A WINNING MISTAKE

Chapter 3

Nisha(22)

Me and Ethan(24) had been dating for 11months and for a long distance relationship i was really surprised that we lasted that long.

We had dated before when i was 17 but we had to break up because we were too young to manage. All these years we had been friends. He really cared about me and he was always there for me.

I had known him since we were kids because he stayed in Borderville. His house was a block away from my aunt's place. Whenever i would visit my aunt or my mum i would see him .

When my parents divorced , when my mum got sick , when I lost my ex boyfriend , he was my shoulder so he was one of the people I treasured so much in my life.

It's so funny how we got back together. I was dating this guy, Brice(25) and he turned out to be a violent, abusive psychopath. Love is really blind and i hoped he was going to change.

But one day he laid his hands on me. I was so broken, how could a mere boyfriend just hit me like that. Yes i was wrong but laying hands on me was too much.

We continued with the relationship but it wasn't working out anymore. I lost all respect for him when he hit me. I left for Borderville to see my mum and i really needed a break away from him.

Then on valentine's day, we argued and i let everything out. I told him that i don't love him anymore and dating him was one of the things i will always regret in my life.

I blocked him on WA , txt messages and phone calls. I was done with his b.s. He didn't deserve me and i wanted to be single and give myself time to heal.

But Ethan came through, he wanted me back. I had no reason to turn him down because i was a few days single and i knew he was never going to do what Brice did to me.

I was so happy i got back together with him , if i had turned him down i was probably going to be crying over a boy who hit me months ago. But Ethan healed me.

When i left Borderville , he assured me that he was going to be visiting. He was a man of his words so i had nothing to worry about. 

He called me every single day, he would send me money for me to just buy whatever i wanted even though i never asked for it. He paid for my hairdos too.

Whenever he visited he would bring me gifts and take me to a nice place . He really made me feel special. He never asked for anything in return. All he wanted was for me to love him.

I was so satisfied with him and I never thought of cheating on him. But something was missing in our relationship and as time moved on , I started to see what it was.

Ethan was a very busy guy. He had a really good paying job and he was very dedicated to it. The first trimester of our relationship he managed to balance our relationship and work and i never complained.

Second and third trimester things started changing. We would rarely chat on WA and we were not getting enough time to get to know each other deeper than we did.

Ethan had always been a closed book and i tried to get to know him deeper but it wasn't that easy. I started to see how different we were from each other.

I was a crazy, outgoing, open minded person and he was the opposite. I realized how i was pretending to be someone else around him just to match his character but i couldn't keep up anymore.

With him being so busy with work, i was getting less and less of his attention. Our conversations ended up being greetings and goodnights. No one really enjoys a relationship when it gets to this.