You Lost Me

Chapter One - Beyond Repair

She was dressed from in white, from head to toe. Dazzled in diamonds, her appearance was fit for a princess and maybe even a queen. Diamonds racked up upon her arms and some rested on her ear lobes. People would believe that Princess Diana was resurrected, based on the appearance of Maryse Ouellet.

The mirror reflected to her an appearance she was pleased and satisfied with. If no one guess it yet, Maryse was getting married. The blushing bride was only twenty minutes away from walking down the church aisle that would be covered in rose pedals and surrounded by about fifty of her and her fiancé's closet family and friends.

Before she gets married, she needed those four very important tasks to be completed. She needed something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Her something new were her earrings given to her by her best friend, Melina. Her mother had given her a pin of star - one her mother was given when she was born. Her something borrowed and something blue was her father's handkerchief. All was ready and prepared.

The program for the ceremony stating members of the bridal party along with location information in the pages inside. The front cover read the words - Welcome to the marriage celebration of Ted and Maryse - in big golden letters.

Ted DiBaise had stolen her heart. Ted was responsible for stealing the beauty's heart and it couldn't be in any better hands than his. October 17th, ironically today's date as well, marks the day the two had first met. Sophomore year of high school they met but first began dating during their senior year in high school - making them high school sweethearts as some say.

A history was what lied behind them, leading to this very day. Ted was a type who had two sides to him. A serious one, when necessary and a playful one, when permitted. Kind, humble and free were the three things that instantly Maryse had seen in the man of her dreams. It matched well with her sometime snotty attitude but Ted had always brought the best out in her, on a good day or bad day. Along with him, she'd seen a side to herself she'd never seen before and discovered much more than what is given.

He'd shown her a side she always wanted to see from herself. He had made her a better person overall. Her fiancé had shown her that she could be whoever she wants him to be. Some were good and some were bad but you can't get all of everything. You need a little both and in this case, She had a bit of good and a bit of evil running through her veins.

At points in their relationships, there were times where they had their mistakes. Ted would do something she didn't approve of and she'd do something he wouldn't approve. It's natural and they've worked through it to better themselves and their relationship.

He was all she wanted in life and the slight thought of losing him in anyway would just shatter her heart. It was that one thing she feared the most in her life. She had been the witness to several other break ups, those of her friends and she vowed to herself that she would never let that happen to her and Ted. There relationship was worth more than screwing it over for something pointless.

It was obvious that she was in love. If she hadn't, she wouldn't have stuck around for all this time. Now it was time for that next step. That step to just really prove to him that she loved him and wanted nothing more but to be with him - and only him.

Her door crept opened and revealing herself was her best friend and maid of honor, Melina, standing there with both her bouquet and her very own. The look in Melina's eyes glistened with happiness. No words could describe how gorgeous Maryse had looked at the moment.

"Maryse, you look," The words couldn't stumble out of the Latina's lips before her brain diagnosed the perfect word, "simply beautiful."

The maid of honor, who happened to be the Bride's best friend was Melina. She had been around for just a bit longer than Ted. Melina was a real girl - a real friend to Maryse and almost like a sister, constantly looking out for her like any sister would do. As Maid of honor, Melina would be there for support no matter when or where - she'd be there. She'd call and Melina would answer.

"I can't even describe how I'm feeling right now," Her mind was a loss for words when she looked back into the mirror, "I hope everything just goes perfectly fine and there's no problems at all."

"I've checked everything. Flowers are here, limos have arrived and the chapel is almost full. It's just missing a bride and a groom at the altar steps," Notifying her about all tasks that were completed, she mentioned the final one, "Everything is moments from completion. When you asked me to be maid of honor, I promised I wasn't going to make a mess of this whole thing - and I didn't."

Maryse offered a chuckle in response as she took a hold of her bouquet, "Have you heard anything from Ted?"

"Ted's in his room with JoMo, Randy and Cody. Kelly's outside with Gail and Mickie."

"But have you heard anything from him? Like how he's feeling?" If there something about Maryse's personality you didn't know, she liked to know things. Her curiosity about the thoughts that could be traveling through Ted's mind was traveling in her own very mind.

