When Love Hurts and Ghosts Linger Read Online Free

I hearing this correct? I didn’t reply I just walked off to our friend’s house, well she was really his friend at first but since I met her we had become quite close.
    When I arrived she could see I was really upset, I mean I wasn’t crying or anything but I was a little hurt, it was all over my face, I thought he really loved me.
    “Oh my god he’s told you hasn’t he?” she said straight away as she opened the door to me.
    “Yeah he has….” I assumed she meant that he wanted to break up.
    “I can’t believe he cheated all this time I mean, we wanted to tell you when we found out but he insisted he would stop….” She blabbered on.
    “Excuse me? He only told me that he wanted to break up not that he fucking cheated on me….all this time you say? WHAT? FOR SEVEN FUCKING MONTHS?” I shouted at her.
    She looked at me with guilt; she had just given away his secret “Uhhh yeah, I’m sorry I thought you knew.”
    I ran out of that house so fast not even The Flash could have kept up with me and I ran all the way back to Alec’s. He opened the door and let me in but before he could say anything I threw a punch at his face. 
    I then went upstairs to his room, I was full of rage inside, I couldn’t believe he would do this to me, I never even thought about it, all that time he was away from me he had been sleeping with someone else or well quite a few from what I was told. I had completely trusted this man, what a fool I was aye.
    I picked up his PlayStation and threw it out of the window, it made an almighty bang as it crashed onto the concrete below in the back garden and Alec came running into the room.
    “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” he shouted at me.
    “How dare you fucking hurt me like this, if you wanted someone else all you had to do was say not fucking string me along for seven months and then tell me after you slept around that it’s over” I barked back as I threw things at him.
    Tears were streaming down my face; I was inconsolable, hurt and broken. This never happened in a bloody fairy tale did it? No! The men were always decent and caring, they loved their princesses, is this what love was about? Pain and torture? 
    He came at me to try and give me a hug but instead I completely lost my temper, I punched that two-timing asshole right in the face again and this time I broke the bastard’s nose. He screamed in pain but that was nothing compared to how I was feeling inside. I grabbed my things, ripped up all our photos and left.  
    All the way home I couldn’t stop crying and I remember people staring at me as if to say  ‘is she ok’  or ‘ what’s wrong with her?’  but I just hid in my seat and I didn’t move until I reached my stop.
    I walked home sort of like a zombie, dragging my legs and my bag as if it was all too heavy for me, I had my heart ripped out and had been cheated on by someone I trusted. The whole relationship had been a complete lie, everything he said was nothing.
    When I got home my mother was sat there watching TV and she saw the redness on my face and my bloodshot eyes from where I had been crying and she immediately got up to hug me.
    “What’s wrong honey?” she asked so benignant.
    I burst into tears again “its Alec mum, he dumped me and then I found out he had been cheating on me, mum….I thought he was the one for me I really did, he told me he loved me so I let him have me and it was all a lie.”
    My mum looked at me, she knew by those words I was no longer a virgin. I could see the disappointment in her eyes although she said nothing about it and just hugged me.
    “Honey, I know it seems like the end of the world and I know you’re upset but he isn’t worth it if he did that to you, one day you’ll find the right one but there is no rush” her voice was so calm and tender.
    She kissed me on the forehead and went downstairs, I could hear her telling me my dad, and as dads do when their daughters are hurt, he kicked off threatening to go kill Alec