SHOCKING FATE
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I couldn’t help it anymore as soon as Andrew dropped me at my apartment...
I started crying, tears pouring down from my eyes rapidly.
My whole world had gone mad. How could this happen to me? I thought my marriage to Andrew was a closed chapter, I was shocked to know it's not over yet. I was shaking all over.
Emily rushed to my apartment as soon as she could. I called her earlier when I am inside the restroom of the Hotel. I need someone to talk to who can understand my situation.
“Ems! (Snobs).”
As soon as Emily arrived, I let her enclosed me in her arms.
“Trish! Will you stop crying? Tell me what happened.”
Emily soothed my back with her slender and soft hands.
I can’t talk yet; hence she allowed me to cry uncontrollably.
How could this happen to me? I have a life completely mapped out, and then suddenly, it's out of my control.
After a long while, I finally managed to talk.
“Ems, I am not divorced with Andrew yet! I am still married to him.” I cried again.
“Hush! Oh goodness. I knew there's a problem with such a rushed divorce procedure. It takes years sometimes to make it happen.” Her breathing was as erratic as mine.
By Expressing her support for me, Emily talked like she’s mad, but she was just consoling me.
“But that was in the US, divorce is more acceptable. I thought everything was alright when the lawyer told me congratulations, you are a free woman. I immediately flew here and never heard a word from Andrew.” I pulled a tissue paper from the case and wiped my face.
“What will happen now?” Emily looked at me understanding my anxiety and disappointment.
“He wanted me to return to his life for a year before he re-file our divorce,” I told her between sobs. Going back to Andrew was like a jail sentence.
“What? Why?” She was as shocked as I am when I first heard it from Andrew.
“He needs it for work and his grandma.” I was still sobbing when I told her my bad fate.
Suddenly, her expression changed...
“You will live with him again? Oh boy! I'm gonna love this.” she grinned mischievously.
I stopped crying in an instant and looked at her with bloodied eyes. How come she’s happy to send me to the wolf to ravage? I can't believe whose side my friend is in.
“Are you still my friend? Who are you? My friend won’t sell me to the wolf pack leader.”
She laughed vehemently at my statement.
“I am just amazed by how it turned out. Honey! It must be the universe giving you a second chance at love.”
Gosh! Was she ecstatic? I couldn't believe what I am hearing right now.
“Emily, that wasn’t funny! I celebrated my freedom from him. For four years, I was so happy to have achieved that. I suffered making ends meet, but I survived. I have my freedom. Now in a matter of days of meeting him again, all my four years of hardship were futile. How dare you say you love this situation?”
I am exasperated. I don't deserve this twist of fate.
“Calm down, Trish, and I was just taken by how yummy your hubby looked but don't worry, I am on your side. Nothing changed I will choose to be on your side no matter how sexy your hubby is. It’s just maybe the things we want don’t really happen when we want them to happen. Anyway, he promised to divorce you after a year, right? Just enjoy the ride in the meantime. Oh wow! If he’s my ride, I am gonna explode happily."
“God! The last sentence you uttered was just too ugly.”
How dare you, Emily? We both agreed that the man is a womanizer and I don't deserve him at all.
“(Laughs) I want to make you laugh, honey! As we can't do anything in this situation, we can’t let depression ruin us! Go with the flow; without you knowing, there might be a rainbow at the end of the tunnel.” Emily said.
“I can’t do this, Emily. Please help me find ways to stop this.”
“What? How can you stop it? You are still married to him, divorce is your only escape, and he’s willing to give you that in a year. One year is not long, Trish! It’s not the end of your life.”
" I can’t live with that man! Andrew is so clingy. He will meddle in my affairs again and insist on what I should or should not do? He will impose rules to follow, and on top of that, I will waste my one year without dating another man that can truly stay with me for life.” I poured my heart out.
“Okay! I got you. Meantime, you need to cooperate with him. He got the upper hand, but he will be forced to let you go if we can find a new line of defense. I’m not satisfied with your evidence before. It was too weak. We need stronger evidence to make him beg you for divorce himself."
“Sure about this? We can really find something that could help me get away from him?”
A dash of hope against my ill-fated marriage springs from what I heard from Emily. Yes! The two of us versus him.
“Yes, Hon, we will set him up. Anyway, according to you, he’s a womanizer. We will hit him on his soft spot!” Emily sniggered.
Emily’s brilliant idea made me ready for the battle, even if I need to live with him in the meantime, that’s alright so long as I can escape his claws sooner than the one year he planned.
That night despite my despair I was able to sleep better knowing that there's still a way to escape him and this time I will make sure there's no coming back to him.
The next day...
Andrew held my slender waist tightly. He hugged me with tenderness and affection. He buried his gorgeous face in my neck. He took a deep breath sniffing the warmth and sweet scent of me. Then his tender lips moved closer and closer to mine until we were a proximate of breath away...
Krrrrriiiiinnnngggg...the sound of my alarm made me open my eyes at once.
"Goodness! Thank you, my savior. It was just a dream!"
Put it nicely in your thick head Trisha. Don't cross Andrew's path.
Take a trip down memory lane; a simple lady like you will never be enough for someone like him.
Andrew is a womanizer, he won't change for you, Trish! Never!
- Writer
