Ten Years of Public Breakups, Then He Ran After My Bus novel · Chapter 36 of 40

Chapter 36: The Wedding

Paulie walked down the aisle of the Owls Head Grange hall at four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon in her mother's wedding dress.

She did not cry until she was halfway there.

I was the first to see it.

I stood at the front in a sage-green dress, holding a bouquet of beach roses, and watched my best friend come toward me with her chin up and her eyes streaming.

Eighty-two folding chairs and a crowd along the walls held two hundred people.

The doors stood open to the bay, and a long gold light poured over the aisle.

Gordie stood at the end of it in a gray suit with his beard trimmed, shaking so hard that the judge had to put a hand on his arm.

"Easy, son," the judge said.

"I'm easy."

"You're a ship in a gale," the judge said.

"I'm a groom."

Beside him, a step to his left, stood Eben.

He wore a gray suit and a white shirt and a pale green tie that matched my dress, and he wasn't looking at the bride.

He was looking at me.

I felt it on my face like the sun.

I looked back.

Behind us, at the front, Linwood sat in the first pew in a bow tie, next to my mother, who wore a hat the size of a dinner plate.

My mother caught my eye and mouthed something that looked like, Behave.

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