Deeply In Love (gxg)

Chapter IX - I can't lie to you

"Hey! I was looking for you the entire noon, why are you here? Are you hiding?"

I lean at the mango tree and just stared at my wife. I didn't say a word and just breathe.

She frowned and sat beside me. I love her so much that it hurts. I scooted away from her and I heard her sob.

"You don't love me anymore." She stated and start crying. I hate to see her in this state but I couldn't do anything about it.

I refused to cry. I was crying for some time now and I think I already ran out of tears. "You don't know what you're saying."

"You hate me now." She hugged herself and continued crying. I wanted to hold her and tell her to stop but I just couldn't. She crippled my heart.

"Why?" One word but her answer would mean a lot to me.

She just stared blankly at the space and I figure it was my time to go since she won't speak and explain. I stood and left with an aching thought that Audrey is not mine.

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I woke up with a phone call and it was James asking if we could meet but I remember that I have a practice today for the contest. I dropped the call after telling him that we could hang out after the contest.

I went straight to the bathroom and took a shower. I wasn't the usual kind of person who often has a hangover after drinking liquor.

I was enjoying the water dripping from the shower when my phone rang again. Ugh! Seriously? Am I too important that I should have at least two phone calls in an hour? I dried my hands and went to the mirror at the side of the bathroom where I left my phone. It's Ms. Villanueva, ah, I wonder why she's calling.

"Good Morning Ms. Villanueva." I tried to be as cheerful as possible.

"Where are you? I could barely hear you, is it raining there?"

I turned off the shower and spoke. "ah, uhmn, I'm taking a shower, my bad. Why did you call anyway?"

"Sorry to interrupt." I heard her intake breaths. "I was just going to remind you that we will have a practice today, are you feeling well?"

"Yes. Why wouldn't I? By the way, where are we going to practice? I was thinking maybe you could just come over, I have materials here at home and the like." I wonder why she's asking me if I'm feeling well.

"Ah, that would be nice. I have to go, you could continue..." She trailed off.

"You don't have to say that. See ya later." I hang up with a smile on my face. Hearing her voice this early makes me giddy.

I frowned when I couldn't remember when I saved Ms. Villanueva's number. I checked my phone history and my eyebrows furrowed when I saw that Ms. Villanueva called me last night and the duration is almost five minutes. I wonder what we talked about. I figured I should ask her later since I couldn't remember anything from last night.

That's the thing about me, yes I won't have hangover but I couldn't remember a thing when I'm drunk.

I put down my phone. My eyes went wide when my eyes caught a view of something red on my neck. What the hell? I went closer through the mirror and noticed two hickeys saying hi to me. I gulped. What happened to me? Did someone barge in last night and did something to me? I hugged myself in reflex afraid of what I didn't know. I finished taking a bath and shun away the thoughts out of my head.

I wore a turtle neck fitted jacket, a cloth that made up of cotton just to hide the stupid hickeys. I picked the bottles that I drank last night and cleaned the house although it's already clean. I don't want Ms. Villanueva to see this house in disarray.