HARD WORK

HARD WORK _32

AALAM & ROXANNE...

' You can't just make such decisions without consulting me first Roxy. Did you even think about how I would feel,huh?'

'Lam I am not doing anymore treatments until the baby is born. I do not need to consult you. This is my body and I am the one with the cancer.'

Roxy reasoned as she threw the clothes into the washer. Aalam had planned to take her for her chemotherapy and was livid to find out that she had decided to stop the treatment without consulting him.

'Can you two keep it down, your daughter is in the house.'

Aalam's mother in law said peeking into the laundry room.

' Roxy,you need this treatment. You heard the doctor of you stop the chemo,you increase the spread of the cancer and decrease your chances of survival. We can have more kids when you are cleared.'

'Aalam Ethan Gold!,are you saying I should consider terminating this pregnancy?'

'If that's what is needed to keep you longer then..yes.'

'I cannot believe you right now. We have struggled to get pregnant and now that I am,you want me to terminate. I am sorry but I will not do that.'

Aalam looked at his wife who continued doing her laundry with his fists clenched. He sometimes hated how stubborn she was.

'This is some bull!'

He said as he walked out of the room and kicked a laundry basket. Which toppled over and spilt all the dirty laundry out.

' Hey Andrew....... it's Roxanne..... I am doing well thanks..... have you seen Aalam...... oh..... ohk,sorry to bother you ........ will do.....goodnight.'

Roxy sighed as she ended her call with one of her husband's close friends. It was a little after midnight and he had not been home since he left early this morning and she was worried sick. Her mother in law had left hours ago and her daughter was asleep. She could not sleep,waiting for him. She had called every place and person she thought he might be or be with but she could not find him. It was never like him to disappear like this when it they did argue.

'Where have you been,I've been worried sick.'

'Just went for a drive'

Roxy backed away when he spoke as Aalam reeked of alcohol and cannabis,she then noticed that he was trying very hard to stand still.

'Are you sure that's all you went out for?'

'Why do you care?! you are the one who wants to die and leave me.'

Roxy shook her head with a loud sigh.

' So you saw it best to drown yourself in weed and alcohol. Like some senseless teenager.'

' Of you can be reckless with you life then why can't I?! We both doing whatever the fuck we want right?'

Roxy moved away when he tripped on air and almost fell over but quickly grabbed onto the stairs rail.

'Go take a shower,you stink.'

Roxy texted everyone she had called to let them know he was home since it was three in the morning. She left him on the bottom steps and went to bed with painful tightness in her lower abdomen.

'aaaaaaaahhh!'

Aalam screamed with his hand on his head when the bedroom door was suddenly slammed shut,almost giving the walls a slight tremor. Roxy smiled to herself when she heard him scream. She wanted to torture him. Knowing he suffered the worst hangovers when he mixed weed and alcohol. She made him something she used to make for his hangovers in college and food before leaving.