The Marriage

"I'm Getting Married..
Wait, what?.
Who decided I should get married?
Why doesn't anybody ask my opinion?", I was shouting my head off to the girl sitting by me.

I was just back from the brain surgery and this girl and my family are telling me this. 

My mom kept crying unable to see her little girl in this state and she left the room. Dad went to console her. 

"You were the one who said I need to get married soon and fought your parents and now one week before the marriage you are saying no?", she said.

"How do you know all this?" I asked her harshly

"I am Halena, your best friend", she told me with an unmistakable sadness.

Everyone is telling me that I had an accident and I lost my memory. 

I don't remember anything that happened in the last four years of my life. 

Even though everyone is doing their best to make me remember I can't. 

But the one thing that creeps me out is I was alone when I had the accident. 

I am not a person that travels alone, I make sure I have some company.

The other thing that freaks me out more is that the accident happened at late night.

So at last I asked her.

"What happened on the day of the accident? "

"I don't know, this is the first time you hid something from me, but I think it has something to do with your boyfriend and now your fiancée" She said.

I was scared, if I was running away from him, he had done something horrible and now I am going to marry him.

"May I interrupt Ladies" a guy who was just too handsome for words walked in.

"Yes bro, come on in", the girl told him.

"He is your brother? "

"Yeah that and also your fiancée."

My jaw practially hit the floor at what she said.

"OK bye", she said and left me alone with that guy.

"Hey Baby, I heard you are perfectly fine and can go home today, can we go out in the evening?" He asked.

I just gave a confused expression and I was not very much interested in going. 

I was scared. 

He said, "Okay fine maybe afterwards..."

He took out his phone and there was a picture of us.

I felt something coming back to me, I did not know what and then when I saw his wallpaper.
I kept thinking I had seen it somewhere, but where.
I had a head splitting pain and the world blacked out.

I saw the same guy by my side but it wasn't strange now, I knew his name and I didn't feel so distant from him anymore. I felt like I knew him my whole life.

It then struck me, we had a horrible fight.

"Steph, what did we fight about on the last day?".

I could see lot of happiness in his eyes when I called his name.

"It is about very trivial matters, let's forget all that and start a new life" he said.

And then it all came back to me and I started crying uncontrollably.

"I am sorry", I kept telling him.
He kept saying its fine and hugged me.

"I don't deserve a guy like you", I said.

That day evening I so badly wanted to spend time with Steph but he was very busy.

Frustrated, I decided to go somewhere on my own for the first time. 

Coincidentally, I had met my ex boyfriend there.

He started playing his stupid game again and he had spiked my drink.

He kept saying soothing things to me and I felt like Steph was here.
Only when I kissed him I realised my mistake.

I turned and wanted to run away but stopped midway seeing two eyes burning into mine.

Steph.

"What the hell was that?",he shouted.

"I'm so sorry, it was a mistake. I seriously thought it was you".

"You expect me to believe that? ",

He shouted and went away.

Sadness and Anger took over me.

I stumbled to the car like a drunkard.

I drove my car at a really high speed and then my phone rang.

It was Steph and I attended the call but after that I remember an unbearable pain escalating through my whole body.

"Why did you call that day, Steph? "

"To know whether you reached home, I couldn't relax without knowing you are not safe..."

"I didn't do it knowingly."

"I know you would never hurt me knowingly baby."

This guy stood by me through all the times, even when I cheated on him I'm front of his eyes.
I don't deserve him.

3 DAYS BEFORE THE MARRIAGE

Halena brought me to a park but it was deserted and getting really late.
She got a phone call and left me here.

Suddenly the whole park lit up.
And in the rose bush near me it said,

"Will you marry me?"

Steph stood there on his knees.

"I know it's a bit late. But I never got a chance, by the time we finished convincing our parents we both got busy catching up with office work.
And then the accident.

So now here I am Stephen Mathew's asking to marry the girl who taught me what it is to fall in love and made me laugh and cry and most of all made each day brighter with your presence. 
Will you marry me Cynthia Jhonson?"

My eyes filled with tears, not the sad sloppy ones but the happy faced tears for the first time. 

 

"Get the kids ready Darling, its getting late" Steph was telling me.

"They are ready, let's go" I said picking up my bag. 

We were celebrating our 10th Anniversary.

Steph, me and our twins-"Our Family"