Perfect marriage episode 6
PERFECT MARRIAGE 💍
Divorce Agreement.
✍️Sha Ron ✍️
Episode 6.
🌷WRITER🌷
Eva wetted her pillow with tears, she had thought it was going to be easy for her to leave her home and her kids behind.
She misses them so much that her heart aches when she thinks of how many days and nights she will have to spend alone.
“Wouldn’t it be better if I have to cope with Sam’s absent only, now Bob, Rose, My Tyrone and sweet Kate. Eva, are you sure you can do this?” She kept soliloquizing.
It had been easy to say when she was with her friend but tonight, not even a wink of sleep crossed her eyes as it shone brightly as her bedside lamp gleamed.
She hugged one of her pillows tight and fought to clear the image of her children and husband calling out to her.
She purposefully grabbed her phone and switched it on with expectations that Sam should call again, she won’t waver to answer.
It was with sheer force of will that she neglected his calls earlier and had closed her eyes while switching it off after four persistent rings.
He has to understand that she meant every word she said to him and let him miss half of what she had missed and is still missing while he chose work over family.
Men and money! Not bad but what shall it profit a man to make and stack up a wh0le lot of money and ignore his family in the process?
Money is not and will never be everything, it has the power to kill and the power to save lives, it can buy a bed full of thorns and a garden with beautiful flowers that smells awful.
Sam might not have enough money that is satisfactory to him but Eva believes that the money is not worth their lives.
After all, she works too but makes out more time for their kids and to make him happy and be his damsel in distress while he can spend a week away from home and still want a perfect marriage.
This is the same reason why Debbie, their neighbor stays alone with her daughter and lives as if she’s a single mother instead of building a home together with her man.
Who knows, they might have given birth to more kids by now!
And this is the very reason why she feels insecure today, she had tasted the worst part of mystery and had sworn to remain single but her heart doesn’t listen.
Fortunately, her heart found the right person that suits her taste for all male species put together, a perfect gentleman.
Then, what is chasing her away from her home? Even if that man misbehaved, isn’t she supposed to stand by him and lead him to the right track again?
She stared expectantly at her phone and cursed when it remained silent, “I should have received that call, Sam, please, call me again,” she hugged her knees now.
She stood up and went to stand beside the window after some while, she opened it and a mass of air swooshed into the the room as if it has been waiting for an opportunity to.
She sat her hair free, shut her eyes and enjoyed the air blowing it about her face, it grazed and car-ssed her skin; from hair to shoulder length.
She took a drastic breath of fresh air and lifted her phone to her face again, she sought through her phone gallery and watched pictures of her together with Sam and their kids.
She watched pictures they took long ago when Bob was born, she recalls her arguing with Sam when the doctor confirmed that she is three months pregnant of her first child.
The doctor wasn’t precise about it being a boy or girl yet, and becoming Mommy and Daddy for the first time was entirely new to them so it took a nervous time for them to adjust.
“It’s going to be a he! I hate arguing about the obvious” she would always tell Sam and she kept reminding him so much that they even placed a bet on it.
She thinks her favorite back then was baby boys while Sam chose girls but when she had both, she loved each dearly and wouldn’t mind it being a boy or girl.
“That’s a pointless argument, you are beginning to sound like a broken record and I will put any bet you want because I will win, am I not the one that played the ball? I know what I gave you”
He has always been a teaser and so replies with one or two teases that flames her up especially when he becomes sassy about him being the one that spent his energy in the bedroom.
When she gave birth to her baby, they totally forgot about the fact that he is a boy and loved their child with everything they had.
They only remembered their argument when she became pregnant with Rose and he said because Eva won the first one doesn’t mean she will win this time.
She guessed that God understands and so mixed them for her and Sam, but just as Jake stated in that divorce agreement paper,
if Eva is asked to make a choice on which of them to take, they are all her favorite, she can’t think of taking one and leaving one behind.
Likewise, Sam, that’s why he was saying that they don’t belong to her, who knows how he’s handling them this night? They can be a pain in the ass, she wondered.
“Oh, Sam, I love you and our kids so much and I really miss you guys” she mumbled to herself and shut the window immediately as if it was the window that is keeping them apart.
The night is still very young according to Nicki Minaj’s party jazz and Eva knows very well that even if Kate goes to sleep early, she will still wake in the middle of the night to disturb as usual.
She jumped onto the bed, threw her phone to a side and switching the light off, she threw the sheets over her body and forced her eyes close.
“Joy comes in the morning, I must be patient until it yields a good result!” She breathed and drifted slowly to sleep, dreaming about her perfect marriage and awesome kids.
🌷SAM🌷
I sat down with my legs thrown into the cold water, I took a sip of the Japanese red wine I brought for myself and looked over at Debbie.
“Thanks for your hospitality, Deborah. I don’t know how to pay you and your daughter back, you have really tried for me today”
“It’s nothing and you are welcome, what are neighbors for? I guess I owe your wife one!” She laughed.
“I didn’t know you and Eva had any close relationsh¡p though you two exchange mutual pleasantries regularly when we cross by your house” I was surprised.
“Don’t give me that surprise look, your wife is a great personality and she easily won my daughter’s heart over, Benny doesn’t talk much about people because as you know, she’s shy,
” But, she can’t stop talking about your wife and your children and true to her word, I met them and they are amazing, you are very lucky, Sam” she smiled at me.
