CHAPTER 21

They spent the night making love but didn’t find it odd that they were at it again. Was it because they spent many days without being intimate or they just were not able to keep their hands off each other?
Both statements were true but the most important thing was they loved each other and they wanted to be this way. Once more Selena let her husband take her places only, he was capable of doing. How could she not love him when he treats her that way?
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Vivian had been in her room the whole day; she didn’t go to school and just locked herself up. It was embarrassing and painful. How could he treat her that way?
He didn’t know but she started having this he crush on Edward when she was just ten years old. At first she just thought that’s what all the girls do, they just fall for their brother’s friends but with time she understood what she had for him. She saw him as a man and not just someone whom she grew up seeing.
Seeing him with all those women during all these years was painful but there was nothing she could do. She was just a child and had to grow up if she wanted him to see her in another light.
So she waited until she turned eighteen and became an adult and every day she pondered of how she would make her feelings heard. And when she mustered up her courage to confess, he turned her down brutally and she can still see it so vividly she couldn’t sleep at all last night.
After she shocked Edward with the sudden kiss and confession, he stared at her in a way he never did before. She didn’t know what to do except to just wait for him to respond, so she waited until he spoke those words to her.
“I don’t want you to mistook my affection for you V. I only see you as my sister, so don’t think of m as something more than that. I will pretend as if this never happened, I will go in first,” he told her and left without giving her a second to say something.
When she returned inside she saw how close he was with that other woman. She was so embarrassed and ashamed of herself. Was it wrong for her to confess her feelings to him?
She excused herself from the rest of them and went to her bedroom where she locked herself in and never left.
Her mother was busy knocking on the door and she wasn’t bulging at all. She was not going to let her see her in that state. She just wanted o die, it would even be better if the earth could just swallow her up and disappear from this world. How was she supposed to face him in the future?
Will she even be able to see him again after what she did?
She pulled the covers over her head and drowned herself in crying. She heard a sudden thud and she jumped off her bed. Was there a thief inside the residence? When she jumped out of bed, she realized that her mother had her door kicked open and she was fuming with anger as she walked inside.
She just looked at her and continued crying. She couldn’t hide it anymore, even when she didn’t want her to see her this way, it was no longer possible. Instead of her scolding her, she embraced her in a hug and she laid her head on her mother’s chest. Hearing her heart beat made her calm. Her mother was always there for her and she shouldn’t treat herself this way.
“You don’t have to cry, my baby. Is okay, so don’t cry,” her mother comforted her as she cried.
“He rejected me mom. He told me that I am just like his sister; he doesn’t see me that way. I don’t know what to do mom,” Vivian confided in her mother and she patted her head.
“This is quite unfortunate but my baby you are stronger than that. Don’t let that fool who doesn’t appreciate you drag you down like this. Go and take a warm bath and I will take you out,” her mother said.
Vivian smiled at her mother, she was trying to make her feel better and she really appreciates it. Going shopping was a good way to heal a bleeding heart.
“Okay, I will go now,” she said as she breaks free from her mother’s embrace.
“That’s my girl.”
Vivian feeling refreshed from her mother’s comforting words she went to the bathroom where she ran the hot water and filled the tub. She got into the tub and began to scrub herself.
The world wasn’t going to come to an end simply because she had been rejected. If he didn’t love her then she was just going to hang around with those that do.
She heard a friend of hers saying the best way of getting over another love was to find a new one. She had to find something quickly to stop her from drowning in sorrow because of rejection.
After she was done with her bath, she changed into something colorful to cheer her up. She went downstairs and found her mother setting a bowl of cereal at the table. Everyone had already eaten so she knew immediately that it was her food.
She didn’t want to make her worry so she sat down at the table and had her cereal. Her mother was seated there looking at her as she takes the spoonfuls into her mouth; seeing her happy brought her joy even when she was in this kind of state.
After having her bowl of cereal, she followed her mother outside and the driver was already waiting for them. The driver took off and their journey began. She wondered what her mother had planned for her; anything will just do at this point.
She and her mother had a crazy day. Her mother took her shopping and bought her clothes, shoes, bags, jewelry and make up. She had a lot at home but it wouldn’t hurt adding more to the old ones.
They had ice cream, burgers and juice at a café and continued with their plans for the day. She even took her to a masseuse parlor where she received a full body massage and by the time she left the parlor, she was feeling very much relived and light. Some of the heavy weight on her was lifted up.
“I love you,” she told her mother as the two got out of the car after arriving back at home.
“I know darling, I know. So cheer up and be happy. I am going to teach that person a lesson, just sit back and watch,” her mother said and she laughed.
She wondered what her mother was going to do this time but whatever it is she was just going to sit and enjoy the show.
Walking hand in hand with her mother, the two of them walked inside the house. She rushed to her dad who was sitting in the lounge watching TV and she kissed him lightly on his cheeks.
“You look happy,” he said as he smiled at her.
“I am, I had a great time with mom today,” she told her dad.
“Did you bring something for your dad?” he asked her and she choked.