(By the way, Jacques was asleep in her lap.)
Bill shot Martha a look and finished up with, “I’ll end by reminding the rental retrieval team they are to report poolside by eight a.m., and the decorations subcommittee are to report, also poolside, no later than nine o’clock Saturday morning.”
He’d already reminded us of that.
Twice.
“With that, to all a good night,” Bill finally ended it.
“At least I got a cocktail out of that waste of time,” Martha said.
When I turned in my chair to face her, she looked at me. “I have a sleeping dog in my lap. And it’s yours. So you can go get me another one.”
“At your service,” I said, got up and went to the cocktail table.
Jessie was mixing fresh ones.
“One for Martha, one for me,” I ordered.
“Gotcha,” she replied. “I see you got your book.”
“Knox picked our color scheme and overall theme,” I told her.
Her face spread into a huge smile.
“Fab,” she replied.
“Is Eric involved in your planning?” I asked curiously.
“Nope,” she said. “He told me to do what I want. He’s getting out of the day what he wants, so he’s all good and doesn’t care how that comes about, just as long as I’m happy with it.”
“Nice,” I said.
“Javi’s totally into ours,” Harlow said, coming to stand beside me.
I turned to her. “You aren’t engaged.”
She shrugged. “It’s fun.”
I bet it was.
I was looking forward to it myself.
“Gabe’s throwing a spanner in our works,” Willow shared, she and Shanti coming up to my other side. “He wants a destination wedding at a beach.”
As noted, they weren’t engaged either.
“I’m always down for a beach,” Jessie said.
“Don’t you want a beach?” Harlow asked Willow.
“I’d never thought of a beach. Since they moved there, I’ve always wanted to get married at Mom and Robbie’s cabin,” she said.
“That’d be killer,” Jessie said.
“Does Gabe have a problem with that?” I asked.
“We’re discussing it,” she answered. “He’s hung up on how long it would take for us to get from end of ceremony to beginning of honeymoon. He says, we get married on a beach, everyone can fuck off, and we can go to our room and bam! We’re on our honeymoon.”
