Three Days Before the Wedding, I Learned Who Came First

Synopsis

Three days before my wedding, Grant and I opened the Christmas ornaments our old high-school friend group had made when we were seventeen. Back then, the six of us were inseparable. We were sure we would always be part of each other's lives. Inside Grant's ornament was the note he had written all those years ago: "Tessa. Still answering when she calls." Everyone laughed. He had written it when he was seventeen. Eleven years later, I was about to marry him. They said Tessa was just his oldest friend. But I began to wonder: was I marrying the man I had loved for eleven years, or marrying into a circle where someone else had always come first?