New Pasadena, 9:00 am. Sunday, December 8, 2058. New CalTech-Biochemistry building – Dining room-Cafeteria.

It has been almost two months and a half and Jane, Maura, Stef, Lena, Olivia, and Alex have prepared all the requirements for their secret wedding, it is ‘secret’ because they didn’t tell their mothers, fathers and other adult relatives about that, but almost all the other ‘changed’ knew, because Alice was the one helping and organizing the event, and now she is also the under covered-weddings counselor in Louise’s group.

Alice has created a weddings’ catalogue file with information of when, how, and where  with all the details of the marriages already performed, included Bette’s and Tina’s wedding, and the ones in process, as well as, the information of all her new ‘clients’, the file is ‘open to see’ for all those interested in a quick, safe and perfect legal wedding without complications with nosy relatives; her fees are low, but she assumed all the task because the honeymoon trips, clothes, holovideos, rings and all the merchandize and entertainment is provided by T.net, the business owned by Tina and shared with Bette, Alice and Dana; which are giving  very high dividends to the four of them; the business was promising because almost everybody, boys, and girls, hetero and homo couples, all of them want to marry.

The young people are stressed with the war, they have not assurance of surviving, and all of them want to wed, they need someone at their side, a companion, someone to make them want to stay alive, an incentive to keep going, but most of their parents don’t understand that, because they do not want to believe in the danger to which their children are exposed, and they do nothing about that, most of them, want to think their daughters and sons are in the lab doing experiments and not fighting a war for the survival of humanity.

So, there was a big disagreement between the ‘changeds’ and their families that mainly want a ‘gala wedding’ and try to do anything to restrain the younger from secret marriages, even the New Pasadena governor was persuaded to issue some regulations about weddings, most of them involving underage situations, but there were not new regulations for young adults, Joyce Wischnia had intended to pass an amend on the enacting clause # 2304, a national regulation, to increase the waiting time for marriage from 3 months to 9 months, but she had to withdraw her petition, because she has just proposed to Phillis Kroll, and the university president didn’t want to wait.