Payton's P.O.V.
"Payton, Ryder! Get up, please. The Rehearsal Dinner is tonight and we need to finish putting some decorations up at the Reception Center," my mother, Sue, yells up the stairs.
"Pay, remind me why you dragged me along?" Ryder asks from the other side of the bed.
"Because I don't want to be stuck at my aunt's wedding without anyone to hang out with except my lame family. I needed a friend; you are getting a trip to London, with me: bonus! Plus you're singing too," I explain. The reason for all this wedding and performing stuff is that my mothers little sister, Sam, is getting married tomorrow. My parents, my siblings, my best friend, Ryder, and I have flown from Los Angeles to London to see Sam marry her boyfriend, Charlie, now fiancé, of about 4 years. My mother and I are both bridesmaids and Ryder is the photographer and she will sing their first dance song. "Come on. Let's get ready and go down stairs before my mom blows another gas-cap."
"Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Last time she did that I thought she was going to punch your dad." Ryder laughs as we get role out of bed.
As we head down stairs we both hear chaos coming from the dinning room and kitchen areas. Charlie is some multi-millionaire CEO for some sort of Business Company so the house, more like mansion, we are staying in is his and quite hard to navigate through. The first two days that we were here my little sister, Grace, got lost finding the bathroom.
When Ryder and I arrive at the kitchen my mom and Sam are yelling at each other and my siblings and cousins, more at each other, trying to solve an argument. We grabbed some pancakes and toast from the prepared plates and walked into the dinning room. My pregnant aunt Sophie, her husband Neil, Dad, Charlie and cousin Brandon were already half way done with their food.
"Hey girls, sleep well last night?" Charlie asked us when we enter.
"Yes, we did. Thanks again for letting us stay here during all of this by the way, again." I said. As we continue to talk amongst ourselves and finish our breakfast. My mom walks in and tells us to finish getting ready so we can get to the reception area now.
After about and hour of getting all the children and decorations together and loaded into the vehicles we finally arrived at the reception center. While Brandon, Ryder, Charlie, Sam, Neil, my dad, my younger brother, Aidan, and I put everything together and set it up, my mom and Sophie looked after, Grace, my little brother, Ian, and my other cousin Kory. After many hours, a little lunch break and my mom running around with Ian in her arms from the reception center to its kitchen to check on the food for tomorrow and Sam telling us were everything goes, we finally finished it all.
In four hours we were suppose to go out and eat at the Albannach Restaurant for dinner so Ryder and I immediately raced off to shower. After we both finished our showers we blasted Ryder's iPod through the sound system in our room. Music blasted through the speakers as we did our hair and curled our lashes, applying makeup and jewelry and singing along. Ryder and I have known each other since 5th grade when I moved to Los Angeles from Sydney, Australia. Ryder is short at 5' 4", green eyed, red hair and talented, I'm tall at 5' 11", brown eyed and long brown hair. Ryder can sing and has gotten almost all the roles she has wanted since she was in diapers for every play, musical and a few cereal commericals she has auditioned for. I, on the other hand, have been playing sports and the piano since I can remember. I have been playing on the Varsity Volleyball team at Hollywood High, Ryder's and mines high school, since my freshman year and started last year as a sophomore. I have also been playing Tennis and piano at the country club my parents attend since I was six.
When we finally took a last look in the mirror we snapped some pictures. Ryder was wearing a green mini dress with lace at the top and down the arms. It was seemed and poofed out at her waist and ended at mid thigh with black stilettos and her hair straightened into her perfect bob look. I was wearing a black dress with no straps that also ended at mid thigh with my long hair curled into a low side pony and my red vans on. After we finished we waited around for the adults to finish getting the kids and themselves ready. Charlie walked by us, and noticing how impatient we were, suggested that we should take his new Black Cadillac CTS out for a bit seeing as we had longer than an hour until our reservation. Realizing what he offered us Ryder and I took the opportunity immediately.
"Pay, can we head to like McDonalds or something I don't want to eat at this fancy shmancy restaurant with over priced food and I'm really craving chicken nuggets." Ryder asked from the passenger seat when we got in.
"Ahhhh, ammonia filled nuggets that could give you cancer. You're speaking my language," I said with Ryder laughing along. "Find the nearest Mckey D's on the GPS would ya?"
"Ha! Knew it. Sweg."
"Will you shut up with that word please? I beg of you." Ryder laughed at my comment as she found the nearest one. As I drove we jammed along to the radio some more, shocker shocker! We parked across the street and ran across to entrance. As we were about to walk in I looked down at a text from my mom and ran into a tall boy with blonde hair and stumbled a bit backwards.
"Oops, sorry! I didn't see you there." Blonde boy apologized bending down to help me up.
"Oh my God, Payton are you okay?" Ryder asked, also helping me up.
"Payton? Payton Wright?! Is that you? Is it really you?" A boy with black hair asked me. As I looked up I recognized exactly who he was.
"Calum?!" I was in shock.