The Ignorant Lie

Prologue

Looking in the mirror he saw his reflection, he looked pale. Even though he was well groomed today, he looked pale. The slight makeup on his face did nothing to hide that his dull eyes or his fake smile. He was confused and felt heavy. He was just done getting dressed up for his engagement. He was getting engaged to a man he had never met, a man he never saw. He didn't know how to feel about it. Actually no! He knew how he felt. He wasn't happy, he was scared. His soon to be fiancé lived in America. He knew absolutely nothing about him except his name. What he liked, whether he had a girlfriend or not, what if he didn't even want to get married yet?

All these thoughts were running around his head but he didn't know who to talk to he wanted to feel but he couldn't but his mother imposed he was happy. His soon to be husband was his mother's best friend Trisha's son.

Trisha and her husband Yasir moved to Doncaster four years ago. Jay and Trisha became good friends not long after. They were attached to hips. They did everything together. After a year of moving to Doncaster, Trisha and Yasir got divorced. In those hard times for Trish, Jay and Louis supported her. Louis took care of her like his own mother. Her son Zayn was away cause of his job and couldn't join his mother at times but she visits him every opportunity she can get, he was Trisha's pride. She spoke highly of him.

Last year Jay and Trisha went to visit Zayn together for two reasons 1 Zayn can't visit and 2 Trisha didn't want to go alone so she brought Jay with her. They spent two weeks at his place .It wasn't much of a surprise to Jay when Trisha asked for Louis hand in proposal of his son. Jay was contented and excited about this proposal. She didn't force louis to accept this proposal as such, but louis can see his mum's wishes. He wanted her to be happy. She spent some time in America, a last year with Zayn. He was a manager in Worlds Bank. Zayn was a lovely guy, quite the gentleman, or so they say.

He didn't know if Zayn was happy with this engagement or not, but Trisha kept saying that he's happy with this proposal, nobody imposed anything on him. But louis has his own doubts because of him not being present at the moment. Trisha said its because of his urgent meeting in Africa.
Louis finally tore his eyes from his reflection and went downstairs where his mother and Trisha were waiting for him. He was feeling a burden on his shoulders. He wanted to scream, cry and ask how can he get engaged to someone who isn't even present for the event.

He gulped down the knot in his throat and walked towards them.
Trisha was the first one to notice him as he walked down. She was filming the whole event for her son. As he reached her, she turned her camera towards him.

"And here's my lovely boy, oh Louis you look so handsome my dear" Trisha said with a bright smile on her face.Louis looked towards her and smiled
"Thank you, Trisha."

His smile was fake. Both of the older women knew it was because he was scared and nervous. And Zayn being not here didn't do any good either. He Scared of the unknowns. Scared of what might happen next but they ignored it for Louis's sake. They knew what decision they had made. They knew that both of their sons were going to be happy. They saw the potential they both have, they were highly capable. If one was careless other care too much, if one was a bit short tempered other was calm. If one was stubborn other was patient.

Trisha handed her camera over to Sib, Trisha's maid. She had been there with her ever since she was a child, she was about louis's age and was like a best friend to him.

Trisha walked towards Louis and smiled up at him while putting the engagement ring on his finger. She looked directly into the camera and said "I'm recording all this for you, So that you know what did you miss. You idiot, look my son is very handsome. You better take care of him or I'll personally disown you. He's Your responsibility. You better feel like because you couldn't find a guy like him even if you try" she ended with a laugh while Jay chuckled with her.