As I am packing my suitcase, getting ready to leave behind the love of my life, I feel arms wrap around my waist. I don’t give myself the chance to be enveloped by his warmth.
“Get away from me, Brad!” I bark.
“Please Trish, you don’t have to leave.” He says with tears forming in his eyes.
“Yes, I do. You made sure of that when you decided to cheat on me.”
He gets on his knees in a begging position and grabs my hands.
“I am so so sorry. I was drunk and I wasn’t thinking. It didn’t mean anything, you are the one I love, the one I want to spend the rest of my life with,” He wails.
“Well maybe you should have thought about that before you decided to sleep with another woman.”
I love him so much. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do but I can’t forgive him. With a heavy heart, I get out of his grip and walks to the front door with my suitcase in hand.
“Goodbye Brad. I wish things could have been different,” I says tears after tears drop from my eyes.
“N...n...no. Please,” he chokes out.
I walk out out the door, glancing back at him one final time. I see the sadness in his eyes but it is too late. He hurt me too much.
I continue walking until I am out of his sight. The reality finally sinks in. I am never gonna see the man I love again.
I thought you loved me. I thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives together. I guess I couldn’t have been more wrong.
“How could you do this?” I plead with Robert to tell me.
“It would be better if you stop talking Alice. I am going to kill you in five minutes and there is nothing you can say to stop me.”
“Well if that is the case you can at least tell me why. Why are you doing this? I truly believed you loved me.”
“I don’t, never have. You were just a pretty girl I wanted to make my next victim.”
As I fight back the tears, I try to find some way out of this.
“I don’t believe you. I don’t believe that the moments we shared together were fake. I know you loved me at some point, I felt it. Do you remember when my dad died? I was devastated, I felt like I was completely alone but you convinced me otherwise. You promised me that you would always be there for me, you would love me and protect me, always. Are you really going to stand there and tell me none of that was real?”
That is when I see it. I see the love in his eyes that he still has for me and this time I don’t fight the tears.
Robert walks to the door and unlocks it before looking back to me.
“Go.”
“Wh...What”
“Your heard me,” he snaps at me.
“Why did you even do this?”
He looks at me with sad eyes and says, “I’m a psychopath, it’s what I do. Now go before I change my mind”
Once I am out the door I turn back to him and give him one final bittersweet kiss.
“Thank you Robert.”
“I’m sorry Alice,” he whispers.
I finally walk out of that room and out of Robert’s life and I will never look back.
