Rachel trailed behind with her head lowered, who knows what she was thinking.
Inside the banquet hall, Emily, eyes red, announced that she was breaking off the engagement with Daniel.
Daniel tried to grab her hand. “Baby, what are you doing? Don’t make a scene. Everyone’s watching.”
Emily shook him off, her chin trembling.
“A scene? Do you dare say what you and your so-called female buddy were doing in the bathroom?!”
The whole table went silent, every pair of eyes turning toward Daniel.
His face went from pale to red to pale again, his tone softening immediately.
“Baby, you got it wrong. It was all a misunderstanding… I’ll explain when we get home.”
My ex-husband Robert Parker tried to smooth things over. “Emily, since Daniel says it’s a misunderstanding, don’t get upset. You’re both adults now. Don’t talk about breaking up over every little thing—it makes us look bad.”
Beside him sat his new wife of just over a year, Susan Lee, her heavy makeup making her resemble Rachel a little.
“Exactly. Rachel and Daniel grew up together. If there were really something between them, it would’ve happened long ago. He’s marrying you now, isn’t he?”
Relatives and friends chimed in one after another: