Baffled, windswept and eager to help in his own
way, Oga commandeered Jude into his office and to his greatest surprise, Jude
was raved at the sight of his wife…”what are you doing here, you this woman? Wont
you just leave me alone?” he reached for a folder filled with documents and
splashed it on her…and walked away….it was a mean encounter. Jude’s boss got
the dumbness of his life…all he managed to say was “Jude, do you realize this
might cost you your job,? Jude come back here, come back here…”Madam, just go
home, I will talk to him, everything would be okay. He assured. Jude came after
she had left to tell his Boss that he was no longer angry but needed her to
suffer a bit so that she would learn her lessons squarely…a position his boss
warned against.
How they got here…
Approximately four months ago, Jude returned
from work with a cantankerous face, claiming he just had a hot argument with
his boss over salaries. He told Esther how his boss had announced to them that
despite their hard work, salaries would not be paid for that month owing to
dwindling sales and perhaps the next few months would not be paid as well if
sales don’t look up. He also told her how he cannot just walk away from a job
he has put in so much and with great prospects ahead of him…Esther calmly assured
him how that wouldn’t be a problem, the family can run on her own income until
his company pays them up fully…”please cheer up my darling, is that why you are
looking so angry and hungry?”…
In three months really, Jude did not finance
the home. Esther stood up to it as she promised, though painstakingly, but love
covers all and marriage is for better for worse…she had to do extra hours at
work and even took a loan from her colleague to cater for the home…this phase
had just ended when one day, Esther changed her bag and did not remove the keys
to her shelf at the office and her inhaler…she had to go back home to get those
items. As she entered the house, she heard her hubby’s phone ringing…”today is World
Couples forget day” she said to herself, reached for the phone, she didn’t pick
the call, took it and thought of how to reach her husband to meet her up or something…when
a text message dropped, innocently, she opened it. It read
“Judeyy, you are still as foolish as you were back then, thinking you
can still get in between my laps, well,thank you for the money, I never had any
surgery, I was never sick. I just needed to get something out of you for
dumping me the way you did. Don’t bother trying to reach me, I am far away as
you can see from the number” mmmmuah mmmuah”
Esther drove straight to
Jude’s office, threw the phone at him, and in the heat of things, slapped him.
Where they are now…
Esther is dead
The shame was so much for both of them
especially Jude. While being egoistic and feeling correct about him spending
his money any how he wanted, he decided to make his wife suffer a bit before
accepting her apologies for slapping him and now coming to his office for
further drama. She has been begging for the sake of her marriage, keeping all
blames aside, Jude decides at this point to put his feet on the ground on
making decisions unilaterally and no matter what he must have done, his wife
should not raise her hand at him…
How Esther Died
With the four-month lasting apologies ongoing,
the bright loving Esther have become a shadow of herself, once you see her, you
see her troubles…she has become obviously sad…on this very day she visited Jude’s
office for further apologies…on her way back home, as she drove and cried, she
had an attack…an asthmatic attack…she reached for her phone and started calling
Jude…Jude would not pick any call coming from her, not especially on a day like
that one. He sat there staring at the phone…She called and called and called and
called…until she managed to drive her car into the garage…she tried to type a
message…”my inhaler pls” she couldn’t send it before the cold hands of death
caught up with her… Curiously, about an hour later, Jude decides to check his
wife, at least she can still come in and sleep…. She was gone.
People, what went
wrong?
Is this an ego issue?
Did she overstep with
the slap?
What is the best way
to resolve issues between couples?
How long should these
issues last?
Please…this
left me sad…
