Kelly: Please.
Ava: I’ll be there soon.
Kelly sighed and leaned back in her seat. Ava had attended enough weddings as a photographer to spot any problems that Kelly might be missing. Not that she suspected there were any problems, but she couldn’t be too careful.
The door to the ballroom opened, and Kelly stood.
“Thank God. I was…” She drifted off as a man she didn’t know stood at the doorway. “Oh, hello. Um, can I help you?”
He looked around the room and then walked toward her with a friendly smile. “Hi. You must be Kelly. I’m Ethan.”
“Oh. Oh!” Kelly said. “You’re Miles’s brother. You do the hikes, right? My friend did one with you yesterday.”
“That would be me. I was told you may need a little help getting set up.” He looked around again and frowned. “Or a lot.”
Kelly sighed. “Yes. There are several more tables that need to be rolled out. I fear I bit off more than I could chew trying to do all this alone.”
“You hauled all these out by yourself?”
“I did.”
Ethan nodded in approval. “Damn. Good work.”
The door opened again, and Ava walked in.
“All right. Put me to work, bitch!” Ava shouted. Then she stopped short when she saw Ethan. “Oh, hey. I thought you were alone?”
“I just got here,” Ethan said. He pointed at Ava. “Ava, right? You were on my hike yesterday.”
Ava pointed back at him. “Yes. That was me.”
The door then opened again, and another man walked in.
“The muscles have arrived!”
Ethan rolled his eyes. “You’ll have to excuse Jackson over there. He’s got a giant head.”
A grin spread across Jackson’s face, and his eyebrows bounced up and down twice. “I certainly do.”
Ava burst into laughter, and Kelly looked at them amused.
Then another door opened, and another man walked in. He stopped short and looked at the other guys. “Does this mean there’s enough help, and I can head up the mountain?”
“No,” Jackson and Ethan said at the same time.
The man frowned and walked closer. “Hi, I’m Noah.”
Kelly looked at the men, who all looked similar and were obviously Miles’s brothers. “I’m Kelly, and this is Ava.”
Jackson smiled brightly and looked over at his brothers with a knowing smile on his face. Kelly frowned, unsure what that was about.
“All right. Let’s do this,” Ethan said, clapping his hands together. “Where are the tables going?”
Kelly pulled out the diagram and showed them what to do, then the three guys and Ava worked on pulling tables out and setting them up where Kelly directed. After an hour, they finished setting up the chairs.
Noah looked at his watch and frowned. “I need to head up the mountain. It was nice meeting you two.”
“Thank you for the help,” Kelly said.
