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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 39, January 2022
Vol.1, Issue 39, January

He suddenly got mad at her without a reason, talked to “You did not fulfill your promise, you left me to suffer
her harshly without reproach and insulted her without after you and you made me bear some of your failures,"
manners. she continued.
She tried to calm him down like she usually did, He tried to appease her, saying: “You have carried me
reminding him of their anniversary and his success in through heavy times, you have been my motivation to
his job. succeed, and you have given me an aim to accomplish.”
She proceeded to point to where their wedding picture She said, in exasperation: “I have tried to be your
was placed and said, “Open it to see—” family, to save you from your stumbles and guide you
She did not get to complete the sentence, for he toppled when you have been misled. But my tenderness
the picture to the ground, before he could ever see what deceived you, and you have been anything but grateful
was in it, or pay attention to what she was happily trying for me, because you are really selfish”, and she looked
to say. at the ground trying to stop her tears falling, so he pulled
And here the world began turning beneath her feet, the her towards him, trying to appease her and said in a low
tears froze in her eyeballs and she fell on her knees to voice: “Do not I deserve a last chance?” She moved
the ground. away from him, shook her head in denial, saying: “It's
She looked at the scattered glass everywhere and let out over... my vision has finally cleared, and I believe all
a loud cry. She could hear her heart beating loudly and my suspicions now, and the expectations of all those
at the sight of the shattered picture, she broke down in who blamed me came true. I will try to get through my
tears. grief, and return to the only family I have got left and
She then yelled at him, “I wanted you to sober up, go everyone who turned against me.”
down the right road and stop doing all things that I can't She went on pointing to her belly, her heart filled with
stand. But our wedding picture was torn to shreds, the self-pity: “You beat me, caused me the abortion of my
bonds of love between us were severed and the fruits of child, and wasted my youth. Oh, you deprived me from
separation blossomed.” motherhood, for no sensible reason, and in every fight
She began to gather the remaining parts of the picture we had, I ended up being wrong.”
that belonged to her, embracing them while moving the He scoffed: “If I am that much terrible, and loaded you
glass away. over what you can bear, and deprived you of calm.” He
She refused to bow down anymore as the tears streamed went on: “And if your life with me was miserable, and
down her face and the candlelights dimmed you were falling behind, and wasted your life with me in
all around her. She said to him with deep sadness, “I vain, then why do you keep our wedding picture? And
have decided to wake up, to end this road and to escape keep reminding yourself of our dreams and our
from this deep well.” memories?”
He asked her surprised, “Where are you going to go? She interrupted him sharply: “I am only taking what is
Why won’t you stand by my side? Without me, you will mine...”
drown.”
He continued, “Is it because of a picture that you will She sighed, saying: I will get together what is left of me,
leave me lost? After you, I will sink and I will not be and go back to whom I have got left of my family, and
able to go on all alone.” work hard for what is left of my career.
She looked at him with sorrow on her face, a fire in her She looked at the door and said in a stifled voice: “I will
heart and distraction taking over her mind. leave in the afternoon so I can smell some fresh air.”
Then she replied with heartbreak in her voice, “For your He shouted in a hoarse voice: “Are you going to
sake, I defied all odds, and in return, I received the continue your way on your own? And break your
harshest of punishments from you and lived through all promise to me? And deprive me of your sympathy?”
kinds of torments.” So she hastened to say: “Our paths were not the same,
we each went on our own, and the distance between us
was getting larger.”

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