TITTLE: BLAME LOVE AND LUST, woman of strength

                                by Wonke abucus Lepheana

                                     

Leave, go to her she is probably waiting for you don’t you come back here when she spits you out to the streets after. but  All she meant was please close that door walk back give me a hug tell me you sorry, and you still love me this is all crazy. She had discovered a condom wrapper in his jacket that he wore the previous day at work, “when he was working late”. She found it while doing the laundry right after preparing supper; she was going to tell him that he was going to be a father soon, and he needs to start saving because she wanted water birth. her mother had called earlier on and she couldn’t hold in the excitement and she told her that she was pregnant, mother called her aunt, her little sister over heard the call, little sister told their older brother, aunt on the other side told her husband who told their older daughter who was very close to her, who in intern told her friends whom she shared with her, Amazing how information can travel so fast.

 When he arrived home just before he opened the door he had just got off the call with a girl he had been with when he was working late, telling him that she wanted to tell him something but just before he could ask why his wife called him to come into the house. The late night girl wanted to tell him that the condom they used had broken but she didn’t tell him and now she’s pregnant but she’s going to get an abortion. As he walked into the house the wife had splatted a bottle of red wine over the counter, with the condom wrap next to the spilled wine. His eyes grew as he walked towards the kitchen, his wife gave him instructions and he listened attentively, go fetch all your clothes, come back down here, explain what happened and leave my house. He did not know what to say so he just sat on the kitchen stool and threw his newspaper on the floor, honey I can explain, but how does one explain such, what you keeping a collection of condom wraps; you work at a condom company.  He said I felt lonely and unwanted, she found me in one of my miserable times when I had just been told that I have to pack up at the office the company is cutting down junior stuff due to the recession, which is why I have been coming home late couldn’t face you knowing that I have two days left and then am unemployed. But that is no excuse to doing what I did, he stood up and went upstairs to collect his clothes, on his way upstairs he received a text from his mother in-law congratulating him on their pregnancy. He couldn’t breathe, right after that as he sat on the bed he received another text from the late night girl telling him about the abortion, his world closed on him, he had always wanted a child more now than ever.

He ran downstairs hugged his wife with tears on his eyes and told her he was sorry, but emotional as she was she just asked him to leave her alone still with the broken bottle on her hand, I said leave my house. He pulled away from his now teary wife he walked towards the door she screamed “so you just walking out on us like that”. He looked at her and asked what do you want from me, and she said I want you to be the man that you say you’re. thoughts of losing his unborn child from the abortion the late night lady was going to do and losing his wife who was pregnant with a child that they have always wanted, he broke down into tears still standing at the door. He spoke with a sad voice she’s going to abort the child and her wife asked who [with a shocked, furious, puzzled voice], and he said the woman I had sex with woman.

He sat on the floor near the door and she stood by the kitchen counter starring at his emotionally dying husband who she had planned to stab with the bottle she had broken but did not have the gut to do it. She screamed I said get out of my house leave, go she’s probably waiting for you to hold her hand when she goes to commit her sin at the clinic, I hope she doesn’t give birth anymore. He picked himself up and walked out of the house, as he closed the door she threw the bottle towards the door it smashed against it as he closed it. Screaming her lungs out with anger she said Leave, go to her she is probably waiting for you don’t you come back here when she spits you out to the streets after. He drove not knowing where to go his eyes were teary which made the road blurry, as he wiped his tears he swerved onto the wrong part of the road and collided with an oil truck that was on high speed. His wife had called her friend to come over told her she needed to talk; her friend was a news reporter for the local news station. Her friend received an emergency call from the station to go report on an accident that had just happened on highway between a truck and a small car as they had been told by someone at the scene. She told her she had to leave without explaining why, she just rushed off and said while closing the door I will call you. As the reporter friend arrived at the scene she saw a wallet on the ground still with smoke from the  blast that had occurred when the two vehicles collided, she picked it up and the first thing that she saw was her friends honeymoon picture, which her husband had kept since they got married on every wallet he had.  The reporter knew that this was her friend’s husband’s car, as she asked questions from the paramedics they told her that both drivers had died right after the collusion.

The wife had told the reporter everything that had happened that night, the reporter got into her car drove to the station to deliver the report she had recorded. The reporter decided to call and ask if she was not asleep, she said no I am not asleep I want to watch the news to check on the progress of the militants that were sent to Syria, (her cousin was one of them). The reporter dropped the call immediately and rushed to the house, as soon as she got there she busted into tears, the wife puzzled as ever what’s wrong she said in a sad voice his dead, his gone, who is dead the wife asked, your husband is dead.

The world seemed to be closing in on her, no he cannot be dead. While they were talking the report on the accident was showed on the television and the wallet with the picture was shown too so for family to come claim the body from the mortuary.  She fell to the ground falling on top of the bottle she had broken earlier to stab her husband with; the reporter rushed her to the hospital. The doctor came out of the intensive care unit with a sad face, she over bled and she lost the child due to the over bleeding and the broken bottles that went as far as her womb.

A month later she told her mother, who broke into tears and drove to the city to stay with her for a while.