Ally smiled and looked at the beautiful girl standing before her.
Her hair was curled to perfection, pinned to the right side so her long, dark brown hair cascaded over her shoulder. Because of her heels, she stood about four inches taller than she usually did- which considering how short she was, wasn't really a bad thing. Her dress was white and long; strapless with a sweetheart neckline. It was more fitted at the top and then puffed out into a beautiful ruffled skirt which flattered her quite nicely.
Her best friend was breathtaking.
"Trish, you're going to make a beautiful bride." Ally told her, tears forming at the corner of her eye. Ally was never an emotional person, but this was something worth crying about; happy tears though.
Trish was getting married.
"No crying!" Trish scolded. "You're going to ruin your make up!"
"Well I'm sorry! This is a big day! I mean, no one really thought you'd be getting married!" Ally teased with a smirk on her face.
Trish spun around from looking in the fully body mirror where she was standing and gave Ally a shove. "Very funny." She mocked, before turning back and staring at herself.
She really did look good, though, it was never really difficult to make Trish look good; she could rock anything. Even though she was pleasantly plump, she had curves in all the right places, which the dress happened to emphasis beautifully.
"Knock, knock!" A voice came from the door. Ally spun around to see the intruder and her eyes widened. She threw a robe that was sitting on the floor that Trish had been wearing before she had changed, at Trish in an attempt to hide her outfit.
"Out! Out!" Ally shoed before covering his eyes herself and legitimately kicking him out of the room.
She shut the door behind her with a slam and glared at him. "You know it's bad luck to see the bride before the ceremony."
Trent sighed. "I know." he said sheeply.
Yes Trent, the bad-boy, ex boyfriend that had almost ruined Austins Career - which now that Ally thinks about it, wasn't a bad thing - and had used Trish. The same Trent of whom Trish happened to be marrying.
When Trish had first come to Ally and said that they had crossed paths while buying coffee, and that he had offered to buy her a cup sometime, Ally was a bit skeptical. Yes Trish was most definitely capable of handling herself, but still, Ally had the right to worry. Trent was one of Trish's first crushes, and her first real boyfriend - on her end anyways - and Ally would hate to see her best friend get her hurt broken by the same boy twice.
Regardless of Ally's concerns, the two of them had gone out to coffee and had a great time. A lot can happen over the course of five years. Trish had claimed that Trent had changed, and he had proved that to be true.
He was a gentleman, truly. Took their relationship slow, and genuinely had an interest in her. Even when Trish started to doubt there relationship and tried to break it off, her fought for her, and proved himself worthy.
After dating for three years, he proposed. The proposal took everyone by surprise, but Trish was not an easy girl to handle, and there really was no one better for her than Trent, so if he wanted to deal with her for the rest of his life, then who was Ally to stop them.
"If you know then why are you here?" She said, appointing blame.
Trent looked down at his shoes then back at Ally and gave her a 'please don't kill me' smile, while Ally just glared back. "I have a good reason!" He protested. "I didn't come to see Trish, I came to find you."
"Me?"
"Yeah, uh, you see, uh, there's a, slight problem."
"WHAT!" Ally shrieked. "NO, no, no. There CAN NOT be a problem." She yelled panic flooding through her. "I'm the maid of honor, everything supposed to be perfect, this cannot be happening, we have to fix it!"
"But here's the good news! It's already fixed!" He said enthusiastically, with a smile.
Ally put on her best not impressed face. "Then why are you telling me this?"
"Because you're not gonna like it." Trent said in a high pitch voice.
Ally glared. "Trent." She said threateningly.
"Dezcan'tmakeittotheceremony." He said quickly, finished with a cough, patting his chest a few times. He avoided eye contact for a few seconds before looking at the glare on her face and sighed. "Dez can't make it to the ceremony. " He said slowly this time. "But he'll be at the reception!" Trent quickly added, trying to ease the pain.
"But Dez is the best man!" Ally stated.
Trent nodded.
It was true that Trent and Dez had become very close when he and Trish had started dating. Dez even went with Trent to pick out an engagement ring, they didn't get any of the rings Dez picked out, but he was there.
"Who am I supposed to walk down the aisle with now!"
Cough. "Austin." Cough.
"What." Ally said quietly, danger dripping from her voice. "You're telling me I have to walk down the aisle with Austin Moon! I haven't talked to him in years!" She exclaimed.
"I know, I'm sorry! Just Dez had called saying something about a cat eating his unicorn - like, what does that even mean?!- and Austin was there and he had asked whats wrong and offered to fill in! You can't walk down the aisle by yourself, Trish would never allow that, and with Dez gone we're down a groomsman and I didn't know what to do!" He ranted.
Ally opened her mouth to argue but he interrupted her. "And I know you don't like him but you're going to do it because you love Trish and you're the best maid of honor ever, right? Right. K bye." He finished before taking off down the hallway.
Ally sighed, he did have a point.
She was the best maid of honor ever.
She let out a groan of frustration before opening the door and storming back into the room where Trish was. "Woah, what just happened?" Trish asked, confused at the sight of her best friend.
"Austin."
"What about him?" Trish asked cautiously, eye wide in alarm.
"Dez had a unicorn emergency and now I'm walking down the aisle with him!" Ally exclaimed.
"I'm no sorry." She said genuinely.
"Me too." Ally sighed.
Before Trish had a chance to expand on the subject, the door opened and Trish's mother walked in with her million dollar smile. "Alright ladies, its showtime!"
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The ceremony truly was beautiful.
The flowers were stunning and everything was in the right place. People were respectful and the pianist never missed a beat. And to top it all off, no one fell!
Except Ally tripping over her own foot right before they went down the aisle, so fortunately no one saw. The nerves had gotten to her. Luckily, Austin was there to catch her before she fell on her ass, but all he got in reply was a glare.
Trish and Trent had said their own vows; vows of which Ally thought were super cute and got extremely emotional, but only subtly to herself.
Trish's vows is what really got Ally, Trent's were cute, but never in her life had Ally seen so much feeling from Trish. She was a very closed person, hides behind a wall of sarcasm and never really lets anyone in. To see her so forward with her feeling for Trent was just beautiful. Any doubt Ally had for the two of them, at that moment, had just disappeared.
Austin and Ally's trip down the aisle hadn't been so smooth.
Ally always pictured this moment walking down to meet him, not walking down beside him.
The second he had said hello, she had flat out told him not to talk to her, which he respected and complied. In fact, the only real connection they had made was when he had caught her, and when they had linked arms to walk down the aisle; which is Ally could of gotten out of, she would have.
To Ally, that was the longest two minutes of her life. Having to stand next to him and keep her mouth shut was torture. She wanted to yell at him, scream at him, for how he had hurt her and left her and how he was a just an asshole.
But she was also extremely conflicted.
Because at the same time she wanted to tell him how she was, what she had accomplished and how much she missed him.
However, she didn't say a thing.
She didn't even look at him, and she wanted to say the same about him, but she knew if she said that she'd be in denial. There was no mistaking how he had stared at her through the whole god-damn ceremony.
This was going to be a long night.
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So, new story.
Hope y'all liked it, I'm quite excited for it. This is a rather short chapter, shorter than what I usually write but its only the introduction. The chapters should get longer.
Just to clarify on the timeline, Trent came around first when they were fifteen the re-connected when they were twenty and they're all about 23.
Please leave a review letting me know what you think. It will mean a lot!
Thanks!
-Alex
