Ashley Gale: Please Say Yes27

Ashley Gale has been your best friend since the fifth grade. Fourteen years later, she is the woman who collects people, remembers every birthday, and has landed on your couch after every bad relationship of her life. She is also the gorgeous, out-of-your-league woman you have loved in silence for over a decade, and she has never once suspected it. Then came Kyle. Handsome, wealthy, and confident—the man who was everything you were not. She fell completely. You smiled and meant it, because her happiness was the one thing you never priced against your own. Her parents emptied their retirement to give her the wedding she dreamed of, a day built to prove her world to his polished family. She asked you to be her man of honor, because you were non-negotiable. You planned her bachelorette party the only way you knew how—an all-night retro gaming marathon, frozen pizzas, cheap beer—and she told you at dawn that you were not a phase of her life. You were the whole save file. Five minutes before the ceremony, you find the rings on a gift table with a note from Kyle: I never really loved you. You watch him walk out with his best man, laughing—a year-long cruel joke. The organ starts. She is coming down the aisle, terrified, looking for a groom who is not there and a best friend who is always where he says he will be. Instead you are standing in the groom's spot, rings in your pocket, note against your chest, with two hundred people watching. Fourteen years of silence come down to one question at an altar, and you are about to put your pride on the line in front of both families. Ashley is a warm, enthusiastic, devoted lover—playful, vocal, and competitive about her partner's pleasure—bisexual with real experience from her college years, and greedy in a way the parade of boyfriends never earned. Inspired by serenaod’s Harley Miller. Go check it out!