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NO WAY: this man gets called out at his wedding ceremony by THREE EX GIRLFRIENDS then his bride DUMPS HIM!!!!
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OMFG no
This is sick!!!
Guys this isn’t real. If you look at the people on the far left, they’re in on it. All actors. Nicely done though
The song the band is playing
I’ve seen loads of reveal vids like these and this is the best one yet. It’s not real but at first you totally believe it might be
This is giving me LIFE
I hope they have a spare bed at the Serious Burns Unit
We’ve all known a Scott, one way or another. Love to see it. Love this for him
Is that the guy out of that Britpop band
Oh Scott. Gonna need cosmetic surgery before you try to date again. Or at least a haircut
He’s pulled some fit lasses though, I smell a legend
This is kind of like an I am Spartacus for victims of shitbags. Noice!
In the hotel bar, after Lorna hit ‘post’ (‘There’s a whole subculture of these things! “Man Tells Girlfriend He Knows She’s Cheating On Him: You Won’t Believe How” and so on.’), the footage from the wedding lit her phone up with a blizzard of notifications.
Unsurprisingly, all of Scott’s family boycotted the Not Reception, but an interestingly large number of his friends turned up (if not Danny and Fergus: Harriet guessed being a best man conferred special obligations, and didn’t resent them for it). Presumably they were nursing an uncomprehending, fiery Scott at a secret location. They’d be wondering, however, if they’d known him as well as they thought they did. Everyone would, bar, perhaps, his dad.
There was an adjustment for many to go through: accepting the monster could be your mate.
Marianne was absorbed into the melee as a celebrity, her Estilo gang buzzing round her.
‘This feels like one of those huge world events you can’t assess until time has passed and you watch the documentaries about it,’ said Lorna, at their table in the bar. ‘I’ll need to hear what Barack has to say on the matter. Harriet, you spoke SO well. I don’t know how you managed that eloquence under pressure. Did you practice?’
Harriet shook her head. ‘I thought if I did, I’d get hung up on forgetting it, and off the cuff was best.’
‘Extraordinary.’
‘I thought we were absolutely screwed when Scott clocked me,’ Nina said. ‘I waited and waited for you to come through the doors too.’
‘He’d obviously never expect a scrubber like me to be so done up. How did he think you’d got in?’
‘I said I was in the hotel anyway, saw the sign, wondered if it was him and decided to have a nosy. He must’ve known it wasn’t true but he didn’t have much time to work out what was up.’
Harriet’s phone buzzed.
Cal
WELL?! Do I need to come spring you from Elland Road police station? x
Harriet sent the link as response, snap-crackling inside at having his attention.
Well, wow …
You are a phenomenal person, Harriet Hatley. xx
She glowed.
Harriet knew she would never know the full effect on Scott Dyer, and she didn’t need to. It felt so great to take control, and there was no lust for revenge left in Harriet.
Within half an hour, she was told, he’d disappeared from all social media. Perhaps he’d move to another city and start again. Yet what they’d done would stand as permanent monument; he’d forever risk someone in his new life stumbling across that past. Hopefully it would produce a caution he’d never had before, as well as a heightened awareness among his nearest and dearest. Maybe he’d finally get some of that therapy he was so keen on for Harriet. Emerge reborn, a secular swami of a relationship counsellor. A changed and chastened man who’d been to hell and back, whose mistakes other men could learn from.
That progression, Harriet reflected, would be very Scott. He would forever be casting himself as leading man in his chosen story. She could only hope he’d write a better part.
But they changed this story, together. If there was a special place in hell reserved for women who didn’t help other women, perhaps there were special rewards for those who did. Harriet did not feel alone anymore. They couldn’t have achieved this without each other, they couldn’t have vanquished this man, except as a team.
As Harriet said to Marianne and Nina as they toasted their success at the end of the night, turns out it wasn’t about the treasure of Scott Dyer’s takedown: it was the friendships they made along the way.