Author's Note: Why hello there! I didn't see you…

Anyways, I think it's time for a song-shot aye?

Yes; yes it is. Enjoy!(:

Song Title/Artist:

Speak Now by Taylor Swift

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"I am not the kind of girl, who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion.

But you are not the kind of boy who should be marrying the wrong girl.

I sneak in and see your friends and her snotty little family, all dressed in pastel.

And she is yelling at a bridesmaid somewhere back inside a room, wearing a gown shaped like a pastry."

I ran to the church that was up the road, where the wedding was being held. Funny that it would be held there, with him being atheist; but that didn't seem to be any of my business. I jumped up the steps taking at least three at a time. I cracked the door open to find his friends from school all sitting on the seats in a cluster talking and chatting happily; while I saw her family sitting up in the front not speaking to anyone around them. Wow, aren't they a welcoming bunch? I thought to myself as I slipped next to one of the curtains that was towards the middle of the room; completely un-noticed. I stood there staring at the hem of my bright pink dress and heard screaming coming from somewhere back inside a room. Three minutes straight of yelling, and then she came out to get something from the front of the room; her gown shaped like one of the ugliest pastries there were. She disappeared again, thankfully not seeing me.

"This is surly not what you thought it would be.

I lose myself in a day dream where I stand and say…

Don't say yes, run away now.

I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the back door.

Don't wait or say a single vow, you need to hear me out; and they said speak now."

I lent against the window sill, while my mind wondered into a day dream; one that I stood up and said that he shouldn't do it. He shouldn't marry a bimbo blonde who only thought of him as a dad for her baby; a baby that wasn't even his. She doesn't love him, I could tell by the way the she looks at him. Like he's only a necessity; just there to play and paw at. To her, he could die tomorrow and she'd only pretend to care. I dreamt that I told him to run away now, and I'd meet him at the church's back door; told him not to wait or to say a single vow. He needed to hear me out; and the preacher had said speak now…

"Fond gestures are exchanged, and the organ starts to play a song that sounds like a death march; and I'm hiding in the curtains.

It seems that I was uninvited by your lovely bride-to-be.

She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen; I know you wish it was me.

You wish it was me, don't you?"

I looked up finally letting my day dream go, and I saw him exchanging warm gestures to everyone up front before taking his spot up near the preacher. The organ starts playing songs that sounded like death was arriving any moment and we were all here to welcome him. I look around once again to see that his soon-to-be wife gloating down the aisle like she was queen of the world and I sunk back into the curtains as well as I could, because she hadn't invited me. I watched his expression flicker a quick glance of sadness before he smiled; anyone would have been fooled by it too. But everyone didn't know him as well as I do. Not even my ex best friend Jenna, who is the one that will be saying 'I do' any minute now, knew him as well as me; and for God's sake she was marrying the guy. I watched his eyes flaunt around the room taking in all of the people who were there on his special day; when he found me standing there half-hidden in the shades his face lit up. Gah, I know he wants it to be me walking down that isle. I know I want to be the one walking down the isle…

"Don't say yes, run away now.

I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the back door.

Don't wait or say a single vow, you need to hear me out and they said speak now.

Don't say yes, run away now.

I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the back door.

Don't wait or say a single vow, your time is running out and they said speak now.

Oh, la, Oh.

I hear the preacher say 'speak now, or forever hold your peace.'

There's the silence, there's my last chance; I stand up with shaky hands, all eyes on me."

The organ comes to a slow stop and I hear the preacher begin reciting a speech that is preformed at almost every wedding…

"We are all gathered…" I tuned out as I watched Jenna look at him, a smile spreading from one ear to another. She's the most—my thoughts were cut off as the preacher turned to all of us the room and spoke loudly.

"If you disapprove of this marriage, speak now or forever hold your peace." People looked around at one another to see if anyone had stood up to have their opinions heard. Silence fell, and there was my chance. I poked around the curtains that were half-covering me, and with shaky hands I wound them around myself and stepped forward.

"I-I-I disapprove." I stuttered as I looked from Jenna, who had grown red with what I suppose was anger that I was here, and then to Eli; he looked at me his eyes widening and his signature smirk showing on his face, like he knew that I would say something… How could he have though? I wasn't even invited…

"Horrified looks from everyone in the room, but I'm only looking at you.

