The Butterfly Effect

'Shoulders back.'

'Rest your hands on your lap.'

'Smile, but not too much. People will know it's fake.'

'Talk when you're supposed to.'

'Show affection towards him in front of others.'

"So, Mrs. Valentin I have a question for you?" He gripped my thigh underneath the dinner table as I looked at our neighbor. She gave me a mischievious smile as she glanced at him before looking at me.

"How's marriage life working out for you?" My hands started to tremble making him grip them tightly. It was a silent warning. I inhaled quietly and smiled.

"It's phenomenal, making me fall in love with him all over again."

Who knew the love he has for me would cause a typhoon inside me.

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22 year old lonely, innocent, Jane Fitzgerald was known as, 'Plain Jane.' Nobody seemed to care about her existence and that's why she became isolated from everyone. And she's okay with that. But yet she urged the feeling of being wanted and loved by someone who truly cares for her.

Her wish came true when she met Luca Valentin. Everything was perfect in the beginning until the man of her dreams became her worst nightmare.

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"Remember the butterflies that colored the air, each time we met?
They bounced, like children inside my stomach.
And play, a song with the cords of my veins.
You clipped, their wings with the knife of your lies.
And I, no longer can sense their effect."

- Quote written by: Clairel E.