After Five Years Of Marriage

5| Avoiding to eat

Dylan walked towards their bed and saw the divorce papers on the headboard. He hadn't read them yet as there were two copies, and they had been given to him when he was already leaving Rosie's house.

He took one of the divorce papers and glanced through it as he put the divorce paper into his black briefcase and shut it as he went into his bathroom to bathe.

He decided to prepare for office work as he thought he would read the divorce paper in his office.

Jessica rushed downstairs into the living room and saw her two kids sitting on the couch and eating the popcorn from the previous night that she had used to keep herself awake while waiting for Dylan to return home.

She saw the living room wall clock showed it was already 8:35 a.m., and she knew that her two kids were already very late for school.

"Mummy! Mummy!" Caleb and Nina both rushed up to hug her legs as soon as she stepped down into the living room.

Caleb asked, "Mummy, aren't we going to school today?"

Jessica knew that her two kids were already late for school, and she knew if their former maid were around, the maid would have helped her prepare her two kids for school, bathe them before she woke up, and also prepare their breakfasts too.

The maid would have even assisted Caleb and Nina in having their breakfasts at the dining table, but now, Jessica had to do it all alone as Dylan was now strongly against them having any maid.

Jessica had thought that the young maid tried to seduce her husband in her absence, but after the maid left, Jessica didn't receive any complaints about such reports from the maid's parents, and the housemaid was even crying to be sent away without having done anything wrong to offend Jessica.

Jessica had to dash the young maid extra money as she told the maid that she would still be going to her school, and she wouldn't stop paying the maid's school fees even though the maid wasn't under her care anymore.

The young maid was very smart and nice, and did all her house chores alone even before Jessica would wake up or send the maid on an errand to do it.

Florence Gregson was a 15-year-old maid, and Jessica had seen how Florence cared for Caleb and Nina so much and even helped them with their homework like she was their real elder sister. Yet Florence was only a maid and not related to them.

"Time has gone for today, Caleb. Not to worry; I will try to wake up very early tomorrow morning to take you and Nina to school on time. Wait here; let me prepare something for you both to eat first, then I will go and prepare your bath afterwards," Jessica told her son as she smiled at him and squatted to meet his height along with her little daughter.

She finally stood up from squatting on the floor in front of her two kids and went into the kitchen to prepare their breakfast.

Jessica wondered if Dylan was still serious about divorcing her, and she walked into the kitchen and towards her cupboards to check what she would prepare.

She resumed mopping the kitchen floor since she didn't have any maid again.

After she was done cleaning the kitchen floor and cabinet tops, she proceeded to prepare her kids' breakfasts, making noodles and fried eggs for them, and stepped out to the dining table to serve their breakfasts.

The aroma of the fried eggs and delicious noodles that Jessica had prepared attracted her two kids, and they rushed up to meet her, taking their respective seats at the dining table.

Nina was too small and unable to climb the dining chair by herself, and she cried out and reached out to Jessica to carry her up, as Nina's third attempt to climb the dining chair by herself ended with her little bottom crashing to the tiled floor, and she cried out, "Mummy!"

"Wait, Nina, I'm coming," Jessica quickly rushed to carry Nina up in her arms, dusted her little daughter's bottom, and sat down with Nina on her thighs. She placed Nina to sit on her lap and proceeded to feed her.

Nina continued to stretch her small hand to collect the spoon away from Jessica's hand and to feed herself, but Jessica refused and continued to feed her daughter.

Jessica knew that her two kids were happy children, and she didn't want them to become sad while growing up, seeing that their parents were now quarreling and no longer in love with each other.

"Mummy, why are you crying?" Caleb actually asked Jessica, as he noticed that she was crying silently, with tears rolling down from her eyes.

Nina tried to look up at her mother's face while seated on Jessica's thighs and eating her noodles.

Nina looked up again at her mother's face to see if her mummy was truly crying, but just then, Jessica heard footsteps from behind her, and she quickly sniffed and plastered a fake smile on her face as she replied to Caleb, "I'm not crying, I'm just overwhelmed."

"Over what?" Caleb tried to ask as he didn't understand the big grammar that his mother had used, but Dylan quickly cut the mother-to-son conversation short with his deep, sharp voice, replying to his son, "That's enough, Caleb. Now eat your food. You should know that talking isn't allowed when eating."

"Okay, Dad," Caleb smiled at his father's words, and Dylan stood with a strict face as he wore a black suit to leave for his company, adjusting his black suit necktie properly over his inner white shirt.

Jessica stared backward at Dylan's face and saw the hardened expression on it.

She wanted to put Nina down on the next chair so she could start eating by herself as she wanted to stand up from the dining chair to go and prepare Dylan's breakfast for him, but Dylan quickly told her coldly, "There won't be any need for that; I cannot wait to eat again."

Jessica had already stood up from the dining table and saw that Dylan didn't want to wait for his breakfast. He finished adjusting his suit and inner white shirt, placed some money on the center table for them, and left the house.

"Mummy!" Nina cried out as she was unable to reach the dining table by herself. Her little hands couldn't reach to carry her spoon and feed herself.

Nina's crying snapped Jessica out of her trance, and she rushed back to her little daughter after looking back at Nina, who was crying and trying to feed herself.

Jessica carried Nina back on her thighs again and resumed feeding her at the dining table.

Jessica knew that Dylan wasn't joking about divorcing her, and she silently thought of what she would do to appease him as she continued to feed her daughter.

After Jessica was through with feeding Nina, Caleb was also done with his meal.

Jessica knew that Dylan only left the security man at the gate to lock and open the gate for him whenever he was leaving the house for his office in the morning and returning home in the evening, as Dylan had fired all the maids and domestic staff too.

Jessica heard the sound of Dylan's car starting in their garage, and he finally drove out from their compound. She knew he was leaving for the office.

She went to her kids' room downstairs to prepare their bath. After she was done bathing them, she dressed them in new clothes and finally brought Nina and Caleb back to the living room with their toys to play as she switched on the television and tuned it to a cartoon channel for her kids to watch before she went back upstairs to her bedroom.