Abuse

6: Part II

They sat under the stars with a picnic basket filled with lasagna, breadsticks, and salad. Courtesy going out to Olive Garden.

Sebastian admitted that since he lived in the dorms that the only thing he really could get was by ordering it, which Fin didn't mind. He loved pasta anyway.

"So if you don't mind me asking what Asian descent are you?" Sebastian asked.

"Filipino. What about you?"

"Oh I don't have any Asian descent in me." Fin laughed at that and corrected his sentence.

"No, what I mean is what race are you? You clearly have a deep accent going on."

"Oh I'm from an immigrant Irish household."

"Ohhh Irish really?!" Fin liked that.

"Yup, hence the scholarship."

"Well aren't we just on the ICE monitor list? Huh?" Fin made a joke of it and luckily Sebastian laughed at it too.

"How old are you again?" Sebastian asked.

"Legal, out of high school and eighteen." Fin being honest.

"Wow, only a year older than you then."

Both men started asking more and more questions. To them the night wasn't important to them just as the morning wasn't either, because sooner rather than later after much food, conversations, jokes, laugh, questions, and looking at the stars both men knew that their time was going to have to end soon since one has to go to work and the other to school. They agreed to another date and then another and another and yet again another date.

Each week there was a date planned and each man loved it. They couldn't stop blushing with one another and they couldn't find a way to disappear from each other's lives.

They wouldn't end phone calls til the next morning, always texting one another, and what soon became a year of them dating. The couple were so in love they made even their friends gag at the love from them. It was amazing.

Then....they got married, well actually eloped, but it was the same thing for them both, and even brought a condo.

It was great that Sebastian continued his years in college to become a real estate agent, and Fin continued to work at the florist shop and make deliveries, especially to his now new husband university.

Friends loved Sebastian, Sebastian's parents loved Fin. Nothing could ruin this happily-ever-after for them both, but you see one of them has.

Now here is the part you all have been asking for. Why and how did this relationship turn so nasty?

It was Fin's and Sebastin's fourth year anniversary of being married. Sebastian and Fin had moved from the town they were from to a new state and both were living their great lives. Sebastian was making rank at his firm for selling the most houses, and Fin found another florist shop to work at.

Fin had done something. Well he didn't but to Sebastian's eyes he did the most unspeakable thing....flirt.

Well to Fin that is not what happened. Want to know how the story began, well here you go.

"Fin sweetheart, could you go to the back and get the order list? I forgot them." Said the owner of the shop.

Fin nodded his head and went to the back of the store. At first he didn't see the list, but then someone turned the light on and they were in his face. He grabbed the paperwork and was about to leave when he was stopped by a hand on his chest.

"Hey slow down there, why are you in a rush Fin?" One of Fin's co-workers asked him.

"Sorry it's my wedding anniversary and I'm trying to leave out as fast as I can and buy a gift for Sebastian."

"Oh I didn't know. Here let me do all of this and why don't you head out early."

"Are you sure I still have four hours left on my shift?"

"Love must never wait."

Fin was very appreciative for this gesture and went to hang his apron up and leave the store when he walked out the sun was completely blazing onto his face, but before he could take another step forward he was stopped by his co-worker.

"Flash before you jet off here you go, you might need it if you want to buy something." Vin looked down to see his bag filled with his belongings. Fin was relieved that he hadn't left yet, and with that gave his co-worker the biggest hug ever which did take a long time giving. But to Fin and his co-worker it wasn't anything of any sorts but a friendly hug of gratitude.

While on the other side of the street sat in a Range Rover was Sebastian seeing everything. He was mad, angry, and most of all sad that the love of his life could do something like that. Has it been going on for a long time? Does that man love his husband? What did Sebastian do?

His mind continues to race and push forward multiple questions with no answers. With that he drove home in a rage of fit and sat in the living room.

2 hours later

'I hope Sebastian likes his present. I think it's perfect, but sometimes I think he says it's nice and awesome and wears something all the time, because he doesn't want to hurt my feelings. Well nobody can say no to a Cartier Secret Watch Phoenix Decor watch. I mean I wouldn't.'

Fin stopped talking in his head when he saw that Sebastian's car was in the driveway. He thought that he would be home around nine pm, but he guessed he got off early too. Without too much hesitation he ran up to the front door unlocking it and seeing him in the living room made him jump in his lap and kiss him passionately.

"Happy Anniversary baby!" Fin said happily.

"Here you go. I don't know what to get you anymore since you have a lot, but this comes from my heart and wallet." Fin said giggling at the end of his sentence.

Fin held out his gift, but Sebastian refused to collect it instead he had stared at Fin with a hard glare that looked like it could kill.

"What's wrong baby?"

"What's wrong is that I'm married to a whore." Fin was shocked at what Sebastian had just said. He got off his lap and stared down at him with a dismayed expression.

"Excuse me?" Fin asked.

"Who was the guy you hugged earlier? Seemed like a long lost lover." Sebastian said with a smirk.

"You know who that was Sebastian. That was Jax."

"Jax. Jax. Jax. Wow, do you know his last name too?"

Fin wasn't having this and threw his gift to the floor and walked away. How could Sebastian have said such hateful words to him, but before Fin could leave the living room he was pinned to the wall next to the garage and was being severely choked.

Fin tried his hardest to pry his hands off his neck, but without much oxygen he was starting to lose his vision.

"Please....Seb.....St...op...stop..."

It was becoming harder now for Fin to speak and all he saw was an angry expression on Sebastian's face when all of the sudden all the lights went out. Fin awoke hours later seeing Sebastian sitting across the floor from him. Fin knew what happened and got up to leave and run fast, but became stuck by Sebastian.

"Stop baby please! I'm sorry I don't know what came over me!" That line is always the same.

"Let me go. Please, I don't want to die." Fin started crying hysterically.

"You won't die, I promise. I'm so so sorry you have to believe me."

Fin couldn't believe him, but he loved him.

They sat and talked once Fin became calm, but this should have been a warning for Fin, to file for a divorce, get a restraining order, and move away. Because this didn't happen just once, twice, forty, ninety, not even a thousand times. Hell if I could count it would be over hundreds of thousands times the same line was used and the same abuse occurred.

You see how easy it was to become a monster, simply from jealousy.

Don't look back, take your first opportunity, because it may be your last. Remember to think smart, be smart, and live.