Silvia opened her eyes immediately and she found herself on her bed. In her room, everything looked normal, in fact .... everything looked too normal. The house was still filled with bright colors from the walls and their room still had that smell it had from 17 years ago.
She got up and headed to the mirror that was hung in their room, ... Suprisingly the mirror was still there and what was even more surprising was that she looked extremely young. Just like she did when she still worked as an intern in the fashion company she really loved.
Before she left it
Her black hair was still mid- length and tidy and her skin was still fair and smooth.
Like she didn't pass through any of those years that went by
Like she came back
Then she remembered!!!
She died!!!!
And the reason she died was because she was running after her husband to confront him. Because he cheated and didn't hide it
Because she couldn't take the fact that 17 years of her life was not only for a man who didn't love her, but didn't respect her enough to be considered his wife ....
And now she was back
She looked up at the Digital Calendar that was hung up on their way
It was 27th of July, 2008
Exactly a month after their marriage.
She wasn't sure whether to be grateful for the opportunity to live or feel miserable all over again. She didn't want to have to go through all that she endured for 17 years. She had always wished back then that she could turn the hands of time and restart her life but then again, she had given all hopes.
But even if she could restart her life, why exactly a month after she was married to the madman
Why exactly a month?
"Silvia" Presol called out from the bathroom "Hope my breakfast is ready. I have a very important meeting today"
She looked at the bathroom door, still shocked from what was going on, then the reflection of a sharp object sitting on the mirror table caught her eye. It was a knife
A very long and possibly sharp knife
If she stabbed him, no one would know.
And even if they did, she had finally gotten rid of the monster that made her miserable
But would it be fair to stab a person who hadn't yet committed the evil deeds?
.........
Silvia kept looking at Presol while serving his meal. He still looked very young and extremely attractive and he looked much healthier, he didn't have the scars he got from hitting her all the time and he didn't have grey hair or long lines from his face from working back to back everyday. And most especially, he didn't have that disgusting cigarette that was always in his mouth
"Thank you" He said, then started to eat. He still ate like a gentleman, and it flushed her face. Even if their marriage was a marriage of convenience, she still admired him. Unfortunately he didn't feel the same way about her
"I'll be off" He said, then immediately got up and headed out. He didn't even once glance her way or ask if she would eat something.
He didn't even care about her.
She came out of the kitchen and went straight to the bathroom to finish any laundry yet, and she had forgotten that Presol didn't keep dirty laundry until 10 years after their marriage. He always prefferd to deal with his clothes himself.
She glanced at a nearby mirror again
She couldn't believe she was still extremely young and quite possibly, sexy .....
The wind gushed out of the window and she saw a paper struggling to break free from under a pile of books. She went around to adjust it but noticed it was a form
A form for her fashion school.
She had always dreamed of being a Fashion Designer but couldn't implement her dreams because of the sudden death of her father.
And immediately she found herself being wed to a potential husband who was the son of the closest friend her father had.
It was the only way to keep her safe and possibly a means of surviving. Because her mother claimed to be way too old to go back into working.
Her father and his father had had an agreement
A mutual money wise agreement.
The engagement of their two children will allow in the development of a new business that Presol's father had looked forward to all his life. And for Silvia, it would be a means of livelihood. And when Silvia tried to explain how her fashion business would pay off, she only got curses and emotional blackmails from her mother
And unfortunately was left with no choice but to marry Presol.
At first she didn't fully mind.
She would continue her fashion career while being married and would pause it the moment she started to have kids.
And Presol was really good looking, so it was almost a win-win for her
She would sacrifice love for the sake of her future and her mother's happiness
But she still hoped that they were both able to fall in love along the line
But she couldn't have been more wrong.
Because Presol wouldn't want an independent woman under his roof
What if she ran away?.
Then what would he do?
What if she wanted a divorce?.
It would be tiring to get married again
What if she was successful and educated?.
It would be difficult to keep her under control.
Presol didn't discover these mindsets until 3 years after their marriage.
Before he didn't care what she did with her life, as long as she didn't disturb his.
But unfortunately, her mother would always stop her, saying she had to focus on her married life while she was still young. Talking about how children were everything and how a life without a husband was terrible.
Of course she wanted children, and a loving husband
But at her own pace. Even after 17 years with Presol, she still couldn't have children. Because one day she fell down the stairs and suffered a Fetal Injury.
Then Presol went mad. Because of the amount of pressure from his mother, and Silvia found herself visiting the hospital almost once every day for the remaining years of her life ....
"Her past life...."
Because she didn't plan on doing something similar in this life.
She was just given a second chance at life
And she wasn't sure whether to choose Presol again or just run away from the house before it got worse
But then Presol hadn't become the monster he was when she died ....
He hasn't made her miserable and he hadn't met Aileen.
...........
Presol adjusted his reading glasses, then closed his documents and dropped them out. "Getting reading glasses at this age is crazy" he told himself, with a loud sigh, then his mind raced back to the morning
The thought of Silvia
"She's beautiful" he silently said. Then went back to what he was doing
.......
Now that Silvia had come back from the dead, it would only make sense that she explored her body thoroughly to know what potentials it had.
After a long shower, she came out and sat in front of her mirror
"Presol hasn't touched me yet" She said to herself, back in there, she could feel her fingers struggling to go in because of the amount of pain that she felt while doing so. Until she gave up
Then she remembered how she lost her virginity
It was a very cold and dark night with the electricity out. And Presol came home drunk and immediately held her and put her straight to bed.
She should have gotten pregnant then but she found herself taking home remedies to prevent it. Because she wasn't ready yet.
She started coming her hair, and she felt extremely young again
Her plan now was to first call her mother, then fill up the form and immediately register, then after she would go out for some french cuisines that she had missed and hadn't tasted for years
Then after she would come home and prepare lunch for Presol.
She wasn't sure whether to run from him yet.
Because she remembered him being a normal man who never mendled in her business.
He just went about his day and did his own things and provided for her if she needed anything.
He didn't love her, or ever paid her attention but he wasn't terrible to her either
Until 3 years later after his parents got back from the U.S and his mother finally met her in person. She wasn't happy about how beautiful Silvia looked because she would always say that ...
"A beautiful girl is a perfect path to prostitution"
It didn't even make sense. But she really didn't have the strength to ever speak up against it. And Presol became more toxic after every minute with his mother
He stopped Providing
Restricted her freedom
Would hurl insults at her
Sometimes eat her
And Slander her with words like "Prostitute" and "Shameless"
Then refuse to touch her
But now, here she was, 3 years before that incident
Before that madness. And since she could predict the future, she would rather control it
Maybe she should wait a little
She had a few things to change around
And definitely say to some people