Juliet stood before the mirror, a light green dress held up against her body.The light green dress is beautiful, you can wear that to the party…. That was what Aliyah had told her when she had asked Aliyah's suggestion.“You are beautiful. The dress is beautiful but believe me when I say it's you that brought out the beauty in the dress.”She stared at the mirror and the flashes of that night flooded her memory.***Juliet stood by the entrance, she watched as couples entered into the hall hands in hands. She had thought against not coming to the gala but how could she say no to her best friend, Aliyah, and how could she say no to an event that only rich individuals attend, it was a thing of pride to be invited to such.But there she was standing at the entrance since some minutes ago, she had looked from one lady to another, all ladies both young, middle aged and older had something in common, they were slim, had a small size.She even almost gasped out loud when she saw one lady,
“Boom!” Someone suddenly yelled behind Aliyah making her jerk forward in fright.The culprit burst into laughter making Aliyah rolled her eyes as Juliet sits in in front of her with a big grin on her face.“I know I am not responsible for that beautiful blush on your face.” Juliet said with a more bigger grin and raised brows making Aliyah's blush deepened, the latter covered her face and turned away.“I actually just got off the call with him.” Aliyah said shyly.“Him?” Juliet questioned with feigh ignorance “I am sorry ma'am, who is him?”Aliyah rolled her eyes and shook her head. “Romero.” She bit her lower lip, the mention of the name sounded so foreign to her. She had never called him by his name but now calling his name tasted so good on her lips.“Romero Kingsley.” Aliyah called it again, she loved how it sounded to her … maybe one day she would call him by his name.Wait… ‘You have actually called him by his name when his finger was deep inside you.’“Aliyah!” Juliet whisper y
“I am really sorry for being late, it wasn't -”Red frowned as he noticed a reddish mark on Juliet's forehead. “What happened to your forehead?” He asked cutting the younger lady off.Red moved away from his seat towards her, closing the gap between them, Juliet took several steps back until her back was against the door and he was right before her, in her personal space, his cologne filling up her just as that night.“I . . . Ummm.” She stammered unable to form words, he stared intently at the bruise, their faces inches apart that she could feel his gentle breath against her face, Juliet's heart pounded against her ribcage wildly, the closeness was messing with her brain.His hand went up her forehead and gently examined it, Juliet swallowed shyly, with each gentle touch her energy was zapped, she then rested her hand on the doorknob finding support but it switched making the door open and she began falling backwards.He was quick to hold her by her arm, she winched in pain, he stead
As Aliyah entered the campus cafeteria, she could feel the stares on her instead of getting bothered and hiding she shrugged and flipped her hair giving that unchalant air.She had decided that she wouldn't let their stares bother her or even the whispers and hushed tones around… she was way pass that and bigger than that.‘People are always going to talk no mattet what you do, just do you bestie.’ … Juliet's words rang innher ears and she couldn't agreee less.She exhaled tiredly as she say down at an empty table, she was about to give out her order when her phone rang, seeing the person calling, her lips pulled in to a big smile and her heart drummed happily in her chest …. Romero, her husband was calling.She answered. “Hello Sir.” Aliyah heard the sharp in take of air making her wonder if everything was okay “Is all well?”“Sure.” Romero answered chuckling, ofcourse everything was okay with him except the fact that her …sirs… were always driving him insane each fucking time. “Is i
She knew she shouldn't ask because the answer would always be the same, but she did anyways.“How do I look?” Juliet asked with a forced smile on her face, a smile that she thought looked happy but the mirror in front of her proved otherwise.Her aunty and her teenage twin sisters turned to acknowledge her only for the twins to burst into laughter, while her aunty only shook her head in pity.“Jeez! You look like a big bag of potatoes in that dress!” Kayla, the first of the twins exclaimed with a shake of head.“Too bad the fine dress turned ugly the moment your fat self got into them.” Layla, the other twin seconded.Their mother, her aunty sighed “Your sisters are right Juliet, this dress would have been good but it's ugly now because you are too big in them.” Their words, even though it wasn't the first time, stung like a bee. Juliet rubbed her hands tightly against each other, she bended her fingers just as she has always done to herself so that she could feel pain from her actio
Silence descended on the conference hall.For five minutes straight no one said anything. Daniel and Valerie stared at each other wondering if it was okay for them to break this icy silence.Priscilla Malvern stood with her back towards her children, she stared at the tiled wall with her hands clenched in a fist, tears fought her will and rolled down her face … memories flashed through her face.“Priscilla, I don't love you, I am really sorry I can’t reciprocate.”“I love someone else and no matter what you, your family or my aunty says I am getting married to her.”“She is with my child!”Priscilla will never forget the happiness that radiated Albert's face when he discovered his secretary was pregnant with his child, she had cried and cried her eyes out.When she died and Albert agreed to marry her, she was so happy that finally the man she loves has married her hoping Albert has come to love her but she was dead wrong because he had married her because he wanted his daughter to hav