I Married A Stranger

"I don't want to marry you again Scarlett".

It was like all the blood in my body was draining away.

"W... what? what are you talking about?", I asked, my hands were already getting sweaty.

"This was a mistake and I don't want to spend the rest of my life with a mistake, I'm not doing this anymore, the wedding is off".

"What? no please Carlos, please you're.. you're having anxiety and that's normal, please i-"

"I'm done Scarlett ".

It wasn't that he was cancelling our Wedding that was making me loose my mind at this point. It was that he was saying this on our wedding day.

I was in my weddings dress, doing final touches for my makeup.

They were gonna call us in the next 20 minutes.

"Carlos please", I went on my knees.

"I've made up my mind already, I'm sorry".

"Why didn't you make up your mind all this while? why did you Wait till now? to embarrass her on purpose? to make a fool of her?", my best friend and chief brides maid asked, getting very angry.

"Please don't yell at him, he's just stressed, it's the wedding stress, he doesn't really mean it", I said crawling to him in my wedding dress.

"I mean it Scarlett, I can't keep pretending that I love you when I don't, and I'm not entering a life time relationship with someone like you... you're a liability, I'm tired of you, gosh Scarlett it's tiring pretending, I don't want to pretend my way to the alter, I'm doing you a favour, to save you from a marriage you'll spend everyday crying, because I don't love you anymore, Goodbye Scarlett the wedding is off", he said angrily and started walking away.

But at this point regardless of the fact that he just shamed me in the most brutal way possible, I was a fool.

I grabbed his hands begging him, tears streaming down my face ruining my makeup 

"What do you want me to do to change? I'll do anything you want me to do, I'll be better, I'll change ", I said crying.

"Scarlett let this man go, stop letting him make a fool of you, did you hear what he said??".

"Carlos you're my entire life, you're everything in my life, please don't do this to me please, I love you, and you know I love you, please Carlos, please, I will be a better woman for you, I will change I will do anything you want ", I shamelessly begged.

"Scarlett go away, we're done, forever ", he said hitting me away and walking out of the room.

"Carlos please don't put me to shame, please ", I yelled after him

"Girl please relax ",all the chief brides maid came around me comforting me and trying to get me to stop crying.

"Why... why would he do that to me? I thought he loved me? we've been together for four years, why ? am I not deserving of a happy ending? did I do something wrong?". i cried my eyes out.

"What's going on?", my half sister, Isabella came into the room.

"Carlos just called off the wedding ", my best friend Diana said.

"What? why? Oh my gosh Scarlett what did you do?", she asked panicking.

"What did she do? she just got dumped on her wedding day and you're asking her what she did? are you even listening to yourself?", Diana asked getting pissed.

"Why will Carlos just wake up and call off the wedding? oh my God mom Is gonna be so pissed, she worked so hard for this ", she said pacing up and down the room.

"Isabella if you're not here to comfort her then get out, because you're being so self centered right now. You're not even thinking about the fact that your sister just got the biggest heart break of her life, you're her fooling around!".

"Fooling around? why couldn't she just secure this man? why not? why is she so the way she is!".

"Excuse me!".

The fight was getting out of hand and it definitely wasn't what I needed right now. I immediately took my heels off and ran out of the room to the back of the garden 

I sat on the fountain, crying my heart out, thinking of what exactly I had done wrong.

I have loved this man with everything in me. 

Yes he's abusive, he beats me up over the slightest inconvenience, yes he cheats on me, but, I genuinely don't care as long as he just acts like he loves me.

I just want to be loved, is it so much to ask for? 

Am I asking for too much?

After dating for four years, I had to beg him to propose to me. He insisted on having kids first, I think that's why he doesn't want to marry me.

Because I refused to have kids with him. Maybe I'll go back and beg him to get the kids first, maybe he'll charge his mind.

I saw a penny sitting on the edge of the fountain. 

They say if you make a wish it'll come true 

I closed my eyes and was about to wish for Carlos to take me back, then I changed my mind.

"I wish I'll find someone who loves me", I mumbled in tears and threw the coin into the water.

I pulled my dress up in my hands and buried my head in my dress and broke into another round of hot tears.

"Is it Normal for the bride to be crying on her wedding day?".

I heard a deep Russian accent say.

I carried my head up slowly and was face to face with a very handsome man... I don't know if it was my eyes but he looked like he was glowing.

He had short black hair that hung across his perfect looking face, his eyes were Blue, almost white you'd think he's blind.

He had a perfect chiseled jawline and a very perfect face.

Some people are just naturally perfect, without even trying.

He had a cigarette in his hands.

"No, but it's worse when the groom decides to dump the bride on their wedding day", I mumbled, cleaning my tears.

He handed me a small napkin from his pocket.

"Here, beautiful women are not meant to cry", he said handing me the napkin.