I woke up after a while. Alex was sleeping peacefully beside me, his hand and leg on my body. Then, I recalled we had done some funny things together and had slept off at the process.
I carefully removed his hand and then his leg from my body where he had placed it and the I placed them on the bed, while I got up from the bed. I grabbed one of the sheets and used it to wrap my body and then I walked to the bathroom.
As I got to the bathroom, I put on the tap and washed my face. Then I looked at my face in the mirror. I could see this dullness in my eyes. That is usually a sign of stress. But then, am I really sick?
For the meantime, I can't say for sure since the result for the body test I did were not out yet and I had no option that to wait till it does come out, before I could make any claims as to what might be wrong with me.
Staring at myself in the mirror, I remembered the little sexual and romantic escapades I had with my husband not long ago. I smiled and chuckled at the same time. Then I looked towards the entrance of the bathroom to make sure he wasn't awake.
I started talking to myself and smiling sheepishly like a little girl who just got her first birthday gift ever.
"Dear Alex, I promise to remain a good, lovely and caring wife to you and no other. I will be the woman you never regret getting married to, but the woman you forever are grateful to spend the rest of your life with. I will be the best wife you can ever, ever dream of no matter what. I promise that we will find our children, wherever they are and wherever they might have been taken to. We will find them together and bring them home. We will, I promise we will."
After saying that out loud, I couldn't resist the urge to cry, so I broke down in tears. Forcing myself not to be loud enough to probably wake him up.
I started to feel guilty, after I made the last statement. My mind started to judge me for having sex with my husband.
"Seriously, you are a dumb woman. Your children, which you have been disturbing a whole lot of people about, even your neighbors you never talked to, are not yet to be found. But here you are, living a life of satisfied lust. You don't even know if they are still alive you young-old fool! I heard this voice say in my head.
I started to reason it and then give excuses for what I had done. "Damn, Alex is my husband, so I can do whatever I want with him, like damn! We are officially married and the whole world knows that! I defended boldly.
"Hypocrites" the voice echoed in my head.
"I am not a hypocrite, I am a lovely mother. I love my children and I will find them, no matter what." I said to myself In self defense.
But then, I looked around me. I was actually talking to my head. You know, there's this saying that when you look at yourself In the mirror, you tell yourself the truth. Well, I hardly believe such things, but right now, I think I'm buying it.
I stopped looking at myself in the mirror and focused on washing my face. When I was done with that, I turned off the running tap. Then I used my face towel to dab my fave till it was a bit dry. I checked myself in the mirror again to check how okay it was. I remembered me talking to myself, so I quickly stopped.
I went back to the room and saw that Alex was still sleeping. I wonder if he actually slept last night before running off today to catch his impromptu flight which my mother had to impose on him. Though, I'm really grateful she did that, I don't know what I would have done if Mom didn't work that up for me.
As I walked back to the bed to continue the sleep, as I could not allow Alex enjoy it all alone, I noticed a white paper on the dressing table. I turned my direction and focus to it. When I got hold of the paper, it was folded, so I unfolded it and looked into it, to know what was inside. It was Mom asking us to come down for dinner whenever we decide to wake up.
Geez, Mom sauntered into this room while we were sleeping, half naked. I looked over at Alex immediately and heaved a deep sigh of relief when I saw that his body was covered with the bed sheets.
I checked the time and it was about few minutes to five. Wow, we really slept for a long time. I decided to wait till it was five before waking Alex up from sleep.
I went to the bathroom and took a quick bath before changing into my night dress. Still waiting for the time to clock five, I took a packaged juice from the fridge and opened it. I gulped some of it's contents directly from the container.
After a while, the thoughts of the kids missing started coming to my mind again. I fearfully clutched the packet of the juice I was holding forcefully, making some of the contents spill to the floor. I looked at the mess I had made and quickly got a mop to dry it up. I had no choice than to discard the remaining.
When I was done cleaning up the mess I had done in the room, I checked the time and was glad that it was past five already. So I woke Alex up. Atleast, that would keep me busy for a while and also keep from having tough thoughts.
"Alex, hey Alex, wake up. You've slept enough." I said nudging him gently.
"Heyyyy. I'll wake up." He answered sleepily and went back to sleep.
Seriously, I thought. I'm not ready to do this with you Alex. Now is not just the time.
"Alex, please wake up. Food is ready."
"Okay, I have heard you. Just give me some minutes alright. Thank you."
I knew he was only talking and I wasn't buying that at all. So I replied. "Darling, come on, I don't have the strength to do this with you, come on, stand up please." I pleaded gently, wishing he will accept my plea and get up without so much ado.
He didn't even move. "Babe, I'll wake up soon. I'm just tired alright."
I gave up immediately on trying to wake him up. So I decided I was going to use my usual method of waking him up, since I tried my best to do so gently.
I went to the bathroom. I took the baler from the plane close to the sink. I filled it halfway with water and took it to the bed room.
Alex was still sleeping with all pleasure by the time I got back to the room. I smiled wickedly to myself. I sprinkled some water on his face and was about doing the same thing the second time when he jumped on his feet.
"Sweetheart, come on. Please please I'm up now."
"No, I'm not sure you are. I think you are a bit sleepy still. So, hold on while I remove the sleep entirely from face okay." I said, laughing so hard.
He ran into the bathroom stark naked while I ran after him slowly, clutching the baler tightly. He locked the bathroom door after him and stayed in there.
"Alex, why are you hiding in the bathroom huh? Come on out." I said, still laughing so hard.
"Sweetheart, just drop the water alright. I will have my bath now and will be out soon."
"You're sure about that? I asked him.
"Very sure about it my love." He replied.
Then, I heard the water running from inside the bathroom, then I knew he was bathing already. So I dropped the baler with water by the side of the door, so he won't hit it when he comes out.
The next few minutes, he was out from the bathroom. He dressed up into his night dress and even combed his hair. Then he spray some body perfume on himself then came to me and did the same.
"Hmmm, you smell so nice Sweetheart. I feel like eating you right now." He said, sniffing me.
"Come on, stop it. You're making me blush." I said, covering my face with my palm.
"It's sweet when you do that. How are you feeling now? He asked.
"Much better darling. I feel much better." I answered.
"Okay, that's good. Well, let's go have something to eat. Your mom will be waiting for us."