Downtown Boy

c h a p t e r 33

🎶My uptown girl🎶

-Billy Joel

Sierra's pov:

It was simple, I needed to get ready, walk outside and pretend I have no idea what's happening. Simple. Yeah, not like I was shitting myself right now.

I was in my wedding dress, I ended up choosing one after closing my eyes and having a few rounds of random picking, it was way easier than actually choosing one of them, they were all beautiful but my heart wasn't in the whole wedding preparations for obvious reasons.

I still had to wear the veil.

Leo and James ran me through the whole plan, and like I said, it was simple, I needed to pretend I know nothing until they bust into the church.

My heart beat erratically, I was scared. Scared of what might happen if anything is fucked up somehow. I always fuck something up.

The door opens and Hailey bursts in, softly closing the door and then running to my side, grabbing the veil and then hurriedly putting it on me, pushing my shoulders to sit me on the chair, she starts pining it.

"I left Axel with Marc's family, I know how you'd get if it were mine and to be honest, I would've worried the whole time too," she informs, "There's 10 minutes before you walk down the aisle, Mrs. White's on her way here, Leo's gonna be right behind her, so-" my eyes catch her neck, a purple red bruise on her neck, I quickly grab her jaw, holding her still to get a closer look.

Wa-was she being abused?

"Hails? Why do you have a bruise on your neck?" I ask worriedly, letting go of her, the moment I let her go she's frantically turning around to look at it in the mirror, cursing and hiding it by letting her hair down from the bun and neatly doing her hair again.

"Fuck fuck fuck, stupid stupid idiot, can't even hide a little...fuck, just had to give me one."

"Is everything okay? Is someone..." unconsciously my eyes widen and I'm leaning closer, whispering to her, "Is someone hurting you?"

She stops immediately, biting her lips and staring at me uncertainly, "I- no no, I'm not being abused that's an umm, that's a hickey."

Curse my naivety, I just let go of her shoulders and back away, sitting straight on my seat.

"You've been getting some?" I gasp, "Whose the lucky guy?"

"A one night stand." she answers, quickly getting back to work and stabbing pins in my hair, not blushing once when mentioning she was out canoodling with some guy.

A few minutes later, my parents come in, Leo trailing behind them with a man- bushy blond hair, goofy smile, extremely cocky.

The tray in his hand is brought down to the little table on the side, small glasses and a jug filled with water.

After setting it on the table, he walks out, my parents backs towards the door when he winks at me with a smirk on his face.

Fuck.

I had to control myself from grinning widely, shit, this was actually happening.

"Sierra," My father calls me, annoyed, like usual, "2 minutes, I'm waiting outside." With that he walks out, leaving me like usual.

Years ago he was never like this, we weren't distant, we were close that I 'd always be glued to him, whether he was in his office doing his work, or when he was about to leave for a trip abroad, I depended on him so much.