“It's our mating ceremony ceremony, so sorry to announce that there would be no ceremony because I wouldn't be there.”
“You can definitely mate yourself. I'm with someone way better off than you now, someone you know.”
My jaw dropped upon reading this, my knees weakened and I felt dizziness in my head.
Who is he even talking about?
Who do I know?
“Is this a dream? Is this really happening?” I turned to and fro, not knowing what to do, then his last statement hit me. “Check your phone!”
I rushed to my phone. The first notification that hit my eyes was capable of making me mad.
Debit alert notification: $100,000
Account bal: $0.89
I fell to the fall, sinking into unconsciousness.
I cried all the tears out in my eyes, even my friends learnt of what happened without me telling. I was wailing outside of the apartment uncontrollably. My uncle and aunt whom I saw as my foster mom and dad were called. Their daughter whom I saw as a sister came along to console me.
They were all supposed to be here for my mating ceremony, to rejoice with me but things went on reverse. Now they were here to console me.
“I can't believe this!”
“I can't believe that Louis, the man I loved with all my heart , chose to take revenge on me this way.”
Everyone tried calming me down but I was too frustrated to be consoled. I kept rolling on the floor, wailing and cursing today's date. It had brought more pain than I ever thought of, in fact I wasn't expecting any pain to come my way.
"Pull yourself together baby, you shouldn't let yourself cry this way. You'd only be hurting yourself the more," my cousin consoled, patting my back.
"I know it's quite painful but let's keep calm and see how we can address this issue, it's better than crying?" My step-mom said to me, trying to raise me from the ground. She pulled out her handkerchief and began to wipe off my tears but as she did, more were coming.
I couldn't tell if all these would be of any good to me. It couldn't change the fact that Louis was gone and gone with my entire life's savings.
I felt like dying.
"Leave, you don't know how painful it is mom. Why did he have to humiliate me this way? He didn't even consider the plight of our child in my womb.”
“What will happen to our pup now?” My tears multiplied.
I sniffed.