GIORGIO I felt a shadow behind me, and I knew without turning that it was her. I took a drag of the cigarette, trying my best to remain calm. I was seriously having a shitty day, and the fact that Katherine was here, only made me feel worse. It was so hard coming home to her when every minute of the day, I tried to remind myself I didn’t care about her at all. Fuck! That should be fucking real, because caring for her would make me weak, and I hated to feel like I was weak. I wouldn’t take that in anyway or form. Her steps were light as she finally stepped into the room. “I need to talk to you,” she said in a voice that didn’t sound like hers. I shrugged. “I don’t want to talk to you. I thought you were smart, and should have been able to deduce it by now,” I said calmly. She said something I couldn’t catch, but I didn’t care as I took a step forward, smoking away like there was no tomorrow. She suddenly tossed the cigarette from my hands, and I watched it tumble to the floor, and
GIORGIOI groaned as I sat up on the couch. I had slept right here at some time in the night, and my body was suffering for it now. Damn it! Shouldn’t Katherine had called me to come to bed? The moment I thought that, I regretted it immediately. With my behaviour last night, there was no how she would have helped me out. It was a miracle that she even spoke to me a little after the crap I pulled off. I held my head in my hands with a groan. I know I was pushing her away, but this wasn’t the way to go.“I don’t know what is wrong with me?” I muttered to myself.I turned over to the side of the bed, but Katherine was not there. The bed was made, though, and I had a feeling that she was not in the room. I turned back to the TV and leaned my head on the couch, feeling something akin to guilt shoot through me.Now, I was down from the highs of nicotine, my brain was working somehow better. I was being a bastard to Katherine for no reason. It was not her fault that I struggled to keep my e
KATHERINEI looked down at Giorgio as he slowly applied the ointment on my skin. The man was a moving contradiction, and it really disoriented me. I don’t know I was allowing this. I shouldn’t have, but when he had asked in that soft voice which I had liked when I had agreed to be his fake wife, I just couldn’t refuse.“Does it hurt?” He asked softly, circling my wrist slowly.I looked away from him, jerking my hands away in the process. “I feel better now. You don’t need to do this anymore,” I mumbled.I felt his gaze on me, and it strangely made me feel as though I were naked. It annoyed me so much that I could feel that sort of way after what had happened, and I quickly got to my feet. He did same too. “Is something wrong?” He asked calmly.The shift in his disposition made things slightly difficult to follow. I turned to him, and noted that he was looking at me kind of calmly. It was evident that he felt that we were both cool because we were in this mood.“Nothing is wrong. I wo
KATHERINEHis question tinged in me. Though, Giorgio had apologised, but I believed it would have been more better if I went back to school. We saw each other all the time, and it was making it difficult to set some boundaries, and we were always fighting too. Plus, I didn’t want to be a full time housewife. I had to plan for my future. When the marriage hits the roof, it was important to have what I could fall back to, so things wouldn’t be too strenuous for I and my family.Giorgio was still looking at me as he licked his lollipop. I wasn’t licking mine anymore, and it was melting like a puddle beside my feet. I prayed inwardly that he wouldn’t flare up with this need of mine.“I would like to go back to school,” I said at last.He gave me a look. “Why?”I took a deep breath, and finally tossed the lollipop away, looking right at him. “Our honeymoon phrase is off, and I don’t see the reason to stay home. I want to go back to school,” I said softly.He gritted his teeth as he tossed
KATHERINEPhoebe and I were seated at one of the many restaurants in school. I was sipping my canapé quietly, thinking back to what happened last night, and early this morning. Giorgio had not wished to let me go, and we had ended up having a quick sex, despite the fact that I was running late. “Katherine!”I blinked in shock. Phoebe was looking at me like she didn’t know who I was. Did I just zone out? Jeez! It wasn’t my style, and that was definitely embarrassing. I made a sheepish face as I leaned back on the chair. She looked at me with a sigh, and I knew what that meant like the back of my hand. I had to be careful of how the whole thing played out sometimes, and make the most out of the situations. It was annoying when things like this happened and I was like a deer stuck in headlights. That wasn’t cool at all.“Are you going to keep staring at me?” I asked in exasperation.She dropped her burger, and leaned forward. “I don’t know I have to stare at you because I feel like you
KATHERINEPing! Ping!I groaned a bit as I tossed around on the bed. I had no idea what the time was, and I was so tired. Jeez! Who calls someone at such an ungodly hour? I placed my head downwards, letting the pillow engulf me whole, but the calls kept buzzing.Sighing I pushed my hair away from my face, as a yawn escaped my lips. I sighed as I picked up my phone from the night stand. The clock read that it was 12 am. Trying hard to focus, I noticed that it was mom’s line. What could have happened to her? It was so unlike her for something like this to happen, so what was the matter now?Trying to steady my erratic breathing, I swiped the call, and then, slowly got out of bed. Despite the dark, I could make out Giorgio sprawled on the couch with his shirt high. He was out cold as it were. Sigh.“Mom?” I managed, when I noted that she wasn’t actually saying anything.She still didn’t say a word. “Mom, please are you ok?” I asked once more.I turned the doorknob, and stepped into the d
