Emily episode 9 – 10

Emily

Episode 9

“No no no, Emily don’t say that. You and I are in love. I am sorry, I am so sorry I didn’t mean to act that way,” he said sitting up. “I love you Emily with all of my heart,” he said beside her. “Look me in the eye and tell me you don’t love me. Think of what we have been through together. I know you mad at me but don’t make such decisions.”

“No!” she said loudly getting up. “I don’t love you anymore Andrew .”

“Why Emily? Did I do something wrong to you? Tell me, I promise I will fix it. I will be a better man, father and husband. Just don’t leave me. I beg you.”

“It’s too late for that now because I already slept with him.”

“Wha wh wh wh..” he stammered.

He put his heads on the head. He didn’t want his family to split up. He didn’t want his kids to suffer the distress of their parents divorce.

“Emily think about our kids. Chloe, she needs you and still young to understand the situation.”

She ignored him and walked out on him. She went to pack all her clothes.

“Emily! Where are you going?” he asked as she came in the sitting room with her suitcases.

“Getting out of this house I am leaving you Andrew.”

“Mummy!” called out Chloe. ” Where are you going?”

“Chloe, go back to sleep,” said Emily.

Calvin walked in.

“No, mummy. Are you going to leave me?”

Emily knelt down and wiped her tears.

“Listen baby. Mummy is going somewhere and she is not coming back. You going to stay with daddy and your brother,” she wiped away the tears that had escaped.

“Did daddy hurt you? Mummy, don’t go please. Please, mummy,” cried Chloe holding her mother’s hand.

“I can’t I need to go,” she said grabbing her bags.

“Mum!” called out Calvin. “Why are you doing this?”

She turned back to face him.

“Emily, don’t go. We can make this work. How are we going to survive without you?” spoke Andrew.

“You will make a plan,” she said and walked to the door.

Chloe could not stop crying, scre-ming and shouting. Emily didn’t care less. All she wanted was to get away from them and be with Max. Max was waiting for her outside. She got into the car and looked at her house. Andrew was watching her from the window.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” asked Max starting his car.

“Let’s go,” said Emily.

Tears of sadness and hurt ran down on his cheeks. How could she just leave him like that? His heart was broken looking at her daughter who lay on the bed. Love had broke him down into tears. Love had hurt him deeply. It didn’t make sense to him that Emily had left him just like that. He was confused. He felt anger, betrayed, worthless and couldn’t cry no more. He loved her very much more than anything. He sacrificed a lot for her. Only to make her happy. He treated her like a queen.

“Dad,” said Calvin tapping his shoulder. “She is asleep. You can go and rest.”

“Calvin I…”

He couldn’t say no more. He wanted to stay strong but this hurt him. He wiped his tears before facing him.

“It’s okay dad. We are going to be fine. I will take care of you and my sister,” said Calvin.

He gave his father a hug. Andrew cried hysterically in his arms. That night he tried to sleep but couldn’t. He kept tossing and turning on the bed counting sheep but he didn’t seem to get any eye shut. Early in the morning he thought he was going to see Emily but reality hit him hærd. She was never going to come back.

“Dad!” shouted Calvin.

He quickly got off the bed and yanked the door open.

“What is it?” he asked.

“Chloe has locked the door. She doesn’t want to open and we already late for school,” said Calvin.

“Let me try to talk to her. You go to school. I will follow.”

“Okay, dad,” said Calvin.

He knocked on the door and she did not respond

“Chloe, daddy here. Open the door my princess.”

“I don’t want daddy. I want my mummy,” said Chloe with a low voice.

“Daddy is sad. You want to see daddy crying. Open the door please. I will buy you ice cream.”

She opened the door slowly and ran into his father’s arms.

“Mummy doesn’t love me, daddy.”

“No no don’t say that. Mummy loves you. It’s just that she had to go.”

“No, daddy. Candice’s mother ran away and she never came back. Mummy isn’t coming back and I know it,” she sniffed. “I hate mummy!”

“Chloe. You don’t mean that,” said Andrew

“I mean it. I don’t want to see her. How can she leave us daddy?”

“Shhhhh my princess,” he said patting her back. “Its going to be alright.”

He managed to calm her down but she was in no state to go to school. She kept crying the wh0le day. The only thing that made her laugh was platting her dolls with him. But for only few minutes. Emily did not call or come to the house since she had left some of her stuff. Andrew had to call Billy to tell him that he was not coming to work. Luckily Billy understood his situation. Late that night Chloe was very unsettled overnight waking up most every two hours asking about her mother. After reading her book she would go back to sleep cuddling her teddy. Andrew needed to call Emily the following day to beg her to come back home.

