“Would you marry me?”

Now, she was worried that in the grand scheme of things she would end up being the one to leave Carmen behind. Even as she thought of leaving Carmen at the altar, she knew that wasn’t what she wanted. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with Carmen. As she thought of all the girls in another room helping Carmen into that beautiful wedding gown, which Shane couldn’t wait to see she still thought, ‘What’s the point in all this if I end up hurting her?’

After she finished that thought, the door opened and in came the last person she thought would come through that door: Bette As she stared at Bette with confusion written all over her face, her best friend asked, “What’s going on Shane? Why aren’t you ready?”

Shane looked away from Bette, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable. Bette walked over to Shane getting up in her face and asked again, “Shane, why aren’t you ready? You don’t want to be late for your own wed-”

Shane cut her off asking, “Bette what would you do if you knew later on you were going to hurt Tina after getting married. What would you do, would you still marry her?”

Bette looked stunned for a second, wondering why her friend would ask her something as unexpected as what she had. Then she put the pieces together, and realized that Shane might be considering leaving. However what she couldn’t understand was that the night before she had seemed so happy and love struck, and now she was considering leaving Carmen at the altar. Then realization struck her, and she remembered seeing Shane walk in the direction of the bar with her father last night as she entered her hotel room, and she realized she hadn’t seen her father or Carla and Shay at all yet today and the wedding was supposed to start any second. She tentatively asks, “Shane what happened between you and your father last night?”

Shane looks away, ashamedly. Bette then says with a heavy sigh, “Let me guess, you saw Gabe leave Carla and Shay behind like they were nothing, probably with some chick, and you’re worried that you might do something you’ll regret later on down the road. Like breaking Carmen’s heart?”

Shane nods, and Bette continues by saying, “Well let me tell you something, then?”

Shane looks up at her again. “You are nothing like your father. I know for a fact that you love, and I repeat, love Carmen. I know that you would never leave her behind, and she wouldn’t leave you behind either. So please, do yourself both a favor today and do what you both wanted and came all the way here to do.”

Shane looks up at Bette with questioning eyes and asks, “Which is?”

Bette looks at her friend with brimming eyes, “Marry Carmen. Love her, cherish her, be with her and tell her whatever you want and let her return the favor. Deep down inside you love this woman and I know that you don’t want to hurt her, but you’ll hurt her anyways by doing what you were considering doing to her moments ago. So do yourselves both a favor and spend the rest of your life loving her for the woman you know she is.”

Shane thinks about what her friend has said, and realizes she is right. She then says, “Well let’s get me married, then.”

Bette smiles, happy for her friend and then says, “Well let’s get you ready then because you got ten minutes to get up to the altar.”

Shane eyes bulge as she freezes and then starts rushing like a mad man, cursing under her breath, trying to get ready as Bette laughs heartily before stepping in to help her friend.