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Rose and Dean arrived at the place where the ceremony was being held. Dean parked the Impala in the lot and walked to Rose’s side to open her door. As they were walking through the walkway, Rose noticed that the ceremony was being held at an art museum. Dean noticed her puzzled look and explained that the art museum offers ceremonies and that this was the very art museum that Sam and Sarah first met during there college years. As they walked through the doors with Rose’s arm looped through Dean’s, there were a lot of people standing and talking in the large hallway.
“Are Sarah and Sam a celebrity couple or something?” Rose asked. “This is a lot of people for a wedding.”
Dean chuckled at her question. “Ah. He wishes. It’s mainly family and friend, and a couple of people that helped out with the family business.”
They kept walking to go to the seating area as everyone else started to.
“Rose?” A small voice that she immediately recognized made her turn around.
“Jo?” The younger blonde woman smiled and made her way to hug Rose.
“What are you doing here?” Jo asked. “Do you know Sam and Sarah?”
“Uh. Only Sam… You look stunning!”
Jo spun around to show off her dress and made a pose. A dusty rose dress in a mermaid style with a sweetheart neckline and sparkling jewels all over it.
“As do you, love!” They giggled and hugged each other once more before Dean cleared his throat to get their attention.
“You two know each other?” Dean asked.
“Uh. Yeah.” Rose said. “We work together at the club.”
Dean was confused and then realization came to him. He looked between them for a couple of seconds and walked away. Dean’s reaction confused Rose that Jo took notice.
“Dean is my cousin.” Jo said. “And assuming the reason you are here, he was at the club a couple of days ago and both of us performed that day.”
Rose understood what happened and made sense of why he reacted that way. She reassured Jo that she would talk to Dean as she knows that Jo has some confidence issues. Rose leaves Jo and makes her way to find Dean by the mini bar, drinking whiskey. She stands in front of Dean, takes his cup, and smacks him in the warm before she crosses her arms.
“Ow!” Dean yelped as he held his arm. “What was that for!?”
“For wavering Jo’s confidence you idiot! I understand that she is your little cousin and have possibly seen her perform that night, but they are not as raunchy as mine!”
Rose took a deep breath she could continue. Dean looked at her inventively, knowing fully well not to interrupt her.
“Look. Jo is a baby dancer okay? When she first started, she had potential and some of the girls would bully her. I took her under my wing and guided her on how to be confident and be sexy in her own skin. You react the way that you did is not helping. Now go back over there and apologize.”
“But – “
“Now Winchester.” Rose crossed her arms again and gave Dean a death stare until he gave in and made their way back to Jo, who was now with her mom Ellen. Dean apologized to Jo and quickly introduced Rose to Ellen.
“You must be the girl that my Joanna Beth keeps talking about.” Ellen said. “I want to thank you for making my sweet girl confident and happier than she has ever been.”
“That’s all Jo, ma’am.” Rose said. “I just guided her through it.”
“Call me Ellen, sweet pea. And great job on handling this knucklehead here, apologize for his reaction. Sometimes the boy needs a good talking to for him to understand.”
Dean rolled his eyes as the women laughed. It was time for the ceremony to begin and everyone made their way to the room. Dean led Rose to the same sitting area as Ellen and Jo, so she can be around some familiarity and Dean do his best man duties. While they waited, Rose felt a couple of eyes of on her. She turned to her left and saw blonde woman with bright blue eyes giving her a cold stare. Rose quickly looked away and shook it off.
It has been about 10 minutes past the time of the start of the ceremony. Neither groom, bride, best man, or maid of honor made their way down the aisle. Then, Dean appeared and ran down the aisle to Rose and crouched to her level.
“Hey, what’s going on?” Rose asked.
“I need you to come with me.” He said as Dean grabbed her hand and led her to the doors. They made their way to another room to find the bride and groom, the bride pacing back and forth while crying hysterically over the phone.
