“That bastard! How dare he mock me?!”
“He’s the one who cheated, why should I be the one to avoid him?”
“Fuck you, Noah and that bitch you call your wife!”
Diane screamed at the top of her lungs with her head outside the car window, the night breeze hitting her face as Aiden sped his car through the streets.
He was helping her let out her frustrations by taking a drive around the city.
“I hate you for wasting my time! Don’t think I care about you, you’re just trash!”
“Don’t let me see your ugly face again!”
Diane sat back in her seat, her face flushed from the cold air. She was breathing heavily, her chest rising and falling as she tried to calm down.
All that screaming seemed to have sobered her up and her anger disappeared.
Aiden glanced at her and asked, “Do you feel better now?”
“Yeah… it feels good to let it out of my chest. I don’t know why I just froze when I met them… I should have given them a piece of my mind,” Diane remarked, the memory from a few hours earlier flashing through her mind and making her cringe.
##Flashback to hours earlier##
Diane had been shopping when she bumped into the last people she wanted to see that day.
'Why do I have to bump into this adulterous couple today of all days?' Diane mused.
She hissed and turned around to avoid them, however, a sickening voice reached her ears, making her stop in her tracks.
“Diane, long time. I didn't expect to see you here.”
Diane scoffed after hearing the familiar female voice. She turned around to look at the couple, her jaw tight from anger.
The nerve of them to talk to her after what they did.
“Long time? I didn’t intend to run into the two of you for the rest of my life,” Diane replied, sneering.
Elizabeth Benson, Diane’s former best friend, gasped and asked, “Diane, why are you acting like this? You don’t still blame Noah and I for what happened, right? We just fell in love… we didn’t intend to hurt you.”
“Liz, you don’t have to explain yourself to her,” Noah Thompson, Diane’s ex-fiance, said. “I chose to be with you, it’s not a crime.”
“Oh, Noah… you can’t just say that knowing Diane still loves you…” Elizabeth remarked in her sickening sweet voice.
“Well, I don’t love her. She just has to accept it and move on,” Noah replied. He looked at Diane and stated, “I know you still love and care about me, but move on, Diane. I love Liz… I don’t know how you knew we would be coming to this store but stop stalking me. I’m a married man now.”
Diane was bereft of any words.
Noah was a narcissist! What made him think she was still in love with him to the point of stalking him?
Quite alright she was hurt by his betrayal, however, that’s just what it was. The pain of being betrayed by someone she loved with all her heart was still strong. But she had moved on a long time ago... Noah and Elizabeth were now strangers to her.
"If you follow us again, I will be forced to report you to the police," Noah proclaimed and led Elizabeth away.
By the time Diane came back to her senses, Noah and Elizabeth had already passed and she couldn't miss the mockery in Elizabeth’s eyes.
Anger flared through Diane.
Elizabeth used to be her bestie. Her ride or die.
However, Diane’s world came crumbling down when she found Elizabeth in bed with Noah on the night before their wedding. They claimed to have fallen in love with each other and were unable to stay away from each other.
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