WHEN I FOUND YOU

Chapter four

Calisaya didn't go out much but these few days she found herself at the same bar every Friday night for the last three months drinking and going home late,
Richard notices that his wife's credit card was used at the bar for more than once three times paying for two sets of liquor, he didn't say anything on the fourth time he locked the card, calisaya pulled out her credit card at the cash register to pay for food item at the food store,
She entered her pin
"I'm sorry mam but the card is being declined" the cashier said
"What? No way, can you check again?" Calisaya said
Hardy got to the store to grab a few things he was standing in line when he noticed the woman, the one he saw a few times but hadn't in a little while,
"I'm sorry mam it's not going through" the cashier said
"Are you sure?" Calisaya ask
"Yes mam" the cashier said "you're going to have to pay using cash"
"I don't have cash" calisaya said
Hardy step up to the front, " what's the matter? " He asked
Calisaya turn and saw him she remembers him from the coffee shop some time back when she forgets her purse at home and he paid for her coffee using some short change, "it's ok" calisaya said
The cashier hand Calisaya the credit card and she puts it in her purse, "I'm sorry mam" she said again
"It's not your fault, thank you" calisaya said
She turned leaving the bag
"Hey" Hardy said taped her shoulder, calisaya stop and turned around
"Let me help you" Hardy said
Calisaya wonder what he's going to do it didn't seems he's able to help himself, "thank you but no need to bother" calisaya said
"I want to help you" he told calisaya turned to the cashier
"How much?" He asked
"That's thirty eight dollars" the cashier said
"Here" Hardy said taking out a twenty dollar note from his pocket another twenty dollars from his wallet and a few one dollars from his shirt pocket just enough to pay both their bills he hand Calisaya the bag and with tears she took it "I thank you soon as I rectify the situation I'll pay you" calisaya said
"Don't worry about it" Hardy said touching his chest "it's from the heart"
He noticed the ring on her finger and figure she's married wasn't sure what the problem was but obviously she's facing something for she looks sad,
Calisaya wipe the tears as she try to smile nod to him and left him there, calisaya was in the kitchen chopping vegetables when her husband came through the door, he stopped in the living room a while before coming into the kitchen,
"So you went a head and stop the use of the credit card and embarrassed me like that?" Calisaya asked
Richard lean against the counter, "When you decided to start drinking and paying for it from the credit card I have to be working to pay then it's wise to take action" Richard said
" Richard it was only a few drinks"
"Yes but who knows when it was going to be more?"
"I'm not a drunkard" calisaya said
" I don't care what you are calisaya just as long as you're not using my money to do it"   
" You just  couldn't wait to do that could you" calisaya said , I bet you're enjoying this,  you're enjoying this so much, you're enjoying seeing me suffer, ever since you and that bitch of yours started out you became like a stranger in this house I can't believe you're the man I marry"
"So  you're putting the blame on someone else?" Richard asks
" I'm blaming her yes and so you know   the next time you bring her by no need to have her going through my things, taking whatever she wants"
" What you talking about no one took anything" Richard said
" So you think I'm a fool" calisaya said   she shove him and walk away,
" So you know I'm blaming both of you for my things"
"You have so much things that you're not using" Richard said
"What does it matter if  i don't they still belong to me my friend and my sisters gave them to me,  I really can't believe that you would do that anyway bringing a woman in to our home the bed we share" calisaya cried out
" Share? " Richard laughed, "that's funny you said that,  haven't you noticed I don't sleep with you we don't share a bed I am not interested in you anymore, you offer sex, sex I pay for, I don't need that right now,   I'm looking for better"
"I had a job it's not my fault why the company doesn't operate anymore" calisaya said
She  look hard at him and shook her head,
"And why are you dragging my woman into this,  She's not the one who's out getting drunk on other people's credit cards, she works she's less stressful to deal with"  Richard said
"If she's so hard working why the held don't she but herself fancy things and not take mine, And you're talking about less stress that bitch of yours is nothing but a theft" Calisaya said
"what do I care what you say you better not try to get in her face about anything" Richard said
