𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊 / scott reed ✓

𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊
71 / EPILOGUE
↳ post season four
act two / one last ride

FIVE YEARS LATER

𝐈𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 five years since Nessa Dempsey and her best friends graduated from Liberty High School, and just as she felt on her graduation day, Nessa never saw this day coming. But, now that it was here, she genuinely couldn't wait.

Nessa stood in front of a full length mirror in the small room that she had been in for a few hours now, taking deep breaths as she smoothed out her lengthy white dress, beaded all over her chest and flowing throughout the dress as she took in her own reflection.

She was getting married to the love of her life today, and she was beyond excited.

Today had been filled with emotions, because Nessa knew that her wedding was missing key people that she would have never wanted to do this day without. Justin's absence had never been so prominent in her life than today, when she was getting ready and realized that his chair would be empty.

Together, one of the first decisions that Nessa and Scott had made about their wedding whenever he had proposed a little over a year ago was that there would be four empty seats in the front row, for Jeff, Hannah, Justin, and Nessa's father. It was the first non negotiable for each of them.

However, Jessica and Tyler had other plans, and they kept their plans a complete secret from everyone else but themselves and the people involved. Ever since Nessa and Scott had started dating, Jessica always had the perfect idea to honor Nessa's loved ones that she had lost, and once she and Tyler had been named Nessa's maid and man of honor respectively, they got to work immediately.

"Hello!" Jessica called as she barged through the door in a floor length sage green gown, holding two flutes of champagne. Tyler followed behind her, his black suit fitted perfectly and a sage green tie wrapped around his neck.

"Oh, God, hi." Nessa replied, reaching out to grab the glass of champagne immediately. She had wedding day jitters like no other. "Ty, would you mind going to grab Stel? I wanted to show her."

"Of course." Tyler told her as he set his champagne glass down. "I still can't get over how gorgeous you look, Ness."

Nessa blushed, smiling as Tyler walked out of the room. He had told her this at least seven times today, but he truly could not get over it. During their first look, Tyler had cried.

To be fair, there wasn't a dry eye in the house on either side of the wedding party. Jessica and Ani were beside themselves, and Charlie and Clay had to carry Zach away because he refused to let go of his twin sister. Alex had just stared at her, completely awestruck.

"Are you ready?" Jessica asked as she and Nessa took a seat on the small bench in the corner of the room.

Nessa took a sip of her champagne, nodding eagerly. "More ready than I ever have been."

Jessica reached over, giving her best friend a warm hug. She was so proud of her.

"He's definitely going to cry." Jessica said, and Nessa laughed.