Late at night, Betty decided to take a walk after tossing and turning on the bed because she was unable to sleep and she didn't know where she was walking to until she got close to the river and her foot took her to the secluded part of it.
That part was like a cave, you can be there and be shielded from people coming up as you can see them but they can't see you.
This was the place where she and Antonio like to spend time in when they want to get away cos they couldn't afford money for traveling...
God! How she loved and look forward to it every time cause every minutes of it was spent with him making love, chatting and making plans for the future.The tender sweet love and the sweet nothings said in-between were things she would never forget till the day she dies.
Antonio has been her first man...the man she had given her virginity and God had he cherish it even though they were both young he never forgot to tell her everytime how he was so lucky and happy that she gave it to him.
She remembered how he will talk about making it big and giving her the world and she had always replied him "T having you is enough cos you are my world" then she had proceed to tell him" I love you"
"I love you too Bee" he had say then kiss her lips gently before proceeding to take her into his arms.
The first time he had noticed her was after she left her place of work walking slowly on the road not knowing where she would sleep that night having just a few dollars in her pocket with her backpack which contains everything she owned.
"Hey beautiful", was the first thing he said to her he had been looking all manly in his overalls with a sexy grin that had taken her breath away and she had found herself smiling back at him.
"He was a factory worker and wanted her to be his girlfriend ", he had said.
"Buzz off", she had replied laughing and walked away from him.
Lord knows he was the very first man she had never sneered or say a nasty word to after being asked out.
He had persistently come looking for her till she gave in.
The day he discovered that she didn't have a home after trailing her one night without her noticing, he had shed tears and begged her to move in with him and promised to be her family forever.
He had kept that promise afterwards and never did he treat her bad because he knew she had no where to go. Antonio was one hell of a gentleman and always put her feelings into consideration even though they lived together, he had waited till she was eighteen before they had sex because she told him she wouldn't have sex till she clock eighteen.
There were moments when he could have taken advantage of her but he didn't and he didn't cheat on her either.
Antonio had been her rock and her shield as the both of them were orphans.
He had been protective of her and ensure that she was always happy even though they didn't have money... She remembered how he had scrimped and save before getting her, her first phone even though he didn't even have one himself.
Her best time in life was spent with him before everything fell apart.
She wrapped her arms around herself as tears stream down her eyes as she thought of the past.
When everything changed immediately Andres came to their town a big shot in his 50s had money and he noticed her. He would stalk her at work and everywhere she goes.
God had he pester her often offering her money even a car which she had refused telling him "to let her be" and Antonio had bear the brunt of it all.
The beatings which he had hidden from her at first until she discovered one morning as he couldn't get off the bed because he was sick, she had undressed him to clean him up only to see bruises in his body. She had cried as she took in the marks in his body, her hands roaming over the black and blue colours marring his skin and how he had comforted her.
God knows she did everything to fight for their love till she became defenseless and had to marry Andres..
The wedding had been a fast one which had shocked every residents in Lovelorn cause they all know the stuff happening between them. No one could believe that she would betray Antonio after he had been there for her for two years.
She got the gold digger label so fast afterwards which made her ashamed that she couldn't walk around town not that she blamed any of them though she deserved it as she took a decision she thought was better for everyone at just nineteen years of age.
She remembered how Andres had insisted on them going to visit Antonio in jail briefly.
" No, no, I don't want to", she had said to him going on her knees pleading with him for them not to.
He had insisted even when she pleaded with him that they shouldn't, knowing that Antonio's heart would be shattered.
He had told her that it was the only way she could prove to him that she would be submissive and that she was truly into being married to him.
She remembered the look in Antonio's eyes when he had saw them , how tears had stream down his eyes while Andres had gloated on about being with her finally to him. He had been so mad at her betrayal that he had cursed her.
Antonio had cursed her that she was going to live a life of unhappiness and truly she had every single day from that moment.