Deceived Me

Chapter 4:

" Wait." Alice stopped. Stella got up and asked.

" Why did you come here? Did you... Did you look for me or was it just a... coincidence?"

Alice didn't look back at Stella and answered.

" No. I brought the apartment no. 14. I was gonna shift here."

" I see. Don't worry about me. I won't trouble you. I can keep loving you without your presence. No matter how much it hurts, it's my pain. So no need to run away again. That will hurt me much more than anything."

Alice clenched her teeth and left. She couldn't face Stella. She knew Stella wasn't wrong but so wasn't she. The fate that pulled them together was the same one who broke them so bad that they can never be together again. And it played such a game that she stood as the unfaithful one. But who would she tell her grievance about? Who would ever console her cracked soul?

But it's okay. She can live with a bleeding heart but not without her heart.

After Alice left, Stella slumped down on the sofa. Her strong expression collapsed into a helpless and desperate one. Her eyes warmed up with tears.

After a moment to calm down, Stella got up and went inside her room. Since Alice disappeared, she started writing a diary. Every page and every word of that diary were about Alice.

She opened a new blank page and wrote with red eyes.

" You say to forget our love
The greatest gift of my life
You left me broken
Yet you say our love was broken

Yeah I know very well
That love doesn't always end happy
But there has to be a reason to end
Yet you left me without a reason

Yes I love you
But my love is pure
Tainted is us, is me
Not our love

Forget me if you want
But for the sake of God
Do not ever ask me
To ever stop loving you

My love has defined me
It has given my soul a shape
It has filled the empty barrel
And I've become dependent on it

Yes I love you
But my love is pure
Tainted is us, is me
Not our love

I've only loved you
I've not commit a sin
I only deserve to love
I never asked for your love

Take away everything you want
But you don't have the right
You cannot ask me to not love
Better ask me to not live

Yes I love you
But my love is pure
Tainted is us, is me
Not our love

Kill me in the name of love
Let me be in your arms at last
I'll be far happier like that
Then to die thinking I meant nothing

If you ask for it, my love
I'll bring the world beneath your feet
If you want me as your companion
I'll fight the world to be so

Yes I love you
But my love is pure
Tainted is us, is me
Not our love

You are the most precious
A special existence in my
Very ordinary life
My world revolves around you

I'd leave you alone right now
If ever you ask me to
But never even in dreams
Will I dare stop caring about you

Yes I love you
But my love is pure
Tainted is us, is me
Not our love... "

Alice entered her new apartment. She couldn't think about anything. She didn't see whether the place was clean or not and sat down on the sofa.

She looked blankly at the ceiling. Fate has yet again made an appearance in her life. How is she to kill the desire of taking a glimpse at her love?

Alice got up and run her hand through her hair. She picked up her coat and car keys as she left. She went back to her parents.

The next day came but she didn't go back. Her family was a little surprised. Alice wasn't the type to leave her family but she suddenly changed a few years ago. They were worried about her but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her.

She passed time and didn't go back. Then the third day came and she had to go to the company. She went to the company early in the morning with her father. The day passed by quickly.

Her father introduced her to all the top management and then he asked his assistant to show her around the company. Then he gave her an office and he would personally train her.

Her father said that it would take her three months at most to completely take over the company. Slowly he would start handling things to her.

Her parents wanted her to live and enjoy her life like others her age but she herself wanted to start working. Their daughter was too good. She had never fought or even argued with anyone. She has never done a single thing to embarrass them. She has never even fallen in love. Their daughters life seems perfect on the outside but from the inside, it was so blank and empty. That's why they always worry about her.