Just Friends

CHAPTER- 39

THE WEDDING

The day was finally here and unlike what she had thought, Jade was uncharacteristically calm.

Her heart wasn't pounding in her chest. She didn't have a mild panic attack and she was definitely not getting cold feet.

Instead she had this heady, floaty feeling that made her feel like she was the luckiest and possibly happiest person alive at that moment.

She was going to get married today. To her best friend. To the man she loved with all her heart and then some more. To Alec.

And she felt wonderful as she stood in front of the mirror as Nicole and Blake helped her into the dress.

How many times before had she written a very similar scene in her books? The heroine getting ready, surrounded by her loved ones and the lovely radiance on her face.

Blake buttoned the last pearl along her back and stood up straight to look at her best friend.

Jade was glowing. She had been smiling ever since she woke up that morning. Her eyes twinkling, dimples winking on her cheek and a radiance that only love could bring.

"Time to look at yourself, Jady."

Jade smiled nervously and tugged on the neck line once before turning around to face the mirror. Her bridesmaids, Nicole and Blake had forbidden her to look at herself till then.

"Oh!" Jade gasped when she turned around and for a second  was stunned. Was that really her reflection in the mirror?

The white dress had belonged to her mother and it had needed only a few alterations. It was the colour of snow, bright and sparkling.

The dress was off the shoulder which left Jade's creamy shoulders on display. The bodice was form- fitting and had a long row of pearl buttons at the back.

From the waist the dress opened up into miles and miles of flounces, glittering with small pearls on it too.

Nicole had forced her to leave her hair open instead of the chignon, she had thought would suit the dress more and Jade had to agree that she had been right.

Her black hair, curled just at the end lay messily on her shoulder and the only head adornment she wore was a small tiara made up of peach carnations.

"You look beautiful." Nicole said with a smile that was almost as big as Jade's.

Blake gave an enthusiastic nod, "I'll have to agree with Nicky. You look like a princess."

Jade placed a hand over her heart which for the first time since morning was pounding, "Thank you. Thank you so much." She had tears in her eyes as she turned around to face the two best friends a girl could ever ask for.

"There's no need to thank us." Nicole waved a hand under her own eyes, trying to stop the wave of tears that were threatening to come out.

"No no... We can't have tears now." Blake stopped the two of them before they could start on a sentimental crying fest. She never did well with crying women, "We don't want to spoil the make up. And Anyways we don't have the time."