UN-Love

Somewhere in New YorkEmily’s PovI Un-Love you words that are better said than done. I looked through the window as my taxi drove at full speed. The Christmas lights from outside looked blurry through my eyes filled with tears, I closed my eyes as a final attempt to compose myself only to realize that it just helped my mind to flash his images over and over again. As my destination approached I pulled out my glasses, wiped my tears and tied up my hair in a messy bun. After taking a deep breath I got out of the taxi.“Whoa you looked messed up” my co-worker said.“Not now Jack, don’t you think I know how I look?”I said as I took out my camera.“Let’s just get this over with”***I looked at the well-lit stage and then around the room filled with people who were all well dressed up and had broad smiles on their faces. I couldn't help but won

Jeanette’s Pov“People say marriage is the union of two souls but for my family it was nothing more than a business deal. For years our family hadn’t seen a love marriage. My grandparent's wedding was a business deal so were my parents and they didn’t see any reason why my marriage should be any different. I remember sitting in my room all dressed up as a bride hoping for love in a loveless union I was naïve enough to think that a person who was marrying me as part of a deal would actually fall in love with me I don’t know why I thought he would be different than my abusive father”I paused for a moment to control my tears.“What followed after the wedding was years upon years of abuse he assaulted me physically mentally sexually and for a better part of that relationship I didn't say a word in objection how could I he was my husband after all”_Flashback_

Jeanette’s Pov_Flashback_After hours upon hours of assault on my body and mind my devil of an husband finally fell asleep I climbed out of the bed as quietly as possible making sure not to wake him up I covered my shaking body with a blanket and went into the washroom I looked into the mirror my eyes were filled with tears that were glistered with the pain and weakness that I thought I had left behind.I let the blanket slide off my body and stepped into the shower as cold water touched my body. I started crying uncontrollably. I closed my mouth with my hands so that the sound of my screams don’t wake up the devil outside._Flashback ends_            ***“You see when I started doing modeling I was forced to quit my job because I didn’t have enough time and it’s not like I could hav

Emily’s Pov People often say desperate times calls for desperate measures but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you end up doing something stupid but when someone like Jeanette who has been through constant abuse decides to change her life forever suddenly all bets are off. I could clearly see a weird sense of glee on Jeanette’s face as she narrated the rest of the story. Jeanette’s Pov “It’s strange but being tortured, raped and abused wasn’t what made me hate my husband the most in fact all those times I would ask myself why do I suffer through all this only to realize much later that no matter what he does at the end of the day he was my husband and I loved him, perhaps in a weird Stockholm syndrome kind of way but I did love him and that was a fact. It took