KATHERINE“What was that all about?” Giorgio asked as soon as Mr Williams left us alone. I looked away from him, wondering if I should tell him or not? I know I had told his dad, but to me, it wasn’t just the same thing. There was something that was restricting me from saying the complete truth. That something to do with pride or ego. I had no idea with came first, but it was mainly the issue.“Kitty, please I think we both don’t have time for this, so please be real with me. What is the problem?” He asked calmly.It was at that moment that a sigh escaped my lips. I understood more than half of what he was going to say. I sighed in frustration at the whole mess, but tried hard to maintain my cool. It was not right for me to flare up at that very moment.I finally looked up to him, and I noticed his eyes was knitted together with the intent of looking right at me. I sighed. There was really no choice, but to open up to him. It was his dad’s orders, and no matter what, it had to be don
KATHERINEI took a shaky breath and turned to Giorgio, and he had his hand on his phone, as he tried to make sense of the present situation. I swallowed the lump that I had not known had formed in my throat. What should I tell him?“I was just asking…” I turned to George, giving him a sharp look, that made him fall silent.“What were you asking?” Giorgio interjected.George looked at me, and then, Giorgio and straightened up. He slowly made a move to leave, but Giorgio called him back, obviously upset at the reaction that he was receiving at that moment. I sighed inwardly, too. It was not so right when things like this happened.“You can’t leave without telling me what the problem is,” he announced. Then, he pulled at my hand. “If he is going to be like that, at least you tell me, Kitty. I want to help,” he said firmly.I suddenly licked my parched lips. “It’s just…” I trailed off, and then, place a loose strand of hair behind my ears. “It’s just that George needs some money for his s
KATHERINEA lot had happened in a few years, and I was more grateful than I ever thought I would be 2 years ago, and that was something. Everything about the situation gave me so much joy, and it made me feel as though I could tell that my life was about to make more meaning than it would ever have in the long run.“Are you ready?” A maid queried.I nodded. “I’m ready.”Pulling my hair backwards, I tried to give it a breezy look. I had no idea if it were working or not, but things were really looking up at this point. I felt like I was living my best life, and all. It was just amazing what things could do to one. A quick look at the matter showed that I was looking so good. I wanted to stare at myself for a long time, and not do anything, but a certain someone was waiting for me downstairs. I grabbed my purse by the wall stand and made a move to the other side of the room. There was only one thing that made sense right now, and that was the fact that I was happy with my life. Everyt
GIORGIOThe lights were all out, and there was so much excitement in the mansion. Father had invited a couple of dignitaries to celebrate I and Katherine. It felt like there was something in the air that was stifling my excitement. I just couldn’t handle too many things at once, and I was worried about so many things, and what was at the fore was that, I would not be able to find out the truth before everything actually gets destroyed.I turned around and noted that Katherine was busy with a few guests, and she seemed to be so happy. Just as I was about to look away, I caught a glimpse of Mrs Bianca as she walked quickly behind dad.I had a hunch to follow her, and I did the same. She was trying her best to move fast and remain hidden and I had to be fast on my feet. There was a lot of things that needed to be handled and there was little time for that. I just wish that everything was good at the moment, and there was no more stress.But, I couldn’t afford to give into wishful thinkin
GIORGIOI pulled my hands towards the side, but I couldn’t hold onto anyone. It was as thought I was all alone on the damn bed, and that didn’t make me feel better one bit. I wished there would have been a way to handle the issues, and Katherine wouldn’t have to be sad, and loose sleep because of me. It broke me into a billion pieces and that was saying something. I couldn’t just stand how uptight everything was at this point.“Katherine?” I called out.Was she that mad at me because I had not helped with the whole celebrations? I wish not because I had no idea what I was going to do if that were to be the case. The whole problems was getting out of hand, and I just had to be sure that she was fine, and she knew that I would be able to make her feel more better as time went on. This was what was more important to me.I opened the door to the bathroom, but she wasn’t there. What the hell was going on? She never got out at this time, and we always talked about random things and made sil