"At the rehearsal dinner, he was fine. You saw him yourself and I'm sure he's happy. Look who he's marrying today. He's marrying you," The Latina took the time to fix up Maryse's veil, neatly adjusting it, "You love him and he loves you. This is suppose to be you're happiest day in your life and you're worrying. Stop worrying."

"It's not that I'm worrying. It just, I want to know how he's feeling at this very moment. Does he feel those butterflies in his stomach like I do?"

"He probably has half of a African jungle jumping in his stomach."

"Melina, I'm serious," All joke aside, Maryse wanted to claw her way into his mind and feel what he is feeling at this very moment, "I want to reassured that this is going to work and that we're doing this for the right reasons."

Her brain couldn't digest why Maryse was feeling this way. Melina always believed that Ted and Maryse's relationship was perfect. It was an ideal relationship countless amount of people wished for but only a few really get it. Maryse's endgame in this whole thing was confusing to her.

"Well, he's probably at the altar waiting for you. Ask him there, preferably after you both say I do and kiss."

"You just said he was in his room with the guys," Quickly deciding, she wanted to see him one final time, "I want to go and see him. Just so I can talk to him and hear that he's in this with me. I just need that Melina."

"But what about the whole rule about not seeing the bride until she walks down the aisle? It causes bad luck and you wouldn't want that," With all her convincing, Melina believed that with using some wedding tales that she could stop the bride from doing something that was unnecessary.

"I just want to see him," Her feet were leading her to the door and her hand reached for the knob, "I just want that reassurance. I have to know if he's with me."

"Maryse!" But the bride was off. Maryse burrowed her way through the hallway. On the opposite side of the church was Ted's room.

She couldn't explain why she wanted to do this but she felt like she needed to know. Just one last time that this was real. This was going to happen and they were both in the same boat. It was this thing about her where she just wanted to be sure and not have to be worrying about something in the back of her mind. 100% positive with her decision and wanted to see if Ted was 100%

In the midst of traveling to his room, the bride took a moment to recollect everything. Was it right to do this in the first place? Barging into his room to ask him a question, she basically knows the answer too.

If there was something that Ted had always told Maryse, it was to quit worrying and just be relaxed but her mind was deflecting that at the moment and nothing was stopping her from walking any further to his door step, knocking and asking the question herself.

Deep down, she knew he loved her and he wanted to do this but why was she acting like a paranoid person? If she knew, she wouldn't be doing this but she was anyway. Her paranoiac feeling inside was outweighing what Ted had always told her do to. Her gut feeling wanted her to do this.

Her feet were planted right in front of the door step. At the moment, she tried to make sense of this whole thing but it wasn't making much sense of it. It felt wrong but so right. It was all about her personality of constantly worrying about these things. It depicted the woman she was.

In front of the door, her teeth sunk onto her lip. Her nerves were getting the best of her at the moment and she couldn't control them. Maryse grasped the door knob and the cold feeling from it traveled all along her body. It honestly felt like a sign - and not a good one.

One last deep breath, Maryse turned the knob and opened the door. What she would see would be an image that would forever be etched in her mind till the moment she takes her last breath. A gasp emitted into the air and this feeling in her body erupt - particularly around her heart.

It was as if she was lost and was a lost soul with no reason. Weak is what it made her. The one thing that keeps you alive is your heart and it wasn't there. It was gone - torn up into pieces and disappeared into a place where broken hearts go.

Two bodies were mangled up, the female against the wall and the male against the female. One in a tuxedo and the other in a maroon colored dress. Both their lips were locked onto one another. Both their hands were roaming into places they shouldn't be roaming but it didn't stop either of them. The man was the first one to notice a pocket of winding crashing into his side and when he turned around, his eyes met the eyes of a lost soul named Maryse.

Following the male ending his approaches, the female looked forward and could see why the man had stopped what he was doing. She herself even let out a gasp being completely surprised by this whole situation.

Maryse was completely spaced out. This is how a heart broken girl looks like.

No one said a word and the male, Ted DiBaise deciding it would be appropriate to say something first, decided to say something, "Listen, we can talk about this."

Speechless. Maryse could speak nor could she even listen. Why listen? Witnessing a fellow bridesmaid and her husband-to-be locking lips said a lot more. Actions speaks louder than words.

She didn't want to hear it. Not one bit of it so the only solution was just to run off and not ever turn back because the one person she'd expect to always be there, was gone.

