It was a rainy day in Zermatt.
Frida was at home with her granddaughter who looked at pictures of Frida during the ABBA time.
" Granny, please come here and tell me about your life"
" You're sure you want to know what an old lady has done during her life?" Frida laughed.
" Yes"
" Okay, I'll tell you" Frida said and sat down." What do you want to hear about at first?" Frida asked.
" Well, we'll start with the sad things. So, when you and Benny divorced"
" Okay " Frida said and started telling her granddaughter about the divorce.
We were so in love. We had always been faithful to each other. Of course, sometimes we had our discussions and we had bad times. But, somehow, every time we always came out of that bad situation together. Benny was my first true love, and I'll never forget the time I spent with him. He was always so kind and generous. He was the only one who understood me and could deal with me whether I was happy or angry. Everything in our lives was so perfect. We loved each other, we had great friends and our careers went great.
But after the divorce of Björn and Agnetha, the atmosphere changed in the group. Everything became sad and melancholic. But at least I had Benny and we tried to make some kind of nicer atmosphere. It didn't work.
Later I discovered that Benny was cheating on me. I don't think he knew that I knew, but you know, a woman's instinct is never wrong. Me and Benny started quarrelling even more. It could be about the most ridiculous things like washing the dishes or going out with the dogs.
I felt so bad, I cried all the time. And Benny was at his new woman. I couldn't cope with that heartache.
He, my husband, my everything, had betrayed me in an unforgettable way. When he sometimes came home, he was a stranger in the house.
I couldn't eat anymore, I got slimmer and my physical health wasn't good.
One day he cane home and said coldly that he wanted to talk.
We sat down and he said that he had a new woman now. Mona- she was his new woman. He said " Mona is my new woman. You can call her that".
It was some kind of blow in my heart that moment.
" Then, I suppose a divorce is our only way out of this" I said and Benny agreed. He gave me a kiss on my cheek and ran out.
I realised that, that was probably the last kiss I would get from him, still married. It hurt a lot.
Later we finished all the separation papers and we were official now not husband and wife anymore.
I dreamed all the nights about our wedding and about the good old times.
During our wedding when we said our vows, we said it with love and we meant what we said.
"... Till the death parts us..." Was one of the lines we said.
Well, the divorce was some kind of death.
Agnetha was a big support during that time. I got depressions but nobody could really help me through them.
Some days I could scream of sadness, knowing that Benny probably kissed Mona in the same way as he used to kiss her before. He called her name, did it feel the same as it did when he called my name?
One day he came to take some of his things from the house. He stopped for a moment when he saw me, probably looking like a ghost.
" We've so still be friends. Take care" he said and went out through the door.
I watched him walking down the stairs in front of the house.
I realised that this would probably be the last time he went through that door, then it really hurt...
