I didn't go to school today because I was drained and lazy. The feeling of laziness haunted me even though I knew about the severe consequences I would receive if I was absent.
My relative, the distant family of my late parents, would give me a warning and cut my salary, which was not that much. Then he would threaten me and curse at me. He constantly repeated the words that would throw me out on the street and make me become street prostitutes, but, to this day, I am still here, working on their excellent name.
There is nothing fun and nothing I can do in my room. There is no television with the best cable tv shows. I seem to be in an isolated disaster area with no outside connectivity, which is very dull and sad. I also don't find alcohol here. They didn't sell alcohol to teachers like me because I had to maintain my prestige and reputation as a teacher. That is Nonsense.
I don't know for sure how long I lay on the floor of my rental house in an enjoyable position like a starfish basking in the hot sun but not wanting to get out of the saltwater. The sound of knocking on the door made me lazy to get up and pretend to be asleep, but I knew the knocking wouldn't stop until I opened the door.
I left the floor with heavy and lazy steps, which felt cold on my skin. I only wore a light dress in the room because the weather was sweltering. There was no air conditioning in this narrow rental room.
I pulled the door handle and found Chen's face behind the door. Without waiting long, I immediately closed the door again, but he was faster to hold the door and sneak into my rental house.
He put his bag on the side of the table close to the entrance. I left him with unsteady steps. I'm not expecting guests today. I want to enjoy my time.
Chen took off his shoes in a hurry and hit my back, his arms wrapped around my waist, making me take a deep breath. I'm not too fond of all this.
"Why are you here." I didn't ask, but I objected to him being here.
"Because I miss you." He said, putting his chin on my shoulder.
I breathed again, smelling the perfume from his body mixed with sweat. "You didn't go to school. Does that mean you accepted my offer?" He asked.
I don't want to sell my body, but Chen's money is enough to meet my needs even more than my salary as a teacher. I opened his hands on my waist, stepped onto the bed, and lifted my legs casually. Maybe two could see his panties from behind the open hem of the dress, I could see his face was red, and he looked very excited looking at me.
He approached me, kneeling under my feet. Chen lifted his head with both hands stroking the backs of my feet. "Will you accept my proposal? I promise to divorce my wife for you. Bella, you are magnificent, and I love you very much."
I've heard poison words like this many times, and I remember my past in the city.
I used to have a male best friend I trusted, and he was my first love. He said that I was gorgeous. He loved me very much. We did 'that' for the first time in my boarding room chairman. Our relationship was beautiful at first but ended after I caught him saying the same thing to my new friend in high school. I was still in junior high school.
My boyfriend is dating my new friend in my back study, and now I'm dating a married man. Ah, fate always spins around like gangling.
"Bella. Will you accept my proposal?" I felt Chen's lips on my palm and made me erase the image of my ex-boyfriend in the past.
I shook my head quickly. "I will not marry. I will never marry. I will forever be single. I do not believe in love and marriage so get out of my sight."
Chen didn't listen to my cry. He lifted his body to hug me until I almost fell on the bed.
"No Bella. Give me a chance and I promise to make you happy. We are married and will have a baby, I will be faithful and always there for you. I will never betray you, trust me. I believe my love for you is true love."
Hearing Chen's words made Bella's stomach churn.
I pushed his shoulder to restrain himself and away from me, but he buried his head in my stomach instead. He kissed my thin dress, and I could feel the touch of his wet lips and tongue to the skin of my abdomen.
"Chen. Go home. I'm not feeling well." I lied. He lifts his head and looks into my face. His eyes look sad and hopeful, but I won't give him a chance to touch me today. I'm so tired, and I'm not sure about our toxic relationship.
"Let's go see a doctor, could it be that you are pregnant?"
Stupid! I wanted to scream at him, but I couldn't. I held the curse in my throat and smiled faintly. "I want to rest," I said, forcing him to come home.
Reluctantly he put his shoes back on, he turned to me and came back to me, but I refused the kiss from his lips, he looked sad and took his bag out of my rental house.
I wanted to get rid of him, but he was getting more daring to go in and out of my rental house. We always talked about work, but I'm not sure that my neighbors would believe that nonsense.
After Chen left the rental house, I went out of the room to the balcony. From the balcony, I could see Chen disappearing around the corner, there was a feeling of relief in my chest, but the relief didn't last long because my eyes caught the wave of a man's hand from behind Chen's back.
"Wow?" I can't believe this guy is in school uniform-- his uniform is so messy, he doesn't deserve to be in high school. Two are even 20 years old.
Seeing Wu's hand waving at me, my chest was pounding wildly; I had a bad feeling especially seeing the expression on Wu's face that contained many meanings.
I tried to ignore Wu's waving and went back into my room. It turned out that the water in the bathroom was dead, again! I haven't showered, and damn! I have had to clean myself since morning.
"I have to take a bath in the bathing pool again." I hissed, annoyed at the thought of Wu already waiting for me to arrive at his family's bathing pool.
"Complete my bad fate dealing with men. I don't believe in love but why do men come to me like a swarm of bees to a flower. I'm not even a flower that smells good!" I kissed my armpit and threw up.