Chapter 13 : Never After

Love of my life, my sweet husband, marrying him was never a mistake but wonderful regrets that I never came across to leave him. I can't leave him actually I am never going to leave him alone in the dark to become leftover rotten meat in the freezer.

Our life begins when I was in highschool, grasping realities of my surroundings, learning, taking lessons, failing, falling and backing up and then at my busy schedule he just happened.

Me, Isabella and him, Nathan, we both were working for our college to be in our best universities, competition, teamwork projects and experiences that we learned in college were our war weapons in our battle of life. Both of us, joined in same university, every day we started to hang out, meeting in our favourite café, going to places where we were never been before.

One day, I was late to meet him in his house, heavy rain outside, I wasn't expecting that day, didn't wanted to go outside for classes if that day was in weekdays but I got lucky, it was weekend. We both planned to go for little walk around the corner in movie theatre to watch our favourites then to carry on from there. Just wanted to be with eachother for a while.

Despite of everything, I got ready for outing with him, wore everything to not to get wet at any reason but still I fell in the mud that just outside his front yard, it was just not my lucky day I thought. No one was there to come out from the house to help me. I got up by myself with muds on me and managed somehow to walk infront the door, it was open. I slipped through the front door, looking around if I could find any family members or bathroom? There was no one but I found the bathroom to wash myself a little for movie theatre.

I thought he wasn't alone on weekends but it seemed he was. Soon my guess proved wrong, I thought, giggling sounds and running around footsteps upstairs for some reason. I slowly went through the lobby to walk through the upstairs room, found out I wasn't the only one in the house, he was getting ready for outing and a girl just giggling from a room back, telling him faintedly not to leave her there alone but he saw me before he replied to her and just came to me and shuts the door behind him.

I didn't asked him anything about her because I wasn't sure if there was any girl or just heavy rain. He didn't asked me anything either. We did what we planned, the whole movie time I was agitated with lots of emotions and confusions in me then he hold my hand when there was a horrible screaming scene. He proposed me right after we had ordered our ice-cream after the movie.

Sooner before we knew by ourselves, we got married after that night, had kids, two little cuties and three eldest sons and I still don't know was there any girl in his room that rainy day .

So many years just passed away, our kids now all grown ups. We had many ups and downs in our marriage life and went through all together without doubting and confusing each other about our relationship. I really lived my dream life with my love, my husband. And I am thankful to him for gifting me such a wonderful life by being a beautiful husband of mine. My eyes are sleepy now, I need to take a rest and see my husband on my dreams. It's been this way for years now after he found dead in his bedroom at one cold heavy rainy day.

I need to go to take a rest now. Isabella hold her beloved husband's picture frame to her heart and laid slowly to take a break from her thoughts to rest for a while.

There is buzzing a door bell, no one is answering, Isabella's friend came by to meet her. They planned to spend time together just like old times. She was moved to France right after she finishes her studies in school and returned after so many years but she was curious why she was still in her parents house and didn't married.

So many things she has to know from her about her life. It's not too late, both are in their 40s, though she is married.

Where is she, why she is not answering the door, Fiona got worried by waiting for her to answer the door. Isabella can't leave her like that without saying anything, she is not like that. What happened then? She has no one now. Her parents only child and Fiona was one of her friends or only friend, Fiona has no clue about it.

She asked her neighbours, did she left any messages for her but they said she didn't leave her house for days or else the front gate was going to be locked up with big lock.

Fiona devistated by the very thought of it that something happened to her. She called police, two police officers came to break out the front door by locker expert because it wasn't emergency but to know where is Isabella. They all looked everywhere only bedroom was left to see. A heavy smell on the air of the house. The lock opened of her bedroom door too, it was locked too and they found out the smell is from Isabella. She was taking a good sleep like a baby in her cocoon, holding a picture frame to her heart. An officer take out the picture frame to see the picture. Fiona saw the picture too. The police officers asked her if she knew the guy from the picture. Fiana became sad but she said no, she don't know him.

Back at those days, Fiona and Isabella was inseparable. They did almost everything together, eating, sleeping, studying, playing, trying new fashion design, new trends , new music, everything shared with each other. One another join together in everything, if Isabella has interest in something the Fiona too has interest, if Fiona has then Isabella too into it without any doubts, their parents thought they might get married into the same family as well but Fiona got over it by having her boyfriend first. She didn't shared that news to Isabella because she never showed any interest on boys. He was a son of an army officer very high ranked officer when Fiona became his girlfriend he took her with him to same college with him. He was one and only child. They both stayed with eachother till universities then both get separated when he needed to go abroad for further in his career advancement. This unexpected separation didn't break Fiona but he took was shocked a little when he had known Nathan was dead. Fiona, Damien and Nathan were old friends. After she moved with Damien to college, they became very close to each other, they always used Nathan's house on weekends for having time for each other. College to university they did the same thing until that shocking news about Nathan but Fiona had no clues about a crush or an affair of Nathan and Isabella.

Fiona still remembers that day she and Damien went as usual to Nathan's house but that day they were early in the morning to wake him up to surprise with ready breakfast. They had great morning time that day, heavy rain outside, empty house, Nathan's family was out like always, cozy atmosphere and Fiona and Damien's romantic weekend. They went for few hours just like always. Nathan said them though he had an engagement with someone but he didn't mentioned with whom. And now Fiona is feeling helpless by the thought that it might be Isabella. And crying out of sadness that she knew after both of their deaths. Nathan died out of heart attack that night. His family said he was stressed about something probably work and study. Because he was very hardworking translator of foreign language as a part timer, work at college as an assistant teacher of professors and a student of university where he worked as an assistant as well. Too many work loads can be the reason of death.

After Nathan's death, Fiona and Damien couldn't keep their relationship at the same way. His death was seemed not fair. It's very suspicious to both of them and now after death of Isabella this way, Fiona getting goosebumps on her neck. Is there any connection or mere mocking jokes of nature.

Fiona trying to get something out from Isabella's room as to ease her curiosity because she can't stay still for the reality she is in right now which is very blurry and unrealistic. Officers took it as natural depression case not suicidal or murder. Fiona trying to find something out to know about Isabella in her absence.

Fiona found few collection books which she always kept with her from her childhood. Both of them knew about it. She saw there is school, college and university then no others. She took them all in her bag. And leave the officers behind she gets back to her hotel.

After few pages of her college collection book, she mentioned about Nathan about her crush on him and how they ended up in the same university. Then how they became lovers in the university and the vary day of his death he proposed to her, she was confused but said yes, he took her in his room to love her and the heavy rain fall outside made his mood to make her, his a little. Both were wet a little, sensitive and emotional, the time went very quickly. Nathan fallen to sleep after loving her but she found something in his bed which is used by a girl, her presence was in it, she attached a small packet with it.

Isabella couldn't believe that Nathan could be like that. She couldn't hold her tears when she was keeping him in her memories and imagination for forever.

Inside what Fiona found out made her burst into tears for what Isabella had done. She couldn't expect and except the present which is infront of her. That packet contains one of Fiona's lace thong which she couldn't remember then where have she left.