Shatter Me

The Betrayal

turned 18 that day, I was heading back to Leon, that’s where my parents lived with my brother and sister. I was so excited until….

I don’t know why but all happy moments in my life end at an until of sadness, like when it was engagement my to be betrothed and I found him kissing someone else in the closet that was something easy to get over because we had just met two days ago. So, I really had no feelings.

I was finally home, everything smelt like home but it was quite….very quite not even a single voice other than the noise of car rushing by

“Mum”

“Mum, I’m home”

“Dad ?”

“Estelle” no one answered that was until the door bell ringed, and all the suspicion subsided and the empty space was filled with joy

“It must be them !” I thought to myself

I rushed forward to open the door just to find my neighbour, Elen holding a letter.

“Your mum wanted me to give it to you when you return” I was again very confused. Before I could ask anything she had left.

So, I opened the letter…

Dear Lea

We would have long left before you read this . Your father had some trouble in the company so we left for another country with your brother and sister

Take care

Your lovingly

You Mum

Lasia

A sudden panic rose into my nerves and I looked into the the letter’s cover for any other note or something that could tell where they had gone …. Which city, in which country’ that’s when I realised what it actually meant….

It meant that they had abandoned me…..forever and now I am left to survive in this city filled with prying wolves

And suddenly all the panic had turned into emptiness that wasn’t filled with any emotion

A nightmare woke me up that morning, in the nightmare my mum was lying dead blood dripping down her belly and someone standing with a knife , that’s all I remember.

It was 7 in the morning and suddenly the door bell rang…it actually scared the shit out of me.

It opened the door, it was a delivery guy with a parcel in hand, he pushed the parcel into my hand and left.

I had put the parcel on the table in the living room and read the receipt but it did not mention the sender’s address so I opened it

Inside was a finger, and a cloth covered in blood and a note ..the finger bore a ring……and..and the ring was my mum’s wedding ring. I quickly pushed the box aside

All I did that was sit in a corner and cry it took me days to round up my strength and open the box..when I opened the box a strong stench filled the air ……

I picked up the note all the note said was

Your mum is dead

The paper was bloody and had fingerprints over it

The fingerprints were what helped me catch the murderer and kill him myself….the murderer was my very own boyfriend that I had loved from the moon and back but the betrayal had always stung like a knife with poison, all those sweet words, the smiles, the hugs were just a show….a mask, my family leaving, business troubles mum’s death everything was a plan and scheme well built but the only thing I couldn’t understand was why did he not kill me, why did he leave me alive…was it to torture me or did he still love or did he do it out of pity.

what happened today is unexplainable, I can’t even believe my eyes….Its not like I trust anyone but what I always did trust was my ears and my eyes and they to have seemed to betrayed me today in-front of me was standing the same porcelain figure with the same ocean eyes and the same soft voice….it was Carl, my ex that I had killed with my very own hands yet I him there standing all proud in a three piece suit, I was seeing that face after 5 years but still I couldn’t find a single difference in the face and body but I had killed Carl myself and burying him deep into the crust of the earth but this man can’t be ..cant be him.. my eyes were flooded with old memories of the betrayal and the felling of being of out of touch and my heart stung

“Madame Regalea”…”madame Regalea”

“Ohh im sorry Lopez, zoned out for a second”

“I don’t mind Regalea”

“ Lopez would you mind telling me who that young man is ?” I asked pointing towards Carl

“Ohh that madame is Mr. Edmund, and he is son to Mr. Saden, he just entered the business world but is already on large, not anything compared to you but they say those eyes are very bewitching”

I took a sip of my wine “ I can see that”

Announcer : “ Mr. Edmund we’d like you sing us a song on this auspicious night as a congratulations to miss Regalea”

He turned towards me his eyes widened like he knows me , I turn my back on him and start talking to the shareholders until a very familiar sound rings into my ears one that I hadn’t heard in years

The summer night, the fading light

The perfect place, the perfect time

To take you somewhere we both want to go

A starry drive in mid July

I turned to stare at hi my eyes wide and we maintain an unbroken eye contact

A subtle breeze, it's you and me

Chest to chest, no in-between

And every moment's better than the last

Anything and everything

That I could ever want and need

Is standing right beside me in the grass

The birds they sang a melody