~ 18 days until the ceremony ~
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"Em, do you mind if I talk to you for a minute?" Tiara asked me, her voice soft and innocent.
"Sure," I replied casually without looking at her.
"Uhm, I was hoping maybe alone?" she asked.
I paused, my eyes instantly flickering to the blonde next to me.
"No," I replied, turning back to my book. "Say what you want now."
"But... I don't want to talk to you in front of a bunch of people who hate me," Tiara whined.
Before I could reply "no" again, because that was my plan, Lenny put her hand on my arm. I turned my head to see her smile at me. The air caught in my lungs just looking at her. You'd think that I hadn't spent nearly every single waking second with Lenny since we met. Her beauty still stuns me every
