Breathless Love | Asensio

Chapter 18

Carmen had just gotten home. It was a little bit past ten. She wss still in her trainer suit and was carrying her bag with pizza in the other hand.

"Hey babe." She said to fabiola,who was watching tv on the couch. Fabi did not respond but simple sat looking at the tv.

Carm dropped her bag and took off her shoes. She went to sit on the couch beside her after dropping the pizza on the table. "Hey,i bought pizza for us." Fabi turned her head to look at her. She smiled at her.

"Thank you Carmen."
"Hey no thanks. We are friends. I'll go get plates and drinks." Carmen left for the kitchen.

A teardrop fell from Fabi's eyes and she quickly wiped it. She blew her nose.

"here you go."
"Thanks."

They ate the slices of pizza in silence for some minutes before carmen spoke up.

"You have to be very strong fabi. He definitely doesn't deserve you."

"Why did he do that to me? He really hurt me bad. I love him,carmen. I really do." She burst out in tears.

"No! Don't cry anymore please!" Carmen pulled her closer to her and rubbed her back.

What did she do wrong? He just doesn't get it. She felt like her world crashed. She loved him so much. Unconditionally. Sincerely. Confidently. But men refuse to see something. If a woman really wanted to move on with her life,she would and never look back especially if she was really hurt. But a man can't do the sane.

"Carm,i want to go upstairs and lay down. I feel tired." She stood up.

"Be careful." She smiled and walked upstairs.

As soon as she got to the bedroom. She dropped her body onto the bed and screamed into the pillow. She stopped crying.

Before you knew it,she got up and brought out a suitcase. Walking into the closet,she removed every single cloth that belonged to her in it. She started putting it angrily into the red suitcase. All couldn't fit in it so she threw them back into the closet. She picked up some shoes and threw them into the suitcase. She started crying again.

"Marco! I despise you! Go to hell!" She yelled but not too loud. She walked into the bathroom and took everything that was hers.

Changing into a new shirt and a pair of black jeans,she wore sandals and stormed out of the room with the suitcase. Fabi didn't bother to carry it. She just dragged it downstairs.

It was making very loud noise as she sobbed and sniffed.

Carmen stood up from the couch immediately wondering what that noise was.

"Whar?" She asked shockingly. This time,Fabiola was already downstairs with the bag.

"Where are you going with that thing?" pointing to the bag.

"I'm leaving Spain." She replied making her way to the front door..

"No you're not. What do you mean? Where will you go? Who are you going to meet? Fab,you're insane ." She stopped her.

"I'll find something,anything. But i'm leaving. I already bought my ticket and my flight is in 2 hours. I love you carm." She pecked her cheeks.

"Fabiola..."
"Please don't follow me. I promise i'll call you when i land. Take care of yourself."
"Where will you stay? Where are you going? I'm worried."
"Don't be. I have some money. I just have to go."
"At least let me drop you off." Her eyes began to water.
"No.. it'll be harder to say goodbye." She said.

They hugged each other for about 10 mins before they pulled apart. Both of them crying.

"I love you." They said at the same time and laughed.

"Bye!" Fabiola said and walked out of the house. Carmen was left in her thoughts .

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Fabiola had gotten to the airport by means of a cab. She dragged her suitcase among the many people there. She looked at her wrist-watch. 11:20pm. There were a lot of people there.
"How many people actually travel at night?" She muttered to herself and shook her head.

She pushed her way through the crowd and saw the station for her flight. There was a long queue as the security people were checking the passengers luggages.

"Is this the queue for this flight?" Asking the guy at the end of the line after showing her ticket.
"Yes it is." He answered almost quickly. "Thanks"

She stood there for a couple of minutes and many people started coming to line up behind her. They were chatting while she just looked as the queue moved quite slowly.

"Fabiola! Fabi?! Where are you?! Fabiola Alvarez!! Fabiiii!"

She heard someone scream her name but she got confused. Nobody knew she was here except carmen and that was definitely not a female voice.

She shrugged her shoulders and said to herself,"it's probably someone else they're calling. There are so many people who bear that name."

"Fabiola Alvarez!!"

The person kept yelling and was pushing people.

Fabiola turned to look back and there and then,she saw the shock of her life. Someone she wasn't expecting was looking for her. The face of total surprise overtook her current expression. She looked forward.

She decided to hide from him. If not,he was going to stop her and she didn't want to be stopped. She didn't want to talk to him. Or see him.

She looked back again and still saw him searching fervently for her.

But who could 'he' be? Why was she shocked?