I Won't Cry For This Family

Hello Attorney

I let the music and wine take control of me at the club. Allowing my hair fall freely, I made sure to have a good time before I returned home to an empty house.

When I returned home and took a shower, I felt brand new as I sat on the computer and started to research. I smiled because Gilbert always stopped me from doing anything on the computer. He would say; ‘’I’m hungry, Christy, and you are playing on the internet.’’

Playing?

Gilbert ridiculed my existence until I looked nothing like a scientist who had invented anything. I looked like a desperate, frustrated and miserable housewife.

But now, I had the time to visit my archives. I had the time to get in touch with mylife, the life I had always dreamed of which Gilbert shoved to the back of my existence.

My memory started to refresh. My brain started to tick again, and since I was getting fresh ideas I called someone important.

‘’I’m returning to the lab.’’ When I said those words, I felt the energy from the other end of the phone, spike. I knew instantly that I had arrived at a new season in my life.

A season of independence, freedom and influence.

‘’Christy! Christabel Quadri, are you sure? I will suspend other projects so that we can start something.’’ My statement that I was returning to the lab was welcomed by my long time partner and co-inventor, Thomas Sync.

Thomas. my partner in innovation and the co-creator of the Polymath machine could not hold back his joy and eagerness to start working with me again.

After I abandoned practicing as a scientist to be Gilbert's housewife, Thomas said to me; ''Christy, you are one of a kind. I will never have another partner in this field except it is you.''

And just like that, Thomas let go of his future as well, just because of me. When I agreed to give the ownership of the Polymath machine to Gilbert, Thomas also lost his identity and shares as the co-creator of the machine.

So now that I announced my return, he looked forward to a lot of changes and welcomed the idea of a major and dramatic comeback to the world of science.

‘’I’m done playing small. I am coming back for everything that was taken from me.’’ That was what I told Thomas before I hung up.

I woke up the following morning and checked my phone only to see Graham’s post on social media. Himself, Lucy, Joseph, Gilbert and Alice. They all looked like one big family, smiling gleefully as if they ahd each been gifted billions of dollars.

Their expressions revealed so much happiness within them, without me.

Obviously, Alice had taken my place even in my son’s life. I noticed how Graham leaned towards her as he should have done to me if I was in that picture. Alice was like his mother, and it looked so real because even Gilbert, Graham's father, held Alice across her shoulder like he should have done to me, his wife, if I was in that picture.

But since I wasn't in the picture, it was safe to conclude that Alice had taken my place in everyone's life, causing me to cease to exist except for when help was needed. Domestic help.

They had arrived on the first day of the Mayfair, and their excitement bustled through the picture. Honestly, I felt so betrayed as I looked at the picture, but the feeling of betrayal ignited one thing in me. I was done crying and wishing for better days without doing anything about it.

There was no way to put it apart from the fact that I didn’t deserve any of the treatment I got from my family.

Sad memories hit me as I looked at the people I had bent over for, tear my heart to shreds without a care in the world.

Gilbert whom I had given the ownership of one of the most priced inventions in the world, treated me like a heap of dirt.

My sister, Alice loved to see me on the ground as inferior to her. She took my husband from me coldly, and my son and grandson as well.

My son. Maybe my son’s betrayal hurt me the most because I gave birth to him. I nurtured him before and after he came into this world, only for him to accept another woman as a mother figure.

I saw the way he captioned the picture he posted.

‘’One big unbreakable family. Just us.’’

He leaned into Alice fondly with a big smile on his face.

Then there was Lucy.

I sent Lucy some money in school just a week ago. Graham had asked me to please do so, and I did. But what did I get in return?

Disrespect and betrayal.

Lucy treated me like every other person in the house. Like garbage, like an option.

Then there was Joseph, my grandson.

My heart ached at the thought of Joseph, and I almost burst into tears.

When Joseph was born, I cleaned him, bathed him, and played with him.

It was a horrible and heart wrenching feeling to watch Joseph’s attitude towards me gradually change for the worse.

He learnt from everyone else and treated me the way they treated me. Eventually, he became an uncontrollable nuisance to me that I had to shut out of my mind.

Joseph cursed my existence the most.

All of them smiled back at me in the picture that Graham posted.

Their broad smiles carried their happiness and carried my mockery.

‘We traveled for the Mayfair without you. What will you do about it?’

That was the impression their expressions in the photo carried.

They taunted me.

I navigated to my contacts and blocked all their numbers.

Gilbert, Alice, Graham and Lucy.

After I did that, I made a phone call.

‘’Hello attorney, I would love to file for divorce.’’