As he opened the door for her you could see the smile on her face the moment she laid her eyes on him.She had managed to remember to pick up a bottle of wine from the grocery store on her way there."I didn't think you were gonna make it ", Dylan said as he took the bottle of wine from her hand and made his way to the kitchen.Looking at the clothes that she was wearing it was clear she had just left the office and went over to Dylan's place immediately after.Her white suit hung her body showing her little figure. Her hair was tied in a ponytail showing her high cheekbones.By looking at her one could tell that he had lost a couple of pounds but that was not something that had ever bothered her before.He noticed but there was no way he was going to ask her why. He didn't want her to get offended or start to feel bad about herself, he could bare to make he feel insecure about her body.If anything all he wanted to do was kiss every part of her body and tell her how much she loved ev
THIRD POV. EARLIER THAT DAY.As he stood up from his chair he looked disheveled. His shoulders slumped in defeat, he looked tired.He hadn't gotten any sleep as he had stayed up all night hoping that Anna would walk through the door but there had been no sight of her.He looked at his watch and it was already five o'clock and he needed to be out before seven.He had important work to do but before he left he wanted to talk to her and tell her what had happened.He would be gone for a week and by the time he would be back maybe things would have gotten worse than they were.He didn't know how bad things were he just hoped that she would find it in her to forgive him.As he finished packing his suitcase he heard the front door opening and for the first time in his life, his heart started beating fast due to fear.He couldn't understand why he was scared when she was just small and couldn't hurt him.What he didn't know was that the part of his heart that had gotten accustomed to her wa
"I don't want to talk about it ", Anna said as she let out a sigh.She could feel the rage in her build. She wanted to lash out at him. She wanted to tell him all the mean things that she was thinking about but none of that was going to change how she felt.Her eyes were burning but she could not break again Infront of him. He wasn't allowed to see her like that again."What do you mean you don't want to talk about it? Am trying to explain myself to you and you do t even care ", Vincenzo muttered as he paced around the room."I am going away for a trip and I don't want us to be on bad terms while am away all am asking you is to just listen to me and let me explain myself ", he said looking defeated."You have to be fucking kidding me, now of all the times you care if we're on good terms or not, how amazing. I might just have the best husband out there "Anna said as she chuckled looking like a maniac.She had heard enough already and she was tired. She didn't even want to see him. He
As she left the house she hoped that the day was going to be good. Her morning had been ruined already and didn't know what the day had in store for her.As Raul watched her face through the rearview mirror he knew something was up. She noticed him looking at her and she offered him a smile.Lost in her mind she wondered why in the hell she had agreed to this ridiculous marriage. If only things had been different at the start.She didn't know where they were heading and she didn't want to. She couldn't spend her life wondering what was going to happen next.Vincenzo was in another country already making money not thinking about her. She needed to do the same.She needed to get her life together and be the best version of herself.She smiled as she thought of how great it was going to be for her to be in college. She didn't know what to expect but she hoped it would be a great experience.With Vincenzo by her side, she knew that it was going to be great, to be able to work and study at
LATER THAT DAY.As they sat on the couch Dylan wondered what he was doing. Why would he think it would be good for him and Anna to be friends?They were both in different worlds. Just the look on Anna's face he could see that she regretted what she had done.She sank into her chair and hugged herself tight and let off a sigh of exhaustion.He wanted to ask her what was wrong so badly but he couldn't. She never looked like someone who wanted to share her problems with him so he wouldn't force them out of her.He sat there as he watched her as she watched the show and no matter how funny the joke was there was no smile or laugh from her."How was your day ?", he asked her and she was startled as she turned to look at him."It was terrible ", she said as she threw her head back dramatically."Care to share ?", he asked her and she seemed to contemplate if you tell him or not."Well I signed up for college today so I had to go to school to sort out some issue ", she said as she turned her
As Raul drove Anna home he didn't ask her whose house she had been at. From the outfit that she was wearing, she knew it was a guy.He couldn't understand the relationship she had with her husband and how it was easy for them to go around sleeping with other people.He had never judged her before but all she had been doing recently were things that he hated. If she was tired of the marriage all she needed to do was ask for a divorce.It couldn't be that hard right?She didn't say a word to him as she exited the car and entered the house. She want like that normally but he figured she was stressed out.The other workers had been talking. Their marriage was ending and neither of them wanted to let go.All they knew was what Anna let them know. They didn't know what Vincenzo did to her to make her act the way she was doing.To them, it didn't matter what she was doing all they cared about was if they approved of it. It was like she was doing a trial and none of them cared what the relati
