Lana~ "Lana, What's wrong?" Ellie rushes to my side, face pulled into a frown as she shuts the door close with her feet, she drops her bag on the couch. I agressively wipe the tears on my face, taking a seat on the couch opposite her. . "I-" A pause. I sniffled, swallowing the lump in my throat. A shuddering exhale escape my lips. "Lana...What's wrong?" She asks, kneeling and places her hand on my knees, her eyes filed with worry and care. "You aren't supposed to be here, not right now." I say and she nods, biting her bottom lip, eyes loosing focus just for a second and she's back. She blinks twice and sighs."Aaron asked me to check up on you. I don't know what's going on but he seemed pretty agitated. she pauses for a second, looking at me again with very keen eyes. "Tell me what's going on?" "Aaron cheated. He cheated on me and that too with his ex-girlfriend." I blurt out, saying it out loud it made me realize just how true this is, not in a million years did i see this comin

Lana~“What are you doing here?” Aaron gasps like he wasn’t expecting me to open the door. He stood in front of me, eyes red and swollen like he had been crying, hair tousled and sticking up in different directions. That’s good, at least I’m not the only one looking horrible right now."Lana, Lana I have to ““What do you even think you’re doing? You’ve got a lot of guts coming into my home and speaking.” I snap, wrapping my arms around my chest as I lean against the door, watching the man’s shoulders sag.“Please, I know I fucked up so bad but you have to let me explain. I- I can’t lose you, please.” He pleads, looking at me with those eyes, the same ones I had cherished.I scoffed, looking away for a second, the image of Andrea spread out beneath him came to my head and I shut my eyes closed wishing these images would stop wishing I wouldn’t have to keep thinking about this."What do you want, Aaron? To tell me how you couldn’t help but fall in love with your ex? How I was as only

Lana~“What?” Mother blurts out, eyes almost bulging from where she stood. A fry chuckle escapes my lips as i look away, not wanting to see the obvious disappointment in her eyes. I could hear her footsteps walking towards my direction, her cologne filling my nostrils.“Lana…” she speaks again, voice coming out as soft as butter. I hum, lifting my head to look at her. She kneels down beside me, eyebrows minted in worry as she gently brings her finger to rest beneath my chin.“Tell me what happened.” She says, I look into her eyes trying to find the disappointment I was looking for in her eyes towards me, I could see it there but this time I can see that it isn’t directed towards me and so I opened my mouth, letting the words fly out of my mouth.Mother sits down on the floor, listening to every word that came out of my mouth, I told her about Ellie’s mother dying and how I had to go to Grenada to support her. I told her about not being able to contact Aaron all the while I was there. I

Lana~I step out of the taxi, the tub of ice cream safely placed in my bag and the cake in another. I’m so thankful mother took out time to keep them safe for me and even offered to bring me back but I declined, knowing she’s still not that well.I laid the driver and walk into my building, pushing the gate apart only to see Ellie and Sasha sitting outside my door. Well, Sasha sitting outside my door and Ellie pacing around my door, looking all worried and overly bothered.“Guys..” i called out, walking towards them. The both snap their heads to look at me.“What the fuck?” Sasha blurts, standing up to meet me.“We have been so worried, thinking you were home but maybe passed out from crying so hard after al you were so bad yesterday.” She blurts out again. I quirk an eyebrow up and huffed, this is what they think of me? I’m really not that irresponsible.“Gee! Thanks guys for the faith and enthusiasm. Do you mind yelling even louder so the neighbors can know I just got my heart broke

Lana~I step out of the taxi, inhaling deeply the exhaled. My grip on my bag tightened as I look up. Carlsen industries.I’ve come to tender my resignation.My phone dings loudly, alerting me of the message I just got. I bring my bag up, rummaging through the contents and pull out the phone.'Sending you our warmest hugs, Good luck baby, best wishes from mom and dad' A warm smile Adenuga way to my lips as I stare at the message a tad longer than I should.It’s been a week. I took a week break from the company and spent it with my parents, Ellie and Sasha. Spending time away from here made me rethink everything not going right in my life. I came to the conclusion to rip the bandage off today. I’ll tender my resignation and leave. Mother and Father leave for Switzerland on Wednesday and I’ll be going with them even if it’s just for four days. A change of scenery would be good for me and I’ve made it a mission not to disturb mother and father’s vacation, knowing just how much they need t