Chapter 9

I was finishing serving the food and I couldn’t help to heard them having an argument on the living room. She was yelling at him and calling him names. It sounded like he was about to cry. When the plates were all set, he came back to the kitchen with his eyes watering. He stood next to me and I put my hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "Dante, she's just mad, I'm sure she didn't mean all those things." He looked down and wiped some tears with his hand. "No she's right, she has all the right to be mad at me and call me a pig. I was in such a great shape but now I'm disgusting". He said trying to hold the tears. “No Dante, don’t said that. You look great, let me talk to her, maybe I can reason with her” I said holding his hands and looking him in the eyes. “Ok, thank you” He said calmly. I hugged him and whisper on his ear "You look hungry hog" I leaved him on trance because I didn’t want him to get on the room while doing my magic. I leaved him there and went to the living room to look for Lauren and I found her seated on the couch texting on her cellphone. “What do you want? Where’s the pig?” I seated next to her “Don’t call him like that, it hurt him. Listen I know he had change but he’s the very same guy that you married, isn’t that important to you?” She gave me and skeptical look. “Are you really going to lecture me with all that “inside beauty” bullshit? Listen up porky, I can tell that you feel sympathetic for his lame condition, but unlike you he hasn’t been fat his whole life. He had a great body but lost it for his own laziness so it's his own fault if people insult him, he deserve it." I was really offended by her attitude and decided to be harsher. "Ok listen up, I'm his friend and I'm worried about him and how you're making him feel. So, I'm going to gently ask you one more time to treat him right or you'll see" I said angrily but she just laughed it off. "Oh is that so? And what are you going to do about it, chubby?" she asked me and then laughed. I wasn't worried about she discovering my ability, because I could easily erase it from her memories; I got closer to her and took her face with my hands to force her to look me into my eyes. She fought a bit but stopped shortly after, already in trance. I entered her mind but this one had a different aspect. It was dark and cold. I was wearing a black coat with, black jeans and leather boots. My hair was tied up on a pony tail and I had to create a lamp to see where I was going. All her memories and trails were archived on metal boxes inside the walls. I wanted to discover the true about her feelings for Dante so I used my powers to look for her memories about him. In here my powers work differently. Instead of floating to me, the box would glow in a green light trough the wall and I had to open it to find a bunch of files about him. I took the first one and opened. It looked like a job application. It had his photo of when we were a couple and Information about him, his name, birthday and address. On the section were it said "In a relationship" it said "not for long". While looking through the file I discovered all the lies she had been saying. First of all: the baby wasn't his! She didn't know who the father was and was looking for someone to blame that would pay all she wanted. So, she got him drunk and had sex with him. Second, she didn’t have any kind of feelings for him! She was just using him for his good looks. Third, she was cheating on him. She had been cheating on Dante since the first fight with this guy from a band. Apparently, she used the excuse of going to see her mother to go on a tour with him and left the baby with his grandparents saying that they would go on a second honey moon. I was so pissed! She had destroyed us and I had blame Dante for it all this time. I wanted to destroy her life and make her suffer for all the things she had made but realized that it wasn’t my job to punish her. I had always thought we had met again because it was my duty to punish him for what he had done, but the truth was that I was there to help him. Revenge didn’t seem like an option anymore as I started to make changes on her mental files. She would be so angry for his change that she’d tell him all about the baby, his lover and the trip. With that she would end the relationship and go to look for her lover, after that it was up to her how her life would be. Before leaving, I decided that I could make a little change on her life, nothing drastic, but enough to give her some difficulties keeping her figure. I searched the locker with her habits and trails and discovered that she exercised daily and ate only healthy food. That, plus her fast metabolism, was the reason of her good looks. I decided to slow down her metabolism and make her a fast food lover. She would be an exercise freak still, but she would find harder to lost weight with her new eating habits. After erasing the memories of seeing my ability I leaved her mind and went back to reality. I take her out of trance and leaved the room while she tried to remember was she was telling me. Back in the kitchen I also took Dante out of the trance and told him that she wanted to have a word with him. “Please come with me” He begged me. “I don’t thing I could face her insults alone”. I nodded and walked to the leaving room behind him; I could see his huge ass shivering with each step and had to force me to stop looking at it. Once on the leaving room I stayed at the door and he stood in front of her. “Listen Lauren I know that I have changed but if you give me another chance I can lose all this weight. Do it for us, for our son, for our family,” he said looking her in the eyes. She sighed annoyedly and rolled her eyes before confessing everything to him. “You know what Dante, fuck it. I don’t need you anymore and certainly I don’t need a hog around me to make me look bad. I already have a sexy man and guess what, it isn’t you.” He looked confused. “What do you mean Lauren?” She laughed, “All that food has made you dumb as well? I’m saying that I’m cheating on you porky. Do you really think that I was going to visit my mother for eight long months? I went on a tour with him and his band and let me tell you something, it was great. While you were stuffing your fat face, I was having the best sex of my life and feeling alive again.” It was too much for him so he sat on the couch trying to assimilate all this new information. She on the other hand went for her purse and then stood in front of him. He looked up to see her with tears on his eyes. "How could you do this to me, to our family?" She looked at him and answered "Family? What family? I've never loved you, you were just and accessory for me." She bent over to be face to face with him and told him almost in a whisper, "And let me tell you a secret, the baby isn't yours. I just needed someone to blame for it." It was too much for him and he started to cry while she walked to the door. Before closing it she said, "I'm going out with my friends but when I get back I don't want to see your fat ass in here. I'll send you the divorce papers." With that she left.