‘The day of the wedding, Shane is contemplating what she should do after just witnessing her father leave his wife and son behind, just like he did with her and her mother. She tries to look inside of her heart to decide whether she should leave Carmen behind or spend the rest of her with her. What will she decide? And what will life be like after she makes her decision?’

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As Carmen laughed at one of Alice’s jokes, Shane took in the absolutely beautiful scene in front of her. Carmen was next to her, their hands intertwined and caressing each other very lovingly on the table; Carla and Shay were directly across from them enjoying their scrumptious meal with their friends and Carmen’s family all around on either side of them just enjoying themselves while eating, drinking and talking. Alice kept cracking jokes which Carmen kept laughing at while showing her near blinding megawatt smile with her pearly whites; Bette and Tina were having a heated discussion with Helena and her mother on different forms of artistic expression while Angelica gurgled happily in Mama T’s lap; Carmen’s family were heatedly debating something in Spanish, which they spoke so fast Shane only caught something about how she and Carmen can potentially have kids from either a sperm donor, among other things which made her checks turn bright red from embarrassment; and Kit and Angus were being all lovey dovey in their own way. Shane looked at this beautiful scene in front of her and thought, ‘I couldn’t ask for anything more in life?’

Just as that thought crossed her mind, an obnoxiously loud mocking applause could be heard. Eventually everyone at the table took notice, and tried to find out where the noise was coming from, looking around the room. Shane, hoping to a god that she didn’t believe in, prayed that it wasn’t from the one person she absolutely had no interest to see at all. But as she pinpointed that the noise was coming from the bar behind them, she knew it had to be him. So she looked behind her and of course, there he was: Gabriel McCutcheon.