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Unnerving Truth
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2022-01-11 13:23:26
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Andrew My leg was hurting from all the exertion. Vincent had told me earlier to carry my crutches because he knew how crazy my friends were. I didn’t pay heed to him. I was paying the price now. After the chanting and turning me inside out with their rocky movements, they finally dropped me and proceeded to explode in a thunderous uproar, clapping and whistling. Honestly, today was one of the best days of my life. If not because of the joy my friends brought, it would have been the look on my dad’s face. He had turned the brightest shade of white the minute I was flown into the air. Pretend all he wants, he still loved me, and his reputation of course. I dare not fail to add that. If not for my mum’s intervention, he would have made everyone drop their phones with the securities before entering the party. The mad group dispersed, leaving the gentler ones who walked up to render their congratulation. My friend John had rushed out from nowhere and encased me in a knee-buckling hug. I
Last Updated : 2022-01-11Our Hearts Beat For Anne Emotions
Anne I was speechless. I was scared. I was confused. Joshua’s words kept ringing in my head, as Andrew moved us both to the music. Jane had left, Pam too. Andrew and Vincent suddenly felt like strangers. I felt like I was in the den of lions. Any bit of movement and I would be devoured. I wanted to flee. Run away and never look back, but I was held down by the arms of this stranger dancing with me. Throughout my talk with John, I wasn’t myself. I was trying hard to answer his questions about Jane and Pamela. I didn’t even know anymore. Did they sense this all along and flee for their lives? But why did they leave me? I thought they were my friends. ‘Shut up silly, Pam is studying in her room down at campus,’ my head consoled. I could hear my name echoing at a distance, “Anne, Anne, ANNE!” “Yea, yea, I’m here,” I said, revving back to reality. “Are you okay? You took a while to answer,” Andrew asked worriedly. “Of course. It's just these heels,” I said, clamoring for more excus
Last Updated : 2022-01-11Our Hearts Beat For Anne Heart Aches
Vincent My heart dropped into my chest. The scene unfolding in front of my eyes was like a horror movie. I knew it would happen in time. I knew I had decided to let go, but I still wasn’t prepared for what took place down on the dance floor. She kissed him. Anne kissed Andrew. The shocking realization had me dropping the microphone I had picked not too long ago. The static made from its contact to the floor had people recoiling in annoyance. It didn’t stop them though. They were still going at it. It was over, I guess. Anne no longer belonged to me. In my bid to compose myself, I caught sight of my dad standing with his guests at a corner. He was staring straight at me. I knew that look. My dad could read me like a book. Even with no outward emotions, he knew. Fiona was also giving me a weird stare. I couldn’t tell what she was thinking but somehow, I knew she was in on the secret as well. I wanted out. I felt stuffed. I felt I would pass out if I didn’t get a breath of fresh a
Last Updated : 2022-01-12Our Hearts Beat For Anne The Night Before Dawn
Vincent No doubt, she is breathtakingly beautiful. Many men would worship the ground she walked on just to behold her alluring slender curves and firm breasts. I know I’d felt the same way when we were dating. Maybe, I would have felt something if not for the state I was in. But at that moment, I was empty of sexual desires. She reached for my right hand, took it, and placed it on her firm boobs, putting pressure on my hand so that my hand could in turn feel its denseness. I stared from it to her face, and at the tears in her eyes. This woman loved me, there was no doubt. I wished I could give in to her need to make her feel loved like she’d always wanted, but to me, it only felt like taking advantage of her vulnerability and making her more miserable. I couldn’t do that to her. I slowly bent over and picked her robe, then covered her with it. She stared pleadingly into my eyes, pushing against my chest as if it was dead and she was trying to resuscitate it. I raised my hand and h
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Anne “Pam!” I yelled, pushing the door to my hostel room open. I had finished classes early and decided to make a stop at my hostel before heading to the mansion. There was no one in the room. I walked to the bathroom and peeked through it. No one was in there. Where could Pam have gone? I asked myself coming to stand in the middle of the room and looking around. I tried calling her phone but it went straight to voicemail. I twirled around the room a second time. I was puzzled at the emptiness I felt. Not just within, but around the room. A feeling of foreboding washed over me as a ridiculous thought entered my head. I didn’t want to act on it cause’ I know it wasn’t possible, but just to settle my fast-racing heart, I decided to forge ahead. I went to Pamela’s corner and opened the long locker that was unusually unlocked. It was empty. Pam’s things were gone. My heart sank into the pit of my stomach as I took steps backward in disbelief. What did I miss? Where did I go wrong
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Anne I awoke to the soft sound of my name. As I opened my eyes, I saw two hands coming towards me. I wasn’t afraid for I knew instantly who it was. He had called around 5 pm and arrived twenty minutes later. It meant he rode his bike and he was at a high speed. “How did you get here so fast?” I asked, sitting up with the help of his arms. “I rode on my bike,” he answered like a schoolboy caught stealing candy. He knew it’ll make me mad. “But Drew, you’re still healing. How could you have ridden the bike here?” He took his arms from me and sat down on the bed, staring down at his laps. “And you got here pretty fast. That means you were on high speed, Andrew!” I yelled, drawling his name. I was peeved by his thoughtless actions. I know he cared about me and all that but it was high time he started considering how his actions affected the people around him. God forbid, but if he had hurt himself riding to meet me, how did he think it’ll make me feel. I’d be devastated and would nev
