Finally, he sighs softly but content. “Alright… go enjoy the rest of your pie, tell everyone I say hi, and that I wish I was there, and to save me some of your mom’s cinnamon rolls!” He chuckles. “I need to call my parents and wish them a Happy Turkey Day.”
“Alight, I’ll talk to you tomorrow, I love you, Arch.”
“I love you too, Ellie.”
We hang up and I go back to the pie that’s been calling my name all evening.
After everyone finishes, I’m helping mom clean up. “Tell me about Vi’s wedding. I ran into her mom the other day at the coffee shop. She made sure to mention how she’s so thankful that you two ended up in thesame city in the end.”
I look at her curiously, she must be getting the wedding bug again, she had a huge hand in both Stella and Easton’s weddings, so she must be itching to plan one again. Sorry Mom, no wedding bells in the future for me any time soon. I doubt Archer is ready after just ending an engagement.
“Tell me about your dress, I want her dress to be a surprise you know, but tell me about the bridal party, what are you all wearing?” My eyes slide to Vi and Phoenix’s save the date on Mom’s fridge.
“It’s a spring wedding as you know, her colors are pastels, but like more muted pastels does that make sense? Iris is the matron of honor, so her dress is completely different from the rest of ours. She’s in a floral dress, Vi has the rest of us in various pastels, you wouldn’t think that it works, but she’s the artist and has a vision and it looks amazing. She has this like vision board where she put all of us together with the photos we sent of her in our dresses and she put them all together, and yeah, her vision was flawless. It looks so good.”
“What color are you in?”
“It’s a very pale pink, Vi says it’s delicate.” I giggle. “Like anyone has ever used the word delicate to describe me.”
My mom laughs along with me. Us Taylors are a loud bunch and very rarely has anyone used the word delicate in association with us.
“What about the bachelorette? What’s the plan for that?”
“Nashville, she wants to see sexy cowboys take their clothes off for us.”
My mom lets out the most unladylike snort cackle combination. “That doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.” She laughs. “She’s always been into cowboys, always surprised me she ended up with a guy like Phoenix, but he makes her happy so that’s all that matters.”
I fill my mom in everything wedding related until all the dishes are cleaned and her kitchen is once again spotless.
Chapter 43
Archer
Elle is out with Vi and Sadie for wedding things. I’m spending a free day with Tyson, Deej and Cameron. Deej was the one who called us all together. We’re back at Old Mill tucked away in a corner. Out of sight, out of mind type of seating.
“Alright, you assholes,” Deej says as he sets down a tray of beers for us. “I know you all have the bet going, and I do not want any sore losers.”
“Sore losers… You son of a bitch!” Ty jumps up giving Deej a hug. It dawns on me only a few seconds later.
“You proposed?! Holy shit! Congratulations man!” I fly out of my seat to give him a hug.
Cameron joins the bro hug huddle. “Not to be that guy but…”
Ty slugs him on the shoulder. “Let the man give us the exact date before you start collecting your winnings.”
“It was last weekend, after the game against the Sentinels. Mack was just looking so fine and all my plansfor the proposal being on our anniversary just left my brain.
There was an impromptu romantic dinner, and there was crying on both mine and Mack’s part. So yeah, we’re engaged now.” Deej says his smile lighting up his whole face. “Mack wants to have everyone over after the season to celebrate properly but since we are now in full holiday mode and then will hopefully be in playoff mode soon after, it has to wait, but that’s fine, I never minded the thought of a long engagement.”
“I’m so fucking happy for you!” I give him another hug. “And we let you buy the first round! That’s completely unacceptable!”
He laughs. “Well you guys can get the rest of the rounds and appetizers then.”
The three of us agree. We finish the first round and then I make my way up to the bar, Tyson follows me. “So Deej is engaged, that’s pretty exciting.”
“Yeah it is.” I’m not sure where Ty is going with this.
“We’re definitely getting plus ones. Which I guess has me thinking of who I’m going to bring.”
