A peep into past
10th standard:
"Take a look!! ", Rick spated out words furiously ,showing me the photo on his phone .
I frightingly looked on the screen ."Noo! Its not me . H..how .. can you even believe this dirt....I don't even.. look at any other guy",
I said with my eyes totally filled with tears ,blurring my vision.
" So if this is not you then whose unique tattoo it is on your collar bone" , he said in a harsh voice . I was feeling very vulnerable cause this person whom i love and promised to keep doing it forever has refused to believe me.
"You whore ! ,he shouted ." Fucked Ash? .I am thankful that he is dead now "he wispered and all eyes in the school cafeteria pinned on me . I was stealing glances , not able to match their eyes after being called this.
Then when i looked clearly on the picture forgetting the crowd watching us ,i realized the photo was evenly photoshopped but not to the godly stage.I know it was me in the picture but Rick's face was replaced with Ash's.
" Its photoshopped ,its us ,your part has been replaced !!!!!!! , see clearly ", i shouted with tears rolling out one by one , when from the back Stella came running and stood beside him.
"You can't lie anymore ,just accept that you fucked Ash .",and she spoke and looked smilingly towards him.
" We are best friends . How can you even say that .Now i know you are a fucking .....hypocrite!!",i said firmly.
"You are a liar and a fucking slut , I am breaking up ", he said being emotionless and turned back walking out of cafeteria.
He was walking away with Stella on his side touching his back .I can't let him walk away like this after disrespecting .....me . I heard so this doesn't mean that i am weak . I know i loved him few seconds ago but all that love washed away with those tears after he did what he had to . I started to pace with each step firmly placed on the floor ,fisting my hand in my side depecting my anger and hundreds of emotions hurting this small mind of mine, i over took him . Stood in front him and grabbed his collar pulling his face down towards me i whisperd" Neither a whore nor a fucking slut ,put these words in your dick and staple it ", i said sharply but the tears still rolling out ,almost invisible to me cause i didn't care but visible to others. Saying this i let off his collar , leaving him in a shocked silent state, i started to walk away.
" You will pay for your audience stunt, bitch", Stella's voice, echoing entered my ears.I never looked back.I thought that paying thing that Stella said was just a comeback line but it was not .I showed Elisha the photo that photo which Rick had sent me.
"Bro it looks pretty real but ....i am not saying that you cheated him",Elisha said as her reaction on taking the first look of the photo.
"Its fucking photoshopped , i even have the real picture ...i have it in my gallery",i said almost shouting scrolling through the gallery . Showing her the picture i started sobbing .
"Girl i believe you",she said hugging me .
"He is a bastard ,i am not going back to him, ever",i was hurt but i had that attitude which restricted me from begging like others. I tried hard to focus on something else but my heart was still inclined towards proving me correct but somewhere the soft spot was still there. And when he blocked me I felt like i was broken into thousands of glass shards that can not be rearranged .I spent four days at home sobbing and crying concealing my emotional side from the world outside . I was longing for him and at last i took the decision that i will collect proof , throw it in front of him , satisfy myself but the hope that... he may believe me was still somewhere in my heart . I was stupid.
I contacted the only photoshop's artist near me -Jeremy. He was a funky little person who had a golden heart
so i trusted him .I directly went to his house without waiting for a second . Risking my reputation i went ahead to show him the picture. I started to scroll through my gallery suddenly he said pointing at Stella's photo " Hey you know her?.....She is great at photo shopping . Actually she was taking classes from me ,2 months ago."
That was not a bolt from blue because in these four days i had already marked her as the main suspect. Don't you all think the way she acted I know she was somehow connected to it in the most bizarre way but did not knew that she would do it herself, a total shit stain on friendship.
"Yeah , we were best friends .......maybe i thought her to be",i said melancholy after my wild imagination and scrolling came to an end.
"Oooo sorry! he said and i moved my screen towards him as that picture got displayed . I didn't care what was in that picture i just showed him that .
Not facing him, looking away ,towards the wall i said" i know this picture has been shopped .......please prove it sir ",i said softly.
"For that i will have to put this in my computer and use the analyzer.... are you comfortable with that?", he said hesitating.
I closed my eyes ,my mind thinking whatever consequences can come next .'whatever it will be i am going for it ,i don't fucking care now ',i said after much interpretation,"Yeah of couse".
In total 2 minutes his fingers were working like fire over the keyboard. I was calm cause i had total confidence in me.
He finally said covering his mouth with his hands in shock,"God !its fifty percent photoshopped . That's huge". He then handed me the printed proof ,taking it i finally stood up ,thanking him i ran out towards Rick's house.
That was a sign of victory. I was very excited to tell him about . Now nobody could stop me from getting him back. I felt like i am at the top of the world and also i criminal freed from all allegations . I was being stupid even after he insulted me that way .
I reached his doorstep and struck the bell hard. I was smiling throughout waiting for him to open the door . Suddenly i realised that the door was slightly open . I stepped in. The electronic sound of t.v. made me pace towards the drawing room. As i entered the room my legs turned jelly.... Stella and Rick were sitting on his sofa ,with Stella on his lap.He was smiling on the kissies they were sharing .My smile vanished and eyes filled with tears i could not speak words , i was speechless. My emotions were twitching my jaws but then too i moved ahead and literally threw that page in front of him.
Looking towards him i spoke out "That picture was.... fucking photoshopped ",with fury filled like fire in my tone and tears like water in my eyes ,and then looking towards her i spoke "by a fucking fucking bitch",my tears rolled out automatically.
He didn't even pick up the paper and was looking totally embarrassed but did not cared to apologize . I did not want to waste any of my seconds on this stupidity anymore .
"Amazing! keep up with your pussy licking and ....thank you Stella ", i said , smacking the door on the door frame, i started moving back leaving them tongue tied .
I walked out of his house , wiping up my tears which were gushing down my eyes. My tears were spilling from my eyes like water like dripping out from a crack on glass jar filled with water. My mind never wanted others to see my emotional side and right now when many heads turn towards me just to see me in this state ,me me feel crumbled. I tried hard to conceal it but when i couldn't anymore ,i started running . Throughout the way i was running until i reached home . I open the door and directly rushed towards my bedroom , covering my mouth with my hands , i entered the room , shutting the door , i totally collapsed on the floor . Now the jar holding my tears totally cracked and my emotions spilled out into a loud wailing .
I always thought that crying and showing our emotions makes us look weak until someone told me it doesn't.
I was crying and wailing , as you all know it was just a teenage mind which was not able to handle the fact that her boyfriend cheated on her and never ever trusted her . That night was not just the disappearing of sun but also the the vanishing of word 'love' from my dictionary. I read somewhere -' To be trusted is the greater compliment than to be loved . He did not trust me and easily gave up on me when Stella fed up few bloody lies . It was just my grandmother's greatest contribution to my rehabilitation when she told me that where there is no trust , darling, there is no love.
Primarily i want to give my apologies to all of you for late update. Actually i was exploring the other side of the world- 'social media '. I promise i won't be this late from next time.
In this chapter i introduced you all the the most heart breaking chapter of Ember's life . If any of you was able to connect you can share with me , i am always there for any of you.
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