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A smile spreads across my face, I start to feel a positivity that I haven’t had in a very long time. I might actually be able to make this work after all, I might be able to fill that hole, perhaps I will get everything that I want after all. I can’t imagine me with my successful company, awesome life, and the woman of my dreams on my arm as well, but it might well be time for me to finally get lucky and have it all. Who the hell knows?“This is harder than I thought it would be,” I admit to Rebecca as we try to get the final details all in place. “This has been the longest ten days of my life. Trying to keep on top of work and throw all of this together as well… it’s been crazy. If I thought that my life was busy before… well, now it’s absolutely crazy.”
“It might be worth it though,” she reminds me with a cocked eyebrow. “Just think of the end prize. Remember why you are doing all of this. It’s all for Gemma, all for that magical happy ever after that you want. And it might be hard but it’s all coming together. You have done your part, Me and my team have all our bits together, and Paige has been incredible as well. Everything is working out; it’s all going to be fine.”
I breathe out with relief as she says this, knowing that she’s right. It is all going to work, hopefully. I’m praying that much anyway. I don’t want all of this to be for nothing… but if this doesn’t work then at least I won’t be dissatisfied because I will know that I gave it my all. I tried everything and if it still doesn’t work then there won’t be any regrets. I will know that it wasn’t timing or outside pressures that tore us apart, it just wasn’t meant to be.
“Tim would like all of this,” I say with a little laugh as I think of my younger brother. “He told me that I had to go big and this is… well, it’s massive, isn’t it? Absolutely huge. It’s…. well it’s just wild…”
“I don’t think that I have ever seen a romantic gesture so big, no,” Rebecca laughs and agrees with me. “I’m sure that your brother would have a lot of very positive things to say.”
I wish that I could invite him actually, that would be amazing, but I don’t know where he is. He’s always here, there, and everywhere, on the road, living his best life, so it might be too late for him to arrive. Anyway, I don’t need any added pressure, this is going to be crazy enough as it is. I just need to survive this first. I don’t know where I will go afterwards, I suppose that depends on Gemma, but for now I can’t focus on anything other than the right now. I will get through it, I have to, and hopefully my life will be better on the other side. Fingers crossed.Chapter 16 – Gemma“So, you have that charity event tonight,” Eve tells me with her face firmly in the diary that she keeps for me. Thankfully, it is no longer mostly empty, only filled with crisis meetings, work is on its way to getting back to normal which is good for me. But this is something that I honestly don’t know anything about. “Are you still good for that? I know that you don’t have anything else on and Paige has requested you…”
I rub my forehead and try to will the ache in there away. “I have to admit, Eve, I don’t recall this charity event at all. I don’t know if I want to go to it. Can’t I just donate some money or something?”
“You agreed to it ages ago.” She shifts almost as if she is a little uncomfortable with me disagreeing with the initiation now even though I don’t remember it. Eve just always likes things to run smoothly, I suppose. “I don’t think that you should turn your back on things. Especially when Paige has asked for you to come.”
I resist the urge to roll my eyes because Paige really can be demanding. I now know why Eve is so desperate for me to go. I’m sure that she has had Paige in her ear the whole time making it a nightmare.
“Fine I will go,” I reply wearily. “Just let me know where I need to be, and I will go there.”
As Eve gives me the address and the invitation, I have a horrible thought striking me. What if the press is there? What if I have more pictures taken of me and more stories written? Sure, the world isn’t worried about me these days, a lot of the traces of the online video have vanished somehow, but I’m sure that it could all come back up again. If nothing else happens at the charity event it could all become about me once more.
