I came out of the marriage hall wearing a wedding gown looking for Harim my groom and saw him kissing his secretary across the road.
The flowers bouquet fell down from my hands and I walked towards them without noticing the red light. A car hit me and I flew away to fall far away on the road. I noticed Rawil CEO of a well known company running towards me before I fell unconscious.
Five years ago I fell in love with Harim who was from a poor family.
I decided to ask him out on Valentine's Day, " Harim will you go out with me."
He was shocked to hear my confession.
" Of course, why not," he said with a bright smile.
When my parents heard they opposed our relationship. They didn't want me to date anyone below my status as I was going to take over my dad's company as a sole heir.
To get their approval I forced him to focus on his studies and arranged classes for him so that he can graduate without any problems.
When we graduated and I took over my dad's company I invested in him and helped him build his own company. He became CEO of a little company.
At that time my parents started to ignore the fact that I was dating someone below my status. But they never accepted him and never wanted to meet him.
I bought us an apartment and started living together with Harim. Everything was going well until a year ago, when he started to pay less attention to me.
At first I thought he was distracted by the work, but later it became his habit. He was always pre-occupied by his cell phone.
" Harim are you listening to me?" I asked glancing at him typing something at his phone.
" Yeah I am, you continue."
I sighed and came out for fresh air. I turned around to look at him. He was smiling brightly.
" He never smile at me, but look at him smiling. What's so funny?" I mumbled and looked away.
The next morning, he came back from office and removed his tie .
" Don't get changed, we are going out," I said picking up my bag.
" Where are we going?" he asked as he knew nothing. I guessed right he wasn't listening to me.
There is a business party and we are going for shopping.
" Ahhh! I remember now," he said still puzzled.
While I was picking a dress for him he was looking at his cell phone constantly.
" Harim! What do you think about this?"
" It's good," he replied without looking.
" Harim you need to tell me what want to buy, we have been here for an hour."
" Just buy whatever you like, you have a better sense of styling than me."
" Whom are you talking to," I asked peeking at his cell phone.
He quickly hid his phone under his thigh, " Come on Rina, I am talking in our company chat group. We are all men, what else would we talk about. It's just men's styled chat." He looked angry.
I walked away and instructed the salesperson, " pack them all."
I ignored his behaviour thinking yeah that's how lovers get used to things when they live together, it's common.
One day he came back from his office and I saw a stain of lipstick on his shirt.
" What is this," I asked him putting my finger on it and smelled it's fragrance. It was lipstick indeed.
" Ahhh my colleague bumped into me. Maybe she was in a hurry," he said with an awkward smile.
" What is for dinner today?" He asked as he walked to bathroom.
I was deeply in love with him and never suspected him.
Another day I found condoms in his pants.
" Harim, did you buy condoms? But we have condoms at home." I said excited for tonight because he was always making excuses that he was tired from the long day of working.
He blinked twice and came closer to me, took me in his arms, " I bought them in case we ran out of them. I'm a little horny today," he said kissing me all over and I giggled.
He started to slack off from work and left his important work to his subordinates. I asked him several times to pay more attention but he didn't.
" Harim please," I almost yelled.
He glared at me and threw his cell phone at sofa. He walked to me with speedy steps and slapped me hard that I fell down on the floor. He started stomping me and I screamed out of pain.
When he got tired he stopped to take a breath and looked at me lying on the floor. My face was wet in tears.
He quickly held me in his arms, " I am really sorry Rina, I didn't mean it. It was a mistake," he held my bruised face into his hands, " I am really really sorry Rina. I love you. I must be out of my mind."
He hugged me once again, " forgive me this once."
The bell rang and he walked to the door saying , " I will take a look."
I stood up taking a support by the sofa and walked to the bathroom limping. I looked at my bruised face in the mirror and started crying. I took pictures of the bruises at my body and came out.
He was walking back and forth fidgeting.
" Who was at the door?" I asked with hushed voice.
" The neighbours asked if everything was alright. I made excuse that you saw a cockroach."
I looked at his cold expression.
He turned to me," It will not look good to tell them about such a trivial matters."
I sighed and slowly limped to the room.
" Are you okay? Should I take you hospital?"
" It's okay, I will take care of it."