The Hospital: A Short Story of Betrayal 💔

Chapter 1-6

Anonymous^

I would tell you my name but the story I'm about to tell you is so common that you can honestly just insert your own name. The same thing that happened to me could've happened to a Hannah, Tiana, Jessica, Shayla, anybody even you. Instead I'll just tell you my story so that you can avoid the same tragedy I faced. By telling you this I hope you can avoid having to insert your name. You see, I thought that I was in love. I mean love, LOVE. Not just that occasional butterfly feeling. Not the occasional skip a heart beat love. I was IN LOVE. The type of love that keeps you up all night thinking about that person. The type of love that makes everything around you remind you of them. The love that makes you yearn to be in their presence every single day. The type of love where if that person is even slightly upset with you it is earth shattering. That's how in love I was, but you see I was in love ME, MYSELF. Never once did I think to check on how the feelings were on the other side.

After allll the hurt, pain, and disappointment from my previous relationship I was ready to start fresh. Leaving someone I dated for years hurt me. I wasn't a quitter but the relationship had gotten so toxic that I actually lost myself. Sacrificed myself just to ensure that person would smile, but I got tired. Tired of pretending everything was okay. Tired of believing that things would change. Tired of being satisfied with the inadequate, so I left.

I vowed that my next relationship would be different. I'd be the best. I'd have someone to love me correctly because I had spent years dealing with someone who just couldn't love me the way that I wanted. I knew what I wanted THIS TIME. I gave myself time to get over the last relationship. That's when I met him. Him could be anybody too! Sadly, there aren't many guys left who know how to truly love a woman. It can be a Luke, James, Jeremy, or Tyler. For the sake of the story I'll just call him Luke.

You see he was absolutely charming. Tall and brown skin just the way I liked them. He was definitely a very very smooth talker, so I was automatically intrigued but I didn't let him know that I was interested. Instead I played it cool. That was the mistake I'd made in my last relationship. For some reason once a guy knows that you're interested they'll take that and use it to their advantage. I learned that shit the hard way and I thought that If I could maybe change the way I came off I'd get a better result this time around. However, I would soon find out that, that was a lie.

Coming off of a bad relationship I kept it very upfront with Luke. I told him I wanted to just be friends because I wanted to really get to know him. I don't know anybody else operates but when I date, I date to marry! I don't look for a boyfriend I look for a husband. Someone to glow and grow with. Establish a family with. Experience life with. Maturity. Communication. All the things that are easier said than done. Luke understood though. He wanted the same things I wanted, and I believed that. I could see in his actions the way he carried himself, the way he handled his business that he was mature and finically stable, unlike my ex, so I felt like that was a great start. I never minded "staying down" for my man when he's going through a rough finical issue, but there's limits to that. You can't be finically unstable ALL the time. Ima tell you like my mama always said "Ian raising nobody son". I lived by that motto! If I was finically stable I wanted my man to be too. I was willing to grow and glow with him. Push him to be everything that he could be. That's the type of WOMAN I am.

But was I the type of woman that Luke was ready for? That was what was crossing my mind at the beginning stages of our forming relationship. This was what crossed my mind as our friendship grew stronger. He made me laugh, and smile like no other. Do you know how long it had been since I smiled and laughed genuinely? To have someone come into your life at your lowest and put you on cloud nine again is a BEAUTIFUL feeling.

Little did I know he'd be the one to knock me lower than I've ever been in my life......