- The Saddest Day
Lim
After four hours in surgery. I finally leave the operating room. I’m exhausted I wash up to go out into the hallway and when I’m done, I go straight to my office. Once there. I collapse onto the small so I have to rest. I put my hand on my forehead and start to think. Very soon, I’m going to say “yes” The true yes that I have longed for
I close my eyes. An image comes to mind: Annie dressed as a bride on our wedding day I know she was looking forward to that moment with great excitement before Maria amived. But someday she will understand that I was not the one. Someday the right man for her will give her the most beautiful memory of her life. That’s why I dared to do such a cruel Thing Otherwise, she wouldn’t give up
Even now I wonder how I got this far. But I couldn’t, I simply couldn’t continue with this farce. Maris had returned and just a few days ago, she had sworn to me that I was the love of her life and that the cnidess she had shown during these long months apart was because she felt so ashamed before my parents
During the time she was gone, I felt quilty for letting my mother send her away. But I know very well that she did it because she almost caught us kissing. Although the didn’t see the whole scene, she drew her conclusions and decided was better that we be apart. And she sem her back to her place of origin, yes, to an excellent school and also close to her maternal relatives. But the first time I went to look for her, I could tell the wasn’t happy
I had to convince her to do her part to face the world together, but for her simply wasn’t an option. She had just tumed
med eighteen and her guardianship still belonged to my parents, so she had no choice but to obey. But now, being of legal age, she didnt have to submit to the impas tons of her guardians. She was free to choose what to do with her life, yet she encouraged me to go ahead with the wedding Uml that day the bachelor party
I saw her amive, as beautiful as ever, or even mom so With her long blonde hair loose down her back and her figure wrapped in that black dress, she looked mone mature, more womanly. And I felt like I was coming back to life. However, I was hurting I followed her down the hallway through the crowd to one of the farthest private
rooms.
“Maria, what are you doing here? ( didn’t want my vorce to come out harsh, but the pain of seeing her hem, back, but with me about to get married hurt my soul. “Why did you come back? My voice comes out almost as a shout, and she begins in sch
came because I don’t want you to get marred You made that manage promise to me frat and want you to keep it. You can’t marry Annie because you love me. I’m so
sorry didn’t accept your proposal to run away together a month ago when you came looking for
but if you want me to go. W do ghr now and you’ll never see me again.” She looks at me with tears in say anything, I hear the door open and my fancée encers, who claps her hands at me some before her
a comand for fear of hurting everyone, but / regretted it. I’m here.
her eyes. My heart aches to see her in that state. But before I can
“Well well you’re back. But it’s too late because Liam and I are geming mamed So go back to where you come from fook at her furiously. How dare the tell her that and
speak to her like that. She has na night
“You don’t tell her what to do. She night I can’t many you because i afready made that manage promise to her. It’s best to call this whole thing off. You know don’t ove you see the pain in Annie’s eyes, but also in Maria’s. I don’t need to choose. Maria will always be my first choice.
Fine. Then choose. Her or me.” I tum to see Marla starting to cry, but I take her hand and ny to comfort her.
Thon’t worry, IN talk to my parents and call this nonsense off I promise I keep my promise. Just wait for me.” My gid nods and walks out
I rum to look at Annie. She looks at me defiantly. So speak to her harshije
Break up with me, if you do it we won’t have any problems. Don’t forget that don’t love you and you will ever be happy by my side.“I can see a ficker of poln in her eyes.
but I can’t take back what I said
I
“Mawon Youre going to marry me. Choose who is more important to you, your pants or her if you want to end things between us, you have to be the one to act won’t make it that easy for you. See you at the alar“
When she leaves, /collapse into one of the molars. I put my head between my legs of course my parents are important to me, but Maria is more important now. Im going to spend the rest of my life with her so i dont have much to think about Now I just have to fish this charade. But There to convince Annie that we need to be in agreement. Otherwise, she will be hurt because i can’t fulfil my promise to her, I can’t.
“End of fashbackTM
And the big day amived
There I was, in the groom’s room, about to go out to wait at the altar for a woman I don’t love. There’s a light knock on the door. The exquisite perfume I inhale tells me she’s here and my heart skips a beat.
I walk slowly when the door opens Maria’s presence fills the entire room. She closes it behind her, and when she is in front of me, she throws herself into my arms to kiss
ne desperately. When we stop for a moment, we leave our foreheads pressed together.
“Are you sure about what you are going to do that moment, there was no trace of hesitation in me. Why did I wait until the last moment? Simply because Annie wouldnt give up She knewididnt want this, but she insisted that the wedding would take place unless I stopped I warned her than wouldn’t go through with it, but when I said out loud, she made it sound like a joke. If I didn’t curb her hopes if I didn’t break her heart, she wouldn’t be able to move on. She needed to be free of me, so that There would be no trace of her supposed love for me in her heart.
And before I rejected her, for a
And it seemed to work. What I didn’t count on was that everything we experienced together would have touched me in some way too. And b moment, I hesitated indecision seems to be my thing
Im in the guest room, resting for a moment and without wanting to the memories of the last few days before the wedding come to mind. The night I sow them, kissing, making fun of me, with Liam assuring me that the wedding wouldn’t take place. So I had to have everything ready for that day. At least I was able to leave with dignity and
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not stay to see the pity in everyone’s eyes.
So, she didn’t agree to call off the wedding?” That hateful Maria was talking to Liam, hidden in that comer of the garden. Thanks to the fact that I saw them when they w going there, I was able to follow them without them noticing entered the small mom, which had a window that allowed me to see and hear what they were saying.
“No, she didn’t want to. She’s too proud I only have one thing left to do, but it will be the most drastic.”
“So, ale you going to do what you told me?” That last part catches my attention. I get closer to the window, but what he says bwaks my heart.
“Yes, it’s something very drastic, but necessary: il reject her at the altar.” When he finishes saying that, I notice that his voice doesn’t sound as firm as it did at the beginning
When he finished saying that, Maria looked in my direction, as if she knew I was there. Her mocking smile confirmed it. I had nothing left to hear, so I left that place where they were planning the saddest day of my life. Confront them? I had already done it and it was to use. Let’s see how far my beloved fiancé is willing to go.
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