Broken Hearted Best Man

Kristo

Five days till Jolene moved in. Six weeks until the wedding. And about thirty seconds before I tossed my sister out of my office.

“Really, Cleo, it’s going to be okay,” I promised her. “You need to calm down. It’s not that big a deal.”

“Of course, it is!” she exclaimed, shooting a furious look in my direction. “I really liked this girl, Kristo. And now she’s just gone. Like that. I can’t believe it.”

I ran my hand through my hair and tried to center myself. I had never much been good at this kind of thing, but it was my sister, so I would give it a go.

“Come on, tell me about it.” I crouched down in front of where she had crashed dramatically into the seat in my office just a few minutes before. “It can’t be that bad, can it?”

She wiped the tears away from her eyes and gave me a hard look.

“You’re getting married soon,” she reminded me. “You don’t know what it’s like to have your heart broken.”

I thought back to the moment when Amaya had walked out on me, when she had told me s