The next few days flew by for Shane and Molly amidst a flurry of activity. They spent their days going to school and their evenings ironing out last minute wedding details and entertaining Leonard and Sophie. Before they knew it, it was the night of their Bachelorettes Party and the evening before their wedding.

As Shane stood in the bathroom, brushing her teeth, she thanked God that Carmen had not made another appearance in their lives since their meeting earlier that week. She thought for sure that Carmen would have made another attempt to get to Molly, given the way she had left The Planet. Her only fear was that she would show up tonight and ruin the evening for Molly, but she felt confident that Carmen wouldn’t dare show up. Even if she did, Shane had already informed all her friends to let her know if they saw her so that she could diffuse the situation before Carmen got to Molly.

After rinsing her mouth, Shane buttoned up her shirt, pulled her jacket on, and poking her head out of the bathroom, called out to Molly, “Baby, you almost ready?”

“Yeah, almost,” Molly called back, through laughter. 

Shane smiled to herself, glad that Molly was enjoying time with her sister. She took one last glance in the mirror, pushed some hair out of her eyes and walked into the living room, where Leonard and Shay were, seated on the couch, watching the game.

“Leonard, are you sure you don’t want to come tonight? We can get a sitter for Shay,” Shane offers.

“Yeah, I’m sure. I don’t think that’s going to be my ‘scene,’ if you know what I mean,” Leonard says, looking back at Shane.

Shane smiles as she places her hand on Shay’s head and says, “You be good for Mr. Kroll, now. You hear?”

“Yeah, yeah,” Shay replies, not taking his eyes off the television screen.

Looking at the clock in the kitchen, Shane calls out to Molly again, as she walks through the hallway, towards their bedroom, passing Sophie on her way out. “Moll-, babe, we really need to get going.”

“I’m coming, I’m coming,” Molly says, as Shane makes her way into the room. Shane’s breath catches in her throat when she sees her. Wearing a slinky emerald green dress that clung in all the right places and made her eyes look even greener, if that was possible, she was stunning. “How do I look?” she asks, as she spins around.