3: The dream

Jessica shook her head in the bathtub, knowing that Dylan usually made love to her in the bathroom whenever they bathed together as a couple, and now he was avoiding her.

She resumed bathing in the white bathtub with her sponge, soap, and water. After she finished her bath, she rinsed her body and finally walked out of the bathroom and into the bedroom to dress.

Dylan had already worn his white night robe and sat on the bed to sleep, feeling tipsy from the alcoholic drink he had consumed at Rosie's home.

Dylan saw Jessica step out of the bathroom, and he immediately turned away from her to stare at the wall as he lay on the bed.

He turned his back on Jessica and faced the wall. She frowned at her husband's behavior and knew that he was truly avoiding her.

Jessica walked up to their wardrobe to take out a nightgown to wear. She tried hard not to cry, as she didn't want to divorce Dylan.

She knew that he had been behaving strangely lately, especially after he had been absent from home for two days in a row. She wondered to herself, "Who’s the new woman in his life now?"

Jessica stood searching for a single nightgown that she wanted to wear for hours. Even as she touched the white nightgown, she should have taken it out from the wardrobe to wear it.

She stood beside the wardrobe, lost in her thoughts as hot tears streamed down her cheeks.

Finally snapping out of her trance, Jessica took out the white nightgown she had been holding and put it on as she stared back at her sleeping husband on the bed.

Her eyes moved to stare at the divorce papers again that were on the headboard, and she shook her head in sadness before walking up to the bed to join her husband in sleeping.

Dylan was already fast asleep, but as Jessica climbed onto the bed, he felt her weight press down and his eyes subtly opened a little as he stared at the pretty woman’s face beside him.

Seeing that the pretty woman was his wife, whom he was about to divorce and who was now sobbing, Dylan sat up in bed and sleepily asked, "What's wrong, babe?"

Jessica sniffled and wanted to reply to her husband, but Dylan laid back down on the bed and fell asleep. The alcohol hadn't worn off yet, and he was already tired and exhausted from spending half the time after work with Rosie in her room. So, he needed to rest.

Dylan turned his back on Jessica, and adjusted his pillow properly underneath his head. He resumed sleeping while Jessica blinked her tears away, sitting on the bed and looking at her sleeping husband for a moment.

Not wanting to accept the fact that they were going to divorce the following day, Jessica thought she would be the good wife she was. So, she wrapped her left arm around Dylan's waist and moved closer to him on the bed while he had his back to her.

Jessica cuddled up beside Dylan on the bed, inhaling his manly scent as she hugged him to find warmth.

She rested her head on his left arm to caress his face and jaw, however Dylan inhaled Jessica's sweet blossom scent and his eyes subtly opened again. He immediately sprang up from the bed, even in his drunken state, and pushed Jessica's arm off him.

Dylan looked at Jessica angrily and asked, "What's wrong with you, Jessica? Why don't you want me to sleep tonight?"

Dylan was seated on the bed, and seeing that Jessica wasn't wearing any bra beneath her big breasts and her white nightgown was almost transparent, revealing her breasts, and entire body to his view, he turned away.

Jessica replied, "I want you, Dylan."

"But I don't want you anymore, Jessica. I want a divorce, and you should sign the divorce papers tomorrow and leave! I'm not joking about it!" Dylan replied curtly. He immediately took his pillow away from the bed, drunkenly stepped down, put on his black slippers, and left their bedroom. 

Dylan snatched his pillow from Jessica's hands as she tried to stop him from leaving their bedroom by holding onto it.

Dylan walked out of the room, leaving Jessica all alone on their bed. She cried out, "No sweetheart! Wait! Where are you going?"

Jessica hurriedly stepped down from the bed and chased after Dylan as he exited their sitting room upstairs and went downstairs to the guest room to sleep.

"Dylan! Open this door!" Jessica stood in front of the guestroom door and banged heavily on it, demanding for Dylan to unlock it from within, as he had closed the door from the inside.

However, Dylan ignored Jessica's call and went to bed in the guestroom to sleep, since she wanted to seduce him in their bedroom.

"Dylan! Open this door now! I'm your wife!" Jessica cried out, banging heavily on the guestroom door.

She glanced at the corridor clock in the passage and saw that it was already after 12 AM.

Jessica shook her head and finally went back upstairs to their master bedroom to sleep alone. She didn't want to wake their kids, and the master bedroom was the largest room in the mansion. She walked towards the king-sized bed, which was covered in white bedspread, and climbed on it slowly to sleep.

She slowly lay on the bed and tried to sleep.

It was Wednesday night, and Jessica knew her kids would be going to school the following Thursday morning, as they attended a day-to-day school. 

She knew she had to sleep on time so she could wake up early the next morning to prepare her two kids for school.

But sleep was very far from her eyes as Jessica kept crying on the bed, thinking about the new woman who had come into her husband's life and destroyed their marriage by breaking her previously happy home.

Jessica continued to think about how she could lose weight to impress Dylan and be the slim woman he wanted again.

She knew she had tried to lose weight before, but it wasn't easy for her as she loved eating and sleeping, especially since she was always at home and not going out to work anymore.

Jessica had spoken to her best friend named Esther Friday about her plans to lose more weight. Esther had advised her that the best way to lose weight was to hit the gym.

Yet, she had been exercising daily, but losing weight hadn't been easy for her.

Jessica sniffled again on the bed and eventually fell asleep. She dreamed that a beautiful short petite woman walked into her home with a big black traveling box of clothes. This short woman wasn't her in the dream, as she was taller. The short woman looked at Jessica irritably and ordered her to serve her meals.

In her dream, Jessica found herself serving this beautiful slim woman, who sent her away from her husband’s home. She tried to plead with the short woman, "Please, you cannot send me away from my husband's house. Leave Dylan alone so that he can look at me—his wife."

But the woman replied, "No. I have known Dylan for longer than you have. Your time here in his life is up, so go away."

Jessica saw Dylan throw her clothes out of their matrimonial home, and he didn't even mind their kids' presence. He told her, "Leave my house, Jessica! This marriage is over between us. Go away and get out of my life!"

"No, Dylan! Please... Don't send me away. I love you. Please, Dylan..."

Jessica continued to struggle on the bed, still laying on the luxurious white bed in the master bedroom and dreaming.

Jessica kept pleading with Dylan in her dream, "Please, Dylan, don't send me away. Please..."

Jessica watched as Dylan rushed to her in her dream and dragged her away by her left wrist, trying to throw her out of their mansion. She cried out to him more, "Please, Dylan! You cannot send me away! Dylan! Dylan! Dylan, please!"

"I'm here, Jessica! Wake up!" Dylan shook Jessica vigorously on the bed to wake her up. He sat beside her on the bed and shook her again and again to wake her from her nightmare.

After waking up in the guestroom where he had slept the previous night, Dylan felt a headache and remembered that he had returned home with the divorce papers Rosie Andrew had given him to give to Jessica, and he had asked Jessica to sign them.