As she slept in his arms a smile was on her lips. She did not care how much she had cried already all she knew was that she was safe in his arms.She couldn't remember the last time she had a good birthday. All her years in the orphanage were bad. She could remember being bullied and wondered what she had done wrongShe couldn't stop the tears that started flowing down her face. She stood out soaking Vincenzo's shirt but he did not care he just kept caressing her face hoping the pain would go away.That was not how it worked with pain though the scars always remained."Are you okay ?", he asked as he pulled Anna close to her."I don't know ", she said as she snuggled him.How could she tell him that this was the best birthday she had in l the years that she had been alive? How could she tell him that he was the only person who had bothered to remember that it was her birthday?It had never bothered her before that she didn't have friends. She had been okay having no one but now it was
Breakfast was bleak as non of them wanted to ruin what they had. Vincenzo was focused on his paper and Anna was busy with her iPad going through her school timetable.She had not thought of how it was going to be with her going to school and working at the same time. Vincenzo had told her to just quit but she wasn't going to do that.She could handle both of them she just needed to push herself.He wanted to talk to her about the baby but he didn't know how the conversation would end. It had ended pretty badly the day before and he did not want a repetition of it again.As they say there in silence they were both in deep thought but only one of them was thinking of the other It's like suddenly Anna had found something else to obsess over and she was forgetting that Vincenzo even existed."Are you enjoying your breakfast ?", he asked her and she looked up.She wanted to laugh and tell him that he was trying too much. She couldn't tell him that though so she answered with a smile on he
VANESSA'S POV. The silence in the car as we drove over to Austin's house did not bother me. I did not know how I was even going to tell him. I was pregnant.I didn't know how he was going to react. I knew what my choices were but they were not what I wanted. I had never been in such a position before so I had no idea what to do. I had never even thought I would get pregnant, to begin with. I had turned into what I had hated. I had turned into my mum and I hated that discovery. It wasn't like she wasn't a good person or a good mum, she was just sad. She had spent all her life being a mum and I did not want to be her.We were her everything it was as if her life revolved around us. We were all she knew and I sometimes wondered what would have happened if she had never gotten pregnant with me.I always wondered what her life was like in another lifetime. Did she get to pursue her dreams and get everything she always wanted?Was she happy?What did she even look like? My father was th
VANESSA'S POV "Positive "A world that could be so much, good and bad. I still hadn't wrapped my head around it. I stood there like a zombie. I could see the blondie's mouth moving but I could not hear anything she was saying.I felt like I was caged and I couldn't breathe. My vision was starting to get hazy and my legs weaker as I stared at the test that was clutched in her hand.It couldn't be true there was no way it was true.It couldn't be positive maybe she had read it all wrong. I could feel the world closing in on me.I wasn't even crying anymore I just stood there in shock as someone who had found out someone had died."Vanessa ", she said tapping me and I turned to look at her. It was only then that I allowed the tears to flow."It can't be true ", I said amid tears."Baby it's true ", she said as I sat down on her bathroom floor. I didn't care if it was clean or dirty I just wanted to sit down before my legs gave up. It can't be. I couldn't have just ruined my life like t
Tick ...tock.I had a raging headache and I was all to blame. My body hurt and I wondered if I had gotten into a fight. I opened my eyes and immediately regretted it. Why would anyone open their windows after a night out?Wait where was I?I opened my eyes this time round I did not care if they stung. I was not at my place and neither was I at either of my friend's places.I could feel a body beside me and I was scared. What had I done?Did I come home with someone?"Calm down it's me ", an unfamiliar voice said and I wondered why they would. think I know them.I turned around to come face-to-face with her. Her blonde hair was even prettier when it was in a messy bun. Her button nose sat perfectly on her pretty face."What am I doing here ?", I asked her as I sat up. "Sleeping, what does it look like you're doing ", she said scoffing. "I meant what am I doing at your place why am I not at my house ?", I asked her.I had no recollection of the night before. Everything was a blur a