I am not the kind of girl, who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion.

But you are not the kind of boy who should be marrying the wrong girl.

Don't say yes, run away now; I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the back door.

Don't wait, or say a single vow; you need to hear me out and they said speak now."

I take a quick glance around as everyone in the room stares at me with utter shock; even Adam who was Eli's best man had his mouth dangling open just a tad. I switched my weight from one of my heels to the other, not really comfortable with everyone staring at me like they were; but I tired to ignore them as I stare at Eli, trying desperately to make him understand why I didn't want him to go through with this. Minutes or hours could have gone by, but I wasn't counting or paying any attention rather much caring. Just looking into the deep emerald green eyes that were piercing into my ocean blues.

"Eli," I began, my voice cracking like I was about to burst into tears. "Please just hear me out." Eli looked at the preacher who was looking back and forth between the two of us; I guess he doesn't often get a disagreement. "He said and I quote, 'speak now or forever hold your peace.'" Eli nodded his head, and Jenna sighed extremely loud obviously trying to get the point across that I wasn't wanted here. I took a step forward and let my arms fall to my sides as I took in a deep breath. "Eli, run away. Run away from her," I pointed at Jenna who let out a squeak, but I was too concentrated on Eli to even take her into account. "Don't speak, don't say a single vow. Trust me; I know why she's doing this. She doesn't love you; she never did and never will." I say, pausing to take another deep breath. "Please, don't mess your life up by marrying some twat who only wants to leave the baby with you when she's had it. Meet me in the back door of the church when you're out, or doing something else. Just don't marry her!" I half screamed as I ran out of the church's doors, slamming them behind me. I took my hair out of the tightly wound bun that it was in, and let it fall to the sides of my face. Eli, I thought. Please have you listened to me? She's going to betrayed you; she'll do whatever she can to make your life miserable. I sighed, and tears fell from my eyes. Why was I crying? There's no need for me to cry… I walked around to the back door of the church, hoping, that he'd soon be there and I can finally hold my own peace. Since Jenna had screamed at school that she was getting married to Eli, my mind had gone crazy. I hardly even talked to Alli or Adam; two of my best friends. The third one? Well he had been busy planning a wedding. Yeah, isn't that great? The one person that I actually felt feelings for, getting married to the girl who had once been my all time best friend, didn't even know that I was desperately and irrationally in love with him. Why did the world have to betray me? I've not sinned, I'm a full supporter of God; but I wasn't a freak who would ask 'What Would God Do?' in situations that were stressful. One's like these… I sat down on the side walk, and let my head fall into my hands. I sighed and sat there feeling the light winter's breeze chill me; I shivered. Seconds later, I heard cars starting and drive off. Was the wedding over? Maybe it was just my imagination? Yeah, probably. It was then I heard someone walk near me and stop, to where I felt someone kneel down in front of me.

"Clare Edwards…" They whispered.

"And you say, let's run away now.

I'll meet you when I'm out of my tux at the back door.

Baby, I didn't say my vows. So glad you were around when they said speak now."

Eli?

I looked up to see green eyes and a smile that showed perfectly white teeth.

"Eli? What are you…?" My words drifted off as he cut me off.

"I didn't say my vows, Clare. I couldn't go through with it after what you said. Jenna was - of course, but Clare I'm so glad you were there when they said speak now. I personally can't even begin to thank you enough for making the illusion that I had of her shatter into a million tiny pieces. Clare, without you being there today I think now, I could have majorly messed up my life with Jenna. Adam, Alli, Sav, even KC tried talking me out of it; out of marrying her." He paused, and looked at the people that were now getting in their cars to leave the church. "But the one person to convince me? It was you, Clare. I was so set on spending my life with a girl who I thought I loved. But you showed me that it wasn't real. Fake love, well it's the worst." He sighed and stood up; while doing so, he had taken my hand and pulled me up along with him. "Lets go get a smoothie or something down at The Dot, sound good?" He smiled and I nodded. We walked to his car and jumped in, heading our way there. Well, today was a Sunday I wasn't going to easily forget…

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So what do you all think?

I got the new Taylor Swift CD for Christmas, and instantly LOVED this song:D

So review? Think about it? Come on, you know you want to!:D

~Brinny