A Wedding in Sweet Grove by Melissa Storm

Author:Melissa Storm [Storm, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Partridge & Pear Press

Seven

Summer was starting to wish she hadn’t asked Ben for some time apart before their wedding. Sure, planning and dealing with last-minute disasters kept her busy most of the time, but whenever she had a spare moment to stop and think, her thoughts found Ben.

Now she was lying in bed, reading through old comment threads and articles on a popular wedding website as a last-ditch effort to see if she’d missed anything important for her own.

But really all she wanted was for Ben to be her husband and for this ridiculous time apart to end. Was it a bad sign she could hardly make it a few days on her own?

A soft knock sounded on her door, then her aunt pushed her way into the room.

“C’mon,” Aunt Iris said. “Let’s go get gussied up for the big day.”

“We’re not doing hair and makeup until the morning of. You know that.” Summer returned to her iPad, but Aunt Iris didn’t leave.

She stomped over, grabbed Summer’s hand, and inspected it closely. “Ink stains,” she said before raising her own hand demonstratively. “And my old wrinkled hands are always caked in dirt.”

“So a mani-pedi then?” Summer placed the tablet on her nightstand and rose to her feet. There was no denying Aunt Iris when she had an idea. Besides, the bit of pampering would be nice.

Aunt Iris laughed. “If that’s what they’re calling it these days, then sure. I just think we need our nails done. I’ll even drop Sunny Sunshine off at the groomer to get his nails trimmed and beak shined for the big day. What do you say?”

“I say you have yourself a deal,” Summer answered as she searched her closet for something to wear to the salon. A thought struck her. “Can we invite Susan, too?” she asked.

“Best get used to calling her Mom soon,” Iris said with a wink.

“Is that what people do? It just feels so weird. Mom is my mom. Well, sort of.”

“My sister is a lot of things, but we both know she hasn’t been mother of the year here.”

She hated thinking of her mother. The woman practically felt like a stranger and had ever since she’d remarried. Her aunt, on the other hand, had always been far more attentive to Summer’s needs even though they only saw each other a few times per year while she was growing up. Summer frowned, but immediately rearranged her features into a smile. “That’s why I’m lucky to have you, Aunt Iris.”

“The feeling is mutual, kiddo. Now let’s vamoose.”

Summer called Susan’s house phone as Iris drove them both toward the house Summer would soon call home, too. Ben’s mom, of course, jumped at the invitation and soon all three women were seated with their feet in mini baths of sudsy water as a single salon worker flitted back and forth between the three of them, smiling sweetly as she worked but not saying much to anyone.

“It’s been so long since I’ve had any pampering,” Susan said after a long, relaxed sigh.

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