Chapter 11

“AUDREY?” Josiah called me again and I quickly looked at him, puzzled.

“I’m sorry. What is it again?” I curiously asked. I silently scolded myself for being spaced out.

“I’m asking you if do you want to get married?” he repeated and based on the way they look at me, he was measuring me.

That sudden question from him caught me off guard. I couldn’t open my mouth to speak and just gulp. It took me two minutes before I could process what he just said, but before I could even open my mouth, Bella popped up from somewhere, cutting my thoughts from speaking them out loud.

“Go on, Audrey!” she yelled, drunkenly. “It’s time to forget about that asshole!” she yelled in a drunken tone while raising the bottle of an unfamiliar beverage.

I looked at Josiah with drunken eyes who’s raising his eyebrow at me before I turned my gaze towards the man who look like Felix. Why was he everywhere? I told him to stop but it seems that he just couldn’t. Ha! What a hardheaded guy. We already broke up and yet he’s still following me everywhere! Can’t he just stop? He is just wasting his time chasing after me when in fact it was his fault why we ended up like this.

And while looking at him who’s busy chitchatting with his friends, I could also say that he was already drunk. Tears threatened to form in my eyes while looking at him and each of the promises we made to each other flashed inside my head. Maybe for just one more time, I’ll spend this night with him. Just one more time and I’ll let these feelings fade away by time. Time heals the pain, right?

“I want to marry him,” I said and pointed my index finger at the person whom I loved for years but who also broke my heart.

It’s just a marriage booth and even though he cheated on me, I still wanted to marry him here in this booth. At least. But I know to myself that I won’t marry Felix for real. At least in this fake booth, I’ll make one of our dreams happen.

Who would have thought that I’ll marry him in this fake booth? He who cheated on me yet deep inside I still loved him. But I couldn’t just give him another chance because you know, it fucking hurts like hell. Until now, I couldn’t accept why he did that.

It is true that when there is love, there is pain. The pain was just like the twin of love. If there is no pain, it wasn’t loved at all. And in the case of Felix and I, maybe cupid just wants us to meet and experience love but the truth is, in the end, the two of us weren’t meant to be. And if we were the one for each other, I believe that time will also come but not this time. We are at the wrong time.

The next thing was a blur, I woke up in the morning with a headache that I wanted to smack my head on the wall. One I hate about being drunk was when you woke up in the morning with your head hurting like hell. Damn it!

I’ll blame Bella for this! She started this!

I wasn’t in the mood to get myself off the bed so I just closed my eyes again not until I remembered that I still have classes! Urgh!

I quickly opened my eyes and rushed to look on my phone only to see that it was now 10 AM in the morning. I slap my forehead and frustrated shut my eyes. Didn’t I tell Bella last night that we still have classes today, right?

“Bella!” My voice echoed in my best friend’s condo as I rushed towards her room and opened it which made a loud noise.

My eyes darted on where is her bed, I saw her still peacefully asleep and even snoring in her bed while hugging a pillow. This girl… I don’t know what I will do with this girl. If I couldn’t graduate in my last year in college because of this, I’ll definitely blame her. Dreams over friendship! Urgh!

I frustrated shook Bella to wake her up from her peaceful dream. It took me two minutes before I could wake her up.

This girl…

“Ummm… What is it?” she groaned.

Her face was facing my direction so I saw her still closing her eyes. I put my hands on my waist and look at her with irritation. This girl was really giving me a headache. This is the reason why I didn’t want her to go to that place ever since because I know what will happen next.

Is she not worried that she might not graduate because of what she is doing? Or at least think about me that I might not graduate for being absent again? I already reached the limit of my absences when Felix and I broke up and being absent again might be the reason that I might graduate.

If Bella’s my sister, I’ll definitely throw her out of the house if she keeps on doing this. She’s lucky that we are not sisters. Too bad I can’t throw her out of her own condo.

“Wake up sleepy head! We both have classes today and now, we could only attend our afternoon class!” I made sure that she’ll pick herself up from the bed because of my loud voice.

I heard her groan and slowly opened her eyes only to see me gritting my teeth in frustration that I’m absent again today because of the hangover which was her fault for keeping on offering me last night a glass of alcohol. She knew that I have low alcohol tolerance because I’m not a drinker like her yet she made me drunk! Well, partly was also my fault for accepting her offer. But I thought if I accepted her offer, she’ll stop but it turns out that she wanted to get me drunk!

I remembered that I was supposed to be keeping myself sober last night because I was worried that no one will drive the both of us home.

Uh oh… My eyes went wide as my mouth went gape open when I realized one thing. If both of us were drunk last night, who drove us all the way here?

“Bella!” I shouted as that realizations hit me.

“What?” Wow. And she has the guts to get frustrated at me shouting.

“Who drove us all the way here?!” I asked as I turned to her. She’s now up and scratching the back of her neck. I quickly look at myself and saw that I am still wearing the same clothes and so was Bella.

“I… don’t know?”

“What do you mean you don’t know?!” What if there is someone who’s psycho and tried to rape both of us since we were drunk? I also felt myself if something was wrong with my body but I felt none. Good.

Lesson learned: Keep yourself sober especially when you are with Bella.

“Calm down. Okay?” she said and get off the bed. “Before we got drunk, I asked Josiah to send someone to drive us here last night,” she explained and I was about to sigh in relief but canceled when I heard the next words she said.

“I just don’t know who was he sent,” she added which made me roll my eyes and just tried to calm myself.

At least that person didn’t do anything to us, right?

In the end, I sighed in relief and come back to my room to fix myself. I was such a mess and I felt sticky.

When I was done cleaning myself, I got out of the shower and pick decent clothes, and heard a notification sound coming from my phone.

Who would have sent me a message or something? It wouldn’t be Felix, right? I have already changed my number.

It was from the PSA.

FROM: +63**********

Good day ma’am! Please claim your marriage certificate in our nearest office.

Thank you!

My eyes went wide after I have read the message I just received. Marriage certificate?! My mouth went gape open and tried to process everything inside my brain. Is this sender nuts?!

He or she could have sent it wrong, right?

:)