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Anne“I’m surprised to find you here. I thought you’d be smooching with your boyfriend,” Joshua derided, walking into the garden.“Leave me alone, Joshua,” I said dryly, not even turning to look at him.“Come on! Don’t tell me you’re tired of him already,” He said with a humorless chuckle.I didn’t respond. I just shut my eyes and imagined he had been carried away by the strongest wind, or sunken into quicksand, or even dragged away by hungry lions. Anything that would make him disappear from my presence.“Anne, I warned that this wouldn’t end well. Not for any of you. It’s one road alone, the one to disaster,” he said confidently, moving to stand beside me.I suddenly turned and faced him. My sudden move made him jerk his neck back.“How do you know all that?” I asserted, right into his face. “Are you like a soothsayer or something? Why are you so confident about your predictions?” I asked, never losing eye contact.He was taken aback by my sudden forwardness.“They are mostly on poin
Last Updated : 2022-01-14Our Hearts Beat For Anne More Revelations
AnneHe smiled when he realized he had gotten back my interest.“Let me start with the milder ones. It’s shocking all the same,” he stated, walking towards me in tormenting slow steps. “All the beautiful party gowns you swooned over were gotten by Vincent. Oh, the accessories included. Andrew’s still a kid, he doesn’t know yet how to treat a lady. Well, he had intercepted the first cloth and sent it himself. Vincent got the second one and intentionally gave it to Andrew to send to you. When Vincent remembered that you weren’t into heels, he had ordered a sandals replacement and had it sent to you. Andrew wasn’t as thoughtful.”“I see nothing wrong with any of that,” I shrugged. I saw a lot of things wrong with it but I wasn’t going to reveal that. Not to him anyway.“Next one,” he began, rubbing his palms together in excitement, “Right here in the garden, Andrew got cozy with a nerdy girl. What’s her name again? Pamela. He got like down and dirty,” he elaborated. “When he told me the g
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Our Hearts Beat For Anne Epilogue
Anne I felt a hand slip into my PJs and began walking its magic there. A moan escaped my lips as sensual pressure built in my core. I was lying on our king-sized bed with white sheets and a duvet, in our large bedroom. I’m too sleepy or maybe lazy to describe it. Just take this though, the walls are white. The side tables holding up the bedside lamps are also white but with golden designs along the edges, matching that of the bed frame, which has extra huge golden spirals on the tall headrest just above my pillow. By the corner, a long wooden cabinet that holds several drawers is attached to the wall. On top of the cabinet are different figurines and sculptures, then close to it is a magnificent white dressing table that houses my very few beauty products, and an equally magnificent mirror with the same golden design on its edges. There are two walk-in closets on opposite sides of the room. One is for Vincent and the other, mine. A second door closer to my closet lead to the bathroo
Our Hearts Beat For Anne Home
Vincent The heavens grumbled like an old giant before I began feeling splatters of droplets on me. I glanced up at the skies and smiled. It was as if it knew how I felt inside. It was a thunderous feeling. I sped past cars on Andrew’s bike, squinting to see clearly as the rain had begun pouring with reckless abandon. How didn’t I see it? How could one be so close, yet so far away?! I felt what I felt, but I just couldn’t see what I was supposed to see, simply because of amnesia. Now it’s all coming back to me! Like a waterfall crashing against the oceans, my memories came flooding in. “I’m coming, Anne. Just wait, okay? I’m coming,” I breathed, maneuvering through the impending hold-up that the rain caused. ‘Slow down you dumb-a**’ my mind warned. I listened to it and went slower till I was off the traffic and onto the small road leading to Anny’s. My heart pounded against my chest as I neared her apartment. The gate that’d had been there when I rented the place for her was un
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Vincent Arya made it sound like I had the best of times with her. She may be right because the feelings I had for her couldn’t have been created by mere moments. We must have gone through thick and thin for me to have realized what I had and cherish it. Arya made me to almost desire to stay back and savage the little I could from all we had left. I couldn’t. Because I was hurt. I lost my memory. I couldn’t remember any of my time with her, or even her face, yet I couldn’t get myself to make love to any other woman. She had all the knowledge. She knew all the bits and pieces of our trials and tribulations, but the moment I step out of the picture, she finds solace in the arms of my brother. Now, she has a baby for him. I couldn’t live with that. Her love for me didn’t nearly match the way I felt for her. I couldn’t fight when she’d already given up a year ago. Why didn’t she come after me? Why didn’t she make plans to make me remember slowly? She only comfortably devised plans
Our Hearts Beat For Anne Silhouette in the Rain
