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You're in luck, I feel very much like saying yes, lately.

What can I do for you?

[medals]

[ With the sudden and immediate nervousness of someone realising something has become very real: ]

I - err. I need a maid of honour. That is, will you be my maid of honour?

[multiverse]

( it's safely said that of the many things she expected jem might ask of her, this was probably didn't even make the list, not even if it was a thousand items long. she is, for a harrowing second, utterly speechless. it's not just the question, but the fact parisa never imagined herself being asked it by anyone. probably less than she ever expects to be asked to marry someone again — a woman willingly inviting her to be in her wedding party?

eventually she comes back to it, voice warm. )

Are you sure? I will, of course. But I'm not wearing an ugly dress.

[medals]

[something warm, like the surprise of being pleased tinged with lingering embarrassment. the mortifying task of having to ask something so deeply personal, and it ending well.

her words come out in an excited, slightly breathless rush: ] You can wear whatever you like! I don't - I don't even know if we'll have a theme. But I was thinking it should be a traditional wedding, for him, because British people just do a white dress and a tux, then get absolutely fucked after. But this feels sort of important, I guess?

[significant, she means. vulnerable. ]

[multiverse]

Jem, please. You at least need a color theme so your wedding doesn't look like a maximalism clown meet-up.

( parisa understands the weight of ceremony, of course. the only other wedding she's ever attended was her own — she was always gone with the wind by the time her siblings found their significant partners and started popping out children. nieces and nephews, ostensibly. )

Give me a bachelorette party invite list. I'll see it done. As for the rest, I can take care of it if you've really never given any thought to what your wedding would be like — it'll be small, I imagine?

[medals]

[ under her breath: ] A colour theme? Christ.

[ Then, louder: ] Yeah, uh - small. I don’t really want the attention.

[ which is true, in part. the other truth is: the people she would have wanted around her aren’t all here, and the people who are here are small in number. ]