Six months later

Dominic.

Six Months Later,

The loud music blasting from the speakers made everything in the bar tremble lightly and was definitely capable of giving everyone a terrible migraine after the party was over but I remained seated at my private spot, a secluded place away from all the madness.

I was now on my second vodka bottle.

“Cheer up man!” David yelled into my ear as he threw a hand across my shoulder and pulled me closer to him, “look around you, beautiful women are at every corner of this bar and you choose to sit here and drink all by yourself like a depressed old man.”

David was a childhood friend that was a chronic womanizer and alcoholic. He enjoyed the company of different women and they also enjoyed his so he was always the one in charge of organizing parties and bar events.

“There is absolutely nothing you can say to him that’s going to make him stop being moody, I have tried everything but he is still like that.” Ted suddenly spoke up as he walked over to join us.

I groaned, annoyed by their constant pestering and the fact that the quiet little spot I had found at the bar was no longer mine.

Ted was also a close friend and he had teamed up with David to bring me out to the party. According to them, it would do me some good but two hours into the party and I still wasn’t feeling any better, in-fact, I felt worse.

It’s been six months since Bella drove out of the house in a taxi and not even once had she called or tried to reach out to anyone, including me.

I had no idea when I started looking into her, trying to find any detail on where she could be but nothing came up and no matter how hard I tried, I always met a dead end.

It was so frustrating!

“Can’t believe you’re like this because your ex-wife walked out on you,” David mumbled as he staggered around, clearly drunk because the strong smell of alcohol had clung onto him.

“Nooo, he is like this because he can’t find her,” Ted chipped in, leaning closer to me, “but look on the bright side buddy, she might be unreachable now but I am sure since we haven’t heard anything then she must be doing just fine.” He added and for some reason, that statement irritated me.

I tore their hands away from my body,

“Can I be alone, please just…”

Soft music suddenly started playing and before anyone could figure out what was going on, a beautiful voice was now echoing in the bar.

Someone was singing on stage and she looked so ethereal in her dress.

David whistled excitedly as he hurried over to get a better view of her,

“Who is this beauty?”

“You don’t know her?” Ted asked David, surprised that there was a woman on earth and at his party that Ted wasn’t familiar with.

“I don’t think so… not sure if I’ve seen her before. There is no way I would meet someone like her and not recognize her.”

I followed after them as they made their way forward, closer to the stage because there was something about her voice that was both soothing and familiar.

“She must be a celebrity singer.” I overheard one of the guests at the bar whisper as everyone looked on with a captivated expression on their faces.

Who was she?

Suddenly, I bumped into David and Ted, they had both abruptly stopped walking and were staring up at the stage with some sort of expression on their faces.

“What’s w-“

The words barely made it past my lips when my eyes rested on her.

Bella.

She was almost not recognizable but there was no mistaking her face. She still had the same features but they now stood out so boldly that she looked so much more beautiful than she ever had.

But it was impossible, it must be a trick of the light because how could the same woman I had been searching for, for the past six months without any progress suddenly turn up singing at this bar?

I lost count of how many times I blinked, hoping the illusion would fade away but it didn’t.

It was really Bella.

I had never really pictured seeing her again so I had no idea how I was going to react, but I definitely wasn’t expecting the feeling that took over me.

Her eyes were closed and even though I had been married to her for three good years, I had no idea she could sing that well.

“Is it just me or does she look like Bella?” David spun around in his drunken state to ask and he kept going back and forth with Ted about if they were mistaken or not.

Their voices faded into the background and my eyes remained fixed on her.

She was so different, different from the woman I had known. I could sense the change, not just in her appearance but in the way she carried herself on that stage, the confidence that she exuded and the feminine energy she now possessed.

It was a new side of Bella I never knew existed and I was captivated by it, just like everyone else present at the bar.

As soon as the music stopped playing and the room erupted with a loud applause from the crowd, she got off the stage and began to walk away.

I followed after her immediately and managed to get close enough to grab her arm and pull her back.

She spun around and my breath got caught in my throat when her piercing green eyes met with mine.

“It’s really you.” I whispered.

There was this rush of excitement mixed with anger that seized me at that very moment, I was both happy yet angry to see her again.

“You walk out of my house and disappear into fucking space? Because where the hell have you been for the past six months?”