Unknown To You: Healing
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She lay on her bed, arms sprawled out around her. I bet they all hate me...I know Richard does...She couldn't bear thinking about Richard. It was just one mistake. She didn't know it would end like this...She just wanted to forget...
Flashback
She hadn't been feeling well; fatigue, nausea and she was late. She though nothing of it, but went to the doctor's anyway. She hadn't expected this; the doctor told her as if it was the best news in the world. It should be the best thing in the world...she thought. To her, this was the worst news in the world. How could she tell Richard? How?
End Flashback
She heard her door opening and had no doubt that it was Richard. She turned over on her bed so that she was facing away from the door. She didn't want to see him, not now. She was angry at him. If he hadn't said those things to her, if he knew how she felt, if he knew how much pain he had caused her.
"Kori?" Richard's voice seemed so quiet and so soft, like one of a little boy's that she couldn't help it; she turned around and looked deep into his eyes. She gasped. His sunglasses were off. Those deep blue ocean coloured eyes glistened in the darkness of her room and she found herself being mesmerized by them.
"I'm sorry, Richard. I didn't mean to hurt you," she began. He wrapped his arms around her, consuming her in a bear hug. She continued.
"I don't know why I did it. It was a mistake..."
Flashback
She stood in the corner of the large hall. It was their two year anniversary. Her and Richard. He had booked a huge hall for them to have dinner in with all of their friends. All of their friends were there and a few other people she didn't know. She'd gotten drunk. She didn't normally. In fact, she had never been drunk. It was her first time and she was struggling. She felt someone guiding her. She had thought it was Richard. How wrong she had been...The next thing she knew, she was away from the party and in an alley, doing what she shouldn't have been doing...
End Flashback
"I thought it was you...I didn't know. I love you Richard," she sobbed. She just needed to hear him say those two words to her. If he said them, then she knew she would be alright.
"You're forgiven," he soothed. She smiled, still crying at the same time. She knew everything was going to be alright from there on. She looked up to him and kissed him on the lips, the first piece of romantic physical contact she had had with him since that day...The next thing Richard knew, Kori had run to her bathroom and was throwing up.
"Kori!" He ran towards her and held her hair back from her face. What's wrong with her? He filled up a cup with cold water and told her to rinse her mouth. She obeyed and he watched as she cleaned herself up.
"Morning sickness," Kori replied, as if she had just read his mind. He sighed; he hadn't realised he was holding his breath. He was relieved that it hadn't been something serious. He cuddled her again and took her out of the room.
"Want something to eat?" he asked her. She thought about it and agreed; not only was she starving, she had lost a considerable amount of weight as well from the fact that she'd eaten nothing for the past few days. She sat on the sofa while Richard prepared her something to eat. She smiled to herself for the first time in a long time. She knew it would be OK from here on...