Love Songs Suck by Becky Monson EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Becky Monson
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At Last
Six Months Later
“Congratulations to my Lou,” my mom says as she comes over to me,
pulling me into a big hug, her eyes filling with tears.
“Thanks, Mom,” I say as she holds me tightly. I catch a whiff of her
signature perfume, the one that smells like gardenias. She pulls back and
smiles brightly, one tear making an escape and moving down her cheek.
“I’m so happy for you,” she says. “I think you made a good choice.”
“Me too,” I say, feeling an ache begin in my cheeks from all the smiling.
She stands back, running her hands down the skirt of the red figurehugging dress she’s wearing. Her long blonde hair is curled into big waves
hanging delicately over her shoulders and looks extra shiny in the soft light
coming from the dated tiered-glass chandelier hanging in the dining room
of my parents’ 1970s ranch-style home. The home desperately needs an
update. The kitchen even sports avocado laminate counters, which are so
retro, they’ve almost become cool again. Almost, but not quite.
Everyone gathered at my parents’ house is looking especially nice on this
cold end-of-December Sunday night. Everyone except me, that is. I’m
going for a very disheveled look. Mismatched sweats with a grease stain
just above my left boob. My blonde highlighted hair pulled up into a messy
knot atop my head, and not a stitch of makeup on my face.
This is what my posterity will see in the pictures from the night I got
engaged. Years from now they might even speculate how it all came to be,
with my handsome fiancé in jeans, a blue button-up, and a blazer, his lightbrown hair freshly cut and styled perfectly . . . and me looking like I’ve
spent most of my life living under the Jefferson Street Bridge. Just
fantastic.
In my defense, I’ve been working all day, finishing up some projects that
are due tomorrow, since I’ve had the past week off to celebrate the season. I
didn’t bother getting dressed up because I was just hopping over to my
parents’ for pizza and cake to celebrate my birthday, which was two days
ago.
Not a gathering where the man I’ve been dating for the past two years
asks me to marry him surrounded by my best friends, my family, and his
parents—who are now my future in-laws. Kurt’s mom is too polite to say it
out loud, but her concerned glances have me wondering if she’s questioning
her son’s taste. Either that or she finds it tacky that my parents’ Christmas
decor is still out, four days after the holiday. I guarantee her tree came down
the very next day, in her meticulously decorated showroom of a home.
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