AN: This chapter was slightly reworked as I noticed some little plot holes.
Emma frantically rushed around the dot, leaving a trail of glitter and party favours wherever she went. Still a bit hungover from her two day tequila and Netflix binge, she hurries to set up in time for Manny and Spinner's engagement party. She finishes by hanging a very tasteful game of 'Pin the Veil on The Bride' and stands back to admire the efforts of her 4 AM Pinterest haul.
"OMG! It looks amazing, Em!" Manny calls, the bell at the door ringing behind her. Leave it to Manny to show up 15 minutes before the event starts, snagging a few pieces from Emma's carefully designed fruit platter.
Spinner's not too far behind, and with Spinner comes Jay and Jimmy, but no Sean to be found.
Emma can't help but feel a little disappointed. Even if he was taken he was still nice to look at right?
Right.
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Sean sits in Ellie's car watching the small analog clock on his dash finally tick to 3:00, then immediately jumps to unbuckle his seatbelt to bolt out of the car.
"Where do you think you're going mister?" Ellie jabs, locking the car doors. Her 'genius' play of pretending to be his girlfriend just to make Emma jealous was starting to not look like such a great idea. "You can't show up right on time, make the girl wait a little"
"What?"
"You have to be fashionably late"
Late
Late
'Now you want to talk, you're a bit late Em'
How could he forget the reason why his life was Hell on wheels for so many weeks? How could one amazing night (that was more like a mid-afternoon) make him forget what she did to him?
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Emma watched the little hand on the clock tick past the little number 6.
Sean Cameron was late. Thirty minutes late.
He was a groomsmen for Heaven's sake! He couldn't just abandon one of his best friends at one of the largest social gatherings of his life, could he?
She starts thinking back to all the times she wrote to Sean when he was away. She had probably sent 5-7 letters before she had given up after never receiving a response.
And now it was too late. He had a girlfriend, a girlfriend that wasn't Emma.
Great.
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Don't ask Manny Santos what she was doing at her engagement party, in the bathroom of the restaurant her fiancée managed, with someone who was definitely not her fiancée. Because frankly, she doesn't know.
It was just so hard for her to resist those hazel-green eyes and that stupid hat he always wore. Jay was like a magnetic field that just keeps pulling her in.
"Jay, you have to stop" Manny giggles whilst Jay continues sucking a deep purple mark on her neck. She was starting to regret going with a low-cut dress. His hands travel up from her waist and start reaching towards the zipper on her dress, but before he can free her from that very constricting white cocktail dress there's a knock at the door.
"Manny?" Emma calls from outside the thin bathroom door.
Damn Greenpeace, always has to be the cockblock.