perfect marriage revenge

Ann pov

"How dare you ?! Why would you do this to me Charles" I shrieked with pain at the sight that welcomed me, my supposed soulmate, and my sister in a hot passionate kiss.

Did she realize it was my husband-to-be she was flirting with?

"Please stop yelling we were just talking," Belle said with an irritated smirk "Besides I wouldn't dream of a man like him"

I was looking from her to Charles, helpless and confused I'm sure I saw a different scene

Charles, the man I love and was about to promise forever to, was having another woman in his arms, my sister! 

"Belle, what is going on here? Why are you both together like this" I tried to get a response from her to ease my burning rage. 

"I think he likes me better, and ohh don't blame me he said it himself," she said, looking into the mirror to fix her sneered lipstick.

Walking out she bent close to my ear and whispered "Congratulations sister, about time" She said with a smirk and walked off

Leaving me alone with Charles, I almost thought I saw the relief on his face, relief of me finding out or knowing I wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

Then I realized…, his tenderness when it came to her, his beaming smile whenever she walked into the room, I thought he was just glad to see her, happy with my family. 

"When were you going to tell me" I blurted out with tears already ruining my makeup 

"When Charles? When?" He tried moving closer but I gestured with my hand for him to stop.

"Why?" I had a lot of questions to ask and I wanted them answered all at once 

"Why!!!!" I screamed yet he kept his cold and silent look, sometimes, most times it seemed to me as his demeanor but today I realized he never loved me m.

"Because I pitied you, I felt pity for you Ann that night you asked me out, when you waited under the rain for me you should have left" he boomed at me 

"What?" I asked wondering if the life I lived if it was ever true

"Pity Charles, for me? Charles who are you to pity  me I've done the best in my life" I snorted at his words, at that moment I felt my entire world crumble 

"Your life is a pity belle, look at you doing everything to impress your parents and still smile through it" he asserted.

I felt my soul leave my body, I had never felt this hurt even when my family would neglect me and treat me like an outsider.

This was worse, because I loved him I was dreaming of a new family with him, my own family.

My eyes fell on a pair of scissors I picked up and tore my wedding dress shorter for me to walk freely. I realized at that moment, I knew it was time for me to leave.

"Ann, what are you doing? Stop Ann hold on we can talk about this listen Ann" he screamed at me but it was too late I was blind to reasoning, I was too deaf to listen I needed out of here.

"What is going on here?!!!" I heard my father's loud voice from the door.

"Ann, your father asked you, and why do you look such a mess?"

"Father, I improperly met him and Belle, Charles has been cheating on me with Belle, my sister" I blurted out with pain and weakness.

"Ann you need to stop this nonsense people are waiting for you and here you are making baseless accusations" I knew my mother would never want to hear any bad thing against her baby girl Belle

"Charles, what do you have to say about this?" my father asked Charles.

Sir, she is just overreacting, belle, was being nice" 

"Nice" did I hear right, I looked at him as he painted me as a crazy person to my family.

I watched my mother throw my father an accord almost like a 'you see we should have been done with her long ago' look.

I was broken, tired, and done, everything happening or being said no longer made sense to me at that point.

"Ann make sure you are dressed and fix your face, you have 10 minutes," my father said to me before leaving the room and everyone followed.

Leaving me alone with my crushed world I looked in the tall mirror and saw an image I couldn't recognize.

My family treated me like an outsider that I was, 'blood is thicker than water' At this point I sure would believe every proverb said out there, I sure felt like the water in my family.

I was going to leave I told myself, my sniffled nose made it hard for me to stop crying but I had to leave I couldn't marry Charles not anymore 

I rushed to my dressing room and ransacked the place for my car keys and any other needful thing I could find.

I left the venue and headed towards my best friend's place, she was my only friend, my only family, I was in love and blind but she saw right through Charles and warned me about him several times, I was sad " I wish I had listened to you Jessy" I muttered to myself in tears.

My phone rang and it was my mother "Ann what is wrong with you?! How can you embarrass your father and me like this" she whispered -yelled with disdain in her voice.

" I can't believe after everything we have done for you, you would think my daughter, your sister!  would do such a thing" she went on "Your shameless husband didn't do well to keep his hands of if all this is true" 

" mother I know what I saw, I walked in on them almost about to kiss, I ...." and that was it. I saw black, I didn't know what had happened but everything went black and quiet.

I was still able to hear the noise, it sounded like hospital alarms and and heart monitors bleeping off and my eyes wouldn't open 

It seems the doctors were fighting for my life and it was the first time I felt like I was wanted, the first time people wanted me to live.