Going Away

That moment when you feel like nothing is going right, when you want to give up without really wanting to give up.

How can someone you thought you were close to change overnight to the point where you feel like you've been complete strangers for all the time you've lived together, was it an illusion? In reality, maybe we never were after all.

How can we accept that we have to leave and start all over again, even though we were sure we were in the right place? Will we have enough strength to get back up? We don't know, but we always have this little hope somewhere inside us that whispers to us every time: "hold on, go on".

Love, this little word that everyone is looking for, this feeling that everyone wants to feel for someone and receive in return, this feeling that takes hold of us when we least expect it and that wears on us when we expect it most, ah what a paradox this life.

Nabilla Kate is now twenty-eight years old, she has a Cameroonian mother and an American father, she married a few years ago with this man who became for her her worst nightmare, this man she loved from the first glance, and cherished in her heart during all this time.

With Gian they spent beautiful moments that today are only distant memories for her, placed at the door of this big house that is hers and that she has been abandoned by her husband for weeks already, she reflects on her life before, on her first lover Carlos that she had to leave for Gian because she found Carlos too much in love and too clingy for her, so she wanted Gian, the handsome guy brought back to the United States years before by her mother.

She wanted him at all costs.

Ah women always complain, when they are less loved they complain of lack of love and inattention, and when they are more loved they always complain of being invaded, how to understand them?

Currently Nabilla is lost and does not know who to confide in, she has not seen her grandmother and her mother for months, she really misses them, she would like to confide in one of them, but could she tell everything without being proposed to ask for a divorce? She doesn't even want to think about it.

Gian was the one, the prototype of the boy she wanted in her life, young, handsome, intelligent and virile, the one who made her visit the whole world at his side, loving and cherishing her, this is the life she always dreamed of having with him, and today she has visited all the countries she always dreamed of visiting, eating all the dishes she always wanted to eat, but where is she today? Where is Gian? The one who promised her love and fidelity until the end of her days, today she finds herself alone, it's been three weeks since Gian left the house, she doesn't even know where he is and his phone line is unavailable, the only thing she knows is that he left for work and since then there's been no follow-up.

Nabilla is always there in front of the door to think, she asked her driver Noah to pack everything, she wants to go away from there, she is tired of waking up alone in his bed in the morning and going back to bed alone at night every time, she can't stand it anymore.

A few minutes later, her driver comes to warn her that everything is ready and that they can finally leave.

<< you know what Noah? I think I changed my mind I will not leave anymore, I prefer to stay here waiting for Gian's return we will discuss it, maybe he has surely a problem I will wait for him when he comes back we will discuss it, I can't leave him alone, he needs me for sure and moreover I love him so much, I can't bear to live without him, let's bring my stuff inside I will wait for him. >> Said Nabilla trying to look normal as best she could in front of her driver.

This is the fifth time that Noah has been treated like this by Nabilla, five times she decides to leave and then comes back, Noah spends his time these last days loading his things in the vehicle and unloading them and it becomes relieving and annoying for him, each time Gian leaves and makes one or two weeks without news and always comes back, this for a year already.

This time he made up to three and he did not call her only once to know how she is doing or to tell her if he is okay, Nabilla is bored at home and her best friends Andrea and Roxane are no longer in the same city as her for months already.

Roxane is her friend since almost two years, they met in France when she was there for a stay and by coincidence they saw each other again in the United States and became very close, so she introduced Roxane to Andrea and since they were both from the same profession they quickly became friends too, so they are friends all three.

Mr. Kate, Nabilla's father, is a businessman who is feared for his love for work well done, as well as his discipline, this business he forged with his mother, he raised his daughter with his mother, he took Nabilla in Cameroon from her mother when she was only eight years old, not by force but because Nabilla reminded her mother a lot of her past mistake and also she asked for her father a lot each time, but despite everything she (her mother) loved him a lot.

Nabilla's mother has a company based in Cameroon, the two (her parents) met twenty eight years ago at a conference in South Africa, Mr. Kate fell on the charm of this beautiful woman who was the mother of Nabilla, a young dynamic and intelligent woman with a face of angel and a body of dream, Mister Kate saw herself biting her lips and kissing her body, this woman was the one he wanted, and that he always dreamed of having, at that time she was an assistant in one of the big companies of his country, Cameroon, the one of his father who was a business partner of Kate.

