More Than a Love Song by Cathy Cole

Author:Cathy Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2014-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

“You’re quiet, Rhi,” Polly remarked, straightening the angel wings on her back. “Is everything OK?”

Rhi had been staring at the devilishly dressed bride and her new husband in his angel toga and gold body paint, and thinking about Polly’s mum and Ms Andrews. She gave a guilty start. “What? Yes, everything’s fine!” she said quickly. “Sorry, I’m a thousand miles away. I’ve got a lot to think about.”

That was true at least, she thought.

Polly’s face lost its worried expression. “Of course!” she said. “Your head must be full of that producer guy. Eve’s such a surprise, isn’t she? Who’d have thought she had it in her to be so nice?”

“Even Eve has a bit of angel about her,” Lila laughed. She was wearing a short, floaty red dress with a set of flashing devil horns on her head completing the picture.

“This has to be one of the maddest weddings we’ve done yet,” Rhi said, gazing around the angels-and-devils-themed marquee.

Black and white fabric swathed the walls, and red, white and black balloons floated around the pleated ceiling above the guests’ heads. Tables were laid with a mixture of red, black and white cloths, topped with huge glass vases filled with blood red gerberas, pure white lilies and deep purple roses. A large open-topped barbecue stood in one corner of the marquee, its coals glowing like a cartoon vision of the underworld, and on a table by the door, white twinkling lights were wound around a pure white wedding cake decorated in sugarcraft feathers. “Sympathy for the Devil” played on the sound system, shortly followed by “There Must Be an Angel (Playing With my Heart)”. The DJ, clad half in white and half in black with a painted red face, was having plenty of fun with the theme.

Rhi smoothed the angel dress Polly had made for her, admiring the glimmery ribbons that Polly had stitched along the hem. Her wings were light and glittery on her back.

“I love this dress, Polly,” she said gratefully. “I feel properly angelic.”

“You’d look angelic even without it,” said Polly, smoothing back her newly platinum-blonde hair. The pale shade suited her, making her expressive hazel eyes shine and giving a fresh glow to her skin. She looked fantastic in her floaty white dress and wire-stiffened dragonfly wings.

“Stop admiring yourselves, girls,” said Mr Gupta, swerving past in his usual grey suit and tie. “We need the canapés now, please. Circulate! Circulate!”

Rhi obediently scooped up a tray of devils on horseback: small prunes wrapped in bacon. Lila’s tray was full of angel cake, and Polly had devil’s food cake. As Rhi began to move through the crowd, turning sideways occasionally to fit her wings through the small gaps, she marvelled at the chances of two people ever getting together and finding happiness. This wedding had an original theme for sure, and everyone was enjoying themselves. But how did any marriage last? If there was one thing Rhi had learned, it was that nothing was ever certain. A cheating partner.

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