KATHERINEI had the best moments in life and I was really enjoying everything now with Giorgio being by my side and all. The tension with his dad was there, but still, he made sure that everything was good.I could see the efforts he was putting with helping me with things and so much more. I just couldn’t help but he happy for them all, and understand that this was my life now. Honestly, I have understood now that my life was meant to be this way from the scratch. I was meant to understand Giorgio and his excesses and be there for him at his weakest.Giorgio in turn helped me with bodyguards, and he was so kind as he made things clear to me. It was a moment of great reflection, and I was able to understand why things happened the way it did. It was for the good of us all, and I couldn’t change that for anything in the world.“Here,” Giorgio said softly. I turned lightly to him and noted that he was giving me an ice-cream. I pulled away from he balcony, and grabbed a couple of bites
GIORGIOI watched as Katherine’s father fidgeted lightly, and I could tell that he was majorly stressed up by the issue ongoing. There was so much stress around, but I really wanted to be there for sometime, and handle the problems that came up at all times. It was important to be able to get to the apex of the situation.“Dad, please answer us. Giorgio is right, there is something definitely wrong and we need to clarify the whole thing better so there would be no more problems. What is going on, dad?” Katherine stepped up.I looked at her and she nodded with her eyes, making me smile ever so lightly. Her dad finally heaved a sight, pulling our attention back to him. “The thing is, we have been receiving threats. It’s been so crazy and we don’t know how to handle half of the situations that cropped up. It is such a painful moment for us all, and things have to be handled better.” He said with a sight.I swallowed hard. “What threats?”He shook his head. “They are in form of letters,
GIORGIOThere were things that were moving too fast, and I could tell that there would be more trouble around. We’ve finally settled into the house, and there was a whole lot of things that had to be done when things when we caught father talking with someone, who had a sketchy attitude. I wished I could be able to find out exactly who the person was, but it was so hard to do.Katherine also tried to find the man who was with dad, but to no avail. I decided to do some private investigations while remaining true to myself. There was so many things that needed to be clarified at this point, and I had to handle everything like I had seen so far.I and Katherine tried to move on, though I kept my eyes on the situation, by asking some persons to investigate the man. They were people that I could trust. I didn’t like the way some of the issue came up. It was a pain for me, and I felt like everything was getting slightly destroyed, but I had no idea if I was paranoid or not.Then, one evenin
KATHERINEThere was something about Giorgio that had shifted since I agreed to come home with him a week ago. I have no idea if I was crazy, but he was also very persuasive. There was no way I could be able to ignore the whole feeling. I was so insanely aware of him, and I didn’t know if it were a good thing or a bad thing since he had done nothing, but cause me much grieve. I would have to find that out by myself though. I was willing to take a risk, irrespective of the repercussions to get where I needed to be.My hands lightly twisted in my hands as I waited for the horrors to go. Maybe, I was back home, but I wasn’t shielded from the horrors of Isabella’s death. Giorgio had advised me to stand strong and do all I had to do to get better. It was a difficult advice to follow through, considering how tense the whole situation could be.The door pulled open and cold air filtered through the room. I didn’t turn back to see. I honestly could careless n this situation what actually happe
GIORGIOI only knew one thing, and that was there were moments when things happened and we believe we could get better, and there were moments when we were completely devastated and we couldn’t pull ourselves together. I didn’t want my situation to be like the latter and I knew that I had to do everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t become the case. It seems like a hard pull to swallow, but I was going to try to be better, and get my wife back home. Phoebe had informed me that Katherine had gotten a new device. In order for their friendship not to get ruined by me, I did all I can, not to collect the new number from her. It would not be helpful, and I didn’t want that.Now, I knew where she lived, it would be best for me to go there on my own and check her out. I would be able to know what exactly is going on with that attitude of mine, and not blame anyone for what was happening. It was easy to apportion blame, but harder to admit that you fucked up big time.This was one of
KATHERINE“Don’t do that please.Don’t kill yourself! Don’t shoot… No!” I screamed.I felt as thought someone was shaking me and I opened my eyes in fright. Mother had her eyes tuned to me, and she was so nervous about everything that she was doing. I guess I was nervous too when I thought about it, and that made me feel some sort of way,“Mom?” I asked as though I was not sure of what I was seeing.“It’s the same nightmare again, right?” She asked softly.I smiled lightly and tried to look away, but she steered my gaze to her ever so lightly. Her eyes were filled with worry as hey looked on at me, and I was sad that I was the one that made it so. Though, I wished she wouldn’t try to come between Giorgio and I.“Answer me, dear,” she said softly.I shook my head. “It doesn’t matter mom. I haven’t been able to handle most of the situation and I don’t like that. Try to understand where I’m coming from right now. It would make me feel better if we could make things better for us, and not