Lie To Me novel Chapter 37

“Congratulations!” I greeted the newly wed, I was smiling widely.

“Thank you, Jia. I’m so happy that you came,” Maxine, Russell’s wife said then hugged me afterwards.

“How can I not? I know you guys won’t stop until I actually came,” I answered.

Two weeks before their wedding, Russell contacted me. He wanted to meet together with, by then, his fiancé, Maxine.

I was wondering why they wanted to meet-up only to find out that they want me to attend their wedding.

I was shocked then happy. Shocked that they thought of me as part of their guests and happy that finally, Russell has met that someone he will love faithfully the rest of his life.

“Of course! I would want my best friend to witness one of the important events in my life,” Russell answered.

For that, I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms to my chest. “Nah. You just want to receive a gift from me,” I said.

Reconciling with Russell lifted a big rock from my chest and being friends with him makes my heart even lighter.

We both know that we had a tragic history but like we choose and should think, it was all now in the past we both have moved on from those. We might hurt each other from the choices we made, at least in the end, we both learned from those. And having those experiences brought us both to where we are; happy and content.

Russell laughed. “Your wrong. I just want to show you how fulfilling it is to have someone you could call home; that it was heartwarming to love someone,” he said.

I scoffed. “Tss. Don’t start at me, Russell. I’m perfectly fine with my life right now, I don’t want a distraction.”

Maxine smiled then linked her arms to mine. “Come on, Jia. I have all my cousins here right now and I have one that I really wanted to introduce to you,” she said.

I immediately shook my head. “You know what, I think you two should go and entertain your other guests,” I told them instead, I even slightly pushed Maxine to Russell. “And please, stop bothering me with that issue,” I added.

The two laughed as they waved to me, telling me that they would go around to greet their guests.

And as for me, I settled myself at the far corner; enjoying the company of myself and the glass of champagne I’ve been holding since the reception party started.

“I should have brought Reysa with me,” I murmured to myself.

I was never really good at socializing and Russell kept on looking at me with that concerned eyes, afraid that I might feel outcast more than I already felt. I just crossed my arms to my chest and rolled my eyes, telling him that I’m fine and he shouldn’t worry about me.

I remained seated on my spot even during the throwing of the bouquet, Maxine tried to convince me to join the other girls but I refused. I just watched them until a pretty chubby girl got the bouquet and a guy caught the garter.