Love Is Blind, I'm Not novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: The Luncheon

The bridal luncheon was Friday at noon, in a glass room at the country club, with forty women and a cake shaped like a hatbox.

Aunt Bernie came as my guest in her good navy dress.

She had tucked a dish towel in her purse and would not say why.

I sat at the head table between Lacey and a great-aunt of hers who kept offering me a roll.

Lacey said, "Hi," once, very small, and then ate nothing.

Diane sat across from us in lavender, smiling at the room like a hostess at her own funeral.

Over dessert the planner tapped the microphone.

"We'll go to the toasts," she said. "Maid of honor last, of course."

I stood up.

"Actually, I'd like to go now," I said. "If nobody minds."

Diane's smile didn't move, but her fork did.

"Margot, dear, we have a running order."

"It'll be short."

I took the microphone.

Forty faces looked up at me, polite and curious, in their pearls.

"I've known Lacey since we were eleven," I said. "She shared her sandwich with me the first day of sixth grade, and I've never forgotten it."

A soft murmur of pleasure went around the room.

Lacey put her hand over her mouth.

"I want to tell you what the last three years looked like," I said. "Because a lot of people in this room have heard the version with a lot of flowers in it."

"Margot," Diane said.

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