Episode 1

Karina ...

Today was my wedding day with Leonardo, we had waited for this day for so many months that I felt anxious.

I hadn't seen him for two days, since he said it was bad luck to see the bride the day before the wedding, so my heart leaped with joy knowing that in a few minutes I would see him.

My mother was with me, helping me finish getting ready, my father was waiting for us in the living room already ready to take me to the church, and my sister who knows, I hadn't seen her, but since we don't get along very well, I don't worry if she is or isn't in this important day for me.

Tamara is a year younger than me and since we were little girls she always envied everything I had, even if my parents gave us both the same thing, she always said that mine was better and she threw many tantrums and my parents ended up taking mine away to give it to her and they gave me what was hers.

I never cared, I was never selfish with her, and if she liked my things I gave them to her without protest, despite everything I loved my sister, but she didn't love me.

When we grew up her envy towards me had worsened, several times she tried to make me fight with my friends because she was simply bothered that I had better friends than hers, but as I knew what my sister was like, I had already warned my friends what my sister was like and therefore they never believed the lies she told them about me.

I never understood why she was like that, but I no longer gave importance to her madness.

Having finished, my mother tells me that it's time to go, I had to be at the church at 5 in the afternoon and it was already 4:30.

We went down to the living room where my father was waiting for me very excited, that when he saw me, he got up quickly and hugged me.

"You look beautiful, you look like one of those princesses you watched when you were a girl" my father tells me excitedly.

"I know, I'm happy to finally be wearing this dress, I've waited so long that the big day has finally arrived" I tell him super happy.

"I know my girl, let's go or you'll be late" he tells me walking towards the door followed by my mother.

I went out behind them and got in the car to go to the church where Leonardo was surely already waiting for me in front of the altar.

I felt excited, we have been dating Leo for 3 years, we met at the university and became boyfriend and girlfriend after so many pleas from him to give him an opportunity, when I finally said yes, we started our relationship.

A year later he proposed marriage and I happily replied yes, but that we should wait to finish our careers and he accepted.

And here, 3 years after saying yes I do to be his girlfriend, today I will say those same words again but to be his wife for life.

15 minutes later we arrived at the church, my hands were sweating from the nerves and the emotion I felt at that moment.

I get out of the car with the help of my father, my mother had gone ahead and we were behind.

I entered the church on my father's arm, with a big smile, a smile that vanished when I didn't see Leonardo next to the altar.

I started looking around and I didn't see him present, and the guests were murmuring among themselves while watching me.

I continue walking, faking a smile, maybe he was late? Yes, that must be why I will have to wait for him at the altar, hahaha something epic at a wedding, but oh well.

When I arrived at the altar there were my in-laws and my brothers-in-law and they looked nervous, I didn't understand what was happening until my cell phone rang, when I opened it I see that it is a message from my sister Tamara who sent me a video.

I started playing the video and my heart broke when I saw Leonardo having sex with my sister.

"Come on Leo, harder" my sister says mounted on him "Don't get married Leo, don't I satisfy you more than her? You yourself have told me, why are you marrying her then?" she continues telling him.

"I know little bird, but you know that ours is only carnal, we can continue having our encounters after I get married, this will not end, but you know that I love Karina" he replies very cynically.

"If you loved her, you wouldn't be here now, besides you yourself told me that you weren't happy with her, why are you still determined to stay by her side" Tamara replies angrily.

"Enough Tamy, let's continue that I'm getting late, otherwise I'll leave now" he tells her.

"No, no, it's okay sweetie, let's continue" she was telling him and in the video he is seen as he puts her on all fours and introduces himself into her from behind.

I felt shattered, my tears threatened to come out and a lump had formed in my throat, I felt fury, a lot of fury at the same time and I wanted to scream to vent, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't allow everyone to see me shattered and vulnerable.

"The wedding is canceled" I say throwing the bouquet on the floor and walking towards the exit.

"What do you mean it's canceled? Karina what's wrong?" asks my father.

"What's going on?" now asks my mother-in-law and I stop in the middle of the hallway before reaching the exit.

"Do you want to know what's going on, well now you'll know" I tell them taking my cell phone again and forwarding to all my contacts the video that Tamara had sent me.

She wanted to humiliate me by showing me how she slept with Leonardo? Well now they would be the humiliated ones.

Almost all my contacts were here in the church, and when my message arrived and they started watching it, everyone was surprised and started murmuring about what they were seeing.

Without waiting for another word from anyone, I continued walking until I finished leaving the church, ran down the stairs and stopped a taxi immediately.

"Take me to the first clothing store you find on the way" I tell the taxi driver and he does so.

When I arrive I pay him with my cell phone, the good thing is that after the pandemic, nobody uses bills anymore, everything is paid by electronic means, transfers or qr and that makes everything easier for me.

I enter the clothing store with my great wedding dress, the store clerk looks at me surprised, I check the clothes that were hanging and take a burgundy dress, fitted to the body and long to the knees.

I walk to the changing room, take off the wedding dress and put on the other dress and go out.

"Here, do what you want with it, I tell him handing him the wedding dress, I scan the qr and pay him for the dress I had bought and then I leave the store.

Everything was over, 3 years of my life thrown in the trash, who knows how long he has been cheating on me with my own sister, and I like a silly enamored believing that it was only me in his life.

I get back into another taxi and head to a bar club to drown my sorrows in alcohol, only this day, since starting tomorrow there will be no trace of the Karina that was before, no more, today they turned off the only light that was in my heart and there is no return.

When I arrive at the bar club I sit at one of the tables and ask the waiter to bring me a bottle of the strongest he has and he does so.

I started drinking glass after glass, each one was a lament, a pain and a disappointment, no longer enduring, I allowed myself to shed some tears, but swearing that those would be the last ones I would shed for someone like Leonardo.

I will never forgive them for the humiliation they made me go through today, leaving me standing in the church in front of all the guests was the last thing I could bear.

"I need to forget, I need something new in my life, something that destabilizes my soul" I said with my head resting on the table because I was already drunk, but not to the point of losing consciousness.

At midnight the club was quite full, the music was loud and people were dancing in the center very funny.

I get up from the table and walk to the center of the bar and let myself be carried away by the music, I was out of control, the alcohol and the atmosphere had given me encouragement to want to have fun too.

I was no longer going to continue depressed for what Leonardo had done to me, now I was just going to enjoy life, for all those years that for being next to Leonardo and being a decent woman, I had stopped going out and enjoying my youth as I should have.

I was still young, I was 23 years old and I was no longer going to waste my life, today I was completely liberated in front of the world….

…. My name is Karina Rios, I am 23 years old, I am from Bariloche - Argentina and I studied Literature at the public university and my parents are Sergio Rios, 50 years old, is a police commander and Marisa Buono, 45 years old, is a high school math teacher and the hateful of my sister Tamara, 22 years old and studies modeling.

I really like to write, I currently write novels in an app as a hobby, but my dream is to have my own collection of own books and maybe if God wants to have my own publishing house.

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