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“They’re here, somewhere They ran off to tame their hair and find outfits to wear to the rehearsal dinner tonight” I raised“So here I am Party of one”

I took another sip of my drink and wondered if it would be rude to leave le with a few other people in the room People I hadn’t seen in forever People not named Shayla Hall

Yeah, that would be ill-irl

“Aw, that’s too bad” She sat with an over-done pout for a ether for a little while!”

I blinked “We should?”

And okay, I didn’t return the ant response to her exciteether how? Why? What did that even mean?

One thing it meant for sure: I would need more rum in my systelass, leaving a few cubes of ice to rattle around and melt

“Of course we should” She nodded, oblivious to ood to catch up, and I can fill you in on what everyone else has been doing since you’ve been gone”

She stood up from the table and held out her hand to help le It’ll be fun!”

I was pretty sure we had very different ideas about what a fun time involved

Still, I didn’t have anything better to do We had a few hours until the rehearsal dinner, and I didn’t want to spend thatto the rain pounding on the s

Thankfully, a server appeared at just the right tie would be enough to get h an hour or so with Shayla

Barely stifling a reluctant sigh, I stood up and grabbedcrowd of faces from the past

“You remember my brother, Chet,” she pointed across the room, and I waved politely

“You’ll be walking down the aisle with hi about for the past week or so” She laughed and leaned in to whisper a little too loudly, “I think he h school”