"Jack?" Bekah asked eyeing him closely.
"Baby, you know I love you," he said reaching for her hand. Bekah let him take it, but her eyes were still narrowed in his direction.
"Has there been someone else?" she demanded watching him stroke the top of her hand.
"There's no one for me but you," he said looking her square in the baby blue eyes.
Chyna snorted and Lexi rolled her own chocolate-colored eyes. Adam muttered under his breath, "What a sidestep." If Adam was getting involved in the mockery that was Jack and Bekah's relationship, then Lexi knew it must be a ridiculous scene.
"You promise?" Bekah cooed back at him. Though her voice had lost its edge from talking to Lexi, her eyes were still sharp. She had clearly put too much stock in this wedding, this dream she had made for herself.
Lexi had been dismayed a year ago when Jack had called her insisting that she come to Atlanta to meet his girlfriend, because she was the type of person who desperately wanted to be married. After Bekah's confession last year about planning the entire thing to get rid of Lexi's hold on Jack, Lexi had been sure it was all just a façade. Bekah didn't need to get married. She didn't need her parent's permission to move in with Jack. She wasn't this perfect little princess everyone else clearly made her out to be. She was a conniving, manipulative bitch who did whatever was in her manner to get what she wanted.
Now standing in front of Bekah and seeing her feed into Jack's every pleading word made her reconsider her earlier conviction. Bekah appeared more in love with getting married than ever listening to reason. The woman was not even twenty-five years old and already she was determined and, as far as Lexi could tell, desperate to be married. The fact that Jack was a philandering ass seemed to be something she could look over. For all Lexi carried for the woman, she didn't think she deserved better than that…she deserved no less than to be miserable for the remainder of her days.
Jack nodded slowly linking his fingers with Bekah's, and Lexi could barely stifle the gag that was threatening to be released from her body. She knew that she had been weaker by far when it came down to Jack's own sky blue eyes then Bekah was being right now, but she couldn't fathom it any longer.
And in that moment, she felt as if she had just gone through a turning point. For some reason kneeing Jack in the balls hadn't been as clear as this moment. That look in Bekah's eyes of complete and utter devotion and complete and utter stupidity was enough to fully change Lexi. Whether Jack actually loved Bekah or just loved the idea of Bekah was something Lexi would never know, but what she did know in that moment was that it no longer concerned her. Jack and Bekah no longer concerned her. Whether they ever got married, whether they lived happily ever after, or whether they skinned each other alive did not matter to her, and that made her smile.
"You know what I'm through," Lexi said her smile growing with how true that statement was. "I thought I needed to go to this wedding to finally get Jack out of my system, and to work things out with Ramsey." She wasn't sure why she was telling everyone this, but if she had it her way she would never see any of them again. "And I've accomplished both of those things. This entire week has made me realize that I got over Jack a long, long time ago. I was just so lost in the past that I couldn't see the person I had become. And the person I am now doesn't need to go to this wedding to get over a guy she never even dated," she said sending a seething glare in Jack's direction. "And anyway I never much liked the circus, so you can count me out."
Lexi turned away from the crowd of people that had gathered and walked over to her best friend. She knew that Chyna was mad with her for what had happened with John, but she hoped that she could see past that right now. She hoped they would be able to work it out later like they had with everything else. "Are you coming with me?" Lexi asked her.
Chyna gave a quick chuckle before responding, "God I thought you would never ask! Let's go."
Lexi took it all in stride. She knew that she would have to talk things out with Chyna, but at least she was amicable enough to still leave here with her. She knew she had one thing left to do.
Lexi glanced over at Ramsey hesitantly. She knew he was in the wedding as a groomsman. Even if he didn't approve of the union, it's not like he would ditch with her and Chyna. This was his sister after all. She didn't care what kind of problems they were going through right then, the bond that they held was pretty strong. If he had been able to stick with her after discovering what she had done to Parker, then Lexi couldn't imagine this changing his mind about her.
"Well uh…" she began awkwardly unsure as to how to proceed. She didn't want her departure to signal that she was leaving him as well. She had absolutely no intention of that happening. In fact, the more she thought about what this turning point in her life meant for her, the more she wanted Ramsey to be actively involved in that process. They had things to work on in their relationships and skeletons in their closets to overcome, but she was certain they could do it together. But she wasn't going to force him to be someone else for her ever again. If he felt like he needed to go to this wedding, if he somehow thought it was the right thing to do, then she wouldn't stop him.
"I guess we're gonna…yeah. So I'll see you after…or yeah, whenever." Lexi tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. She was more anxious about his reaction than she would have liked to let anyone know. She was after all abandoning his sister's wedding, the one place he had actually invited her to. She was leaving him to go through this all alone, but she thought he might understand why it was necessary for her to leave. She wasn't leaving him, just washing herself clean from the scenario.
"What are you talking about?" Ramsey said with a smile to ease her worries. "I'm coming with you."
"What?" everyone yelled nearly at once.
Lexi's smile shined like a beacon at the realization that he was actually going to skip the wedding…with her. They were all boycotting! She loved the idea. She had no reason to be there now and the only person she wanted to be with was leaving with her. It was too perfect. She felt a glow of happiness overwhelm her as her smile turned to him. He moved towards her blatantly ignoring everyone else in the room, cupped her cheeks in his oh-so-capable hands, and kissed her lightly on the mouth.
"Of course I'm going with you," he whispered for her ears with a peck on her little button nose.
Lexi broke Ramsey's beautiful emerald gaze long enough to judge the reactions of the remainder of the room. Bekah looked ready to murder him where he stood. Lexi thought it was unsurprising as that now left her short a groomsman. Considering she was insane about her own wedding and had freaked out more about the bands cancellation than Jack infidelity, this certainly made sense to her. Not to mention, this was her brother who was leaving her own wedding out of disapproval. Bekah couldn't have planned a better scheme to ruin someone's wedding herself.
The rest of the room looked shocked, but none more so than Parker. Her eyes were practically popping out of her skull and her mouth was hanging open. It was as if she couldn't believe that the perfect Country Club gentleman she had known since she was little, that she had dated for years, would ever do something like this. How could he turn away from his own sister on her wedding day? How could he turn away when she needed him?