Thirty-three Heartbreak & Some Tape

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Mia's POV

I sat on the stool painting while a few tears escaped my eyes. I don't know how I couldn't have known sooner that he was cheating on me with this girl. I know I had to trust him but this time I know what I had seen. I could hear footsteps outside after a few hours of painting which meant he was probably home but I was glad he didn't come knock or try to speak to me.

I looked outside and realized it was already dark. I had been trying to finish a painting that I had begun before which had a beautiful ocean that reminded me of our honeymoon but now the sky that I painted looked stormy and thunderous. The ocean completely clashed with the sky which made it look different and interesting.

I sat there looking at my painting for what must have been like hours because eventually I fell asleep.

Alex's POV

I had to fix this somehow. It wasn't right that this was happening especially when I wasn't even cheating on her. I knew she was upstairs in the painting room when I got home because I saw the light in the room but I didn't want to bother her. I guess she brought food into the room and was not trying to eat dinner with me. I barely ate the food on my plate because all I could think of was her.

The worst part was that she didn't believe me. Clearly she doesn't trust me as much as I thought. I took off my suit jacket and tie and paced around the living room trying to think of how to make her believe me. When I looked up at the clock it was midnight and she was still in the room. I had to talk to her so I walked upstairs and knocked on the door. No answer. I knocked again and was answered with silence.

"Mia I know you're upset with me but can we please talk?"

I heard nothing so I slowly opened the door and saw her sleeping on one of the couches in the room. She looked so fragile and hurt making me feel horrible about today. I walked over to her and softly stroked her cheek wanting to take all her pain away. I knew if I let her sleep here she would wake up sore so I picked her up as gently as I could and walked over to her room. She woke up a little bit and tried to push me away saying she wanted to be by herself but I could tell she was too sleepy to actually do anything about it.

I placed her down on our bed and tried to make her comfortable and when I tried to lay down next to her she again pushed me away weakly and said "I want to be alone."

Even though it broke my heart to do so, I got up and left her in the room because I wanted to respect what she wanted. I got up and went to the guest room.

It felt wrong to sleep without her which is why I could not sleep for most of the night. I was making coffee downstairs when I heard quiet footsteps. I looked up to see Mia and as soon as our eyes met she started walking back upstairs.

"Mia stop you can't avoid me forever we need to talk."

"I have nothing to say to you."

"Well you might have nothing to say to me but I have plenty to say to you."

She walked upstairs quickly and I followed her trying to hold her arm to make her stop.

"Leave me alone please."

"No Mia I've left you alone enough, now we need to talk."

I was getting frustrated that she kept trying to avoid me to I grabbed her arm tightly then I heard her whimper.

"You're hurting me!"

I let her go immediately, "I'm sorry, I'm just upset because you are acting like a child."

As soon as I let her go she ran to our room and locked herself in. I couldn't believe she was acting like this.

"Mia open the door! We need to talk this through."

"I'm done talking to you."

I was frustrated so I banged the door with my hand. "Open this now!"

There was nothing but silence. I banged it again harder, "open this door now or I will break it down Mia!"

Again I was answered with silence making me pissed. I banged the door louder and attempted to kick it down but since I had bought expensive doors for the rooms this was not breaking easily. I kicked harder in my anger and I realized this wasn't the way to fix things.

I left the house angrily and went to work. It was completely immature the way we were acting and I would clear this up somehow. By the time I got to work I knew exactly how. I headed straight to the security officer making him jump out of his seat when he saw me because I was rarely there.

"Good morning, I need the security tapes of my office from yesterday at lunch time, please get it to my office in this USB."

"Yes sir, of course" he answered quickly.

I went straight to my office cancelling meetings for the rest of the day because I was not in the mood. I buried myself in my work for the whole afternoon and when it was time to go home for dinner I had the USB ready with a note that said, "watch me."

I could barely keep my eyes open since I had not slept much the night before. Once I got home I heard the door upstairs shut which meant Mia heard I got home and locked herself in. I walked upstairs and threw the USB under her door then went to the guest room and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

Mia's POV

I ran into the room and locked it when Alex got home, I knew it was not the most mature way to act but I was hurt and I was not ready to talk to him. When we talked it meant the possibility of breaking up became more real. I did not want him to convince me that he didn't cheat when I knew he had. I didn't want him to lie to me.  I saw something come in under the room and I picked it up to see a USB with a note in Alex's handwriting saying watch me.

I didn't know if I should but curiosity got the best of me, I began watching it and was surprised to see it was security footage from Alex's office. The time stamp said 11:45 a.m a few minutes before I walked in. It had audio too which was a plus, I heard that horrible girl trying to seduce my husband and he denied her. My heart was so relieved when I saw Alex had never had anything with her, he was trying to make sure she knew her place now. I saw myself walk in and in that same second she jumped on him. Now from this perspective I could see I had been wrong, he never kissed her back, it looked like it only from my end.

I was extremely happy that I had seen everything wrong and he hadn't cheated on me but now he knew I didn't trust him the first time...

