"Sorry for the interruption Mr Wellspring." Helen apologized.
"It's fine." He responded."So Mr Wellspring, I have to be on my way, all I want to say is your wife is really lucky to have a responsible man like you who never left her side for once, not every woman is blessed with a responsible husband, am in the shoes. Just relax your mind, I know you are worried about her but she will be fine." Helen touched Mr Wellspring's shoulder in a friendly way and turned to leave." "Thanks so much ma'am. I really appreciate. Seriously am motivated by your story." "You are welcome, anytime you know, you can always reach me. Here is my phone number...." She stopped and they exchanged contacts. "Mom!" Helen's children chorused and ran to hug her."Seriously mom, I missed you." The youngest child said and started crying."Shh!" She hushed her, "My darling, remember we are in the hospital, keep your voice low." She said quietly."Let's go mom, I can't waitHelen looked at her daughter and shook her head, she knew arguing with her is baseless. Helen wasn't a talkative but she knew she couldn't hide the shame, she couldn't die in silence so she had to voice out. Who knows if there was someone that could help her hearing what they pass through or she thought if she tell what she faced to some singles, they will think twice before jumping into a relationship or marriage. Helen's daughter remembered vividly that her mom almost slapped her one night because she spilled what happened in their family to an outsider, the event replayed in her memory, but here her mom was, exposing everything to an outsider. She frowned, it really made her angry."It's alright dear, Mr Wellspring isn't an outsider anymore, he is my friend, he always check on me each time he comes to see his wife, he buys good stuffs for me and paid most of the bill. So you see, he is a nice man and responsible husband too." She explained to her daughter who was fuming in ang
Helen looked at Mr Wellspring with an air of finality, "Fine but am done. Am fucking done I swear and I can swear with my life.""Done? Like you are done, with what? In what aspect? I don't seem to get you." Mr Wellspring looked puzzled."I mean am done, am so done with my fucked up, failed marriage, am so done with anything called marriage, am not interested, it's all fucked up, it's like being kept in a prison though you are suffering, you keep smiling, suffering and smiling is what it is called. Am suffering and am smiling always, I have been suffering and smiling a long time in my marriage I just can't keep it silent in my marriage for so long, I don't want to die in silence that is why am speaking up. Am married to a good for nothing sperm donor, my husband is a sperm donor, all he does is to get me pregnant, he is never responsible, he is just so useless, useless is an understatement. I have decided that am walking away from my marriage and everything related
CHAPTER 30Helen's daughter was mad at Helen, she hates it when her mom use bad names on her dad, "Dad is not an animal, he is just going through tough times and instead of you to be there for him, instead of you to be a wife material, instead of you to stand by him, you...""Will you shut your stinking mouth! Helen shunned her daughter, "Your dad is an animal, he is even worst than that because even animals have compassion but your father doesn't. He left me at home when I slumped to the floor after we had a heated argument. He couldn't even take me to the hospital. You know that and you are still saying trash at my face? This child, do not make me lose my temper. If not for the babysitting job I took that evening do you think I will still be alive, listening to the trash you are saying? If not for our neighbour that dropped the kids I will be babysitting that day do you know what would have happened to me? She knocked severally but didn't get a response and the door wa
"Yes I slapped you, next time when you want to talk, you talk like a responsible young girl not like a vagabond, I didn't train any of you to be touts, I trained you to be a responsible girl." Helen fired at her daughter"Mum! You slapped me?" She cried in pain."Yes she did and I feel like slapping you harder. Mom didn't slap you well because If mom slapped you well, you won't be able to open that big mouth of yours to as mom if she slapped you." Her younger sister snapped."Will you stay out of this? You silly trouble maker." She tried to hold the tears back not letting her younger sister see how pained she was."No I won't big sis, I think you should learn how to talk to your mother well and I also think you deserve this, with this, you will definitely know how to talk to your mom next time. I don't know why you are defending dad, is it that you are not aware of his silly behaviour? are you not living under the same roof with us? I feel mom is right for making that de
Mr Wellspring watched as Helen walked to meet her family and friends, he watched how relived they felt when they saw Helen. She was the reason they were still in the hospital. They hugged Helen and all of them held their hands together, discussing about something. One of Helen's friend teased Helen, making her look at Mr Wellspring, she waved at him and smiled. He reciprocated and they all left happily.Mr Wellspring decided to meet his wife. He walked up to her and saw she was still sleeping, he placed a kiss gently on her forehead not wanting to wake her. Mrs Wellspring moved and opened her eyes gently. "Hubby." Her voice cracked a little."I thought you were sleeping. How did you know I was here." He was startled."How won't I know you are here?" She questioned, hitting him playfully. "How won't I know my joy giver is here. How won't I know the way my husband scents. I felt your presence and I perceived your scent, are you fine now?""So smart of you." He kissed
Mr Wellspring stood, transfixed at a spot, searching frantically for anyone with perfume."Listen to me woman, you don't disrespect me because I came to your hospital. I am a married woman with grown up children..." A woman ranted on and on, arguing with a staff of the hospital. Mr Wellspring sighed, he was grateful he saw her, he knew women would carry perfume or body spray in their hand bags. He went to the woman to ask for a deodorant, she looked at him and smirked, he pressed further, she turned him down, in frustration, Mr Wellspring became so emotional, with a very shaky voice he begged the woman for a deodorant, something that would smell nice, different from the smell of the hospital that made him feel nauseous, he told her if she didn't give him a perfume or a spray, he would mess himself up any moment from now. After several pleas, the woman pitied Mr Wellspring, dipped her hand into her handbag, brought out a perfume that was almost exhausted and stretched
"I hope this two kids we are about to adopt won't give us problem, like our kids." She pressed her hands against her eyes to resist the flow of the tears. She was not going to let her husband down. She promised him that she wouldn't cry over unnecessary things again. She stared into the space, she kept blinking hard and biting her lips. Silence enveloped them."It's okay baby don't cry I have a poem for you." He pulled her closer. He knew how much she love listening to poem, anytime she was down, poem heals her."Really? Please tell me. Am dying to hear it." Her face got brightened with a very cheerful smile, "sweety by who?""Samuel Taylor Choleridge.""Oh. His poems are not bad either." She sat up, leaning on him.He cleared his throat and started. "All thoughts, all passions, all delights,Whatever stirs this mortal frame,All are but ministers of Love,And feed his sacred flame.Oft in my waking dreams do ILive o’er again that happy hou
CHAPTER 35""Okay." He mumbled"Baby will you check on me tomorrow?" Mrs Wellspring pouted her lips."You are the baby, not me, am not a baby." He tickled her. They both laughed."You are" she snapped"Am not""But you call yourself my baby and now you are denying it?" She squeezed her mouth."Hmmm, I can't remember that." He tapped her playfully."Okay, fine, you are a big baby.""That is better. I like that, big baby." All of them laughed."Whatever, give me a kiss before you go." She pulled her husband's cloth, they both kissed while the young nurse looked away shyly."Nurse, do you want to check my wife's blood pressure?" He pulled away from his wife and looked at the nurse, his gaze was fixed on her, his eyes roaming round her. The nurse couldn't stare at him back so she let her gaze drop on the bed, where her patient, Mrs Wellspring was sitting, obviously she was shy."Yes sir." She replied with her gaze fixed on the bed."Okay." He