"Michael, you are crossing your limits now. I never expected that you would think of me like this, even after knowing how much I love you. It's really heartbreaking to learn that the person whom I love most and the person whom I trust the most are planning behind my back. I would have moved aside if you guys told me directly that you both are in relationships with each other rather than accusing me of false allegations. Michael, I never expected that you would degrade yourself in my eyes just to cover your love affair," Maya sneered.
"Am I making false accusations? Ok, if I prove them, you have to obey me."Michael landed a condition to which Maya was shocked. She never expected that he would be like this.
Seeing her silent and not replying, Michael smirked and said, "Why are you silent? Are you scared that your mistakes will come out and the so-called false accusations of mine will turn true?" He looked sharply at her. Maya looked at him with disgust in her eyes yet she knows she didn't commit any mistake, and she isn't scared so she looked at him and said,
"Ok, I will agree to your condition. Noyt, because you are saying that but because I am innocent here and to prove your backstab."
"You have the guts to agree even after I say I have proofs. I should admire your guts," Michael said. His friend Kaira came forward and held Maya's arms gently.
"Maya, don't do this. You don't even know what he is asking for and to save you from his wrath, I am doing this." Kaira tried to make Maya step back from his challenge, to which Maya looked at her friend with tears in her eyes. She slowly pushed the hand away from her and replied,
"I know Kaira. I know how much you love me; I know how much you care for me; and I also know you can go to any extent for my sake. It's ok, thank you for your help."
While saying those words, Maya felt someone tearing her up and pulling the strings of her heart away from her. Yet, she decided to let her friend go because she couldn't afford to hurt her one and only best friend. Kaira looked at her with concern in her eyes and said, "I know you are hurt, but trust me, I didn't do my thighs wantedly."
Maya just nodded to her and then looked at Michael, saying, "What are you waiting for? Come, show me the proofs."
Hearing her words, Michael clapped his hands and her sister Kaylee (sorry, friend, I am changing her name from Kelly to Kaylee as Everly's friend name is also Kelly). (Sorry for the confusion.) She came inside with a bunch of photos in her hand. Maya got another shock of the day seeing her there.
"Kaylee," a soft whisper escaped her mouth, which wasn't visible to anyone there except herself.
Michael just threw the photos on her face and said, "Check them out by yourself, so you will know what you did."
Maya was in utter shock and she doesn't know how to respond after seeing all the people whom she trusted most gang up together against her. She just glanced down at the photos and after seeing the photos she felt the earth under her feet trembling. Other men whose faces were blurred appeared naked with her in every photo. Only her face was clearly visible. The moment she took a step back, she felt a tremor spread throughout her entire body.
"What, why is there no sound? Can you say the girl in those photos isn't you? Can you still say that you are innocent? Can you still defend yourself by saying that you haven't done anything?" Michael sneered.
"This is why I asked you, Not, to take this step, Maya. However, being the most stubborn girl ever, you never heard me and now face the consequences," Kaira said with a disapproving tone.
"If she heard you or anyone else, she wouldn't be landing in this situation right now. Whenever she is going to sleep with someone else, I try a lot to stop her. I even said that Michael would get hurt, but no, she was like, I don't want to stop myself because they are giving me hefty amounts. At last, I couldn't see Michael getting cheated by her so I had to take this step. I am sorry, Maya. Sorry for betraying your trust and getting private pictures of you," Kaylee added.
Maya couldn't understand what was happening there and why her sister and best friend were plotting against her. She never harmed them in any way, as far as I remember but yet they both are disgracing her and her dignity, which she couldn't ever take. She looked at both with teary eyes and for the first time, she felt she was the real orphan in the world. Even though her parents were dead, her foster parents treated her like a mad woman. She never felt she was something worthless or bad because she always considered these three as her dearies.
She would always say, "Even if I don't have my biological family who would love me to the core, I am not an orphan. Because I have my best friend who loves me more than her, I have a sister who always stands up for me, not only with strangers and the world but also with her own biological parents, and my boyfriend Michael, who would be ready to do anything for me and trusts me, loves me, cares for me, and can treat me as a quen. Until these three are there with me, I am never an orphan, not even an ounce, but who would expect the three she loved to crazily dig her the hole from which she can't be back ever?
Her world was collapsed and she tasted the bitter medicine of backstabbing for the first time ever but no one knows whether he will be back from that betrayal in her whole lifetime or not.
"Yes, she won't; why would she? She is always like this; even when we were in university, she would drool over the rich boys and if they were looking handsome, she would do it more. I told her Michael is so hot, handsome, sexy, and rich, but she will never hear me," Kaira added fuel to the fire.
Michael was just hearing all those words and his blood was boiling with fury. He clutched Maya's hair in his grip and said, "What happened? Am I not enough for you? I never thought of you because I always respected your decisions. I felt proud of you and myself for getting such a girlfriend who never wanted to sleep with me before our marriage but I never expected you to be just looking at other boys and sleeping with random boys behind me."
Maya looked directly into his eyes and asked, "Do..you..ou..tr.ust..me..this..mu..ch?" Her voice was trembling and her way of questioning even made Michael wonder if he was wrong in questioning her. Kaira suddenly came in and said,
"He trusts you more, Maya. Even after seeing all this he said she isn't like this and she won't ever do this but he has to accept Kit finally."
"Oh, this is the way of his trust? Is this called trust? I never know," Maya said to Kaira without breaking her eye contact with Michael and then questioned him, "Mike, would you trust me if I say I didn't do anything and that wasn't me in the pictures?"
Michael didn't answer immediately, pondering the pros and cons. "I only need to tell her the truth, Mike, and I already have your answer. This is why I am silent but as you said you wanted me to talk, I would say that I am not the one in the pictures. Even if you believe it or not, now that I don't want you anymore, I am breaking up with you. Don't ever feel regret for what you did with me and there is no other chance for you in my life," Maya said, then turned to Kaira.
"You would have directly helped me if you wanted Mike, and I would happily walk away from him. You don't need to do all this just because of him, because for me, you are more important than him."
"You, you always knew right, that I am nothing without you three and you always know how much I love you. Thank you for everything," Maya said to Kaylee, then made her free from his grip and turned around to leave.
"Stop!" She heard a roar from behind, making her stop in her tracks.