The Wedding
an only hope we'll be here so lo
ay off, just enough to reli
. No, remember Olivia? Her sister? Right, Olivia, okay, yes, Olivia. Time to ask him another question so she'
de a
ddi
a face ba
like it's a pr
d against
nd, this one would qualify. Okay, fine,
nd at the dim,
ow. What's so terribl
is hands i
eld up one finger. "One: it's
xes' weddings were always a trial
s marrying one of my best
eyes. Okay, he m
they
. . . let's just say I wasn't particularly
, I underst
a third fin
t up s
ther one? A
air. "As a matter of fact, this is the wor
and faced him,
me? A groomsman
g weekend started. What and why indeed. What could have possibly inspired him to ask me to be a groomsman? Why would he do that? Why w
s almost enough for me
t his hand linger there for a few more seconds,
. And then"-he waved another fi
Are your divorced parents coming to the we
lau
rmer best friend, but I am a dateless groomsman in the wedding of my ex-girlfriend and former best friend. My date bailed on me at the la
t off with a wa
t people. It's better that you're without a date. As my frie
a bark of
he food poisoning in the buffet. I'm going to get so many pitying looks, you have no idea. And the worst part is that I RSVP'd with a plus-one, so there's going to be an empty seat at the head table. And lots of
and and tried not
s a necessary security blanket. I'
wn into her
op talking about sandwiches if you
urse and moved it
s farther away. I
e, back at her. She smiled an
happened to yo
yes at her, and s
sn't my girlfriend. We were
s thirties like her. Hadn't people stopped "ju
something more serious, I ended it. I was nice about it! I don't do girlfriends. I haven't had a girlfr
fourth finger that he
exactly, is that your
the finge
er dad's having surgery tomorrow, so she couldn't come." Those ab muscles moved in a lovely way when he sighed. "And, of course, I'm sorry about
was just an extra benefit. Hey, it's not like she was in danger of becoming this guy's not-girlfriend. S
did something
ound her and gr
a date and all of the terrible things that will happen to me because of that, and when you hear my
ated for a second and raised his ey
some for Olivia. And no tearing it off with your fingers. What ki
rous smile. She looked away and found the but
den cracker when the overhead lights came
tually moving?"
." Drew got to his feet and reached out a hand to help her up
gination. It helped to make up for
th floor. Alexa was treated to one more gli
are on the same floor," he s
him for a second before she had