My Friend The Bride by Nicolette Dane

Author:Nicolette Dane [Dane, Nicolette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dane Publishing
Published: 2016-01-27T23:00:00+00:00

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Emma and Seth immediately went away for their honeymoon, traipsing off to some fancy resort in the Caribbean paid for by Emma’s father, which gave me a week to stew on what Emma had told me at the wedding. I couldn’t believe how casual she was about everything. Like, of course she would be able to keep up having a lesbian affair on the side of her new marriage. Molly, you must be nuts to think that it wasn’t expected in a politically connected and religious family. Now come dance!

It was difficult to wrestle with. On the one hand, I wanted to be with Emma. She was sweet, she was pretty, she was loving and fun. She exuded a certain indescribable positive energy. It made people want to be around her, to talk to her, to laugh with her. I’m sure you know people like her your life. You can’t put your finger on it, but you just always want to be around them whether you’re romantically interested in them or not. They have a light about them, a halo over their head, a strange aura that draws you to them. Emma was that. She was that in spades.

The emotional part of me yearned for her. I wanted her all for myself.

But on the other hand, I knew logically that it was an impossibility. Emma had a certain facade to uphold in her life and although I vehemently disagreed with her conforming to someone else’s standards, she was right to point out that it was hard for me to understand. Maybe impossible for me to understand. I didn’t know what it was like to grow up in a household like hers, feel the pressures to be a certain way, When I came out as a lesbian to my family, they congratulated me and told me they were happy I could finally admit it to them. I was one of the lucky ones.

And it wasn’t like this was some sort of unrequited love scenario in which I was smitten for a girl who didn’t reciprocate my adoration. No, Emma quite obviously enjoyed being with me. And she quite obviously enjoyed being with a girl who could, by her own admission, pleasure her in a way that her husband really couldn’t. It was just simply a rough spot to be in. Do I follow my heart, which means being complicit in Emma’s cheating on her new husband? Or do I deal with the pain and end things with my best friend and lover?

Love and lust are certainly tricky things.

Once the newlyweds returned from their trip, they began the process of moving Emma out of her condo and into Seth’s much bigger condo on the other side of town. Emma called me to help her out and I gladly obliged, eager to spend all the time with her that I could so that I might get my feelings in order. But helping her pack boxes and load up for her new life as a married woman didn’t really change the way I felt.

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