~Tales of the Heart~

Chapter 27

I opened the door to leave and the girl started to scream at me. 

"You worthless piece of trash. I know who you are. Florent wouldn't stop talking about you and it drove me nuts! I understand now why your father died. I mean he would probably rather die than live with a daughter like you. Such pale skin, skinny as a twig, no sense of acting like a normal girl. I know Florent has a bad sense of taste with friends, I didn't know he was this bad! How pathetic! People are probably only hanging with you because they feel bad for knowing that no one would want to be with you! This is why Siri never got a boyfriend and ended up as a device. Maybe you should do the same by killing yourself," The girl snickers. 

I paused at the moment as each of her words hit me. No! Don't listen to her, she is just jealous and wants to throw you off guard. 

"Think of another way of making me depressed," I say at last and walked out the door to Florent. 

"Florent, here," I say, having at him. He comes over looking nervously excited. 

"How do I look?" He asks me. 

"You look great, but," I say and I held up my phone and looked back down as that girl's words hit me again. He took my phone and the girls words repeated in my head. 

"Y-Your girl is pretty upset," I mutter under my breath. 

"Oh my god! Her name is Riley. I have to deal with her shit since I was young because my dad and her dad are best friends," He says annoyed. 

"Apperantly she knows some personal information about me, how come?" I ask. 

"Her brother is a great hacker and whenever she has the time, she always hacks my phone and reads my messages," Florent says. "Wait, what did she talk about?"

"Nothing, go get the dress from Riley before its too late," I say. 

"Come on, I've known you for so long and I know there is something else bothering which is not about Arera," Florent says, crossing his arms. 

"Arera first, me second!" I say, pushing him towards Riley. I felt a tear in my eye as I walked back into the room with Sasha and Arera. 

"So, who and what happened?" Sasha asked as she did Arera's hair. 

"A girl named Riley," I say, and Sasha groans.

"I should've known. I mean who else would have been!" She mutters under her breath. 

"Thank you so much, but is my dress ruined or is it still okay?" She asks me. 

"Florent is checking on that. I'm sorry, I had to tell him. He deserves to know because he is going to the man of your life," I say robotically. 

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that a tear drop on your cheek?" Arera asks and I immediately wiped it. 

"No, it's probably just sweating. This dress is pretty warm," I say. 

"But, your face usually turns red before you start sweating. Well, from knowing you from childhood," Sasha snorts. 

"It's nothing, Arera is more important right now. I'm going to go check with Florent. By the way, you look like Cinderella," I say, looking at Arera. She smiles and I realized something, "I mean, you look like Cinderella after the bibbity bobbity boo. Not the ragged Cinderella." Arera chuckled and shot a thumbs up and I went to Florent.

"So? What happened to the dress?" I ask Florent. 

"I got it! I was going to go inside the room, but I have a feeling Sasha would kick me out. I'm guessing she is getting Arera ready," Florent chuckles. 

"Yeah, and she probably wants it to be a surprise for you. I mean, that is one of the reasons that motivates her," I say, taking the dress from his hands. I take it back to the room and Arera squeals as she takes her dress and hugs it.

"Your a lifesaver! I mean, I don't know what I would have done without you!" Arera says, as her eyes filled with tears. 

"Not today Ms. Sensitive! The makeup will get ruined," Sasha says, slowly wiping her tears with a frown. When I heard those words I felt tingly as if I achieved something. It felt good. It made me feel as if Riley's words were just trash. At that moment I really wanted to smile but of course, I can't. Soon Arera came out and the wedding started. Florent was stunned that he almost fainted. As a bridesmaid, I followed what Sasha did. After the couple was declared husband and wife, everyone went outside. The ladies who were at the age to get married stood and one side and the bride stood on the other side. 

"So, she throws it and one of us is supposed to catch it? And whoever catches it is known to get married next?" I ask. Sasha nods. I put my hands out and shrug. 

"Yeah, too much competition," I say and I felt a bouquet of flowers land in my hand right after I said that. I stare at it and Sasha started to scream with joy. 

"So it's gonna be you and your pink-haired lover!!"Sasha squeals. 

"This must be a joke," I mutter. 

"Thank god I recorded that!" Aaron says. holding his camera. 

"Send that to me! I need to send it to her fiance!" Sasha says. Aaron sends it to her immediately and Arera was jumping up and down. My heart started to thud faster. Marriage? I haven't even thought about Kaoru and me dating yet and it's going all the way to marriage! God, what are you planning here? I'm not ready! You can't rush things on me!

"You got it wrong, me and Kaoru haven't even started dating!" I say. 

"Girl, you don't have to. Look at you and Kaoru already. You guys were basically a unofficial couple with a kid," Sasha says, holding my hands.