Until Them...

Chapter One

NORAH

Every kiss, every touch, every tear. They've all be a lie. A trick and a joke at my own expense. My brain knew, it knew not to trust him, but my heart just wouldn't listen. How could he do this to me? To throw everything we had away like that, by keeping all those secrets and lies. It all makes sense to me now, why he'd suddenly get angry or push for me to be honest with him. He was lashing out because he hated himself for what he's doing, and I hate him for doing it too. Maybe when you have money you get bored easily and you find something or someone to play with. That's all I was, something to fill the time until his girlfriend came around. It still kills me to think that, to know that he's been with another. That he's kissed, touched and loved another. That he's loved someone other than me. I've only ever loved him, and I though that it was the same for him, but it was all a lie. Valentina was his, and I another girl on the roster, a conquest and a game that he enjoyed playing. Gabriel's a liar and nothing he can say will ever change the way I feel about him now. For a moment I thought, just maybe I could finally have had the life I wanted. The life I thought I'd deserved after all I've had to endure, and that I could have it with him. All of that was gone in an instant and now every fear I've ever had's now turned into reality. If pain can fade, then maybe so can my love for him. Because right now it feels like it's killing me, that I might just die from this torment.
"What do you want to do Norah?" Eli asks me as we head down the apartment building.
"I need to get out of here" I tell him.
"Norah please, stop. Talk to me" Gabriel shouts after me and he's following us.
"Go away Gabriel" I shout at him as I try to escape.
"Don't go...Please, you can't leave me"
"I was never yours. You can't love two people at the same time, and clearly you still love her. You wouldn't have stayed as long as you did if you didn't"
"That's not true, you know that's not. I don't love her. I've never loved her. I love you and only you"
"You're full of crap. You love yourself, and no one else" I snap unable to take this anymore. I look at Elijah for help, because I don't want to be anywhere near him. Elijah lets go of me and turns down the hall as I run off.
Gabriel starts to warn him, "Get of me Eli. I swear if you don't let me go right now —" but I no longer hear him as I run flee the apartment building. But I have nowhere to go, because everywhere I could escape to Gabriel knows about. What do I do?
"Taxi" I shout into the street as a yellow car comes wizzing down. I climb inside I tell him to start to drive as Gabriel comes slamming at the door.
"Norah, please don't go" he begs banging on the locked door.
"Drive...please" I bark at the driver a bit too harshly. I watch as Gabriel fades from my view, as he sees me drive away. I continue to cry hoping that this is all some terrible joke. A trick at my own personal expense and eventually everyone will turn around and tell me they were kidding. That I can go back to normal and continue to live my old life. I got used to being happy, and not arguing or having any terrible things creep up on me. But this one crept at such a slow pace that you'd think it didn't exist. If pain can fade, then maybe so can my love for him. Because right now they're both as painful as the other.