Love's Fatal Flaw : A tale of love and regret

Where do we go from here?

Chapter 4: Confrontation
-Risa's POV-

As I walked around the university, lost in thought, I suddenly bumped into someone. I looked up to see Eni, standing in front of me. She was carrying a stack of books and papers, which had fallen to the ground.

"I'm sorry," I said, bending down to help her pick up her things.

Eni didn't say anything, but I could feel her eyes on me as we gathered her belongings. Once we had everything, she stood up and faced me, her expression cold.

"What do you want, Risa?" she asked, her voice dripping with disdain.

"I don't want anything from you, but you took something from me." I said, confused yet mad, trying to hold back my emotions.

Eni snapped. "You know he's with me now."

I felt a pang of jealousy and hurt at her words. I knew Jian had been spending time with Eni lately, but I didn't think it would go this far.

"With You? Since when Eni? Jian is MY boyfriend, we've been so happy, we had everything planned in our life and You ruined everything!" I said, trying to keep my voice steady. "He's mine, and You have nothing Eni!."

Eni scoffed. "You're too busy trying to steal him back from me."

"I'm not trying to steal him back, Because he was never your's." I said, feeling defensive.

Eni rolled her eyes. "You had your chance, Risa. Jian chose me, and you need to accept that."

I thought to myself as she say these words, "It's only been a few weeks, it couldn't have been that fast, Jian wouldn't be able to betray me like this." In denial from what I am hearing.

I felt tears prick at the corners of my eyes, but I refused to let them fall. "He never chose you Eni, You took him away from me!"

Eni sighed, her expression softening slightly. "Look, Risa. I know this is hard for you, but you have to let him go. Jian and I are happy together, and I don't want you to ruin that."

Feeling defeated. "Ruin your relationship? You ruined ours!" I said while slowly falling to the ground as my tears fall with me.

Eni gave me a stare and said "I don't have time for your delusions, You crazy bitch." as she walks away.

I picked myself up and went to The Library. My heart felt heavy, and I couldn't shake off the sadness that had settled in.

The thought of losing him forever was too much to bear.

I took a deep breath and wiped away my tears. I Still love him, but maybe now isn't the time, I'll give him space and time to think about things.

Chapter 5A - Falling deeper
Eni's perspective

After the sudden and unfortunate meet with Risa, I rushed to the classroom hoping Jian was already there, we have our Defense coming up for the end of semester, And I wanted to partner with him, I knew this will not only make me closer to him but I could use an opportunity like this to make him trust me more.

As I walked into the classroom, I quickly scanned the room to see if anyone else had arrived. I wasn't surprised to find that Jian was already there, sitting alone at the window seat. I made my way over to him and took a seat in the chair beside his.

"Hey," I said, noticing he is still bothered from what happened in the past few weeks.

Jian turned to look at me, a small smile forming on his lips. "Hey, Eni. How are you?"

"I'm good," I replied, feeling a little bit of pain in my  lower abdomen, I have my period today and the encounter with Risa made he pain even worst, I wasn't sure what to say next so I asked. "How about you?"

"I'm good too." Jian said, nodding his head.

We sat in silence for a moment, both of us unsure of what to say next. I took a deep breath and decided to take the lead. "So, I was thinking we could work on the project together. What do you think?"

Jian's smiled. "That sounds great. You're really the only person I Know in this class."

I felt a surge of happiness at his words. "Awesome. So, what do you think we should start with?"

Jian leaned forward, "Well, I was thinking we could start with the research. I've already done some preliminary research on the topic, but I think we could dive deeper and find some really interesting information."

I nodded, feeling impressed by his initiative. "That's a great idea. I haven't done much research yet, so I'll let you take the lead on that."

"Sounds good to me. I'll send you some links to articles and studies that I've found. We can go through them together and see what we can use for our project." Jian replied.

As we discuss The research he notices that I have a bruise on my arm, he asked "Hey Eni?" I replied "Hm? What's up?", "What happened to your arm? You have a bruise.".

I know I got this when i bumped into Risa,
But i just brushed it off and said "It's that time of the month again." With a small giggle at the end.

30 minutes passed someone knocks at the door.

Chapter 5B - An Unpleasant encounter

Eni and I were reviewing our defense for the end of the semester when someone knocked on the door. I wondered who it could be as the voice sounded very familiar. I stood up and went to the door to open it, and to my surprise, it was Risa.

"Hey, Jian," Risa said with a smile.

"Risa, what are you doing here?" I asked, confused, But I felt my tears starting to form

"I wanted to talk to you about something," she replied, with her smile fading as she saw Eni.

Eni looked at me, and I could tell she was curious about what was going on. I motioned for Risa to come in, and we sat down at the chairs.

"I have to go to the restroom." Eni said in a rushed voice.

"What's going on, Risa?" I asked, trying to keep my voice calm.

"I wanted to talk to you, about well Us..." Risa said, looking at me with sadness in her eyes.

I was taken in shocked as I didn't expect this, I knew i completely fucked everything up, Even after all the things that happened I still love Risa, so the tears in my eyes began to fall.

"How did we go from being together, Home, In class, and travelling to being completely away from each other, What happened to everything?" She said in a shaky voice holding my hand

"What does Eni have that I Don't?" She asked me slowly raising her voice, I didn't know what to reply for as even I couldn't understand my feelings, "I still love you Jian, Why can't we just go back to the way things were before?", "Why can't Eni just disappear from our lives?!" She exclaims while im stll speechless.

"I'm sorry..." I said in a low voice
"I don't what gotten into me in those moments," "I knew what I was doing was wrong but I just couldn't control myself anymore." I explain myself.

"We were doing so well Jian, Why did it have to go this way?" She continues.
"I wish, Eni just never came back..." She said before bursting into tears, Risa runs out of the room, while I sit there in shock, Filled with Self hatred, Guilt, and sadness.

As I watched her walk out the door, I felt a huge wave of emotions hit me, I love Risa, she's the love of my life, but what about Eni?

Risa couldn't stand the way Eni was always trying to manipulate Jian.

- End of part 2 -