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Wedding Day
June 15, 2019
The first step outside was like a cool dip on a hot summer day. I gasped in all the air that my lungs could hold. All the air that I couldn’t breathe inside that stifling church.
I couldn’t believe I’d done that.
After all that bullshit about making a choice, I’d still run from them. I had to decide. I had to. I’d thought I already had.
“f**k,” I yelled on the hallowed grounds. I couldn’t bring myself to care.
I was just so angry.
So angry that I was even standing here.
What would people say about me fleeing my own wedding? Only minutes from saying our I dos. I knew exactly what Ash’s parents would say. They’d criticize me, as they always had. They’d only put up with me because of Ash. And now?
Could I even blame them for thinking of me as some coveto
