LIANA

They say after every storm comes a rainbow. In my life came the storm but it never went away. It was the rainbow that came first. Everything was perfect and it couldn't have gone any better. It could only go worse. Until it did.

Smiling, laughing were things I was now afraid of doing. These were forbidden emotions. They were rules that were never explained.

I've had many admires before and I've became fond of their opinion of me. It was a boost to my ego. But there was this one admirer that drew him to me like a moth to a flame. Only he was the moth and I was the flame. Or so I thought.

His name was Zackary. Handsome, bright. A dream too good to be true. He was the ideal man. Rich, loaded with cash and equally generous.

I thought he was perfect. My settlement. At first he followed me everywhere I went with his friends, when I was with mine. He used to throw cheesy lines my way, used to get the girls jealous. My girls thought it was hilarious. I'd turn away with a smile and a flick of my hair but the shine in my eyes made him sure I was getting entangled in his web.

We went out on a couple of dates. Went to the cinema and gave a goodbye kiss on the way home. It was sweet and beyond romantic.

"You know this is my favourite movie to watch?" I told him, whispering in his ear with our hands intertwined.

"I know everything about you," He had said huskily whispered back popping a sweet popcorn in my mouth. I chewed watching my favourite Captain being a pirate. Jack Sparrow. I would marry that pirate if I could.

Little did I know that one innocent thing was an actual threat. Had I taken notice of this treat before, maybe I wouldn't have lost my self on the way.

He became to attached, left his friends for me. Had fights with his parents for me. He left them for me. It became all too serious to quick. Everything he did, he did to stay closer to me. He became crazy at which was my fault for not recognizing it earlier. He started to do things that he kept a secret from me. Act differently towards me, the whole aura about him change until one day I said,

"Sweeti, can you come down here? We need to talk,"

I was going to let him know that it was time for us to separate. I no longer wanted to be with him because he was no longer a person I knew. That's when it became physical, he slapped me hard. It got worse with the hits, so I called the police. When he found out, he told them it was a misunderstanding. That night he punished me by taking my virginity away from me. Something I had kept sacred for my husband. He let his 'new' friends abuse me, mentally and physically. They had left scars all over my body.

My parents threw me out, told me to go away as I had tried running away several times. They were fed up of chasing after me. I was misjudged, my looks were misread. My street name becoming well know in the town.

At that one night I decided I would run away, and drink all my problems away. Drown enough alcohol in me to give me the courage to take a life.

My own life.

Until he came. My angel.

Alexis's part to come soon....keep a look out. Comment and vote.