110. Play for us

ERICA

“You look so beautiful!” Ami gushed as she put the hair straightener down and took a step back, looking at my reflection in the mirror.

I smiled at her, then met my sister’s eyes which were filled with unshed tears as she looked at me. “I am realising now, that this is you happy. Not what you were with us.”

My heart clenched at her words, for the truth in them. Because yes, with my family I was pretending to be happy but now I was actually happy with Antonio in my life. “He makes me happy.”

She took a shaky breath as she said, “I feel like I’m sending you off after you get married.”

Ami said, “That’s what you are actually doing, minus the wedding part.”

Summer shook her head. “No. I am going to tell him to give my little sister a proper wedding, you don’t deserve anything less. And I won't stop pestering him until he does that.”

I laughed. “I already told me that and he said I can have however big a wedding I want.” I replied, repeating Antonio’s words. I said, “And I don’t want