Happy that Tina had finally gone home, Johnson thought he and Alexandrine would enjoy a romantic breakfast together like they used to.“ Aren’t you going to have breakfast?” Johnson asked his wife, who replied, “ I’m not hungry, Johnson, but don’t mind me and eat your fill.Alexandrine’s tone toward her husband was cold and indifferent. Johnson felt hurt for some reason but didn’t say a thing. After finishing his breakfast, Johnson wanted to kiss his wife before going to work, but Alexandrine avoided it, saying she had some stuff to tend to, and left. Johnson left the house in anger but Alexandrine didn’t let that affect her in the slightest.“ I’m sorry, Johnson, but I can’t allow you to continue humiliating me like this.” Alexandrine subconsciously thought after Johnson left for work.As she finished everything she had to do in the house, Alexandrine left for her parents' house to seek some advice.It had been a long time since Alexandrine’s mom saw her daughter ever since she got m
Before Alexandrine’s phone call, I was lashing at the department manager for doing a sloppy job on the reports, “ Do them over!”“ Yes, president.” The department manager nodded. He grabbed the reports and looked at them in despair. Just imagining how he had to redo everything from scratch just because I wasn’t satisfied with the contents, he got all sad and that’s about when Alexandrine called me.“ What do you want and why are you annoying me while I’m so busy?” The department manager must have thought as he saw me speaking so disrespectfully to my wife how I was being unfair to her and how she didn’t deserve it, but he would never say so in my face.“ Don’t forget to eat when you’re done with your work, please!” Just hearing her voice through the phone and her ordering me around annoyed me even more. The department manager was pretending to look at his reports, so I wouldn’t suspect him of anything.“ Instead of uttering such nonsense, you should hurry home.” As my conversation wit
The night was long and when morning came, my husband, Johnson was sleeping next to me as dazzling as ever. He was so handsome when he was asleep, I subconsciously thought as my hands ran through his seemingly handsome face.“ What should I do so that you’ll stay with me, my beloved?” I muttered as I kept watching him sleep. I knew deep down that we couldn’t be together but after that passionate and hot night we had, I was hoping for a miracle to occur, a miracle that would fix all the holes in our relationship and get it back afloat.As I went to take a shower, I subconsciously thought how wonderful it would have been if Tina had never been a part of our lives, how wonderful it would have been if she had never met Johnson, and how wonderful it would have been if Johnson had never fallen for her.“ How wonderful would it have been if I had been the one who met you first?” Through the dripping water, I was crying like a child to whom one has taken a toy away.” How wonderful would it hav
Johnson left for work in anger that day. Alexandrine tended to the dishes and when she thought she would have a break from all that work, she received an unexpected call from someone unpleasant.“ What do you want, Ms. Tina?” Alexandrine muttered sarcastically through the phone to her interlocutor. It was a displeasure and a hard blow to receive a phone call from her rival in love.“ Alexandrine, I want to make peace with you, so could you meet me?” Let’s start over from scratch!” Tina acted as meekly as possible through the phone. Alexandrine could feel her blood boiling from inside.“ Make peace with me, my foot.” As if I don’t know the reason you’ve called for me today of all days, Tina.” Alexandrine subconsciously thought. She wanted to dismiss Tina this instant, but she knew deep down, it wouldn’t solve anything; She would keep coming on to her until she got what she wanted which would be tiring and endless for Alexandrine. Why go through all that trouble when all could be solved
" Tina?"Alexandrine panicked as she tried to collect herself. " Knowing Johnson. He will blame me for this for sure." She subconsciously thought." What should I do?" The ambulance will take time to get here." She subconsciously thought." Tina, what happened?" Why have you suddenly stopped talking?"" Johnson?"Realizing Johnson was still connected to the call, she grabbed the phone next to Tina." Hello, Johnson!" She uttered to her husband asking, " Why do you have Tina's phone? Why isn't she the one answering it?"Alexandrine hesitated before forwarding to her husband, " Tina got into a car accident, Johnson." Alexandrine could feel her husband freeze in place as she announced the news to him." An accident?"Alexandrine narrated to Johnson how the accident took place and what the latter was doing at that time. As soon as she finished narrating, Johnson hung up the call abruptly." I should have someone drive us to the hospital" By the time the ambulance gets here, it might alrea
By staring at the dripping rain through the window, Alexandrine remembered an incident that occurred in the past, when she had just gotten married to Johnson, her husband.That day, it was raining heavily and Johnson was working on his computer in the room. It was raining so much that it started thundering. To protect herself from the thunder and not disrupt Johnson's work, she hid under the covers, waiting for the thunder to pass." What's wrong, Alexandrine?" Is everything okay?" He asked his wife who responded that everything was fine. When another thunder relented and Alexandrine felt agitated under the covers, Johnson finally grasped why his wife had hidden under the covers.Standing up from the chair and coming toward the bed and sitting beside his wife, he slowly removed the covers from her and saw his wife's eyes on the verge of tears. By the time the whole cover was removed, another thunder relented and this time, Alexandrine jumped into Johnson's arms for protection from the
Exasperated at Alexandrine's indifference, Johnson dropped the plate on the floor, thinking it would stir a reaction out of her. Johnson went to the dining table along with his plate to have breakfast." Alexandrine, do you really not care that our relationship is falling apart?" Johnson subconsciously wondered as he remembered his wife's earliest behavior.Alexandrine cleaned up the mess left by her husband in the kitchen. By the time she finished, Johnson was done with his breakfast.As he came to the kitchen to leave his plate, he looked over at Alexandrine and coldly muttered to her, " You'll be in charge of going over to the police station and collaborating with them on the investigation." I have no time to waste over such things as I have to take proper care of Tina."Alexandrine was hurt by the tone he harbored when speaking to her, but regardless of how she felt, she said, " It'll be done, Johnson. You can head to work without worry."" I'll be off then!" Johnson left the hous
Alexandrine entered the bus but as the bus was already quite full by the time she entered, she stood. Not far away from him, a couple meters away from her, there was Nathaniel who had also taken the bus alongside her.“ Ms. Claire is so beautiful. I can't because she's still single.” Nathaniel muttered silently as he observed Alexandrine who was deep in thought and didn’t seem to have noticed him yet.Back at home, Johnson got back from work and the first thing he did as he arrived was to look for his wife.“ Where is she?” He sighed in exasperation when he didn’t find her anywhere inside the house. He tried phoning her but to no avail. She wasn’t picking up his calls or at least, she couldn’t hear them to be more precise.“ Where could she have gone at this hour?” As that thought lingered in his mind, he remembered how he asked her to go to the police station to file Tina’s case at the police station as he couldn’t take care of it himself. “ She must still be at the police station fi