Speak Now

XII

Keira yawned obnoxiously as both Father O'Leary and Logan stared at her. We were at another Pre Cana session but from the bride-to-be's attitude, she wanted to be anywhere else but here. To be honest, I'm not sure why she seemed totally over these sessions; if anything, it's Sam and me that should be annoyed about being dragged from our beds at stupid o'clock so we could traipse here and answer questions that are totally irrelevant to us. But here we are, sitting in a freezing church, listening to the sound of rain pelting the roof and raising our voices so we could be heard above the rumbles from outside. You don't see us yawning, though, do you?

"It is too am for me right now," Keira mustered as she rubbed her weary eyes. "Why did we agree on such an early morning slot?"

She asked no one in particular- personally, I think it was a rhetoric question- but Logan took the liberty of answering. "Because you insisted? I quote, 'let's get it over with because then we can Netflix and chill, literally.'"

"Hey, you want to get out of here and binge watch old reruns of Big Bang Theory just as much as I do so don't put all the blame on me, loganberry," she furiously replied, losing her anger slightly as she called Logan by his disgustingly sweet nickname. Turning back to Father O'Leary, Keira smiles politely. "Shall we begin?"

Today, we were covering Relationships with the Family, a topic that I'm sure is going to bring out some frustrations. While Keira loved the Leahy's and Logan loved the Delaney's, they both had very fraught relationships with their own family. Keira and her mother rarely managed to make it through the day without arguing; Moira was all about keeping up appearances while Keira didn't give a shit about how she came across to other people. If she paid any attention to their opinion, she wouldn't have looked like she did for most of her teenage years. I love listening to Dan's stories about when he first met Keira. She was known as Echo back then and boy, she was a handful. She still was when Logan met her and that's part of the reason he was attracted to her. 

Coming from a family full of politicians, if you think Logan is diplomatic, you'd be thoroughly mistaken. That's part of the reason he fights so much with his own parents. Michael and Amanda Leahy love their son, there's no question about that, it's just that, sometimes, you get the feeling that they're disappointed in his life choices. It probably didn't help that he was a bit of a wild child- more so than Kiera- and had been suspended from a few schools in Dublin, shaming his Ambassador father and socialite mother. They were embarrassed by him, Logan would often say. He tried to put it right and make something for himself after meeting Keira, even walking into a respectable job at W8 Designs under an award-winning architect, but nothing he seemed to do made his parents happy. Unless, of course, you count proposing to Keira. His parents were delighted with that. 

Sam and I sat, silently observing, until all hell broke loose and suddenly Keira and Logan were at loggerheads over their answers. Looking down at my paper in front of me, I try to figure out what question made them both explode like this but I couldn't see any that would offend them to the point that they were throwing insults at each other. As I scanned the questionnaire again, however, I stumbled upon one that I think might have rocked the apple cart.