How to Ruin a Wedding: A Romantic Comedy by Sophie Andrews

Author:Sophie Andrews [Andrews, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

I thought I’d be having more of an enjoyable time while sitting in front of five pieces of cake. But with Tyler on one side of me dissecting the nuance of every flavor combination and Sarah on the other side asking for a play-by-play, I was ready to toss them all in the trash.

“Pick what you like best, not what you think other people will want.” I licked the cream cheese icing off my plastic spork.

“You know chocolate is my favorite,” he told me then gestured over to Sarah. “But the almond is delicious.”

“Is it?” Sarah asked me for verification.

“They’re all good. I’d eat any one of them.”

She wrinkled her nose at me, unsatisfied. “But which one do you like best?”

“The carrot cake.”

Tyler gagged on purpose. “It’s dessert. It shouldn’t have vegetables in it.”

I propped my elbows on the table. “Okay, then go with your tired old chocolate on chocolate.”

Sarah opened the photo album the owner of the bakery left with us for cake decoration inspiration. “But don’t you think chocolate is kind of…” She circled her hand in the air. “Generic?” She pointed to a certain page in the album. “Look. Look how gorgeous this cake is. Then we’ll cut into it, and it’s brown?”

I speculated if the quicker death would be stabbing myself in the ear or eye with the spork. “All right, then go for a more sophisticated flavor like vanilla bean or almond with layers of fruit.”

Tyler wielded his spork like a sword. “No lemon.”

“Cake or filling?” Sarah asked, considering another page of the book. “And are we sure we want to go with the ribbon? I kind of like the deconstructed style of this one? And square? No one has a square cake, it’s really different, right, Till?”

Instead of opening up the display case and tossing the first cake I could get my hands on at Sarah, I stood and laid down my spork, rather than lodging it in anyone’s throat. “I’m going to go outside and give you two a few moments. If I were you, I’d get a four layered square cake—” I turned my attention to Sarah “—with the white icing and ribbon motif—” then raised my brows in Tyler’s direction “—and alternate chocolate with chocolate ganache and almond cake with your preference of fruit layers.”

With that, I found a seat on the bench outside of the bakery door. Behind me, through the window, I could see the two of them flipping back and forth through the book. Tyler had opinions. Sarah had none. He second-guessed his opinions because of her, and she was too afraid to make a decision on anything in case it was the wrong one.

They were hopeless.

When my phone buzzed with a text, I dug through my purse for it and found a message from Zack. How about this?

After he’d sent the selfie of him in his new green shirt the other day, our messages had devolved to pictures of random pieces of green clothing for him to purchase.

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