Spilled Coffee

Lily woke up to the sound of the ringing alarm, her hands stretched and found her phone to dismiss it. She lied on the bed, staring at nothing, contemplating that today would just be another day of trying to gain Zared's attention and trust. It was Lily’s ultimate goal since she got married to Zared nearly 6 months ago. You can also say it was her daily routine now.

She had been misunderstood and mistreated for far too long and she deserved to be trusted and loved, is what she thought. She was madly in love with Zared, and every time her gaze met his ocean blue eyes, she would fall in love with him all over again, but she could not do anything to prove that it was genuine. Tearing the blanket off her body, she got up and made her way towards the shower.

Over the course of the six months, Zared never gave Lily a single tender glance, instead, he would yell at her and beg her to leave him alone. It seemed to him that Lily was only seeking his attention in order to get his credit cards so she could make purchases. That was all what Lily was about in his eyes. The thought that maybe her love for him can be genuine never passed his mind. He was to brainwashed by himself to think about Lily in that way for even a second.

Zared used to return home at night and spend all of his time in his study. Sometimes he listened to music and sometimes he just worked on his laptop. Lily may have peeked now and then when she was curious and bored all alone, and the fact that Zared enjoys listening to jazz confused her a little. After all who listens to Jazz nowadays? He was indeed different. However, she appreciated that he continued to be appreciative of what is almost left behind by this generation.

After a while Lily came out of the shower in her white bathrobe with her wet hair and grabbed the hair dryer to dry her hair. Because she was alone with her thoughts on the bed, she was late preparing Zared's breakfast today. She quickly plugged in the switch and began drying her hair, then turned it off leaving some of her hair wet as she was late enough and was afraid Zaref would leave without breakfast. Loosening the strings of her bathrobe, she turned to get her top when the door tore open.

She quickly grabbed both sides of her undone bathrobe and held them tightly together. Meanwhile, Zared had come to ask why she was late and where his breakfast was didn't bother to knock on the door, despite the fact that he does not eat breakfast very often, he had no idea where to look. His eyes followed her hair, then her chest, then her legs as if they were locked together.

“D-did you need something?” Lily asked, her face flushed.

“Where is my breakfast?” said Zared possessing no emotion on his face or in his voice.

“I'll make it right away, I just need to change”

He closed the door without giving any response.

Lily rushed to lock the door from inside and sighed a sigh of relief leaning on the door. She then quickly changed into her clothes and dashed downstairs to prepare Zared's breakfast. His gaze fell on Lily as she headed towards the kitchen; she smiled at him, but he rolled his eyes as usual. Lily wore an ivory long frock with colorful flowers over it and her hair tied back with a ribbon. Zared ,who as usual, was dressed in a two-piece suit with one side of his hair slicked back and one falling on his forehead was doing something on his phone.

They both had breakfast, and Lily wished him a good day as she always did, but received no response. But this time, he turned around and was about to say something but stopped himself and walked out of the house without responding to Lily.

The day went by as another boring one for Lily because as usual, she didn't have anything to do, no one to talk to and nowhere to go to. She usually cleaned the whole house because there was nothing else she could do. She would like to paint but unfortunately she didn't have any supplies and was too scared to ask Zared about it. She did not say anything about her wants or needs because she knew he would assume once more that she was asking for money to waste it as he already thought she was a goldigger and was just using him as a source.

The day passed and the clock striked 11 pm. Lily was waiting for Zared to come back home. After some time, the door clicked open and Lily went rushing to Zared to help him take his coat off with a wide smile plastered on her face like a baby.

"How was your day?" Lily asked even though she knew he wouldn't reply because he never did, no matter how much she tried to talk to him it always ended up being a one sided conversation.

"Aren't you just tired of asking me this, my day went very well but it's all ruined because I saw your face just now and heard your filthy voice"

he said while making a disgusted face, her heart clenched but she kept the smile on her face as it was.

"Dinner is ready, let's eat" Lily walked towards the kitchen.

"I'm not hungry,I'm not eating"

"You can have a little bit though ?"

"Don't bother me, I already said I'm not hungry"

he said raising one of his hand in the air and both of his eye brows.

"You shouldn't sleep without dinner Zared, did you have your lunch ?"

He made his way towards the staircase without giving any response like he didn't hear anything and Lily was invisible.