Confession received as a voice message, transcribed. The person asked us to keep the hesitations. We kept them.
I'm the maid of honor. I was. Well — I still am, technically, the wedding happened, there are photos, I'm in them, I'm smiling.
What nobody knows is that the night before, at eleven p.m., I had the groom on the phone for forty-seven minutes and he asked me whether, in my opinion, he should call it off.