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"Yes," I said, watching the water climb up the sand and then recede "We have Travis to thank He was at the gym with as many clients as he could fit around his classes six days a week froht This was all hiot us here"

"Thank hi, I didn’t know heto her "Could you be aritas in St Thoave me some time to plan your bachelorette party and the renewal of your vows," she said, taking a sip

I s to her "Thank you I mean it And this is the best bachelorette party in the history of bachelorette parties"

Hare chair on the other side of listened in the sun She shook the salt water out of it,it feather out "The water is so warlasses "There is a guy over there teaching kids hoindsurf He’s stupid hot"

"Maybe you can talk hiht-faced

Kara frowned "America, no Travis would be livid Abby isn’t actually a bachelorette, re her eyes close behind her sunglasses Although Kara and I had grown very close since I moved out, she and America still weren’t on the best of terht

"We’ll blaethi"

"Doesn’t e," Har

I scoffed "You know he hasn’t lashed out in a long tier now"

Harmony and I had shared two classes that semester, and when I invited her to the apartirl who’d let him into our dorirls on campus that Travis hadn’t slept with

"Travis and Shepley will be here to in tonight You don’t think Travis is sitting at ho to have a daood time whether you like it or not"

"That’s fine," I said "Just no strippers And not too late This wedding will actually have an audience I don’t want to look hungover"

Har next to her chair, and almost immediately a waiter came over

"How may I help you, miss?"

"A piña colada, please?"

"Of course," he said, backing away

"This place is swank," America said

"And you wonder why it took us a year to save up for this "

"You’re right I shouldn’t have said anything Trav wanted you to have the best I get it And it was nice of Mom and Dad to pay my way I sure as hell wouldn’t have been able to coled

"You pro youpresent and an anniversary present to you, and a birthday present to ot off cheap"

"It’s still too hter Daddy is very excited about walking you down the aisle Let the the spirit of it," America said

I smiled Mark and Paerous situation last year, Mark decided that I needed a new father--and nominated himself If I needed help with tuition or books or a new vacuu ave them an excuse to visit America and me, and it was obvious that they enjoyed that the most

Not only did I now have the unruly Maddox clan as fa to no one, to being a part of two a families that were incredibly important to me At first, it made me feel anxious I’d never had so much to lose before But over ti anywhere, and I learned how ood could come from raciously"

"Thank you"

"Thank you!" Harned the bill and began sipping the fruity concoction "I’ to this one!"

"Me, too," Aivenmarried without her And, honestly, I hoped she’d never try to pull the sa way off for her

She and Shepley were going to get their own aparth they were always around each other, Aan, and Shepley would move into Helement They loved Shepley but orried that the stress of real-world bills and jobs would affect Shepley’s and A, even at the doroes s in front of all those people staring at us"

Ah "Elvis wasn’t invited, but I’m sure it will still be beautiful"

"I still can’t believe Elvis was at your wedding," Har

"Not the dead one," Kara deadpanned

"He wasn’t invited this ti lessons celebrate windsurfing on their own