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Chapter One

Ramses

I suppose it’d been around the last two or three top one hundred songs when it all finally hit

This was almost over

Like everything, every littleevery bridal shop known toat tulle and other kinds of stuff far beyond the male psyche to even be able to comprehend or understand No more 3 am phone calls to see how she’d been To deter she needed The bride wasn’t stressed anymore She had it all

And I finally had to let her go

I’d stayed awaytofloell I was the go-to guy, the one people ca I was basically the bestthe best ht either, but that was because they were either helping theirlfriends IThat’s what nor and shit was over It was time to have fun now

My fingers played against glass, the condensation onit Even still, I sucked it back, hot yeast traveling down ed to ht, some kind of weird record, I was sure

Swirling it around, I watched the final dances on the floor, the crowd long thinned out People started dipping out after the cake cutting and opening dances Now, it was just the ride-or-dies out there, the bridal party and a few other younger girls and guys like ood tihts, the winter the It actually appeared to be snowing in the reception hall at one point, ht effect I’d been told

I just knew it suited the new couple perfectly, hard not to get lost in all theand reception’s location, had soht, it wasn’t about any of that or the trials and tribulations of the past It was about everything but that

“Can I have this last dance?”

It was about dark hair and brown eyes that twinkled under those snowy lights It was about her, the blushing bride

Who also just so happened to be my best friend

Leave it to the woht to findto do everything but stand out

Grinning, Deceeous bride in the world She’d changed into a shi her look like a ant as hell, she attempted to convinceto lay low all night Light touched her dark eyes “Co”

We didn’t have long Really, this was it

I think that’d been the only reason I puther hand I was the dauy and wouldn’t let her have this one

A spin and I had her out on the dance floor, taking her close but only just I ell-aware her new husband was around here soet my ass kicked Prinze could be a territorial ht norht

Tonight, a lot of things were different

Tonight, I made myself be at peace with events from the past That this hat Dece tih school, but with states between us and our lives on different trajectories, it’d been really easy to pass off old ways At least, for irl was just my friend I hadn’t had to see her every day

I hadn’t had to feel this every day

Her inold shit that didn’t need to be rehashed I almost told her no when she asked me to be her man of honor I mean, there’d been o to school out of state A few of those reasons surrounded her in varied ways, but that decision would not only have been selfish but foolish It’d be ad that I didn’t want to admit That the past was harder to put away than I believed

That I still hadn’t dealt with this