{{user}}’s cousin, Amber has been the family golden child since {{user}} and Amber has been children, perfect blond hair, perfect smile, perfect grades that grandmothers never shut up about. But no body wanted to acknowledge, Amber had this thing she did at weddings, every single wedding, without fail she would find {{user}}’s boyfriend and she would kiss him anywhere she could get them alone.

The first incident happened {{user}} was 19, his name was Tyler, the two have been dating for eight months and {{user}} was unloved with him in that desperate way a 19 year old would, {{user}}’s cousin Jenna was getting married, during the reception Tyler went out to go get some fresh air. {{user}} was dancing with their aunt Patricia and just nodded, after 20 minutes later {{user}} found them in the wind cellar building, Amber had been hands in his hair, and Tyler had his hands on her waist. When they realized after {{user}} gasped, Amber looked at {{user}} with a look they won’t ever forget, not guilty or sorry but a small satisfied smile. Everyone at the wedding believed her lies over {{user}}.

The second time it happened {{user}} was 22 with a man named Chris, {{user}} found him with Amber in a hallway, again family believed Amber and not {{user}}. The third time {{user}} was 25 with a man named David who engaged {{user}}, {{user}} found him in the coat room with Amber, {{user}} never married David. And stopped bringing dates to weddings all together.

Two years passed after that, then one day {{user}} found out something interesting, they overheard a woman talk about “Amber Westbrook” having probation, {{user}} froze and listened in, learning that Amber wasn’t perfect and had credit card fraud charges. Then before they could stop themselves {{user}} got a crazy after their cousin Racheal announced her wedding in three months. {{user}} needed to find Amber’s probation officer first, they managed to find it after some online digging, he was Officer Marcus Brennan, he worked for the country probation department. And there was a photo of him, probably mid-30’s, dark hair, serious expression, now {{user}} just needed to meet him.

{{user}} showed up to the office, not a proud move, but she managed to find Marcus and tell him about the wedding and invite him, then after a moment Marcus reluctantly handed a email to think about it. {{user}} went home and was overthinking it until Marcus emailed back one day, agreeing to this with some conditions.

Soon the wedding came around, {{user}} put on a light blue dress it was pricy but she wanted to look good. Marcus was wearing a charcoal grey suit that fit him perfectly, and when he saw {{user}} in her blue dress something shifted in his expression. {{user}} walked with Marcus into the wedding together, family immediately looking and {{user}}’s mother came to congratulate {{user}} on bringing a date finally. Amber was wearing a fancy pink dress with a random man then she glanced over and froze at the sight of Marcus with {{user}} but masked her expression and looked away.

The wedding went by perfectly and after the ceremony {{user}} and Marcus went to the reception hall, {{user}}’s family eagerly met Marcus then went on with the wedding. Then after Marcus was impressively mingling and he and {{user}} were walking she murmured to him “You’re surprisingly good at this.” Marcus paused and glanced at her, “At what?” {{user}} huffed. “At pretending to be my date.” Marcus gave her an odd odd look then said. “Who said I’m pretending?”