Author’s note: This is my first story I’ve written for The Writing Circle, and I’m really relived that I’ve finished it, but I’m disappointed with myself because the story was rushed and it’s not very good, I’ve could have done a lot better. Well I hope you will enjoy reading this story anyway.

This isn’t a wedding it’s a nightmare
By ImagineMe

It was finally the day of Jamie’s wedding. The wedding was on a very beautiful beach setting and the sun set was amazing and he was marrying the beautiful Lydia Fox. He thought she was so beautiful with her long black hair and piercing green eyes, but most importantly he loved her because she was so selfless, kind and loyal. He loved how she was always thinking of others before herself and before they started dating they were good friends and she always looked out for him. As he looked around he spotted his best friend Troy who was his best man and his other good friend Aimee, who was the maid of honor. The four of them known each other since they were all 8 years old and they always hung out together. But during their friendship, for a while there was big problem between the four of them, first Jamie and Troy both started to fall in love with Lydia and then later found out that Aimee fell in love with Troy. Being a good friend Troy let Jamie have Lydia, but he turned Aimee down because he didn’t like her that way.

Now everything is great, Jamie and Lydia are getting married and even though Aimee and Troy aren’t dating he can tell that Aimee still has feelings for Troy and they have been hanging out a lot lately so they will eventually.

After they exchanged wedding vows Jamie grabbed Lydia and kissed her tenderly as he heard the sound of his friends and family clapping.

“This is the best day of my life” he whispered to Lydia

“Mine too” Lydia said as she grabbed him in her arms

As she was holding him she spotted Aimee yet again flirting with troy. Lydia just rolled her eyes “Aimee should know by now that she’ll never win him over with me around” Lydia knew that Troy was still in love with her. He was always staring at her when he had the chance and he was always hitting on her every time they spoke to each other.

Before they walked down the aisle one last time she hugged Troy tenderly, which made Aimee slightly jealous. Before she lit go she snuck a note down his pants pocket.

“Don’t be late” she whispered in his ear.

Before the reception Lydia told Jamie that she was going to their honeymoon suite to change her dress. Their honeymoon suite was beautiful, the lights were dimmed and were a pretty shade of blue and the room had a perfect view of the beach where the wedding was held at. She paced around the suite impatiently “where is he, he should have been here by now”

Troy busted though the suite’s door a little out of breath “I’m sorry that I’m late. Lots of family members wanted to chat plus Aimee had a kept talking to me and would let me leave.”

“I suspected that, but that doesn’t matter as long as your with me I’m happy” she said as she pushed him on the bed and started to make out with him.

Troy pulled Lydia away “Lydia… you are going to leave Jamie for me, right.”

Lydia got off him a little disappointed “Of course, if I wanted jamie4 more than you I would have dumped you ages ago”

“True but still…the original plan was for you to leave Jamie at the altar.”

“Yeah but I thought it would be a better idea if I married him. That way I could take half of his money then I’ll leave him.”

Troy smirks and pulls a gun out from his pocket “I like the way you think, but even if you dump him he will still chase after you, so the only way to get rid of him completely is to kill him”

“Well you can’t shoot him, the cops these days with find out eventually.”

“Well, since Jamie is allergic to bees why don’t you take him on a camping trip and push him into a beehive.”

“Okay, okay, I will follow through with that plan, but for now can we just enjoy the time we have together.” Lydia said as she took of his suit and he started to make out with him but just as they were getting into the mood until Troy strangely froze. “Troy is something wrong.” Troy just nodded; confused, Lydia turned her head in the direction troy was staring and saw a shocked Aimee standing at the door.

“How the hell did you get in!?”” Lydia yelled

“J-Jamie gave me the card key. You were taking a long time, so he got worried and asked me to check up on you, but I am quite shocked to find you here with my boyfriend plus you just got married to Jamie like 3 hours ago.”

To the surprised of Troy and Aimee, Lydia broke out in laughter.” You’re…boyfriend” Lydia was laughing so hard that she could barely speak,” Please, Troy was never your boyfriend and he never loved you; I’m the one that he has always loved and we’ve been together for a while now” Lydia said coldly. Lydia knew this would back her off of Troy because she was so sensitive. Aimee on the verge of tears but decided to hold them back in. Lydia smiled with a sense of accomplishment.

“Fine, you can have that Jerk, he always acted coldly to me anyway.” Lydia looked quite shocked by Aimee behavior, she would have expected Aimee to run out. “ ..But the only thing I’m pissed off about is how you’re cheating on Jamie so easily, I can’t believe I’m just now realizing what a witch you are!”

Lydia showed an evil glare to Aimee but she just kept on talking.” I can’t alloy Jamie to be hurt like this, I’m telling him”

Lydia gasped” you better not tell, you’ll regret…” but before she could finish her sentence Aimee already made her way down the hall. Lydia jumped off the bed and ran after Aimee to stop her from telling Jamie.

