Starting Over

Chapter 60

Two months pass quickly without any problems. Things seem to have quieted down for the time being. The only thing that we have going on that has caused any drama is helping Shauna plan her wedding. She decided to have their wedding on the roof so that once they're married she and Zeke can jump off the roof onto the net together. She bought a black wedding dress and black heels. Our bridesmaids dresses are silver and we have silver heels. Christina volunteered to do everyone's makeup and Marlene is going to do everyone's hair. I'm so glad that all of the planning is over because it makes my head spin.

Tonight we're all sleeping at Christina's apartment. She and Nick don't live together yet. Lynn and Alex moved in together about a month ago, making Christina the only one in our group that lives alone. Christina doesn't like being the only one living by themselves but it works out well in situations like this.

"We should do something," Christina says as she sits down on the couch with a bowl of popcorn.

"We could plan our weddings. One of us is bound to get married soon," Marlene suggests.

"We just got done planning Shauna's wedding and it was one of the most stressful things of my life, and I'm not even the one who's getting married! I'm going to veto that suggestion," Lynn exclaims.

"Oh, come on! It wasn't bad, you party pooper!" Alex laughs.

"I'm serious. If we get married you're planning it or I'm eloping! I'm not planning some over the top wedding and stressing myself out over it!"

"It doesn't have to be some big, fancy ceremony. It's whatever works best for the people getting married," Alex points out.

"Fine, but I'm still not stressing myself out over another wedding. I don't care if it's mine or somebody else's."

"We'll see," Alex says with a smile.

"What about you, Tris?" Christina asks. "You know that Marlene and I both want big weddings, but what about you?"

"What happened to me vetoing this idea?" Lynn asks. Christina stops her with a glare and Lynn throws her hands up in surrender.

"Oh, I don't know. I don't want anything big. Neither Tobias nor I are elaborate people. I'd be happy with a small ceremony with only friends and family. I love him and that's all that matters to me," I respond.

Christina sticks her tongue out at me and makes a fart noise. "You ruined it. You're not supposed to be all sappy. You're supposed to plan your dream wedding."

"Well maybe that is my dream wedding," I argue.

"Well you just ruined it for us. What else can we do?" Christina says.

We end up eating a lot of food and talking about random stuff the whole night. It's actually a lot of fun and I find myself enjoying it. Eventually we decide that we need to go to sleep. Shauna claims that she's too excited to sleep even though she keeps yawning. We have to convince her that she needs to go to sleep. Once she accepts it she's asleep in 5 minutes. I'm asleep a short while later.

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"Tris, you have to wake up," someone whispers and gently shakes me. I groan and roll over. I feel myself drifting back to sleep.