charloft - 100 drabbles - 99. Runaway Bride

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It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. She was supposed to stand beside the man of her dreams and say the words that would join their lives together as one. Then, with their friends and family cheering them on, they would start their happily ever after.

Yet as she looked at her reflection in the mirror, hair done up in a soft cascade of perfect curls, make-up just so, and wearing the perfect white dress, she couldn’t see it happening anymore. He was everything she needed, nothing that she wanted, and it would simply never work.