9: LIE

ADRIANNA

The walk up to my room was fast and swift. I just wanted to go into my room and bawl my eyes out. I still couldn't believe it, Raymond has been cheating on me all these while we had been together. Our promises, have they all been a lie?. As I walked towards my bed, I dropped my suitcase behind the door and slumped down on it. If anyone would have told me that i would have to go through all these after my wedding, i would never have believed it. It was all too much for me, i just didn't know what to do. I was supposed to me happy, spending my honeymoon with the one i loved, but here i was crying my eyes out. It seemed like tears had been my daily meal for the past two days. I gently touched the bed, my hands grazing the soft foam and texture. The feelings of the soft texture brought back memories and pain. This was supposed to be my matrimonial bed, our matrimonial bed, and now it was soiled with betrayal and deceit.

My eyes roamed the room, i could vividly remember the joy i had when i wore my wedding dress on my wedding day, two days ago. The spin in front of the mirror, the way i admired myself, i remembered the smile i had. The way my cheeks lifted with joy. The way my ears twitched at the thought of me getting married. I could remember it all. I could remember how Raymond walked into the room, showering me with love and kisses hours before our wedding, the way he called me his future wife like he actually meant it. My thoughts were clouded with the memories of the three years we spent with each other, the years we got to know each other, the years we fell in love with each other, or was i just the one in love?.

My thoughts were a million miles away until someone walked in. I looked up and my eyes was instantly clouded with disgust. He was the last paper i wanted to see. This betrayer, this scumbag, was the last person i wanted to see on earth. I couldn't even look at him in the face, i was disgusted. I felt irritated by his awful presence, he reeked of betrayal and deceit.

I stood up from the bed, as he walked closer to where i was. He stopped as he noticed i kept moving back, everytime he tried to come closer to me.

"Adrianna" he called my name.

I felt sheer disgust when he called my name. I felt irritated, i had the urge to puke.

I looked up at me, my face holding the hurt and pain that my broken heart couldn't show.

"What are you doing here Raymond? Have you come here to shatter my already broken heart?" I screamed at him, my voice attempting to fail me as they began to crack.

He looked at me, as he began to pace round the room. He raised his hand to his head, giving it a rough scratch. He looked like there was something he had to say, but he was too scared to let it out. He stood after a while of pacing around and what he said next cut me off guard.

"You have to leave Adrianna, you can't stay here"

I looked at him, shocked. What did he just say? Was he chasing me out of the house?

"What?" I said to him in disbelief.

I wanted him to say it again, to know if what i heard was just a mistake and he had said something else and i just didn't hear it well.

He looked at me as he repeated it again.

"Adrianna, you can't stay here, you have to leave" he said again, this time more confident.

My legs became weak, so weak that they could no longer stand on their own and they just gave in as i collapsed on the floor. Tears began to stream down my eyes, my heart beating so fast and lips quivering.

With a deep breath, i started, my words slow and shallow, "is this because of Jasmine?"

I looked up at him, awaiting an answer. When there was none, i continued.

"Raymond, i am your wife, we have been together for three years, what happened to all the promises you made to me? Our vows on the altar, on our wedding night? Why are you doing this to me? Why are you causing me this much pain? What did i ever do to you?" I screamed at him, my lips trembling.

He just stood there, looking at me.

"Why are you not saying anything? Raymond, we said our wedding vows together, you promised till death do us apart, where has all that gone? Why do you want to cause me pain? Whg are you hurting me?" I continued as more tears poured out from my eyes.

Raymond, walked closer to me, squatting down to the floor inches from where i sat down.

"Look am sorry Adrianna, that was all a lie, i never loved you" he said to me.

I looked up at him in shock.

Words never came out of my mouth, i was too shocked for words to be processed. I just sat down there, my eyes wide opened.

"Here take this money, i feel bad that's why am giving it to you. It's not much, but you will be able to do something with it" he said to me as he placed a white envelope in my hand.

He stood up and moved back, turning around to leave the room. He walked towards the door and halted, turning back to me.

"I'm so sorry Adrianna, i really am" he said and immediately after that, he left the room, closing the door behind him.

I sat down there, frozen in thoughts. My mind clouded with what he just said.

He had never loved me?

All these years we had been together, he never loved me?

It was all a lie.