I turned around in his embrace. "I thought the party was a, no?". I wasn't in the mood to act happy. I wasn't happy. My head was throbbing, I felt sick and my skin was on fire.

"It's just family".

"It's still people". I didn't want to socialise. I didn't want to talk about last night. I couldn't be bothered with people gushing about how we were now mated. Most of all I knew the questions would be coming.

Marriage.

Kids.

Blah.

That's how I was feeling about that.

My mood had completely ...