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THE WEDDING

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“Why should I wear a black wedding dress? I don’t want that”, Arya whined.

She just had her skin care routine done, had pins in various places on her hair and is presently standing in her walk-in closet, soaking in the horror of wearing a dark wedding dress.

“I’m sorry ma’m. Don picked out the dress himself and I dare not go against him”, Rosa, her maid said politely.

‘Oh, he picked my wedding dress, how convenient’, Arya thought to herself.

“Where is my seamstress”, she asked Rosa after a while.

“She’s right outside the door, would you like to make any amend”, Rosa asked.

‘Amend, funny’, Arya laughed in her head.

“I want her and her entire team here right now. Get them whatever they need to make a new wedding dress”, Arya said in a tone that left no room for argument.

Rosa looked like she had seen a ghost. “It’s just five hours till the wedding. Don would….”

“Don won’t do anything about it. A girl only experience this once. I’m getting married
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Coco
lol. Jerk, if he thought she would wear black to her own wedding
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Patricia Cooper
Did he really think anyone would want to wear a black wedding dress
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