My biggest mistake

Charlotte’s POV

2 years later

I was having a hard time keeping it together, as I looked around our tiny little 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, she showed up on our door step. Apparently she didn’t know he was married to me or that he had a son, 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 I packed up all of my things and rented this apartment, found a job as a receptionist and my mother In law watched our son.

Five months passed of almost the exact same day, I went to work came home and spent my time with our son Lee. On the weekends he went to see Alex and I wallowed in my self pity until Sunday night. Every time of picking Lee was the same, Alex would ask me when I was coming home and I would give a noncommittal answer of how I still had things to think about regarding us. 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 closer I saw that I recognized them, what the hell was Alex doing moving boxes into someone’s apartment?

As I opened the door they all turned and looked at me.

“Alex? What are you doing? Where’s Lee?”

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, Lee is with my mom.”

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 family living 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.”