#2 Sugar also looks like Salt

"Richard?" Diane called, reaching for her cloth. Her voice was shaking, and her eyes fixed on the door. 

"Who is there?" She panicked, glancing at Vincent. Richard had traveled for a business trip and won't be back till Friday, which was why she had the guts to bring in Vincent to her home and not the usual hotel room.

"Richard?" Diane called again, just then the door swung open, revealing the face of the intruder.

"Sugar?" Diane gasped with her eyes and mouth wide open in shock. "How did you get here? What are you doing here?" Diane asked, shocked.

Leilani stared at the both of them one after the other, not sure what to make of what she just heard and witnessed. "Are you cheating on me?" Leilani asked, staring deeply at Vincent, who just glanced at her and scoffed. 

"Why? Are you trailing me now?" He asked. He had no atom of rumor or pity in his tone.

"What? Trailing? Do you think that's the right response to my question?" Leilani asked, trying so hard to fight the tears clustered in her eyes.

"If you weren't trailing me, what are you doing here? How do you know I was here, huh?" Vincent asked, standing up. He was now fully dressed likewise Diane, who just kept mute, allowing him to handle his wife. 

"Leilani, you shouldn't be trailing me, I'm your husband, and I have the right to do whatever I want, Do you understand?" Vincent growled.

"Husband? You basterd," Leilani fired, allowing the tears flow freely. She just couldn't hold it back any longer.

"Basterd, that's an interesting choice of words coming from someone who doesn't even remember anything about her family," Vincent chuckled, making Diane snicker. 

Leilani smiled, shifting her gaze to Diane. "Diane Timmer, it must be funny right, I must have been a joke to you all these years, huh?" Leilani said, staring deeply at her. Never in her wildest imagination would she ever think or imagine that Diane would be the one to betray her. She was her sugar, her better half.

"Is this why you said I shouldn't visit his office, so I won't find out about this?" Leilani asked, and Diane scoffed. "Yes, but you are so persistent, I said I wasn't home, why did you visit, huh?" Diane asked. "Why? You are right, why did I visit? Perhaps the diety wanted me to see this," Leilani said. 

'Diety, what's she blabbing about?' Vincent thought, walking towards her. "Hey, you should go home, I will decide what to do with you, understand?" Vincent said. 

Leilani stared at him for a while before shifting her gaze to Diane. Neither of them seemed remorseful for their action nor willing to apologize, which pissed her off and made her anger boil even more. 

Looking at Diane made her remember the beautiful moments they had, the things they said to eachother and the promises they made back in high-school, who would have ever thought that she would be the one to stab her so hard in the back.

"I am going to report you," Leilani began. She wasn't ready to give up without a fight. She loves Vincent, he is everything to her, and no matter how hard he hurts her, she is forever willing to forgive him once he apologizes. "I will report you to the women right association. You both would be punished, and Doctor Anna, they will see that her medical license is revoked," Leilani said. Her threat seemed to have sounded like a joke to Vincent as he burst into a loud laughter, stunning Leilani who wasn't expecting such reaction from him.

"You have really grown wings. You seem to have changed from the naive woman I used to know to a total idiot, a dense fool," Vincent chuckled. "What makes you think that your little report could touch me, have you forgotten who I am, I am Vincent Russell, I am untouchable, your little report won't even make a dent but let's say it could, what do you think you can do right now?" Vincent scoffed. He took a couple of steps closer to her, covering up the space between them. "You are nothing but a walking corpse. You should drop dead already," he whispered, again his lips curved in an evil smile.

"Let's go darling," he beckoned on Diane before walking out of the room. 

"Okay, honey." Diane smiled, feeling delighted. She was satisfied with the way Vincent manhandled Leilani and walked out on her.

"Sugar," Leilani called, stopped Diane on her track. She turned and glanced at her for a while before walking closer to her.

"That's enough, you should stop Leilani, I am not your Sugar, Leilani. I was never your friend, and I would never be. You were just too dense and desperate to find out." Diane began making Leilani stare at her stunned. 

"Are you surprise?" Diane chuckled. "Wow, you are really a fool, a big one at that. I kept you around all these years because I was jealous of you. Do you seriously think I was your friend, Do you even think you are qualified to be my maid talkmore of my friend, my best friend at that. Leilani, it's funny. I never not even for a single second regarded you as a friend, never, you were more like a competitor to me, one that I desperately needed to win over," Diane fired.

"Wow, sugar?" She chuckled, sparing Leilani a look enough to access her. "You are really something else, haven't you heard of the saying? Sugar also look like salt, I advise you to be more careful in your next life, not to miss them up." Diane spat. She turned to leave, but Leilani pulled her hair angrily.

"You slut, you have your own husband, why must it be mine? Why?" Leilani asked in tears. Diane barely managed to pull out of Leilani's grip before pushing her to the ground forceful. "Why?" She scoffed. "Because he is yours and I want him, I want everything that is yours, that's how I know I have won this competition" Diane said

"Competition? Do you think I'm going to let you have him that easily?" Leilani asked making Daine scoff

"And what can you do? You can't do more than a dead rat, you are completely wasted Leilani, you can't do anything, you are going to die off anyway, life goes on without you" Diane spat and walked out before Leilani could muster the strength to utter a word.

Leilani sat on the floor shivering, she was suddenly feeling cold on the inside but on the outside, she was sweating furiously. Her heart were heavy and her legs were too light to carry her heavily burdened body. 

She grabbed her phone and began to scroll through her contact book, she needed help, someone she could talk or betterstill cry to but she couldn't find anyone. Not even a single person out of the thousand contact registered on her phone.

"I'm alone, all alone in this miserable world" Leilani said, feeling her heart get even more heavier and tears gradually cluttering in her eyes.

After minutes of bawling her eyes out, Leilani walked out of the house, leaving the door and everything open. Just as Diane had said earlier, they were never friends, not even for a second so there is no need for her looking out for someone that was never her friend from the get a go.

Leilani didn't hesitate to drive out of the compound straight to Diane's company. She wasn't done with her yet or rather, she haven't started at all. Diane must have had the upper hand an hour ago because she was overwhelmed by everything that happened but not anymore. Leilani felt she needed to get back at Diane, if not for anything but to prove that she wasn't a fool or dense and the only way to do that was to give Diane premium embracement at her company, she knew how well she values respect and that will be her weapon to get back at her.

Leilani smiled nodding her head memorizing every word she would say. She had everything planned out in her head and according to her plan everything would go in her favor. "You just wait for me bitch, I will pull out all your hair" Leilani said increasing the speed of her car. She gasped hearing the loud horn of an approaching truck, she tried slowing down a bit to make way for the truck only to find out that her break was faulty, she kept trying but no matter what she did, the break won't just work and the truck was fast approaching. She turned towards the direction of the truck as if trying to plead with the driver to slow down but it was already too late. That was the end for her.

"Sugar" Leilani said. Her eyes were red, and a tear dropped from her eyes, mixing with her blood. "I longed for the family which I have never had, but here I am, surrounded by a family yet alone," her lips curved in a half smile. "I was given four months, five months at best, but I didn't even get to live that much, I didn't pay off my medical bills or said proper goodbye or even create beautiful memories. I didn't find my family or make real friends, I didn't do get to do anything....I just wasted away," Leilani said. 

Her eyes found her ringing phone, and after studying the unknown number for a while, she smiled. "Even though I don't know you, thanks for calling me in my last moment."