The sky was darkened by the previous night’s rain, and not a single bird was chipping away.

It was the day of your wedding to your best friend.

But as you woke up in bed, he was gone. He wasn’t lying next to you like he had the whole night.

The day became increasingly full of panic for you and the whole family as he never showed. As you were getting ready at the venue, he still hadn’t arrived.

Where had he been?

There was a bad feeling at the bottom of your gut that had it had to do with his brother, Conrad, who you’d broken up with at prom a few years prior before getting closer this summer and ending in his professing love to you.

And you’d made the stupid mistake of telling Jeremiah last night.

There was a knock on the door, and finally, there he was.

He stepped into the room, grinning.