RAY LINE

SUSAN FINDS OUT

After Susan leaves Bob in the room where she drops him, he sleeps like dead a man, snoring such that the sound from his snore can be heard from a distance. Bob seems completely exhausted.

Susan is very angry with herself, as she cannot even sleep because of the crowd of thoughts of what she got herself. She sits down in the parlour from the moment she leaves the room where she lays Bob. She sobs uncontrollably, as the tears from her eyes drench her nightgown as if bitten by rain.

When it was about 6:00 am, Susan leaves the parlour and walks straight into the room where she leaves Bob sleeping on the bed. She realizes that Bob’s phone is on the ground. She picks it up, rushes back to the parlour and goes straight to Bob’s gallery. The first picture that catches Susan’s eyes is Bob and his entire family, his wife, a daughter and a son. In perplexity, Susan is astonished to see what she never expects. Susan cannot believe what she is seeing. She did not even know when she screamed, “This cannot be true!” She keeps scrolling until she now arrives at a particular album in the gallery of Bob’s phone and right in that album is a collection of the wedding pictures of Bob kissing his wife.

Instantly, Susan feels strong bile in her entire system, with a sharp pain in her heart as if someone runs a sword in. she did not even know when she finds herself in the room where Bob is sleeping. She slaps Bob thoroughly and throws the phone at Bob. Bob wakes up in shock

“What is the meaning of this? Why did you strike me, even when I am sleeping?” says Bob to Susan.”

“What…? Get off my house! Get off my life! Bob! I hate you, I regret ever meeting you and I wish, oh! I can only wish I can turn back the hand of time,” says Susan to Bob who is completely oblivious of what is happening, since he has never seen Susan in this state of anger.

Susan fumes in anger to the point that all of her body shakes as if she is experiencing an electric shock.

“What is the problem? Why did slap me in my sleep? Even if there is something wrong, can you not wait until I am up from sleep?” Bob says angrily.

The atmosphere in the room becomes tense with the vibration of anger, but the intensity is higher with Susan, as she becomes uncontrollable.

Suddenly, Susan fainted…

Bob in a state of uncertainty did not know what to do. He runs into the bathroom, fetches water and rushes back into the room. He splashes the water on Susan’s face and keeps splashing until Susan becomes a little bit responsive. He carries Susan and tries giving her artificial respiration. However, while giving artificial respiration, Bob imagines a romantic kiss. He kisses Susan deeply instead of giving the artificial respiration. Susan resuscitates and immediately realizes Bob’s lip is in her mouth. This act from Bob escalates her anger the more, as she pours a chunk of saliva into Bob’s mouth, pulls mucus from her throat and releases it on Bob’s face.

Bob runs to the bathroom and pours out the saliva from his mouth, using the tap water to rinse his mouth. He rushes out of the bathroom, this time very furious at Susan, as he tries to be a little bit violent with Susan, but heard Susan screaming and saying, “You are a Casanova, a cheat, a pretender, and an unreliable man that deserves nothing good from a woman. How can you come from the womb of a woman and treat a woman like your mother, as a s*x toy?”

“Why did you not tell me that you are married? Why should you be using me like your toy, when you have your legitimate family somewhere? Bob, you disgust me and to me, now, you are a disgusting thing. Moreover, if you do not leave now, I will kill myself. If you think you got me this apartment and can claim ownership, give me back my sanity. I came from a godly home and you made me got into a lifestyle that does not depict my family’s virtue.”

As Susan says this, she opens up to Bob by saying, “Do you know you deflower me? I have kept my virginity, thinking it will be for my husband alone, while a married man has taken it. God will punish you, Bob. Get out now; else, you will face the consequence of being this evil, as they will charge you for murder. You have already killed me. You are a very wicked man and I tell you the truth, Bob you are indeed a motherfucker.

Bob dresses up and leaves Susan alone in a state of despair and rejection. Susan feels filthy, as she sees herself as someone who has sold her pride cheaply. However, Bob feels very disappointed and sorry. He pleads with Susan, trying to explain things, but Susan gives him deaf ears.

“Bob, please, do me this favour, by not talking to me again. The sound of your voice hurts and brings me bad memory. Allow me to think, all that happens between you, and I is only a dream. Nevertheless, I wish this were a dream. Just leave, please, leave my house now!” says Susan.

“Ok! Ok! Ok! Susan, I am leaving,” says Bob, as he walks out of the apartment feeling remorse because he did not see this coming. He starts imagining, as a mental picture of what he was supposed to have done keeps flashing his mind. He says, “I would have password my phone. If I had done this, I would not have got myself into this. Susan will not understand my attachment to her, but the moment I met her, something attracted me to her and I wish I were not married. However, how do I make her understand? I think I will have to see her friend, Lucy, to help me plead with Susan to give me the chance to explain things.

After Bob leaves, there is no thought that Susan did not think. The thought of suicide occurs, but she wants a swift means, not by hanging herself. Susan feels lost as she realizes her desperation have landed her into something that she cannot delete the memory. She thinks about how her hope is dashed and the way she has been falling for the past one month, of which she did not even want to imagine pregnancy. Therefore she finally decides to go to Lucy's house, thinking that may help calm her since Lucy have a way of calming the storm with her good counsel.