The reception area was beautiful. There was a chandelier hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the room. The tables were covered with teal cloths with white flowers in the middle. Troy was in the restroom pacing, he was getting worried because he hasn’t heard anything from Lydia yet. “Hey, Troy” Troy jumped and then turned around to see Jamie standing behind him. “Hey Jamie, how’ve you been”

“Great, until I found out just recently that a certain someone has been going out with my wife.”

Troy froze “Lydia must not have gotten to Aimee in time. The only thing I can do is deny it for now” he thought

Troy had a shocked expression on his face” Really?! Who?”

Now Jamie was irritated “Stop acting stupid I know it was you”

“I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about”

“Yeah right, Aimee told me that she saw you two in bed together. At first I didn’t believe her until I went back to my hotel room and found your suit jacket.”

Troy stood there speechless, Jamie got him.

“How long have you been sleeping with her”

“Ever since you two started dating” Troy quickly answered

Jamie clutched his fist and punched hard “why would you do this! When we started dating you said it was okay”

Troy got up from the floor “when did I ever say it was okay!”

Jamie looked confused

“Don’t you remember? You just went behind my back and started dating her without a care in the world about how I felt about it, so I simply did the same thing!” angered Troy punched him back. They could already tell by the look of things that this was going to be one hell of a fight.

Aimee was avoiding Lydia the best she could, taking up track in high school most certainly paid off. She was happy able to find Jamie in time, hopefully he will believe her before he decides to kids with her. She was trying to come up with a plan on what to do next and Then Aimee came to a conclusion that the smart thing to do would be to leave to reception and possibly move somewhere Lydia would never find her, as she was heading for the door she saw Lydia move closer to the front door.

“Shit, why did Lydia have to know me so well?” Aimee started to panic, if she didn’t find somewhere to hide, Lydia would find her eventually. So not knowing what to do she ran through a door nearest to her.

Unfortunately for Aimee, Lydia saw her speed into the kitchen.

Aimee was quietly hiding behind a kitchen counter with a knife in her hand, just in case Lydia found her.

“Aimee, I know your in here there’s no point in trying to hide.”

The room stayed silent

“But Aimee you were pretty stupid for coming in here. There are no windows or another door out of here. If you were smart you would have ran out the front door like you originally planned. I can’t run as fast as you so you could have easily run past me, and even if I did get a hold of you I couldn’t kill you out in the open like that.”

As she was talking Lydia spotted some of Aimee’s blonde hair sticking and tip toed over and suddenly pulled Aimee up by her hair. Then Aimee suddenly cut Lydia’s wrist which made her cry out in pain and let go of her hair.

Aimee then saw the perfect opportunity to escape and started running for the door.

But before she could Lydia struck her with a hotplate and grabbed the knife and put it under Aimee’s neck. “Again Aimee you made a stupid mistake. You had the perfect opportunity to kill me and yet you just slit my wrist.”

“Is it really necessary to kill me Lydia for telling Jamie about you cheating? Weren’t you going to leave him anyway?”

“No, I love Jamie too much to leave him.”

“Then why did you cheat on him with Troy.”

“…Because I love Troy too. I wanted them both to myself. You see I had worked up this perfect plan so I could be with both Troy and Jamie, But, No you had to come along and screw everything up! I will kill anyone who gets in the way of me getting what I want.”

Lydia stabbed Aimee so fast that she wasn’t able to let out a scream.

Troy and Jamie were still at when Lydia walked in on them. By the looks of it Jamie was winning, Troy was on the floor while Jamie was repeatedly punching him. Troy then saw Lydia at the corner of his eye and called out to her. “Lydia help! Please explain to him that it’s me you really want.” Jamie turned around and gave Lydia an evil glare as he stopped punching Troy and walked slowly up to her. “Lydia is it him you really want.”

Lydia stood there speechless she didn’t know what to do.

“I guess how your not talking tells me your answer” Jamie wiped of the blood from his face and stormed toward the door. Lydia grabbed hold of his hand “no Jamie please don’t leave me.” Jamie snatched his hand away “I hope you two have a happy life together” he said has he walked out the door.

“Lydia, why didn’t you say anything, I thought you would have had no problem telling him that you wanted to be with me.”

Lydia let the tears escape her eyes “No Troy, Jamie’s the one I really want to be with.”

Troy’s eyes widened “so all this time you were lying to me when you said you loved me!”

Lydia wiped the tears from her face “no, when I said I loved you I meant it. I just love Jamie more.

“Then why the hell were you with me this whole time”

“..Because I wanted the both of you for myself, I fell in love with both of you and I knew if I just chose Jamie over you, you would have started dating Aimee.”

Troy let out a laugh “yeah right, I would ever date her.”

“Yes you would have because Aimee is the person you really love!” she yelled

Troy head ached, all of a sudden he was developing these feeling for Aimee. “What’s going on? Why do I have these feelings for Aimee?”

