TRAPPED IN A DARK ROMANCE

Chapter 5 : Old Ways

After this bad moment with Charles, I was standing there trying to catch my breath, I was really scandalized and still completely turned around, and I received a call from John.

- Hello baby.

- Yes honey?

- Is everything okay at home? Well, the situation here wasn't so urgent after all, we're here waiting for the director to come to the meeting. I'm a little bored

- Uh, yes, things are fine here.

- Why do you look upset? Your voice sounds weird.

- Oh baby excuse me, I'm cutting onions.

- hahaha, ah okay I see. Is Charles still there?

- No, he went home a while ago.

- Oh, right. I can't stop thinking about you, my sweet flower

- What about me? Baby...

-Yes darling...

- Please come home soon...

- Okay, honey. Well, the director just arrived, so I'm going to have to leave you. I'll see you in the evening, I love you.

- I love you.

See what I mean? John was really the one I had to choose, with him it was "I love you" all the time, and he didn't just say it, he really showed it in every possible way.

We often say to women "choose the one who loves you and not the one you love" and well it was this choice that I had made, and I really didn't regret it.

While I was staying at home, I received a call from one of my girlfriends, Nathalia, a good friend of mine since university.

She was the same age as I was, 23, and her relationship with men was different from mine.

At the time of the university, we were not very different, in the sense that she also played between several boys; except that I had decided to stop and she had continued that life. However, I didn't judge her for that, she was still my friend.

Except that unfortunately sometimes "tell me who you walk with, I'll tell you who you are"; if you know what I mean...

She had come to visit me at home.

- Melania... my dear friend

- Nathalia, welcome to my home my friend

- Gosh, I've been seeing your house since our video calls but now seeing it with my own eyes it's really beautiful, wow, and the decoration is superb, that's your work isn't it?

- When you see a house so well decorated, who else's work could it be but a woman's? Hahaha, take a seat, I'll bring you something to drink

- Sorry, ice cold water.

- Nathalia... ice water is not good for your health

- Oh, doctor, please bring me that first. I promise this is the last time I'll drink it.

- Okay, but you'll have to wait until the water gets cold, because we don't drink that here.

- wow, the couple of the year! Best of you married people, but where is your husband, speaking of him?

- He's at work, there was an emergency there and he had to leave.

- Even on a holiday?

- What do you want me to say? I was shocked myself.

- Um, anyway... I just hope your honey doesn't run the office outside.

- No, he can't do that, you yourself know from college that he's a good person.

- A good person? The human being? Especially the man, you can't be sure you know him. I actually know that nobody is holy out there, I don't want to lie to myself that I can't be fooled, no! It's just that it's simple, if you cheat on me, I'll manage elsewhere too, and I'm not telling you anything, Melania, you're an old hand at the system. Just that the good lady has decided to settle down, well done, and do you even know what happened to all your other boyfriends there?

- Oh please, leave them where they are, that's my past there, I don't want to think about it

anymore. I just concentrate on my husband.

- Amen, but I only hope that he won't make you fall from the clouds, because what I've been through recently there, it taught me.

- And what did you experience?

- Do you remember one of my friends? Jony, the one who seemed the most angelic

among all the others.

- Don't you get tired of going out with several boys first?

- My dear, let me tell you first. Imagine that the good man who seemed so angelic, to the point where I must admit that sometimes I even felt guilty about cheating on him, the good man sleeps with my little sister who is 20 years old.

- Unbelievable! Did Jony really do that?

- As I'm telling you now.

- Are you sure? Besides, how did you learn that?

- Let me tell you, don't be impatient. It all started when I noticed how my sister was already behaving strangely with me at home. My own little sister, but she was already talking to me as if I were her equal, even allowing herself to look down on me and compare herself to me in terms of attractiveness. One day in a violent argument that broke out in front of the parents, always because of her contempt, it happened that I told my little sister that she and I we don't sleep with the same men. She replied that we do.

-ME: Oh my God! What?

- As you can hear! She even showed me the evidence, so much so that she wanted to show me that she was sleeping with my man. She even showed us a video of them having s*x, they were there like two professional porn actors; my parents were just shocked.

- So what did you do when you found out, did you leave him?

