runaway
when jay had first drunkenly proposed the idea of a sham marriage, erin had been all for it. being in the public eye like they were, neither one of them was willing to come out to the public, expose themselves to vitriolic hate in that way.
so they fake a proposal, announce the whole thing online once their agents give them permission, and get to work planning their wedding. they try to do it by themselves initially, perhaps in a self-sabotaging way to prevent it from happening altogether, but it seems neither one of them are prepared to do it.
and so they hire wedding planners: the world renowned burgess and gerwitz. except it’s rather hard to plan a wedding when you and your supposed future husband are falling for the people you’d hired in the first place.
while gerwitz (“call me mouse, please”) takes care of jay’s side of everything, erin gets left with burgess. who just so happens to be her type down to a tee. smart, funny, brave, opinionated, caring, genuine (not to mention really fucking hot), and the person she spends almost all of her free time with.
even as the day draws closer, and it’s clear that they’re both halfway in love with the business partners, neither one of them can bear to call the wedding off. which is how erin ends up standing at the end of the aisle, jay surrounded by his brother and closest friends, in a dress she’d rather be wearing to meet kim at the alter.
and so she does what erin lindsay does best: she runs. flees from the cameras and the confused guests, flees from the heartbreak and turmoil she’s bound to encounter, flees from kim’s soft smiles and freely given fleeting touches.
except she can’t run away forever, and it’s only a matter of time before kim finds her, shushing her attempts to explain herself and kissing erin in the room she’d locked them in. and as her strong arms dip erin towards the ground, the veil trailing behind them in a magical shot, erin thinks that running away might not have been so bad after all.
