“Glad to hear I was right. And you and Tyler are okay? I mean, the bands not going to break up over this or something, right?” Tyler had disappeared after greeting us in the lobby. I think he might have felt like the odd man out since most of us had known each other for so long.
“No, everything’s cool,” Mark chimed in. “The two of them get along so well, it’s almost eerie. I think Tyler just realized that he and Al weren’t working out, he just wanted her to be happy and he saw that’s how she was with Teddy.”
“Yeah, if he wouldn’t have been cool with it, I still would have taken her away whether he liked it or not. I couldn’t stand seeing some other guy with my girl, you know what I mean?” I winced when he said it.
Of course, no one knew about some of the issues Leah and I had been working out, so they didn’t know any better. All I could picture when he said that was Leah’s lips on some faceless guy. I hoped I never met that Grant douche.
Hearing Leah’s admission at the doctor’s office about contemplating killing herself had really put things in check for me though. I needed to move past it and be happy I had my wife back for the most part. Her head hadn’t been in the right place when it had happened.
I hadn’t seen her as happy as she was when she saw Ally for a long time and I was glad we had come along. I would’ve been pissed if I had missed my best friend getting married. It was kind of fitting that our two best friends were marrying each other. I could just picture the four of us old and gray, maybe Mark and Remy right beside us if they ended up working out, reliving the stories of our glory days to our grandkids.
“Okay guys, we’re meeting the girls right about now, so let’s get our asses moving.” Teddy never the one to be on time, pointed at his watch and Mark and I gave each other a look, like ‘what in the hell is going on here’?
Teddy swung the door open and we followed him out to the next suite over. Teddy and Ally had planned a joint bachelor/ bachelorette party for the night and the wedding would be tomorrow, it was hard to believe.
I actually felt like someone had hit me full blown in the chest when I saw Leah. I mean, my wife was always beautiful, even when she had been mopey and depressed, but she cleaned up even better and this had Ally’s handiwork all over it.
I gave her a big wink as I scanned her entire body very slowly and she rolled her eyes at me, her lips curving into a smile at the same time. She had probably one of the tightest dresses I had ever seen on, it just made me picture everything underneath the thin material was clinging to.
Her hair was surprisingly pulled up, showing off her bare neck and I had to do everything in me not to go over there and lick it. I could tell by the way she was looking at me with those gray eyes that she probably wouldn’t mind one bit, but I would save that for later.
Chapter 22
Leah
The night out was something that I definitely needed. A night with my friends and sexy husband was refreshing, even though I wasn’t much of a partier. Ally and Teddy took us all to a club that they had checked out before hand and we danced the night away. I avoided alcohol like I normally did. That one slip up was all I needed for a real reality check.
“They really are cute together, huh?” I nudged Remy with my elbow, who was sitting next to me where we were both taking a breather at the table. We were watching Teddy and Ally together, their bodies wrapped around each other, you could barely tell whose body parts were whose. I had noticed a change in Teddy in the little time that we had spent together. He had only had eyes for his wife to be.
The girls still seemed to follow Teddy everywhere he went, even though he was clearly with Ally. The Major Hoosiers had picked up quite a following being on tour. There had even been talks of them getting their own headlining tour when this one was finished at the start of the summer. I definitely couldn’t be Ally, even if she continued touring with Teddy, I couldn’t imagine going from city to city on a tour bus.
“They really are. Trust me, I was a little nervous when they got together. I thought for sure things would have ended badly by now. And then Ally filled me in on their plan for when we came here. I was definitely in shock. I mean, who knows how things between the two of them we’ll be a year from now. I don’t even know about me and Mark some days.”
“Well, I guess we’ll just have to let everything flow its course and be happy for them. That’s all we can do in life, I guess.” Ally did seem happier than she ever had. Don’t get me wrong, she was always my perky, bubbly best friend, but ever since I had met her, she had flitted from guy to guy. As odd as it seemed, maybe her and Teddy really were meant to be together, and it just took them a little while to figure that out.