“I just told you why, it’s because you love her.”

Troy was suddenly remembering all the times him and Aimee have had together and remembered that him and Aimee had dated. “Lydia, why am I remembering all these things now?”

“Because I broke the your curse”

Now Troy was really confused “curse? What are you talking about?

“Well since you keep on asking so many questions I’ll just explain the whole story to you. One day a lonely seventeen year old girl discovered some creeping Charlie growing in her backyard and discovered that whom ever she fed the creeping Charlie she could control their memories. She could get rid off memories and create fake ones. If the girl would remind that person of there real memories the curse would brake.”

“So you’re telling me that you forced me to eat some of that creeping Charlie and you get rid of my memories and replaced them with fake ones. Does that mean my life is a lie?!”

“Not your whole life, just the parts that involved me. Like how the four of us were friends since we were 8 years old, only you, Aimee, and Jamie were. You guys didn’t meet me until 9th grade and you and Aimee didn’t like me very much. You and Jamie were actually fighting over Aimee but Jamie let you have her. While you and Aimee dated, Jamie went out with me. Even though I loved Jamie and you hated me Troy, I fell in love with you. I always thought of you as caring and sweet and I wanted to be with you too. But I loved Jamie more because I didn’t need to make him fall in love with me. I also changed you guy’s memories because I wanted some friends.” Lydia said as she was trying to look as innocent as possible.

“Oh yeah, I remember you now. I hated you so much, you were always making fun of me Aimee and me. I always thought that Jamie could do a lot better than you. You haven’t broken their curses yet have you?”

“Well I killed Aimee and I don’t want Jamie to hate me.”

Now all Troy really wanted was to punch Lydia in the face “You bitch! Do you even realize that you ruined our lives just so you could make your own pathetic life worth living! If you really wanted some friends and wanted someone to love you why didn’t you just try being nice for once?”

“Nah, as you already know, being nice isn’t really my thing and I could care less about ruining your lives. As long as my life is perfect I’m happy.”

“After all this time you haven’t changed one bit Lydia.” Troy got up from the floor and walked slowly towards Lydia “You will pay for all the misery you brought other people”

Jamie was sitting down at one of the reception table and watched as everybody else was dancing. He felt pretty bad about what happen, she really didn’t say that she wanted to be with Troy instead, she was probably froze because They were fighting over her and she didn’t want to disappoint anyone. Even if Lydia did cheat on him with his best friend he still loved her and wanted to be with her. Jamie was still trying to figure out why Lydia and Troy were still in the bathroom. Jamie let out a sigh “Lydia’s been in there for a while now. I Should probably go and apologize” Jamie got up from his seat and when he opened to door to the bathroom, he saw something very shocking.

Lydia was crying and was over Troy’s body and there seemed to be blood splattered all over the floor. “Lydia...what happened.” As Lydia turned around Jamie saw tears dripping down her face and blood all over her dress. “Jamie, I shot Troy”

Jamie jumped back a bit he wasn’t sure on what to say but at the same time he knew Lydia must have killed him for a very good reason, because she wouldn’t do anything like this so he ran over to her and hugged her tightly as she cried into his arms.

“Jamie, Troy just suddenly got angry and started to beat me repeatedly and I tried to scream for help but he put duck tape on my mouth. Lydia said as she held up the duck tape.

Jamie felt him sorrow suddenly change to anger and was happy the Troy was dead.

“Jamie are you going to turn me in?” she looked up at him frightened

“Of course not but if you killed him to defend yourself why would it matter”

“Because there’s no evidence that shows he was beating me”

She was right, as Jamie look at Lydia’s face there appeared to be no bruises, cuts, or anything. If he told the police she would go to jail. “Your right plus me and Troy fought earlier so I would get accused of the murder too” stood still for amount because they heard some ruckus going on outside. It turned out that one of the guests called one of the police of the hotel and told them to check out the bathroom. “What do we do” Lydia said as she started to panic, the least thing she wanted to do was to go to jail and be away from her creeping Charlie.

Troy was searching the bathroom and happened to notice this air conditioning vent, he searched his pockets and found some sand paper, which Lydia has snuck in there some time before the wedding. They ran over to the vent and used to sand paper to open up the vent and Jamie made his way up to the vent and Lydia followed after him, but before she climbed through the vent she smiled at here surroundings “Everything went all according to plan”

Five years have pasted and Jamie and Lydia were happy together with their 3 kids, shortly after the events that happen at there reception Jamie found it quite strange that it was only five days later after Troy murder and everybody forgot all about him and the case.

As for Lydia, she went through life smoothly without feeling a slightest inch of guilt and luckily for her Jaime never figured about her killing Aimee or the fact that the whole wedding and reception were planned so she could get rid of Troy and Aimee and Lydia still continued to use the creeping Charlie and got away with many murders and went down as a legend as the greatest killer alive.