The next morning, Amelia began to pack her things, she sang blissfully as she arranged her things in a big bag.
She just couldn't wait to live there, she tried calling her boyfriend, but his phone was off, she didn't think much of it as she continued what she was doing.
She brought out her things outside as the neighbors stared with curiosity written all over their faces.
"Are you leaving the apartment?".
One who let his curiosity get a hold of him couldn't endure the urge to ask.
Amelia looked at him but didn't feel the need to answer him, so she just smiled and went back inside her apartment.
She called Liam again, but his phone was still switched off. She began to wonder what was wrong as she cleared her apartment of her things.
As she cleaned she saw some old papers on the floor with her drawings in them that she gave to the dean as gifts when she was younger. She didn't know that the dean brought them with her here. She must have cherished them and that made Amelia smile.
Knock! Knock!
Amelia stopped smiling as she heard a knock on her door but smiled again at the thought of Liam coming to assist her.
Her smile soon faded away as she opened the door to see who it was.
Madam Prisca.
The last person that she wanted to see today, but nevertheless Amelia greeted her with a smile, she was leaving anyway, there should be no harm in being polite one last time.
"Good morning, Madam Prisca".
Madam Prisca nodded but didn't reply as she stared around, surprised at what was going on, she turned to Amelia with a questioning gaze.
Amelia was amused by the fact that for once she didn't know what to say but stare, it was refreshing to see.
"Are you planning on leaving?".
She finally asked after looking lost for more than five seconds.
"Yes, I am leaving the apartment:".
Amelia answered as she stared back at the neighbors, she knew that it was one of them who called Madam Prisca, she was going to do that but at least they saved her the time by doing that themselves.
"Well, good for you". Madam Prisca said as she turned around to leave.
Amelia couldn't guess from her facial expression if she was happy or not, but that didn't matter, she had her whole life ahead of her to wonder whether someone was happy for her or not.
Amelia entered back inside her apartment, she tried to contact Liam again, but the results were the same, his phone was switched off, something was wrong.
She could feel it, but didn't know how to make sense of it.
She decided to go to his house, sitting here and waiting wouldn't do any good.
Arriving at Liam's residence, Amelia knocked so many times without receiving an answer, notwithstanding she decided to go in, but the door was locked, 'where did he go to?'. Amelia asked herself as she looked around, finding the entire scenario odd, the artificial plants he used to decorate his front lawn were gone.
'Did he pack in before me? Without me?'.
Amelia asked herself, the plan today was for her and Liam to pack into the new apartment together so that they could set it up and decorate it together but, it appears that he left before her.
"Excuse me please". Amelia called out to one of Liam's neighbors.
"Hello?''.
"Uhh, please, I want to know if the owner of this apartment …".
"OH! Ms. You came late, he packed out of this apartment yesterday, he is no longer living here". The neighbor interrupted with a smile.
"What?!". Amelia was shocked at the answer.
'Why would Liam do that? That's not what we agreed on'. Amelia said to herself as she tried to understand what was going on.
"Well, I don't know why, he didn't tell us". The neighbor answered with a confused face.
"Oh, no, no, I wasn't asking you that, thank you". Amelia spoke as she waved her hands to the neighbor, she turned back to Liam's empty apartment.
'What is going on? Hmm, is he trying to surprise me? But we agreed on moving together'. Amelia couldn't stop thinking and asking herself rhetorical questions.
As she left Liam's house, a thought came to her mind and immediately, Amelia boarded a taxi to the new apartment.
Thirty minutes later, Amelia arrived at the Heaven's Gate neighborhood. She went to collect the keys to the apartment but was told her partner had already collected them yesterday.
Amelia was starting to get upset, but when she entered the apartment, she forgot all her worries as she looked around at the spacious and luxuriously furnished apartment.
She decided to take a tour around, forgetting the reason she came, as she was touring the apartment the faint sounds of moans could be heard coming from a room at a distance.
"Ahh…mmm, oh…aahhhn, fu…fu*ck, uhhhh!".
Amelia stopped in her tracks and tip-toed to the door of the room where the moaning sounds were coming, from the sound of the moans she already recognized Liam's voice, but she denied it and told herself that what she was hearing wasn't real and decided to peep.
The door to the room wasn't locked, so Amelia was able to open it a little.
Ah!
Amelia was shocked beyond measure, never in her wildest dreams would she think Liam would cheat on her, but here it was playing out in front of her?
The man she was deeply in love with and has trusted so much is having an affair with her best friend in the apartment that she bought for them with her money!
Amelia was both shocked and angry, she didn't even know how she moved, but she banged open the door and shouted.
"How dare you! Liam!!".
The two people on the bed immediately stopped what they were doing as they were shocked by the 'intruder'.
Liam stands up from the girl he is having an affair with and quickly picks up his underwear from the floor to cover himself, while the other girl uses the bedsheet to wrap around her chest.
"Amelia dear, it's not what you think, please… I can explain…".
Liam said with a sweaty face as he tried to approach Amelia.
"Don't come near me! You betrayer, why? Do you want to explain? Explain what! Liam!!!".
Amelia lost it, tears were flowing out of her eyes without control, she didn't even know what and how to react, she was both angry and sad, her heart has broken to pieces, she had never thought that she will have to experience something so heartbreaking like this, even the loss of her parents when she was younger didn't have this heartbreaking effect on her.
"I thought you were my friend, why?!". Amelia said to the girl on the bed.
"Good friends should share everything, shouldn't they? Including their boyfriends". The girl replied shamelessly.
Amelia's anger was strong enough to make her blood boil, this girl and Liam have been on it since, acting like friends and deceiving her. Although she didn't expect or even pay attention to it, everything is clearer now, Eve has always been in love with Liam, and acting like a friend to him was her way of getting closer to Liam, she never liked the fact that she and Liam are in a relationship, but she pretended all the while like it was one of the best things that have ever happened.
"Eve, you will regret this…, both of you should leave my house!". Amelia said with anger.
"Leave? This house belongs to Liam, here are the papers if you don't believe, so you are the one to leave and not us!". Eve shouted back, already fed up with Amelia's cries.
Amelia was stunned at Eve's statement, she turned to Liam and was even more surprised, Liam was nodding his head, agreeing with her!
"Liam, are you crazy?!".
Amelia asked with a loud voice, she couldn't believe what was happening, she must be in a dream, a horrible one.
"Can you stop shouting at me?!! You didn't even call me before coming, and what she said is true, this apartment is in my name, you can't just tell me to leave when you are the one trespassing! An ordinary girl like you shouldn't be shouting at me.".
Lucas exclaimed with anger as he sat back on the bed, Eve leaned in on him, caressing his shoulders softly.
"What?".
Amelia exclaimed.
"Please, you should leave now, or I will be forced to call security". Eve said emotionlessly.
Amelia stood there staring at them, with a tearful face.
"Amelia, you heard her, please, leave".
Liam said.