OBSESSED INCEST (Part 12)

OBSESSED INCEST (Part 12)

PERFECT STRANGER

She saw the face of a handsome dark skinned man, her eyes went down to his hand on her shoulder, he quickly took it off and apologized. She ignored him and turned to the grave of her husband with tears still streaming down her eyes. The stranger left her back and stood beside her, staring at the grave too.

“your husband?”, she nodded, “I’m sorry to hear that, God will comfort you and may his soul rest in peace” he said but still stood beside her.

In a way having somebody standing beside her was comforting, for once she didn’t feel alone in the world. She took her bag up and turned away.

“going home?”

“yes” she said without turning back to look at him. He hurried to her side, “let me walk you to your car”

“don’t bother”

“I insist”

“okay” she didn’t feel like arguing,

“I missed my friend’s funeral, so I came to pay my respects and apologize to him for missing it”. They walked in silence until they got to her car.

“thanks for your company” she said

“thanks for yours too” he replied. She got into her car and zoomed off. He shoved his hand into his pocket and watched her go until she was out of sight.

Tina got home with a hurting head; she ached for a cold shower. As she got into her now lonely room, she took off her clothes, headed straight to the bathroom, turned on the shower and stood under it. She stood there as images of Mathew clouded her mind; fresh tears mixed with the water from the shower flowed down to her body. She got out of the bathroom and toweled her body slowly and meticulously. Her standing mirror seemed to be calling her, she walked to it and removed the towel from her body and stood in her feminine glory as she looked at her self. She had lost so much weight; she wondered what would be left of her if she continued like this. Her left hand went to a little scar by the side of her neck. Memories flashed, she shut her eyes and saw how Mathew dragged her across the floor, kicked and slapped her as she begged for mercy. She opened her eyes and looked at her face once more in the mirror. She was no doubt a beautiful woman, she knew she was. Even as a married woman, men chased after her, even far younger men, but she never mentioned it to Mathew, she feared he might use it as an opportunity to accuse her of unfaithfulness and beat her up, worse of all divorce. Mathew never gave her a chance to be herself completely through out their married life except the period when they were courting. Her eyes were sunk in, her full cheeks had gone down, her bright eyes were now dull, her skin cracked yet she was beautiful. She sighed and tied the towel round her body and laid on the bed.

She remembered that she left her children for a long time. She hurriedly got up and wore a short and a shirt and walked towards Mia’s room. She opened the door and saw her children sleeping. She walked in and stared at them lovingly

“now, its just me and my babies against the world”, she whispered to herself. She left and shut the door gently.

She laid on her bed and suddenly her mind went to the stranger she met at the cemetery, she remembered his face, his soothing voice and the calmness that surrounded him. She didn’t feel alone when he stood beside her. His face kept appearing until she slept off.

A tap on her lap, made her jolt out of sleep, she opened her eyes to see Mathew grinning, her heart slammed against her chest, she didn’t understand what was happening, she quickly got to a sitting position, rubbing her eyes with her right hand.

“Mathew you are dead”

“no, I am not dead, I have been here all along, you were just to blind to see”

“no, you are dead, I saw your body in the coffin, there was a funeral and your body was in the coffin”

“I am not dead”

“you are Mathew”

“no I am not. Okay to prove you wrong stand up and touch and see for yourself”. She got up trembling and walked towards him. He stretched his hands towards her. As she touched his hand, he fell down and laid still. Then suddenly a coffin appeared and his body was lifted up by some invisible hands and placed in the coffin. Her clothes turned to black. She was confused and scared to say anything.

“Goodbye Tina” she turned round to see another Mathew at her back, she turned to look at the coffin, he was there. She couldn’t take it anymore she screamed.

Her eyes flicked open, she was sweating, and her heart was still racing fast and still visibly shaking. It was all a dream; she looked round the room, everywhere seemed normal. She slowed her breathing and got up. The dream frightened her.

Later in the day, she decided to go to the supermarket to get few things for the house. For weeks she never had time, the house was running out of essentials. She got into a black pair of jeans and a blue shirt, slipped her feet into a flat shoe. Checked her children one more time, this time they were in William’s room.

“I will be out for sometime, take care of yourself”, she waited for no response and left.

She drove slowly all the way thinking of the dream she had, the thoughts of Mathew consumed her. She got to the super market and saw several parking spaces, she hesitated for a while then decided to drive to the parking space close to the entrance and got out of the car sluggishly, she looked really unkempt. She pushed the door open and got into what used to be her favourite super market. Since the death of her husband, everything lost its colour.

She got to the section of beverages, searching for what she and her children were used to. She couldn’t find any of them and became impatient. She picked out whatever her eyes saw. Tina moved to the section of toiletries and glanced quickly at everything she saw. She took down everything she wanted into her shopping basket in twos.

She felt someone was watching her, but ignored the nudge to turn back and look, she kept on shopping with the feeling. She got to the cashier and placed everything she bought in front him, he looked at her face and frowned a little.

“is there a problem ma’am?, you look like you have been crying”

“I am fine, please attend to me quickly I have children at home”

“alright ma’am”. He scanned everything and gave her the total cost. She paid him and took her things away.

Approaching a car she saw a familiar man leaning against the car, he had a welcoming smile on his face.

“is he following me?” she thought. She boldly walked towards her car with her eyes fixed on him.

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