Anne The knock on the door made me jerk and involuntarily drop the scissors outside the bathtub. Andrew couldn’t have been back so early, and definitely won’t be knocking gently. Pamela wouldn’t too. Who could be knocking? My dead heart arose and, like a diver, dipped into the pit of my stomach as the thought of Vincent being the one at the door entered my head. It couldn’t be, could it? He should be in the airport now if he wasn’t on the plane already. I didn’t really care to check the time since Andrew left. Is It possible that Andrew had talked Vincent out of leaving? That’ll be if he saw him on time. I didn’t want to ignite my hope only to watch it explode in my face yet again. I’d wanted to wait a bit to see if the caller would go away, but then the knocking would wake Lucia, who’d begin crying and wake my mother. That thought made me hurriedly step out of the bathtub. My legs were wobbly from all the fear and trepidation of what I’d decided to do. I gingerly put one foot i
Our Hearts Beat For Anne Goodbye World
Anne I carefully carried sleeping Lucia and placed her on the duplicate cot in my mum’s room. I slowly and noiselessly stepped back and out of a room, throwing a glance at my mum, who was snoring lightly on her bed. I then switched off the light and shut the door behind me. Finally, the time has come. I made sure I locked all the doors for the night before heading to my room. Pamela had come earlier and suggested staying with me till Andrew comes or calls. Andrew must have called her to come. Well, I refused all her persistence and almost got angry at her stubbornness. She’d grudgingly accepted to leave. In my room, I took out a pen and scribbled down a few thoughts of mine. I hadn’t time to write a full epistle because I was hurting badly. If I did have the time, I would have written long notes to every one of the people I know who would be hurt by my actions. I’d wanted to live for Lucia, but seeing her face, eyes and long hair reminded me so much of him. One would think that wo
Our Hearts Beat For Anne A Confession
Vincent “We need to talk, Arya,” I said, watching her enter the parlor. She stretched her mouth into a thin line, nodding her head in agreement. “We’re finally having the talk,” she said, removing her jacket and dropping it on the couch alongside her bag. “Alright, I’m ready,” she said, after sitting down on the couch opposite mine. Silence engulfed us for minutes. It was as if we both knew where all this was headed. “Arya, I’m sorry,” I began. “I thought I could do it, but I can’t. It would be a total mess marrying me in this state. You guys were right, I’ve not healed entirely, and I shouldn’t have come back here…” I had my eyes on her the entire time, gauging her reaction. She simply looked back at me without a flinch. “Arya, let’s call off the wedding,” I conferred. She didn’t respond or divulge any emotion that showed how she felt about what I said. After what felt like ages, she inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly, then cleared her throat. “It’s sad. Honestly, I prayed it w
Our Hearts Beat For Anne He's Leaving Again
Andrew My brother has been ignoring me ever since I took him to see Anne a day ago. I don’t know what he was thinking, but for him to be acting this way, his thoughts weren’t in our favor. Anne had gone there to meet with him that same day while I’d gone straight to the studio. I was going to call Anne and ask how it transpired, but we finished so late at night and I was so exhausted that I passed out immediately my head touched my pillow back at our family house. The next day, I called Anne, but she didn’t answer. I called Vincent, but he, too, ignored my calls. So, after my recording session, I’d gone to Vincent’s but when I saw my mum’s car parked in front of the house, I made a U-turn and headed for Anne’s apartment instead. It was a sunny afternoon. I got there and met her coiled up on her bed, crying her eyes out once again. Racheal and Pam were there trying to make her eat her food. “You’ll make Rachael miss her doctor’s appointment, Anne,” Pam had warned. That was the only
Our Hearts Beat For Anne Led by my Heart
Vincent Mum had threatened to take Anne’s baby away from her. She’d told me how she'd contacted her lawyers and had every paperwork done so that once Arya and I leave, the real work starts. “No, mum,” I’d refused. “Son, that our grandchild there. She cannot live in the slums,” she’d argued. “I’ve been there, mum. It’s not a slum, and Andrew is more than capable of caring for that child,” I countered. I was hurting real bad. I felt like I was drowning… it was overwhelming. Having these massive conflicting emotions, then having to stick up for what I believed was right, was slowly killing me. “Son, she has to pay for what she’d done to us! She cannot go scot-free. My husband and I, for over a year, have had no meaningful conversation because of her. He’d gone rigid around me,” she said in tears. “He’d not touched me for over a year because of that witch, Vincent,” she divulged bitterly. “She created a rift between your brother and yourself in the past, now, a much bigger one by hav
Our Hearts Beat For Anne Bias
Vincent ‘Anne.’ I guess that’s her real name. It actually rang a bell. I remember pronouncing that name, and it must have meant so much to me because whenever I called it out, which I was doing often since that time with Arya in the kitchen, I felt a cacophony of emotions attack me. There was peace, followed by fear, then agitation, trepidation, fury, and what have you? It was strange. Her name held so much power, yet I couldn’t still remember. It was frustrating! “Have you booked the tickets, Vin?” mum asked from where she sat on the couch. She’d come around right after Arya left the house. Arya has been giving me the silent treatment ever since I mistakenly called her the name that tormented my subconscious, the day before. “Yes, mum,” I replied grudgingly from the dining table where I was getting some reading done. “Have you heard from dad?” I asked. “No, hun, but don’t you worry, he would be available for the wedding. I just received his clothes from his tailor. We’ll be tr
