We spent the rest of the night with glorious wedding stuff.

“I’m so glad I have you,” she said, resting her chin on my shoulder as I showed her the most adorable hanging lights.

“I know,” I said in a deep voice.

“Star Wars?” she asked.

“Yup.”

I clicked through a website I’d found for creative favors.

“So, are you guys going away this weekend?” I asked.

“No. I mean, we can’t, with everything that’s happened. We have to babysit. I mean, Tate has offered to come and stay with him, but April is having a really rough pregnancy and is puking most of the time, so we told him to stay with her. It’s fine. We’ll go away when things calm down,” she said, but I could tell how unhappy she was.

I thought about suggesting that I could stay with him, but that seemed like a terrible idea. Things were not good between me and Ryder. He was fresh out of the hospital and I couldn’t handle that. I felt bad about it, but it was for the best.

“It’s fine,” Rory said with a smile. “We’ll have plenty of time to get away soon. And it’s not like we don’t see each other. I find all sorts of reasons to go down his department to give him memos.” She put air quotes around the last three words. I made a disgusted face and she smacked me on the arm.

“Remember that you were the one who told me to have some quick, dirty sex with him? This is what it led to.” She looked down at her ring and smiled.

“I’m so happy you’re happy,” I said.

“Thanks. I just want you to be this happy. I feel like a bitch. Like I’m rubbing it in your face.” I shook my head. That was ridiculous. Did I get jealous sometimes? Yup. But I would never want to take away what she had. It was magical and beautiful and not many found what she and Lucah had. Love like that wasn’t for everyone. Maybe not for me.

“Hun, you’re not rubbing anything in my face. All I ask is that I get to stand beside you when you say your vows. That’s all I want.”

“Done,” she said.

“Oh, and I also request that I not be part of any sort of choreographed dance routine during the reception,” I said with a shudder. She burst out laughing.

“I can’t see Lucah being up for that either. Okay, no choreographed dances at the reception. Got it.”

“And don’t do any of that unity sand crap. It’s so tacky.”

“No unity sand. Any other requests for my wedding?” she said, still laughing.

“Yup. Be happy.”

“I think that’s one thing I can definitely do.”

Nineteen

I thought I was totally off the hook for Ryder babysitting, but Friday during lunch Rory called me and said that April was in the hospital and might be losing the baby. Tate was flipping out and couldn’t deal with the other two girls and begged Lucah and Rory to come and help, at least until April was home.

“I’m so sorry, but we really need to go,” she said. Her voice shook. She and April had grown really close over the past few months.

“Oh, wow, I’m so sorry. Do you think she’s going to be okay?” I asked.

“We don’t know. Everything is up in the air right now.” A male voice said something in the background and Rory responded.

“We’re packing things up to leave right now. Which means… I know this is a lot to ask and could potentially blow up in our faces, but do you think you can check in on Ryder? You don’t have to stay with him constantly, but just maybe monitor him? And let us know how he’s doing? I’m so, so sorry about this.” She was getting hysterical and I heard Lucah trying to soothe her.

It wasn’t the ideal situation, but they needed me.

“Okay,” I said. “I can leave work early, I guess.”

Rory sighed in relief.

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