Chapter 5 Reality

I felt the world collapse.

"He's what?"

Tobi stared at me. "He's married, Andrea."

I turned my gaze to Calvin, his eyes were watering.

At that moment, I did calculations on myself. He wanted no know to know about our relationship, he hid me. He never posted pictures of me.

I closed my eyes for a second.

"Calvin, please tell me Tobi's lying. He's not telling the truth right?"

I was praying for him to say no, to say that Tobi's making things up. He can't be married, he can't have a wife because he promised to me that I'll be the person he'll be marrying and no one else.

He fucking promised to me.

"I'm sorry,"

From that word, my world collapsed.

"That's all you can fucking say?" I yelled at him. "You made me your fucking mistress."

Everything makes sense now on why he doesn't want people to know about our relationship, on why he doesn't want to introduce me to his parents because all along I was a fucking mistress.

"How long have you been married?"

He didn't speak, he was just there staring at me.

"How fucking long Calvin?"

He gulped. "I've been married for 2 years now,"

I laughed.

He's been married for 2 years, that's before we were even a thing. He has been making a fool out of me for 2 years now.

"So all this time, from the very beginning you're married. Yet you still made me believe lies,"

He didn't move.

I wanted to hurt him, hurt him the same way I'm feeling pain right now.

I wanted to shout at him for making me a fool, I was tired. I'm tired from all of this shit and now I just want to disappear from all of this.

"Don't you ever come close to me again," I said and wiped my tears away.

He looks at me with his pleading eyes but I ignored him and started to walk away.

When I came out of school, I couldn't stop myself from crying.

Tobi is right beside me.

"He said I was the only girl he would love. I endured all of it, I didn't complain at all for whatever reason because I chose to trust him yet I gave my trust to the wrong person."

"Andrea, stop crying."

"It fucking hurts to know that someone will make you a fool."

Tobi sat beside me and patted my shoulders. "Everything's gonna be alright."

But I knew that was a lie.

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I didn't go to school, I didn't talk to anyone. I even turned my phone off.

I needed time for myself.

I can't imagine how he managed to do that, he was married yet he pursued me like he was a bachelor. I fucking gave him everything.

Removing him from my life was a big challenge but I need to do it. Instead of mourning at home, I went out.

My foot took me to a club.

I was quietly drinking alone when someone say beside me.

My eyebrows went up. "What are you doing here?"

He didn't speak, he just looked at me.

I watched how girls tried to flirt with him and how strangers greet him.

"Are you the owner of this bar? So far I think most of the people here know you."

He chuckled.

Then ladies came again, tried to flirt with him and I laughed so hard how he turned down the girls.

"Let's go." He pulled me up and drags me to the VIP Section.

From there, it was not too noisy, it's not that crowded anymore unlike the Non-VIP Section.

"You've been absent for the past few days, then I'll be seeing you here. In this kind of place,"

I rolled my eyes. "I needed space,"

"So you define space as drowning yourself in alcohol and not going to school?"

I nodded at him, what else should I do? If I go to school, I'll just see Calvin there or stay at my apartment and think about him all day long.

"Are you not drinking?" I asked him because he was just watching me.

"I can't drink, if I get drunk who will drive you home?"

I looked around. "Where are your friends?"

"They're downstairs." He said.

"There you go." But he still did not drink. He watched me get drunk, things are now starting to spin around me.

"Tobii." I uttered his name.

"Mmmm?"

"Let's go home," I extended my hand at him.

He stood up and went near me, he helped me to stand up and assisted me on walking. When we reached his car, he handed me bottled water.

He made me drink it.

Silence eloped us as I watched him close the lid of the bottled water for me, he also started to maneuver the car.

"Why do men like to hurt women?" Almost every man in the world I know has hurt women. Is it really their job to destroy our hearts?

"You just feel in love with the wrong person." He said.

"Is it wrong? I gave him everything I have. I didn't leave anything to myself just to make him happy but why the fuck did he still hurt me?"

"Do you actually think he's the one for you because remember if he's the one for you, he wouldn't hurt you like the way you're hurting right now?"

I stared at him.

"So in short, he's not the one for me?"

He stopped the car and looked at me.

"That's for you to find out."

He led me out of the car and supported me until I reached the bed. He didn't take me home, we went straight to their house.

"Stay here, I'll ask Manang to help you out,"

Inside my head what he said, run through my head in loopholes, 'because remember if he's the one for you, he won't hurt you like the way you're hurting right now. Maybe he's right, maybe Calvin and I aren't really for each other.

Maybe we were just meant to me but not destined to be together.