Her Last Digit ✔️

~Chapter Nine~

"It's you." He echoed her words just when Agnes tapped at his arm.

"You okay, Cam?" She asked, only then realising he was on the phone. By then he'd been pulled out of the trance he'd gotten lost in. "Oh, sorry." Agnes added in a mutter.

He shook his head slowly and glanced at the girl before looking back at Agnes. "It's fine, here's the flowers. I hope their okay." Cameron was very conscious of the fact she was still on the other end but now he had other things to sort just like he had thought. 

Handing over the flowers to Agnes got the attention of a few other wedding helpers and suddenly there was a small, swarming crowd surrounding him and taking the rest of the flowers from him to start setting up the wedding.

"Thank you, I'll owe you forever." Agnes smiled as she took as much as she could and began to make her way to a nearby table.

"Oh no, don't worry about it." He insisted after her as he became aware of how his hand was lowering from his ear. The very silent phone.

The girl hadn't said anything else.

Before he said anything else, Cameron looked back to the last place he'd seen the girl but she was gone. So were the rest of the bridesmaids and the bride all in white. It was just the wedding arrangers at that point, although quite a few of them were all looking to the entrance of the park. Cameron did the same and noticed a group of very dressed up men making their way over.

"Ah, they're here!" Agnes exclaimed in delight, waving her hands in utter excitement. It was then he realised it was just that the bride couldn't be seen by the groom until show time and the bridesmaids had gone with her.

"Hello?" Cameron said into the phone, still watching the men coming over, but there was no reply. He glanced at the screen to find the call had been ended, how long ago, he didn't know. With one last glance around with no hope, Cameron felt a little stuck at what to do. The girl he'd been curiously wondering about all afternoon was a bridesmaid at the wedding he'd been traipsing all over town for.

What a day.

At least he wouldn't lose her again, not for that moment anyway.

Cameron watched Agnes running over to the suited guys and embracing what he guessed was the son-in-law to be. They then had a quick, but what looked like, a serious discussion. Agnes looked troubled and Cameron couldn't help but begin to make his way over.

"Oh dear, what else could possibly go wrong?" Agnes sighed. "We can't have one of the bridesmaids walk down the isle alone while everyone else is accompanied!" She tapped her head in thought. "He can't even manage ten minutes?"

"He's cold out on the sofa, Agnes, I'm sorry." The son-in-law solemnly said. "We think it was something he ate once we arrived because we went out to get handkerchiefs and when we got back, he was gone. A note he left said he was hungry."

"Oh my." Agnes covered her mouth in slight horror and disappointment.

Cameron couldn't help but think back to the oddly dressed guy with no wallet from earlier. He'd probably eaten the food that he had deemed inedible. He pitied the guy, felt bad for paying for him but aside from all of that, also felt relieved for not eating that food himself.

It was coming to his attention that in a small town, it really was a small world.

"Right, what to do..." Agnes mumbled, wondering how to solve what must have been the hundredth problem that day. She slowly looked from the groomsmen to Cameron and then back again. And then again.