Author's Note:

Here's the fourteenth chapter. Happy Holidays! OK so this is my kinda happy chapter. As a reminder, we all know that Bracken and Kendra love each other, but they don't. Only Bracken knows how he feels about Kendra, and that's it. So will Kendra figure out her feelings for him or will it be too late? Please comment if you have any other ideas for the next chapters or plot, and I have enjoyed the comments so far. Also, comment if you think you know what is going to happen next or further in the story. I want to know what you think will happen. Thanks for reading.

Hope you enjoy... –Evangeline

Last Minute

"Do I have to go?" I complained to Liz for the billionth time.

"Yes," she replied trying to get me to wear the dress. She had already put on the dark blue one shoulder dress. Since it only reached her knees, one could see the dark blue sandals she wore that climbed up to the middle of her thigh in a swirl pattern. Her hair was in curls and brushed her shoulders.

"Do I have to dress up?"

"The queen wants you to."

"But…" I sunk down to the floor and put my head in my hands.

She sat down next to me and rubbed my back, "I know this is hard for you, but we have to go. For the Queen."

"Fine," I grudgingly sighed as I stood up. I graded the dress and went to the bathroom.

"How do I look?" I asked her when I walked out. She was sitting on the bed waiting for me.

"Stunning. Come, sit." She pointed to a stool in front of her. I followed her instructions; all the fight in me had been lost.

As she brushed my hair, I thought of Bracken. He was getting married today. We had flown to the Fairy Realm to save a fairy and ended up going to a wedding. I guess I had been wrong. Something bad could happen to me here. I could lose Bracken… forever.

Liz was adding the last touches to my hair when I started to cry.

"Oh, Kendra," she breathed as she finished my hair and sat next to me.

"I don't understand," I told her through the sobs, "I should be happy for him. There is no reason for my tears."

"Oh come on," she said a little agitated. Agitated? Liz never got agitated.

"What?" I asked looking up at her. She dried my eyes and stared right into them.

"I see the way you look at each other. The way you both steal glances at each other whenever you can and spend as much time as you can with each other. So, don't tell me that there is no reason for your tears.

"What do you mean?" I asked her. I was confused. My tears were illogical… weren't they?

"Come on, Kendra! Are you that BLIND!" She looked at me as if I was crazy.

"What?" I was beyond confused at this point.

"Kendra," she stated very slowly, "your crying because the man YOU LOVE is marring ANOTHER girl who HE DOESN'T LOVE, and HE will SPEND the REST OF HIS LIFE with HER."

My mind was shocked. Through her whole speech flashes of me and Bracken had gone past her mind and into mine. She had shown us both stealing a glance at each other and getting caught. I had quickly looked down but he had continued to watch me. One was of me laughing at one of his jokes and his face looking as happy as a puppy with a bone. The one that stood out the most to me though was of him looking at me with a look I had seen on his face before. Every time I had seen that look I was utterly baffled about the emotion behind it. But Liz knew the emotion all too well, and I saw why she was right. The corners of his mouth were turned up slightly and his face relaxed and gentle. What truly proved what emotion was on his face was his eyes. The door way to the soul. His eyes looked as if they were looking at an angel, that they were looking at the sun for the first time, and at a beautiful, rare, and one-of-a-kind flower all at the same time.

"He loves me." I whispered to her and I truly believed it. He was going to tell me that he loved me before I ran out. I'm an idiot!

"FINALLY!" She said as she threw her hands up in the air.

"But I never told him," I realized.

"Hu?" Now it was Liz's turn to be baffled.

I looked at her, "I never told him how I felt."

"Well then, we better get you to that wedding," She told me with a big smile as she pulled me to a mirror.

I didn't recognize the person staring back at me. She was gorgeous. She reminded me of Virtue. She had flawless skin and a good figure. She wore the same thing I had in my dream vision with the Queen in the limo. The only differences were this dress was that it glittered when the light hit it in a certain way, the girl wore silver heels, and half of her hair was up.

"Wow," I said.

"Yes," I turned to see Bracken's sisters in the door way.

"Hello, I said as I bowed to them."

"Kendra," Bree said, "If you don't have to bow to our mother than you don't have to bow to us. I stood up straight and smiled.

Bree was the eldest child and she had a nice figure like all of the girls. She had brown hair that was always in a bun and had a quill sticking in it. Her eyes matched her hair as well. Like all of the girls, she was wearing a light gray dress that hugged her figure in all the right places, was long sleeved, and reached her ankles. All the girls also wore basic black sandals.

"So, are you going to save our bother and your heart? Or are you going to just let him go through with this?" Lily asked. I had a feeling she already knew the answer.

Lily was the second oldest. She usually had dirt on either her face or hands but today she didn't. She had bright ivy green eyes and light brown hair that matched the color of dirt. Her hair was in a ponytail like usual.

"I think you know the answer," I said.

"But we want to hear it from you," Anastasia replied.

Anastasia was the middle child and she had a very elegant manor. She always wore her black hair in curls and she had very dark brown eyes. She, like all her sisters, was beautiful.

I took a deep breath and told them, "I'm going to object." I felt so much better saying that.

"OK, good," Lily said as she exhaled a breath she had been holding.

"Yeah, we REALLY don't like Irina," Bree said.

"She is so selfish and snooty. All she wants is too become Queen, and since none of us want the throne, Bracken will inherit it. She doesn't even care about our brother," Anastasia replied.

"Guys, if we want to save our brother from a horrible marriage and possible gain Kendra as a family member, then we have to hurry. The wedding is going to start soon and it is on the opposite side of town," Virtue said, "We have a chance of making it in time but we HAVE to RUN fast."

And off we went, to crash a wedding.

Next Chapter:

Wedding Crasher