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in the back of my head. Even though I was engaged for five fucking minutes at one point, I would have dropped it all for you. I may not have written you, called you, texted you, or Facebook messaged you, but you didn’t make an effort to contact me, either. I waited to hear from you, Stephen, I waited. Then when my whole life crumbled to pieces and I got back home, I couldn’t wait to see you.”
    “Addison, let’s go! No one has to know. I don’t even know if Rebecca wants to get married. I’m sure she and Brian are going through the same shit we are right now. I brought you here because I needed to know. I needed to see all of this and you, to figure it out. I really don’t know if I want all of this with Rebecca. I thought I did, but I don’t know. Everything feels so different now ever since you’ve been back. Let’s just go. I can get us tickets to anywhere you want to go or we can drive! We can go wherever you want. I know you’ve always wanted to travel. Come on, Addi. Please?” he begs. If this isn’t a quick change of pace, I don’t know what is.
    “Why the fuck didn’t you guys cancel the wedding then? Your family and friends will be here tomorrow. What were you guys thinking or were you guys even thinking at all?” I yell in frustration.
    “People knew we were going through some things, but we didn’t want to put off the wedding. We had so much money invested in it and our families and friends were coming in from all over. We figured we would have it all together by now,” he says, trying to justify their screwed up choices.
    “I’ll tell her after we leave. Maybe this is where our paths have come to connect. We both know everything happens for a reason, so let’s go. Just please don’t give me false hope like you did before.” His eyes were full of fear and confusion, but they were also full of honesty. I look down at his soft lips and back into his deep brown eyes. This is it. He is it. I am standing before the man who stitched together every single torn piece of my heart. The only man who has ever understood me and shares the same dream as me. Our paths have finally connected.
    The church door swings open and a tall slender woman with a bronze colored pixie cut comes running in. She stops as soon as she sees us.
    “Stephen! Oh thank God you’re here!” The woman wraps her arms around Stephen’s neck and begins to sob. I notice his light grip around her body tightens. “I don’t know what I was thinking, Stephen! I’m so so so sorry. I love you.” The woman sniffles.
    “I love you too, Rebecca.” Stephen’s voice echoes in my ears. I walk out of the church doors and down the road. I’m so numb I can’t even feel the cold wind as it freezes the tears to my face. It’s New Year’s Eve and I couldn’t be more thankful for this year to fucking end.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Ten
     
     
    After today’s events I’m calling a cab and going to the city for New Year’s Eve, alone. I don’t want to be around anyone I know. It’s too late to get ahold of Shelly to get a flight back tonight, so I just have to wait it out for a couple of days. I don’t know how someone can say one thing and do another that quickly. How could he be wanting to run away with me and skip out on marrying Rebecca, then the moment she rushes through the door he’s all hers again. None of it makes sense. I don’t even know what to think or feel. I wish I’d never come home.
    My phone has seven missed calls and eleven text messages from Stephen. I ignored every single one of them. I don’t even know what I was thinking, fooling around with an engaged man. Stephen had changed. He was a huge douche now. If he’d cheat on his fiancé, I don’t know why I’d think he wouldn’t be unfaithful to me if we were to ever be together. I’m stupid. I’m so fucking stupid.
    The cab pulls up to the curb out front of Club Country, it’s the hottest western country night club in Iowa. I walk in