October 12

2:00 A.M.

Devon woke up with a start as the cacophonous shriek of heavy metal music drifted through his room. He yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, quickly searching his room for the offending sound before the loud music woke up the whole floor. He finally located his ringing cell phone on his dresser and pressed the receiver to his ear. 

"Hello?" he whispered, his voice scratchy. 

"Devon baby! It's been so long!" came the sugary voice of a familiar girl.

"Brittany! I can't believe it - you haven't called in forever! Wait, why are you calling me this early? Is everything okay?" Devon asked, his forehead creasing in worry.

"What? No, everything is fine. Actually, everything is more than fine. I just called to invite my favorite little brother to my wedding!"

"Matthew proposed? Congratulations Brit!" Devon said, his enthusiasm almost palpable. If there was one family member that Devon could tolerate, it was his generous and kind-hearted older sister. The two were always joined at the hip as children; they had to stick together, since their globe-trotting parents often left them for long periods of time. "But did you really have to call me this early? I mean, the wedding probably isn't for another few months, right?"

"Oh yeah, that's the other thing," she said, her voice breaking slightly. "Um...mom said that it would be better to have the wedding as soon as possible so that the press doesn't get wind of it. You know how the paparazzi are with celebrity weddings."

Devon was so tired that he could barely think straight, but something in that sentence didn't seem quite right. Why would his mom rush the wedding? She would have loved planning it out for months and months. "Britt, what are you saying?"

"That the wedding is two days from now in India," she said, rushing her words together. "The private jet will pick you up at 10:00 AM."

"Are you actually serious? India? In two days?" he yelled, then softly murmured, "You people are crazy."

"It's a destination wedding, in this really fancy resort. You would love it. So will you come?"

He sighed. "Of course. Only for you."

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