lovely neighbour | tommyinnit

twentynine.

"How about this?" Izzy said as she twirled around in a large wedding gown. Her bridesmaids all came to help her choose her dress, it was really entertaining to watch as all the girls ran all over the shop to find suitable dresses for Izzy.

Me knowing absolutely nothing about dresses, I stayed back with Izzy and helped her in and out of her dresses.

"Thank you for being one of my bridesmaids," She said as I took off the detachable train from her dress.

"You don't need to thank me, we're best friends after all right?" I said as I smiled and lifted up her hair to unzip her dress.

"Yeah, you would've been my Maid of Honour but I had to choose Jacob's sister as the Maid of Honour," She replied with a more disappointed tone.

"Hey, I'm still here it's gonna be alright," I said as I stepped away to let her take off the dress.

"That's right, with my Y/N here I can overcome anything," She said as she finally got the dress off.

"You make it sound like she's an absolute nightmare," I laughed as I took the dress from her and handed over another dress.

"Oh, don't even get me started on her. She thinks she's all high and mighty just because she's the sister-in-law, and she keeps trying to boast her date with To-," Izzy said stopping herself from saying more.

"She's Tommy's new girlfriend?" I asked as looked up from hanging the dress and train onto a hook.

"Well, not exactly. They went out on one date and that was it, but she keeps on talking about him as if they were together," Izzy continued as she put on the tight fitting dress.

"Hey, that actually looks good," I said trying to change the topic.

"Yeah, I like this one," She said as she went in front of a mirror and looked at the dress.

I called over the other bridesmaids to look at the dress and everyone else agreed that it looked good as well.

Just like that, Izzy chose her wedding dress. Now she had to choose the bridesmaids dresses.

"Well can you come soon? Everyone's already here," Izzy said in a very frustrated tone into her phone. I assumed she was calling the Maid of Honour since she was the only one out of the whole bridal party that was not here.

"Hey let's head inside first," I said to the other bridesmaids as we went into the dress shop. Everyone dispersed and started looking at nice dresses that matched the colour Izzy was looking for.

"I'm sorry, Jackie is going to be late," Izzy said as she hung up her phone and walked towards us.

She looked angry, she very obviously didn't even like her soon to be sister-in-law. I would too, if my sister-in-law caused me this much trouble during the dress fitting.

"Hey what about this?" One of the bridesmaids, Alicia, said as she took off a greyish purple spaghetti strapped dress from the rack and passed it to Izzy.

"Hey, this is the same design as the dress we made for you on my 16th birthday party!" Izzy said as she lifted the dress in front of me. Everyone took their size of that dress and went off to change.

"Beautiful!" Izzy said as she snapped a photo of us all as we walked out of the changing room together. Just then, the Maid of Honour decided to show up.

"Seriously?" She said as she looked at all the bridesmaids in the dresses.

"What? If you don't like it then don't come to the wedding," Izzy replied defensively.

"Whatever, hand me the dress," She said as she held her hand out at me.

"Y/N don't pass her the dress, she can take it on her own since she likes taking her own sweet time so much," Izzy said as she crossed her arms.

"So you're Y/N," She said as looked at me up and down before laughing and rolling her eyes at me.

I smiled at her and asked izzy if we were done, since the rest of us already tried on the dress.

"Yes Y/N we are finally done," She said as she smiled and rolled her eyes at me playfully.

The first place I wanted to go to was the old school. I still had records I hadn't taken back since my move.

It hadn't changed at all, everything was exactly where it used to be. I walked into the staff room and was greeted by a whole rush of Teachers who recognised me as their old student.

"Sir, you don't look a day over 50," I said as I watched my favourite flamboyant teacher file his nails. He slowly looked up and widened his eyes to see me before wrapping me in a hug.

"My dear, you didn't tell me you came back," He said as he sat back down and went through his student files to find mine.

He had helped me a ton when my parents passed, especially by doing occasional home visits to see how I had been coping. He wasn't as bad as everyone thought he was, he actually cared very much for every one of his students.

He personally knew what it was like losing a parent at a young age, so he could empathise with me. He even went as far as to help me transfer over to a school in the next city so that I could finish my education before I started my business ventures.

"Here you go," He said as he handed over a thick file to me. He then held his hand up signalling for me to not go off yet and grabbed the three trophies on his table and handed them to me.

"They should go to their rightful owner," He said. I smiled and took the trophies from him.

"You were in like every page of the yearbook you know? Everyone had poor little Ava squeeze you into as many pages of the book as possible," Izzy said as we walked towards the park near the school. I laughed and asked her to show me the yearbook soon.

We walked walked to the park and sat on the iconic bench where almost every important thing in my life started.

I took a moment to breathe in the atmosphere, it felt so nostalgic.

"We were just having fun, we didn't realise that we were actually making memories," Izzy said as she sat next to me.

"A Winnie the Pooh quote?" I snickered.

"I knew you were going to notice," Izzy said in defeat.

"Ice cream?" I said as I stood up and held out a hand to held Izzy up from the bench.

"Of course," She replied with a smile as she linked her arm to mine.

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