CATASTROPHIC WEDDING

PAULA

I am dealing with a lot right now, and it is just overwhelming. I feel like I am being smothered by my own family, and I am just so tired. I want to give up my life, but it is not that simple when you have worked so hard to be the person I am today. How did my life get so messy?

Here am I, looking so beautiful. How do I look so beautiful in my wedding dress but do not feel happy? I am hurting so much but no one seems to care.

I was so happy when Sergio called me. I do not know what is happening and I did not want to ask questions as I had limited time with him on the phone, but he gave me hope. I am worried though; it has been over forty minutes since he called me, and I should be walking down the aisle in the next ten minutes. If Sergio won’t show up, then I might as well say accept my new future as Mrs. Rodriguez.

“Lita, can I come in?” Carolina shouts outside the door of my hotel suite.

I wipe my tears with a dry cloth before I shout for her to come in. The door opens and she