Mariah's POV
**Knock at the door**
"Mariah it's me Stella! Are you ready?!"
I open up the door and smile, "Yes I think so"
"You look so beautiful!!! Derek's gonna lose his mind when he sees you," Stella says
I instantly blush. I hope he does but I'm still scared that he's gonna hurt me. I guess that's normal. My whole life up until now was nothing but fear. I guess fear is all I've come to know, until now.
"You think? I mean- not that I want him to lose his mind. I am just happy I guess."
"Happy is good. You deserve happy. Now enough of this sappy s**t. That's get our party on!," Stella says.
We start walking down the stairs when I see the front door open. It's him. He stands there frozen but smiling. The butterflies in my stomach are doing summersaults. If I wasn't holding onto t