“Hey Sam.” Rose said. “What’s going on?”
Sam looked relieved to see Rose and walked over to hug her.
“last minute wedding disaster.” Sam said. “Maid of honor decided not to show up because she didn’t want to be apart of it anymore. She sent one of her friends to drop off the ring and veil but is missing the bouquet and something borrowed and blue.”
“Damn it Ruby!” the brunette hung up to whoever she was talking to and sat on the couch as she placed her face in her hands.
“Guess what the reason was for Ruby not showing up?” She asked when she looked at Sam. She was a beautiful girl, high-rounded cheekbones, and light tanned skin that glowed. Her makeup was ruined by all the crying.
“Ruby is in love with you Sam!” She screamed. “Said that I don’t deserve you and you belong with her. She also smashed the bouquet with her car and never got my something borrowed and blue… what kind of best friend does that?”
“The kind that is envious of you and everything you have and will do anything and everything to break you down to make herself feel better.” Rose chimed in. The brunette turned to her direction and was perplexed.
“I’m sorry.” Rose aid. “I know you don’t know me but I’m friends with your future husband and his brother. I can only assume that given the disaster that just happened, they want me to help you in some way.”
“How?” she asked with an attitude. “My wedding is already ruined…”
Rose thought for a minute. This poor girl was looking forward to the best day of her life and was ruined by the one person she relied on the most. A light bulb went off on Rose’s head.
“You’re going to have to trust me babe… Fix your makeup and I’ll be right back.” Before anyone could ask her, Rose was out the door. She quickly ran to the gift shop and bought a bouquet of roses, red ribbon, scissors, and a white sweater. She then went to the garden and looked for flowers that complimented the roses, knowing fully well that it was something that she shouldn’t do. Rose found some daisies and lilies that would be perfect and assembled the bouquet on her way back to the room. When she opened the door, she saw the bride fixing her makeup in the mirror. She looked at Rose and was taken aback.
“It’s not professionally made, but I do hope that you like the combination and how it is arranged.” Rose gave the bride the bouquet and a smile came across her face as she smelled them.
“This is perfect.” She said. “Thank you. Still missing something borrowed and blue…”
Rose looked down at her grandmother’s bracelet. She took it off and offered it to the bride.
“It’s right here.” Rose said with a smile. “Your something borrowed and your something blue. Its also a something old if you don’t happen to have one. It was my grandmother’s and she gave it to me because I was her first granddaughter. And it has a little blue butterfly as a charm.”
“Really?” The spark in the bride’s eye came back and made Rose smile.
“Of course! You need it more than I do right now.” The bride took it and asked Sam to put it on her. Rose told the boys to go where they are needed to be and to tell everyone that the wedding will start soon. Sam hugged and thanked her for helping before he left. Dean stayed behind and smiled at Rose.
“You’re amazing you know that?” Dean said.
“I try.” Rose giggled and shooed Dean away so she can help the bride finish. She was by the mirror and was doing the finishing touches on her makeup. Rose grabbed the veil and made her way to the bride.
“Thank you.” She said. “You didn’t have to do this.”
“I know… but us girls have to stick together and lift each other up.” Rose placed the veil on the bride’s hair and fixed it the best that she could. “You deserve happiness. No one can take that away from you.”
The bride smiled at Rose through the mirror. She grabbed her bouquet and faced Rose.
“I’m Sarah by the way.” She stuck her hand out for Rose to shake and she took it.
“Rose.”
“Look. I know we just met but you saved my wedding. Made a little bit better and I’m extremely grateful for that. I am missing a maid of honor and am wondering if you would like to be my maid of honor?”
Rose was never a maid of honor because she never had friend that stuck and have ruined relationships with some cousins. Rose smiled and looked Sarah straight in the eyes.
“Us girls got to stick together right?”
Sarah gave her a huge smile quickly hugged her. Before they could even go to the double doors, Rose needed a bouquet for herself.