Tessa Marvins sat alone at a table littered with bottles, some empty, and others still full, her fingers clenched tightly on a glass of drink half way gone. Reigns and Tiles bar buzzled with loud music and blue lights, Loud enough to make you shout if you needed to speak to your partner. The stench of strong alcohol and cigarettes filled the air, with half naked ladies dancing on poles to the rhythm of the loud, or rather noisy music.
Tessa sat alone, indifferent to the noise and conversations around her, her heart aching, her eyes bloodshot red. She had come here to wash out all of her sorrows and rinse out all of the pains she felt inside.
The loud music was not enough to fade out the echoes that kept replaying in her head. Her mind drifted to events of this evening. The sound of her sister moaning loudly under him, her boyfriend, no, now her ex boyfriend, in their bedroom, banging her with reckless abandon.
Their vigorous activity came to a halt when her briefcase fell to the ground with a loud thud.
Tessa watched him climb slowly off her and her bitch of a sister Abigail desperately tried to cover her naked self with the blankets, looking all flushed and used.
"What's going on here?", she asked, her mind turning blank with confusion and disbelief.
"What don't you understand here Tessa?", he asked with a disgusted look on his face as he leaned against the headboard and wrapped his arms around Abigail, bringing her closer to his embrace.
"How long has this been going on? Cheating on me with my sister on our bed, few days to our engagement and still having the guts to pretend like nothing's wrong?", she laughed, not in humour, in anger. Her eyes stung with unshed tears.
"Tessa please.. Cut the crap. I'm not interested in those dramas. Few days to our engagement? This relationship has been over a long time ago, I'm surprised you could only see that now. Oh.. right. You're too busy. You don't even spend time with me. You pretend to be all modest and won't give up your dignity. What can I say? You couldn't consider me your boyfriend. I needed a break from all those dramas", he scoffed, his voice tinged with annoyance.
Tessa smirked, "A break? Is this what you call a break? Sleeping with my sister on our bed? I've been busy.. with what? Working devotedly for your company. You could've ended the relationship without insulting me like this.", her voice rose in anger.
"Now that you've caught me, I think you've realized you don't have a place here. You may as well leave. There's no engagement happening between us", he said acting all indifferent and unbothered about her feelings.
The girl beside him smiled sheepishly, glaring at Tessa, but she ignored her. The fury building up inside her was directed at the man in front of her. Or rather, the boy in front of her. She couldn't believe she had spent two years loving someone who had no intention of loving her back.
"You're disgusting", she whispered.