Chapter 3 A life she has known

(Ariel's POV condt)

Ariel had agreed to it, she had always agreed to anything Dave had said. She had moved out all her belonging which were not really much anyway, all her belongings could fit into one carrier bag, and had taken it with her to her hotel. Dave had arranged the hotel for her and had payed for the room. She had moved in, counting down the days they were going to be married, her happiness knew no bounds. She realized it was just a facade now. He probably wanted her out of the way for his new girlfriend and had planned for her to be out of the house.

Ariel had questions, had he never loved her like he claimed he did, was their relationship just a game to him? How was he able to pretend all this years? All the stealing glances really meant nothing? These were questions only Dave could answer.

With her heart shattered, She slowly stood up from the floor she had been sitting on. She saw a vast full of flower and the picked it up and smashed it to the floor. She stumbled outside, the bright sun almost blinding her eyes. She caught glimpses of the way people were looking at her, their faces painted with confusion and concern. Some looked at her with disdain, whispering away to the people beside them.

"I think sh'es mad" A young lady near Ariel whispered to the woman beside her.

"She looks too beautiful to be mad, she probably just got stood up by her husband to be. What a shame, which man would not want to marry a beautiful woman like her. She has really good body too."

With her gown stained with the dust and dirt from the floor she had sat on earlier, Ariel felt utterly exposed, as if the laughter and joy surrounding her had transformed into a cruel mockery of her pain. She fought against the overwhelming tide of emotions, each one crashing over her like a relentless wave.

Determined to regain some level of control, she frantically scrolled through social media, desperation clawing at her throat. What she found only deepened her humiliation. Dave had taken to social media to publicly mock her, turning her heartbreak into a spectacle. His posts were dripping with sarcasm, each one designed to ridicule her and boost his own ego.

In one of his posts, he was in their house with a really beautiful lady. The video showed Dave setting the table for a homemade romantic dinner for them as a surprise for the lady. She had walked in utterly surprised and had kissed Dave and thanked him. They had both sat down and they looked really happy together. How has she missed this, Ariel asked herself. So the late night were not just ordinary late nights at work, it was Dave spending time with this slut. She read the caption on the video.

"Spending time with my girlfriend and future wife Brielle.

Brielle was the girl in the picture with Dave. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.

She would have done anything and everything for him. She had decided that by moving to California with him, she would get a chance to start her life afresh.

She had to work jobs to be able to put herself though college. and even with that she could not afford to go to four year college so she had opted to go to a two year college instead. She did not need to bother about rent because she was living with Dave in his three bedroom apartment his parent had gifted him. In return, she would cook, clean and always do anything he wanted. To her that had been love.

"Why would he do this?" she thought, anger bubbling beneath her sorrow. The pain morphed into a seething rage, igniting a fire within her. She clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms as she processed the betrayal.

She continued scrolling through social media. His latest post had been sent out about twenty minutes ago, just immediately he had sent her the text that had destroyed her life forever.

In the post, Jayden was on one knees at a beach resort, he was proposing to Brielle asking her to marry him and she said yes.

The caption was, "The love of my life says yes to my marriage proposal, she makes me the happiest man in the world, i've never felt this much happiness with any other woman" and the posted date was today. Ariel could not believe her eyes. Dave has proposed to Brielle on the day they were to get married which was so cruel and Dave was not even in the country. The location of the video was in a beach in miami. Dave had taken the slut Brielle to Miami with him.

She zoomed in on the picture, she looked closer at the picture of Brielle, she was very pretty and she also had a good body. Ariel decided that she was not going to let Dave get away with it, since he had decided to humiliate her, she would do the same to him.

She searched her phone for a picture of her and Dave, She found the one where he had proposed to her. She sent it as a reply to his post on him and Brielle's engagement.

"Brielle, you're just a side chick. When you're done cruising the world with my man, he'd come back to me, to marry me, the real girl of his dream".

She turned off the screen of her phone and wept. In less than two minutes her phone started ringing from the number of notifications entering her phone. Her comment had gotten over a hundred replies in less than two minutes.

The first one was from Dave. "It was never real with us, you were just a stepping stone girl. A mistake I regret every day of my life. I wish i never met you"

Ariel could not believe her eyes.