Chapter 27- Claudia
They know how I didn't like talking about her. At the mention of her name my heart always aches, it was like a wound in my heart reopens whenever I speak or hear her name and they all knew that. I felt Vera's hand hold mine.
“ Ronny," She whispered as a sign for Ronny not to mention the name again but it was too late, my night had already been ruined even before it began.
Claudia was the first and only woman I ever loved, I gave my all to her, my heart, my soul, she was just like us all, orphaned but we found love and solace with each other.
We started as friends, so little and young, I didn't know what falling in love was back then, I'd save my share of food for her in case she got hungry and there wasn't enough to eat, I'd fight off her bully in the orphanage because she was so little she couldn't do anything about their bullying.
I was ten back then and she was about six but I learnt to protect her. I never knew I had fallen in love at such a young age and the love was rooted deep in my heart.
When we got a little older I found myself staring at her face and not getting tired and then the smile she'd give me when she catches me staring at her as her beautiful skin and blonde hair shine under the sunlight.
She was my cure, she was my everything, she was like a drug I couldn't do without, I became addicted to her.
When we all planned to leave the orphanage we didn't know what awaited us in the outside world but we were ready, we were ready to face them all. But what I didn't know was that the outside world was so much different from what we were used to in the closed walls of the orphanage.
You get to meet people, you get to see things, experience life in a new dimension and maybe you begin to doubt so many things.
Life was hard on us, but we survived, we worked our ass off until we were able to get a small place, six of us in a little house and we were content well that was what I thought until she started bringing home things I didn't get her, things that none of us were rich enough to afford.
I talked to her and she stopped, well that was what she wanted me to believe. I loved her, I loved her to a fault that whatever she tells me I believe. It was just like my heart was scared of losing her, it was like my heart was already aware that it was going to lose her, that she was going to cause us pain.
Where the bigger fights started was when she brought a diamond necklace home on her eighteenth birthday. I knew I couldn't afford that, I was just a young boy struggling to go to business school so I could get a better job and take care of everyone.
That night when we fought she got angry and left home then the next morning I saw a very expensive car come to drop her home it was then I understood what was really happening.
I wasn't enough for her, I couldn't give her the life she deserves. I became mad at myself. The woman I loved was going to another man because I couldn't give her what she wanted.
I couldn't control myself, I ran to the beach and balled my eyes out, yes I cried because of the ache I felt in my heart.
The pain that I was losing the person I love because I was incompetent. Maybe if arrogant Ariana had called me that back then I wouldn't have had a problem.
I knew that no matter how hard I worked at that time I couldn't give her the things she desired, I was just an orphaned boy trying to get by.
But it continued and each time she'd bring home expensive gifts and I wouldn't be able to do a thing about it because someone else was doing the job I was supposed to do, spoil my woman. I felt like a fool as I watched her admire the gifts.
The others tried to talk to her but she'd get into a fight with them and I didn't want that.
I was hurting and I used that hurt to put more effort in my studies so I would come out better.
I didn't just become the personal assistant to the CEO in the Miller's Cooperation in one day, I was lucky to do my internship there and back then I was just like an errand boy.
They'd ask me to get them coffee, photocopy a document for them, just all the possible errands you could think of in an office. Not until Mr. Miller saw my dedication and then I started the training that changed my life forever.
It was a rough time.
The day I completely broke was when I came home and there was a note from her telling me she wanted to explore the world, she wanted to explore the world without me.
We made a promise to each other but I guess it was all a joke to her.
Our little barbecue party continued although my mood wasn't as good as when I first came I still tried to interact with my friends.
When I got home I just crashed on my bed trying to rid my mind of all the negative thoughts.
I'll just have to sleep in tomorrow since it's Saturday. I wish the weekend had four days. I would have been so happy, four days before I see that woman again. It didn't take long before I fell asleep.
I was awoken by the loud ringing of my phone.
Who the fuck was calling me so early on a Saturday morning? I stretched my hand to my bedside table as I took the phone and picked it without looking and placed it to my ear.
“ Meet me at The Hour Central Mall in fifteen minutes,”
I'll kill this woman!
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