See You Around~ Grester (completed)

Chapter Forty-Three

Grace’s POV 

I sat with my brother, his face resembling sadness yet it also held a hint of anger. 

“What’s wrong?” I asked, turning my full attention to him. 

“Your fiancé.” His voice was harsh. 

“What?” His words didn’t make sense- what was wrong with Chester? 

“He asked me to be best-man. I said no.”

“Why? Please Tim, we want you there.” 

“That’s exactly it though isn’t it?! We this, we that. I’m fed up of you and Chester- of your love; it’s bull-shit.”

“Jealously, is this what this is all about, jealously?” He was being childish, naive to our feelings. 

“No. No, this is about you making the wrong choices, again!” His voice was getting louder and louder as if everything he had ever wanted to say came spilling out all at once. 

“Chester isn’t the wrong choice! How dare you say that.” It hurt, it hurt that he distrusted Chester, that I didn’t have my own brother’s blessing. 

“I love that man okay? I’ve never felt the way I do before- it’s different.” 

“He’s hurt you, I’ve seen what he’s done to you.” 

“You’ve seen what he has done to me? Funny that, I don’t recall you being there for me when I needed you, I don’t recall you turning up to any day of the three weeks I was in hospital! How can you sit there and say you’ve seen what he has done when you never even picked up the phone to see if I was okay!”

He sat there, a guilty look on his face. I knew he understood my words and I hoped he felt guilty for what he had said. It wasn’t fair of him to say that Chester wasn’t the right guy for me when he knew nothing; when he had no idea of how much Chester meant to me.

Part of me did feel guilty though, part of me wanted to understand what he was saying. But when I thought over his reasonings, when I realised exactly what he had said I just boiled up with anger all over again. He had never told me this before, he always seemed to get along with Chester perfectly. We had always been good at hiding how we really felt and I guess this was partly my fault; for not letting him in. For not listening to him when perhaps I should have. 

But I was marrying Chester- with or without my brother's consent and that is why I felt no shame showing my brother who the man I loved most in the world was, making it evident that just this once it wasn't him. It was someone else- someone who had shown me love where I couldn't find a single piece. 

Chester’s POV

Grace ran up to me, from the other room she came pounding into my arms. Her cheeks were wet and she leaned into my neck- her grip tightening. 

“Grace? What’s wrong” I asked, kissing the top of her head.  She looked into my eyes as she spoke- I could almost see the hurt reflecting off of them. 

“He doesn’t want to be best-man. I never knew he could be so selfish.” 

“I know.” I said, pulling my arms back around her. 

“Why is he being like this?” 

I knew just how much it hurt Grace for her to not get on well with her brother- they rarely fought and neither of them were used to the fact they couldn’t confine in each other.  

“I don’t know.” 

But I did. He didn’t trust me to look after his sister- he didn’t believe I could keep her safe. I had to convince him that she was protected in my embrace, I had to convince him that I wasn’t going to screw this one up. 

I walked into the room Tim was in, trying to deflate my anger and create some sort of compassion out of it. I understood his points, I was the same for my sister but this was different. It was me in this situation and iI’d do anything to stop Grace from hurting. 

“Hey, look, I’m sorry for what I said.” Tim spoke, his voice sounding vulnerable. 

“It’s okay, it’s not me you need to be apologising for.”

“Yeah it is. I’m sorry for distrusting you. I know just how much Grace loves you and I’m so grateful for everything you’ve ever done for her.” 

“Don’t worry about it. I just need you to know that your sister means the world to me and I promise that I would ever hurt her. I know what it’s like giving away your sister to some random guy but she’ll always come back to you- you’re her brother.”

“I know. I guess it’s weird, her having a man in her life she loves other than me.” He laughed a little and I smiled with him. 

The door creaked open and Grace’s figure emerged, she stood next to me and I grabbed her hand. 

“I’m so sorry Grace, is everything okay?” He stared up at her and she walked closer to him. 

"I don't know, is it?" 

"I hope so. I was stupid and I'm sorry for being so selfish but I realise now how much Chester means to you- I've never seen you this happy before and I guess all I could see was negativity when maybe there was none to be seen. You're right, I am just jealous. Because I have never seen two people so madly in love with one another. It's like some sort of fairtytale love; where no one belives it can be true but I promise I will try to understand, I will understand just how much Chester means to you, for you." 

Grace extended her arms and he walked into them, like they were small children all over again. 

"You'd better get writing your speech."