All Chapters of Too Young To Want Him: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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The Moment Before the Fall

The music was amplified, and it was heard as soft notes that were joyful and soothing in the room. The back doors of the hall swung wide open, and all heads were turned simultaneously.Ava stepped inside.She was unable to feel her feet on the floor for a second. Her body was in motion, but her mind was distant; it seemed like she was looking at herself as she saw her. She was a little shaky in her hands as she held the bouquet, and her fingers were cold even when it was hot.Smile, someone told her behind her.Ava tried. Her lips were good enough to appear pleasant, but her eyes remained vacant. She took one step, then another, and slowly walked up and down the aisle. The white garment swept around her, bulky and gorgeous, and wholly unsuited.Guests whispered."She looks lovely.""So young.""Such a sweet bride."Ava heard none of it clearly. Her heart beat, and her thoughts could be heard, were all she heard.Just get through this. Just keep walking.She feared she was going to have

Spoilt Name

The room remained frozen after Bella's final words. No one moved. No one breathed. The gentle wedding music was already silent, and the stillness was oppressively quiet, and everyone could feel the weight.Bella was erect on the aisle, with her shoulders natural, her expression serene, in something like a cruel way. She turned her head around the room gradually, as though she would have preferred that all should see her.“I did not come here to destroy a wedding, just to have fun,” Bella screamed. “I got here because the truth is important, and Ava has been telling you all lies.”Someone in the throng gave a sharp gasp. Ava also experienced weakness in her legs, and had she not been so tightly held by Mark, she would have fallen to the floor. "What are you talking about?" Mark asked, his voice rising. "What lie?"Bella turned around and faced him. "The baby," she said clearly. "The baby Ava is carrying."The room was full of whispers."The baby?""What does she mean?""Oh my God..."A

Falls Apart

No one spoke, one long second after Bella had said the name, Marcus. It was like the freezing of the air itself. Then the room exploded.Voices rose all at once. People rose, and chairs were scraping ominously against the floor. Somebody screamed, “This is crazy! " As some other voice shouted, "How is this possible during a wedding?” It seemed to the soft decorations and white flowers that they had been out of place, as though they belonged in another day, a happier day.Mark recoiled out of Ava as she burnt him. His countenance was flushed, his eyes were wild. "Marcus?" he repeated loudly. “Marcus is the father of your baby?”Ava tried to speak, but all she made was a sob. Her mouth was covered with shaking. She had the sensation of the floor opening under her and taking her in."That's a lie!" A member of the group screamed.“No, see how she looks at me,” said another guest. "She's not denying it."Bella stood straight during the disturbance and looked unafraid with a clear expressi

The Breaking Point

The silence that Elena left did not last long.It broke as Ava just could not stand anymore. Her legs were even weaker, and she was forced to hold on to the arm of a chair in order not to collapse. Her breath came in gutted gasps, and the tears ran down her face in torrents. She glanced around the room, and at the faces gazing back at her with horror, indignation, and, she thought, disillusionment, and something within her at last betrayed her.“I did not intend it,” Ava screamed. “I did not want it to happen like this.”Mark was standing a few steps away with his hands clasped into fists. "Then why did you lie?" he demanded. “Why did you leave me standing here today, prepared to marry you?”Ava looked up at him and spoke with a shivering voice. "Because I was scared," she said. “I was horrified at losing it all. I was already pregnant and already passed judgment on, and nobody was going to forgive me if they found out the truth.”“That is no excuse,” Mark said bitterly. "You made me

Shattered in Public

The slap, the shouting, the truth that had burst out in everybody could still be felt in the room when Mark at last moved. Moving slowly, with a hard and unreadable face, his eyes staring at Ava as though he had never seen her before."This is over," he said loudly.The lyrics broke the noise and muted the whispers.Ava raised her eyes to him, and they were swollen and red. "Mark... please," she whispered. "Let me explain properly. I never wanted to hurt you."Mark laughed, but there was no humour in it. "Explain what?" he asked bitterly. “Explain how you stood next to me, let me plan a wedding, let me dream about a future, all in bringing to the world another man’s child?”Gasps again ran through the room.‘You humiliated me,” Mark further added, increasing his voice. "In front of my family. My friends. Everyone who mattered to me.""I was scared," Ava cried. “I believed that I would lose it all, if I told the truth.”“And rather, you preferred to lie to my face day in, day out,” Mar

