"No. No. No. It is not the truth. I can't be married to you." I move back and balance myself with the kitchen counter. “You- you cannot do this to me Blake. Steven will never do this to me.”"But it is the truth. You Aria Johnson are Mrs Parker to me and not Steven. You are married to me. Look, I can walk you through the day of the signing." Last Week Tuesday "No, I will not buy the building with such an amount of money. We had a deal and you need to stick to it!" Blake shouts with irritation at the man on the other side of the phone.Tom, his assistant knocks on his door softly and enters when his boss says nothing."Blake?" Tom calls out.Blake cuts off the call and focuses on the man before him, "yes?""Ah I have documents that need to be signed as soon as possible. Before the end of the day.”"Can't Steven sign them?""He asked me to bring them to you and not so politely. Here I am.”"Did you go through them?""Yes, before I gave Steven yesterday. It is the documents relating to
Mother - a person who protects, nurture; give life to by birthing. A person that will always always be here for me.I talked to my mother until I fell asleep covered with my thousand tissues. I woke up the next day only for me to cry a thousand times and fall back into sleep. I woke up again when I heard a loud knocking on my door and behold when I opened it, I was hit with the faces of my worried mother and that of Bianca. Mother flew all the way from the tour bus that was in Colombia to here just to comfort her daughter."I can't believe he did that to you." She pops a chocolate into her mouth."Yeah, to think that I pushed his nasty behavior on the side and convinced you to buy a lingerie for him." Bianca says quite sad and also pops a chocolate in her mouth."You're aren't the only one that pushed his nasty behavior on the side. I saw all the signs and yet still went on with the wedding, still went on with the license thing but then look at me now." I lean my head on my mother’s s
"Uhm, how did you know?" I ask but instead of receiving an answer, Kelvin, our male colleague pulls me and makes me sit down on the chair laid specifically for me so that I won't run away and also look at all of them."We had our suspicions at the club but then Bianca told us this long story that made us forget," Britney looks over to Bianca's direction who by the way gives me an apologetic look, "however, this happened and we were correct. You are married to Blake!" She takes her phone from my table and shows me a photo of me and Blake at the café."Good people I think there might be a little bit of misunderstanding, I me-" Courtney puts her finger on my mouth to shut me up."You are both wearing almost the same wedding bands, you're looking at each other in a way that lovers do plus there are photos all over the internet of you two and when we looked closely, we realized how you were the mysterious girl so no, there is no misunderstanding." She finishes off and removes her finger. I
"...you didn't show up at your own wedding day!""Are we really going to go there?!" Steven's head snaps to my direction."Yes! Yes we are!" I snap my head towards the therapist whose hand is on his forehead, massaging it."Oh how about we go to the fact that you kissed Blake! My blood bother!""How about we also go to the fact that I am married! To your blood brother and guess whose fault that is! Definitely not mine!”"Enough!" The therapist shouts and both Steven and I shrink into the comfortable couch. "It has been a week since you two started coming here to get healing and advice as a couple yet none of that is happening. You always, always argue about the same thing. Aria you are letting out your pain through shouting and it is a good thing but how about you communicate it nakedly without beating around the bush. You need to tone it down a bit, I believe that Steven knows more than anything that he messed up. You need to start listening to him and have a proper conversation inste
With my mind wrestling me, I knew that it would be a good idea to go to church. I need to speak to someone full of wisdom and guidance cause I am failing in that. “Good afternoon pastor.""Ah Aria, good afternoon. How have you been?" He motions for me to sit down on the benches outside the church."Honestly, I do not know. Things have not been going the way I had anticipated.""Does it have to do with your marriage?"My anxiety levels rise and the only thing I could do is nod my head. "You know when pastor Joshua came and told me about the wedding I was in shock. Mostly because the man he described was not Steven.""So you knew."He nods his head in confirmation, "it sounded as if the roles were reversed.""What do you mean?""When you came with Steven here, I have to admit that I could see his love for you but when I looked at you, your love was much greater and you looked at him adoringly. So when pastor Joshua arrived he said that the young man was the one looking at you adoringly
"Okay, get up!" Bianca pulls the covers shading me from the outside world."No!! I'm fine like this.""You cried yourself to sleep then woke up and watched Grownish the entire morning!”“Your point being?”“You are not fine! Look at you Aria, you are a mess. Stop watching Zoey and live like my normal friend.”"Zoey Johnson understands my pain." I pull the covers over my head."No she doesn't!" She again pulls them off and shuts my laptop, "she has never been married! Okay, maybe at that time in Mexico but it is still different from yours," she sits down next to me and wipes off my tears, "I have the rest of the day planned out for us. It is already twelve pm so please go out with me and stop crying.""Fine, but I want to be home as soon as the sun sets." I get out from my bed and head towards the bathroom."Never going to happen!"* "I knew this was a bad idea." I try to turn around but Bianca holds my shoulders and pushes me towards the escalators."You need to socialize a bit. So wh
"What was that?! You almost died!""Aria, calm down." Bianca pulls my shirt a little bit."I will do no such! He almost die-" and just when I was repeating my sentence, Blake closes the distance between us with a hug eventually calming down, kissing my forehead in the process."Sorry," he throws Bianca an apologetic look and returns his eyes on me, "I'm not dead, this is legal so it is no kill or be killed fight plus I won. Let's focus on that." He wears his shirt and leads us out of his locker room.Now what happened is that after I recognized the man on the ground as Blake, I rushed over to the ring and almost jumped in if it weren't for Bianca stopping me. I also don't know what came over me so I will not go down that road. The road I will go down to is when his opponent said something nasty about me and Blake turned into someone I will consider in my mind before I insult him again. He eventually won after knocking the guy unconscious. They announced him as the winner and he had to
"I'm going to miss you." I fold the last shirt of Bianca's lying on the bed into her suitcase."Lies. You have Blake, don't think I can't sense that he makes you to even forget that I exist." "No! That is not true and you know it." I pout at her. "Okay, maybe it is true but just a little bit.""Whatever you say, now let me lay down some ground rules; no calling Steven to explain to him whatever you want to explain-""But-""Shhh!" She slaps my lips, "don't call him. Do not, I repeat, do not also starve yourself or beat yourself up. Don't miss work unless you are really sick. Lastly, don't do what I won't do while you're at the Parker's house over the weekend.""I hear you and I promise to follow your rules." I raise my hand up."Good. Now let me go see my momma, I miss her." "Give her a kiss for me and are you sure you don't want me to drive you at least halfway?""No. I will be fine, don't worry."I accompany her to her car and kiss her cheek in goodbye. Reaching our apartment, I fe