The Eye of The Storm | Dave East

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Angel stared at the ceiling of her beautiful, 2 bedroom apartment she once shared with her ex-boyfriend, feeling her depression and anxiety take over.

Scrolling through his Instagram, she saw that he had made a new post. Tapping on the picture, tears stung her eyes. "My beautiful family" the picture was captioned. It showed him and his new fiancé holding their newborn baby.

It had been 3 months since she last seen or spoken to him. Thinking about the events that happened that day, Angel felt her heart ache inside of her chest.

Flashback:

"What? I'm not exactly understanding what you're saying..." Angel sat there absolutely puzzled at the words coming out of Amir's mouth.

"I said I'm leaving your ass Angel." Amir said looking her dead in the eye.

"But why?... I thought we were great... Everything was perfect... Why now? Why here? I thought we were going to get married soon and try again to start our family... Our plans... "

Angel was pregnant a year ago, but lost the baby 4 months in due to excessive stress.

Amir scoffed. "Angel I'm going to be with Taylor..."

Angel's head shot up. She's heard that name a million times. Amir had a history of cheating, and Taylor was this stank hoe he got caught cheating with more than once. He even allowed her to disrespect Angel on social media and never said anything to her, because as he would say: "That ain't got shit to do with me; Ion need to say anything."

But every single time Amir got caught cheating, he would tell Angel "I changed and I've learned and I'm going to do better." All the typical shit a man says to stay his selfish ass in your life to keep fucking it up. And sadly, Angel believed him. Every. Single. Time.

He just made it so believable. Going out of his way to prove to her that "he changed" only to shoot her down with her finding out he was cheating again shortly after.

She was more afraid of being alone. With her mother dead, and her father in prison for rape and sexual abuse that he'd done to Angel, she didn't have any family. Her mother was all she had.

She's been with Amir since high school. And when college came, she ran off with him. This is the man she's grown up with; slept on the floor with him when they both had NOTHING. He's all she knows.

"BUT YOU SAID SHE MEANT NOTHING TO YOU!" Angel screamed. She was absolutely furious, but more furious at herself for letting him hurt her.

"Well I'm in love with her. I always have been." Angel felt her heart literally break inside her chest. Little did she know, this was a feeling she was going to feel for a while...

"Angel, I don't know why you're so upset. I mean we haven't had sex in a year. I haven't touched you since I don't know when. You grew old to me. You're not as attractive or beautiful as I once saw you."

Yeah that's because you've been to busy fucking around with Taylor Angel thought.

"How could you Amir? What about us? What about our plans? All the years we put into this... All our love. WHAT ABOUT ME?!" she yelled feeling tears drain her now wet uniform collar.

"No, your love. And I don't know Angel."

Angel walked over to Amir feeling her body grow weak from all the crying she'd been doing. She wrapped her arms around his waist and looked into the eyes of the man who once adored her. She didn't see the man she once fell in love with.

"What can I do to make this work Amir? I love you, I want this with you. Whatever you say, Baby I'll do... I just want you... No one but you... Please don't leave me... What did I do?..."

"You can't do anything. I don't want you. I know what I want. And it's not here."

And with that, he pushed her off of him and walked out of the apartment with the last of his things he had left. Leaving Angel standing in the middle of the kitchen with tears streaming down her face.

Angel felt her legs become weak, feeling like jello. She slowly made her way to the floor, resting her head back on the island. The tears never stopped.

For the life of her, she couldn't figure out where she went wrong. She'd make the perfect wife and mother.

She put her head down and sobbed. She sat there all night long and cried staring into space until she saw the sun come up.

"Where did I go wrong? What did I do? Where do I go from here?"

Flashback over

Coming out of her thoughts thinking of the events that night, tears poured out of Angels eyes onto her phone. She couldn't help but miss him. He was her first love.

I know what you're thinking: Well if he was a cheater, why didn't she leave to begin with? Well, it wasn't that easy. She was in love and afraid of being alone. He even helped her on her journey to getting over what her dad did to her for most of her life.

Angel looked at the picture once more. She just couldn't help but to think that that was supposed to be her. That was supposed to be her with him holding their baby with that same ring on her finger.

He looked happy and so did Taylor. Angel had never seen him that happy before. The baby was beautiful. She looked like every bit of Taylor. Angel searched for Amir in the baby, but she just couldn't seem to find anything.

She knew getting over him would be hard, but she didn't know it would be this hard...

Hey guys! My name is Shaina ❤️ I appreciate you for your time you gave reading my story! Please vote and comment! And this is my first story so please bare with me 😣 It'll start heating up real soon I promise 😏 Thank you! 😘 Oh and I'll be mixing a little bit of my life into this story. This book will have A LOT of sex scenes in it, so don't say I didn't warn you 😉 l