Chapter 33

I stayed in my room till I heard them come in.

They were laughing, acting like an old married couple. I came out of the room to see them, setting the left overs from what they had gotten from where they went.

“Hey” I greeted, they both looked at me like I had walked in on something I wasn’t meant to find out.

“What’s up” Ben said smiling at me genuinely. Emily didn’t seem to like the attention Ben was giving me because she quickly came between us stopping whatever wanted to come out of my mouth.

“yeah Benny? Are we still up for the movie?”

“sure, let me go freshen up” he left leaving me in the room with her.

You know, I love how persistent you are, but back off. Ben is mine” she did a 360 in an instant she was sweet and caring when she was In Ben’s presence and then was a snake immediately he left.

“If you love him Soo much, why did you break up with him?” It always bugged my mind why she left him in the first place if she loved him so much.

“Oh honey, you’re so innocent. I’ll let you in on a secret” she moved closer to me, “ I honest could not care much for Ben. But you see, he wants to get his inheritance from his lawyer and the requirement is to be married. I need to get back into his life and get this money, then you can have him for yourself. Can you wait that long for me honey? Then I promise you’d have your turn”

I desperately wished someway that Ben was somewhere listening. But no. I was the only one here

“you are a sick bitch, do you know that? You’re deceiving him, his family!” my mind went back to how they made plans to meet his family earlier today.

“oh please, don’t tell me you really believe that shit of the dead can hear. Honey, she looked at me. Talking like she was talking to a five year old. “they’re dead, they wouldn’t care”

“dead?” I looked at her with wide not understanding what she meant.

“wait, he didn’t tell you?” she looked like she was close to laughing her ass out. “He’s planning of getting married to you and you don’t even know him?” she looked at me with ... pity? I shook my head

“What?!”

“Baby, there’s a lot of things going on, and from what I’m seeing I’m not even at fault. Guess he doesn’t trust you as much”

I tried to make sense of what she meant.

Dead? How did that happen? When did that happen? She had already gone to the living room, setting the movie and waiting for Ben to come. I stood there, trying to masseuse of what she meant. Surely, she could not have meant that. There was no way.

He would tell me such an important thing , right?

The thought process came to an end when Ben came out of his room, “are you ready?” he yelled looking very happy.

“Ben!” I stopped him midway from going to the living room..

“Yeah?” I could tell the look of irritation that crossed his face as I stopped him.

“you’d tell me if anything is going on yeah? You wouldn’t hide things from me,?”

“Is it about this morning?” he said referring to me asking of he loved me or Emily. “it’s fine love, trust me, i love you, and nothing is going to change that”

I nodded my head, wanting to believe him. I stayed in the kitchen, watching as he interacted with Emily. I bit down the feeling that sprung up on me.

He didn’t even notice that I was not with them.

He looked at her like he would lay his life down for her without even any reason to.

I went into one of the spare bedrooms, and lay my head to rest, trying as much as possible to quiet my sniffing and keep in the tears. Luckily for me the room was at the extreme end of the house, so they were not going to hear me except though came closer.

The tears kept flowing, without me having any control of it. With the way the tears dropped I could have had two buckets full of them

A knock came on the door, startling me.

He noticed! I got up so fast from the bed like I was on fire.

He finally noticed that I was not there and came to look for me. I opened the door with a smile that was quickly wiped off as I saw that standing there was no other person than Elias.

“Here” he said stretching to me a box of tissue. “You are a pretty loud crier.”

I took the box, embarrassed that someone could hear me, I completely forgot that we shared a wall..

“Is it something you want to talk about?” I wanted to crawl inside a whole and die as he asked me that question. Given our past relationship, i wanted nothing to do with him. He was cruel and this could just be something he could use against me when he was in the mood to bully me again.

I shook my head no “sorry, I thought I was being loud. It’s nothing serious, just some really bad allergies” I lied if he read through my lies be kept quiet not saying things about it, he just nodded.

“I wanted to apologise, I know what I did was fucked up and honestly, I have no reason to have acted the way I acted. I was just being a jerk. I am sorry. I hope its not too late, and I genuinely hope we can be friends in the future” just looked at him as he apologised, he looked really sincere.

“It’s fine, no problem” I said making my way back into the room and shutting it, at least that’s what would have happened if he didn’t stop me from closing the door midway.