WALLFLOWER

CHAPTER 8

"What?" I asked again in a small voice. I wanted to confirm what I heard.

"Bright, me and Film spent the night here, in the tree house on that day. I think your mom saw us, but got confused and misunderstood."

I felt my body going week. I felt dizzy.

'No Bright, this is not the time. You need to get yourself together. You need to understand.'

I shook my head to clear my thoughts,  tok a deep breath to calm myself.

"But mom... I ... I saw him myself, coming out from the tree house in the morning." I blinked furiously to control my tears.

"Bright, we left early on that day. It was like only 5 AM when we left; after I got an emergency call from home." Film said crying.

"When we left, Win was the only person awake. He saw us going. We explained the situation to him. Asked him to inform you all."

"But he never... Jewel said.... Win... Hickey..." I couldn't tell anything properly. There are lots of questions. I couldn't process anything.

I saw him take a deep breath to compose himself.

"Bright, when we came to the house to inform someone about our situation. Win came out from your bedroom, may be after hearing our voices and there were.... there were hickeys on his neck and he looked like ......  I remember teasing him. I still remember his shy smile and flushed face." Earth said with concern in his voice.

I looked at them, startled.

"But, .... but I slept in my room that day. When I woke up ... I was in my ... room." I was talking to myself.

Suddenly,  I remembered the hickeys that was there on my neck, I remembered hating it. .....but ... but I thought it was from the evening earlier, was it not? I don't remember much about that night ... I remember drinking with all guys .... after that I remember waking up alone in my room, with sheets all tangled and crumbled around me. Did something happen between I and win on that day? Did I black out?

"Ohh my God, what did I do?" I cried out aloud when the realization struck me.

That was when I broke down completely.

Wins POV

It's Bright's marriage in two days. I don't know if I am sad, happy or if I feel any emotion at all. There was a time, we were very happy together. There was a time we dreamt about a happily ever after.

PAST TENSE! I reminded myself.

When it all started falling apart? Yes, the marriage.

Flash Back

I was nervous and shy when I arrived at his house but his mom made me feel like home. Her hug alone was enough to break all the walls I built around me.

His house was huge and Beautiful. It was my first time with a family like this. I felt happy, to be part of it, to be accepted. The wedding was beyond my imagination. Everything was beyond my imagination on that day.

During the party, everyone was fully drunk. Even Film. But I couldn't drink may be because, I was so overwhelmed with everything and I was feeling very nervous like something wrong is going to happen. But I couldn't pinpoint. I ignored it as my usual awkward moments.

I did have lot of awkward moments in the party. I got invite for dance from many and many approached me and showed interest in me. I was surprised and confused. I was really shy and didn't know how to respond as it was my first time in a situation like that. So I politely rejected them all. Jewel, Bright's cousin was one of them. She is very beautiful and she was very persistent but I ignored her. I had my eyes only for one person.