Page 79 of My Fake Fiancé

"Luckily someone was leaving right as we pulled in. Pretty decent spot too," I add just to tease her. "Okay so are we all matching colors or did everyone have their own idea?"

"Ooo! I think we should all get matching themes. We can do different colors but they just have to match the theme of the party!" Sam suggests.

"Yes! That sounds cool. And then we can do a similar thing for the wedding, well depending on how this turns out. What do you think, T?" Kamie adds in then turns to see how Tatyana feels.

"Oh my gosh, I love that idea!" Tatyana looks excited and another cheer goes up with the group. The ladies around us laugh and enjoy our excitement. "Okay, so the theme colors are light purple and light gray. So hm, let me see the options."

After a few minutes of deciding while the manicurist and pedicurist began the prep work, Tatyana finally chose the two exact colors she wanted.

"Perfect! Okay, I like these two colors. Feel free to use them any way you choose." Tatyana points to the two colors she picked and her nail artist goes to grab the colors and confirm they're correct. We all approve and the girls start chatting amongst themselves about different designs they could add.

When we are all finished, we are highly relaxed yet still excited. We stand at the front counter ready to pay and while we take turns, we all show each other our designs and newly painted nails. Kamie and Sam both choose variations of the purple and gray combo. Melanie chose to simply use purple and added a hint of sparkle, pre-approved by Tatyana just to make sure. Tatyana herself got the light gray polish turning into purple. Almost an ombre effect. And I got the reverse of her nails. All in all, we matched each other quite nicely, all of us.

"Now time to go get ready!" Kamie claps her hands excitedly. "See you all at the party at 6 p.m. Well probably a little later but hey, beauty takes time." We all laugh but agree and carefully walk to our cars so we don't mess up our nails.

Once back at our apartment, Tatyana flops down on the couch.

"Hey, what are you doing? We don't have much time to get ready." I check my phone to see the time and notice a few messages. I skim through them quickly, respond to some more pressing texts, and then set my phone aside, seeing that Tatyana hasn't moved an inch.

"I'm suddenly very tired," Tatyana yawns and stretches out on the couch. Not laying down yet but laying back and sliding down further.

"No no, you're just too relaxed. Go take a cold shower and I'll make you a drink. Then we need to get ready. It's already 5:45. But I figured you wouldn't be arriving before 6:30 anyway." Tatyana chuckles and nods in agreement then reaches up to have me help her up. I haul her off the couch then pat her bum as she passes by, to hurry her along.

"Alright alright, I'm going. No need to get handsy."

While Tatyana is showering, I go pick out stellar outfits for both of us and change quickly into mine then just as I'm entering the kitchen I hear the shower turn off. Tatyana emerges with a towel wrapped around her. Her first stop is the kitchen, of course.

"Here you go," I say and hand her a drink that I whipped up pretty quickly so hopefully it isn't horrible. "And yes it has alcohol, I have learned a few drinks from living with you."

"I was going to say 'my hero' but I guess I am the hero in this story," Tatyana gratefully accepts the drink and takes a sip. "Not bad."

"You're the hero for teaching me how to make drinks?" I laugh and shake my head.

"Oh yes, it's a much-appreciated gift to have."

"Go get ready. Dry your hair first then while you're getting dressed, I will get the hot iron warmed up.

Half an hour and one small refill later with mostly coke, and we are ready to go. I chose a light purple pantsuit for the evening and grab my gray clutch to match the theme and my nails. For Tatyana, I picked out her slightly sparkly gray mini dress but at the last minute decided we'd better switch outfits. Purple looks amazing with her skin tone. Although I'm not too comfortable with how short the dress looks, I'm a couple of inches shorter than Tatyana, so the dress comes down a bit further on me.

"Are we forgetting anything?" I ask on our way down to the lobby of the building.

"Yes," a voice grabs our attention and we turn to see Mike striding towards us with a big grin on his face. "You're forgetting the groom-to-be."

Tatyana launches herself at him and he catches her easily with a tight hug and places her back on the ground giving her a kiss before coming to hug me.

"Hey! Glad you could make it," I tease. "But you're absolutely right we were definitely about to leave without you. Whoops. But now that you're here I'll drive myself separately so you guys can be the last to arrive. Fashionably late of course." I squeeze Tatyana's hand and make my exit while they talk on the way to Mike's car.

Arriving at El Mezcal, I see the restaurant is already pretty decently packed with all of Tatyana and Mike's friends and families. I see my parents are here as well but I don't make my way over to them. The family that was dining here earlier have come back and our friends are making them feel welcome. I wave to them and say a quick hello to as many people as I can.

After a few minutes of mingling, I see Don gesturing to me and I make my way to him.

"Tatyana and her fiancé have arrived. Is there anything we need to do to announce them?" Don asks and I nod.

"Thank you, I will get right on it!" I make my way over to where we have music set up and get the music quieted down then switch the song to one of the songs I know Mike and Tatyana say is one of "their songs". The room grows quiet and perfectly timed too because at that moment Mike and Tatyana burst through the front door.

"She said yes!!!" Mike yells and we all cheer and holler in excitement.

"He said yes first!!" Tatyana yells in return and more cheers and laughter erupt in the crowd. Even though Tatyana proposed to him a couple of weeks ago, Mike revealed he had been planning to propose too. So almost a week after Tatyana proposed, Mike popped the question as well. Tatyana was not expecting it obviously so she was surprised and very excited.

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