Trapped In Love

Prologue part 1

Prologue – The movie

Ella Marcus

POV

I am Ella Marcus, I am twenty years old, I am single not that I am not interested in men it is just that, I do not scream beautiful like the other woman out there. I do not wear make-up, I never let my jet-black long hair down, and I live in sweats and sneakers. I might have green eyes but you could never see them with my thick lens glasses. I mostly worked from home so I did not have get all dressed up and I wasn’t built for dresses or skirts. So yes I am not your girly girl, I hate dresses it makes my legs look thinner than they already are. I work at a publishing firm as an assistant to an editor; I am an English Lit major. I love books, I love reading and I love history. Some days I get lucky when the editor is lazy and I get to edit those novels I love my job.

Today I am supposed to help my parents clear out their attic they having a yard sale and they want to get rid of a few things, they planning of renovating the attic into an extra room for some reason when they live alone in a four-bedroom house. They would not share what they turning the room into so I left it at that. I reached my parents’ house I get out of my beetle. (Yes, my baby is old but I love her she is what I could afford with my first pay check) I would never take money from my parents I believed working for every single penny.

I walk up to the door, and open it. I head to the kitchen it is around 8 a.m. so my parents should be having breakfast.

I walk in greet my parents and sit down while mom dishes me a plate of raspberry pancakes. I loved it, mom always made pancakes with different flavours because I loved it. After breakfast my parents head to the garage, they would be cleaning out the garage while I got the creepiest part of our house...

I headed up to the attic. It was dusty to say the least and filled with a bunch of junk.

I start by stuff we should throw away, then things to donate and lastly it would be the things they would like to sell. I came across a vintage cupboard it looks really old. I open it and there a bunch of manuscripts, movies, movie scripts they seem like they from the same movie. I open one of the books and it says [A LIFE OF SECRETS] interesting... I put them all in boxes; I would love to see what this movie is about. Even the cover looked really good. So I was extremely excited about what a life of secrets could be about. I googled I but there were not any reviews so it should be quite old.

Around seven, I finished the attic; I needed a shower I was beyond dusty and it was not a good look on me. I did not forget to take my box with the movie and books.

I wished my parents well and headed back to my apartment I stay a block away from my parents so it wasn't a long drive... when I got to my apartment I rushed to the shower, I washed the dust out of my hair and body. I got into pyjamas and I made me instant noodles and a glass of rose` it was sweet. I got the movie out dusted it off and plugged it in. lucky for me, I loved antics so I had a DVR to play the movie. It started and let's just say it started terribly. I already had a bad feeling about this movie, but being OCD I couldn’t start watching it without finishing it. It would drive me crazy.

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[The movie started at the female lead [Kristen London] was lying on her bed crying, her friend Lillian was comforting her.

"Kris honey don't be sad, your family will find a way to divorce Blake..." She said with a sigh and she almost looked sincere, but it did not reach her eyes.

"I can't Lily I can't live another day in this house its torture" Kristen says through sobs with her head in the pillow

"I have an idea," Lillian says but she had devious look in her eyes

Kristen shot up from the bed looking at Lillian. Lillian masked the look in her eyes with pity.

"What?" Kristen looked at her best friend hopefulness playing in her eyes

"No... I can’t tell you it’s too risky" she says slowly to make it look like she was about to change her mind

"Please please, tell me Lilly... I'm really desperate," Kristen says sitting on her knees as if she was begging her friend to help her

"I can't let you do that Kris" she says shaking her head

"What is it please Lillian?" Kristen begs

"Why don't you pretend to commit suicide that way you can pretend to be dead and you'll be free... I can help you escape and go to another country. But you won’t be able to see your family again." Lillian says softly so none of the house cleaners could hear her, she knew Blake always had someone watching Kristen closely while he was away.

"How would I pretend?" Kristen asks curiously

"I'll give you some sleeping pills which would slow your heart rate down so they think you dead than an hour later you'll be awake and free," Lillian says

Kristen nods at her, as if she was thinking about her idea.

"Okay let's do it..." Kristen says as she nods eagerly

(Scene change)

The next day Lillian brought the pills wiped all her fingerprints off and got the pills on Kristen's name.

“Here Kris I got it out on your name so that Blake would not know you got it from me” Lillian says