Chapter 34

——————————————Karen—————————————–

I glanced only briefly at Libby, Connor and Shane as they stumbled in before I
returned my full attention back to making the coffee I had started. I had
stumbled into the kitchen before anyone else and thought it was the least I
could do when I realized that we had managed to set up camp at Bette and Tina’s
and that all the people who knew how to cook were not in Andy’s bridal party so
if I did coffee then food would be up to someone else.

That and like all the other people that Andy knew who were over the age of 18 I had
a severe addiction to coffee so knew as everyone started to emerge it would be
better if there was coffee good to go than keeping anyone waiting.

We had gotten in pretty early last night and had gotten Holly straight down at
around 9 and Katie had made no fuss when being sent to join her before 10 which
was still late for her. But they would not be over tired for the day ahead
which was the important thing.

The rest of us were a different matter we had been up till well gone three this
morning as Andy seemed to gradually get more and more nervous and it seemed if
she were up then we were too. The upshot being that now at seven o’clock we are
all running on the four hours sleep we managed to get before our alarms woke
us.

Shane would look cool whatever, Libby and Bette were of the same cloth as Andy and
always looked pretty stunning and through everything Andy would be glowing as
she had the last few days. Me on the other hand, well this was gonna take some
work.

So I turned my attention back to the coffee that was the most important thing. I
was lost in a world of my own as the machine did its work and hadn’t noticed
dear little Katie come in and snuggle up next to her Aunt Shane until she
spoke.

            “Karen, would you all like for me to cook breakfast? Mamma normally gets me to do it
when mum is away and so I don’t mind and I know mum stocked the fridge so I
have eggs and sausage and bacon and I can do waffles or pancakes or French
toast or whatever?”