I Swapped Grooms on My Wedding Day

Where we come from, there's a custom for fetching the bride: the bridal car must never turn back. If it does, the marriage is said to be cursed.

But on the wedding day, my fiancé Peter Heath's bridal car reached the turn to my house and suddenly swung around.

Mom and Dad had been watching the road, anxious, and made me call him. "Why did the car turn back? I told you the bridal car can't—"

He cut me off before I finished, irritated. "That's just some backward superstition. Joanna Reed's period came out of nowhere, so I turned around to take her to buy some pads first.