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“Me too. It’s good to hear your voice, and hey, it’s your last night as a single lady.”
“I know. It’s kind of wild, isn’t it?”
“A little,” I agreed quietly. In just a few hours, Lauren and Felix would be promising to love each other forever. They’d be taking vows to love each other no matter what happened. Lauren would promise to take care of him and to make him happy. He’d promise to cherish her and adore her, and I knew that he would. They’d written their own vows and I’d read them. They were pretty and romantic and wonderful, but I had a question. “Lauren?”
“Yeah?”
“How did you know?”
“How did I know what?”
“How did you know that Felix was the one?”
The other end of the phone was silent. I couldn’t even hear her breathing. I pulled the phone back to check it, but the call was still connected. Okay, so maybe my question had just scared her off.
“Lauren?”
“I’m here. I just don’t know how to answer that.”
“Well, when did you realize that you loved him?”
Maybe that was an easier question, right? The idea that someone might be “the one” was huge. It was big and scary and wild. Loving someone didn’t seem like it carried the same amount of pressure with it. I mean, I loved Lauren. That didn’t mean I wanted to marry her.
“It was right after we made love for the first time.”
“Okay, I didn’t need to hear that answer, actually.”
“You brought it up! Now you have to listen to me.”
“Just skip all of the gory details, okay?”
“I promise.”
“Okay, so it was after...you started dating.”
“Yeah, after we started dating. I don’t really know the exact moment. For me, there wasn’t really one.”
“There was no ‘aha’ moment?”
“Not really. You know, it’s funny. In the movies, everyone always knows like right away. There’s always a time when the world seems to stand still.”
“I know.”
“That was never how I was with Felix. It was just that one day, I realized how comfortable I was with him, and how content I was with him. One day, I woke up in his arms, and I realized that he was the man I wanted to wake up next to forever. Strange, right?”
“No,” I whispered. “It’s not strange.”
I looked back toward the bedroom door. In that room, David was sleeping. He was sleeping, and he was the man that I was crazy about. There was an entire world of adventure in that room. David and I could have some incredible times together, if we wanted to. Both of us had choices to make, though. Were we going to go for it? Or were we going to do things the “smart” way?
“I should go to bed,” I finally said.
“Yeah,” Lauren whispered. I could practically hear her nodding. “Me too.”
“Big day tomorrow.”
“The biggest.”
“I love you, sis,” I whispered.
