Look Who Decided To Show Up

"It's seems like someone is in the habit of knocking someone over." He said chuckling while I just stood there smiling sheepishly. He wasn't wrong tho, it's been two times in a row now. I'm beginning to think faith is tryna play a dirty game here cause why him of all the whole people in this university do I have to knock over. It's could literally be someone else. Maybe like another professor or even another student. But NO!!! Faith just couldn't let that opportunity slip up so he sent the one person that I've been thinking about all day. "Adrian."

"Hahaha! Very funny. But I guess you're right tho." I laughed, rolling my eyes jokingly .

"I know I am. The fact that you keep bumping into me makes me suspect you a little." He said

"Suspect? For what?"

"Seems like little miss right here got a tiny crush on me." He said smirking. I bursted out laughing cause what the fuck is this dude talking about.

"Stop dreaming please. And besides you do realize I'm your professor right?"

"And?" He said raising his brows up, damn he's fine. Elara focus!

"And that isn't something you say to your professor, now is it?"

"Well, depends on the type of beauty my professor is." He said

"Oh, so you say that to every beautiful professor in this uni. Oh I see." I said. My heart felt weird when I said that, was I jealous?

"No! Just you, angel." He said with a very serious expression on his face while staring deep in my eyes like he's tryna tell me something.

But before I could say anything, his friends called out to him. So instead I cleared my throat and said "I guess your friends need you. Bye Adrian."

I walked out of his sight with my heart beating faster than usual. I hurriedly walked to my office cause I need a private space to breathe out loud.

"Oh fuck!!!" I said the moment I walked into my office. "Elara! You need to control yourself. You can't afford to feel anything toward him." I said to myself. This is all shades of wrong. First he's my student, I could lose my job..... or maybe not, since he'll soon finish but that's not the point. Secondly, I'm a fucking married woman who will never divorce her husband, even if the marriage itself is a sham and nothing but a prison to me. But still I will forever be married to my husband and beside I love my husband, so whatever is going on with me, I'm sure it's nothing. It's just a moment thing, nothing more.

My phone screen turned on with a message from my husband.

"Hurry up back home, my parents have invited both your family and us to a dinner this evening at their place. Make sure you dress very well and don't embarrass me with those your fat pig appearance, nobody wants to see all that irritating fat all up in their face while they eat. It's  by 6. Meet me there." My husband way of letting me know we aren't going together, which we were supposed to, since we are a couple but I guess not.

I guess this day is about to go from good to worst in a matter of hours. I'm about to dine with the wolves that I call family. But It's nothing new, I've been enduring this my whole life and I'll keep enduring it forever but I'll survive, I'll live, it's a part of me so I have to bear it.

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I rounded up at work around 4:30pm before rushing out cause I don't wanna be late and give them more things to talk about.

By the time I got home, it was 5:20pm. I already had an outfit in mind which was a black long flare gown with long sleeves, covering everything part of my body, just like my husband demanded. I paired it with a black heels, black bag and gold jewelries. I quickly touched up my hair and makeup, sprayed a really nice Arabian perfume that Gift got me before I headed out.

The distance from my in-laws house to ours, wasn't that long. I think it's like a 10 to 15 minutes drive there.

I pulled up to the driveway, seeing my husband car, my parents and siblings cars all parked outside. So one thing about my siblings is that I have three older siblings, I'm the last child that nobody wanted. A mistake that nobody planned. When my parents accidentally got pregnant after they claimed to be done after three cause I have one older brother, Prince, who is the only person I consider family but he moved to Canada for work, so we hardly talk and two older sisters, Clara and Mara, who are nothing but bitches that are precious in my parents eyes, they are like their priceless gem. Doesn't help that I turned out to look like a fat pig while they look like the perfect models off the magazine even tho they are nothing but gold diggers who kept jumping from one rich married man to another. They are the real devils in my life after my husband, then followed by my parents and his family. So the fact that they are both around with my parents just took my chances of surviving this dinner from a one to a zero in an instant.

I gathered up courage, put on my brave 'you can't get to me' face, got down from my car, adjusted my clothe, pick up my bag and head inside to the house.

I can already hear their happy merry voice inside, acting like one big happy family. Which I guess they are.... Just when I'm not around tho cause the moment I'm there, they all act like I'm some kill joy infectious person. I could hear my sister, Mara and My husband, Elliot, flirting as usual. I won't even be surprised if they've been fucking behind my back. Our family don't seem to care cause according to them if Mara had been single when I met Elliot, maybe both of them would have gotten married instead since they are such "a perfect match".

I opened the door stepping in and the moment they all noticed me, everybody's mood instantly turned sour like I knew it would. It's always been like this. Most times I feel like they invite me just for the sake of it and just so they will have something to say when I don't show up, which I'm pretty sure they've been praying for that.

Always inviting me and praying for me not to show up. But when I do, they make it their life mission to torment me till I leave.

"Oh wow guys, look who finally decided to show up." My sister, Clara said.

And just like that my torment of the night started.