A lifetime with Finn—good, kind, selfless, attentive, smart, gorgeous, generous, and slightly nerdy Finn—was all she could think about these days.
Pretty soon, it was going to be her reality.
“Shouldn’t you be getting dressed?” Finn asked, making Iris’s eyes go round.
“Oh! Whoops. I lost track of time.” She popped up out of her chair to rush toward the bedroom to grab her outfit.
“She does that,” Selene agreed.
“She showed up at my yoga class ten minutes short of it being over,” Willow piled on.
“In my defense, I knew I would be terrible at it,” Iris called from the bedroom.
“She knocked over a row of advanced yogi women like dominoes,” Willow explained. “And a snake plant that actually hissed about the disruption.”
“She’s making it sound worse than it was,” Iris insisted. She yanked on a vintage T-shirt from some obscure comic book that featured a mermaid-vampire hybrid that she had never read but thought would be perfect for the day’s event.
There was a time she would have wanted to wear a shirt to embarrass him. Now, all she wanted to do was match him and make him proud.
“Okay. How’s this?” she asked as she emerged.
“Where did you find that?” Finn asked, eyes bright.
“In the same store where we found your wedding present,” Selene announced.
“It’s perfect,” Finn told her, heading past her in the hall.
“Where are you going?”
“To get changed.”
“I thought we had to leave at eleven.”
Finn’s smile was sheepish as he turned to look at her. “Yes, I didsaythat.”
“You gave me a fake time?” she asked, pretending to be shocked.
What could she say?
She knew she was always late.
And that Finn was really excited about this outing.
“A necessary evil,” he said, shooting her a smirk before slipping into the bedroom.
By the time he came out, Arden, Selene, and Willow had seen themselves out. So there was no one there to admirehis casual outfit of black shorts and a T-shirt featuring a ton of different comic book covers with the wordsI’ve Got Issuesprinted above.
It was the most casual she’d seen him dress for anything that involved leaving their home.
“I love it,” she declared, beaming at him.
“Are you ready for this?”
Given what she’d seen about these giant comic book events online, no, she was not.
“Absolutely,” she agreed, taking his hand.
It was a short ride to the venue, and they made it out front just as the doors opened.
