Chapter 5

After breakfast, he decided to take his leave. I saw him off and came back to my lonely apartment. My Taylor couldn't be forgotten. I tried so many ways to reach him but still wasn't working out. I even wrote letters but didn't get any reply. I decided to read one of my books to keep me occupied. As I flipped the pages, I saw a number without a name in it. 'Could this be his number?', I thought. I dialed the number on my phone to call and it perfectly went through.

"Hello", I was the first to speak immediately the call was answered.

"Hello, please who is this?", it was a female's voice.

"Urhm I'm sorry may I know who is speaking?"

"I'm Regina ", she finally mentioned.

"Please are you the owner of the phone ?", I just wanted to get things clear.

"It belongs to my fiancé, do you any message for him?"

"Your fiancé, Urhm….may I know his name please?", at that rate my heart was hoping it wasn't Taylor's house.

"Taylor"

"Taylor …is your… fiancé?", I didn't want to believe it.

"Miss if you don't have anything to say then I'd like to hang up ", she said and just that, the call ended.

"Hello..hello!!", I cried out.

'She must be telling me she's Taylor's fiancée, I am his girlfriend and we promised to wait for each other, there's no way Taylor will break his promise to me. I tried to convince myself it was one of his pranks but that was too much.

He has broken my heart. How could he? I loved him with every breath that I had and this is how he repays me? I was so exhausted that I couldn't take in anything. The news drained all the energy I had in me. There was a knock on my door. 'Who could take the pain to come and see me this hot afternoon ', I thought as I open the door, it was Aikens.

"May I come in?", he asked. I pretended everything was fine and led the way in.

"What's wrong with you ?",he asked in a bothered tone.

"It's nothing, I'm fine…why are you here again?"

"I had nothing to do at home so I just wanted to come stay with you", he said and I just nodded. "But that's not the issue, you don't look very well"

"I said I'm fine"

"Annie please, I know you very well and I know there something wrong with you, just talk to me and I promise….."

"Please don't make any promises to me, I don't need them", I shouted at him with uncontrollable tears." You all are the same, you make promises but never fulfill them", I broke down and cried out loud.

Aikens came closer and sat on the floor with me, he pulled me in his embrace without uttering a word. He finally asked me to calm down and explain things to him after releasing me from his embrace.

I began to narrate everything to him sobbing quietly in between. From his eyes, I could see rage in them but I didn't want to believe anything my eyes saw .

"Did he ever look at you in the eye to confess his love for you?", he asked and I was dumb. I realized what he asked was true." Then I'd take that as a no ", he continued.

"Can you please leave me alone, I want to think about my future so enough of you counseling ", I uttered in a harsh tone thinking he'd get angry and leave but he was still sitting with me.

"I don't think he'd listen to me", I murmured.

He forced me to eat which I did because I couldn't resist the pressure. After I was done eating , he left and there I was, so lonely. I thought of calling the number again to hear from Taylor himself which I did.

"Hello", the person spoke from the end of the call and it sounded like Taylor's voice.

"Taylor, is that you?", I was happy I finally got to speak to him.

"Yeah, who am I speaking to?"

"Have you forgotten my voice already, it's me, your Annie"

"Oh Annie, how have you been? It's been a while", he didn't sound happy to hear from me but I still had hope.

"I lost my phone that was why I couldn't reach you but I called yesterday after getting your number and…."

"Enough Annie, let me help you with a better explanation ", he cut me off. "The lady you spoke to is my fiancé and we'd be getting married in two weeks, you are invited ",

"Stop the prank bae, it's not funny "

"Do I look like who has nothing to do?"

"You can't be serious, what about the love we shared? Will you let it fade into nothing?"

"Don't make me laugh Annie, what love?"

"No bae, you can't do that to me"

"I know girls of your age engage in prostitution out there and you can't be an exception.

"How can you say a thing like that to me", as I tried to speak without breaking down, I heard a female's voice behind 'babe can we get going?!

"Annie , I have urgent things to attend to, I'd send you the invitation "

Oh no, this can't happen to me. How can he switch up on me because he didn't get his way through me meaning he never loved me?. It was good Aikens stopped by earlier to make me eat before making this call.

This message came straight from Taylor's own mouth. It wouldn't be easy for me to put all that behind and move on but I'd fight for it to happen.