Cinderella in Reverse

Thirty Four - Welcome to Paris

A/N: A super gracious shoutout goes to Niewe_Emo for requesting this early update! Thanks for loving the story!

Austin happily agreed to my offer of being my plus one to the wedding. It was only until about a week ago until I realised that the rehearsal dinner and the wedding was in Paris. Paris!

This wedding's just full of surprises.

It's been three weeks since I spoke to Theo about the wedding, and two weeks after Vienna coaxed me into inviting Austin.

I stood in LA's international airport terminal shaking. Thankfully, the Williams and the Callahans paid for our airfares and accommodation in Paris, otherwise my dad and I would've gone bankrupt.

"I can't believe I'm doing this. Oh my god, I can't believe it. This is actually happening. This is-" I blurted.

"Shut up!" Tori said. She started dancing and singing to Justin Bieber in the middle of the departure gate. "Tonight we're gonna party like it's 30-12 tonight!"

I pulled the drawstrings of my hoodie, shielding myself from Tori's horrid dancing and atrocious singing.

"Don't stress, it'll all be over in a week." Vienna reassured, patting me on the shoulder. I gave her a small smile and huddled up in the departure gate chair.

"You guys brought the straightener, right?" Tori said doubtfully. She'd been paranoid about forgetting something the entire ride to LA. I nodded, laughing at her paranoia as the boarding gate opened.

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Austin and I sat next to each other on the flight to Paris, and we watched a movie together on the monitor. It was about ten minutes into the film when he placed his hand on mine, and I froze.

Sure, it was a nice and safe feeling, but was it right? I wasn't sure.

We talked about anything and everything on the way, telling jokes, napping next to each other and listening to music. Ten hours later, we made it to France. Everyone met up in the lobby of the MASSIVE rental penthouse - Le Cygne, and I ran over to Ashley to embrace her.

"I missed you so much!" I squealed.

"I missed you too!" She said, kissing me on the cheek. She greeted Tori and Vienna, and eventually we saw the others arrive too. The wedding party were to stay at Le Cygne and the others would stay in the hotel downstairs.

"Honestly, Soph. You don't understand." Ashley said, all flustered. "This wedding can't happen. Everything's so wrong!"

I opened my mouth to speak, but I caught my dad's eyes.

"DAD!" I squealed, running up to hug him. After meeting up with everyone, I started talking to Theo.

Then Rosie came up to him with a mug.

"Here you go, Theo." She said with a smile. Stupid, annoying-

Her eagle eyes landed on me and she came up and hugged me.

Hugged me.

What. The. Hell.

"It's good to see you again, Sophia. I haven't seen you in a while." She said sweetly. Huh, the good girl act.

"You too..." I said with equal the amount of sweetness in my tone. "I never got a chance to congratulate you on finishing college early."

"Thankyou, it was hard, but it paid off." She smiled. "Now Finn's going to continue medical school and I can start working."