I couldn’t stop laughing as Jax dragged me a few blocks to the east of the city where, apparently, we could have breakfast while watching the sunrise.
If this wasn’t all fake and about to be canceled in a few hours, I would say it’d been the most perfect wedding ever. The only thing I’d change is that I would have loved to have Jodie with us, but I doubted she’d be super happy if she knew what we’d done.
She’d never said anything, but I always suspected she’d known about my crush on Jax. Or at least she’d suspected it, especially after I came out and we broke up. For a while, I’d asked for news about him until updates stopped coming. Jax had sent the bare minimum in emails so short they could be fully read in the preview setting on the phone.
The table we got couldn’t have been more perfect. With a view of the mountains in the distance and the smell of coffee and waffles, I was in heaven.
“What a night, huh?” Jax said.
I couldn’t take my eyes off the horizon line because I didn’t want to miss a second of the sunrise.
“I have a confession to make.”
Jax laughed. “Tonight is the night for confessions, it seems.”
“Huh?”
“Never mind, carry on.”
Before I chickened out, I blurted, “I had a crush on you.”
“You did?”
“I didn’t know what it was at first. It wasn’t until after you left that I realized what I felt for you was different, special.”
I glanced at Jax, and he smiled. “I was your gay awakening?”
Shrugging, I said, “You and Luke Evans. What can I say? I have a type.”
It wasn’t until our breakfast came that I realized how hungry I was. The staff at the Sky Diner let us stay as long as we wanted to because, apparently, we were the first newlyweds they’d had. It seemed most couples tended to head over to their hotels for a night of sex and champagne.
The next few hours consisted of running across the city to the chapel where Noah and Lior would get married—which thankfully was not the same as ours—and grabbing new suits because we didn’t have time to grab ours.
By the time we got back to our hotel suite with the newlyweds, I was starting to feel the number of hours I’d been awake.
The wedding cake was delicious and Jax and I exchanged a look when we both took a bite.
“Thank you for everything, guys,” Noah said after we took a few photos for posterity. “We really appreciate your support with this.”
Jax gave Noah a hug and shook Lior’s hand. “Again, congrats.”
They said we were free to chill or join them as they killed some time in the casino downstairs, but one look at Jax and I knew we’d be going nowhere.
I followed Jax to his room, laughing when I realized what I’d done.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Because after spending so many hours with you, getting married—which aren’t words I thought I’d ever say—and having the best breakfast in the world, I forgot this isn’t real.”
Jax took a couple of steps in my direction but stopped short of being within touching distance. “Since it’s the night for confessions, I used to have a crush on you too.”
My belly tightened and I took a deep breath. “You know, after I came to terms with my sexuality, I used to think I’d been into Jodie because she reminded me of you.”
“Ew. Please, no.”
I chuckled. “You have the same sense of humor, the same features—minus the muscles, of course.”
“Of course.”
