It's the summer break, and for the first time in his life, Mike would rather stay in the bloody classroom.<br><br>It's wedding season, and Mike is doomed to spend all summer sipping cheap champagne and pretending he likes tiny portions of posh food. From the passive-aggressive torment of Mike's mother-in-law to the insulting incredulity of his colleagues over what his mysterious husband actually looks like, Mike would voluntarily teach sex education to fourteen-year-olds for the rest of his life if it would only get him out of one more wedding. Even his husband in a kilt isn't going to save this one.<br><br>But there's nothing like watching someone else get hitched to remind him of where he's come from ... and where he's determined to go from here.

Married Ones

“Turns out, we really underestimated Suze.”


He decided not to tell the story of the day they found that out—screaming domestics in the street probably weren’t the things to bring up at weddings—and shifted past it.


“As Suze kept on coming round to Sunday dinners and family functions, and had our Vikki—who can barely speak English, by the way—trying to muddle through Mandarin lessons to impress Suze’s great-grandma over Skype in Peking, we started to figure maybe this was serious after all. But so what? Vikki’s been perfectly serious before. Doesn’t stop the fact she keeps going after crazy women who can’t tell her when to wind her neck in. Sooner or later, we all figured, it’ll come crashing down.”


He paused. The crowd rustled gently. The soft murmur of Suze’s dad translating for an ancient old lady who was probably her nana paused.


Chapter 46