Chapter 181: Get Out
(Arata)
The sound of my slap echoed in my apartment.
Loud and clear. Followed by the snapping of my heart in two, it burst from the pain his words had caused me. He meant to say he was too good for me because I had been sleeping with another man.
He didn’t know that at the start, it was just lust and fun, and then it became a distraction because of him.
He stood like a marble monument carved by silence as his head slightly turned from the impact of my slap. His hollowed cheek had my fingerprints plastered on it as his head swivelled back towards me.
A veil of glacial emptiness I met, except his eyes, where something was buried too deep for me to find. There was no surprise in his expression as if he had instigated me to slap him as if he was expecting me to do it.
His hand didn’t even reach out to caress his cheek; he just blankly stared and stared as tears finally slipped out of my eyes and fell onto my cheeks.
"How fucking dare you?" I cried, my heart breaking into a million pieces. "You want someone cold, fine. The Arata who fell in love with you is dead from this moment forward, so congratulations. Now, get out of my apartment."
He didn’t move, just stared. His expression was wavering like smoke, giving nothing away. His eyes dipped to the tears slipping down my cheeks.
"GET OUT," I shouted at the top of my lungs, finding his presence obnoxious. I could no longer breathe; the token of his affections around my throat felt like a collar of thorns, wounding me, inflicting pain on me. Snatching it away from my skin, I threw it in his face. It hit his neck and got trapped in his collar.
But he didn’t even flinch unlike he had done just an hour ago. I even doubted he was the same man and not his evil twin.