The Bridesmaid

"Love?" I whispered to myself.
I looked at him, really stared.
With all our memories running in my head like a stream of events, I searched for the time when this all started. I wanted to know if I could have somehow suspected it and distanced myself from Trevor. Or if I was so engrossed in trying to stop the marriage that I completely overlooked Trevor's feelings.

"Trevor, what is love?" I asked him.
The slight hint of hope in his eyes disappeared when he saw my saddened expression.

"Love? Like my cousins husband loved her before he tried to practically rape me? Like Michael said he loved Ava before he turned her into a mess? Like my mom loved my dad?" I asked sarcastically.

"No Anush. Love. Like the first time I saw you, I knew there was something about you," he said slowly.

I scoffed at the irony of life.

"Don't you find it funny that one guy stopped loving me when he first saw me while the other fell in love with me at first sight?" I asked him.

I could see that Trevor was on edge. His clenched jaw and flaring nose made it obvious about how much my words had affected him.

"I am... nothing like him," he said in a low voice.

"Aren't you?"

***

When her best friend agrees to marry a stranger, Anush does everything in her power to stop this wedding. Unfortunately none of her efforts prove to be fruitful so she turns towards her last resort: scare the groom away.
But once she meets the flirtatious best man, Trevor Johnson-also known as the player of Upper East Side-she can't help but be allured to his charming ways. And now with her past catching up to her, stopping the marriage doesn't look like such an easy task anymore...