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Episode 10

Andrew watched as his wife walked in the restaurant. She had called him the previous night. Thinking that she had decided to come back home. He was in a good mood. He quickly rose from the chair.

“Hie!” he greeted pulling the chair for her to sit.

She didn’t respond but sat on the chair. He went back on his chair and sat opposite her.

“I am glad you decided to come back home. You belong with us,” he said.

“I am not coming back home. Listen very careful. Max never forced me into his bed or to leave you. I am the one who chose to be with him.”

Her words rang loud and clear in his head’ as if she were at top of a bell tower. Andrew gritted his teeth against those words.

“So you marrying him for money?”

He maintained his angry defence anything other than accept what the raging pain in,side him might mean.

“Yes, I am!” she flung the words at him. “And I love him.”

He didn’t want to hear it, yet at the same time he did.

“I have known him for years. We met at poly. He takes good care of me.”

Andrew was consumed with jealousy. He couldn’t hear anything else other than she had loved Max. She didn’t stop but continued.

“I love him in a compassionate way. It is a comfortable love. A safe love. Not the way I loved you.”

Silence stretched between them. A lump gathered in his throat, almost choking him.

“Do you really expect me to believe that when we have been together for 16 years?” his words were sharp, heightening the tension between them.

“So what? All these years you have been nothing but a useless man. I always regretted marrying you. I was not happy. Marrying you was the worst decision of my life. You are incapable of love. Not even good in bed. You were not my type. It was a mistake that I fell pregnant with your baby in the first place. I never wanted to marry you.”

Each word was like a bullet in his heart, each one wounding him further.

“Don’t do this Emily, please. Don’t hurt me like this. I can’t stop thinking about you. You the air that I breath. Come back home with me,” he pleaded.

She took in a long, shuddering breath. She couldnt take it with him anymore and gave vent to her frustration.

“You so damn stubborn. It was a mistake coming here.”

She rose from the chair and pulled her jacket tighter about her body. For a moment his gaze lowered, caught by the movement. He got up from the chair and took a step closer to her, his eyes meeting hers once. She stepped back.

“So why did you come, Emily? Tell me. Why?”

His accent became heavy and to her dismay he moved closer, still rendering thought almost impossible. She whirled round and grabbed the envelope from the table, knocking her bag to the floor in the process.

“To sign these,” she waved the papers at him furiously. “To put an end to something that should never have been started.”

“Whaat!”

“Sign the damn divorce papers!”

He said nothing, as if he was trying to take in what she said. Andrew watched her sign the papers, listened as the pen crashed to the table. Each breath was hærd to take, as if he was being suffocated. He hurt. Pain raced through him. Even when she looked at him he couldn’t say a word, couldn’t move, as if he had been frozen in time. What the hell was the matter with him? Something snapped, as if chains had broken. He inhaled deeply. The noise caught her attention and she turned to look at him.

“I know I was a fool,” she threw the words at him as if he was nothing more than dirt at the edge of the road. “To have married you.”

He tried to make sense of her words. Purposefully he moved towards her, and when she turned again panic tore through him. If she left now he would never see her again. He couldn’t let her go. Not yet. He loved her.

“I love you Emily!”

The words hurried out and he clenched his hands, trying to keep himself from reaching for her, from preventing her leaving. She spun around and faced him again.

“I don’t love you.”

“Emily!”

“Don’t Andrew. I don’t want to hear what you going to say. I am sorry I made you believe that I was in love with you but I wasn’t. It was just lies of the heart.”

The words hit him really hærd and he knew he was losing. All he wanted to do was stop her from leaving, from walking out of his life for good. A life that wouldn’t be the same once she’d gone. He reached out and took hold of her arm. She looked up at him, her brown eyes wide, her breathing hærd and fast. He didn’t want her to go. He loved her. This woman had healed his wounds and shown him how love could be. Emily stepped back as he let her go, watching the show of emotions across his handsome face. His pain and confusion.

“I have never met a woman like you. From the moment I set my eyes on you I knew you were mine. I love you Emily and will always will. I am sorry I couldn’t give you money,” he said and signed the papers.

“I will let you go. Goodbye Emily!” he said heading to the door.

“Andrew!” she called out. “I won’t be fighting for custody. Take care of your kids.”

“I will!” he said softly.