going to give them this one. Neither of our parents have ever been overbearing. I think they can get a pass on this. I love that my girl is so close to my mom.
“I would like to get married this year.” I reach out and grab Daisy’s hand. My finger rubs where a wedding ring should be. “With splitting time in the city and back home it might be a lot to handle.”
“And that’s where we come in.” Both of them are once again smiling from ear to ear.
“I want it at home. That’s my main request.”
“Of course.” She walks over to Daisy, bending down to give her a hug before kissing her on top of the head. “We’ll do you right.”
“I know,” Daisy agrees.
“PJ, you want to help me get that thing out of my truck?”
“Oh, shit. I forgot that was in there.” My mom is already halfway out the door before she finishes.
“You do not have a wedding dress in your truck.” Daisy stares at her mom, who rolls her eyes.
“Don’t be ridiculous. We have to go and try on all kinds of dresses where I’ll cry and we’ll fight over which is prettier. It’s all drawn out in our master wedding plan.”
“Sounds like fun.” She tries to tease Bunny, but a laugh comes out.
“What’s going on?” Noelle comes in, snagging a chair next to Daisy.
“They are trying to plan my wedding.”
“You better not put me in a ugly dress.”
“I would never do that to you.”
“Pink is ugly,” Noelle informs her.
Daisy’s mouth falls open. “Take it back.” Daisy glares at her best friend, who is trying not to laugh.
“She’s messing with you.” I pluck Daisy out of her chair, putting her in my lap. She melts into me. Fuck does that feel good. Daisy is now mine. I can put my hands anywhere I want on her anytime I want.
“I am teasing. You know I’ll wear pink.”
The front door flies open. “Got it.” My mom kicks the door closed and she's got a big-ass box in her hands that she drops down on the table with a loud thud.
“Where do we start?” Bunny asks my mom as she pulls out two big scrapbook looking things.
“Mom I think this is overkill,” Daisy says as she stands and grabs another book out of the box. “You can’t possibly incorporate all this into one wedding.”
“I know, but we’ll have Noelle’s to do next.”
I grab Daisy pulling her back down in my lap.
“What?!” Noelle’s eyes are wide behind her thick-framed black glasses. She looks over her shoulder, I’m guessing for Josh, but he’s in her bedroom finishing her bookcase.
“I’m just saying there will be more weddings.” Bunny winks at Noelle, and I know she’s right. When Josh and I talked shit out he admitted how long he’s been in love with Noelle. He’s not going to wait long. Both Josh and I are over the waiting shit.
Noelle grabs one of the books and starts flipping through it too. Daisy leans back, resting her head on me. “This is going to get out of control.”
“Yep.” I agree. “But would you want it any other way?”
She giggles. “No, I guess not. This is what makes us, well, us.” She is right. And there is no better family than ours. Crazy moms and all.
10
Daisy
“You all right over there?” Eric gives me one of his rare smiles when he glances over at me in the passenger seat.
“Just excited to go home this weekend. Planning a wedding and now my best friend is pregnant with my brother's baby, so there’s a lot to do. We’ll need to plan their wedding too. Can you believe we’re going to be an aunt and uncle?” I’ve been smiling so much over the last month that I think my face is permanently stuck this way.
“How are the wedding plans?”
“Going? The moms are getting a little out of control. How come they aren't all over Noelle?”
“I don’t see Noelle as a girl who would want a big wedding with all that attention. Josh either.”
That is true. Her mom had her in so many pageants growing up. She liked to fill Noelle’s head with the idea that being pretty was all a girl is good for. And Noelle is pretty. I don’t think she lost any of those competitions. Yet, I know as the years went on she began to hate every second of them. Once she was finally out of that world it was jeans, sneakers, cowboy boots and glasses for her.
“Hey