What Steven did, I had no idea.
My mind was completely focused on getting home and figuring out how to tell my family about Horace.
My mother had met Horace's parents, so in a way, the parents had met. But my mother was gone now, and my grandfather and uncles hadn't met him yet.
I didn't know if springing the news of a wedding on them would be met with disapproval.
Besides, with my competition just ending, I was swamped with congratulatory messages.
Though most of them were more curious about where I had been on the day of the semi-finals, lamenting that I had wasted such a good opportunity to advance.
The top ten and the top three were in completely different leagues.
Even Linda felt it was a shame. She had a strange confidence in me, certain that I could have made the top three.
I didn't explain much to her.
The relationship between Steven, Verna, and me was too complicated to explain.
I simply told Mr. Taylor that something had come up on the day of the semi-finals and I couldn't make it back, leaving it at that.
Mr. Taylor was very composed, chuckling. "Your seniors only made it into the top fifty in their first competition, and it was a lower-level event than yours. You fought your way into the top ten. I was already very satisfied. I've always said you were a rough diamond. If you hadn't gotten married and been delayed for so long, you definitely would have... ahem."

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