VANESSA'S POV. A MONTH LATER.It had been a month since it had happened and I was starting to be happy again. I had gotten out of my depressive episode. I was going back to school and I was finally starting to make friends, life couldn't be any better. I rarely thought about him. He had forgotten me and I was trying to forget him. I did not miss him, I just missed some. moments we had.I had seen him around but he was ignoring me the same way I was avoiding him, not that I wanted to talk to him.My friend never mentioned him and no one ever asked what led to our separation they were just glad it had ended.As I stared at myself in the mirror I smiled at myself. There was no way I was going to let a stupid boy make me sad.He had started dating the blonde girl and was walking around with her just like a trophy.He had not even waited for a day to go out with her after we had ended things, showing how much he had loved me.I had lost so much weight in the month that I did not even r
VANESSA'S POV. "You're not being fair you know ", he said and I was taken back a little."Please tell me how am not being fair 'cause I would honestly love to know ', I said."I loved you and you knew that. You are just here talking about all the bad things I ever did what about the good things? Didn't they mean anything to you ?", he asked me."I didn't say you didn't do anything good. Just because you loved me doesn't mean I felt loved by you. Most of the time I felt unlovable, you even told me once during an argument I would never find anyone who loved me the way you did ", I said to Uim and he looked like he was shocked."You loved me in your language or another girl's version. Just because whoever you were with before me preferred things a certain way doesn't mean that is what I like too ", I said to him.Were all boys dumb?I couldn't believe there was a time when I had wanted a family with him. I had seen myself with him for years with kids and being happy in love. Maybe it wa
THIRD POVThe truck outside told him what he already knew. Scarface was in the house. He hated the days when they got to see each other. One could think that he hated his brother but for some reason, Scarface hated Raul more than anyone he had ever encountered in his life including the people he worked with.He forced a smile as he opened the door to the house and he could hear lively chatter from the kitchen and wondered who was in there.He saw Scarface in the living room and there were seconds of silence as the two brothers stared at each other as they both waited for one of them to break the ice.Raul could not blame his brother for hating him."Hello I didn't know how you were coming around ", Scarface said as he shifted from the place he was sitting and his face scrunched in pain.Raul could not even start to say sorry or tell. he knew he knew how he felt cause he didn't. Every time Scarface saw Raul he wanted to rip him apart. There was nothing in this world that Raul could
The smile on her face did not match what she was feeling on the inside. There was a fire inside her that was burning. She could feel everything in her collapsing but she couldn't let people see her like that.She couldn't be weak. She was a woman. If she cried she was going to be branded like a weak person. She hadn't gone through everything that she had gone through just to be called weak.She smiled.Smiled and pretended that everything was going okay cause what was she going to do?Was she supposed to sit in bed and cry herself to sleep? That was like giving up and there was no way she was allowing herself to fall into that cycle.She waited to have that longing to go back to Vincenzo but it was but there. She felt nothing for him.It wasn't hate and neither was it live She was just dining and for some reason that made her sad. He was someone that she had planned her future with. Someone that she had wanted to start a future together with. To have a family with. As she said this
I always wondered what it felt like to have everything you ever wanted. What it felt like growing up in an environment where you were loved.It was an environment where you were allowed to be a kid and do what other kids did. I never had that and maybe that's why I felt like there was something in me that was broken.I had wanted that life too. I wanted to have a mom and dad that loved each other not ones that wanted to kill each other.Was it fair?Was it fair that I was put in that situation as a child? Sometimes I sat down and thought to myself and said maybe she didn't know.She didn't know that any of those things were going to happen but that did not excuse her.Was I being mean for blaming her for putting us in such a situation?I know people said things like it's their first time being a mom or a parent but weren't parents supposed to protect their children?She didn't and every waking day it was all I could think of. The things that I could have avoided if she had fallen in l
Some people are born sad. There's no reason as to why they are like that it just happened. They bruise easily and cry easily. Raul was that kind of person.There was a reason why he was the way he was. He was closed and people found him to be exciting at all.It was hard to be a chirpy person when you didn't even have a childhood.To him, he was still the sad little bit that he was while growing up.I think that it's best if everyone had their childhood while growing up. A childhood where they could play with people their age and not worry about how things were going to be at home that evening.Running around with friends chasing the sunset as if that was the last day they were going to see the sunset.It was so sad not to have that. I wish every child could be able to have that freedom as a child. Not them to have to worry if they had something to eat at home.No matter how much people tried to blame their parents for everything they did, maybe they were also clueless.They were pare