After Five Years Of Marriage

3| The dream

Jessica shook her head in the bathtub as she knew that Dylan usually made love to her in the bathroom 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 was through with her bath, she rinsed her body and finally walked out of the bathroom and into the bedroom to dress up.

Dylan had already 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.

He saw Jessica step out of the bathroom while he immediately stared 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 and knew that he was truly avoiding her.

Jessica walked up to their wardrobe to take out a nightgown that she would wear. She tried so hard not to cry as she didn't want to divorce Dylan.

She knew that he had been behaving strangely of late; before, he had been absent from home for two days in a row, and she wondered in her mind, "Who's the new woman in his life now?"

Jessica stood searching for a single nightgown that she would wear for hours. Even as she touched the white nightgown that she wanted to wear, she was supposed to take it out from the wardrobe and wear it.

She stood beside the wardrobe and got lost in her thoughts as hot tears streamed down her cheeks.

Jessica finally snapped out of her trance and took out the white nightgown that she had been holding to select, and she wore it 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 finally 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 pressing down on it, and his eyes subtly opened a little as he stared at the pretty yellow woman’s face that was on the bed with him.

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

Jessica snuffled and wanted to reply to her husband, but Dylan sleepily lay back down on the bed again and fell asleep. The alcohol hadn’t cleared from him yet, and he was already tired and exhausted as he had spent half the time from when he closed from his office work at 5 PM with Rosie in her room, and he needed to rest.

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

He resumed sleeping while Jessica blinked her tears 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 thought to be the good wife that she was and wrapped her left arm around Dylan's waist, moving closely to him on the bed as he had his back to her.

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

Jessica rested her head on Dylan's left arm to caress his face and jaw, but Dylan inhaled Jessica's sweet blossom scent, and his eyes subtly opened again as he sprang up from the bed, even in his drunken state, and pushed Jessica's arm off from hugging him on the bed.

Dylan looked at Jessica angrily and asked her, "What's wrong with you, Jessica? Why don't you want me to sleep tonight?"

Dylan was seated on the bed with Jessica and saw that she didn't wear any bra underneath her big breasts, and her white nightgown was almost transparent, revealing her breasts to his view.

Dylan turned away, and Jessica replied, "I want you, Dylan."

"But I don't want you anymore, Jessica. I want a divorce, and you should sign the divorce papers tomorrow and leave! I’m not joking about it." Dylan retorted, immediately taking his pillow away from the bed as he drunkenly stepped down from the bed and put on his black slippers to leave their bedroom. He snatched his pillow away from Jessica's hands as she tried to stop him from leaving by holding onto his pillow.

Dylan immediately walked out of the room, leaving Jessica all 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 sitting room upstairs and went downstairs to the guestroom to sleep.

"Dylan! Open this door!" Jessica stood in front of the guestroom 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 guestroom to sleep, since Jessica wanted to seduce him in their bedroom.

"Dylan! Open this door now! It's me, your wife!" Jessica cried out as she stood in front of the guestroom door, banging heavily on it.

She looked at the corridor clock and saw that it was already past 12 AM.

Jessica shook her head and finally went back upstairs to their master bedroom to sleep alone, as she didn't want to wake their kids up from sleep. The master bedroom was the biggest room in the mansion, and she walked towards the king-sized bed covered in a white bedspread and climbed on it slowly to sleep.

She lay on the bed and tried to sleep.

It was Wednesday night; Jessica knew that her kids would be going to school the following Thursday morning as they attended a day-to-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 kids for school.

But sleep was very far from her eyes as she kept crying on the bed, thinking about the new woman who had come into her husband's life to destroy her marriage by breaking 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 wasn't easy for her as she loved eating a lot of food and sleeping too, as she was always at home and not going out to work again.

Jessica had spoken to her best friend named Esther Friday about her plans to reduce more weight. 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 hadn't been easy for her.

Jessica snuffled on the bed again and fell asleep. She dreamt that a beautiful, short yellow woman walked into her home with a big black traveling box of clothes in her hand, and this short woman wasn't her in the dream as she was taller. The short woman looked at Jessica irritably and ordered Jessica 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, and 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; that's his wife."

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

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

"No, Dylan! Please... Don't send me away. I love you… Please, Dylan…"

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

She kept pleading with Dylan in her dream, "Please, Dylan, don't send me away. Please…"

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

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

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