The Last to Know
The day my girlfriend and I were supposed to get our marriage license, she suddenly disappeared.
That night, I accidentally came across a social media post she had forgotten to hide from me.
"From twenty to twenty-eight. We finally made it."
Attached was a photo of two marriage certificates.
In the wedding photo, she leaned against a man I had never seen before, smiling with effortless joy.
Furious, I opened the comments, ready to confront her. Then, I saw a message from my best friend.
"Congratulations to the lovebirds. After everything you've been through, you finally made it."
My chest tightened. With shaking hands, I called him.
After a long silence, he finally confessed.
"Yeah.