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“Hello,” I said quietly.
Silence.
“Who is this?” Caroline asked sharply.
“Molly. Steve’s fiancé,” I replied, wondering if this was a family member. A cousin. A sister. A... but I knew.
I knew from the moment I saw her name on the screen. Sometimes the heart needs time to let the head see the truth. Nevertheless my armpits had prickled, and my temperature rose as the conversation continued.
“Fiancé? Is this a joke?” she yelled.
Why did I feel guilty?
This man wasmyfiancé. The man I had loved for over a year and here I was feeling like the other woman.
Because I was.
My eyes closed as reality began to sink in. Tears pooled in my eyes as I’d begun to shake.
My dreams were shattered.
“Where is he? Put Steve on,” Caroline demanded.
Oh god.
“He’s in the shower,” I’d stammered out emotionally, my heart shattering into pieces.
How could he have done this to me?
Caroline began shrieking in my ear just as Steve stepped out into the living room. It’s weird how people know even when they have all the information. As I sat there with his phone against my ear, tears pouring down my face, he yelled at me.
“What the fuck are you doing?”
I dropped the phone and curled my legs up under me, reaching for a cushion to hug while Steve launched for the phone.
“Caroline,” Steve said into the phone as he glared at me. “Sweetheart, wait!”
Sweetheart?
Tears poured down my cheeks as he continued speaking to her with a level of care, love, and comfort he didn’t afford me.
He left me sitting there, shaking and in shock.
When the call ended, Steve stood in front of me, the phone hanging from one hand, a towel wrapped around his waist and stared at me in anger.
“What the fuck were you thinking answering my phone!” he screamed.
What?
That was all he had to say?
Not I’m sorry I lied to you.
I look back now and know I was in shock because the words I said next were not the ones I’d say now. Nor did I know it was the only opportunity I’d ever have to tell him how I feel.
“You proposed to me,” I cried, confused. “You asked me to marry you!”
Steve nodded. “I know. I shouldn’t have done that.”
