After Five Years Of Marriage

Chapter 3

Jessica shook her head in the bathtub, knowing that Dylan had made love to her in the bathroom before whenever they bathed together as a couple, and now he was avoiding her.

She resumed bathing in the white bathtub with her sponge, soap, and water. After she finished her bath, she rinsed her body and walked out of the bathroom and into the bedroom to dress up.

Dylan had worn his white night robe and sat on the bed to sleep, as he was feeling tipsy from the alcoholic drink that he had drunk at Rosie's home.

Dylan saw Jessica step out of the bathroom, but he looked away from her and at the wall as he lay on the bed to sleep.

Dylan turned his back on Jessica and faced the wall, and she frowned at her husband's behavior, knowing that he was truly avoiding her.

Jessica walked up to their wardrobe to take out a nightgown to wear. She tried hard not to cry, as she did not want to divorce Dylan.

She knew that he had been behaving strangely lately, before he was absent from home for two days in a row, and she wondered in her mind: "Who is the new woman in his life now?"

Jessica stood searching for a single nightgown to wear for hours. Even though she had touched the white nightgown that she wanted to wear and was supposed to take out from the wardrobe and put on,

she stood beside the wardrobe and got lost in her thoughts as hot tears freely streamed down her eyes.

Jessica finally snapped out of her trance and took out the white nightgown that she had been holding to select. She put it on as she stared back at her sleeping husband on the bed.

Her eyes moved to stare at the divorce papers again that were on the headboard, and she shook her head in sadness before walking up to the bed to join her husband in sleeping.

Dylan was already fast asleep on the bed, but as Jessica climbed onto the bed, he felt her heavy weight press on the bed, and his blue eyes subtly opened a little as he stared at the pretty woman's face that was on the bed with him.

Seeing that the pretty woman was his wife, whom he was about to divorce, and that she was sobbing too, Dylan sat up on the bed and sleepily asked her: "What is wrong, babe?"

Jessica sniffled and wanted to reply to her husband, but Dylan sleepily lay back on the bed and fell asleep. The alcohol had not cleared from him yet, and he was already tired and exhausted, as he had spent half the time since closing from his office work at 5 p.m. with Rosie in her room, and he needed to rest.

Dylan turned his back on Jessica again, adjusted his pillow properly underneath his head, and rested his head on it.

Dylan resumed sleeping while Jessica blinked her teardrops away as she sat on the bed, looking at her sleeping husband for a moment.

Not wanting to accept the fact that they were going to divorce the following day, Jessica decided to be the good wife that she was. She wrapped her left arm around Dylan's waist and moved closely to him on the bed, as he had his back to her.

Jessica cuddled up beside Dylan closely, inhaling his manly scent as she hugged him to find warmth from him.

She rested her head on his left arm to caress his face and jaw, but Dylan inhaled Jessica's sweet blossom scent, and his blue eyes subtly opened again.

Dylan sprang up from the bed, even in his drunken state, and pushed Jessica's arm off from hugging him on the bed.

He looked at her angrily and asked her: "What is wrong with you, Jessica? Why do you not want me to sleep tonight?"

Dylan was seated on the bed with Jessica, seeing that she was not wearing a bra underneath her big bréasts, and her white nightgown was almost transparent, revealing her breasts to his view.

Dylan looked away, and Jessica replied: "I want you, Dylan."

"But I do not want you anymore, Jessica. I want a divorce, and you should sign the divorce papers tomorrow and leave! I am not joking about it," Dylan said curtly. He immediately took his pillow from the bed as he drunkenly stepped down from the bed, put on his black slippers to leave their bedroom.

Dylan snatched his pillow away from Jessica's hands as she tried to stop him from leaving by holding onto his pillow.

Dylan walked out of the room, leaving Jessica alone in their master bedroom, and she cried out: "No, sweetheart! Wait! Where are you going?"

Jessica hurriedly stepped down from the bed and chased after Dylan as he exited their upstairs sitting room and went downstairs to the guest room to sleep.

"Dylan! Open this door!" Jessica stood in front of the guest-room door and banged on it heavily for Dylan to unlock the door from within, as he had locked it from inside.

Dylan ignored Jessica and went to the bed in the guest room to sleep, since Jessica wanted to seduce him in their bedroom.

"Dylan! Open this door now! It is me, your wife!" Jessica cried out as she stood in front of the guest-room door and banged heavily on it.

Jessica stared at the corridor clock in the passage and saw that it was after 12 a.m. in the midnight hour.

Jessica shook her head and went back upstairs to their master bedroom to sleep alone, as she did not want to wake their children from sleep.

The master bedroom was the biggest room in the mansion, and Jessica walked toward the king-sized bed that was covered in a white bedspread and climbed onto it slowly to sleep. She lay on the bed and tried to sleep.

It was Wednesday night. Jessica knew that her children would be going to school the following Thursday morning, as they attended a day school, and she knew that she had to sleep on time so she could wake up very early the following morning to prepare her two children for school.

But sleep was far from her eyes as she kept crying on the bed and thinking about the new woman who had come into her husband's life to destroy her marriage and break her previously happy home.

Jessica continued to think about how she would lose weight to impress Dylan and be the slim woman that he wanted again.

She knew that she had tried losing weight before, but it had not been easy for her, as she loved eating a lot of food and sleeping, and she was always at home and not going out to work anymore.

Jessica had spoken to her best friend, Esther Friday, about her plans to reduce her weight further. Esther had advised her that the best way to lose weight was to hit the gym.

Yet, she had been exercising daily, but losing weight had not been easy for her.

Jessica sniffled on the bed and fell asleep. She dreamt that a beautiful, fair-skinned, short woman walked into her home with a big black traveling box of clothes in her hand. This short woman was not Jessica in the dream, as she was taller. The short woman looked at Jessica irritably and ordered her to serve her meals.

Jessica saw herself serving this beautiful, slim woman in her dream as the woman sent her away from her husband's home. She tried to plead with the woman: "Please, you cannot send me away from my husband's house. Leave Dylan alone so that he can look at me, his wife."

But the woman replied: "No. I have known Dylan longer than you have, and your time here in his life is up, so go away."

Jessica saw Dylan throw her box of clothes outside of their matrimonial home, and he did not even mind their children's presence with them. He told her: "Leave my house, Jessica. This marriage is over between us. Go away and get out of my life!"

"No, Dylan! Please... Do not send me away. I love you... Please, Dylan..."

Jessica continued struggling on the bed and in her sleep, as she was still lying on the luxurious white bed in the master bedroom and dreaming.

She continued pleading with Dylan in her dream: "Please, Dylan, do not send me away. Please..."

Jessica watched as Dylan rushed to her in her dream to drag her away by her left wrist and throw her outside of their mansion. She cried out to him: "Please, Dylan! You cannot send me away, Dylan! Dylan! Dylan, please!"

"I am here, Jessica! Wake up!" Dylan shook Jessica vigorously on the bed to wake her up. He sat down on the bed beside her and shook her again and again to wake her from her nightmare.

When Dylan had woken up from sleep in the guest room where he had slept the previous night, he had a headache and remembered that he had returned home the previous night with the divorce papers that Rosie Andrew had given him to give to Jessica at home, and he had asked her to sign them too.