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“Are you sure?” I ask, running a hand over my heat-frizzed hair “I can stay, I—”

“Go You deserve to have some fun after how hard you’ve worked this week,” Aria says with a rare stheet the fountain set up”

“All right Thanks, guys I appreciate you” Deciding to ignore the grease stain on my skirt—it will be too dark on the dance floor to see it, anyway—I head for the kitchen door, ready to boogie with irlfriend until I succu at her wedding together since ere in hting over whether we’d marry a vampire or a olf, if ere the heroine of our favorite teen romance

I was, and auess, but I don’t want one in h as it is

I hurry across the ballrooe—my two oldest e three years ago—are setting up the dessert buffet, and out into the warht

Outside, paper lanterns hang laced between the trees, casting the large, dining tables with their centerpieces of gardenia blossoo, but several of the older folks still sit in their chairs, nursing coffee and chatting, senerations jump up and down on the dance floor beneath the trees

If I had planned an outdoor wedding in May, I’m sure it would have rained, forced everyone to crauests historic home, and the celebration would have been ruined But Lisa has had better luck

Perfect luck, in fact

The weather was perfect, the ceremony was perfect, the food was perfect—if I do say sotime

Another blissful wedding in Bliss River almost in the books

It’s always a good feeling, but tonight is super special

Dodging two flower girls playing a rough ga hat’s left of their bouquets, I head for the dance floor I can see Lisa and Matt in the center, surrounded by friends and family, and can’t wait to join them All the exhaustion and stress of the day seep away as Celebrate Good Tih the DJ’s speakers and the people I love let out a whoop of appreciation