Wednesday 4 May 2016

Flash Fiction: She hopped nimbly....

She fixed her hair and hopped nimbly through the window.  She was escaping what to her may have been a very horrific future.  She thought she knew the man she was about to marry, but the last 48 hours had shown her different.

Stan was such a sweet quiet guy but it turns out that he wasn’t what he seemed to be.  He told her his job was an IT consultant but that was a lie.  He had told her so many lies over the past two years.  She did not know what to believe anymore – did he even love her anyway?

The two days leading up to your wedding, your special day are meant to be spent in dream land as well as panic – thinking about the future and how it is going to turn out between the both of you. 

However this was not so for Jenny as she has spent the last two days following her future husband because over the past few weeks she had become suspicious of his behaviour, the late nights, and the mysterious phone calls he was getting all hours of the day and night.  Jenny had convinced herself Stan was having an affair and she had had enough and decided she would spy on him and catch him out on the act.  She didn’t want to marry a cheater.

So Jenny set out to follow Stan, trying so hard not to get caught by him – it was a near miss sometimes.  I tell you, but she never was found out, or if she was Stan never let on he ever saw her.
Jenny followed her future husband through the streets of London until they reached Stand’s first destination – a hotel.

Ah, Jenny thought, I was right, he is having an affair.  She followed him into the bar expecting to see him meet a gorgeous blonde babe, but oh she was so wrong.

Oh boy, was she wrong.  Yes, there was a gorgeous blonde woman there but that is not who caught Jenny’s eyes.  What intrigued Jenny so much was the little boy who had just rushed up to Stan shouting Daddy, Daddy. 

Jenny nearly fell, she was so shocked. Stan was a dad, and he had never told her, why?  All these questions and doubts about Stan and their relationship were running through her head.  She knew she couldn’t go through with marrying him but she also knew she couldn’t let on that she knew his secret because then he would be furious she had followed him.  Also she was so furious she didn’t trust herself around him.

So Jenny went on with the wedding plans, got into her wedding dress, went to the church and made sure Stan was in the church waiting for her.  But while her bridesmaid were not looking, Jenny decided to escape through the window in the bathroom.  It was her only chance.


So she fixed her hair and hopped nimbly through the window. 

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