Tables were set up along the walls of a large banquet room, it had white table linen and they all had huge flower decorations and towers with cupcakes of all sorts. Pearl’s seventeenth birthday had a much more mature theme than a teenager’s. Pearl had wanted it like that, simple and elegant. All her friends were invited and her parents were there as well. Earl was trying his best to keep his cool but the swarms of fawning young girls had him on an edge. Wyatt grinned at Earl, he was glad it was Earl getting all the attention and not him. The icy front from Pearl’s parents however was solely meant for Wyatt, and he knew it. They arrived as they always did, without a word and barely any recognition. The fact that they had marked each other had her father go on an epic tangent with Wyatt over