The Words He Couldn’t Say

Lydia did not move until the sound had subsided in the hall. Her hands were trembling, her chest was tight, and all the whispers she had heard were still reverberating in her head. Marcus was at a few paces off the altar, stiff and pale, and had the appearance of a man who had been struck by an object he had never imagined."Marcus," Lydia called her dad sharply.He raised his eyes upon the voice of the woman. There was a moment of relief on his face, as though he was standing in his one fastening place to see her. Then he beheld her countenance, and that ease on his part disappeared."Lydia," he said quietly. "I was going to come find you."She didn't move closer. "No, no, she said,” with a shivering voice. “You will answer me here and now. Right now."Tension started to be felt by people around. Others made their discussion slow. Others did not look, but their eyes were on their ears, as they listened."What are they saying?" Lydia demanded. “Why do they all talk about you like it wa

Cracks in the Walls

The house was too quiet.Elena was standing in the bedroom, gazing at the open wardrobe as though she had been betrayed by it. On one side, clothes were neatly suspended, and below these the shoes, but the silence seemed oppressive, as someone seemed to peep over the walls. Her hands shook, and she drew a suitcase out of bed.She didn't cry at first.She slowly, unhurriedly, folded out a sweater, as though she were asking someone to do it. It is a sweater that Marcus gave her a long time ago. She hesitated and then just left it in the suitcase.“And so, so this is the end,” I said to myself.At the end of the corridor, the front door swung open.Marcus got into the house with his shoulders stooped, his face pulled and weary. There was still the din of the wedding ringing in his ears yelling, weeping, recrimination but the silence which awaited him now was the thing which frightened him most of all."Elena?" he called softly.No answer.He unbuttoned his jacket and put it across the ch

No Place to Stand

Ava entered the house and shut the door as gently as possible. The silence still seemed too loud in the sound. Her feet were tired of the heavy shoes she had, and her body was sore not only because it was a long day but also because of all that had taken place. The bridal gown had been taken, the cosmetics washed off, but the disgrace lingered about her like a second skin.She stood in the hallway a little, not even knowing where to go, not even knowing whether she was supposed to be here or not.Even in the living room, Patricia sat rigidly on the couch, her back straight, her hands clasped together in her lap. When Ava walked in, she did not raise her eyes. The TV was working, but the sound was turned down, as though it were just present, so that there was no silence."Patricia," Ava said softly.No response.Ava gulped and made a step. "I... I'm home."Patricia set her teeth and did not even turn around.“I did not know where to turn,” she said, “and I tried to keep myself steady,

Nowhere Left

Ava was standing in the centre of her room, staring at the open suitcase on the bed. It was little, the one that you used to take short journeys, not leave your life behind. Her hands were moving as she folded a sweater slowly and put it aside. She could not think of anything, as her mind had closed over to safeguard her against a complete collapse.She took only the things she could carry. A few clothes. Her phone charger. She discovered it in the drawer. Then she came to a framed portrait of her of a bygone year, and smiled at it without shyness or confidence. It was picked up, and, after a little, turned upside down and abandoned on the table.“I do not need to be reminded,” she said to herself.Her stomach cinched, and she had a hand over it. "I'm sorry," she murmured. "I don't know where we're going."The house was quiet, too quiet. Patricia had not come up the stairs. No one had checked on her. Ava had been erased as though it were already.She unzipped the suitcase halfway and p

Under the Same Roof

The ride to the home of Marcus was silent. Too quiet. Ava sat in a passenger seat with clasped hands over her stomach and looked through the window as the city lights went by. Marcus maintained a focus on the road, closed his mouth and his mind was not in the moment. Nobody said anything and the silence was oppressive with all that he and she were not saying.As the car eventually stopped, Ava looked up and saw that they were here. The house of Marcus was a tall and dark building, the inside lights being dimmed. It appeared serene outside as though everything was as it always used to be, as though the world had not fallen in a couple of hours back.Marcus came out first and made his way around to open the door for her. “We will make our entry on the side,” he said. "No one will see."Ava nodded. "Thank you."He handed her a little suitcase and walked into the house. The house was not welcoming but was recognisable, clean, and a bit warm. It was tense, as though it were holding its brea

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