We have family friends that run a wedding venue out of their backyard. It’s a truly magical place. Brides walk out of a beautifully restored red barn, and they walk across the lawn next to the lake, before they finally reach the rows of guests. The arch stands just off the dock, right near the waterfall that trickles into the small lake.
The ceremony of their daughter was absolutely stunning, the fragrant flowers, the chirping birds, the shimmering water, everything was absolutely perfect. However, the day was overshadowed by the presence of one guest. As it turned out the groom was friends with a man that had recently been ostracized from our small, and tight-knit community, and not without good reason too.
This married man was having an affair with his neighbour’s wife, and to make matters worse, both parties had young children. The kids often played together, and the couples enjoyed BBQs, their spouses none the wiser. So how did it all come crashing down you might ask? One crisp Spring morning the man’s wife had forgotten her phone at home when she went to work, so on her lunch break she decided to go fetch it.
When she got home she found the door was unlocked, which was unusual, but she figured her teenage daughter must have come home on her lunch break, as the school was only a few blocks away. But when she checked her room, she wasn’t there, and she hadn’t been in the kitchen either. That’s when she heard a noise coming from her bedroom. She figured it must have been her husband who left the front door unlocked, she called out to him as she opened the bedroom door.
He was in there alright, and he just wasn’t alone. He was balls deep in another woman. That’s when not one, but two marriages fell apart. What was most heartbreaking is that I went to school with the eldest daughter, and she was never the same after all this.
So how do I know so much of the story you might ask? Well, this is a very small town, everybody knows everybody, and people talk. Marriages start with so much joy, but they can also end with so much hurt. And nothing gets past the people of a small town.
Just A Small Town Girl 