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this
weekend.”
    “ We’ll see.”
    He stared at me. “You’re such a
tease.”
    I smiled at him. Now I just wanted to
be alone with him, not with the rest of his frustrating family. I
just wanted to cuddle with him under the sheets and not speak. Just
being with him always made me feel better.
    Diane stepped toward me. “We have to
start planning!”
    I raised an eyebrow. “Right
now?”
    “ Well, of course. When
were you planning to marry?”
    “ Uh.” We hadn’t thought
about it at all. Honestly, I just wanted to go down to city hall
with my family and tie the knot. I had no interest in having a
fancy wedding with a bunch of people I didn’t even know. “We
haven’t discussed it yet.”
    “ Don’t worry,” Diane said.
“I’ll take of everything.” She grabbed my hand and pulled me from
Sean’s arms. I wanted to scream. The only person that I wanted to
be with right now was him. “I have my wedding binder prepared. I
knew one of my sons would marry soon and I had to be
ready.”
    Andrew looked at his two sons. “I
don’t think we’re needed here. Let’s watch the game.”
    Sean looked relieved. “Let’s do
it.”
    I stared at Sean, silently begging him
to help me. I couldn’t believe he was leaving me alone with his mom
to plan a wedding I didn’t even want.
    He caught my look and smiled. Then he
turned away and walked into the living room with his father and
brother. I silently cursed Sean. He wouldn’t be getting any from me
tonight. Not after he abandoned me to his mother’s
cruelty.
    His mother and I moved into the grand
table in the other room. The hard wood furniture looked like it had
never been used. Their house was so big I was certain that some
bedrooms weren’t visited for years.
    She placed a thick binder and a few
magazines on the table. I took the seat next to her, knowing this
meeting was going to take a while. Looking at the wedding organizer
made me feel faint. I never wanted to have a wedding. Sean should
have known that. Well, I never told him exactly, but he should have
figured it out by now. But how could I tell his mom that? Clearly,
she was excited about the event. She was definitely more excited
than I was.
    “ So, I think we should
have a Venetian style wedding,” she said as she opened the binder.
“We can do a mermaid style dress because it will accentuate your
features perfectly. Then, we could have a Tuscan feast that will be
supplied by this wonderful restaurant in Manhattan—”
    At a certain point, I stopped
listening. She pointed at diagrams of the outside terrace and
pointed at the seating arrangement. She intended to invite five
hundred people. Then, she rambled on about the center pieces and
said we should get theseridiculously huge purple flowers inside a
pink vase. I know I’m not a designer, but that sounded appalling.
The wedding was practically already planned out. I only got in a
nod or two. I wanted to scream. This wasn’t happening. Out of the
five hundred guests, only four of them would be from my side of the
family. I didn’t have a father to walk me down the aisle, and I
didn’t have a mother to help plan this. The thought of my mother
made me panic. What if she showed up anyway, drunk and high off her
cigarettes? It would be the biggest embarrassment of my life. And
this engagement would be announced in multiple papers, including in
my hometown since I was marrying the son of a millionaire. I
really, really didn’t want to do this. When we left tomorrow
morning, I would just tell Sean we weren’t doing the wedding and he
could break the news to his mother. After her lack of support of
our engagement, I didn’t owe her anything.
    “ What do you
think?”
    I flinched. I wasn’t paying attention
at all. “Yes.”
    She nodded. “Penelope liked it
too.”
    Are you fucking kidding me? Did they
talk about wedding plans before she and Sean broke up? And if they
did, why would she bring that up to me? It was like this woman was
purposely