I was brushing my hairs in the penthouse suite.when i heard a voice. loud , panicked and the sound of people arguing . Not again ! I thought to myself , rolling my eyes . People had been fighting all day on smallest of thing. The flower, the food ,the sitting arrangement,the decoration ,you name it and there was a problem with it. I wasn't surprised through . My mother and sister were perfectionist . I pited the weeding planner who'd taken up the Herculean task of satisfying not only olivia but also my mother.
Olivia's weeding was all anybody could talk about for month. Not that I was complaining . I loved weeding ;there was something about " till death do ous part" line that got me everywhere. The Idea of two people deciding the rest of their life together was utterly romantic and it symbolized that decision on me. It had surprised me that my elder sister agreed for weeding after dating Zach for about two months . But hey. I guess when you find the " One " there isn't a lot left to think about.
I giggled , when I thought of finding the "One" . Hopefully I'd manage to find mt soulmate too .Noah was everything I could ever ask for and more . Sweet, romantic, sensitive and compassioned. He was an ideal boyfriend and I'd fallen for him hook , line and sinker. He would be there and a idea of seeing him in a tux made butterflies in my pit all over stomach . Oh I had it bad.
I got up to examine myself in full length mirror placed in my room, ignoring the increasing loud voice that had started coming from hallway. Whatever it was that was wrong now could be handle perviously. Seriously they just needed to clam down.
I twrled the stand of my long curled brown hair around my finger and fidgeted with my figure- hugging cream dress. Ofcourse it had been selected by my sister and I wasn't the one to argue it was her wedding afterall . I couldn't just go about telling her that the dress she picked for me bravely gave me room to breath . I was naturally curly and the dress did a good job in hidding that ; I looked almost as thin as my sister and that made our resemblance more prominent. Both of ous had deep brown hairs with the same green eyes as dark as emerald. And both of ous were cursed with the same pale skin which resfued to get shade darker. Olivia offen said that people would die to get such a clear , Creamy skin tone. But I wished that my hours on beach would paid off.
The dress was fitted at the bust. The sweetheart reveling an appropriate amount of cleavage . The bow right underneath the bust tighten the grip on my waist and the skirt on my dress skimmed my body, hugging the area around me hips. It was hard begin in it but if I do say so myself . It made me look and feel gorgeous. Olivia did inherit our mothers exquisite taste.
I was examining myself in front of the mirror for the millionth time when suddenly anstroment of people walked in , halting me in my track my parents, Olivia's in-law's the price and her fiance Zach along with my uncle Collin and aunt Ophelia all stromed right in without as much as a knock . The the look on there faces made that though go away immediately. Worry was etached into there feature and my mother looked pale enough to faint at any moment. Oh no , something terrible's happened . I thought to myself . Dread filling my body . It was how defeated and haunted by my father looked that the problem bigger than the usual woes. he was never one to worry about small things and was generally a very optimistic person. If something has managed a toll on him then it had to be bad.
" What is it?" I found myself asking them, my heart racing a mile a minute.
no oned answered; they looked like they don't have the courage to answer my question. I looked around at all of them. Expecting someone to speak up . Mr.price placed a hand on her husband's arm just as he was about to say something. He looked red in face , like he was barely controlling his fury and I shurddered at the thought of witnesses one of his famous tantrums.
After what seemed like an eternity , it was my aunt Ophellia who answered her face controlling into a mask of pain and sorrow. Okay now I was officially freaking it out.
" Honey we found his in your sister's room" she said, holding a piece of writing paper, I walked towards her, my legs shaking as I did so and I graded it from her. On it my sister's perfect handwriting were in words:
"I'm sorry but I can't do this. I can't go through this wedding.bi don't love him please try to understand that I'm doing this for the both of ous. I'm going away and I'm not sure if I ever plan on coming back. Don't try to find me and please don't hate me ."
My gasp left my lips as I hold the mote in my trembling hands . This could not be happening , it had to be some kind of sick joke the everyone was playing on me . My eyes searched there faces for some sign of contradicting but there was none. Everyone was just as shocked as I was and just as hurt. However one face confromed the horrifying fact.
Zach. He looked so broken. So dejected and crushed that I felt my heart ache for him .bhis shoulder were slumed in defeat , his body was tensed and stiffened and his hands clenched. That however it wasn't a worst part. The worst part was how he was trying to be strong and not give away the amount of pain he felt but I could see it . His eyes told the story of their own and there was nothing false in that story. How could Olivia have done this to him?
"Ari we know that this could be so difficult for you but the fact is that we have a wedding to go in less than four hours with over three thousand people arriving ".
I looked at my aunt like she lost her mind. What wedding? The bride had runned away she had made a terrible mess and left all us to deal with the frightened consequences that were surely to follow. There wasn't going to be a weeding anymore , how could there be ?
As if reading my mind my father spoke up his voice was completely lacking confidence I normally associate with it ." We can't cancel the wedding sweetheart it will ruin ous, all of us. If a wedding doesn't take place today not only will we be utterly humiliated but we could stand to lose in everything. He chocked out and I stared at him stupidly where this was headed .
My mother , who would never allow herself to be humble anyone looked at me then , pleading with her eyes.
"We need your help Ari. You are the only one who can save this family now ."
Approximately four hours after I was taken into the church followed by my mother , my aunt and few cousins who had been told the truth. A long veil covered my face and the corset I wore under the dress molded my shape to fit into the dress . My sister's wedding dress.
The music began to play and I fixed my gaze firmly to the ground. Begging myself to not my tear escape . My father linked his arm with mine as everyone else left the room.
"Ari my honey you have no idea what this means to us," he whispered in my ear and I nodded my head slightly, not trusting myself to speak
It was to the best to traditional weeding marchthat I walked towards the alter. My father griping my arm tightly, comforting me but all the while suffocating me. He let go off me when we reach where Zach and his best man stood and after completing his duty of giving me away. He left me alone to take the biggest step of my life .
The vows he said the lies concealed as I took Zach Price as my husbandfor better or for worst . My actions were machanical, my tone was robotic . I had always dreamt of the day I would get married but now I knew better . Those dream hadn't been dreams to begin with ; they had been sign of the nightmare to come true.
One sentence , I whispered one sentence as the priest pronounced us husband and wife, hoping the words somehow reached him.
"I love u Noah ,please forgive me"