Thirty-Seven

As it turns out, James only had to wait for two hours.

After I’d talked Annie out of her more glamorous ideas, we’d settled on to something more my style with my hair and makeup.

As she was getting me ready, I couldn’t but wish that my parents were there. I’m not sure what my mom would have thought about the whole situation, but I’d like to think she’d be happy for me as long as I was happy. And my dad, well he practically raised James and sees him like a son so I’m not sure how he would feel.

Hopefully he’d be happy for us, or at least he’d pretend to be.

Either way, I still wished he was here. I never imagined I’d get married in a completely different country without even telling him. Of course I never imagined that I’d be marrying my stepbrother either, so I suppose that life is full of surprises.

Annie puts a hand on my chin and gently makes me look at her, “what’s wrong?”

“I just miss my dad,” I admit. “I hate hiding my life from him, and I never thought that I’d be getting