Falling for Him

Reality

As I hear the sound of my alarm bellow in my ears, I am slowly dragged back to reality. It is 6:00am, the usual time I begin my days, and I lay in bed staring at the white ceiling above me. I let out a deep sigh as thoughts of last night fill my mind bringing tears to my eyes once again.

I was in the kitchen cooking dinner for when he came home after work, as a surprise. Ben had called me earlier that day, sharing great news that he had made partner at his law firm. He worked so hard to achieve that accomplishment and I was beaming with pride over the phone at the news. So before I left work to head home, I decided I would surprise him with dinner to celebrate together. I figured it was the least I could do with our busy schedules. I reached home and changed into something more comfortable, a gray T-shirt and matching shorts, and headed into the kitchen to start dinner. As I was prepping the ingredients, my phone rings, it’s Ben calling.

“Hi babe” I say, trying to conceal my excitement.

“Hey, I’m just calling to let you know I’ll be home late, loads of paperwork to go through so don’t wait up”. He hangs up before I can reply.

I pause for a moment and then smile to myself. I’ll just take dinner to him instead. As I continue to cook, the thought of Ben alone in his office rummaging through paperwork makes me think I can offer more than just dinner to cheer him up, the thought makes me smile. I think about showing up to the office with dinner in hand, wearing a long trench coat with nothing underneath, just like in the movies. I laugh to myself, maybe that’s a bit much Elise.

I finish packing dinner and head to the shower. The warm water soothes me and I realize how tired I am, it’s been a long week. I finish showering and step out of the shower to grab a towel and wrap around my body. I turn to the mirror and my hazel eyes fall on my brown skin, I step closer and notice the dark circles under my eyes and realize how much I’ve been lacking sleep. I apply some light makeup to cover up the dark circles and applied some red lipstick. I combed through my dark hair that fell in a wavy bob just above my shoulders. I head to the closet and my eyes land on my trench coat. Maybe I should give him another surprise, a mischievous smile appears on my lips. I put on red lace matching underwear and place my black trench coat over my almost naked form. I pull out some black stilettos.

“These would be the cherry on top” I say to myself.

I grabbed the packed dinner on the kitchen counter, along with my car keys. I glance at myself in the mirror and headed to the door grinning from ear to ear.

As I pulled into the parking lot, I see Ben’s car and excitement builds inside my stomach. I headed towards the doors of the tall building with glass windows on each floor. The security guard opens one for me. He is an old man with a head full of gray hair and brown rimmed glasses that rested on his nose. He wore a navy pants with a yellow strip down the sides, a white long sleeved buttoned shirt bearing a security company’s logo, tucked neatly in his pants along with black boots.

“Good evening miss, can I help you?” He says as he raises an eyebrow at me and looks me up and down.

“Yes, I’m just dropping off dinner for my boyfriend, Ben Aimes, he’s a lawyer here” I try to hide the embarrassment in my voice.

“Ahh, I’ll let him know you’re here” he turns to go to the phone behind the front desk.

“Umm, actually, it is a surprise visit” I looked down trying to hide the blush appearing on my cheeks.

“Oh, I see.. you go on up” he winks at me and I dart past him heading to the elevator.

As the doors close I let out a sigh of relief, I really didn’t think this all the way through, I hadn’t planned on encountering anyone besides Ben.

The elevator dings and the doors open to reveal an almost dark floor, everyone was gone. As I step out and head towards the direction of Ben’s office, I see the light is on.

My nervousness builds, I’ve never done this before. But the thought of his reaction when he sees me like this gives me some comfort. As I close in on his office I hear his sultry voice in my ears.

“f**k!” He curses out and it startled me a bit.

I hear his hands slam on the desk. I walk closer to the door that is slightly open. I see Ben sitting in his chair, slouched, with his hands gripping the desk in front of him. His caramel skin is beautiful as always, his hazel eyes are focused intently on something but I can’t see what. I then noticed beads of sweat settled on his forehead. I am confused at what I am looking at.

“Come here” he says seductively, and I gently push the door thinking he saw me. Just then, someone rises up from between his legs and kisses him on the lips. My breath hitches and I stop in my tracks. I take in the sight before me, as I realize it’s a woman with long red hair that falls down her back in waves. Her pale body hovers over him as he looks up at her, his eyes dark with lust. The red haired woman begins to straddle his hips and my hand comes up to cover my mouth.

“Aren’t you going home to your little girlfriend?” she chuckles as her hands wrap around his neck pulling him into a kiss.

Ben’s hands come up to hold her against him as he rises up out of his chair and places her on his desk. Her hands are on his face holding him close as they deepen their kiss and begin to undress in front of me.

“I’m gonna stay here all night and make you scream my name” Ben says as he is about to go down on her.

My eyes brimmed with tears as I witnessed the events unfolding before me. I felt my heart broke into a thousand pieces. I tired to call out his name, thinking this couldn’t be real but nothing came out. As tears pour down my face I begin to turn away to leave as their moans fill my ears.

I stop, unable to move from my spot, hurt and anger take over me and I turn once again to the door. I push it open and throw the dinner in their direction. Ben jumps up and the woman looks around. I then realize I recognize the woman, she works here as an assistant.

“WHAT THE f**k!” He shouts. Then his eyes land on me. All the blood drains from his face and he looks like he’s seen a ghost.

“You son of a b***h” I grit my teeth as I can’t find the words I want to say.

He looks at the woman and then back at me.

“I-I-I can explain baby.” He stutters and I am disgusted by the pathetic display unfolding in front of me.

“It’s not what it looks like!” He starts to get dressed, a look of bewilderment on his face.

“I never want to see you again” I whisper loud enough for him to hear me. I turn on my heels and run towards the elevator.

“Wait!” I hear him calling after me but I run faster towards the elevator doors. As I reach inside and turn around to press the button, I see Ben running towards me. I push my finger on the button repeatedly hoping it would make the doors close faster. They close just before he could reach for me. I fall to my knees. A sob rips through my body. Tears stream down my face and my heart is heavy with pain and I feel hollow.