- Leave him? And leave the money? Never! In fact, even my parents like the money he often brings in. We decided that if he wants to continue sleeping with both of us, it's his problem. As long as we get what we want from him, that's fine. I did tell my little sister that if she thinks she's going to continue to disrespect me because of this, I'm going to disfigure her and no man is going to want to have s*x with her anymore.

- Gosh, you've always been a family with terrible stories

- Anyway, it's not my family I wanted to talk to you about here, but Jony; as you could see I was sure he was a saint, but you see for yourself what he really is; just to tell you that even your dear exemplary husband there, the saint John, don't have a heart attack if one day you find out he's a high-flying player.

- Sorry leave my husband out of these things, wait I'll bring you your ice water.

I didn't look like it, but it's true that this discussion I had just had with my girlfriend made me think a little, what if she was right? What if in fact John wasn't totally who I thought he was?

It's true that it didn't seem like much, but wasn't it strange that the first time we had s*x, which was supposed to be his first time, he was already so good at it?

No I had to calm down, this conversation shouldn't start making me paranoid. I went back to the living room and served my friend her ice water.

- What about your other boyfriends?

- ah, they are there, I manage each one of them as I can. And my girlfriend, how did I

even forget? I didn't tell you.

- tell me what?

-Nm I saw one of your old boyfriends lately, the one you used to talk about the most, the one who used to send you to seventh heaven.

- Christian?

- Yes, exactly him, and you knew right away that I was talking about him, that means that you still think about him, but it's normal, I don't judge you, it's hard to forget a man who made us climb to the ceiling.

- Nathalia, stop with this light-hearted talk. You saw him and so what?

- He's great... He was all hot, clean with his car, I passed him at the supermarket recently. I was thinking that maybe since you've decided to become a model wife, people like us who have decided to play around a bit more, we can handle your old cases.

- Do as you wish, your business there, I'm not in it anymore

- Amen, my friend has become a saint, that's right.

I thought my girlfriend was just teasing me, however, what I thought was a joke would later escalate to the point where my marriage would suffer consequences.

As we continued to chat, John was back, I heard his car pull up; I quickly warned my friend Nathalia to change the subject, I didn't want John to hear anything weird. He came in and found us both.

- Honey, I'm back, and I've been saving you lots of kisses... Oh, I see you're with someone.

- Uh yes darling, this is Nathalia my girlfriend, don't you remember her?

- Oh it's Nathalia? Wow, you women and your make-up, we don't even recognize you anymore haha.

This joke had displeased my girlfriend, I could see it, but she preferred to act as if nothing had happened.

-Nathalia: And you then? You are always so in shape.

- Ah yes by the grace of GOD, and what brings you here today?

- I came to see my girlfriend, so that maybe she could also tell me the store where they sell good husbands like you.

- For this store, look for yourself, there are secrets we don't share.

- haha you women... anyway I'll leave you to it, I'll be in the bedroom, just in case.

- Okay, darling.

After John had gone to the bedroom...

- Your husband is really good.

- Yes, and if you stopped playing around with boys you'd find one too.

- Oh my dear, marriage is not an end in itself, I want to live freely. In fact, I'm going to have to leave you; one of my boyfriends is calling me.

- Okay, my friend, see you next time then?

-Nathalia: See you next time.

You know, if you don't want to be a certain way anymore, get away from everything and everyone that can still make you tend towards that, because what they say is true; in a global way, "whoever gathers ends up being the same", and strangely enough, it's only very rarely the bad that copies the good, most of the time it's the good that copies the bad, it's up to you to draw your own conclusions...

Because as far as I'm concerned, this friend of mine, Nathalia, reminded me of my old life, where I allowed myself to play between several boys.

Talking like this with her, it awakened in me certain memories of the past that were not good for me in any case, especially my s****l relationships with my other boyfriends.

To stop the evolution of these thoughts immediately, I went to the bedroom to find John and make love, moreover it was already 8 p.m. so better to make love and sleep until the next day.

But as I got closer to the door, I heard John talking suspiciously on the phone.

- listen, don't call me about this anymore, we can't risk anyone hearing us. Just because it didn't work today doesn't mean it won't work... Everything will be fine, even if it's complicated, we'll get there in the end.

Who was John talking to? And what could he be talking about?

It intrigued me, I had to know, and with all that my friend Nathalia had put in my head today, it didn't help...