Paper Dove

NANDES: THE TRUTH

I sat down for a drink in front of me. I sat in the privacy room with Alex beside me. Monica walked in, into the room with her boyfriend.

 " I guess you've been a good housefather and will never set foot in this place again?, Monica quipped subtly.

" aah.. Monica I don't want to argue with you. Let me enjoy my drink", I rest my head on the couch. 

" Okay, I'm gonna have fun with my boyfriend", Monica goes with her boyfriend. 

" Alex is sitting next to me playing his phone. You're not coming home? It's 1 p.m. Just make up for the fight", Alex advises. 

" Alex I'm not a kid", I'm upset. 

" okay. Alex indifferently", his phone rang " Hello Adam. What's the matter?", Alex answered the phone. 

Adam's voice rattled next door. "Oh we're at the YB club. You know the room" Alex answered again and hung up. 

Alex drank next to me. Two women enter, one of whom sits on Alex's lap. The other one sat next to me. 

"Hi Bella, you're getting prettier every day" Alex rubbed her back. 

" Rather? You're getting better looking every day" the woman named Bella smiled flirtatiously at Alex. 

". How about we play tonight? ", Alex kissed his chin.

Bella laughs wryly down Alex's lap. " Nandes, I'll go first. Enjoy this world".

Alex was about to get up when I called him "Alex, take all your women away", I said coldly as I sipped my drink.

Alex sighed, feeling a failure to comfort Nandes. " Common beib", Alex codes the woman to follow them. 

I was alone in that room. Thinking of many things, while gulping down all the drinks in front of me. My head turned slightly, I unbuttoned my shirt from the heat and laid my head on the back of the sofa. 

Massaging my head slowly. I opened my eyes, I was too selfish. There are things that are hidden from the events of that time. What do I not know? I tried to think and my head was getting sick which made me close my eyes.

Someone came into the room. I sighed "Alex, what else?".

There was no answer but I felt someone climb onto my lap, I opened my eyes in shock.  Nadia sat in front of me. His face was red with alcohol. 

" Down" I tried to push him to the side. 

" I like you Nandes. Look at me just a little bit", Nadia tightened her clenches on my neck. 

I started to get upset, my head was throbbing from the pain. " I don't like you. I love other people. Down now", I pushed her as I could but Nadia hugged me tightly. She bit my ear slowly trying to provoke, Nadia kissed my neck and whispered softly in my ear. 

"I want to be with you" Nadia bit me softly in the ear.

" Take off me and go down Nadia", I'm cracking up but it doesn't scare her. 

" Nandes!", a voice I knew called out to me. I'm looking. Dew was standing there, his facial features were different. There was disappointment on his face. 

I was surprised to not think he was coming. I pushed Nadia a little rough and made her fall to the side. Nadia grimaced in pain. 

" What dew are you doing here?", I still can't believe my vision. 

" You .. have fun", Dew looked at Nandia with a sad look. Then turn around leaving me. I quickly pulled his hand, trying to explain. 

" These dumps are not what you think they are. I didn't betray you", I tried to explain. 

" This dew is not what you think it is", I gripped her arm slowly. 

Dew looked at me, his eyes glazed over. He tried hard to hold back his tears. He broke away from my grip and walked away from me.

I tried to chase after her, but Nadia pulled my hand. "Where are you going? Hm, we continue that", she traced my chest.

" Go away, I have Nadia's business", I'm trying to get away from her.

" Who is that woman? Is she more important than me?", Nadia said cynically. 

I grabbed both of Nandia's arms strong. I stared at him sharply "I've said many times that I don't like you. Do you like the rough way? So that you may understand my words Nadia. We're just business partners. I'm your boss. If you're still like this, your career as a model will be over. You know exactly how capable I am of doing it", I said coldly. 

Nadia was silent, there was horror in her eyes when she saw me. He couldn't say a word. 

"Now get out of my way", I push him slowly to the side. Then ran down the stairs out of the club looking for Dew that was no longer visible.

***

I took my car at a fairly high speed, until at home I burst into the living room but found no Dew. Anywhere in the house. I started to panic, did Dew leave me? 

I'm dizzy, my heart's pounding. I sipped a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator. After my mind cleared up a little, I left the house and in the early hours I knocked on Adam's house. I can't wait to press the bell of their house like a troublemaker. 

Adam came out in the follow Elsa who was wearing their nightgown. " Nandes, what's wrong? It's 3 in the morning", Adam panicked to see me looking messed up.

" Is the Dew here? There was a misunderstanding between us. He hasn't come home yet. Me. me", I'm stuck.

"Get in first", Adam calmed me down.

" No Adam, I have to find Dew", I'm impatient  

" Nandes, there are things we must tell you", Adam said patiently. 

My heart is beating unbecoming. What was? What the hell's going on? I stepped inside the house. And sit in the living room. 

Elsa sat in front of me. " Nandes, I know where the Dew is now. I drove him earlier. But there's one thing I want to tell you. I don't know if my decision is right or not".

I stared at Elsa waiting, trying to calm myself down. 

" Nandes, I've been keeping this a secret for a long time. Ii'm sorry. Dew ... during the incident with Juan... ", Elsa breathed in as anxiously as I did. " When he slashed his hand, he had an excuse".

" Elsa, don't beat around the bush. Tell me what's up? ", i can't wait.

" Dew, raped by Juan", Elsa's voice trembled.

The sky seemed to have collapsed onto my head upon hearing Elsa's words. My head is spinning, my heart is breaking. I'm stuck I can't say anything. Cannot give any response. The prowess of the Dew's face as it appeared in my head. My woman was raped by her first love, how she tried to protect herself by killing herself. What's the difference between me and Juan? I forced my ego on him. I hurt her without knowing how hurt she had been all this time.

" The Dew went away from you because he felt he didn't deserve you. Felt she was a bad woman, a betrayed fiance. Dew was looking for you at the club to tell me everything, but I didn't know what was going on until she ran out with tears".

The reason she didn't want me to touch her was because she wasn't ready to tell me. She was afraid I would never love her again. He was afraid I would leave him. He was afraid I thought it was bad. How stupid of me.

"Where's Elsa?", I asked with an unbecoming feeling.

" Your old apartment".

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