A pitying smile.
“I never wanted to hurt you; you have to believe me. But…this is something I have to do, Elliott. I hope you understand.”
His mouth was moving–he knew it was–and yet no words came out, and in the blink of an eye, the happy couple was running up the aisle and away from him.
You could have heard a pin drop in the room.
A hand on his shoulder reminded him that he was indeed awake–that this wasn’t some sort of crazy dream or a nightmare.
This was his life.
“El, man," Tyler began. “I don’t even know what to say.”
That made two of them.
Wordlessly, the two of them walked back to the very room they had stood in just moments ago while the throngs of people left–no doubt wondering what they were all supposed to do.
Collapsing in the first chair he spotted, Elliott pulled his tie loose and let out a long breath. He had no idea if he was angry, sad, or simply confused. The only thing he did know what that he was numb. Letting his head fall back, he closed his eyes and just tried to focus on breathing and embracing the silence. Maybe if he could just have a few minutes to try to make sense out of this disaster, he’d start to feel a little better.
Or at least like he could breathe.
Sadly, the silence didn’t last long because it seemed like his entire family had followed him and instead of wrapping him in their arms and telling him how sorry they were, they sort of surrounded him and waited for him to straighten in his seat.
“Um…”
“Elliott,” his father said somberly, authoritatively, “it’s time we had the talk.”
Great. Just what he needed right now.
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