I was in the middle of packing when the ring on my finger came into view. I stopped momentarily staring at it to remember how it all happened. My momentary stare turned into something else and I started to reminisce about how I met Micheal and how we got to this point; especially last night.
I can't believe I was thinking about him cheating on me when he was actually planning to propose to me.
Truth be told; I've never been so sure of anything in my life before but I was so sure that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Micheal. He was so thoughtful, caring and sweet.
Lost in my thoughts, the sound of the doorbell brought me out of my reverie. Thinking it was Michael, I hurriedly dumped the remaining things on my bed inside my box and zipped it up. Going downstairs and opening the door I proceeded to jump on the person thinking it was Micheal when I stopped in my tracks. It wasn't Micheal at all, it was Chris.
I was shocked. I wasn't expecting him at all. Ever since the day he stormed out on us he didn't pick my calls and he never tried to reach out so why he was at my door this particular day was all so shocking.
I took in his appearance and I must say he was looking shabby. His hair was overgrown and not combed, his clothes were rumpled, he had a full grown beard and he had bags under his eyes like he had not been sleeping at all. In general he was looking rough; I had never seen him like this in my years of knowing or dating him.
I looked up at him and that was when I noticed that he was already looking at me by it seemed like he was just looking through me. His stare felt really creepy. Against my better judgement I opened the door to let him into the house and excused myself to change into something more presentable.
By the time I got downstairs, he was pacing not even sitting. He looked at me and continued pacing. He looked really strange at that moment.
"Christian" I called out to him softly to get his attention
He turned to me and just stared like he wasn't seeing me. I was about to talk before he sat down abruptly.
"Do you need anything to drink or eat?"
He looked at me and shook his head.
Alright then
We sat down in complete silence and I started to wonder why he came over if he had nothing to say. I decided to break the ice.
"Do you need anything?"
No response
I kept on talking to fill in the void and make the atmosphere not so awkward. Well it was already awkward considering the fact that I was still wearing only Christian's shirt with nothing underneath and he wasn't even responding to whatever I was saying.
"I noticed the way you behaved the last time we met up and I tried calling you several times but you never picked up the phone and now you are here looking like this, is everything alright?"
He still didn't reply and I got fed up talking when he said something
"I'm sorry what was that?"
"You" he replied
"Me what?" I asked confused
"You asked if I needed anything and I need you"
I looked at him so stunned. I studied him looking to see maybe he was joking or something but his face was just so stoic. I've never seen him this expressionless. It was unnerving.
He spoke up after a while.
"Charlotte, I know we parted on the wrong foot. I cheated on you not only that but with your best friend and I'm sorry. For years I've not been able to live with myself knowing what I did and how we broke up. I tried going to your house but you had moved. I felt so heartbroken. I tried my possible best to find you and now that I've found you I don't want to lose you again. I know you might feel its too soon or something like that but I still love you. I've changed Char and I want us to be together again. I miss you"
This left me in a state of shock. I couldn't believe my ears.
From shock my anger came out of nowhere. Remembering all he did and the pain he caused me. He has no right to say these things to me; not now, not ever. I won't take that
"Christian you cheated; not just with anybody but with someone I called my sister, that was a choice you made. You could have rejected her advances but you didn't. That's on you. I can't go back to you just because you realized your mistakes. What were you even thinking? Looking for me and then what? You would find me and profess your undying love and we would get married and maybe live happily ever after? Grow up Chris, we are over and we can never be anything again. You ruined us so deal with the consequences. Besides I'm getting married an-"
"What did you just say?"
"I said I'm getting married. Micheal proposed and I said yes"
"You did what?"
"I said yes. I'm in love with him"
I guess I said the absolute wrong thing at that moment because he became really angry. He stood up and moved towards me. I got up and started moving backwards till he cornered me to a wall.
He stared at me for a while and took in my appearance for the first time since he got here.
I've never seen him this angry at all so the look he was giving me made me really scared.
He raised his hand to my face and out of fear I used my hands to cover my face which I guess was another bad move as that gave him a view of the ring Micheal gave me last night.
He looked at it for some minutes and looked at me again staring at my face intently. Removing my hands from my face he caressed my face gently. It looked like he was trying so hard to memorize every feature of it. He stopped suddenly and grabbed me kissing me softly. I was stunned into silence. I couldn't breathe and couldn't move not even having the strength to push him off me.
He released me after few minutes still staring.
"You've had sex with him haven't you?"
I doubt if he wanted an answer to that or if he said that as a statement but before I could regain myself, he had gone with his words fluttering into my ears.
I love you so much that it hurts Char.

What are your thoughts on what happened? If you were Charlie would you push him away? Would you tell Michael? Would you go back to Chris?
Keep the comments coming I wanna know what you would do.
Any guy reading this would you expect your gf to tell you about things like this and most importantly can that be considered as cheating?
Okay it goes in two ways- can what happened be classified as cheating and question number 2; if she doesn't tell Michael is that cheating- that's if your number 1 answer is no
So tell me, I'm ready to hear what you have to say
See you tomorrow lovelies
Xoxoxoxoxo
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