Chapter 2 Cheat

"So this is the guest room, you can use it for the next two weeks. Go on, unpack your things while I prepare some foods. I know you're hungry." said Avah's friend name Melanie.

She's a very successful Hotel and Restaurant Manager that no one would ever think that she was raised by nuns and was once an orphaned child. When Melanie said goodbye to Avah to cook, only then did she start taking out her things.

First she took out her books and bible and then her clothes. When she finished arranging her things, she left the room and went to her friend's small kitchen. Melanie lives in a condo unit that she worked two years to buy. The condo is divided into five parts. The living room, master's bedroom, another bedroom, the kitchen and the bathroom.

After they ate, Melanie got ready for her date with her boyfriend who has been with her for three years. Avah was left alone at home. Her only hobbies are reading the life of Jesus or praying because she doesn't know how to operate the flat screen television in the living room.

By seven o'clock, she finished cooking dinner. Her friend Melanie was the only one she was waiting for so they could eat together. Avah didn't notice the time anymore, maybe because of her tiredness and her trip this morning, she didn't notice that she had fallen asleep on the sofa while waiting for her friend.

Loud sobbing woke the sleeping Avah. She got up from lying on the sofa and was surprised to see some broken things and bottles on the floor while Melanie was crying loudly on one side. She was lying on the cold floor.

"M-Melanie?" Avah called her friend. She worriedly approached her friend, knelt down in front of her and gently hugged the girl. Avah could smell the strong smell of alcohol clinging to her friend's body. She was drunk on alcohol and she was worried for whatever reason she was drunk.

"Melanie? Why are you crying? Why did you drink?" Ava asked. She doesn't want to wonder if she's okay because she already knows the answer to her own question.

"Aww!" Melanie cried. She wrapped her two hands around Avah's slender body and her crying got louder.

"Aww!" When Avah repeated her friend's name, she was in tears because of the girl's situation.

"What's wrong, Melanie? I'm just here, you can take all your anger out on me." She said in her gentle voice.

"He just cheated on me, Avah! Three years! We were together for three years! But he managed to cheat on me! He fucked a random girl and is now bearing his child! Greg left me, Avah! He cheated on me! He... he will marry the mother of his baby." Melanie's crying got louder next to her friend.

After Greg met Melanie just to break up, the girl went straight to the bar to drown herself in alcohol. She thought that maybe after getting too drunk she will fall asleep and the pain will disappear. But no luck. She only got worst of herself. Messed up and wasted.

"Melanie, hold on. Let's just think that he is not what God intended for you to be with." Avah said.

"Avah, I love him! You can say that easily because you have never experienced being hurt." Melanie cried.

"Melanie, we both came from the orphanage. We never once felt like having parents, do you want the child to be like us? The child in her womb is a blessing from God, Melanie. And everything in the world happens according to God's will." Avah said.

Melanie's crying only got stronger because everything Avah said was true and she didn't want to deny the innocent child has a right to have a father.

Avah helped her friend to stand up and then took her to her own room to rest. Avah watched over Melanie until her sobbing got weaker and weaker and finally fell asleep. Because sleep escaped her, she just cleaned the house and ate a little before returning to her friend's side.

It was three in the morning when she finally fell asleep on the sofa next to Melanie's bed. Because she was used to waking up early in the convent, her eyes opened at six o'clock in the morning. She cooked her friend a delicious soup to relieve her headache caused by alcohol.

After feeding Melanie, she went back to sleep. Her eyes were puffy from her tears last night. Because she was also awake, Avah decided to take a nap in the room that was lent to her. But before she rested, she cleaned the kitchen first and everything she used to cook.

When she woke up around one o'clock, she quickly went to the kitchen to prepare lunch for her friend. But she caught Melanie in the kitchen already cooking.

"M-Melanie... I'm sorry. I took a nap." Avah apologized. While stirring whatever dish was in the pot, Melanie smiled at her.

"Avah, no need to apologise. I'm not your housemate to ask for forgiveness. I should even thank you for understanding me last night. Imagine how many chores are waiting for me if you aren't here last night and you didn't clean up my mess." Her said and smile.

"Are you okay? How are you feeling?" Avah asked.

"Better, thanks to you." Melanie returned her gaze to what she was cooking. And when she remembered what she was thinking earlier, she looked back at Avah.

"Avah, are you free tonight?" She asked.

"Yes. I don't know anyone else besides you out here so I have no chance to meet." Avah said to answered her friend's question.

"Cool! Save your time for me tonight. I'll bring you to a place you've never been. When you get there you might change your mind about becoming a nun." Melanie said and laughed even though her eyes were still hiding pain.

"Alright, I'll come, but no matter how beautiful the place you take me to, my decision to become a nun will not change." Avah said firmly.

"We will see about that." Melanie let out a soft chuckle before announcing, "Lunch is ready!" She tried to act happy but her heart is rotten and towering. Later that night, even though she was drunk with alcohol, Avah was there to accompany her in her journey.