The Table Turned
Two weeks before the wedding, I took my parents to dinner at my fiance Derek Matthews's family home in Larkhaven, Franklin.
The evening was supposed to be the last planning meeting between both sets of parents, where we would finalize the ceremony and the honor-table seating.
I hadn't expected Derek's childhood friend, Paige Bennett, to be there too.
Mrs. Matthews suggested a little dinner-table game.
Everyone would draw a numbered envelope. Whoever drew the highest number could ask one small favor of whoever drew the lowest.
I drew the lowest number. Derek drew the highest.
Everyone urged him to make his request.
Paige smiled as though she were only joking.
"Derek, let me choose for