Part 3

In a clothes store, we find Eliza, her mother, and her grandma (the mother of Eliza’s father), choosing some dresses for the wedding to rent. The mother picks a yellow dress for her daughter and asks the latter:

- Hey, ladybug, look what did I find to you. It’s beautiful, isn’t?

Instead of Elizabeth, her grandma answers:

- No, it’s not beautiful; it’s yellow! Do you want to find your daughter looks like a bottle of mustard in the wedding?!

- The dress is not mustard! It’s yellow!

- Whatever… look at this, Eliza, this one is very sweet, and you’ll be sweeter and very pretty in the wedding.

Also, instead of Beth, her mother answers:

- No! It’s not good at all; it’s white and… very short! She’ll look then like a b**** in the wedding! And my daughter is not!

- No it’s not very short!

The woman and her mother-in-law fight with each other - again -, simply because they hate each other since the woman married the other’s son.

But our Hugo didn’t care about her mother and grandma’s “war”; she’s thinking about Jack, and why he refuses always her help that no one will offer. She knew that she would help him even by just some information, or some food. She won’t be McCallister’s way to succeed. She believes that she’ll help him with all her efforts. And someone like Jack in his situation will accept any help. And even if she’s a stranger? Everybody needs help, from anybody.

Cause of this over-thinking, Elizabeth didn’t even hear the two women’s fight. Plus, she didn’t choose the dress; she was just watching them. But luckily, one of workers there asks her if she belongs to these two crazies. And then she asks her mother and her mother-in-law to come back home, and to buy a dress for a next time…

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The Hugos and The fiancé’s family are standing inside “a music agency”. It’s an agency which chooses and calls some specifics musicians - from the most famous one to the least one - to sing in weddings, according to how much the two families will pay.

Elizabeth is there too. She forgot partially about Jack, and she decided to take care of her closest cousin’s wedding.

While Liz is dreaming of getting married to her boyfriend Justin Bulger, the muscled basketball player with a huge future, who also is the most beloved man from all the women of Elizabeth’s family, including her mother herself, McCallister gets in the agency and walks toward another “receptionist”.

Our Hugo didn’t notice Jack’s coming or even see him: she was completely transported by her dream, the marriage.

Jack actually came to ask for a job. He may work for an agency as a wedding musician.

The latter turns his head to watch the place, waiting for the receptionist to come: it’s brown and orange, most of desks and walls are wooden, and that’s why they are brown and orange, instead of doors, they made two huge opens without doors, where in front of them an empty parking.

While looking around, Jack recognizes Elizabeth, and of course he gets scared; he doesn’t want to meet her because she’ll beg him again to help him.

He takes his guitar from the desk and walks out slowly and weirdly until everybody watches him. And Beth feels something wrong happening and so she woke up from her dream and notices that everybody there is watching an old man with a classical guitar behaves weirdly. Wait, AN OLD MAN WITH A CLASSICAL GUITAR!

Fast, she recognizes him well, and she screams:

- Hey, Jack!

Once he knew that the caller is his new nightmare, Jack runs away from the agency. But Elizabeth follows him until she catches his shoulder and so he stops. She asks him:

- Jack, wait!

- What do you want, now?

- Why don’t you accept my help?

- Because you’re a stranger! Because you’re too younger than me! Because you have no idea about being a musician! That’s why I don’t accept your help!

He stops for a while and breathes, then he continues, calmly:

- I’m fine, without you. I understand how much you feel pity toward me. But… I’ll rely on myself… I won’t lose my prestige in front of a little girl just because I’m jobless… I was too close to have the job now, but I won’t sing in your or one of your relatives’ wedding party…

- I can provide you with money at least…

- I’m fine… thanks again…

He walks away from the agency until he disappears. Then, Liz’s mother comes and asks her:

- Is he that musician you told me about, ladybug?

- Yes…

- He’s kind of right. If I was in his place, I wouldn’t accept it too from a stranger… let’s come back to choose the band for April’s wedding…

- Ah… Yes mom…

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