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“Wait, what? We can’t get married today.”
“Why not?”
“The law. We have to get a marriage certificate and all that.”
“Oh, okay.”
“Getting the paperwork set up would take a few days.”
“Yeah?”
“Also, your mother and mine would never forgive us if we did it alone.”
She makes a face. “Oh, okay.”
“Still, you’re marrying a billionaire. We could make it happen.”
Her eyebrows rise up. “You would do that?”
“I would do anything for you, Avery.”
Avery
Ten days later, our family gathered on Kauai. Thank goodness I’m marrying a billionaire because it cost a literal fortune to get this worked out. All my sisters are here—including Gerri, who is acting super weird and doing everything she can to avoid Blue, who also came to the wedding. Even the newest O’Bryan, Fritz and Savannah’s little girl is in attendance. The two-month-old slept through the wedding.
We married on the beach, barefoot, and I had flowers in my hair and wore a white dress with red flowers on it.
“Only you would do something like this, Avery,” my mother says. I smile at her as I drink my chardonnay.
“True.”
“I like your Jon.”
“I know.”
The moment my mother met Jon, she fell in love with him. They make an odd couple, but they love discussing being Avery wranglers. They claim they keep me on track. Losers. Still, they get along so well, and they were the ones who came up with the idea to get teenagers involved in the Senior Center. They get taught valuable life skills, and the LOLs get time with the younger generation. It also helped once Jon put some more security on the JSE to stop some of the reporting on the app. Although I will admit, I miss some of the gossip.
“Granny Pam would have loved this,” she says. I look over at her.
“Yeah, she would have. She would have loved embarrassing Jon.”
My mother chuckles. “Yeah, she would have. I’m sorry.”
“For what?”
“Not realizing what was going on with you. When you told us about your depression, I felt as if I failed as a mother.”
“Mom, you have nothing to feel bad about. You are not in charge of my feelings.”
“No. But I should have recognized it.”
I sigh because this was one of the reasons I told Dr. Gina I didn’t want to tell my mother. I knew she would feel guilty.
“No. I hid it from you and everyone else. And you would have noticed if I had visited more often. It’s one of the reasons I stayed in Juniper, I think. I knew my mother would figure out what was wrong with me.”
We hug, and she gives me a kiss as Jon steps up. “Time to dance, Ms. O’Bryan.”
Yeah, I kept my name. I like it. I take his hand as he leads me out to the dance floor. He nods to the DJ, and the first strings ofNew Year’s Daystart playing. I had no idea we were even going to have a first dance.
