World After Worlds

"But I don't think that something will change even if I told you to stop. Because I am not just enough for you, and you need somebody to fulfill what I am lacking." Yanarym voiced cracked, Spencer wanted to hold her but he was afraid that she would be disgusted at him. "I am not enough for you, Spencer."

"That's not true." Spencer abruptly replied. She shook his head.

"Am I wrong?" She glared at him as if she was saying that he's a liar. He tried thinking, going back if she told him not to cheat, not to have sex with other women. Will he stop? He doesn't know. Because she's right, he felt unfulfilled with her. He felt empty being with her. So, he tried to look for that missing thing to give him the feeling he was searching for.

"You are wrong." He murmured because he didn't want to admit it. Yanarym sobbed and wiped her tears away.

"I guess, I'm not… -a woman is no different from a man. Do you expect that I cannot like someone else other than you? You can have one or two things that dissatisfy me too. And I can love someone else too, I can play in bed with some other men too."

"Women can do what men can do. But I am not that kind of woman, I'm a person who chooses to be faithful with one person."

"You should have told me, Rym…" he said, Spencer didn't want to take the blame. It's overwhelming… "That was your fault, you should have told me that you don't like it. You should have told me how you felt!"

Bullshit! Yanarym screamed in her head.

"Don't say that to me, you were cheating on me, straight on my face, Spencer. That alone hurts a lot, and you want me to point out that to you? You want me to tell you that you're crashing my dignity, for what? To stop you from being adulterous?" She pressed her lips and pointed at him. "It's your job as my partner to say NO to temptations! It's your obligation to take into consideration my opinion and take care of me! It's your responsibility not to break my heart!"

"I like Hansel, I like him a lot. He's not like you. He always makes me feel enough, wanted, and deserving."

Yanarym detests if a woman was being belittled by a man. A body is just a shell. If a man couldn't respect a woman, then why should the woman respect a man? If a man could have more than one lover, why can't a woman have more than one lover?

Payback. What a hilarious term to use. If a man could cheat, why couldn't a woman? Cheating is bad. Women should not do that, even if the man cheats, women should understand -blah-blah-blah. Bullshit.

If a man cheats a woman, it's normal- he's a man, it's alright. If a woman cheats, everyone will start to point a finger at the slut, whore, bitch- whatever insult they can call her, it's alright. That woman is a cheater, she's not normal, she should be slandered, disparaged, she doesn't deserve to be alive.

What a shitty kind of mentality! Come on! Really?! Cheating is wrong and it should not be normalized… right, what a laugh.

Cheating- exists, it was not being normalized, standardized or making it a trend, it simply exists. Like any history that has been stated, humans would always search for more than one. It would not only be just one. Rare human, that was linked to only one other person, what could she say? Lucky them. But not everyone was like the rare category.

She told him that she liked Hansel more than she liked him. Spencer's eyes staggered. He's losing composure, he vigorously shook his head. "No, you're not." He mumbled and looked at her. "You don't like Hansel more than me."

"I do."

"YOU DON'T!" Hansel snapped. He rushed to her and pushed her to the bed. "YOU DON'T MEAN THAT!" She struggled, pushing him away. Spencer didn't like it. He firmly clutched her arms, she kicked him and that wasn't enough to set her free.

"I DO! I LIKE HANSEL-" because his hands were occupied pinning her on the bed, he couldn't use his hands to block her mouth. He doesn't want to hear anything from her anymore. He used his mouth to kiss her, aggressively, they were both fighting one another and Spencer didn't want to hurt her, but she was too pesky for him to not exert force to restrain her. "GET OFF ME!" She bit him, and she was able to break free. She immediately crawled away from him but he caught her ankle and dragged her back beneath him. He sat on her and caught her arms. " GET OFF ME! I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO TREAT ME LIKE THIS ANYMORE! IF YOU KEEP THIS UP, YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE TO END US!" She shouted angrily. "GET AWAY!"

"End us?" Spencer loosened his grip on her, but because he was sitting on her stomach, she still couldn't break free.

"I will no longer tolerate you-" he grabbed her chin and made her face him,

"END US?!" He screamed at her face and shook his head. "I will not let you do that, you can never end us!" He devoured her lips again, while he tore her clothes.

"NO! NO! STOP! D-DON'T!" She kept on struggling, and Spencer- Spencer was losing his strength. He was so mad but felt so mortified. She will leave him. She said she will leave him. It means she doesn't need him anymore. No. Spencer gasped for air, he felt his eyes were about to burst into tears. "SPENCER! STOP! H-HANSEL! HELP ME!" On cue, Spencer totally loosened his grip on her. He stopped kissing her and peered at her, she was crying, sobbing uncontrollably. He looked at what he had done to her. Her clothes were all torn, her body was exposed and her arms were turning blue. Even her chin and cheeks had bruises.

"Fuck! FUCK!" He stood up from the bed and grabbed his hair pulling it angrily. He didn't want these. He didn't want any of this! He thought everything was going too well… he turned to Yanarym who was still crying and hugging her knees, covering her body.

Spencer breathed heavily, he didn't know what to do. So, he ran away. He didn't want to make it worse and he didn't know what to do, so he ran away.

The telephone rang and Yanarym looked at the side table. She sat on the bed and took it. "H-he-hello?"

"Are you crying? What happened?" Hansel was in his car, driving his way to his condo. But he couldn't get off his head the way Spencer was dragging Yanarym in the mall yesterday. It was most unlikely for Spencer to hurt Yanarym but Spencer even punched him… Hansel was worried.

And he was right, Spencer did something, if not, why is she crying this hard?

"H-hansel…" She sobbed. Hansel narrowed his eyes on the road and had an abrupt u-turn. "Hansel?" Hansel sped up the car, he felt so nervous just by talking to her. He couldn't imagine that Spencer hurt this woman. If Spencer did- Hansel clenched his jaw.

"Is Spencer with you?"

"N-no, h-he left." She sobbed, he could hear that she was having a hard time answering him. Hansel pressed his lips together.

"I will be there, wait for me."

"H-hansel…"

"Hang on, sugar, I'll be there right away, alright?" He said sweetly but there was no smile on his face.

It didn't take long for Hansel to get on the condo, he knew the passcode, input it and enter the condo. "Rym! Yanarym! Where are you?!'

He opened the master's bedroom door and saw her on the corner of the bed holding the telephone to her hands. Crying without noise, her clothes were clattered, like it was forcefully torn.

"Rym!" He took the blanket on the bed and covered her body. "Where's Spencer?"

"Hansel… " Hansel examined her closely and saw her arms turned chin red and blue. Hansel repressed the surging anger in his system and smiled at her gently caressed her cheeks.

"Sshh, let's get out of here." He murmured and wrapped his arms on her body.

"W-where are we going?" She stopped him and he just tucked her hair on her ears.

"I'm taking you away." He lifted her, without hesitation, he took her out of the bedroom, while he was trying to open the door Yanarym stopped him again, worried was visible in her eyes.

"N-no, Spencer - Spencer's…" she shook her head but Hansel was already convinced.

"I'll protect you, alright?" She seemed weak from crying so that right after he placed her on the passenger seat, Hansel offered her a water bottle. "I'll protect you Rym, you don't have to worry anymore.