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It was near midnight on the Greek island of Kalokairi, most of the islanders were asleep but not one. 20 year-old Emma Naylor was standing in front of the island post box carrying three letters in her hands. Inside each letter was an invitation to her wedding. She sighed but with a massive grin on her face. As she posted each letter, she lightly traced each name with her finger
"Jonny Maconie"
"Joseph Byrne"
"Derwood Thompson"
After the letters were posted, Emma looked up at the sky and wished on a star. Then she turned back towards home, hoping that her wish will come true
…
(Two weeks later)
Down at the port, all you could hear where girly screams. Emma ran down the jetty towards the boat that had just pulled up. Her best friends (and bridesmaids) Grace and Alice had arrived. The girls climbed out of the boat and the three best friends embraced in a massive hug before breaking out into their signature song
"We're Alice, Grace and Emma, we're the greatest bestest mates"
"I'm tough!" sang Alice
"I'm tall!" sang Emma
"I'm tiny" sang Grace
"And we're gonna rock this place!" they all shouted at the end and then laughed
"Oh my god Emma, you're getting married tomorrow!" exclaimed Grace
"Let me see it!" Alice said and grabbed Emma's left hand to admire her engagement ring and the two best friends gushed over the ring
"I want one!" moaned Grace and the three friends laughed
"Man! How did Jamie afford this thing" asked Alice
"You can ask him later!" Emma laughed before confiding in her friends, "but first I need to tell you guys a big secret!" she said quietly with a massive grin on her face
The two friends looked at each other before exclaiming together "Oh my god, you're pregnant!"
"No! I'm not pregnant" Emma replied as she battered her friends' hands away from her non-pregnant belly
"Then what is it?"
"I may have found out who my father is!" Emma revealed
"What? How?" both girls asked, determined to find out more
"Well, I was in Mum's room looking for some old photos of me for the wedding, and I came across this!" Emma squealed as she pulled out a tatty old diary from her bag.
"What's that" asked Alice
"It's Mum's diary from the year before I was born and when she was pregnant with me" said Emma
"So what's that got to do with finding out who your father is" said Grace
"Well, listen to this – July 17th. What a night!"
"Um, I don't think I want to hear about your mother's sexual exploits!" said Alice
"I do!" giggled Grace before Emma continued
"Jonny rowed me over to the little island, (and by that she means here, Kalokairi), We danced on the beach, we kissed on the beach and dot, dot, dot"
"What?"
"Dot, dot, dot; that's what they did in the olden days" she explained to her friends, raising her eyebrows"
"Oh!" the two girls realising before letting out a little giggle
"Jonny's the one, I know he is, I've never felt this way before!" Emma smiled, and she began to sing
"Honey honey, how you thrill me, ah-hah, honey honey
Honey honey, nearly kill me, ah-hah, honey honey
I'd heard about you before
I wanted to know some more
And now I know what they mean, you're a love machine
Oh, you make me dizzy
Honey honey, let me feel it, ah-hah, honey honey
Honey honey, don't conceal it, ah-hah, honey honey
The way that you kiss goodnight
(The way that you kiss me goodnight)
The way that you hold me tight
(The way that you're holding me tight)
I feel like I wanna sing when you do your thing"
"So, this Jonny guy, he's your dad?" Alice asked but Emma continued reading out the diary interrupting her best friend
"The plot thickens – All this time, Jonny has been telling me, and now he's announced he's engaged, so he's gone home to get married"
"Poor Jac!" sighed Grace before Emma continued
"August 4th. What a night! Derwood rented a motorboat and I took him over to the little island"
"Derwood? Emma, wait-"
"- Hang on" interrupted Emma
"Though I'm still obsessed with Jonny, Derwood's so wild. He's such a funny guy. One thing led to another and…" Emma paused and looked up at her friends
"Dot, dot, dot" but before the girls could respond Emma quickly carried out reading
"August 11th, Joseph turned up, out of the blue, so I said I'd show him the island. He's so sweet and understanding, I couldn't help it and…"
The three girls looking up at each other and shouted
"DOT, DOT, DOT!"
The girls laughed and ran up the steps to the entrance of the villa that Emma's mother owned and were met by the lady herself
"Ah here come the bridesmaids!" Jac smiled as she saw her daughter arrive back at the villa with her two best friends in tow. Alice and Grace smiled back and each gave Jac a nice hug.
"God, look at you both! Stop growing!" Jac said putting on a pretend emotional voice and the girls laughed
"Well, you girls sound like you are having a lot of fun already!" Jac said to the girls
"We are!" replied Grace with a smile
Jac sighed, "I used to have fun"
"Oh we know!" said Alice a little too loudly before she was dragged away by the other girls towards Emma's room whilst Jac had turned away with a confused look on her face. As the girls ran up the stairs and to Emma's room they sang
"Honey honey, touch me, baby, ah-hah, honey honey
Honey honey, hold me, baby, ah-hah, honey honey
You look like a movie star
(You look like a movie star)
But I know just who you are
(I know just who you are)
And, honey, to say the least, you're a dog-gone beast!"
