Chapter 2
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“Athena, let’s talk,” Jacob begged.
I stopped walking but I didn’t face him. I can’t look at him, the memory of him and my sister having s*x is still in my mind. I don’t know if I’ll be able to forget that. Maybe even when in my sleep, I’ll be hunted.
“Is there something more I have to know? Like how many times you stabbed me in the back?” I sarcastically asked him.
I heard him sigh. He sounds problematic, well as he should.
“I’m sorry.”
“Hah! Are you sorry because you cheated, or are you sorry because you got caught?” I painfully asked him as I turned around and face him.
I wanted to slap him, kick him! But I am disgusted that I don’t want our skin to be touched. I wanted to spray him or shower him with alcohol, such dirty trash!
He didn’t answer me. He looks so guilty.
“Am I not enough? Jacob, is there something that I did wrong? Why? W-Why…”
My tears started to fall again. I am very confused right now. I don’t remember anything bad that I did. I gave him everything and I don’t think I deserve to be cheated on.
“No…” he helplessly said.
“You did nothing wrong,” he added.
I shook my head. If I did anything wrong, why did he do that to me? Why?
Listening to a cheater is like listening to the music of lies. There’s no point in knowing his reasons, cheating is cheating, nothing can justify that. I walk away from him and never looked back again.
Instead of going straight home, I went to a bar where I know Rana will be. I really need her shoulder right now. I need someone I can cry on, and that’ll be my bestfriend. The only person who can understand my pain, who’s willing to hug me.
Upon entering the bar, I saw a lot of unfamiliar faces partying. They’re dancing, drinking, and laughing but despite of their happy faces I know a lot of them are just like me. Here to forget, to temporarily ease the pain. I scan the whole place and finally found the one I am looking for. She’s not alone, she’s with a man I don’t know who the hell is. I still went to Rana despite of seeing her with someone, I’ll just let her know that I am here.
I tapped Rana’s shoulder. She look at me right away.
“Athena!” She shouted in surprise.
“You’re here?!” She sounded confuse.
I just laugh and shrug my shoulder. After making her knew my presence here, I went straight to the bartender and ask for a drink. I took many shots, I lost count. I am really wasted, I knew that. But even in an influence of an alcohol, the pain inside my heart is unbearable. It made me question my worth, am I not really enough? And out of a billion people in the world, why does it has to be my sister?
Sally is adopted but I treat her like a real sister. I was really nice to her, how could she do this to me? I’m drinking while my eyes was like a waterfalls. I don’t care if everyone saw me.
“What happened?” I felt a hug from my back, it was Rana.
I cried even more, her warmth eases the pain in my heart a little bit. I wanted to tell her everything, what I saw but I just can’t open my mouth. I tried but there’s no words came out.
“Shh… It’s alright Athena, we can talk about it some other time, just cry it out now,” Rana hushed me.
The whole night Rana stayed with me, I’m a bit guilty. I felt like I become a burden to her the whole night, she’s suppose to be having a good time but she became an instant nanny to me. I’m not used to drinking so I know that she is very worried to me, that she cannot leave me alone.
A week had passed and my daily routine became chaotic. I can’t work properly in my family business. At night I’ll be in a bar partying drinking ‘till I can no longer walk properly. I’m crying my heart out at home, no longer eating properly. I don’t know how long I’ll be grieving, I don’t even know if I can recover to this betrayal.
“That fake bastard really did that to you?!”
Rana cannot believed when I finally told her what happened. It’s like I throw a bomb in front of her. Rana witnessed how Jacob treated me well, it’s like a nightmare to her also.
“Yeah, sadly even an angel can screw you real bad,” I said before sipping on my drink.
I can’t even close my eyes at night whenever I am sober. Images of that day keeps popping into my head whenever I tried to sleep. Being drunk is the only way I could sleep peacefully.
I really wonder how it feels to sleep with someone else knowing you’re in a relationship with someone. How can Jacob did that? Despite of being committed with me he was able to f**k my sister.
Maybe it’s the spirit of the alcohol or it’s my pride that is telling me that I should get even. I should prove myself that Jacob is not the only man in the world, I can sleep with anyone else too.
Without thinking I stood up and walked towards the man drinking alone. He is alone, drinking but his eyes is on his phone. I can’t believed someone went to a bar but focused on his phone.
“Updating your wife?”
I sat beside him.
He removed his eyes on his phone and looked at me seriously. Did I guess it right? Am I in the wrong target of man now? First try, and I failed? What a waste, he’s so handsome! If I'm f*****g someone tonight, I badly want him. But if he’s married, then maybe I should go on with my plan. Maybe I’ll understand how it feels to sleep with someone already in a relationship.
“Are you drunk?” He asked me.
He ignored my question, is he up tonight? Is he willing to cheat? Tss! Men are all the same, I guess.
“Why? You going to take care of me?” I sweetly asked him.
“Tsk.”
He’s cold but he looks hot in bed, we’ll at least in my imagination.
“Go home,” he commanded.
“Aww, why don’t you take me home?” I asked him in a flirty manner.
I was shocked when he stood up and looked at me.
“Let’s go,” he said.
I stared at his back. He started walking. Am I really going to sleep with him tonight? I don’t even know his name yet! What if he’s a murderer? Nah, he looks so damn hot to be a criminal. He stopped walking and glanced at me. I immediately stood up and walked to catch up with him.
“Coming!” I said.
Whatever happens tonight, hopefully I won’t regret it tomorrow.
- Writer
