White Lies

Stay

I picked it up and got to see it. It says that "Happy 1 year anniversary. I love you!" and a date "10/20/14". Is this from Jake? As I turned the picture, my perfectly good heart broke.

Tears were falling down my face.

Is this true? My thoughts were wrong. All wrong. Why? Why didn't tell me about it? He's way too honest in this kind of relationship. Heavy droplets of tears were already falling down my cheeks as I watched the picture. This isn't a fairytale. I will not let myself sweep her feet and lead her to stairway for Jake. She let me down. I wiped my tears as I looked again at the Polaroid picture. I immediately got back to my house while I brought the picture and called my friend Katherine. I know that it's been almost a year since we've seen each other. They already migrated to Michigan. I called to her. The other line was still ringing until I heard a click.

"Hey! Alison! Why di--" I didn't let her finish her words. I know that were good friends but still I just needed to know the truth so I raised my voice. It was all I ever wanted. I'm already broken now. Hope that this truth behind this Polaroid picture will not make me cry a bucket of tears and suffer like a slave.

"Katherine! Please tell me the truth! Is Jake already in a relationship before I met him?" I asked sobbing. I tried to hold back my heavy tears but I can't.

"What? No. Of course! I never heard that Jake has already a girlfriend before. I checked his personal love life before I let you two meet and fall in love." She explained. My heart keeps on telling me that the words from Kath's line were really the truth but my mind was not. Should I believe her?

"Then could you explain this picture from him?" I said as I looked again in the picture.

"What picture?" she asked. I bit my lip while my tears are still falling down my cheeks.

"This picture of him with a girl kissing his lips." I sobbed. There were silence after I said those words. I couldn't take it anymore.

"What? Really? Then how are you sure that the girl on the picture is his girlfriend?" she asked. Katherine was also shocked.

"The back of the picture says that it's their anniversary on October 20 and the sweet words; I love you. Don't you think that this is enough to prove that the girl on the picture is her girlfriend for a year?" I said as I raised my voice and my tears continued to fall.

"I really felt sorry for you Alison but the only way to remove your possible thoughts is to let him explain the truth behind that picture. Only the truth will set you free. I'm sure that he will say the truth because you have that picture already. He will have no choice to not say the truth about the picture." She said on the other line coldly. I hope that the truth behind this picture will never break our relationship.

"I know, I know, I'll try meeting him again tomorrow." I said as I wipe my tears. I bit my lip and a droplet of tear once again falls.

"I'm sorry Alison for that. I thought that Jake will be perfect for you. All of my thoughts were wrong. I should not let him enter your cheerful and colourful life and I should know him better. He only just ruined and played your deep and true feelings. I'm really sorry Alison, hope that you'll forgive from what I did." I heard his words from the other line broke like my heart by the first time I see the picture. I guess that she already crying.

"No, No, Please Katherine, Don't blame yourself. I know that you're only helping in making my beautiful life. Besides, we still don't know the truth yet. Could you please stop crying?" I cried again.

"Okay, I'll stop crying, but let's end this call so that you will have time for Jake to talk. Let him tell the truth. I know that you emotions were already mixed. I'm sorry again for that mess I've done. I let the two people meet at a wrong time. I never saw it coming. I'm sorry again Alison" she said on the other line. I guess that she's already wiping her tears. I know that Katherine was just trying to help and I appreciate it. Without her, I will never meet Jake, the one who made me happy just for a short moment in my entire life. He made me feel loved and important.