“I’ve planned for this,” Katie said. “Not this exactly, but chaos. I’m ready.”
Yes, really.
She tapped her chin. “Okay. But I have conditions. One: we tell everyone we met ‘on a dare from fate.’ Two: you have to try my experimental lavender-chili donuts. Three: if we’re doing this insane thing, we do it right — big dress, bad dancing, and a cake that looks like a car crash.” “I’ve planned for this,” Katie said
And so began the strangest engagement in New Jersey history. They told their families they were “passionately impulsive.” They argued over napkin colors (she wanted tie-dye; he wanted white). They fake-dated for three weeks to “sell the story,” then accidentally fell in love while assembling a broken IKEA bookshelf at 2 a.m. She tapped her chin