Trials Of Love: The Romantic Goddess

"Hehe, yay, oh, by the way, when are you going to end it with Mina? It's been almost a month since we started our relationship but you've been delaying it since then, telling me you would do it soon every time I ask." After laughing and acting cute, with a sudden change in her expression, her face abruptly turned very unhappy, pretending to be really down and disheartened because of this matter.

Seeing her downcasted face, Annu felt a little guilty inside and didn't know what to say, he was trying to end things with Mina, but he wasn't able to say it out loud to this very moment, and so, he's been avoiding Mina since the day he had started dating with the woman in front of her.

His plan was to force Mina to break up with him so he wouldn't be the bad guy in the relationship, thus he had been ignoring Mina a lot these days pretending to be busy with work, hoping she would, at last, say she wanted to end things with him because he was ignoring her too much.

But until now, Mina has been very understanding of his situation, and she just wouldn't break up with him.

He really didn't want to be the bad guy in the relationship, but now Mina seemed to be leaving her with no other choice.

"My darling, I will break up with her soon enough, don't you worry… since you are the person I truly love." He stated with a reassuring grin on his face.

Well… you used to truly love Mina just a couple of hours ago before I messed up the past… so, I don't know… this makes me think… is Love really this easily alterable? Reconstructble?

Isn't there a kind of 'Love' which is eternal and can't be changed, neither in the past… nor in the future?... Sigh, probably not?

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A little while after being frozen in front of the Dress Shop, tears started dropping off her face as she raised her left hand and put it on her face under her nose, covering her lips with it.

Tears uncontrollably poured down her face, but she was still looking at the couple who were hand in hand in front of her without even blinking once.

Then all of a sudden, rain too started pouring down at the same time as her tears began rolling down her face.

What made things even worse and shattered her heart more was that it wasn't just a betrayal from her boyfriend, no, if it was only her boyfriend cheating on her, she might not have been this heart-broken.

What made it all worse was that she knew the other girl, and it wasn't only a matter of knowing her or being friends with her, no, it was way more than that, because... the other person was…

Her cousin, Morana!

'Sigh, yep… once again, that was my only choice…' I thought, in dejection.

Even though they weren't that close to each other and Morana seemed to really hate her, at least Mina had always viewed her as a family member, and they had been living under the same roof like a family for years now.

Mina knew Morana hated her, but she had believed at least when it came to serious matters, she would have her back like how a family does, and if anyone from outside the family tried to, for example, curse Mina behind her back, previously, she thought Morana would definitely defend her, because that was what Mina would've done.

But here she was, taking Mina's boyfriend's hand in her own, smiling at his face and shopping together.

She was showered by the rain by now and was very wet. Pedestrians were running on the streets trying to take refugee somewhere or were trying to run to their destinations faster.

Thought the Goddess, me, 'Ahhh, maybe I shouldn't have made it rain… however, it's necessary for what's to come next so…'

While here she was, her face wet by both tears and rain mixed together, frozen still in her place looking at the two in front of her.

'Well… at least the rain is hiding her tears... and that's probably the greatest consolation for her right now.' I pondered to myself with a helpless smile.

After a little while of standing even more under the rain, she finally came to her senses a little, but then she started trying to justify the situation while she reasoned, 'They could be acting like they are a couple because Morana had asked her, or maybe there is a reason for taking her hands! Or maybe they are holding hands as friends.'

'Oi! This is getting too much! This is no longer called being an understanding person! This is at the paranoia level… only that for you… it works the other way around! The opposite way! Just dump him already, sigh.' Extremely frustrated, thought the Goddess, the beautiful me.