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Audrey

At the reception, I tried Jenny’s trick of thinking of it like ait and that it was happening to soot really scary, just close your eyes, she said Then it would be as if it never happened

After Jaasm had wracked my body, I knehat I had to do This is the part where the heroine tells the hero that she loves hiht Unfortunately, this wasn’t ain sight

I closed htly

“I love you,” I whispered against James “I just want you to know that” He heldthrough me

“And Jaainst his chest

“What, baby?” he asked

“I quit”

I ran away after that, as quickly as I could, back to h I was miles away from hiine the feel of ainst his chest

I wrappedto keep the pain that encircledbroke, hazy and humid The sun rose up over the sky, and still, I didn’tdown ined it Lihborhood

In any event, I kneasn’t James He was probably on the plane by now, on his way to the Bahamas And I was here, in my run-down Southie apartment, where I would always be

Because I knehat I’d known last night This here I belonged I didn’t belong to better Between my mother and his, the opposition was too intense The chasm between us too wide

Because I loved him, I had to protect him

From me

James

I had sos for the trip And Audrey’s things I didn’t even let myself think about it

I stared out theat the hazy-lookingI was too obsessed with the pain I was feeling With the why of it

Why she’d told me she loved me And why she’d left

I’d tried to run after her out of the Plaza, but I had to put one And I was left wondering just what the hell I was supposed to do now

Todd stopped me onmy reception?” he asked “And what the hell happened back there at the ceremony? Why’d you run out?”

I watched the cars going by outside, itching to call Kai and go search for Audrey The thing was, I didn’t even knohat she wanted “I’e I had to do just that I had to find her and talk to her, but this was also Todd’s wedding, and I was the best man