Six years ago, Rey Adams thought she had finally life figured out. Having broken away from her past, her life is irrevocably altered when she meets, a man who is the first person to treat her with kindness and respect. Six years later they're engage...
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When in the hell did everything go so terribly wrong in their six years together?
It was a question that Rey constantly asked herself since Ben exposed the truth behind Poe's sizeable amount of secrets. There was a child: a son.
Her fiancé had a son.
Slowly, all of the missing pieces to the puzzle were starting to come together: small portions of the overall big picture that made the moments when Poe would abruptly leave during the day make sense.
Was it true that he'd been born before Rey and Poe's time together as a couple? Or was there more to the story than Ben was willing to tell? Did Poe really think that she wouldn't have been able to handle him having a child with another woman?
Thousands of people, nowadays, had children out of wedlock that managed to make monogamous relationships work with other people. What made Poe think that they couldn't have been any different?
Either way the unanswered questions always rounded her back to square one, leaving her more discouraged and frustrated than she was before. More so of the fact that she could feel so angry and hurt by Poe's actions one minute and still miss him like crazy the next.
If there was any sort of amusement that could extend from the chaotic mess of events was that her life begrudgingly became an untelevised soap opera, and she was the lead character in the story. To make the situation worse she casted Ben as being the leading man whom would figuratively swoop in to save the day: the one that the main character generally fell for in the end.
Yes, Rey would've been lying if she denied Ben's words following the discussion of Poe's son hadn't impacted her in one way or another, and how he touched her so tenderly was becoming a close runner-up. Since that day there had been many brief glances and stolen eye contact between her and Ben; which stirred up the annoying jitters in her stomach that he brought upon her every time.
She remembered having those initial butterflies with Poe when they first started dating, but with Ben – they were inexorably a whole new level of intensity in emotions and Rey could find no rhyme or reason why that was so.
Could it be possible that she was developing feelings for Ben, and he for her? She may have reached a bit in regards to the latter since Ben never gave her the impression that he was searching for someone to settle down with. Really, it was silly and impractical to believe such a thought – wasn't it?
But then Rey was in no position to consider anything that seemed possible to be impossible. If anything her life unwarrantedly served as a reminder that nothing was as solemn as it all may have seemed.
In highlight of the most recent events Rey's paint shop had come to serve as an escape haven: a little place in the world where she was able to leave every problem at its outdoor threshold even though it was bound to greet her afterwards with, like a dog would greet its owner.
