The Wedding Episode

Two months later Jodie stood in a church wearing a beautiful form fitting satin pink qipao with a huge smile on her face. Her best friend, Tiffany, was getting married to her boyfriend Dr. Bob Fu, or as she came to find out Dr. Dishi, Robert, Fu. “Tiff, you’re, like, so totally beyond beautiful!” Jodie squealed, hopping up and down in her matching pink heels.

“I know right?!” Tiffany twisted and turned in the mirror checking to make sure her dress was indeed still perfect but also to admire the subtle darker red flower embroidery along the dress. Tiffany’s mother smiled at the vision her daughter made all the while still putting final touches in Tiffany’s hair and adjusting the matching red hair pin. “Hui and momma helped me, like, pick it out!” A small girl that Jodie recognized from the rehearsal to be the flower girl, suddenly burst into the room and directly onto Tiffany’s leg and wrapped her arms around her. “Hey, cutie!”

“Natalie!” a girl who looked to still be in high school called out as she hurried into the room behind her. “There you are, I’m sorry she got away from me.”

Tiffany’s mother knelt down, so she could be eye to eye with the little girl, and smiled, “You can’t run off sweetie, you have the most important job today, okay?”

“Yes ma’am.” Little Natalie nodded, still clinging to Tiffany’s dress.

“She’s gonna be fine, mom.” Marisha gently patted the little girl on the head.

“Of course she is. Oh, Jodie! You like, totally didn’t get to meet my sister, Marisha, yesterday!”

Marisha turned and smiled at Jodie, “It’s so nice to finally meet you, Jodie.” The girls hugged, “I would’ve been here for the rehearsal but I had exams.” Tiffany and Marisha could pass as twins if not for their hair colors being vastly different. Tiffany had inherited her father’s coloring while Marisha had inherited her mothers’ blonde. Their chest was even the same size, but unlike Tiffany, Marisha's came in naturally, which was one of the reasons she felt insecure when she was younger.

“Exams this early? Wow, high school, like, gets worse and worse doesn’t it? I’m glad we, like, got out when we did.”

Marisha blushed while Tiffany smiled proudly, “Oh no, she’s in college.”

“No way!”

“No, she’s, like, totally super smart!”

“I’m not that smart, Tiffany.”

“You totally are though! You’re a total brain and you’re, like, not even eighteen and you’re graduating college already.” Tiffany excitedly hugged her little sister.

Marisha giggled, looking and sounding every bit the airheaded bimbo she wasn't. “I’m not graduating yet. I have to finish the semester, and pass my tests first, and then there’s med school to deal with.”

“Please, that’ll be nothing for you!” Marisha smiled as she looked up to her older sister in her high heels. Jodie could see the way she looked at Tiffany that she did indeed admire her big sister, it was the same way she looked at Eric when they were younger. Jodie thought back to when she was as smart as Marisha and how stressful it was for her to just try to keep up to date on everything. Even though she had essentially dropped out of the tech field only eight months ago she was leagues behind everyone else. But, she thought, how even if most everyone would think of her as an airhead now she was much happier doing things because she liked them, not to impress some people who had never cared in the first place. Jodie’s phone suddenly beeped in her hand. She had just received a message from Lauren.

Lauren

“Aw, Lauren can’t make it after all.”

Tiffany frowned. “That stinks!”

“I know, but, like, it must be super important cause I know she was super excited to be here.” Jodie hugged Tiffany warmly, even though she was all smiles today Tiffany was clearly nervous and being surrounded by more people who loved her would absolutely help that, and now she was down one, “Trust me, whatever’s to blame she’ll take care of it.” The women all looked up as they heard the wedding march beginning to play. “It’s time.” The girls all hugged as they prepared for their march. Marisha was paired with the best man, a childhood friend of Bob’s since grade school and Jodie was paired with Eric. As she wrapped her arm around Eric’s she couldn’t help but think about their future, and though they had a lot of work ahead of them, Jodie felt warm and fuzzy as she imagined their wedding.

Meanwhile, miles away from the small church where the bride was beginning her walk down the aisle Lauren fixed the bandana on her head. Lauren hated missing Tiffany’s wedding but this was important, it was family, and dad always said to take care of family. And Jodie was family. Lauren put away her phone as two moving men walked out of the room carrying a large couch. Janet walked back into Adam’s luxury apartment, now quiet and empty. “Is that the last of his furniture?” Lauren asked.

“Once they get the couch onto the truck it will be.”

“Good. And his office at Megacorp?”

“Empty as a tomb.” She smirked.

“How much did we get for all of it?”

“After emptying out his bank accounts and from the sale of his apartment and furniture and other incidentals like his phone, there’s more than plenty for the surgeries now.”

“Wow, that's great. Adam’s going to be so pretty.” Lauren cackled. “I don’t think we can keep calling him Adam though, once we’re through with the surgeries.” Lauren opened the door for Janet who walked through with a large sinister smile on her face.

“True. I was thinking, it would be just perfectly poetic if we named him Eve.”