Soon the girls got to Emma (and Jamie's) room, Grace and Alice dumped their bags on the sofa before they started quizzing Emma again
"So which one is your dad? Jonny, Derwood or Joseph?" Grace asked
"I'm not sure" replied Emma
"But which one did you invite?" asked Alice, and the girls were met with a mischievous grin and then it dawned on them
"Oh, my god!" the pair exclaimed in unison whilst Emma also said it but in a more excited tone
"Do they know?" asked Alice
"What would you write to a stranger, 'Please come to my wedding, oh and you might be my father?'; No! They think that Mum sent them the invites, and with the information from the diary, it's no surprise… THAT THEY SAID YES!"
"Honey honey, how you thrill me, ah-hah, honey honey
Honey honey, nearly kill me, ah-hah, honey honey"
Emma walked out onto the balcony by herself
"I heard about you before
I wanted to know some more
And now I'm about to see, what you mean to me!"
Emma sighed happily, and walked back into her room to have a good catch-up with her friends
…
Whilst this was all happening, on the main island that Kalokairi was a boat ride off, two taxis were zooming through the port town towards the jetty where the ferry was usually docked. The two taxis finally got to the jetty's edge and a man came out of each taxi with their luggage shouting to the ferry's captain but it was too late, the ferry had left.
"Bugger" one of the men shouted, with a posh English accent whilst adjusting his tie
"My sentiments exactly" said the other man, this man however had a Scottish accent.
The man who had spoken first whose name was Joseph spoke again
"I'm trying to get to Kalokairi, when is the next ferry?"
"Monday" The Scottish man replied named Jonny as he pointed to the ferry schedule that was written on a little chalkboard balanced against a rock
"Bollocks!"
"My sentiments exactly"
Joseph pulled the invitation out of his pocket; Jonny looked over and recognised the invite as he had one too
"Bride or groom?" Jonny asked
"Bride" Joseph replied, "Although, I've actually never met her"
Jonny was about to reply, as he was also going to be there for the bride and had also never met her but was stopped by a yell
"Ahoy!"
The two men back at the sea and saw a man on a yacht calling to them
"You guys need a lift to Kalokairi?"
…
Meanwhile, on the ferry that the two men had missed, two women were making their way down the ferry to find a seat
"Excuse me, coming through." Mo Effanga shouted as she led the way "I have a senior citizen with me. Thank you. My mother needs a perch"
The other woman, Serena Campbell scoffed
"Mother, we're the same age Mo!"
"Well, parts of us are" Mo replied back to her friend with a grin
The pair found some seats and tried to enjoy the rest of the journey on a very cramp, smelly ferry.
…
Back in Emma's room, Emma was helping the girls try on their bridesmaid dresses and making sure that they fit
"We are going to look fabulous tomorrow!" Alice exclaimed
"I want the perfect wedding, and I want my father to give me away."
Alice leaned over to Grace and whispered "better be a wide aisle" and the two silently giggled
"I will know my father as soon as I see him!" Emma said determinedly, and a few seconds after Jamie walked into the room he usually shared with his fiancée. He smiled when he saw the three girls
"Hey Jamie! Come here gorgeous!" Grace laughed as Jamie grabbed his fiancée's best friends by their sides and swung them around
"Jamie! Put me down!" the girls both shouted by still laughing but Jamie carried on spinning
"I'm getting married tomorrow!" Jamie exclaimed and almost threw the girls down which made Emma grimace
"Please be careful!" Emma told her fiancée, "Those dresses have pins in them!" she said as she raised her eyebrows and was met with Jamie's trademark smirk
"So what do you think" Alice asked Jamie, knowing in reality to him, it's just a dress
"Oh yes!" he said flashing his smirk
Emma smiled as she shook her head
"'Oh yes', if he had his way, the entire wedding would be over in three minutes and we would be decked out in jeans and t-shirts and then washed down with beer" Emma said as she walked over to Jamie and brushed her hand through his light brown hair. Jamie shook his head lovingly at his fiancée
"You make me sound so unromantic! I just thought we could use the money instead for travelling!"
"Well, we are not going anywhere just yet, Mum needs us. Anyway, please vacate this room as we are very, very busy" Emma replied to him as she gave him a light shove in the direction of the door
"Alright, alright, I'm just getting some props for tonight!" He said with a wink
"Ooh" Alice and Grace exclaimed
"For his bachelor party", Jamie laughed and grabbed a few things from a box and headed out the door. Then the two friends turned back to Emma with a serious look on their faces
"You haven't told him have you" said Grace
"Why haven't you told him you've invited your dads?" asked Alice
Emma sighed "because he would say that I would have to tell Mum"
"Jac is going to kill you when she finds out"
"Maybe, but when she finally does find out, it will be too late." The two best friends sighed. Emma was determined to find her father. Even though there were three candidates on their way. Emma could see the look on their faces"
"Look, I feel like there is a part of me missing, and it's been missing for twenty years. When I meet my dad, all will fall into place!" said Emma, and soon the three friends continued with the dress fitting.anHHHkkugfffysjJ
