The Girl and the Bride by A.J. Rivers

Author:A.J. Rivers [Rivers, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A.J. Rivers
Published: 2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

“I know Tory told me that everyone really banded together to try to kind of erase the fact that the first wedding ever existed,” I say to the family all sitting together on a small couch on my computer screen. “It sounds like you were trying as hard as you could to make the best out of a pretty terrible situation.”

“None of us knew what we were supposed to do,” Marc Bates, Sharon’s father, says. “The whole thing hit us like a freight truck. It was so unexpected, and we didn’t know what the best way to go about dealing with it was. It isn’t like this is something people prepare you for when you’re raising children. So we defaulted to what we always did as parents. We tried to protect and take care of our daughter. We didn’t know what she was going through or what might have happened, so we tried to do what we could to help her through it in the way she told us she needed.”

“I guess we all kind of figured she would eventually come around and tell us the full story,” adds his wife, Priya. “I thought after she let everything settle down and there was some time and space, she would be able to open up. That just never happened.”

“When she first started getting serious with Brad and talking about getting married, were you worried?” I ask. “Did you feel like she might do something like that again?”

“It wasn’t something I wanted to think about,” Priya says. “I just wanted her to be happy. That was the only thing that mattered to me. It didn’t matter with whom or how. I just wanted her to find what was going to bring her her best life. Because I didn’t understand what happened, I had to trust that there was a good reason for her to choose not to marry Rob and that she was going to make the right decisions for herself.”

“We have a reason to believe her dress may have had something to do with why she was targeted,” I say.

“Her dress?” Mark asks.

“Yes. But we aren’t sure of the connection yet. Can you tell me anything about it? I know Tory shared with me that she really loved that particular dress and that the vintage shop she bought it from offered to bring it to the convention to do the fitting rather than having her come into the shop and do it. But do you know anything else about it? Did she always lean toward more vintage styles of clothing? Did it look like a dress that somebody in your family wore?” I ask.

“She just picked the dress on her own,” Priya says. “It wasn’t intentional. She didn’t go out dress shopping without us or anything. She was just out shopping one afternoon, and it caught her eye in the vintage shop. She said as soon as she saw it, she was drawn to it, and then she talked to the owner of the shop about it and decided that was the dress she had to have.

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