The best of me

8

Sitting here on the cozy sofa in the wedding dress salon where Irene was supposed to do her last fittings, she wondered how actually wonderful her friends were, she felt guilty for not being here from the beginning of the preparation for her friends wedding, but Irene didn't complain about it.  It would be better if they took offense or scolded her for running away without explaining anything, but they seemed to continue from where everything stopped. Of course she called them and talked from time to time but it was different from talking in person. She was deep in her thoughts when Wendy tapped her arm.
"What's the matter?  You think a lot, just try to enjoy the moment." She, as always, was the first to notice her change of mood.  "Sorry unnie." she came out of her reverie.
"Yaah, Park Sooyoung this 'sorry' should be mine, this is my wedding you forgot about." Irene startled both of them with her incredible dolphin squeal, girl was fake glaring at them with her hands on her hips.  "ok ok, I'm very sorry to you Mrs. Kim and I would never forget about the wedding, just ..."
"Come on.  don't act like we're strangers, just a couple of months and you think our friendship has changed?  I'm starting to get angry, so you know." Bae cutely wrinkled her nose and flicked the youngest  forehead.
"Aish... unnie..." she rubbed it but then smiled slightly at both of her friends,it seems they knew her better than she thought. "Thank you" she said almost in a whisper
but was heard anyway
"Well there's plenty of things we need to do, so don't be thankful until i get married, because am going to use you all for my wedding plans."
"Why am I filling like I was punished for something I didn't know? I'm afraid." covering her eyes dramatically started whining Wendy, making other two laugh at her antics.

"Oh you..! Cowards!" Snapped older girl "I just wanted you to help me with dresses and flowers and did you choose your own clothes? I mean I don't want you guys to be out of style because every detail is planned and it's going to be My wedding." She rubbed her palms and looked at girls with wide eyes " Omg... it's my wedding.."

"you keep repeating this for a week now, still can't believe it?" For Wendy, all this fuss seemed so funny, she always thought that the wedding itself is not so important if you found a person with whom you are ready to be all your life, what is the meaning of the dress and other tinsel if you forget everything the next day .. but as it turned out  everything was not so easy, now looking at the excitement in Irene's eyes she wanted to experience this feeling herself.
"Of course!! Just think, I thought about our wedding a million times and we even come up with what and how it should be, but now, when the wedding day is getting closer, I cannot remember anything that I wanted, I feel that everything is spinning around but I stand still and don't know what to do." Irene was calm from the facade but those who knows her could see her nervousness and uncertainty

Meanwhile Joy imagined herself in wedding dress and her thoughts turned into sadness when she thought about the guy at the end of the aisle. She wasn't imagining Kim purposely, it was her mind playing tricks with her... feelings?
"Damn it!" She mumbled rolling her eyes, two others just stared at her rising their eyebrows.

"What is it?" Wendy, who was checking stand with baby blue dresses, turned to her and furrowed when she didn't get any answers from younger one. "SooYoungaa...!" She clicked her fingers to gain her attention

"What? ...N-Nothing." finally responding she weakly smiled at Wendy, but she can't be fooled so easily. The older stared at her for a minute as if reading her mind and then looked back at dresses.
"Do you want me to pick you up?..." 
She said nonchalantly but
Irene noticed her smirk even if she was preoccupied with her dress. She glanced at Joy from the corner of her eyes and saw her troubled face after Wendy's question.

"I... I haven't seen girls yet, so I'm going to meet them first..." she busied herself with whatever it was on the shelf's, trying to find excuses to escape this meeting with gang. Not because she didn't miss them, she missed a lot, but she didn't know how to show up in front of Him, what to say or do... She has already done too many stupid things because of her cowardice so now she was afraid to do more. And still even Joy wasn't ready to go to Jins house, she knew it's something inevitable, because it's their wedding that they were going to talk about and she must take at least some part in its preparation after she missed all the other things.