DARLENEI woke up.The air was cold and it felt like I was indeed seconds away from freezing to my death. My throat felt stuffed and clogged and my head banged like crazy. Shivering, I sat up against the suspiciously soft bed and stretched my body, cracked my back, and yawned in reflex; my eyes were still drowsy and adjusting, bluriing over and over, to my wake.I sighed when I started to adjust fully. Slowly, quietly, my eyes roamed the room around me from it's new arrangement which I had never seen: the brown and white shade that illuminated to form a golden colour, the lone king sized bed I was on, the video game set, and the dark curtains that shielded any other source of light there was from the outside, giving only the swinging chandelier in the room a chance to brighten up the entire place."Hm, nice place," I muttered, half concerned for a moment.Before my eyes shot open in shock, panic latching onto my back like a cold blanket."Where am I?!" I screamed as I jumped from the

DARLENEI hadn't realized how long I had even spent there in the shower until I came out and it was already looking so bright outside.I remember vividly that it was still early hours of the morning that I had gotten in, do early that it was still even a bit dark outside and here I was, stepping out when the morning sun was already brightly shining everywhere.Shower time had always been this way for me because as far as I can remember, that was the only time that I seemed to get the kind of peace that I was always looking for. It gave me some time to think and reflect and just, well, relax, as the hit trickles of shower water were running down my body and warming me up, little by little.I guess, once again, I must have forgotten myself.Only in Frederick's house.For some reason, a part of me felt like all these was a but not decent, but I had to make myself feel better by coming to terms with the fact that, well, nothing major has actually happened. It was only Frederick being a ge

DARLENEThere were a number ofthroghts going around in my head in circles as I made my way into the Mansion.Frederick had driven away the very moment that he had assured I had stepped in. I could not help it however, the way I subconsciously kept turning my head to look back at Frederick who had dropped me off. I was not even sure why but I just kept glancing back at him occasionally, and all the while, his voice kept replaying in my head, reminding me of all he told me, all that we had talked about in the car.Frederick was a smart guy. Even though he was one to joke around a lot and play like a child, act like a child, he did not quite have the intellectual capacity of a child. He was quite intelligent, more intelligent than what he pulled off at first impression.And he was kinda right.I started to feel like I was being a bit too harsh on Alexander. Granted he lies to me. What he did was inexcusable. But if I was being honest, it did not seem like this marriage thing was in any o

ALEXANDERIt felt like a dream, having her back in my arms. I held her and kissed her. It was the first time, but it felt like the last. The way out passion entangled with one another as her lips found mine back, kissing me back.With my hands cupped around her small face, tasing the soft velvet of her lips and caressing every bit of it with my tongue, every part of it that fuelled me with an insane amount of dopamine, I didn't want this to end. I felt like I was never going to speak to Darlene again.When Frederick called me earlier this morning and informed me that she had slept off at his place, I felt so angry. I felt so bitter. So livid. I felt disrespected and it seemed like everything was suddenly crossing the line and in a nutshell, I had promised myself that since she was making it clear that she had no regrad for me and she was clearly and evidently done, then so was I.But all that made me have an instant change of heart was hearing her say that that was not what she want

DARLENEI rang the doorbell.Funny how I was sure that Stella was aware that we were here all this while, and for some reason, Alexander and I had been standing here for the past fifteen minutes waiting for somebody to come and get the door for us.I rang the doorbell a second time.And waited.Nobody.Turning to Alexander, I saw a similar look of confusion on his face."Is everything okay?" He asked me, he sounded pretty concerned and I could see why that would have been so."Yeah," I said. I supposed. Stella was being the usual Stella when we saw her at the window, so everything should have been quite alright indeed. "Even though they don't usually take this much time to open up the door.""Call?" He suggested. "Call them maybe?"That was a brilliant idea and I felt dumb for not even thinking of it earlier."Oh, sure." I picked up my phone and the first person on my mind to dial was my mother.But I was not quick enough.A small rusty sounding shake of the door and I knew that someo