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“Oh, sorry girls, I’m on a no sugar diet,” I lied.
“They are completely sugar, gluten, egg and dairy free, so you should be fine.”
“So, they have no real taste to them,” I muttered. “Great, I am on my way out though girls so if you could come back tomorrow, I can pay you then.”
“Sure thing, Mrs. St. Clair! Thank you.”
As they skipped away, I rubbed my forehead as I knew they would be after more than one box payment tomorrow. I guess I would be stuck with cardboard tasting cookies. Just as I locked the front door, I felt my phone start to vibrate then ring as the name Samuel popped up on my screen.
Why did he have to call me? Why couldn’t he text like a normal person? Leaving it to ring a few more seconds, I reluctantly answered it.
“Hey, sorry, am I calling at a bad time?”
“No, it’s fine I was just getting in the car. Let me hook it up to Bluetooth.”
Waiting for a minute or two as my phone connected to the car, I didn’t know if he had hung up or was still waiting patiently.
“Are you still there?” I asked.
“Yeah, yeah, so, I found a suit shop in Caulfeild that’s open. Well, they weren’t, but when I phoned my team and told them I needed a suit, they called Henry Rosen, I think is the name of the shop, and they, eh, said they’d open for me.”
Turning down Moreland drive and heading to the B7 route towards Target, I had to pull over in a small layby to concentrate. Did he actually say the store had opened on its day off just for him? For him to have a suit for my brother’s wedding? Somewhere I was still unsure he should be coming to, especially considering my family already hated him.
“Let me get this straight, so because you’re some hot shot hockey player, they are opening their store just for you.”
“Oh, they sell dresses as well! And I may have mentioned you’re my date.”
I could hear the awkwardness in his voice as he waited for me to perhaps shout at him, but all I could do was sigh. What was I getting myself into? I did need a dress, but I wasn’t sure what Joseph wanted me to wear as I was his best man.
“Let me call you back. Give me five minutes.”
Hanging up without protest, I counted to ten as my heart started to rapidly beat, the anxiety and panic trying to take over. I needed to talk to my brother before any of this suit and dress shopping business began as he was one of the guys Samuel would bully in school.
“Hey, big sis, what’s up?”
He sounded as if he was back at our parents, as I was sure I could overhear dad in the background shouting about lunch or some sort of sandwich complaint.
“Can we talk?”
“We are talking,” he joked.
“Joe, seriously, you alone?”
Waiting a second or two, I heard the porch side door open and close.
“I am now, what’s the matter?”
“Okay, I have a date, kinda for your wedding and I need to know if I am wearing a dress, or you want me to wear a suit? Either way, have you and Bethan decided on a color scheme.”
I was met with silence, and I wasn’t sure how to take it, did the phone cut out? Joseph and Luke were great friends, and it broke me to phone him that day while he was away on duty. Telling him Luke had died and hearing him break on the other end of the phone would live with me forever.
“Beth said she’d like Christmas colors, so I guess, reds, greens, golds. You know more about this shit than I do, and she said you should wear a dress.”
No comment about my date, I wasn’t sure how I was meant to take that, but I didn’t want to press any further.
“Kimmy, I gotta go. I think mom’s just about to murder dad, call you later, ok.”
Before I could answer, he hung up and my phone started to ring again. Sam.
