The whole family was sitting in the living room, preparing for the wedding, except for Kevin and the older Payne men, as they were out in the town to get suits. The rest of the Payne family was sitting in the living room as Vanessa was picking out the decorations for the wedding.

“Why am I even here?” Blake complained as he sat between Scarlet and Juliet. “You and me both, bud.” Scarlet mumbled sourly as she looked at Vanessa pointing excitedly at every decoration that she could see in the brochure.

Vanessa and Laura were sitting on the carpet as Wanda and Judith -Scarlet’s aunts-, were busy on their phone talking to caterers about different things.

“Don’t be so whiny.” Juliet commented as she leaned backwards so that both Scarlet and Blake could hear. Lauren unconsciously nodded her head as she was sitting beside Juliet on the carpet as well while Blake and Scarlet occupied the couch with their legs up.

“But I wanted a suit too.” Blake whined while Scarlet nodded her head with a frown as well. “I want a suit too, I hate dresses.” Scarlet commented as she leaned back on the sofa with a sigh.

Lauren looked at Scarlet with a small smile on her face, “You look amazing in a suit too.”

Three set of eyes turned to Lauren as she sat confused before she saw the smirk on Juliet’s face which pretty much said it all. “Did I just…?”

Juliet nodded her head with the smirk still on her face and Lauren had nothing else to do but to blush and hide her face from Blake and Scarlet’s eyes. Lauren groaned when she heard the laughter of Blake but she groaned even louder when Scarlet said an awkward ‘thanks’ to her.

 “I’m gonna…...” Lauren stood up abruptly while making weird hand gestures before rushing out of the living room as if her life depended on it.

“Where did she go?” Laura asked from across the room as she squinted her eyes at the three young adults. “What did you three do?” She asked after the three remained awfully quiet.

“Nothing! We did nothing.” Juliet burst out, as Scarlet and Blake glanced at each other before they looked at Juliet. “I’ll go see where she went.” Scarlet quickly got off of the couch before she went out of the living room and opted to go up the stairs first.

Walking into the guest room where Scarlet and Lauren were to sleep in for now, she looked at the blonde that sat in a corner with her legs close to her chest, and her head bowed down.

“Are you okay?” Scarlet asked carefully as she walked slowly over to the girl.

“Oh my god, yeah. Yeah.” Lauren spoke quickly as she sniffed a little. Scarlet’s expression softened as she sat down beside the blonde draping an arm over Lauren’s shoulders.

“Were you crying?” Lauren denied to look into Scarlet’s eyes as she shook her head, making her hair fall over her face. “Okay. What were you doing then?” Scarlet snuggled closer to Lauren as she brought Lauren’s body closer to her own, much to the blonde’s pleasure.

“N-Nothing.” Lauren stuttered as she tried to wipe away a few stray tears that had fell out of her eyes. “If this is about how you complimented me downstairs, it’s okay.”

“No, it isn’t about that.” Lauren spoke in a low voice.

“Then is it about how Blake laughed at you, I could punch him into next week for you.” Lauren giggled making Scarlet smile at the sound. “It isn’t about that either, and besides, he’s a good-looking man. He needs his face.” Scarlet gave out a loud laugh as Lauren giggled adorably.

“Don’t say that in front of him, the next thing we want is his ego inflating some more.” Scarlet joked and Lauren nodded her head with a small smile as she stared at Scarlet.

“Now tell me why you were crying and why you left like that?” Lauren’s smile disappeared as she looked into Scarlet’s brown eyes.

“You won’t get angry. Or ignore me.” Lauren spoke as she pointed at the brown eyed girl.

“No, I wouldn’t.” Scarlet gave a smile for encouragement and Lauren heaved a sigh before she turned her entire beauty towards Scarlet’s.

“I have a- “

“Scarlet!” Both Lauren and Scarlet jumped at the loud call of Laura.

“Yeah, mom!” Scarlet yelled back as she showed Lauren her index finger as to say to give her a minute. “There’s a gentleman here to meet you!” Laura yelled back and both Lauren and Scarlet looked at each other before they got off the floor to go downstairs to see who this gentleman was.

Descending the stairs with Scarlet, Lauren was cursing the universe was disturbing her confession of a crush.

“Hello, Scarlet.” Looking at the man standing in the middle of the living room, Scarlet’s first reaction was to punch him in the face brutally as Lauren and Laura, both screamed at her.

Her second reaction to the ‘gentleman’ was to kick his balls as hard as she could while yelling, “Get out of my damn house!”

And Lauren stood in the doorway of the living room looking horrified at the whole situation. She had an idea why Stewart was here and she wasn’t liking it one bit.