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    “Can we try someone who isn’t local? I know it would be a long drive in from Southern California, but I’d be willing to pay the extra transportation fee.”
    “I’ve already called around quite a bit,” Phoebe said. “I was hoping that I could figure it out without having to bother you, but I can’t find anyone who can guarantee enough flowers of the right quality. At least, not anyone close enough to drive them over, and once we start flying them in we could run into problems with the effects of unpressurized holds on the plants, and packaging, and — ”
    “I get the idea,” Rose said.
    “I’m going to have to come up with an alternative before the wedding,” Phoebe explained in a regretful voice. “Which means we’re going to have to sit down and talk about arrangements again. I’m so sorry about this, Rose.”
    “It sounds like you’ve tried everything you can,” Rose reassured her friend. “I really appreciate it, Phoebe. And really, if it’s just the flowers that are a problem, then we’re not in bad shape at all.”
    Tyce walked in just as she was finishing her sentence, a grimace on his face. He ruffled his already fairly messy hair further as he said, “You know how Donovan wanted a particular string quartet to play the wedding?”
    “Yes, I saw the paperwork. They’re booked for next Saturday.”
    “That was before they performed for a guy who books string quartets for tours of Europe,” Tyce said. “They’ve just found out they’re going to tour around Germany, shoot over into Austria, and then do a week-long residency in the Vienna Concert Hall. I tried telling them that we had a contract, but they don’t care. It’s just too big a gig. They’re getting on the plane tonight.”
    “Okay,” Rose said slowly, “so we’ll just have to hire a new quartet.”
    “It might be a bit more complicated than that,” Tyce explained. “Most of the established quartets are booked within a week of the event. At this point, the best I can do is to hit some of the local music colleges and try to put one together. Which means auditions, and rehearsals, and maybe changing the set list just so that we’ve got pieces everyone has up to concert standard.” Just as Phoebe had said moments earlier, now he was saying, “I’m so sorry about this, Rose.”
    “No, no, you’re doing the best you can with a difficult situation, Tyce. I appreciate it. At least the food isn’t a problem — ”
    Of course, that was right when Julie walked in. “Rose, can we chat for a minute? My seafood supplier just told me the crab fisherman just went on strike and I’m afraid I won’t be able to get in enough for the first course, so — ”
    Rose put her head in her hands, which stopped Julie mid-sentence. When she lifted her head up, she said, “Whatever you need to do to the menu, however you need to change it, I trust you, Julie.”
    And, honestly, the worst part wasn’t that her dream wedding was blowing up piece-by-piece.
    No, Rose thought, the very worst part about all of this was that none of this was distracting her from thinking about RJ for even one second.
    Instead, Rose found herself thinking about the ways he’d be trying to make her relax if he were here, probably telling her a joke, or even throwing out solutions one after the other, rapid-fire. In situations like this, he was so reliable, so safe.
    Yet, whenever she thought back to his mouth on hers in the bar on Valentine’s Day, it didn’t feel safe.
    It had been dangerous and wild.
    Which wasn’t what she wanted.
    Or was it?
    “Rose?” Anne said as the others went off to try to fix the various issues that had just cropped up. “What’s wrong?”
    She managed a half-hearted smile. “Only you could be in the middle of a situation where practically every detail of my wedding has just collapsed and still manage to ask what the problem is.”
    “True,” Anne said. “But that’s because I’m the only one who