My Best Friend's Brother (Completed)

Chapter 35

With everything that's been happening with the whole Anthony situation, and the wedding. The whole baby thing had been thrown out the window.

I wasn't even sure how to go about this whole thing. Any of it. From the wedding, or the baby. I just knew right now I needed to talk to Zachary.

Everybody had left the room, and left me alone. I was waiting for Zachary to come upstairs.

I didn't have to wait too much longer before the door opened, and Zachary walked inside. He was wearing a black suit, and he looked great.

He had a frown on his face. He was concerned.

" Marissa, what's wrong?" He asked me. He took a seat next to me on the couch. Taking his hands into mine.

" Today is just insane. I'm losing my mind. So much is happening at once. I don't know how much more I can handle." I admitted.

It was the truth. I felt like I was about to have a breakdown. I wanted everything to be fixed. I wanted everything to be right.

" talk to me. I'm here for you." He said. His simple words made me feel a lot better. Knew that I wasn't all alone in this.

" Anthony died. Late last night, I and Maggie got a phone call. He was in a horrible car accident, and now I feel awful. I feel like shit because I never mended things with him. was such an asshole to him."

" Time is very precious Marissa. But you can't go back in time. You can't stop yourself from doing something, and you can't redo life. Yes, it sucks that he died. I'm so sorry for your loss. But you cannot feel bad. You cannot blame yourself for anything. Or think you could have done something. It would've never changed the outcome of the situation." Zachary explained.

Zachary was right, I could sit there and bash myself all day. All week, all year. And nothing. Nothing would be changed.

Anthony will still be dead, and I would be feeling like shit for no reason. And I know Anthony wouldn't want me feeling like that.

" It just hurts. It hurts so much. I know I wasn't dating him, and I had moved on, but he was still a huge part of my life."

" of course he was, I don't blame you for feeling the way that you feel. Of course, it's upsetting to you. He was your first love. He meant a lot to you. Maybe over the past years, things weren't as amazing as they were in the beginning, but he still was something to you. And now you don't have it anymore. Now you're thinking about everything that could've been, but everything that you could've done better."

Again, Zachary was right. I was thinking about all of that. Which didn't feel fair to Zachary, as I was marrying him.

"I'm so sorry Zachary. This is our wedding day. We should be happy. I should be happy. I just feel like I don't know what to do anymore. I feel like my world is crumbling down."

" Today should be a happy day. But you have feelings, and they are valid. It sucks that it happened, but it did happen. You shouldn't let your world crumble down just because of him. He wouldn't want you to feel that way."

" there's another reason why my world is crumbling down."

Zachary looked at me confused.

I got up from the couch and walked over to the table. Where the little box sat. I grabbed the box and walked back over to Zachary. Taking a seat next to him.

I put the box in his lap and instructed him to open it. He looked wary of opening it, worrying about what would be inside of it.

Once he finally opened the box, he stared at the contents inside. He didn't move though. His eyes were set on the contexts of the box.