“I guess I am. Don’t you think it’s time for bed?” I decided that we call it a day before I say the stupid words hanging on the tip of my tongue.
“I think so, I just wanted to be sure she is deep in sleep before moving her to avoid us getting a shriek” she said and stood carefully so that the baby won’t wake.
“I will take her from here” I said when she suggested tucking her to bed by herself.
“Okay, careful,” she said, “good night, little woman” she pecked Kate and left.
I locked the gate and went into the house with so much care, when I’m certain she is all comfortable in bed and enjoying her sleep, I sneaked out to the parlor to switch the lights off.
I checked Rose and Bob in their rooms and I wasn’t surprised to see Bob sleeping comfortably on the floor while his legs were swung over his sister’s bed.
I lifted him and carried him to his room, he is very heavy at sleep and I wondered how her mother carries him to his room with so much ease and grace.
“She is a marvel!” I smiled at the memories that flooded into his mind. Eva is not accustomed to complain and she has grown doing virtually everything by herself.
I recollected our first meeting, she was at the gym throwing a challenge at a man three times her size that she can lift the weight he is carrying.
She was very much younger then and I just watched with smiles when she almost broke her wa-ist doing the impossible.
When I tried verging on the conversation to talk her out of it, she was adamant and can’t hear of it, she almost broke my nose when I tried forcing her out of it.
She got tired of trying herself and left the gym in low spirit, I didn’t get a chance to talk to her and I didn’t see her again for six months that followed.
When I met her again at a super market, she didn’t recognize me until I told her in details the little episode at the gym.
She didn’t stop laughing and said she hates it when people look down on her, the man at the gym apparently did and me too undeniably.
I asked her out, she turned me down but I was able to get her number and we went on as friends until I k-ssed her during a dance at a friend’s party.
I confessed my feelings for her and she said she has been nursing her own feelings for me too, I courted her for a year and six months before I asked her to marry me.
She said it was too early but after she met my family, she told me to repeat the question again and she accepted wh0leheartedly when I did.
I was the happiest man on earth and she isn’t always dependent on anyone, she believed in me and lived for me.
Everyone is actually right, I am lucky and I guess I destroyed my home by myself when I started giving more time to work than my family.
Who knows if I hadn’t lost my place in her heart? Does she still see me as her everything? Does she still believe and trust in me? Oh, Eva.
The wh0le of Joy Ville estate occup-nts and the world must surely notice that the light in Sam’s house has left, it’s left for me to make it temporary or permanent.
“It’s temporal, I can’t bear to watch her walk out of this house if she ever comes back again” I k-ssed my son goodnight and left.
I went to sleep after inspecting my two little buddies. When I was certain they are in dreamland chatting with their mother as they always did.
I was awakened by kicks and cries and I was startled at first, but became more calm when I realized it is Kate.
Gosh, who knows how many hours she has been crying because I know how hærd it is for me to wake up when I go to sleep even in the middle of gun shots.
“Oh, my baby, am here for you” I switched the bedside lamp on and carried her into my arms.
“Dad, are you awake?” Rose knocked on the door, she is just like her mother, very sensitive to noise.
“I am, you should go to sleep, I will take care of her” I said looking at my phone to check the time, I stood up to open the door for her.
“I have been at the door, I think you shouldn’t lock the door next time so that I will wake you next time” She advised.
“You should be sleeping, sweetheart” I said ignoring her words.
“Mom gives her warm water, and br-ast feeds her when she awakes every night, I think milk will help us” she said more like an adult and neglected my words too.
“Let’s go and check the kitchen for her milk, then” I said and rocked Kate gently, murmured some words I learnt from her mother to her and k-ssed her cheeks and hair.
That did not help and I wonder if it’s because I don’t have her mother’s soft, smooth and pillowy chest. I don’t have her tiny and melodic voice too.
“I will help you make the milk, but I will make warm water first” she said and fetched little canned water from the fridge.
“Thanks, honey” I beamed at her and touched her cheek lightly.
She smiled slyly and poured water in her sister’s small kettle.
“Sing that her favorite lullaby to her, she has good ears you know” she suggested and was already pouring water into her little cup.
“I… I don’t know how to sing, I guess it will worsen the situation because I have a terrific voice” I scoffed.
“Here’s the water and let me prepare milk” she handed the cup of warm water to me and I gently fed Kate with her spoon.
She stopped whimpering and took the water quietly, when she was satisfied, she started turning her face away and shakes her head when I give her another one.
She became calm and placed her head on my shoulder for a while and I was already thinking she was about going back to sleep when she lifted her head, glanced at my face and her mood distorted again.
“How in God’s name does Eva handle this kid, I really never understood what she has to pass through every night while I snore and enjoy my sleep”
Yeah, sometimes when I awake to ease myself which is rare, I get upset if they disturb me and I can’t go back to sleep immediately though I never told her or showed it.
Every man loves to have a good rest after working all day and I know am not the only that feels that way, but Eva works too.
“Now I know, Eva. Oh, Eva, please, come back, I can’t handle this alone” I whispered to myself and I saw Rose staring at me worriedly even when she can’t fathom what am mumbling.
TBC.
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