Tears stream down Everette's face as she stands on the altar with the priest in front of her who keeps looking at her strangely. She glanced over the guests and some were already sleeping. She raises her hands and wipes it off instantly and proceeds to hold her gown high.
"Everette! Where is Jim? Why isn't he here yet?" Isabella asks her with a frustrated tone. They've been here for two hours. They've stood here for two hours and he hasn't shown up. "Even his parents ain't here." Isabella exclaims and storms off angrily going straight to mom.
Her parents keep glancing at her worriedly.
"Isabella! Jim isn't responding to calls or messages. Did you guys have a fight?" Seraphina asks her.
"I.. I don't know." Everette stutters. What should she say? That she told him that she got raped and he decides to leave her on their wedding day. No, Jim can't do this to her. He can't possibly cancel the wedding indirectly. If he wanted to, he could have saved her from this embarrassment. He must have been painted. He is pained and feels hurt but he shouldn't have done this to her. That was why she had wanted to talk it out yesterday. Talk it out with him. Now, Jim is really behaving immature. He is hurting her too.
"It's okay Everette. We will find a way to contact him." Seraphina says and leads her to a chair to sit on while holding her comfortingly.
"You have to tell your fiance to be here quickly. I have other marriages to attend to." The priest says to her with a frowny and disapproving face. Everette nods at him and her eyes sweep over the guests who were tired and almost sleepy already. They must have guessed something had gone wrong. Getting stand by on her wedding! Jim shouldn't do this to her.
After a few more hours of contacting him and trying to get through him but to no avail, the guests start leaving one by one since no events are being held. They had to cancel the wedding and tell them to leave. Everette can feel the guests stare at her, their pitiful stare and accusing stare even without knowing the issue. But if they had, they would despise her too. For her carelessness! She just can't believe Jim will do the same to her too.
"I've tried getting through to his parents but none of them are picking up. His friends, they can't get through him either. What happened between you two? What happened yesterday?" Her mom roars at her, wanting to know what warrants this embarrassment from him.
Everette closes her eyes tightly and the event that had happened from four days ago till yesterday flashes through her head. Holding the bachelorette party changes everything in her life.
"Talk to me, Everette." Her mom thunders at her. Everette shakes and is forced out of her thoughts.
"We had an issue but I thought we would talk it out and resolve it." Everette explains with a shaky voice.
"That's what you should do. Talk it out and resolve it instead of him taking these immature measures." Mom says bitterly.
"How big is this issue?" Isabella asks suddenly. Everette glances up at her and can feel her eyes boring into hers. How big is the issue? Her question replayed in her mind. So big! So big that she has to be jilted at her wedding. Is Jim himself a virgin? Why did he treat her this way? Because she's no longer a virgin? Did he stick to her because she was a virgin? Is it the virginity he loves her for and wants from her. If not, then why did he run away when he learnt she lost it. Hasn't he done worse than that?
Everette stands up abruptly. She walks out of them and climbs down the altar, heading to the entrance.
"Everette, where are you going?" Her mom raises her voice after her. Where is she going? To confront him. To talk to him. To beg him. To save her from this embarrassment. To own up to her mistake and begs him till he accepts. She is at fault here. It was her mistake and she is owning up to it.
Everette rings the bell consistently but no one comes to answer her. They were all at home, Jim and his parents. Their cars are at the drive way so she knows they were in but they aren't answering the door for her.
Everette keeps ringing the bell. "Mom, please answer me!" She cries out loudly to their attention. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her or what the neighbors who were seeing her devastated state think of her. She's here for a thing and until she gets it, she won't leave.
The door opens in a flash and Everette smiles that her consistency later works but her smile is wiped off with what she heard next.
"I'm not your mother, bitch." Jim's mom spat at her. "Go on and meet whoever you slept with and have a grand wedding with him. We don't want you here anymore." She cursed at her.
"Please let me in. I want to talk to him." Everette pleads. She can't believe Jim has told his parents everything whereas her parents don't even know a thing.
"Sorry, we can't allow you in. Your constant ringing is disturbing. I opened the door to warn you to stop." Everette can't help but wonder at her change of reaction. She thought she had always loved her. Has she hated her secretly?
"Please, I want to talk to him. He can't do this to me. I explained to him. I explained everything to him because I thought he would understand. Why is he…" Everette was saying while in tears when the door bang closed in front of her. The remaining words hang in her mouth as she stares at the door.
She turns back and climbs down from the door mart. She can feel her hair get wet down to her body as she glances up to the rain. Rain! The rain is falling. The rain washes off her tears and no matter how she cried, the rain makes it hidden. She sits down beside their house and cuddles herself up. The rain keeps falling on her but Everette is determined to stay there and leave. Not until they reply to her and Jim comes out to meet her. She won't leave from here until she talks with him. She won't leave from here until he tells her why he did that to her.
She won't leave!