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“Math, just take her home. She’ll feel better at home,” Dolly said from down the pew, nearly yelling.
“I am staying for the wedding!” she told her future mother-in-law. After all, she wasn’t that far along that it was excusable to not attend functions because she was pregnant.
“Everyone would understand.” Dotty patted her shoulder again. “When I was pregnant with Mia, I was so sick I couldn’t leave the farm. I swore I would never have another baby.”
“Yet you still went on to have five more,” Dolly said.
“Mia seemed lonely all by herself. The rest were a breeze,” Dotty told her sister.
Tess let the sisters talk about pregnancies and babies, happy that nobody was talking to her or about her anymore. Landstad was just as bad as her family, always gossiping about someone and something. It usually made her comfortable, but not today. Not in this heat.
Sitting back, she stared at the front of the church. She had been excited about this wedding; she hadn’t been to any weddings besides family weddings. This would be the first one to show her how others were. Tess was sure she would give in and get married here. All their friends were there, as well as his entire family. Her family would understand.
Once she was ready to marry Math, she would pretend to give in and marry him right here. Just not on the hottest day of the year—maybe the coldest, like her birthday. That had turned out better than expected.
Despite the heat, she took his hand and squeezed it. At the movement, he turned to her, and she met his eyes. Who would have thought six months later, they would be sitting side-by-side in a church of all places? In love and planning the arrival of their daughter.
It wasn’t that long ago that she was sure she would never make a new friend again, but here she was with friends, and soon, she’d have a new family. All because she dared to answer a post about a serial killer.
Under her leg, her phone buzzed once with an incoming message. Pulling it out with her free hand, she looked at the screen. Beside her, Mandy was looking at her own phone. They looked at each other and got to their feet in the same instant. They had gotten the same message.
Mila: Basement, now!!!
The End