After the conference that day Kate searched every corner of the room to find this little pearl that was likely to slip through his fingers, at that time he was thirty-three years old and Leandra was twenty-six years old, he finally found her and Leandra had also been targeted by the arrow of love.

When he joined her that day in the lobby of the hotel, she did not hesitate for a moment to let herself go with him the same night of the conference, it was a manly and very handsome, the kind of man who always made her dream, but in reality that night what had happened should never happen.

After spending the night with Bill in that hotel room, she remembered that little voice that kept reminding her at every kiss with Bill that night that she was now engaged to another man and that she had come to that conference with him, and even worse, they were both on a date that same night and she was there having a good time with this man she had only known a few hours before.

When she woke up that morning she realized that the man next to her was not her fiancé and the flashback of the evening came back to her, she was with her colleagues having a drink in the lobby of the hotel where she had done the conference when this gentleman came to compliment her on her presentation, he was very loving and gentle with her and they raised a toast, he was very attractive and they started to talk until his colleagues left, leaving her there with bill.

Among her colleagues there was one who had always coveted her fiancé Ben and had been content to take a few pictures of Bill and Leandra, the last straw was when she followed Bill to ask Leandra to accompany him, he would like to show her other rooms of the hotel because it was his hotel and Leandra had been told: with pleasure, then when they walked both for the visit, they were filmed unconsciously by the girl, the last room which bill and leandra had to visit was that of bill but Léandra did not know it, then as soon as they entered there bill closed the door awkwardly, He got very close to Leandra and this closeness didn't bother Leandra very much, she didn't dare to make any embarrassing remarks, so Bill gently took hold of her lips but at one point Leandra pushed him away and told him that she shouldn't do that, and that she shouldn't even be there with him.

Meanwhile the other girl was standing right at the door trying to listen to what was being said in the room but unfortunately she couldn't listen to anything so she smiled and thought that the pictures would do.

This colleague's name was Carla, and with the pictures she was able to go to Ben's house and show him everything until Leandra entered the suite smiling with Bill.

Ben feels angry at the same time and very sad, he does not understand how she could do this to him, this relationship with Leandra lasted for years, it is his childhood love and today she abandons him for the first one who comes, just because he is a business partner of his father, rich and American, years of love gone, while he was sad Carla had taken care to bring him a glass of whiskey or she had put drugs, Ben had taken the glass and swallowed it in one gulp, after drinking several other glasses, Ben felt fierce and powerful, Carla was just sitting next to him and smiled at him so he thought that if Leandra had cheated on him with Bill what was stopping him from doing the same with Carla, already that Leandra does not like Carla very much, So he tore off Carla's clothes and made love to her like never before. Carla moaned like a pro and the noise was heard throughout the suite where he was staying and during this time, Leandra was also having a good time with Bill on his bed.

This morning, after realizing her crime, Leandra wanted to run away without Bill's knowledge. Bill's bodyguards, who had not been there the day before, were in front of the door and prevented her from leaving because he was afraid that she was a thief and she was forced to stay there until Bill woke up.

Leandra went to the suite she occupied with Ben, hoping that he would still be there waiting for her, but unfortunately for her he was no longer there and on the table was an envelope.

She opened it and saw her photos with Bill Kate, she understood that someone had double-crossed her and she knew immediately who it was, she always knew that Carla envied her and now she just gave her a good reason to take her man.

Bill had tried to hold on to Leandra when she woke up and had even promised to fly her back to her country on his private jet but she was too envious of him, she regretted everything that had happened with him, she blamed him for everything and when she landed at the airport in Yaoundé she went quickly to Ben's house and found her lying on the couch with Carla in her arms, Leandra understood that she had just lost the man of her life because of a game of sex.

When she saw Ben and Carla, she couldn't even say a word. She left the room and Ben didn't even follow her, even though he had seen her go in. She couldn't admit to her parents that she had lost Ben because her parents loved this boy.

