/Meelah’s POV/“Hey….” Eden says tapping me lightly and drawing me out of my wandering thoughts.“What are you thinking about?” She inquired with her slender brows taking a worried curve.“It’s nothing” I answer almost immediately, making her send me a dissatisfied look.“Heyyyyy…. talk to me” she coos talking my face in her hands“Don’t lie” she emphasizes with her hazel eyes boring into my soul as if she could read me like an open book.“Fine….” I sigh as I surrender “I was hoping that a miracle happens tomorrow because it pains me to see you sacrificing so much for your family” I answer her and she just smiles lightly instead of saying anything in reply to me “Wait a minute…” it suddenly occurs to me, making me pause dramatically “What if we elope?” I suggest only for Eden to start laughing hysterically.“Can you stop laughing and consider my suggestion seriously?”“Wait a minute….” She suddenly stops laughing “You we’re not joking?” She asks in a serious voice “Of course, not
/Meelah’s POV/We all listened to Aurora as she kept on dishing out instructions on how perfect she wanted our wedding content to come out since she wanted to use the wedding content that she will be uploading to boost her followers and also gain a massive social impression.The mere thought of the plenty videos in her favorite collection scared the hell out of me, more so my mind is not focusing on what they are doing, the only thing my mind keeps drifting back to is how I am going to be able to kidnap my best friend without getting exposed if the worse comes to worse.I don’t want to jump into rash decisions because I know the type of person my best friend is, she will definitely put up a fight to stop herself from getting kidnapped, which will only be possible if I have an accomplice, but the point is that who do I call?“Should I just call it a truce with that betrayer by asking me to help me with this?” I stop to consider for a moment.“No…. I can’t do that” I stop myself from co
/Meelah’s POV/I stare at my best friend on the ground with wide eyes that I cannot shut, with the feeling of the room spinning around me “She was fine an hour ago” I mutter as I force myself to move from my frozen spot. “Eden please open your eyes” I beg her desperately, but all my plea seem to land on deaf earI notice the knife that she used in spitting her own wrist next to her and a bottle of pain killers that I packed when we were traveling.I intentionally bought a bottle of pain killer for the trip because of the stress I knew that I was going to go through but instead of the full bottle that I traveled with, the bottle next to Eden is empty.“Eden please don’t do this” I plead again, and this time around I notice her clutching a piece of paper so I take it from her to check the content.“Dear Meelah, I am really sorry that it had to get to this, but there is just no way I can go through with this wedding. I thought I was going to be able to do it at first because my fat
/Meelah’s POV/ “I really want to go along with your suggestion, but it seems way too difficult to accomplish” Ember speaks up after a while, dragging me out of my own thoughts. “I understand that you are trying to help my sister so that she doesn’t have to go through with this, but how the hell are we supposed to successfully switch the bride without being noticed by anyone, and where did you get this whole bride switch idea from because it sounds really unreasonable” she expresses in concern. “I know that all these sounds unreasonable right now, but if we put heads together we can actually pull this through”I declare with determination in her voice because under no condition am I going to sacrifice my best friend's physical and mental health, just for the sake of an arranged marriage.“How the hell are we going to get a replacement for my sister less than four hours to her wedding” Ember inquires frantically pacing around the room and I stop to consider for a moment.If the b
/Brian’s POV/I couldn’t wait for the engagement bouquet to come to an end with the last dance, but Adrian being the bastard that he is, brings the dance to an abrupt stop by rudely walking out on us.Ember kept on calling out to him, but he left her standing while Eden and I followed behind them because there was no need for us to continue the dance when the only thing that we have been doing since the engagement bouquet started has been to play along.I noticed Elliot walking up to the betrayer and talking to him for a while, so I looked around the bouquet hall, to see how she is holding up after the man that she is going to be spending the rest of her life with countlessly utilized every opportunity he had to not only embarrass her, but to also emphasize that he doesn’t want her in his pace and it seemed like her girls were going to fight on her behalf, so I just took a chill pill and watched everything from a distance.I saw Elliot leave the bouquet hall with Adrian and I felt some
/Meelah’s POV/After I left Ember and Dianne’s room, I made my way back to my room to check up on Eden, and I met Aurora and Ryker discussing plans on how to successfully sneak Eden out of the hotel and get her to the hospital.Ryker has a few connections in Orion, so they were able make arrangements with admitting her in the hospital without a police report, while Dianne eventually hacked into the CCTV cameras and helped them to avoid every camera on their path.I wanted to go with them, but I couldn’t because I am the substitute bride, so I stayed in the room trying to convince myself that I didn’t just make the biggest mistake of my life.Few minutes after Eden was taken away, Elva Kings joined me in the room with her team and informed me that she is here to help us with the brise switch, which can only mean that Ember has spoken to Brian and he is in support of this too.While Elva was trying to paint a picture of what her brother told her Ember also joins us in the room and Elva
/Meelah’s POV/ I silently pray for Embers mom not to stand up from her sit to join us in walking now the aisle, but she does making me change my prayer to us not getting caught Now, it is either her mom picks one of us, or she gets in between both of us since she so badly wants to walk us down the isle If she is to pick one of us, Ember can always manipulate her way into drawing attention to herself, but if she decides to pick Me, she may find out that only one of her daughters is under the veil which will cause a major catastrophe more so, we have come to far just to fail when we are so close to achieving our goals. Thankfully, we get to the front of our seats and her mom didn’t make any move to get in between us, she just quietly walked behind us, all the way to our sit then went back to her sit After we make ourselves comfortable on our seat, the grooms procession make their way into the church and I watch their entrance through the projector because Ember and I are seated i
/Meelah’s POV/“I don’t think either the ministers nor the ushers will be able to control the situation” Brian whispered and I looked around the congregation to see if the guests were going to calm down and come to terms with the bride switch, but they were not looking like they were going to calm down for the wedding to proceed“I would have asked us to leave for the reception venue, but it will give a lot of people unnecessary access to you, and at this time protecting you is of great importance” Brian said and I nodded in agreement even though I found it very surprising that he was critically considering the consequences of the bride switch compared to the way I was taking it.When the pastor realized that the guests were not going to calm down, he cut his wedding sermon short and I was more than happy when the sermon was brought to a close because I found the sermon very unnecessary because I am not so much of a wedding person more so, the noise in the church was too much because