The Convenient Marriage (MLB Fanfiction) COMPLETE✔

Chapter 51

I'm a cliche. Please enjoy the mess and try not to cringe.
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Marinette was completely taken. 

  There was a cool sensation in her scalp, and Marinette hadn't felt this much sadness and confusion in her entire life.

She wasn't sure how she was supposed to feel. 
  Here was the man that stole years of her life, and not only betrayed her trust, but he literally ripped everything out from underneath her.

There was an awkward silence between the two of them, and Marinette could only hear the chirping of the birds out in the garden behind him.

Felix looked at her awkwardly, rocking back and forth on his feet as Marinette appeared to be in a horrific trance.

   "Can I come in?" Felix asked. "I hear that my parents gifted you our old home. I'm curious to see what you've done with the place. I know it's been a while, I was back in town and thought to stop by to see how you've been."

  Marinette blinked, her heart squeezing in her chest as the words he spoke to her weren’t making sense.
 
  How could he just completely abandon her, rip her heart out from her chest and then leave town knowing full well what he had done to her? How did he expect to simply come back and talk to her like nothing had ever happened?

  It was a mindset that she couldn't understand. 

But this was Felix. 
There was a sense of familiarity when it came to him. It brought her back to when things were okay. He was her first love, he was the first person she lived with. She believed he was the first person that showed her what love was. 
But he cheated on her.

  Marinette pressed her lips together, slowly stepping outside and closing the door behind her. Her hand trembled as she reached up to fix the strap of her pyjama top to fit her shoulder.

"I… I can't let you in. The place is a mess..." Marinette fibbed, worried about how if she'd let him in, he would probably never leave. 

  She had so many questions. She wanted him to know that she knew what he had been up to, what he did, why he left, why he did what he did to her.
 
  Marinette ran a hand through her hair, stepping out into the garden that surrounded them.

"Why do you think it's okay to disappear for years with no heads-up whatsoever and then come back like nothing ever happened?" Marinette asked, crossing her arms as she could feel the warm grass beneath her toes. 

Felix sighed, lowering his eyes to the ground as he squinted against the sun. He bunched his hands into his pockets and faced away from her.
"I don't expect you to forgive me right away. I can't blame you for the way I treated you back then,” Felix explained, his voice soft. "I messed up, I wasn't thinking straight. I was being selfish."
Felix paused, turning back to glance at Marinette who stared blankly at him.

"But I heard your name through the grapevine during my time in university… my parents told me that they had given you my childhood home and then I couldn't stop thinking about you. I missed what we had."

  Marinette widened her eyes, her bottom lip trembling as she couldn't believe what she was hearing. She knew everything that he did. She knew that he was sleeping with another woman, and then he came back to the same bed to lay beside her.

  There was a possibility that Felix had a child somewhere, and that thought destroyed her.
"Y-You heard my name through the grapevine?" Marinette asked, her chest tightening as she tried her hardest not to cry. "So then you know about my marriage."