Calisaya held her hand up,
"I'm the one who cleans up after you even when you're going out getting messed up by your other women it's me that keeps you clean I clean the house and cook for you,  she did nothing as such, you know what Richard says anything that you want to, do the same ok" she said much as she hurts she let it be she walk away, but she kept thinking about it, looking at how  easy it is for him to mistreat her having other women in their house sleeping in their bed saying all those things to her, she wasn't sure how she'll survive now that he lock the credit card and she has no cash at all, she cries but soon as he comes in the kitchen she tries to wipe it, she saw him look at her and turn her back, she stay the night on the sofa and in the morning she went over to the family house,
She was glad they were just happy to have her, she try to make it a fun filled weekend,
Because his wife was gone Friday evening when Richard got home Saturday he called Patrice to come over, she loved it at his place for it was more comfortable than her's,
after dinner on Sunday calisaya left to go back to the house, on getting there Richard was home sitting on the sofa he looks up when she walks in wasn't expecting her to be here, "you what you doing here?" Richard asks standing up when Patrice comes down the stairs calisaya watch the woman walk down the stairs she was wearing her coat she look at her husband then back to her, Patrice grin as she look at calisaya who stood in shocked,
"So this is it you're just going to bring her here whenever you please, and let her just get comfortable in my things?" Calisaya asked tearfully
"You left didn't you" Richard said
"And is that my skirt?" Calisaya asked for she wore something under the coat
Richard looks at Patrice in the little black thing she wore as dress under the coat  Patrice didn't know it wasn't a dress it was the only thing there that looked as if it would fit her and didn't sway around her hip, "you'll get it back" Richard said
"Get it back what do you take me for Richard?" Calisaya snap,
"You don't want it back yet still you complain what's wrong with you no wonder you're going to be by yourself you're selfish" Richard said taking   Patrice's hand "let's go babes"
Patrice grin as she took Richard's hand and turned to look at calisaya,
"Don't bother just keep it" calisaya screams at them both
" Bye" Patrice said with a grin as she hug Richard's upper arm and they walked away
Once the door closed she fell on the sofa and cried, she later called crystal and told her about it crystal felt real bad
Calisaya took the stairs and went to the bedroom she started cleaning out her things from there taking them down stairs to the spare room before nothing was left for her for it seems her husband was going to let his woman take until she's all out, she clean the room and hang curtains and took the sponge off the bed in the bedroom and little by little she take it down stairs she was the one who bought most of the things in the house, and like appliances she got as gifts, she didn't want the mattress Richard can have it but like the bed she tries to get the dresser but it was heavy
She went down stairs and went outside just then she saw one of the men living in the neighborhood She put it to him and soon he and two others were helping her,
They were leaving when Richard got home though he knew them to be men of the neighborhood he just look at them and went by he wondered what they were doing in his house when they walk out he took the stairs and went to the bedroom to find that his wife has move the things out his clothes were on the mattress for she took the furnitures out,
"Calisaya!" His voice echoes in the empty room, "what you think you're doing?" Richard asks on reaching the living room
Calisaya look at him and turned into the room she close the door and climb on the bed much as she tried not to cry it was what she was left with now tears,
"Calisaya why did you move the things out the bedroom?" Richard asks he was dressed for work Monday morning
"I bought them when I was working I did bring a few things into this marriage too if you can remember, it's most of the things  and since you and your woman can use it I can do the same" calisaya said
"So this is how you wants to play?" Richard asks he nods "Ok ok..." He held his hands up took his briefcase and left,
Calisaya found the keys to the room and kept it locked in order for him or his woman not to have access, She met with crystal after crystal got off from work and they spent the evening talking, "I'm sorry you're facing this" crystal said taking her hands
Calisaya nod "I'm fine" she lied
Crystal knew she wasn't ok, she couldn't be,  not to the way things were with her and her husband,
