedding." While clearing his throat.

"I appreciated that all of you came to my wedding." He announced. "First thing, I need to go over there and propose to the girl!"

Everyone laughed heartily with James, but then the camera soon panned over to The Rockettes, are crying their eyes out, because that their hunky bachelor was going to get married. Or so James thought was going to happen, anyway.

"As for you, Jay." James said as he pokes Marik's nose. "While, Daylenne and I are going to come out of that door--."

"Oh, I know exactly what to do!" Jay exclaimed, excitedly. "I will strike off the band."

He conducts the band to play Here Comes the Bride. James slams the baritone on Marik's head in irritation.

"Not just yet, you imbecile!" he shouted.

"Sorry!" Jay apologized through the mouthpiece, his lips sticking out of it.

Inside the house, Daylenne still reads her book. Just then, a knock came at the front door, alerting her. Daylenne lays her book down and walks over to the front door. She pulls down a periscope that her father had invented, and peeks through it. Daylenne sees an anachronistically accurate fish-eye view of James. She rolls her eyes, as she put the periscope back up. Daylenne opens the door, giving a fake smile to James, who came in.

"James," she spoke, "what a shocking surprise."

"Wasn't it though?" James asked, walking over to Daylenne. "I'm so full of surprises. You know Daylenne, there wasn't any woman in this town that would love to be in your shoes." James added with a grin. "This is the moment..." He pauses and in front of a mirror to lick his teeth clean. "Ah." He admires his reflection for about two seconds before he resumed. "This is the moment that all of your dreams would come true."

"How would you know about my dreams, James?" Daylenne inquired, raising an eyebrow.

She backs away from him as he approaches her.

"A lot." James told her.

He plops his butt down on the chair Daylenne had sat on and props his dirty, mud-covered boots on the book Daylenne was reading. On the inside, Daylenne was fuming.

"Ok, picture this." James started, takes his boots off, and puts his even nastier feet on Daylenne's soiled book. "We would live in a rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting by the fire, and my little wife, massaging my feet," he wiggles his toes at that last part, "while the little ones play with the dogs." Daylenne looks at James' feet with disgust, as she covers her nose with her fingers. "Of course, we would have six or seven." James added.

"Um, dogs?" Daylenne asked, uneasily.

"Absolutely not, Daylenne!" James exclaimed with a laugh as he got up. "Strapping boys, like me!"

"Can you imagine that." The brunette girl muttered to herself as she picks up her book and cleans it up.

"And do you happen to know who this little wife would be?" James asked with a grin.

"I got to think..." Daylenne answered, putting her book away.

"You, Daylenne!" James exclaimed with joy.

Daylenne ducks under James and went to her door.

"James, I'm way too speechless." She replied. "I don't know what to say."

James pushes the chairs and other objects away as he advanced towards Daylenne and he cornered poor Daylenne against her front door.

"Say that you would marry me." James responded.

He tries to kiss her again, too!

"Um..." she answered, nervously, as she scrambles for the doorknob. “I'm truly sorry, James, but, I really don't deserve you."

Before he could plant a wet one on her, she twists her doorknob, opening her door, ducks under James as he tumbles out of her house and into the mud.

Jay conducts the band to play Here Comes the Bride, and Daylenne opens her door again to toss out James' boots. Jay looks down and notices James' legs sticking out of the mud, and stops the band from playing. He crouches down to the mud puddle, and a pig's head popped up from beneath it. Soon, the ticked off James rears his ugly head, with the pig right on top of it, and tilted his head, making the pig slide down his back.

"Well, how was it?" Jay asked with a smile.

He got his answer the hard way when James furiously grabs him by the neck.

"I would make Daylenne my wife, don't make a mistake about that!" James snarled.

He throws Jay into the mud puddle before storming off in humiliation.

"Hmph!" Jay huffed. "Touchy!"

The pig in the mud snorts in agreement with the raven headed boy.

James walks off, seething with anger as he whips some of the mud off of his face.

Meanwhile, at Daylenne's house, some hens were walking around as the brunette headed girl opened her door, poking her head out.

"Did he left?" she asked.

Daylenne exits her home and picks up a bucket full of chicken feed.

"Could you imagine," she questioned in anger as she throws down some chicken feed for the hens, "He just asked me to marry him! Me, the wife of that boorish, brainless..."

Daylenne starts to sing her song.

"Mrs. James!
Can't you just see it?"

Daylenne puts the towel over her head, making her look like a housewife.

"Mrs. James!
His little wife."

Daylenne frowns as she kicks a bucket off of a barrel, scaring the chickens right off of it, before removing the towel from her head.

"No sir!
Not me!
I guarantee it.
I want much more than this provincial life!"

She runs into the fields that overlooked a beautiful valley.

"I want adventure in the great wide, somewhere!
I want it more than I can tell!"

Daylenne kneels down on the grass as she picks out a dandelion.

"And for once it might be grand
To have someone understand."

Daylenne sighs as she let the wind blow the dandelion away.

"I want so much more than they've got planned..."

Suddenly, Daylenne hears a neigh. She looks up and sees Harry rushing towards her in the wagon with the invention, and was disturbed when she realizes that Ed wasn't with him.

"Harry! What are you doing in here? Where is dad?" she cried as she stood up and ran to her horse. "Where can he be, Harry? What had happened?" He looks at her and felt guilty for himself. "Oh, we need to find him, you got to take me to him!" Daylenne pleaded her horse.

She unhitches Harry from the wagon that was carrying the invention, got on his back, and they rode off to find Ed.

Daylenne did the right thing to reject the proposal and James deserve to be thrown out. Next chapter is where Daylenne finds Ed.
Back in the cottage, James goes and tells the guests by thanking them. Daylenne refused to marry James. While Harry runs up to Daylenne, and she is worried that Ed is not with him. She took the wagon off him and jumped on him and rides off.
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