Runaway Bride [One Shot]

Here I am, walking down the aisle, walking towards a man I don’t really love. A man I was forced to think I loved, a man I thought would change my life.

Well, that’s what I thought too until I realized my true feelings for this certain boy. A boy I once despised, a boy I once cursed.

It’s very funny actually. Me? Falling for the guy I hated the most? IMPOSSIBLE! I thought. But, I came into realization and have eaten my own words.

And you know what’s funnier? That the guy I’m about to marry feels the same way. He loves another woman, like me loving another man.

But here’s the catch, we can do nothing for it is our parents’ will. We are not allowed the freedom to be with or even love somebody else but the person we are bequeathed to. So, we are forced to marry each other though we don’t love each other and feels those four letter word towards another person.

We even tried talking our way out to our parents about this matter. But their minds are set for us to get married, whether we like it or not. Tssk.

And do you know who I am?

I am Athena Gwinette Suarez. A rich and powerful girl. I may still be young at the age of 25, but I can do a lot more than an ordinary 25-year-old. Yes, I still have my parents with me but I’m the one who rules over our company. Suarez GOC. My parents had an early retirement and inherited me EVERYTHING they owned. Such a tough job for me, isn’t it? And why can’t I just boast around and tell my parents I don’t want this stupid marriage? That I won’t and never will marry a man I don’t feel tha word they call AMOR? And yet, they can tell me on what to do and what’s not to do. Ever wonder why? Simple. It’s because that’s how much LOVE and RESPECT I have for them that I can’t even say NO in every request they give.

But today? It would be different.

“Don’t be nervous Gwinette. Everything’s gonna be alright after this. Everything.” my Dad assured me.

I just gave him a smile.

Very different.

***

I’m in a hurry. I have a wedding to attend, or to crash rather.

I’m not a gate crasher or anything though. I’ll just do this for the woman I love the most. For the woman I’d die without. For the woman I see my future with.

And yeah, I will take her from her own wedding whether she likes it or not. I know she loves me, she told me! Damn. She should’ve just said no. I mean, is it that bad to say a simple two lettered word? Ugh. She loves her parents so much she would let them take over her whole life!

I mean, who would do that? HER.

I can now see the cathedral from outside my window. I hurriedly ran out of the cab but the driver called me…

“Sir! You need to pay!” he called out.

Ugh! Nothing’s free anymore these days, aren’t there?

“Here! Keep the change!” then I gave him money. I don’t even know how much I gave him. I just took some money from my wallet then immediately gave it to him not knowing how much it was.

As I entered the cathedral, all were silent, all were paying great attention to the priest’s speech. But that wouldn’t stay like that for much longer as the priest says this line:

“…Speak now or forever hold your peace.”

“I! I object!” I shouted holding my hand up high.