Helen was in a new heaven raining all around her. Jacob was in a new paradise that would bring him every Tuesday to her house! They were one in the body of love!
A few months passed. Anybody that knew Helen, had noticed a change. She was not that depressed woman anymore. She had never said anything to her neighbors about her personal life; but they all had known that she was very unhappy. Now they all knew that something was changed.
Steve was the first that noticed the change in her. He was still the same Steve, who thought he was still in the military, and Helen was one of his soldiers. He could not make her to fight with him anymore. When he would return home from his nightly bar hopping and drinking and took her in his wild, drunken manner, she just tolerated it, did not fight with him, and let it be as it had been!
Helen was certain that no one was suspicious to her affair with Jacob; nevertheless, to make sure that her neighbors would not become curious about every Tuesday morning that she took Chris to one of them to play with heir children, she decided to change the time seeing Jacob every week.
He agreed with her. They began seeing each other on different days from Monday to Wednesday and different times! Jacob even began parking his car in another street, not in her street, although he had never parked his car in front of her home.
One Saturday in February, they threw a party for Chris's second birthday. It was a little over five months that Helen and Jacob were seeing each other. It was a cold day. Steve invited the same group of friends that he had always associated with hem. Helen invited the neighbors.
They ordered the food from a restaurant that it also did catering. The afternoon party was for children.They had arranged games, prizes, and cake. Helen was working very hard for this party for the last few days. The morning of the party, Steve told her:
"By the way, I've met this couple with their children recently, very nice couple! I invited them, too!"
Something sudden and unexpected made her heart to heave.
"Who are they?"
"He's a lawyer. She's just a house maker like you. Their name..."
Helen suddenly began coughing to stop her tears that were about to flow from her eyes. For some odd intuition, she knew this new friend was Jacob and his family!
The thought of the monotonous succession of day following night, then following day, made her heart palpitate with a true approach of madness. The terrible subjugation of this passing of time, the twitching of the hands of the clock, this eternal repetition of hours, days and nights, all that God had created, were all maddening, too awful to contemplate! And there was no escape whatsoever!
She tried to make a call to Jacob and tell him what she had heard, to see if her intuition was right. But not even a minute she could find that Steve was not next to her. She thought to herself: "Does he know?" And suddenly she became suspicious of the neighbors. "May be they know and told Steve something!"
"Why don't you get ready?" It was Steve who broke the chain of her thoughts.
She told herself: "I can call Jacob from bedroom. Surely he wouldn't follow me there!" But not only he followed her to the bedroom, he even told her what to wear, and how to do her hair.
"Oh, God, if I just can be alone for a minute!!!
To Be Continued
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