I finished the video only to see him extremely angry threatening her to get out of our lives and that's when I knew I had to apologize and fix this immediately. I opened the room expecting to see him outside but he wasn't there. I looked downstairs and in the kitchen but I could not see him. Had he left?

I looked in the garage and saw his car was there so I went back upstairs to the guest room and saw him laying on the bed asleep with his shoes and tie on. He looked extremely tired. The bags under his eyes were noticeable. His face looked a little gaunt and I felt horrible.

I tried to make him more comfortable by taking his shoes off and undid his ties. He must have been so tired he didn't even wake up. I laid down next to him wanting to feel him close and fell asleep with my head on his chest. It must have been about three in the morning when I woke up because I felt him wake up. He looked around confused by seeing me there.

"Hey.."

"What are you doing here?"

His voice seemed a little cold but I could understand why. "I'm trying to apologize. I was wrong and I should have trusted you but from my point of view it just looked completely different..."

"Yeah you should have trusted me."

"I'm sorry..."

He nodded slowly and laid back down. "It's fine" he said in a tone that did not sound like it was fine.

I knew he might not forgive me just because I apologized and it would take some time so I nodded and cuddled against him falling back asleep.

Alex's POV

It had been a month now since the whole incident happened and Mia and I were much better now but things were still tense between us sometimes. I had to admit we'd had many fun and amazing moments together during this time but that was a shadow always looming over us.

We were currently watching movies together and having a lazy Saturday just enjoying each other's company and feeding each other popcorn playfully. I started to zone out thinking back to my dream. I was sitting back in my old room and my dad walked into it saying he wanted to talk. All I wanted to do was hug him but in my dream he said he was upset at me for failing him, for not finishing my plan and for marrying the love of his life. I tried not to think about that nightmare because it hurt me but I couldn't help it. I had failed my dad and he would never forgive me for this.

It was almost time for us to get ready since we were going to her house because they had a family reunion happening. I could tell she really didn't want to go because she had not felt well this morning but we still decided to show up.  Now that I thought about it, she'd been feeling sick for the last few days. By the time we got there her house was pretty crowded. We basically held hands the whole time because ever since the incident, Mia had been a lot more affectionate and me a lot more cold which I did not mean to be honestly but the dream just kept getting to me. I had said hello to all of her family members and I could tell they were charmed immediately. Mia and I sat down on a love seat and she kissed my lips affectionately.

I smiled at her and her cousin asked her to get on the dance floor with them. It wasn't actually a dance floor, more like just the young people dancing in the living room. I smiled and watched Mia dancing then got distracted with my dream again. By the time I looked back up I could see Mia dancing with some guy that looked to be about her age. I knew it was probably one of her cousins but still I did not like the way they danced.

I tried to ignore it because I wasn't going to make a scene here at her house but I got more upset when I saw him brush her hips with his hand. Mia looked like she was having fun and thought nothing of it. I knew I was overreacting so I tried my hardest to ignore it, I just wanted something to loosen up. Mia came back and sat next to me as she laughed and talked through the room with her cousins. When It was time to leave we said our goodbyes to everyone and I tried to be as charming as I could even though I was a little annoyed. That was when I heard one of her cousins saying we should all go out tonight since there was a really good bar opening now and he wanted to go before he had to leave town. Mia looked excited at the idea of going so when she asked if I wanted to I just nodded. Maybe I could loosen up like this.

Mia's POV

I could tell Alex was off and I wanted him to relax so I decided to convince him to go to the bar which surprisingly took little effort. Once we were at the bar Alex had a couple drinks and we were all on the dance floor having fun. That was when I spotted one of my oldest friends from high school, Brian, and a group of other friends. I was so excited to him I almost ran towards him.

"Babe, this is Brian, one of my closest friends from high school, Brian, this is my husband!" I introduced them over the music. They greeted each other and we were all dancing as a group. That was when Alex decided he wanted to get another drink and I nodded. Brian began to dance with me flirting but completely not meaning it. He had always been like this and I knew he was in love with one of our other friends so I danced back with him. I had not felt free like this in a long time, It felt like I was back in high school without a care in the world. He was always a playful guy and I laughed with he tried to playfully grind on me. I know he meant nothing by it so I laughed it off but still backed off a little. I hadn't even noticed that Alex was getting more upset by the second until I looked towards the bar and saw him fuming. To everyone else he probably looked serene but I could tell he was angry. The soft green of his eyes looked like a gemstone melting. I backed away from my best friend saying I needed to get some water and he nodded moving on to dance with another of my cousins since we had all been part of the same friend group in high school. I went over to Alex at the bar and I could literally feel the heat radiating off of him. I tried to gently touch his arm and he held my arm tightly, probably much tighter than he meant because I felt pain radiate through my arm.

"You're hurting me" I whispered on his ear but was shocked when he did not let go at all.

I knew something had been off since the day we had that argument because even though we'd enjoyed beautiful times this past month there was something making him be distant and colder to me. He whispered back in my ear, "were leaving now."

I looked at him actually feeling scared by the way he was acting because he had never done this before. I did not even know what set him off like this.