A few days later, she went to see Ben and begged him not to talk about the cause of their breakup to his parents and they agreed to say together that they realized that they did not love each other anymore and that it was not worth continuing to hide from each other, both said it against their hearts but despite all the love that Ben had for her he did not want to hear about her anymore, She had betrayed him and broken his heart into a thousand pieces, in her he had put all his hopes and his love, now he does not know why he is in a relationship with Carla, she had made advances before he had refused under the pretext that he loved Leandra very much, but where was this love that was crazy between these two?

Léandra swore by the name of Ben and Ben too, this love was envied by all in the company and now that in one night everything had flown away as if nothing had ever existed between them.

Several weeks had passed since this incident and Ben had married Carla, which had totally destroyed Leandra, she kept in her this small glimmer of hope that he will realize that Carla was not made for him and that she was the woman of his life despite his mistake, and with this marriage she had understood that she had lost everything.

To get rid of this evil that was eating away at her, Leandra had to drown herself in work, and every time she came across Carla at the company, she would brandish her ring in her eyes and this reminded Leandra that this ring was supposed to be hers, but every time she held back so as not to jump on her and tear her eyes out.

Since Léandra had slept with Bill, she had never seen her again, even if he had given her his personal number, she had never called him.

Bill on the other hand was just waiting for her call, he had had girlfriends and girlfriends before and he could have any one he wanted but the only one who really made his heart beat didn't want him and worse still she was too envious to dare to call him to talk to her, and yet he sincerely loved her and wanted her by his side.

Later, about two months later, Leandra realized that she had not had her period, she wondered, she knew that she had not had sex with Ben for a long time and the only person she had slept with last time was Bill, she was screwed, she had just become pregnant by a stranger, Her mother had to get it over with, she was pregnant without being married, she didn't want to think about it, she hoped that the lack of periods was due to the stress she had been under for the last two months, she didn't believe it until she took the pregnancy test and saw two lines on the strip, it was positive.

She was lost in her room and was holding the pregnancy test in her hands when the door opened on her parents, Her mother had seen the test in her hands and pulled it out and saw the two lines on it, so she kept it and her husband did not see it, probably very busy looking at other corners of his daughter's room.

Her father told her that Bill was downstairs in the living room waiting for her, and when she heard the name, Léandra jumped, and her mother saw her reaction, she knew that there was something wrong with her daughter.

When her parents became aware of Bill's presence in their home, they wondered what he was doing there. Between the two of them, they only saw each other at the office to talk about business, and they were surprised when he told them that he intended to see their daughter.

A few minutes later Leandra came down the stairs in a rage and once near Bill, she applied a nice pair of slaps telling him that he had ruined his life and destroy his projects, she told him a whole bunch of rude words, these words must have deeply hurt Bill, he would have given everything so that she could feel the same feelings for him but alas, when he left the United States he hoped she would be happy to see him, she had really missed.

Bill may have had too much money, but he couldn't buy Leandra's love. He made himself very small and arrived at their home without a motorcade or bodyguards, and Leandra's father had a hard time noticing this because he rarely dealt directly with his business partners, One of his most powerful business partners was there in front of him and was coming to get his daughter, he was already imagining the business he would do if his daughter ever met this guy, but it was a big surprise to see his daughter slap him in the face and he didn't dare to retaliate, thinking that love makes the strong weak.

Bill stood there as if hypnotized in the middle of the living room looking at Leandra without saying a word, then he turned around and headed for the exit. Leandra's mother was still holding the famous pregnancy test in her hands, and Leandra turned around and took the test in her hands, ran after Bill and threw it in his face.

Even though it almost hurt his face, Bill picked up the test and saw the two features on it, he understood the nervousness of Leandra and his rude words, Leandra who expected perhaps a reaction of anger saw himself hugged tightly by Bill's arms, he said in his ears: "I am the happiest man in the world, even if our feelings are not reciprocal and you want me for this beautiful mistake, know that you are the most beautiful thing that happened to me in my life since these days, and this child will be the apple of my eye if ever it is really me I promise you. With these words, he placed another card in his hands containing his personal number and left.