ENDLESS TEARS

THE PLAN🤧

🌻🌻🌻
                 

The slight noise I heard coming from the sitting room the next
day was enough to rouse my attention and lift my eyes from the book
I was occupying myself with. I had been advised by the hospital
nurses to get the book titled „Every Woman‟ and Tina had helped me
purchase it from a nearby bookshop. The book proved to possess a
lot of stunning information; however, as I read it to divert my
depressing thoughts, the continuous noise from the sitting room was
proving a strong distraction. I placed the book on my bed, opened
face down, in order to know where I stopped. I opened the door to
my bedroom and walked curiously down the stairs. Alex‟s voice
became clear to me even before I got to the stairs, and then I heard
her voice.
“Oh no” I whispered. “Do I have to deal with this witch
again?” I asked, like answers would come from the walls. I got to the
stairs and what I saw below was enough to make me take the stairs
two at a time, without minding my condition. There were boxes
sprawled everywhere almost enough to fill the massive sitting room.
I watched absently as Alex monitored the movements of the traveling
boxes, looking overwhelmingly tired. The driver was also there, with
Tina and Tola, carrying out the orders of Alex and Lisa. Despite the
exhausted expressions of everyone there, Lisa, on the other hand,
looked like a magazine model in her trouser gown. I did not have the
time to even envy her beauty as I landed on solid ground and
confronted the rather confusing scene.
“What is going on here?” I interrupted their subtle
conversation.
Lisa smiled at me. “What does it look like?” she asked with a
satisfied superior look on her face.

  I cast a glance around. “It certainly looks like someone is about
to open a box selling business. What I don‟t know is if this house
would be the shop” I said smugly.
“Well, I don‟t blame your slow brain. You never did go beyond
secondary school after all. Oh wait! You did not even finish
secondary school” she laughed heartily and I felt my anger rise. I so
wanted to grab her weave-on and tear it off her scalp. I forcefully
looked beyond her at Alex who was also looking at me.
“She is moving in Amara” he mouthed.
“Excuse me?”
Lisa grinned as she stared at my pale face. “You heard him, or
do you have ear defects also? I am moving in. Just as you can‟t afford
to have your bastard child in your parent‟s house, or hut, as the case
may be, I have no intention of delivering my precious little angel…”
she rubbed her flat tummy. “… Outside the father‟s house” she
smiled at Alex. “Our wedding arrangements are ongoing and I
believe we would be married soon” she declared.
The very ground rocked under my feet as I stared unseeing at
the pair in front of me. I went rock still and Lisa, after waiting
fruitlessly for a response, turned to Alex. “I think we should take
these bags upstairs now.”
“You are out of your mind if you think you would be living
here” I countered. “Are you crazy?” I roared. “No, correction. Are
you both crazy? You seem to think I am a fool, right?”
Alex looked angry but Lisa was quick to talk. “No. I don‟t think
you are a fool, I know you are. You think I won‟t live here?” she
laughed. “Watch me” she mouthed. I swallowed and blinked back
angry tears. It is times like this that I wish I wasn‟t so emotional. Why
on earth should I cry at this junction? Anger at myself and the
delectable two in front of me almost ran me mad. Lisa pecked Alex
on the cheeks and played with top button of his shirt, tracing his
chest in the process. “Am I going to be staying in your room with you?” she asked with a coy smile and my ears suddenly started
working perfectly.
Alex went still for a nanosecond, and then shook his head.
“These bags, coupled with my own clothes would make the room
clumsy. You can choose any room you want” he said. She looked
disappointed for some seconds, then she seemed to brighten up like a
fresh idea had popped into her head.
“Any room?” she asked again and he nodded.
I swallowed. He had said the same thing to me. What the hell
was going on here? I had stated once that he was probably a baby-
making factory; I couldn‟t have been more accurate. I wondered how
many women would pour into the house, claiming that Alex was
breeding a new life in their womb. Tears of hurt burned in my eyes as
Lisa ran upstairs like an excited puppy. “I am going to choose the
best room, the best” she squealed as she went.
I faced Alex who did not even spare me a glance. He dismissed
me like I was not even relevant and my anger bubbled. “Are you not
going to offer an explanation for what is going on here Alex?” I
bellowed as confused angry tears rolled down my cold cheeks.
He looked bored when he turned to face me. “What else is there
to explain again?” he sighed out. “Listen Amara, I am really
exhausted. There should be nothing to worry about. This house is so
big; a thousand people would live here conveniently. Luckily for you,
you are used to staying in your room, so I guess it would be very
easy to ignore her presence in the house.”
My eyes widened. “Are you being seriously vain or what? How
dare you disrespect me in such manner? No matter the circumstances
of our marriage, the fact remains that we are married and I would not
have you drag me in the mud by flaunting another woman before
me. I won‟t allow it” I yelled on top of my lungs. God! Where is
death when I really need it?