Don't Forget Me by Meg Benjamin

Author:Meg Benjamin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

By nine thirty, they’d managed to get Allie’s wedding dress chosen and tucked away where she couldn’t change her mind. It was, in fact, the same flowing jersey she’d tried on first, but Docia was right—trying on lots of other dresses had helped cement Allie’s choice in her mind and had convinced her that the shower was actually a perfectly splendid idea. That, plus a really amazing amount of champagne.

Kit had discovered she herself had a champagne limit, even for very good champagne like the stuff Docia was pouring. After two glasses, she’d switched to bottled water, although only Janie’s mother seemed to notice, giving her a sympathetic nod.

Now they were working on the bridesmaid dresses, and a raucous lot the attendants and kibitzers had turned out to be. Jess, Janie and Morgan were all bridesmaids. Docia was matron of honor. Allie had wanted Kit to be a bridesmaid, too, but she’d gently refused since she couldn’t possibly keep track of all the things she needed to keep track of at the wedding and also march up the aisle. That left her, along with the other non-bridesmaids—Deirdre, Bethany, and Clem—to offer totally unsolicited advice, passing judgment on the rack of dresses Mrs. Dupree had managed to scare up as the various bridesmaids tried them on in various combinations.

“That gun-metal satin looks terrific on Jess,” Clem commented, taking a hearty sip of her champagne.

Deirdre shook her head. “Won’t work for Janie. It’ll make her skin look too sallow.”

“Janie looks lovely in that pale pink.” Mrs. Dupree gave her a look of maternal approval that had Janie blushing.

Docia paused, fluffing her bright red hair. “No pale pink for me, please.”

Kit frowned. “It’s going to be really hard to find a single color for all of you. Unless you all wear something unimaginative like black. Do you all have to match?”

“We could probably do different colors if they were all the same style, assuming Mom could order them for us,” Janie said helpfully.

Mrs. Dupree smiled very brightly, but Kit could see the panic in her eyes. “Well, we could certainly try. Some of them might be available in several colors and sizes. Of course, we do only have a few weeks until the ceremony.”

“Who says they have to match?” Allie asked from the throne-like chair they’d set up for her in the middle of the room.

“Well…” Mrs. Dupree looked slightly nonplussed. “I mean, it’s sort of traditional, isn’t it?”

“Why?” Allie’s eyes had taken on a certain dreaminess. “Why should I have to have a matched set? I mean it’s not like they’re carriage horses or something.”

Janie snickered, then wiped her face clean of expression when her mother glared.

Allie was warming to her subject. “After all, if I wanted them all to match, I could put them all in chef’s pants and jackets for Pete’s sake.”

“Wow, great idea,” Morgan enthused. “We could really work with that.”

“Dibs on the ones with the chilies,” Docia added quickly.

“And beanies,” Clem threw in from the audience. “You could all wear chef’s beanies.

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