You're A Nightmare (discontinued)

2. The Root Of All My Problems

July 15th 1999 / Lyla and Paul's wedding day.

I looked in the mirror and sighed. This dress made me look so fat. Why the hell Lyla went for pastel blue as a theme I dont know. Its very seventies. The bridesmaid's dress itself was a silky material, Pastel blue with a darker blue silky ribbon around the waist that tied into a bow of sorts at the back. The heeled shoes were blue too and there was a blue flower hair accessory to keep my hair out my face. I looked like I was trying to dress like a six year old.
Violet comes in and looks at me. She was wearing the same thing.
"I look like a blueberry" I exclaim in frustration "I hate it".

"Well its for Lyla's big day. It'll make her happy".

"Yeah and she can use her own wedding photos against me for the rest of time" I reply.

"Its really not that bad" she replies with the straightest face she can.

"I suppose not" I reply.

Then we both burst out laughing. "Oh fucking hell" she says between laughs on the edge of tears "its horrendous". She straightens herself out and lights two cigs, giving me one. "Be careful, you might accidentally get set on fire".

"Good riddance, I say" I chuckle "what's Alice said?".

"She's downstairs saying she refuses to wear it".

"Tell her I am so she can" I reply "its not so bad for her. How do you think I feel? Uncle David has to see us like this. Dressed like fucking blueberries. He'll take the piss.

"No he wont dont be so f dramatic all the time, Sunny" she sounded stressed. I drag the cigarette even though smoking was never my thing. "Come on the Gallagher brothers and david will be here soon. They were all nice enough to be our partners for walking down".

"I dont see why Alice and I cant just do it" I reply.

"Because she wanted it to be boy, girl, boy, girl. 'It'll look off if there's two girls together' she says".

"I dont see why it should matter" I roll my eyes.

"Well it does to her so just fuckin' suck it up will you? You do ask for it sometimes". I stop annoying her and we hear liam shouting 'oi oi saveloys' as he walks in so we know its time to go.

We walk down the stairs and Alice is there with the most blueberry energy I've ever seen. More than Violet and I put together. It didnt help that she was short and curvy either. So the pairings were as follows: Violet went with David, Noel went with Alice (which he proceeded to complain about) and Liam was with me.
"Right are we all ready? It seems I'm driving" David says. He had flown in from New York for this, his wife was off on a business trip anyway. We all piled into his car and set off for the church. (I forgot to point out this was in Manchester because Peggy Gallagher insisted that they marry in the church she has been going to since she moved here).

When we got there, lyla practically dragged us all out the car. We had all piled in in a way that if you were standing outside then it must've looked like one of those little cars that like thirty clowns get out of. She tells everyone to wait outside and not to go in before her then drags me away from everyone else, holding the bottom of her dress up with her free hand. "What the fuck're you doing?" I protest as she does so.

"I need to talk to you, now" she replies and keeps pulling me along. When we get to a place far enough away from everyone else that she feels comfortable to talk she stops."I need to warn you, Jess is here".