Chapter 13

I walked up to the men a few moments after that, “excuse me” the one who had insulted me said and left, his friend in the grey suit following close behind.

“Hey, are you okay?” he looked me straight in the eyes.

He was going to pretend like he had not said something horrible back there.

“I want to go home, I feel tired.” I said in a low voice, handing him his cocktail.

“sure, could we just wait a little? I need to see one last person.” I wanted to leave now but I held it In.

He was purposely ignoring my feeling, to say I wasn’t hurt was a lie.

I was pulled out of my self loathe and consciousness with people clapping, there was a woman who looked familiar walk to the stage

Her dark shiny hair and bright skin stood out, but that was not what took my interest. No. It was the dress she wore.

It was a spitting image of mine.

A dress that Ben said was custom made.

Custom made for me.

I looked to him, his eyes were fixed on her, like there was no one else in the room. I bit my lips to keep the tears at bay.

Emily was stunning. The dress fit her in all the right places and i couldn’t even lie, the dress on me was nothing compared to how it looked on her.

I left looking every where for where the car was parked in the parking lot. There was no sign of the car.

It began to drizzle, and soon after the rain.

I think it purposely wanted to make my day more worse because there had been no prior signs to the rain it just did as it liked.

I went back to the entrance to see the driver he looked at me in shock but opened the door regardless.

“Should I turn up the heat ma’am?”

I didn’t respond

He looked at me through the review mirror, he was confused.

“should I warm ...”

“it’s fine, just get Benjamin, let’s go”

I was barely holding it in.

He nodded and left the car with an umbrella.

I looked at my shoes. They were soaked with water and looked like they were already pulling out.

That was okay though, I didn’t really like heels, I told myself as I pulled it off my feet.

“Hey, what was that about? My friends wanted to say good bye to you.

I looked at him, disbelief across my face.

“I didn’t know Emily would be attending” I said changing the topic, I was too hurt about that it to.say anything at the moment

“Yeah, she was going to attend. She looked like a model in that dress”

If it wasn’t for how dark it was, he would have seen the tears that fell down, betraying me.

‘I am wearing the same dress. You didn’t even look at me twice when I put on the dress all these things I wanted to say but bit my lips because I did want to cause a scene.

I got down from the car as fast as I could, and went straight for my room.

I sat on the floor, my back to the door and let the tears flow freely.

I just wanted to end it.

I slept off in that position only to be woken up in the middle of the night with screams from the next room.

I rushed towards room and swung it open. I came to realise quickly that Ben did get nightmares like the night he had the pee accident.

“Ben?” I tried to shake him out of it. “Ben?” still nothing. Instead, he started to roll off the bed.

“Ben!!” that seemed to snap him out of the dream He was in but I wasn’t expecting his reaction.

He shoved me out of his sight causing me to hit me back on the pointy edge of the drawer that was on the opposite side of the bed.

“fuvk!” I cried out in pain. I took in a deep breath trying not to cry out in pain.

“What the hell is wrong with you!!” He yelled leaving me in shock.