Series: Unheard tales of an antagonist- Tale 5 -P13

Unheard tales of an Antagonist

Prologue: Pretence (Below)

Tale One: Memory

Tale Two: Scars

Tale Three : Pause

Tale Four : Rains

Tale Five : Love or Bitterness

Pretence

I hear the gushing of my employees standing few steps behind me, facing my back.

They think I couldn't hear them, which is why they were whispering to each other in inaudible voices.

They feel sorry for me, they say.

I pretend I did not listen to them.

They say that it was a good thing that I wasn't there when the couple visited over for giving measurements to have the perfect dress for the bride.

They say the couple looked happy. They say they were so much in love that it might have stabbed my heart.

I hide a smile in the coffee mug that was bought close to my lips at the empathy my employees show at me, and pretend not to listen that too.

After all, pretending was something I am good at.

I pretended I didn't reciprocate the love that he showered me with.

I pretended it didn't hurt me to walk over his heart, without flinching.

I pretended to myself that I forgot him.

Ten years later, when he enters my boutique with his fianc, I pretend to be away when I was all but locked up in the washroom.

And now I pretend I was looking elsewhere, when my gaze follows the couple that crosses the road with hands entwined.

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Sameera Kapoor

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oh dear
but why did she pretend so much

oh please tell me there is more!!!!

The worst punishment in world is to pretend to be someone you are not...awesome

nice os...

A difficult pretence of sorts ...

awesome dear...
nice one...
why is she doing like that?
cont soon dear...