Chapter five

Charlotte's POV

  2 years later 

  

  I was having a hard time keeping it together, as I looked around our tiny apartment my heart broke for what could of been. I kept trying to understand what happened but the more I thought about it the more my heart went into turmoil, while I had never acted on my dream and convinced myself that I was an awful awful person.

My husband had been seeing a women named Anna behind my back, the day she showed up on our door step everything crashed down around me. Anna claimed she didn't know that he was married, but she just felt that something was off and wanted to speak to him.

She found me instead and turned my whole world upside down. Despite Alex begging me to stay and saying that it would never happen again I packed up all of my things and rented this apartment, found a job in a doctors office as a receptionist and tried to pick up the pieces of my broken heart.

  Five months had passed of almost the exact same day, I went to work came home. Wallowed in my self pity then pretended I was okay every morning. Alex called once a day like clock work, asking me when I was going to forgive him and come home. But honestly I didn't know if I ever could..  He broke my heart into a million tiny pieces, I wanted to forgive him so badly but wasn't sure how I could trust him again.

One early Saturday morning I heard voices outside my door, people moving boxes into an apartment. I was getting a new neighbor. As I looked through my peephole closer I saw that I recognized them.

What the hell was Alex doing moving boxes into someone’s apartment? 

  As I opened the door he turned turned and looked at me. 

  “Alex? What are you doing here?"

  Surprised to me home on a Saturday morning seeing as I normally worked he stuttered through an excuse. 

  “C- Char? I thought you would be at work? I’m just helping a friend move in..”

  I rolled my eyes exasperated, “Just a friend? Then why are you so nervous? This is why I haven’t moved back home yet, because I feel like I can’t trust you. No matter how thick you lay it on I always catch you in a li-"

  “CHARLOTTE, stop. It’s not what you think, let me move this stuff in and I will come over to explain everything.” He said with a plea. At that moment David appeared from the doorway saying something about getting the rest of the boxes from the truck but stopping when he saw me.

  “Oh, uh hey Charlie, I didn’t know these were the apartments you live in.. looks like I’ll be your new neighbor.” 

  EXCUSE ME? Huh? Did I just hear him right? Did David just say that he was moving in next door? Why? He had a house and a whole ass wife in it, why would he be getting an apartment? I started to ask what was going on but Alex cut me off.

“I’ll be over in a little while after we get everything moved in and we can talk, okay?” He asked.

“S-sure, that sounds fine.”