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Laina
“What do you mean you’re on the run?”
Stephanie’s question is valid, as is her curious but mostly nonchalant
way of asking it. After all, it’s me we’re talking about. But she should’ve
been more prepared.
“Do I really need to break it down for you—darn it!” I pry my heel out
of a slit in the asphalt. “Besides, when your best friend calls and says she’s
on the run and needs your help, the only question you should ask is whose
car are we taking?”
“You’re so funny.”
I glance to my right, then to my left. A trail of sweat trickles between
my shoulder blades. Aside from two men in fitted suits and sunglasses from
the security team, I’m in the clear.
“There’s nothing funny about this,” I say, darting across the parking lot
as gracefully as possible despite the layers of tulle.
“The last time I saw you—which was approximately fifteen minutes
ago, give or take—you were in your wedding dress, looking stunning, I
might add, waiting for your father to show up to walk you down the aisle.”
Fifteen minutes? Man, I work quick.
The crowd roars from the other side of the safety barrier Landry
Security erected three days ago to keep fans and paparazzi—mostly
paparazzi—away from the church. Brickfield has been teeming all week
with spectators eager to see what the media has deemed the wedding of the
century. Former classmates were interviewed. My kindergarten teacher was
on the front page of Exposé magazine this week. Alleged encounters with
the “men in my life” since I became famous have been dissected and
analyzed to death. If only half of what was printed were real, my life would
be far more entertaining.
I would’ve felt bad for Sheriff Jones in his plight to organize a response
to this level of anarchy in a town of five thousand people if he hadn’t used
my wedding as the launch of his re-election campaign.
“What’s going on, Laina? Are you joking around, or is something really
the matter?”
“Considering I’m currently hiding between two sheds and hoping no
one is flying drones overhead, I’d say something is the matter.”
“Why are you between two sheds?”
I spit a piece of my veil out of my face. “I can’t marry him, Steph.”
My best friend goes silent. I imagine her face—mouth agape, brows
arched higher than the lamination treatment should allow, and a wrinkled
forehead defying her Botox. She wore the same expression when I told her I
was marrying Hollywood heartthrob Tom Waverly a year ago—complete
and utter shock.
“I should’ve listened to you,” I say, taking a steadying breath. “I never
should’ve accepted his proposal at all, let alone plan a wedding and invite
one hundred fifty people to the church and another two hundred to a
reception that cost more than …” Dread rolls through the pit of my
stomach. “Let’s not even go there.”
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