Bridesmaids' Club by Cathy Hopkins

Author:Cathy Hopkins [Hopkins, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Chapter Eight

Options Schmoptions

‘So, Chloe, any more ideas about what you want to do when you leave school?’ asked my sister Jane as she forked her way through Mum’s casserole, picking out the mushrooms.

Oh God, not this again! I thought. ‘I might become a trampoline artist in the circus,’ I replied. ‘Or maybe a window cleaner. I can’t decide.’ I thought I was being quite funny but nobody laughed.

Jane rolled her eyes.

‘Marcie was right about you being easily influenced, you know,’ said Clare, my other sister. ‘Not because you’re a Libran – we all know that astrology is a load of baloney – but because you just are, always have been.’

‘Duh! I was joking,’ I protested. It was the evening after Marcie and I had been to the Incredible Velcro place and my sisters were round for supper. Sadly, what should have been a nice girlie time with us discussing Marcie’s wedding and what we were going to wear was fast turning into a character assassination of the worst kind, that character being me. I looked at each of them in turn. Even if you didn’t know them, you would know that they were sisters. Like Marcie, Jane and Clare also take after my mum and have her chestnut brown hair, her brown eyes, fine features and slightly small mouth. I’m the only blonde of the girls in our family and the only one with a dimple, right in the middle of my chin. I take after Dad, who was fair when he had hair but was pretty well bald last time I saw him. I wonder sometimes if they are mean to me because I look like him and they don’t want to be reminded.

‘Gullible is the word I’d use,’ said Clare.

‘Always changing her mind, it’s true,’ said Mum.

‘That’s not a bad thing,’ I protested. ‘There are two sides to every story and surely you Clare, as a lawyer, ought to know that.’

She raised her eyebrows and fixed me with a stern look. ‘Only one side that wins though.’

‘OK, if I am easily influenced then what about Marcie? Before she met Sam Hunkalunk, she wanted a normal wedding in a beautiful dress with a fabulous reception. Instead, we’re on some kind of weird adventure week.’ As I said the words though, I remembered what Nessa and Uri had said about not settling for convention and the fun of being a rebel and doing something wacky. Despite my first choice still being the traditional wedding, I wasn’t as one hundred per cent against Sam’s list as I had been in the beginning. The alternatives didn’t have to be tacky. With the right organization and Nessa to help, they could possibly be made to work. ‘I’m trying to be open-minded, and that’s more than you lot are about astrology. It’s actually very scientific.’

Jane grinned. ‘You know, you could make a good lawyer, Chloe. You do know how to argue.’

‘Pff!’ I said.

Clare laughed. ‘Pff? Yes, very articulate for a wannabe lawyer.’

‘I’m not a wannabe lawyer,’ I protested.

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