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“There’s always tomorrow.”

“Yes, I like we can think that way.” We kissed again.

15 - KAITLYN

ADJ played music. Zach and Emma danced to Oasis’s Wonderwall and it was a little awkward, but there was no way Zach would dance to anything more pop than that. They invited more people to the dance floor as the song was very long. Magnus slow danced with me, my hand clutched his, his hand on my back. I whispered, “Just sway like this.”

He listened to me perfectly and I melted in his arms. Slow dancing with my husband was a lot like being in love with him, like he filled my lungs with air but also took my breath away.

Then he stood to the side and looked handsome while I danced with Hayley and looked, I hoped, adorable. My dress was a deep gray tulle with simple rhinestone straps over my shoulders. My hair was swept into an updo. I wore simple diamond earrings and strappy rhinestone heels.

After three more songs. Hayley and I collapsed in chairs at one of the tables. She said, “I am exhausted, dancing last night, now tonight...”

“Are you going to see him again?”

“Well, I don’t know if you noticed, but he was shorter than me. Not a big fan of that. But we’ll see.”

Tyler dropped into the seat beside me. “Katie, can I talk to you?”

My eyes went big because he startled me. I hadn’t crossed paths or even needed to say a word to him for weeks. I glanced over at Magnus’s back, not sure why, but he was in a loud jovial conversation with James and Michael.

Hayley said, “Fine, I guess I’m unwanted. You look great, by the way, Tyler, the tux suits you. I’ll go talk to the other unwanted ladies.” She gestured with her head to the tables that seated Emma’s aunt and Michael’s cousin and grabbed the half empty bottle of wine off our table. “If I take wine maybe I can get them discussing dirty scenes in that raunchy show I watched last week, they totally look the type.” She literally cackled as she walked to their table.

“What’s up?” I asked Tyler.

“Have you been watching the news?”

“No, I’ve been in wedding mode — what do you mean, the storms?”

His eyes squinted. “What storms?”

“Nothing, no storms, I mean — the hurricanes, just with the weather outside and the flooding and — what did you mean?”

“I heard your name on the news last night⁠—”

“What the...?”

He glanced around the room. “I was feeling everyone else out about it, no one else heard the story, so I don’t know, maybe you can hire a lawyer...”

“What are you talking about?”

He pulled out his phone and scrolled down a page. “There’s a big YouTube feud going on, that guy you used to be engaged to⁠—”

“Braden?”

“He and his girlfriend broke up.”

“How do you know all this?”

“When I met you I thought I recognized you, I follow lots of YouTubers, mostly the gamers, but this feud involves some gamers so...”

“Okay, they broke up, good.”

“Well, they’re being real assholes to each other. Now they’ve got other YouTubers joining in, and they’re really playing dirty against each other. She’s pulled you into it.”

My eyes went wide. “YummyBabe? Why?”

“Because she’s not nice, but she says he beat her. He says she cheated. They’re both saying terrible things and she’s released some of his private videos and photos. You’re in them.”