More Than Meets the Eye

"I think we both know this isn't working out T, I love you, but, not like that, and I'm sure you feel the same, right?" Martina looked up, blank and dazed. Vince, her dreamboat, the only man she'd ever truly loved was talking to her as if they were nothing, just friends. After 5 years, endless family barbecues, Christmases, getaways. The engagement ring had never come but there were always good excuses, but, they baked every week with his mum, babysat his cousins, took his nana to church, everyone said they were the perfect couple, and he felt nothing. "What...when...what?" she managed to half mumble, half stutter out, all colour draining from her face. Vince looked genuinely perplexed, and then distraught as he saw the tears start to stream down her face. He opened his mouth to speak, then shut it again, and just wrapped his arms around her tight, in a way that had always felt so warm and comforting but was now more like a vice, choking the life out of her. "I'm sorry T, I'm sorry, I just don't love you" he murmured into her hair, as Martina stood frozen in place. She had given him everything, and he was all she wanted. Where did it all go wrong? And where would she go from here?