Chapter three.

DIANA 

When does the line between reality and dreams begin to blur? 

How broken must the fragments of your reality be before you start to question it?

I hoped and prayed in my heart that this wasn’t real; that any moment now, lily would scream my name and I’d wake up in my bedroom. 

“Diana, I think we should go” Lilly said quickly as she dragged my arm. 

I jerked my arm away immediately, not taking my eyes off the abomination playing out before me. 

The way held her and kissed her, it made my blood boil.

“Diana, wait!” 

Against reason, I clenched my fists and marched towards them, ignoring Lilly’s call. 

When Natalie caught my eye, she smirked, holding Kevin’s hand tightly

 “Diana, I didn’t expect to see you here, I thought you’d spend the rest of your days in hiding”

“Kevin, what is this ?” My voice shivered as I struggled to hold back my tears. Maybe the baby was someone else’s. Maybe she was just a one night stand he used to forget me

“This is his life now, I and his baby, it’s a girl” she smiled widely, her chin slightly raised in pride. 

I was speechless. “Oh, and we’re already 4months gone” she said as she held Kevin by the waist, the bastard even smiled at her. 

He smiled at her. Infront of me? 

“You disgusting piece of shit. All this time, youve been screwing my fiancé - “

“EX-fiancé, let’s not forget that detail. And it’s not my fault you couldn’t keep a man” she scoffed loudly 

“Diana, please let’s leave, people are staring” Lilly whispered as she tried to drag me out subtly. 

“Listen to your friend Diana, youve already made a huge fool of yourself, have some shame and go back into hiding. Unless, you want to show the world how pathetic you are, then be my guest” the smirk on her face irritated me 

“How dare you! - “ before my hand could connect with her face, Kevin grabbed it mid air, and tossed it to the side 

“Never in your life raise your hands against her!” Kevin raised his voice 

“Aren’t you ashamed?? Chasing a man that clearly doesn’t want you! How low can you possibly go?” Natalie yelled from behind Kevin. 

“Kevin, all I ever did was love you. How could you do this to me? You even got her pregnant? Pregnant, Kevin! Why? After all the years we spent together, why?!” The dam in my eyes could bo longer hold back the tears; It shattered along with my heart. 

“Because I deserved better, and I found better-“ he paused holding natalie tighter by the waist “she loves me more than you ever could and ever will. Come to think of it, I was settling being with you. Look at Natalie; Shes getting promoted next week to executive manager and Shes perfect - all round” 

I felt a rip in my chest “She’s perfect huh?” 

“Yes, She is. At least I don’t look at her and see a monster.” He said sharply, if his intention was to cut right through me, he succeeded. 

“Fuck you straight to hell! I should have let you die in the fire! “ I screamed, my voice cracking, and I ran out of the restaurant 

“Diana!!!” Lilly screamed after me, but I didn’t stop. I just kept on running and running till I could no longer feel my legs and my lungs began to cave in. 

My throat was too dry to scream, it could only release whimpers. My chest was hollow, my heart has been shattered into a million pieces once more. 

He left me for another woman. And not just any woman, Natalie. 

I saw her everyday at work, had to put up with her bullshit and condescension, and that bitch was screwing him. Even got pregnant for him. 

God I’m such a fool. This is the man I saved. This is the same man I almost died for. The same man I destroyed my body for. 

All this time, he was cheating on me. We were going to get married in a couple months. 

The incessant phone calls could not be ignored anymore, Lilly had called 6 times already 

“Diana where are you?! You can’t just run off like that!” She panicked, out of breath. 

She must have tried running after me

 “Natalie is carrying his child Lilly, 4 months gone; we’d only broken up for 3 weeks, he -” I couldn’t go on, I broke into a fit of tears. 

“I know, he doesn’t deserve you Diana; someone like him isn’t worthy of you. I just wish we saw his true colors earlier” she sounded frustrated and sad - it was nice to know I wasn’t the only one feeling this, regardless of the intensity.

“You heard what he said to me? Wha- what Natalie said to me? They’ve made a fool of me all this time, an - and I allowed them to do it again” I said through the tears. God it hurt, I should have just stayed home. 

Lilly was silent for a moment, as though she was thinking of what she could say to somehow console the inconsible.

 “You know I warned you about him before, to leave him; but you kept making excuses for his actions, now here we are” 

“Now really isn’t the right time to rub it in my face you know” I sniffed. As much as I know Shes right, I really didn’t want to hear it right now. 

She sighed “where are you right now? I’ll pick you up” 

“I need to be alone right now. I’ll call when I need you” I ended the call. 

I took a three deep breaths and wiped my tears. The last thing I needed right now was a conversation reminding me of Kevin, of anything I had with him. 

I need to get away, far away from all this and fall into the arms of anything that would make me forget him, forget what he did to me, forget wha

t I just saw; even if it was for a moment. 

A drink or three wouldn’t hurt.