29 ~ Aurora

I was twenty two. Time had flown by so much faster than I expected it would. I had spent a year and half being married. And the funny thing was that this birthday had turned out to be better than the last one.

The previous year, everyone forgot about it, even me. This was mostly because my mother in-law had started pressuring me for a child. A child I was still yet to have.

I sat still in the middle of my room. Yet to recover from how the date went. For once I did not want to tell anyone about what went on between Leo and I. I just wanted to bask in the moment. And it was all going so well until that girl came in out of nowhere.

His mood switched so quickly, I became worried that I had done something wrong.

I knew those doe eyes. I recognized them so well because they stood out in those pictures I managed to see on his phone before he took it out of my hand that day.

She had a saccharine smile on her pretty face when she approached our table. Leo didn't return it. I forced a polite