"Take this" crystal hand her some money,
"You know I don't want to take your money" calisaya said
"You didn't asked for it I'm giving it of my own free will" crystal said
"I don't like feeling like I'm some charity case, I know you're my friend and you mean well, but when some stranger have to be paying for my groceries at the store and paying for coffee because I don't have any money" calisaya said
" Don't look at it that way just think of it as a favor, a favor you one day will be able to return" crystal said
Calisaya tries to smile "It's just because I felt so pitiful now"
" Don't wollaw in self-pity have faith" crystal rub her cheeks calisaya took the money because really she needed it, she knew her sisters would be willing to give her but she didn't, she doesn't want the family to know what's happening between herself and her husband,
Crystal though about the condition her friend was living in, the fact that her husband was treating her this bad
"Honey" Bryan said he entered the kitchen calling his wife, but 
she was deep in thoughts she didn't hear him, Bryan cleaned his throat, and crystal turned to see him there, 
"Baby I didn't hear you come in"
"I noticed what's so heavy on your mind?" He asked taking a beer from the refrigerator and come to stand next to her,
Crystal sigh "It's Calisaya, she's having some issues with her husband" crystal said with tears
" What kind of issues? " Bryan question as he became qurious to what it could be that it bring tears to his wife eyes,
" He's seeing another woman and has the ordacity to bring her by sleeping in the bed that she slept in and wearing her things, staying over for weekends taking from her closet what she wants"
Bryan narrow his eyes, Are you saying the truth?" He asked
Crystal nod
"Ahhh damnit!" He said as he held his head "but, but, but why I thought he was more manly than that" Bryan said
Crystal bite her lips shook her head,
"What she plan on doing?" Bryan question
"She doesn't want to go back home" crystal said
"What about here?" Bryan ask
"She won't come, I've asked" crystal said
"Son of a bitch" Bryan said fisting his palm he sigh
"She's not happy and I'm hurting to know that" crystal said
Bryan wasn't sure what to say he held her to him and let her cry,
Calisaya sat on the bar stool and ordered a double shot of  whiskey but when she got it she couldn't touch it,
Hardy was at the pool table when he saw the woman,  She looked rather familiar from where he was standing,
He watched the woman as she sat there looking at her drink  It seemed like she was afraid to touch it, he left the pool table and  went over, getting close, "Make mine a double" Hardy said to the bartender,
Calisaya turn and was surprised to see him, the guy who bale her out at the store
"Hey pretty" Hardy said
Calisaya lift her hand,
"I couldn't help noticing you sitting over her by yourself, how about I buy you a drink?" He asked
" Well you're too kind" calisaya said
After one drink Hardy ordered another one which turns into three and four, Hardy pulled her to the dance floor, he wanted to get some information about her before she slipped away again and he might not see her again  the music was so loud and it was too hard to speak, calisaya didn't really want to talk she felt comfortable as she was hels to this guy's chest and the way he dances she look up at him and the way his lips were calling out to her
He smiles at her and she tremble, his head bow down and his lips claims her's,
She was aware that the crowd was watching but his kiss was just enough to block them out, it's been a pretty long time since she was sexually involved, months,  from when she found out about her  husband's affair,
The music ended and he pulled her from the dance floor,
They got to his bike and he handed her a helmet as he straps his own,  calisaya did the same thing soon they were getting on his bike she knows not to where but didn't asked no questions the cool win blew as they ride off into the west,
Richard was expecting to see his wife on the sofa when he got to the house with Patrice he wants her to see them coming in disappointed he climbs the stairs using the other bedroom since his wife had help moving out the things,
"What happen to the bedroom you share with your wife?" Patrice asked
"Nothing" Richard said
" But I love it in that room, is your wife here? Maybe you're to invite her to watch us get it on"
Richard giggle,  "maybe the next time" Richard said
They had got here at around seven for he came at a time when he knew she would be watching the news and she would see them then,
after such a long time having sex Richard went back downstairs,  it seems his wife  wasn't in her room up to this hour, the room was in darkness, he knew she wouldn't be in the dark like that, , he believes that she went to her family, he poured some  drinks for himself and Patrice,  then went back up,
