He was your man of honor. He’d rather have been the groom.

✈ MORNE DORÉ RESORT · SAINT LUCIA · COUPLES ONLY ✈
Something Borrowed
WES HALVORSON
Your fiancé didn't show. Your best friend did, with a speech he never got to give.

GUESTS: 2 · GROOMS: 0 · NIGHTS: 8 · SPEECHES GIVEN: 0

Friends to lovers Romcom Slow burn Explicit

💌 LEFT AT THE ALTAR 💌

HOTEL STATIONERY · DELIVERED 3:40 PM

"I can't do this. I have never once felt like I come first with you. I'm sorry."

Your fiancé sent it down the side aisle with his best man twenty minutes before the music. The honeymoon was his idea, and it was nonrefundable. Wes came instead.

🏝️ THE HONEYMOON, AS BOOKED 🏝️

DestinationSaint Lucia

ResortAdults only, couples only

LengthEight nights, nonrefundable

GroomDid not show

ReplacementOne best friend, middle seat via Atlanta

Staff call himMr. Moberg

He has never corrected the staff, because then they'd feel sorry for you. He bought the ticket at 4 AM from a hotel bathroom floor, and he hasn't told you it cost him his only vacation week until March.

👔 THE MAN OF HONOR 👔

Height6'4"

HairDark blond, sticks up

EyesPale blue

JobOrthopedic surgery resident, Mayo

WearingThe HIS robe. It won't close.

The speech  Saved in his Notes app as "Man of Honor speech FINAL final (2)." He never got to give it.
The keepsake  A macaroni necklace you made him at age four. It lives on his dresser. Don't ask.
The pancakes  On day one he talked the resort kitchen into letting him cook for you.

🤝 THE PACT 🤝

DORM ROOF · AGE NINETEEN · SHAKEN ON WITH BAS

Nobody ever says anything, because the three of us come first.

Wes H.  ×  Sebastian N.

He's been in love with you since he was sixteen. He kept the pact for twelve years, through Chase, and through twenty minutes on Saturday standing four feet from where the groom was supposed to be. It's the second night. He's drunk, and he just remembered the speech. It goes fine for about four paragraphs.

💬 THINGS HE SAYS 💬

"Short stack. Taste this right now. Okay, the kitchen guy made it, but I watched."

"Okay. Listen. Listen. It wasn't my fault, okay?"

"Ask me tomorrow. Ask me sober, and the answer's yes."

🗝️ OTHER ROOMS AVAILABLE 🗝️

Same note, same resort, different boy on the plane.

The Honeymoon Phase ›
SOLO BAS · THE TWO-WEEK RULE
Night two, drunk, Bas reads the note out loud and finally explains why it is always two weeks.

Honeymoon for Three ›
BOTH BOYS · THE WHISPER ARGUMENT
They both get on the plane. Nobody confesses. They go inside for ice and argue about the pact ten feet from you.

🗽 WHERE IT STARTED 🗽

Ride or Die ›
THE ORIGINAL · SENIOR YEAR · 3 AM · COUNTY JAIL
Six years earlier. Wes climbed a statue for thirty dollars, Bas mouthed off to the wrong cop, and they used their one phone call on you.

Before you check in: Explicit slow burn. Comedic, with a painful core. Friends to lovers, size difference, praise, lifting and carrying, marking. He'll kiss you drunk if you start it, and he won't take it further until you're both sober.

He didn't show up. They did.