Chapter 9- Go your own way
Georgie and Elvis arranged their big day for six weeks after their engagement. For some people it may seem to soon, but for them they knew there was no point in waiting any longer. They had decided on Hallé St Peter's, which was a stunning, grade II listed church and wedding venue in Georgie's hometown. Luckily for them, a cancellation had come up for a Friday and they had snatched it up straight away. Both Georgie and Elvis's families were super excited and some of Elvis's family were even flying over from Italy especially. Charles was to be Elvis's best man and Georgie was having her sisters as bridesmaids. Molly was due to return from her latest tour, a couple of days before the big day. Typical Molly thought Georgie.
Elvis had creeped through Georgie's bedroom window two nights before their wedding day, hoping not to be spotted or heard by Georgie's family, but needing to see his fiancé one last time before their big day. He was only planning on staying a couple of hours, but ended up staying all night and having to do the walk of shame through the Lane household the following morning. Grace and Max couldn't wait until the couple properly moved out, so they didn't have to hear their loud bedroom antics anymore.
Elvis's parents had rented the bridal suite at a local hotel for the couple, and this is where Georgie spent the morning of her wedding day getting ready, surrounded by her family. Once she had changed into her lacey, ivory dress and had her make up and hair done, Georgie made her way down to the wedding car which took them to Hallé St Peters.
Once Georgie, Max, Marie and Lulu had arrived at the venue, they were greeted by both Georgie and Elvis's family and friends. There was no sign of Charles or Molly, but she assumed they were with Elvis inside. After waiting around for a while, Georgie started to get worried and sent her dad to find out what was happening. When Max returned he said Elvis was just running late and not to worry, but Georgie knew straight away that something was wrong as Elvis never ran late. He was an army man through and through.
After what seemed like hours, Charles finally showed up at the church looking concerned. Georgie stood up as soon as she saw him. 'What's happened Charles? Where is he?'. Charles looked very uncomfortable at Georgie's question. 'I'm really sorry Georgie. He said he can't do it'. It took Georgie a few minutes to comprehend what Charles had just said, and then she just fell into the arms of her dad, sobbing away. In the background she could just hear Marie shouting at Charles 'What the fuck!? What do you mean his not coming? He can't just stand her up. It's their wedding day for christ sake'.
Georgie left the church straight away, not wanting to face any of her friends and family. She spent the new week in bed, only leaving for toilet trips. Grace would pop in every now and again to bring her food and drinks, and encourage her to take showers, but she wasn't really eating and refused to leave her bed. Everyone was getting concerned about her. Grace didn't want to ask Georgie if she'd heard anything from Elvis, but she really wanted to ask what had happened. Everyone knew Elvis was totally in love with Georgie and none of it made any sense. Grace decided to leave that chat to another day.
It took Georgie two weeks to leave the house. At first she would just lay in bed asking herself over and over again why he hadn't turned up. He'd asked her to marry him. It was his idea to have a quick wedding. None of it made any sense. Then she went into denial. This can't be happening she thought over and over again. Elvis is my life. My future. This can't be real. She thought about texting or calling him but she didn't want to be the one to make the first call. Then came the anger. Georgie was very angry. How could he do this to me? she thought. After two weeks of mopping around the house, she got up one day, went into Marie's room and said she needed a night out. At first Marie was confused. Grace had told them all to give Georgie some space so she hadn't really seen her much. 'Georgie, do you want to talk about this?' came Marie's reply. 'No Marie, I do not want to talk about it. It's all I've thought about for two weeks and I'm going insane. I've sat in my room and cried for two weeks over someone who I thought loved me. Well, it turns out he didn't and you know what!? I don't want to waste anymore time thinking about that wanker. So, are you coming out or not?' said Georgie. Marie knew Georgie was a survivor. She replied 'Hell yeah. Let's do this, but first Georgie, you REALLY need a shower'. Both girls laughed and Georgie went off to use the bathroom.
Georgie belted out Fleetwood Mac's, Go your own way in the shower. 'Loving you is it the right thing to do? How can I ever change things that I feel? If I could, maybe I'd give you my world. How can I, when you won't take it from me. You can go your own way, GO YOUR OWN WAY. You can call it another lonely day. You can go your own way, GO YOUR OWN WAY.' Georgie sang the lyrics at the top of her lungs for the whole world to hear, meaning every word. Once both girls were ready, they made their way into town and decided to go to Tiger Tiger. They'd arranged to meet some friends there, but no one dared ask anything about Elvis. They knew she needed this night out. The girls hired one of the karaoke booths and Georgie decided on singing CeeLo Green's, Fuck you. 'Although there's pain in my chest, I still wish you the best, with a FUCK YOU'. Georgie belted out the lyrics, making the girls including Georgie laugh out loud. Later on in the evening as the girls got their groove on to Jason Derulo's, Ridin solo on the dance floor, Georgie knew this night out was exactly what she needed and that she would be ok.
Georgie decided to pay her boss a visit the following day at work. He had texted her a few times over the past couple of weeks, apologising for everything and saying he hated being the one in the middle, and to call if she needed anything. She knew it wasn't Charles's fault it had all gone to shit. To be fair to him, he had tried to warn her off of Elvis right from the start and now she could see why. She'd also had many texts and missed calls from Molly, asking her to meet for coffee which she had just ignored. She didn't blame Charles or Molly for what had happened and didn't want their pity. When Georgie arrived at the barracks for her meeting with the boss, Fingers, Monk and Brain's spotted Georgie straight away and ran over to her. As soon as they approached her, Georgie put up her hand to silence them. 'I don't want to hear it guys. I'm over that prick and don't ever want to hear his name again, ok?'. The guys just nodded, not really knowing what to say to her anyway. When Georgie arrived at the boss's office, she was keen to keep their conversation on a purely professional level. She wanted to return to work straight away and go on tour as was already planned. Charles tried to persuade Georgie to take some more time off to get her head straight, before going on tour again, which Georgie refused. She would be starting back tomorrow and leaving for Syria on Friday as was previously arranged. Just as Georgie went to leave Charles's office he said 'I know you don't want to talk about it Georgie, but you should call him. A lot has happened'. Elvis had sworn Charles to secrecy but he couldn't not say anything to Georgie. Georgie composed herself, turned around to Charles, smiled and said 'I don't ever want to speak to him again, and I trust he won't need to be coming up here anymore' and with her words hanging in the air, she walked out of Charles office with her head held up high.
Georgie left for Syria that weekend. This time being requested by the Syrian army to help them with a mission. She was looking forward to having something else to think about.
Song credits: Fleetwood Mac- Go your own way
CeeLo Green- Fuck you
