A Bet That Changed My Life

Almost everyone there got involved.

“That’s a huge bet. Running off from her wedding with you? No way. Count me in.”

“That’s right. Ruth might be a simp, but I don’t believe she’d stoop that low.”

My hand trembled as I held the phone. I pressed the screen to end the call repeatedly, but couldn’t hang up. A tear fell without warning, sliding off my chin and landing right on the speaker button. In a panic, I hurriedly shut the phone off.

I stared blankly ahead and then suddenly laughed. Ridiculous and pathetic was what my relationship with Finn had become.

Everyone knew I had feelings for him, but no one knew that Finn and I had once been together for a long time. Before Finn went abroad to study, he told me to wait for him for three years. He said once he was successful, he would come back and marry me. However, when I finally saw him again, he was surrounded by women.

With him having made it, I asked him if he still remembered what he had said to me back then. The look in his eyes felt completely unfamiliar.

“Haven’t you done such foolish things when you were young?” he said. “Are you trying to use that to threaten me now?”

After that, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get close to him. So, I gave up.

Now, I was clearly about to get married. I had accepted defeat, willingly. Why couldn’t he just leave me alone?

“Ruth, you’re pathetic. If I were the guy marrying you, I’d slap you the moment you walked in. Do you have any idea how cheap you look right now?”

Finn grabbed me and cursed at me nonstop, but all I felt was exhaustion.

I shook off his hand and said calmly, “Is that so? Why don’t you just watch and see?”

I had barely walked a few steps when his impatient voice rang out behind me. “Fine. Don’t come crying to me later when you embarrass yourself.”

I didn’t look back. When I stepped back into the hall, the confetti cannons at the entrance went off. Paper petals rained down onto my head.

Inside, everyone was applauding.

“I didn’t believe it when they said there would be an opening number of someone crashing the wedding!”

“This is kind of exciting.”

“I think it’s supposed to symbolize something, right? About true lovers finally end up together after tons of hardship?”