Blessed By Reedus | Prequel to Claimed By Reedus

|Chapter Nine|

(The day of the wedding)

I begin to panic, I don't know what to wear. Ergh! Why is it so hard to find something?! I stand in front of my wardrobe and stare blankly into it because I have lost all hope in looking for an outfit at the moment. "Gem, you need to get ready!" Ellie says from behind me and snaps me out of my thoughts as usual. "I can't find anything to wear though, it's like impossible" I say back to her but she just laughs and walks in front of me and pulls out a outfit, how does she do it, just pulls out something and it matches and looks good as well? I sigh and then hug her tightly, "I don't know how you do it but thank you" I say as I release her and look at the outfit she picked out. It was a black crop halter neck, ripped white skinny jeans, black, white and nude clutch bag and nude heels. I loved this outfit even though it's not really an outfit for a wedding party. Yeah I decided to go to just the party and not the reception because to stand for two hours around a church when it's not me up there, it's a waste of time to be honest with you.

"Okay, now get ready and I will sort your hair out" Ellie informs as she leaves the room and goes and get ready herself. I smile to myself, maybe this won't be as bad as it seems. I grab my clothes and head into the bathroom to grab a shower before my sister steals it and I will be waiting 2 hours for her to finish. After I finish my shower I'm dressed and ready apart from my hair which I decide to do because Ellie is still in her room and she is going to take forever to be done, I head into my room and begin styling my hair to a hairstyle that suits my outfit but at first I can't find anything that matches. I finally find a hairstyle that suits both me and the outfit, okay so what to do before we leave? Make-up! I apply my make-up, adding eyeliner to my water line and adding a little flick before grabbing my bag and heading out towards my sister's room. "Ellie, we have to go! We're going to be late!" I shout outside her door before knocking on the door but as I'm about to it opens and my beautiful sister walks out, looking way better than I am.

"You look much better than me!" I say before heading downstairs to grab my keys and leave locking the door behind me once, Ellie is out. "You know, I'm not the one dressing for a man's heart or to get his eyes on me" Ellie says with a giggle afterwards. "I'm wearing something more suitable than your outfit" I laugh and then roll my eyes and start the car engine, this better end well or I'm going to regret my sister being the one to ruin something again as it ended badly the first time. "Why have you still got this in your music collection? It's so old" Ellie exclaims before she plays it and then I get which song she is going on about (Nelly - Dilemma (Feat. Kelly Rowland) I laugh as I focus on the road, "This song may be old but it's a classic" I say and then turn it up a bit. "Yours and Norman's song, yeah?" Ellie asks sarcastically and then changes the song to something more her liking.

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Ellie tugs my arm and then points over to where Norman and Lily are standing. "Over there! We need to find a way to expose this bitch once and for all" Ellie whispers to me, I look over to where she was pointing. He looks so happy, I can't let her ruin his wedding but half of me just wants her to get it over and done with so that it gives me a chance to be with him. I never knew Norman looked so good wearing a suit, I think I must of had my eyes glued to him because Ellie had to pull me away. "I'm glad you made it Gemma, I was starting to think you weren't coming" Andy says before greeting me with a hug and kiss on the cheek, "I wasn't going to leave my favourite Brit here now, was I?" I say back at him and then sneak a glance at Norman as we are closer to him now and not all the way across from the other side of the garden (Or yard as they call it over here in America) "You can't keep your eyes off of him for a second can you?" Andy says with a chuckle, he is right. I don't think I can keep my eyes off of him, I laugh before peeling my eyes away from Norman.."I don't think I can, I will be back I just need to talk to him" I say which makes Andy laugh.