En route to fate

Elena

Give me a moment to shed the sleep from my brain, to allow the visions of the night to give way to the day, to move from that which I create on a whim to things more fixed and real. In a few minutes, I will be able to greet the sunlight, to see the colours as bright as the backlit images of cinema screens; I will adjust. For now, let it come with the subtleness of gentle dawn and let me doze underwing.

I am in a good mood today, I’m not letting myself get troubled or tensed

So I'm going to have a quick shower before eating breakfast, maybe even avoid seeing my mom today as well

I'll just eat a banana and crackers while driving to work

A little bit about myself, I'm Elena Santiago, and I work in a law firm for almost a year. I'm 26 years old and according to my mum I'm too old now and I have to tie the knot.

I know, I grew up with strict parents and they want me to marry someone who has a superior background, perhaps that's why I haven't told them about Sam before, but now I'm too late as they already found a guy!

Ugh. I'm going to give him an ugly impression of me so he runs away

Sams not a bad boyfriend but he does have a slightly different culture... Ok, maybe there's a massive difference between our cultures lol.

He’s also kinda simple and easy and in this big deceiving world, I think having an easy and straightforward boyfriend is precisely what I needed... Right?

I came out of the house a little early, I might as well go visit Sam to complain and sob on his shoulder while eating ice cream?

I guess it's time for me to move out and make my own decisions! I love Sam and he is my boyfriend so it makes sense for me to marry Sam but even though I tried explaining to my mum about this and my situation she just says I'm too late!

But why would she even set me up with someone and get me married to a completely different stranger just for her business deal!

Tea is nice, but when you are the topic for the tea, you just want to hide away from human contact

So, I was on my way up to Samuels apartment and what I'm going to say next is something I didn't expect would've happened ever in my whole life

I knocked on his apartment door and I never expected in a million years to see a woman open the door.

She was wearing only a robe and her lipstick was smudged. I didn't need to think, I knew that this man was cheating on me.

”babe, I told you not to open the door, what if its -”

”I-”

I couldn't process what I was looking at, he stood there only in his boxers staring back at me with a busted look on his face

” I think I should exclude myself from this situation, it was nice seeing you again Sammy,” the girl said with a sly smirk.

There, she turned herself away from us into his house and left the house within a few seconds fully dressed.

I couldn't bring myself to speak, as Samuel stepped forward I stepped back.

”look, Ellie, I can explain... I-”

A tear rolls down my cheek as I still can't utter a single word.

”Elena, I'm sorry I was drunk, I didn't know what happened and she bought me home and took advantage of me! Look at my neck, she bruised me! I was crying out your name thinking it was you I- I-”

that provoked a hidden fire inside me that I didn't know about. I won't act recklessly, I came here to ask for help from my boyfriend, I can't believe me actually wanted to leave my family to get married to this guy I no longer recognize.

I swivelled away and picked the leftover dignity I had and left the establishment

As soon as I couldn't see Samuels building insight, I immediately started crying, years of a relationship gone down the trench.

Why must he step over my pride, if he wasn't satisfied with me, why couldn't he just tell me he doesn't love me anymore! I mean now that I think of it, did he even love me in the first place?

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