VERONICA’S POVLawrence’s face edged closer towards me.I felt my shoulder stiffen and my breath held.Different contrasting thoughts bombarded my head in a matter of seconds.My heart wanted him but my head wouldn’t stop reminding me of the things I knew.To push him away, or to let him...I was still going too and forth with the thoughts in my head when I felt his lips claimed mine.For a brief moment, he just pressed it against my frozen one; probably waiting for me to give him the go ahead, waiting for my response.When I didn’t move, he started to straighten up. “I’m so...”I gripped his shirt and pulled him in again, claiming his lips myself and shutting off the words that were about to come out.At first, I kissed him but stopped after a moment. I had come to my senses and was just about to utter a quick apology and hurry out. Away from him and this... silly feelings inside me. But he took the lead, with his arms circling around my waist, he kissed me silly.After some moments,
VERONICA’S POVHow long has he been there? How much did he hear?These questions wouldn’t stop running in my head.I couldn’t believe I had done that; I mean, I couldn’t believe I said those words.Maybe I should have been an actress instead of studying management back in school. It was just an acting. I was just trying to defend Lawrence from that lousy entitled bitch. He deserved that much from his wife, well, even though I wasn’t really his wife.Those were the things I kept telling myself.When I got downstairs, the screen light of my phone had just gone off indicating I just had a call or a message.I had quickly picked up my phone from the sofa in the sitting room and headed for my room at once.Once inside the room, I pulled off my robe leaving only my mini skimpy light dress on and collapsed into the bed.Back in my room, I checked the caller. I had three different callers. One was an unknown number. I frowned a bit. I hated unknown numbers calling my line and I couldn’t rack
VERONICA’S POV“Us?” I muttered, feeling my brows knit together in confusion.“Happy new year.”Happy new year? My eyes twitched and then went almost wide the next second.“Urh, I didn’t realize it was the new year already...” I mumbled.Lawrence almost laughed but stifled it back.I had always known today was supposed to be new year, I had heard the workers repeat it severally at work, even heard them plan parties ahead, heard mother remind me of it a couple of times but when the day finally reached, it totally skipped my mind. Maybe that was why mother had called.“So, in effect to that, my parents are holding a family get party...more like a family get together and we are invited, of course,” Lawrence said. “It’s like a normal thing for my parents...so...” He explained further seeing my hesitation.I looked at him before I inhaled deeply. it wasn’t as though I had a choice. I had to keep playing the good wife.“Fine, when is it? when are we supposed to be there?” I asked him.“Urh
VERONICA’S POV“What do you want from me, Vincent?” I asked pushing down the bile that was already rising inside of me slowly.Vincent stared at me. Then he said, “I want us back... I want us back together. I missed you, Veronica. I miss us... I know I made mistakes but I really want you back, I swear.”I was numb. It felt like a bomb had gone off in my chest and then the loud banging sound had reverberated in my ear. And even when I was sure I had heard the clattering of something in the table behind us and the waitress serving the coffee, I couldn’t actually tell how it had all happened.“What did you just say?”I felt my heart race. Surely it wouldn’t be because I was happy to hear that my ex wants me back.“I know you are mad at me right now but the truth is that I haven’t been able to forget you all these whiles, Veronica. I thought of you every single day and every single time. I regretted my actions...I have regretted breaking up with you every single moment ever since you left
WRITER’S POVAfter they walked out of the coffee shop and away from it, Veronica stopped walking abruptly and snatched her hand from Lawrence’s grip.“Oh, I’m sorry...” Lawrence apologized.She faced him squarely. “Why did you come here? To see how miserable my life is? Huh? Ah, I guess to see for yourself what great man I had come to see...”“Vero...” he called, almost in whispers. The flesh of his face folded into lines, lines of both worry and disbelief.“Why? Are you disappointed? Yes, that’s my ex... he is just like any other man...after all you men are all the same. Why did you have to follow me?! why! Why!” She yelled, feeling her body vibrate and her voice shake.Veronica couldn’t bring herself to agree with the fact that Lawrence had not only witnessed everything that happened but also saved her.Why did it have to be him? Why did he have to do something that will make her keep thinking of him when she shouldn’t?She turned away from him, sniffing back the tears that almost d
WRITER’S POVLawrence stared at Veronica.Please just this one time, look at me.But she didn’t look at him.Instead, she turned and started back into the house.He went after her.“Where are you going to?” he asked when he caught up with her.She looked at him.Eyes that said so many words and mouth that looked like it wanted to say so many words but never spurt anything stared at him. Lawrence felt his heart ache, as if it had been pierced a thousand and one places at once. He knew he would go crazy if she wasn’t there with him. His calmness, his ability to still breath was because she saw her face every morning. It was because he felt her scent around him.She wanted to leave. Away from him, away from the excruciating hurt her heart felt. Yet as she looked at him, the words well formed in her head ready to be slapped to his face, she hesitated. She couldn’t bring herself to tell him, those words.And then she wondered why her heart hurt so much just by the thought of telling him th
WRITER'S POVLaurie sauntered back into the house and then Veronica’s eyes fell on Lawrence.Once their eyes met, she looked away quickly. For a split moment, she wondered for how long he had been standing there and how much he heard.Lawrence walked over to her.“Which trip was she speaking of?”“Just a work trip. You should have been briefed by your secretary about it,” Veronica said without glancing at him.“Oh.” Of course, his father had told him and they even had a meeting about it with some of the important figures of the Group. For a fact, his secretary had equally mentioned it to him as well. The site where Williams Group wanted to open another Williams Fashion company. He was happy about it, happy for himself and his father and for the entire Williams Group.But hearing it again suddenly made it news to him. Or was it because he just heard Veronica was going on the trip.“Do you really have to go... It can stretch into a month or more,” he said quietly.Veronica turned to f
WRITER'S POVThe bedside alarm clock clanged. Lawrence’s eyes fluttered open. He reached towards the bedside drawer and quickly shut the alarm off. He actually hadn't got a need for the alarm clock. His body knew when to wake up, at least he felt it was so the last months. But for some reason he hadn't found the chance to permanently turn it off. He blinked and rolled to the edge of the bed. And sighed. Same room and alone, again. It was already morning but for the first time in a long while, his body was reluctant to get on. Time was slower than it had ever been. It was past five months but it felt like it had been nothing short of a couple of years. Lawrence couldn't have been more certain that the universe was punishing him for his sins. Veronica was away. It was supposed to be a few months of being away but then it had stretched into more than months. He barely saw her the whole time. A few of the weekends she had dropped by but always left again. Work was going well b