We walked back to the wedding hand in hand. Jacob told me dumb jokes that had me wheezing. Then, because he was so honest, he confessed that they were jokes Glenn had told him to tell me. It didn’t matter. The fact that Jacob was trying to make me laugh warmed my heart. When we opened the back gate and stepped in again, everybody stopped and turned to look at us. Right. Only my parents and Mariah knew I was engaged. I blushed, but everybody just smiled and turned back to what they were doing.
I grabbed Jacob’s hand, dragging him towards my parents. My mom embraced my father, and they were smiling. We stood in front of my parents, and Jacob wrapped his arm around my waist.
“Mom, Dad,” I said. “This is my fiancé, Jacob.”
Their smiles widened. Jacob shook hands with my fath
