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Epilogue
Ruby
I stood and looked out my bedroom window, watching the antics of my boys outside. What they were supposed to be doing was getting ready for this afternoon. What they were doing was pelting each other with snowballs.
As if he could feel me, Vander suddenly turned and looked up at my window. I lurched backwards so that he couldn’t see me, then stood on my tiptoes to peer out at him from three feet away from the window.
I could just barely see his face.
He stood still, a half smile tipping his beautiful lips up on one side. He broke into a laugh and raised his hand in a wave. How could he see me?
“I can’t see you, but I know you’re peeking!” He yelled.
Whoever bought this house needed to put in new windows right away.
He continued hollering. “Isn’t it bad luck to see the groom on the wedding day?”
Vander’s parents flew in the same day George did. They cried when they met Jace and hugged me fiercely. The first few days with them had been emotional, but they were starting to settle down.
Vander, George, Jace, and Gus had a boys’ night last night at Amber and Gus’s house, that included Yiayia because she needed the comfort of her own bed.
Amber stayed here with me for my last night as a single woman. Gus brought Yiayia over early this morning, and the three of us ate the breakfast she made for us.
The itinerary Amber and I drew up did not include Vander and the boys having a snowball fight on the morning of our wedding.
Yiayia puttered around downstairs in the kitchen. Her arm had fully healed, and she suffered no lasting effects from the mild concussion she sustained from her fall two months ago.
I heard the front door open, and my yiayia’s voice carried up to me.
“You gonna have bad luck you try to see Ruby before the church today! Go get ready! And bring Jace back here for twelve-thirty!”
“Five more minutes, Yiayia, just five more minutes. We’re making something for Ruby.”
That was George. I smiled. Yiayia could never withstand the charms of any of her boys.
“Kala, agori mou, five minutes only… then you go get ready!” The front door slammed shut again.
I heard a soft knock on my bedroom door. I twisted around and called, “Come in.”
Amber stuck her head in the door, took one look at my semi-proximity to the window, and laughed.
“You just cannot resist, can you?”
I smiled. “I’m curious! Aren’t you curious about what they’re doing?”
She smirked. “No, I saw what they’re doing, and you’ll see, too, if you ever finish getting ready.”
I sat down on my bed in my bathrobe that I put on after my shower, and Amber sat down beside me.
She smiled and bumped me with her shoulder.
“You ready for today?”
I bumped her back. “I’ve never been more ready.”
“So! Something old,” she touched Yiayia’s ruby on my hand, “something new,” she pointed to my dress hanging on the back of the door, “something borrowed, and something blue.” With that, she gave me two boxes.
“What’s this?” I exclaimed.
