A Change of Fate

Ethan and Ava, my worst ever mistake - “who needs enemies?” I’d say, though much needed lessons were learnt. The unlikeliest of couples but getting married in a week. I’d accepted the invitation and scouted out my attire, so the moves he threw on me that night, in my semi-concious state, were unexpected to say the least. At the wedding I really was the scarlet woman, burning up in the back row, with thin, slick red lips, trembling in anger, enraged by his nonchalant attitude to his seemingly innocent, one minute away wife.I tried to tell myself it was just a one last fling before wedded bliss, but his best friend, Aniëla, confided in me the truth of all the others, one week into the honeymoon. I tortured myself for not confessing, for my outrageous cowardice. Three months and still I wasn’t forgetting, constantly reminded of my actions as the unhappy pair bickered inside the flat. But three months of unhappy matrimony and there was an unpredictable change of fate. The modern world has its advantages for exposing truths from those who have the capacity to lie well. Via a text message from Ava to Bobby I discovered the frailty of my own relationship and the crisis that was storming theirs. The man who once stole my heart from that of another was engaged in his own seedy affair with no other than Mrs Ethan Riley. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.