Maryse blared through the door of Ted's room and quickly located the side exit to the church. She ran into the fields that were in the area and all she wanted to do was escape this hell she was witness. Her heels would get stuck in the dirt, causing her to pause for a few moments, slowing down her escape. Not to far behind her, Ted revealed himself to the fields. The wind coming from the shore blew around the grass along with Maryse's hair and veil.

"Maryse, please don't run. Let me just talk to you. I can explain this whole thing and -"

And that's when she had enough. His words were lies. Explaining a situation like that was unexplainable. How could he be forgiven for this? Actually, it was never how to forgive him but how to cut him away.

"You - you cheater. You liar. You bastard," Maryse's grim words hurt the groom as the tears forming in her eyes soon gave out and quickly collapsed down her cheeks. Her eyes had turned into makeshift waterfalls with a tint of black corroding along with it.

"Maryse - I was going to -," Ted muttered out softly as he came closer to the blonde, trying to reach out to her, "But it was so damn hard. I didn't want to keep this away from you anymore."

"So you planned on prolonging this so that what? I could found out another time when maybe we were officially married?" Questions flooded her mind like a flash flood but only so little answers were available, "But I just want to know. Why? Why'd you do it and why was it with her?"

"Maryse.."

"Answer the question. I deserve that," She shouted out in between the heavy sobs.

"I just," Lie after lie, he supposed that it was time to be truthful, "I just fell in love with someone else. That's it. I fell in love with someone else."

The man she believed to be her one true love - loved someone but it wasn't her. All along, she thought she had his heart but she was obviously wrong. His heart was never in her possession but in the hands of another woman she called her friend.

"You really fell in love with her?" It was hard to be believe and it was noticeable in her somber low tone as her tears crashed to the dirt ground, "Did you ever love me?"

Not even the courage to look her in the eyes, his eyes hit the ground as he bit his lip, "I do - I mean, I did."

She was a fool. A big idiot to fall into a trap like this and now she was hurt. Never was there a point in her life where she was ever this devastated. There wasn't anyway in this world to describe her exact feelings at this moment. Hurt was one of them.

He thought maybe with more words, he'd do some help but more harm was coming her way, "I love you but I-I l-love someone more. I'm sorry," He's not going to lie but he feels remorsefully. He hurt someone so much - nothing could explain it.

"Sorry? That's all. Sorry is your answer. Sorry won't take away the seven years I've been by your side. Sorry isn't going to make me fell better. Sorry is definitely not going to take away all this pain. Sorry isn't going to do a damn thing."

"I don't know what else to say."

Her eyes hit the shiny rock laying on her ring finger. Her engagement ring where he said that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. Guess that isn't the case anymore. Maryse slowly slipped off the diamond ring and viewed it, "You said that you wanted to be spend the rest of your life with me when you gave me this ring. Obviously that isn't the case anymore," Maryse tossed the ring at him, hitting his chest, "Give it to the person you love a little bit more than me."

Since he had broken her heart, the least she could do is give him back the one thing that reminds her of him. Following the removal of her engagement ring, she took of her veil and tossed it on the ground. The tears continued to spill away from her brown eyes as Ted tried to pull her into a hug but only to be pushed away from her, "Don't touch me. Don't even come near me."

"Maryse, can we just?"

"Just what? Ted, this is over. We're over. I just want to get out of this dress, this place and I never want to see you," Maryse took a moment and finished her sentence off with a stern answer. A dominant and straight forward answer, "Ever again."

Maryse turned her back to him, hoping that this is the last time that she ever had to see this man. This vial creature that is cruel enough to do such a thing to her. Maryse stomped away leaving Ted there with the ring in his hand. Each step she was taking away from him, a memory of him was forgotten along with another tear shed.

Everything was ruined. Her wedding was ruined. Her future was ruined. Her heart was ruined and it had to be the one that took the most damage of them all. It was one of her worst fears that had came true. She vowed to herself that she would never want to lose Ted and that vow was broken. That vow was turned into dust and it felt as if her entire life was completely over.

What she feared the most had no come true and all the damage that was done, it would be impossible to repair her. This heart was just worn out to the point where she may never love again.

A/N: A bit out of left field with this story. Idea came to me yesterday and i just fell in love.
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