Hey Sunshines! Exams are (nearly) over so I'm going to get back on my writing! Yay :D Hope you like this chapter!
New Beginnings
Two years passed by. I buried Alex and all the memories in a place where even I couldn’t reach them. Moved to a new town, completed college; everything went by pretty ordinary. It was tough in the beginning. I would wake up in the middle of the nights crying, that is the nights when I could sleep. Red became grey, grey became black; the world lost its color. To help myself with the emotions, I would write a letter to Alex each day. I didn’t post it. I would simply write it down, seal it in an envelope and put it in a black box I hid at the end of my closet. I just shut myself to every emotion. I didn’t feel pain, happiness, fear or nervousness; I was numb.
I took up waitressing at the inn till the time I cleared my finals and could apply for a real job. The inn was just adjacent to the railway station. That’s where I met Meg, my roommate. Meg was a complete wreck when I met her that night at the bar. She was crying badly, her eyeliner was running down, and she was gulping down tequila shots one after the other like they were water. After 15 shots, she finally told me her story. Meg was thirty years old and that night she had caught her boyfriend cheating with an eighteen year old in the back seat of her car. That’s when she collected her stuff, drove endlessly, till she landed up here. Two broken hearts in that little room, we became best friends instantly.
Meg took up an apartment nearby and hooked me up with cheap rent. She was a writer, and her first book was out in a few months, so money wasn’t really an issue for her. We liked to call ourselves the ‘last single girls’ until the day she began dating Brian, our new neighbour. She would now spend most of the nights at his apartment so I had the place to myself most of the time.
One night, when I had finally finished my night’s shift and was about to return home, I saw Alex on the TV, in an interview. “Alex Parker, owner of the Parker Industries finally going to tie the knot. Alex, voted the most eligible bachelor in the corporate world in 2011 by Beverly Hills Magazine, is sure going to break a lot of hearts. Well, this guy is off the market girls. So Alex, tell us how did you meet the lovely Miss Elizabeth again?” Elizabeth? How could he? He hated her. Was this his last bullet to try to kill me? I felt weak on my knees. Tears started pouring in. His moving on didn’t hurt me as much as to see how easily and quickly he had moved on. He told them they had been dating for around two years now. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life? He was perfectly happy kissing her. It was like we had never been anything to him. And here I was, punishing myself for the past 739 days.
I wanted to run home as quickly as I could and bury myself in my bed. Meg opened the door. “Alex got engaged.” That was all I could say. Meg knew exactly what I needed. She asked no further questions, headed to the refrigerator and poured out two large glasses of wine.
Finally when I cried so much that I was out of tears, she told me. “Katy, you are a beautiful young girl. Girl, if I was your age I would be going places. Why are you locking everyone out? Look at me, I was you a year back. But I moved on too. You are coming with me to Martin John’s New Year Eve’s party tomorrow. A friend hooked me up with the invites. It’s going to be A-list so a lot of new people to meet.” She winked.
PS- Katy might meet someone new. A lot coming up in the next update :)
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