14.4 A fairytale wedding

Summer 1997, Fairy Blossom event garden

The party was over, and the guests were chatting in groups while waiting for their cabs towards home.

Linda gave her newly-wed sister a warm hug. "Have a safe trip tomorrow!", she said.

"Aww, thank you", Mae replied.

"I can't believe that my baby sister is already 22 and married now!", Linda said.

She looked all emotional.

"It feels not so long ago, that we were kids and playing in grandmas garden!"

They had spent every summer at their grandmother's house, while their parents were travelling.

"And we always got in trouble for ruining our dresses!", she added then, chuckling.

Mae had to laugh at the old memories.

They had gone on quite a few adventures then.

"That was so much fun!!", she said.

"Sometimes I miss the old days", Mae added, now also becoming emotional.

Everything had been so much easier then.

"Me too...", Linda admitted. "But we'll have a lot more good days coming ahead to us!"

She was right. Not everything was complicated now.

"Hey, Linda", Mae said then. "Promise me you won't burry yourself in your books and plants and forget to go out, okay?"

Linda laughed. "Yes, big sis!"

Mae would miss living with her sister.

But she had to move on, and living with her husband would be better.

She knew.