Patrice had got up to roam she went to the bedroom that Richard took her first and find that it wasn't like it was the things were gone and the mattress lay on the floor and Richard things put on them,
When Richard got back upstairs he walked in the room to find that Patrice wasn't there she wasn't in the bedroom
"Babes, hey babes" Richard called,  he went out and saw her coming from the other room,  she got to where he was and look back,
"Here" Richard said handing Patrice the drink,
"Thanks" Patrice smirk
Richard took her hand and brought her back to the room,
"Did your wife move?" Patrice asked
Richard shook his head,
"I don't see her things in the room"  Patrice said
"She just kept them in another room" Richard said
" She's there? " Patrice asked
" She's not" Richard said, " she's probably out on a weekend at her family"
Patrice grin" then let's go see you know how nice it makes me feel going through her things"
" I'm afraid that won't happen now she kept a lock on" Richard said
" In your own house, don't you think you should do something about it" Patrice asked, "she did the room like that and here you are in anext room that's not as comfortable aren't you the one whose money paid for this house? "
Richard pause to think about what she said thinking it's true and decided to deal with it when his wife got home.
Calisaya sat up in the bed and look at the man next to her, they had share a while night last night one she can't believe happen but she needed it and he give it in such away that her body aches for more,  she climb out of the bed they share romance in, it was in a small motel down the road from her usual bar they both paid for the night, the guy was like a beast but yet he was breathtaking, she wasn't sure if it was her longing that make it felt that extra good, ignoring the small disconnect in her tummy it was worth the cost, she got dress and slip in her shoe she  stood looking at him, she wasn't going to wake him but she wrote down her number and stick it on the bedside table next to his phone before she leaves timely, thinking if he calls he calls as she would want to see him again hoping to see him again,
Hardy got up as soon as she left  the room closing the door behind her,   he wasn't really sleeping but  he didn't know why he didn't stop her for he has interested in her he wasn't sure why he felt afraid of getting into a steady relationship, last night was a night he felt at his best it was perfect, he got out the bed and found the bathroom he took a shower then climb back in his close, he  reach for the paper on the bedside table which hold her number and put it in his pocket he left the motel got on his bike and ride home,
Calisaya notice her husband's car when she got home at a quarter to eight she got through the front door and close it, Richard was in the kitchen on hearing the door he comes out calisaya walk by him to go to the room she now uses, Richard grab hold of her hand, "where have you been?" He asked
Calisaya pulled from him "It's none of your business" she shout at him,
Patrice comes down on hearing them, calisaya look when she did then back to her husband,
"In case you forgot I'm the one who owns this  house and you think it's ok to walk in when ever you're please and lock me out of the rooms I'm free to go anywhere in this house I want" Richard said
Patrice come over to hug his shoulder she was grinning as she look at calisaya,
Calisaya look from her to her husband then turn away,
She opened and closed the door she sigh deeply as she falls on the bed, things felt so complicated she was becoming frustrated since the big change of her husband's attitude she has been so unhappy, last night was the happiest time and she didn't want to spoil the mode she was in, she thinks back on the guy she check her phone to see if she received any messages or missed any calls but none so far
Hardy wasn't sure he was going to call at least not today, he need to think of the next move before he made it,
Hardy drove over to the family house it's been a while he hadn't spend some hours with the family and took today to do so,
"Brother!" Philip greeted Hardy when the maid let him in and he found them in the den,
"Honey" Lauren said hugging her son
"Hey paps" Hardy said he and his dad share a hug,
"We're were having a drink" Philip said
"Just a small amount" Hardy told him, he had drink too much and carryon in such a manner with a stranger his body still aches for more of he didn't want to drink too much to push up that feeling so he just have that one small drink and spend some time talking with his brother and their parents before he was ready to leave them again.