"I want to say bye to my friends and cousins" I said as I headed towards them but he held me back and said, "I said we are leaving now."
then he started walking out and he never let the grip on my wrist losing the whole time until we got to the car.

I felt the blood rushing back to my hand when he let go and looked at him bewildered. "What's going on??"

He looked at me angrily as we sped home making me freak out a little because everything was flashing past us.

"You didn't think I'd notice the way he was dancing with you? The way he was touching you??"

"Alex what are you talking about??"

"Yeah that guy whoever he was!"

"Brian? He's just a friend from high school Alex, he is in love with one of our friends, I told you this while we danced."

"Oh please! He was basically grinding on you and you were letting him!"

"Alex wait, it wasn't like that!"

His jaw and hands were clenched and I felt so small next to him. When we got to the house he opened the door for me as usual by went back to grabbing my wrist as we walked inside, I tried to pull my hand but he only held tighter making me wince, "ow you're hurting me please stop!"

He let go of my wrist when we walked inside the house. I could see he was intoxicated but he knew what he was doing. I held my arm to my chest because it was hurting and he threw the keys on the table.

"I wasn't doing anything bad with him I'm sorry it looked that way I won't do it again but you can't be acting like this and pulling me around like I'm a rag doll"

He laughed sarcastically at me and pushed me against the wall with his body, "you're whatever I want you to be you understand?"

This Alex was someone I did not know and did not want to know. I could smell the alcohol in his breath as he pushed closer against me and I angrily pushed him away.

He stumbled back and held on to the sofa to keep him from falling. I could tell he was angrier but I was not going to back down and let him push me around so I held my ground.

"What do you think you're doing acting like this? Proving a point that you're a man? You're strong and you own me? Because all you're doing is making yourself look ridiculous and proving the opposite."

He got even more upset and threw his jacket on the ground forcefully, "I saw you dancing with that guy you know? Just because you're married to me doesn't mean you own anything of what is mine you know? Now that you're married you think you're rich and are good to go off with someone else? You're wrong! You won't get anything that belongs to me!"

Now I was just extremely confused, what is he even talking about. "Alex I don't even know what the hell you are saying! First of all I am not trying to leave with anyone and second of all, I've never tried to have or take your money!" I said feeling hurt that he would think that of me.

Alex's POV

"Good because you're not taking any of it with you!!!" I knew I was drunk and acting a fool but she had to know, she was done playing me. I had failed my father once but I would make up for it.

She looked at me completely lost and I went to my office then basically shoved the prenuptial agreement at her. She read over it quickly and saw her signature, "what is this? When did I sign this?"

I laughed drunkenly and looked at her, "it's your signature baby you should know! So if you wanna go run off with your little friend do it but you're leaving with nothing just like how you got here."

She looked at me with tears glistening in her eyes and I could almost see her mind thinking of when she signed this then it hit her and I could see the betrayal in her face.

"Why would you do this to me? You really think I'm after your money? I've never wanted any of it and I would have signed this if you'd asked me to my face."

She handed the paper back to me and the honestly ringing in her vice was too much. She couldn't have been faking that. I felt horrible but all I wanted was to get justice for my father. He didn't deserve what happened to him. I had royally messed up this time.

"Mia..."

Her pain sobered me up as she looked me in the eyes then walked upstairs and headed to bed.

"Mia wait, please. I need to explain what's happening." I had to tell her the truth, she obviously wasn't the horrible person I thought she was. I had to make a decision and I knew this was the right one.

"Please, I really need you to hear this out, it's going to explain everything." 

She looked at me and as if thinking but then her eyes became blank and it was almost in slow motion how she began to fall to the ground. Even with my drinking and slower reflexes I managed to catch her before she hit the ground.

"Mia?? Mia!"

I tried to wake her up and within a few minutes she came to.

"I got dizzy..." she said softly.

"We're going to the hospital."

She shook her head weakly, "no please."

I looked at her and carried her to the car driving towards the hospital.

I paced nervously back and forth waiting for the doctor to come out and say what was wrong with her while she laid in bed peacefully asleep. A few minutes later the doctor came with a smile on his face, "great news!"

Mia opened her eyes slowly and looked at the doctor while he read off of a paper then looked at us, "you're expecting a baby!"

I was at a loss of words. A baby? Mia and my baby? The happiness surging through my body was intense and it clashed with the mixed feelings of betrayal towards my father. Mia looked mixed as well. Something between happy and hurt. The doctor explained that Mia needed to take better care of herself because stress was what led to her fainting. I nodded towards the doctor feeling guilty but promised myself to take care of Mia and our baby to the best of my ability. Nothing would hurt either of them. In that moment I knew what I had to do. My plan was forgotten. I needed to take care of my family. I loved my dad but my dad was gone. Now I needed to take care of who I still had.

Mia's POV

Me pregnant? I was over the moon. Alex and I were having a little baby. The happiness was tainted with the memory of how I'd even gotten here in the first place. Alex was being completely possessive and jealous and acting like a mad man. I did not want that to happen ever again. He did not trust me one bit as was obvious by those papers he made me sign behind my back. He obviously thought I was some sort of gold digger. And with

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