The Travel Trip

Once again Fanny was left behind as a bridesmaid and had still never received a single marriage proposal. She was now the last of a group of ten friends and after Wendy’s upcoming wedding she would be the only one of them who was yet to be married. Interestingly, this was actually part of a conversation three of them had taken part in when Jodie, the first of them to get married, became engaged. Until that happened they never really thought about a particular order and on that night the three of them made a list of who they thought would get married and in what order and the also included what they anticipated to be the length of each marriage and whether or not they currently knew the person’s future spouse. As it turned out that night, Jodie was scheduled to be sixth in line for the big day, not last and at the time the other two even thought she was dating her future husband. Jodie wanted to laugh, but she was also surprisingly melancholic as she sat in her room at one of Miami’s fabulous hotels on the morning of the wedding rehearsal. Everything went beautifully that day and Fanny had to enjoy herself, despite of herself. She didn’t wish Wendy, or any of her other married friends, ill will and felt about her own disappointed feelings, but she just couldn’t escape a nagging feeling of failure.

However, everything suddenly changed for her during the rehearsal dinner party that was held at the Rusty Pelican that night. It seemed as though from out of nowhere a beautiful man appeared and unbelievably he seemed to be by himself. What was he doing there she wondered. After a little bit of investigation, she learned that he was a friend of Monique’s (one of the ten) husband. The husband had asked him to come along because he thought Monique would be off with her friends the entire time and he wanted to watch a few ball games. Oh, and the mystery man’s name was Jake. It got even better from there. Jake and Fanny were seated next to each other ended up having a great conversation over the shrimp scampi. Somehow, each of them knew and could tell by the look in the other’s eye that the knowledge was mutual. They were destined to meet each other that night and Fanny suddenly thought she was the luckiest of the ten friends.

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by admin
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