Love Conquers All

Chapter Twenty Six

George's POV

Wedding day.

The fucking bane of my existence. I just want to curl up in a hole and die. Oh wait! I can't die!

Great.

The entire Fae land is invited to the wedding, so the city is packed and church a buzz with flowers, decorations, and the wedding party. Every store in town is packed and all the hotels in the surrounding towns stuffed to the brim.

Hell even all the bars are shut down.  Well there goes my plan of getting drunk off my ass.

Theo and Theodosia have been running around town all day getting flowers, a weding present, and dresses.  At one point I was dragged to get fitted for a suit, Theo's picking it up later.

I'd run off to the beautiful  field, my field, the one that's always silent and seems to listen. The stars are always listening and the sun watching, that's what they say at least. Does that mean  the Thomas watched me scream drunkingly in an open field last night on how much I hate my life and myself? Maybe I should throw a middle finger up there sometime.

Anyway, I'd run off to the field but that's where they're holding the reception.  It's a nice day and they feared the ball room would get too stuffy, so it's outside. In my field. It has been for years. That's the field I went to drink my sorrows away, where I'd scream my anger and fears, where I'd watch the wildlife bound through happily.

Where I buried my friend.

"George, you should start getting ready." Theodosia rubs my shoulder, I hadn't left my bed all day." Or we'll be late. "

"I don't want to go. " I sigh and shake my head.

"I'm sorry,I know, but people will see you're gone. " She helps me sit up." It's for the best if you come."

"I...." I meet her eyes. She's not going to drop this. "Alright... Alright, I'll go." I sigh and start to get dressed slowly.

The next thing I know is that we're walking inside the church with thousands of other people. I can feel their eyes on me and hear their whispers.  I shouldn't be here. It's not right. We somehow get end seats, Theodosia shoves me to the outside.

"I dont want to sit on the outside." I huff and sit down slowly," I want to be as far away from them as I can."

"Don't you want to show them what all these months have done to you ?" I look at the mirror on the end of the pew across from me. My face is sunken in,my cheek bones show harshly and my eyes are sunken in. There's no life in them, no spark, all I see is dull dark orbs. My body posture is shrunken and small, made to keep any and all attention away from me. The white shirt under the jacket shows each rib, you could count them."Show them how much he means to you?"

"I died for him Theodosia!' I hiss. "I don't understand why I have to be the one that crawls back to him, to show him how much he means to me. I jumped infront of an arrow for him, I took on Aaron and John for him, I fucking died for him. I smiled through all the insults he said to me."

"You didn't die for him..."A lady scoffs across the aisle, I recognise her as Martha's mother. I grind my teeth and lift my shirt to show the ugly colored scar there.

"You look me in the eye and tell me what I did and didn't go through. " I shake my head and stand," I'm leaving Theo, I can't be here...."

And I watch as they shut and lock the doors, the organ music starts.

"Sorry..." Theodosia physically cringes and pulls me back down in my seat. I glare at the floor angerily, my eyes don't lift up as the first set of groomsmen and Bridesmaids walk  by.  Georges, Laf and Herc's son, and Maria, the queen of the spring.