I Don’t Need Your Fake Love by Melandia

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After countless sleepless nights, I surprisingly caught some solid Zs on the flight

In my dreams, Antonio’s face kept showing up, like he was just waiting for me there.

Back when we were just seven, we used to play games together.

He’d tell me he was the groom, and I was the prettiest bride,

When we turned eighteen, we made that game real,

He vowed to hustle hard and give me a grand wedding,

But when did things start to fall apart between us?

Did it start after Stella showed up, or was it before that?

I couldn’t even remember it anymore.

Antonio had been the center of my world for as long as I could remember.

No matter how much I tried to stay cool and get over him, it felt like my insides were being torn apart.

Once I landed, I didn’t even have the guts to turn on my phone.

“Grace!”

My mom was waving at me, standing out in a sea of foreigners.

It had been ages since we last saw each other.

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She wasn’t the same woman I remembered, sitting on the couch, crying, waiting for my dad to come home.

She was older, but she exuded more charm than before.

“You’ve grown so much,” she said, her voice filled with wonder.

My mom kept touching my face, saying sorry over and over again.

I just let go and hugged her tight.

said, “Mom, I’m not holding it against

I should love myself first before seeking love from others.”

my mom and I

Antonio’s been calling non–stop,” my mom warned

dry my tears,

what you choose, I’m with you all the way,” she said,

blowing up with calls and

could even catch up on the latest, another call was coming

he was holding the whole

this

puzzled. With Stella back in the picture, why was he still worried about me, the

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promise you. She’s just

to me.

be heartbroken. I can see it in the tears you’ve left on my journal

was feeling kind of spaced out.

think you’re obligated to stay with me, but that’s why I’m walking away. It’s

happy with

“Why the tears?”

was his shining moment, the highlight of his

most vivid

memory that I put in

days,

groveling to business associates, doing whatever it

downing drinks till I was senseless, so wasted

that registered

was the heady, fantastical

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lying to me that it was a reminder of the hard times, a

he truly yearned to keep alive

to

did he miss me now?

said, “Grace, you ditched the wedding to teach me a lesson, didn’t you? You’ve got it bad for me, so much that my recent lack of attention stung,

slide. Grace, whatever you do, I’m forgiving