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  Taylor walked down the aisle with Theo on by her side. He held her hand while she wore a long silk like baby pink gown and he in a traditional black tux. My boy looked so handsome and so proud. I was proud to call him mine. He gave me a high five as he took his seat and kissed his grandma Thomas on the cheek. He was such a sweet boy and Gabby has done such a good job with him.

  When the music for “here comes the bride” started to play I grew even more nervous and excited at the same time. This is the start of the rest of my life…

  Gabby

  I had every intention on waking up this morning and getting married. I did get up and get to the salon and get my hair done with Tay and my mom, I also got my makeup done and was sitting in the waiting room in the church in my wedding dress, but I am not getting married today.

  It took me years to get any memories back of my what I like to refer to now as my “dark days”, but every so often I would remember something that Tay and I did or who I did…its awful and it makes me feel awful, but I was staring at myself in the mirror and my mind flashed back. To a night where I actually felt like I was there and it was happening at that moment. I remember everything from that night, his smile, his touch, his laugh, every embrace it was all coming back to me. I also remembered why I was not there when he woke up the next morning.

  I heard the organ playing the song that was my queue to meet my dad in the entry way and walk down the aisle but that was not happening. How can I marry this man when my mind finally let me remember what I obviously wanted to block out. I had left him sometime in the night after he fell asleep because I was still so drunk I had to take a cab. How could he do this to me? How could he get me pregnant and how could he not tell me the truth? Was it to trick me or make me fall in love with him? Whatever it was I was mad as hell and hurt to my very core.

  He probably never thought that I would find out.

  I tried to calm myself down so many times and make myself walk down that aisle and then just let him have it later on…but the longer I sat there and cried my bloody eyes out the more I realized that this love I have for him is built on a lie…

  Jace got me pregnant on purpose…because sitting on his nightstand that night after we had hooked up was a stack of paper work and it must have toppled to the ground during our little love fest because I excused myself to use the restroom and when I came out he was asleep, I noticed the papers so I bent down to pick them up and saw this file underneath it. The file was blank on the outside but curiosity killed the cat so I opened it up and it was all these legal documents in their talking him needing to have a child…it scared the crap out of me because the last thing I wanted to was to be pregnant.

  Don’t get me wrong I love Theo more than my own life but what if he did this on purpose? I did not read too much in the file because honestly that was all that I needed to see. I didn’t want him to get me into trouble….but since I was stupid and drunk it happened. I wanted to get out of that church as fast as I can. I was so upset and hurt and I am just done. I don’t want to look him as long as I live…but I don’t have much choice in the matter now. Not only was moving in with him but he was Theo’s father.

  Now I would have to find us a new house and everything, my life is falling apart. These next 15 years of co-parenting will suck. At least now I do not have to feel so bad about not remember who his father was, I grabbed my phone and text Tay. I knew she would have her phone on her even at my wedding.

  Within in what seemed like seconds she was knocking on the door.

  “Gabby what the hell are you doing? You’re not going all runaway bride on me are you? Because there is about a room full of people wondering the same thing,” she snapped at me.

  “Look Tay, I made a mistake here. I am not ready for this and I promise I will explain everything later but you need to go get Theo and get me out of here. I do not want to see Jace. Please just help me,” I said.

  She looked at me shocked, “Ok Gab I won’t ask questions now. I will meet you outside in 10. Just stay calm and we will get through this,” she said. I smiled but I knew that I most defiantly will not get through this, not ever. I quickly got my things and ran out the back door, never once looking back.

  Epilogue

  Jace

  Have you ever had the most amazing and the most horrible thing happen to you at the same time? There I was waiting to marry the love of my life and then I was standing at an altar that I had been dumped at. It was embarrassing as hell and heartbreaking. I did not see this coming at all. I stared down at my vows that I wrote even though we agreed to not write our own I wanted to surprise Gabby. When Taylor came back into the church and told me that Gabby had freaked out and did not want to go through with this I panicked. I ran down the aisle and tried to confront her but she was not in the waiting room.

  She was gone. Taylor had gotten Theo and taken him with her and after all of the guests had been told what had happened and left it was just me there…standing in a big church feeling empty, and alone. I do not know what happened to Gabby but I swear to God I will find out, she is not going to do this to me, to us.

  About the Author

  H.M. Waitrovich, lives in the Midwest and has always dreamt of being a writer. Literature has been a big part of her life and has always inspired her. Some of her favorite authors have gotten her through some very tough times. When she isn’t writing she is taking care of her two daughters who challenge her on a daily basis. She loves to read, watch movies with her girls and have carpool karaoke sessions with them on the way to school in the mornings. Her favorite food is Pasta and any sweet treat you can think of. Sugar and caffeine get her through the day and the night.