I Can't Let You Go

Himalayas

HIMALAYAS - A few days earlier

"Are you ready?" Rose asked her and she was wearing a huge white dress. It was rather a cape, and Emilia wore the same thing. That was the dress what the hotel gave them. There was no place for branded clothes and pieces of jewelry. It was not that place. Em also took off everything except that ring. She just needed this on her hand. She wanted to wear it. No matter what are the rules or habits there. 
"We can go." Emilia nodded and joined Rose. They were started to walk down the stairs and went outside of the hotel. 
"I thought we spend more time together, but you always just reading," Rose stated.
"That soothes me. I love to read." Em shrugged her shoulders.
"But we are here to be seen. Together. As besties."
"Well, you've chose the wrong place," Emilia answered. "No phone, no wifi, no internet allowed.
"I just chose the venue, not the hotel." Rose rolled her eyes. "You have a clever mom."
"What did you say?" Emilia shook her head and frowned.
"I've talked with her after you refused to talk with me on the phone while you were away with that romantic getaway with my fiancé. But she is worse than you." she was sarcastic. "But it won't ruin my plan. It will be even better if you share this as a personal post on your social media account. It will be ... more believable." Rose admitted.
"So I assume the essence of this ... joint pastime is to have some great joint pics." Emilia made a face.
"How clever you are." She took her arm and laughed. "It will be amazing. The hotel take care of everything, so don't worry, you won't get bored now your lover left you here."
"You really don't want to stop this?" Emilia pulled her arm away and turned to Rose.
"It is just the truth. You stole my fiancé, you stole my life, and I'll make sure you'll pay a high price for it," she told Emilia's face.
"I am sorry okay?" Emilia rolled her eyes. "But it is really you who want to lecture me what I did meanwhile you were the one who stole him from me? With a lie? Years ago?" she raised her voice. 
"I don't know what are you talking about Emilia. He chose me. You did not want him" she made a face.
"Of course you made it sure, to let me know how in love was you two are. You've lied to me, you've lied to him, to have him. To get him." Emilia hissed.
"All's fair in love and war." there was a smile on Rose's face but Em did not scared of her.
"That is right." Emilia looked straight to her face. "But this time, I am fighting this war too. And let me tell you something. I won't lose. This time. Do not even dream about it." 

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"That sounds the same Rose, as I know." Kit told Emilia when she told him this part of the story. "I mean... she is the same bitch." he continued, while he was putting on his socks. 
"It was just the start." Emilia started to search for a dress in her suitcase. "I mean we argued a lot and we had many disagreements but... at the end of the week, she ... changed a bit." 
"Changed?" Kit raised his eyebrow. "That is hard to believe." 
"You want to hear it or not?" Emilia asked him and straightened up. 
"Of course I want." Kit answered meanwhile he was pulling up his pants. 
"You were right... a bit. She ... really tried to ... made me believe that you won't be faithful to me for too long." Emilia admitted. 

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HIMALAYAS - A few days earlier

"Those monkeys were scary as hell" Rose laughed. They were sitting in a bar. After they got back into their rooms, she ran for Emilia, frightened, because there were many monkeys in her room. After they sent them away, they agreed to make a truce, or at least try it. They went to the hotel bar. 
"I never saw monkeys that close" Emilia laughed too. 
"I know it was weird." Rose continued and drank her second glass of wine.
"You should... not drink that much." Emilia made a face. 
"Oh, not now, please. Not saint Emilia" she rolled her eyes. "I am not here for that." 
"Yeah, I know you loved to enjoy life. And pull him with yourself." Emilia couldn't hide her feelings.
"I did not have to pull him with myself, miss angel." Rose rolled her eyes. "You know what is your biggest mistake? You think he is a saint like you. He is not. He never was. Right now he is playing the good guy, but it won't last long. He loves to drink, loves to do coke, loves to enjoy life. Girls. That is the way he loves to live." Rose shrugged her shoulder. "And I wanted him to be happy, so I let him. Why wouldn't I? He always comes home to me." 
"That is not true." Em shook her head.
"Are you sure? Or you just want to see him as a person who you want him to be, not the person who he really is?" Rose leaned closer to her. 
"It is different between us. He just needed someone who..."
"Oh for fuck sake!" Rose raised her voice and laughed about her. "It won't last long Emilia, and you know what? That is why I'm going to win this war. Because in the end, I'll be the one who understands his behavior. Who can forgive his mistakes. His ... steps asides ... his one night stands. He is on the other side of the world, surrounded by beautiful women. If he sleeps with one of them you'll never know. And he will. Believe me. He can't resist for too long." Rose laughed at her. "I let him do what he wants. That is the key. That is why sooner or later he'll return, no matter how it looks like now."
"That does not prove anything else, just you don't know him," Emilia answered with a serious face. "He was a mess next to you, but right now he is a happy man. Process it."