My Dad's Bestfriend

Chapter 84 Before The Aisle

Jacob

"Why are you yawning so much?" Samuel asked, a curious look in his eyes as he glanced at me. The designers were busy checking the fit of his suit.

Even though Evelyn and I were official, it didn't mean I could tell him the truth. If I did, he might forget about his impending wedding and beat me to a pulp, and it dawned on me, I had forgotten to mention - his punches hurt like hell. But, I had a feeling my punches had left their own mark, given that I could see the girl doing his makeup trying to hide the red mark on his jaw.

"Nothing, I just didn't get enough sleep," I shrugged it off with a forced laugh, straightening my own suit.

"You better not be caught yawning in the videos. I don't need a boring shitty groomsman," Samuel warned, scoffing.

God, he and his antics.

"Don't worry, I won't ruin it for you," I rolled my eyes as one of the dressers approached to fix my tie.

A few moments passed in silence, and I noticed Samuel's expression shifting through a spectrum of colors - red, blue, and even a shade of purple. That was how I came to understand his emotions. Was he getting cold feet already? No fucking way!

He turned to me ever so slightly, just before he could open his mouth, I beat him to it.

"Don't start with the 'I'm nervous' act shit because I won't buy it, Samuel."

sounding offended. "I told you, I love her and I'd do anything to make

that 'I'm about to fuck everything up' look? Look, Samuel, you can't back off. This wedding will take

give you that look. I was just..." He hesitated, and I couldn't quite comprehend his emotions as the hairdresser began fixing his hair and spraying it with some unfamiliar product-don't blame me, I didn't know shit about this stuff, all I knew was my three-in-one body, face and hair wash, "I was...just about to ask

to the wedding. So, the wedding not taking place

I couldn't quite say that I didn't totally see

wrong in so many ways. After the wedding, nothing

he and Danica had been through, from the most beautiful relationship to a complete disaster, I couldn't deny that

around his shoulder, excusing him from the group of

I began,

to you before, and

as it takes for you to believe that one bad experience doesn't mean all your other relationships will end the same way You and Danica were young, and you made decisions based on sudden bursts of emotion and got worse outcomes. It was your hormones and all that shit, but your situation with Clara is different. She knows you for who you truly are, and you're no longer that same college guy. You're in the best place now, and you've both seen each other's worst phases. Don't treat this wedding like

course, I have," he said with determination. "You know I'd give her my life

I know you

while. But all of that is part of

a sigh. "If anything goes wrong, I swear to

But first, get ready to stand there on the stage. Your heaven will be walking down

spread across his lips. "You know what? I know you can be a jerk, a shithole at

please," I replied, snapping my fingers,