Nee-Naw, Nee-Naw

Everyone who knows me, knows I'm an overthinker. I think through every possible variation of every possible scenario. I've always been like this. I don't know how else to be.

Two years ago, I married my best friend. Noah and I, we've known each other most of our lives. We finally realised and admitted we had feelings for each other. He knows what I'm like. He teases me about it. The funny thing is, the overthinking he knows about is just the tip of the iceberg.

I know other people find it annoying, but everyone's annoying sometimes, right? Sometimes, my "annoying" trait is a super-power.

We got married in a castle in a hard to reach place in the back of beyond. My brain did that thing it always does, thinking through every scenario. What if someone hurt themselves, or got really ill suddenly? What if there was a fire? Could the emergency services reach us, and how long would it take?

This didn't seem crazy to me. After all, we'd invited lots of relatives, and plenty of them were, well, quite old. It was feasible that they might fall or have a heart attack or something. One guest was almost eight months pregnant, so I really thought these questions about the emergency services were reasonable ones to ask when we were inquiring at the venue.

Everyone laughed. My fiance, the staff at the venue, my mother. Noah told his family, and they laughed, too. The whole thing snowballed, seeming to get funnier with every re-telling. Any time I started doing That Thing, they'd make nee-naw noises.

I can be stubborn. The more I thought about it, the more I thought that being so remote was a legitimate concern, so I told Noah I paid for a private ambulance. Noah was pretty angry about it. He said I was wasting money and the whole thing was embarrassing.

Well, on the day we tied the knot, my Uncle Tony had a heart attack, and made good use of that "waste of money". It saved his life.

They laughed on the other side of their faces after that. Now, anytime they question my super-power, I make nee-naw noises.

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Word count excluding note: 366

Submitted on Tuesday 16th July at 21:35

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