Chapter 6: Sad birthday

Becky

I opened my eyes and saw myself lying on a bed, I tried sitting up but damn my head was hurting so bad, I touched my head and realized a bandage was wrapped around it

“What happened to me?” I uttered slowly to myself

“Ma, you have to lie down” A maid rushed towards me, and that's when I saw that someone had been in the room with me. She helped me lay down again and sat beside me, I looked at her face and remembered she was the maid from yesterday

“How did you find me?” I asked in a weak voice

“I was passing by when I heard a loud fall, I decided to check out what it is, I came into the room and saw nothing, I was about to leave when I heard the bathroom water running, I rushed into the bathroom and met you unconscious on the floor and you had a slight cut on your head and blood was gushing out, I had to rush out to call the boss” She said and pause,

“Did he come?” I asked even though I kind of already knew the answer

“No…” She shook her head negatively, I smiled painfully looking away to hide my shame

“But he was the one that called the doctor” 

“Hmm, thank you so much for saving me, what's your name?”

“Emelia”

“Nice name for a pretty girl”

“Alright ma, do you want me to walk you back to your room upstairs, the boss already left for work’’

“Don’t worry I have a lot of preparations to do today and I would like you to help me with it”

“Ma, the doctor strictly advised that you need bed rest for two days, the Injury you have in your head is severe and it needs to be cared for”

“Listen Emelia I understand that you meant well for me and care for me, but today is my husband’s 26th birthday and I need to make it special for him, so I need your help with arranging and decorating the house,”

“Alright ma, so tell me what you need me to buy”

“Don't worry I will order it and it will arrive in a few minutes, I have been making preparations for his birthday even before the wedding”

Emelia helped me as I made my way to the living room, I took my phone and ordered everything we needed, starting from the cake, the balloons, and the flowers with other items. Before I got married to Lucas his mom told me about his birthday and how Lucas never celebrated them at home, she says he prefers to go out with friends to celebrate his birthday instead of doing it with his own family, and she mentioned that if I could get Lucas to celebrate his birthday at home then that would be one step ahead of bringing the two of us close, 

And that is why I do not care if I’m sick or not, I want to show Lucas that family will always come first, I want to show him that I could be the wife he can depend on, I want to show him that I love him so much and will do anything for his happiness, I want him to see my love for him is pure and sincere, 

The items finally arrived and I began recording the whole living room with Emelia, I keep getting tired and a slight headache keeps slamming in but I was determined to do this for Lucas, hours has past and it was almost getting dark, it was more like I spent the whole day decorating the whole living room, and right now I’m so tired that I can barely stand, 

I wobbled on my step when Emelia suddenly caught me in her arms, 

“Ma I think you need rest, and you haven't taken your drugs since morning”

“I will do that but first I need to take a look at the whole decoration to make sure everything is intact okay?”

“Alright ma, I’m here you can do that”

“Hmmm” I nodded and began to look around the whole place, starting from the rose petals that were sweetly laid on the floor leading to the entrance of the living room, our sweet wedding pictures that were designed into frames, enchanting and dazzling flowers that was all over the places, beautiful balloons and sweet notes, 

The first note was tired to the balloon at the entrance of the door and it says, 

“You are everything that makes me complete, starting from the first day I saw you, till now that we are married, no matter the situation we face in life, I want to grow old with you, I want to give you the sweetest kids, and most of all I can't wait for the day you finally loves me back, happy birthday to the man of my dreams”

The second note is five steps close to the cake and it's hanging on the balloon below our wedding pictures, and it reads

“Having you in my life was the only thing I needed to breathe, you're my whole life and today being your special day I want and wish you nothing but happiness, hay birthday my world”

And then the last note which was attached to the candlestick on the massive cake says….

“I can't imagine a world without you, I can only say that in that world I would be a totally different person, and I don't want to imagine that, I know we started on the wrong part, but we still have time to love ourselves, life is short I want to love you, I want you to love me, give us a chance, let's lighten our world with beautiful colors just like today, if I have thousands of wishes it will be to be by your side over and over again, happy birthday my king, I love”

I can now smile happily looking at the beautiful decoration we created, I can only say we outdid ourselves, 

“Ma are you now satisfied?”

“Hmmm, thanks Emelia for helping me”

“You’re welcome ma, let me get you food and drugs it almost dark and you haven't eaten anything”

“No..” I said to her, I held onto the couch and managed to stand up, even though I was not so strong 

“But why ma?”

“I need to go wash up, I don't want him to get angry if he comes back and meets me this way, today is his birthday I don't want anything to make him upset”

“But ma your health comes first”

“Don't worry I’ll be fine” 

I managed to go upstairs, I went into the bathroom and began to wash up, doing my best to stay clean, I came out minutes later and dressed up, I made sure I was looking nice and that's when I went downstairs, it was already dark and Lucas will come back anytime soon

“Ma, what about your drugs?” Emelia asked looking so worried

“Don’t worry I’ll take it after he's back please turn off the light”

“Alright ma” She nodded and switched off the light, I sat in the dining area, it will be hard for him to see me there, 

Ten minutes later the door clicked open, 

“Why is everywhere so dark?” I heard Lucas voice, my heart was already beating so fast, I prayed he liked everything, 

The light came on immediately and turned to look at him from where I was sitting, he read the first note and his face turned sour, did I write something bad, I watched him make his way to the second note, he tore everything to pieces, making my heart sank dejectedly, and then he walked to the last note on the cake but as soon as he read it, he pushed the table of cake down in anger…..everything splattered on the floor, 

“Becky……..!!!” He yelled making me rush out immediately,

“How dare you do this?” He said in rage and charged towards me, 

He grabbed by the neck and slammed my back against the wall, making me wince in pain

“Lucas you're hurting me,” I said painfully as tears rolled down my eyes, 

“You want to be the perfect wife right, well let me teach me”

He dragged me to the cake that was splattered all over the floor, 

“To your knees…..!” He yelled and pushed me down

“Now start eating your precious cake”

At this point the whole maids were out watching me in pity, I felt so ashamed of myself, my tears mixed with my pain and right now I looked so pitiful

“I can see you want me to feed you right?” 

He grabbed me by the neck and forced my face down to the cake that was on the floor

“Eat your cake!”