5; Avoiding To Eat

Dylan walked towards their bed and saw the divorce papers on the headboard. He hadn't read them yet, as there were two copies, and they were given to him when he was leaving Rosie's house.

He took one of the divorce papers and glanced through it before putting the divorce paper into his black briefcase and shutting it closed as he went into his bathroom to bathe.

He decided to prepare for work, thinking he would read the divorce paper in his office.

Jessica rushed downstairs into the living room and saw her two kids sitting on the couch, eating the popcorn from the previous night that she had used to keep herself awake while waiting for Dylan to return home.

She saw that the living room wall clock showed it was already 8:35 AM, and she knew that her two kids were already very late for school.

"Mummy! Mummy!" Caleb and Nina both rushed up to hug her legs as soon as she stepped into the living room.

Caleb asked, "Mummy, aren't we going to school today?"

Jessica knew that her two kids were already late for school, and she thought that if their former maid were around, the maid would have helped her prepare the kids for school, bathed them before she woke up, and also prepared their breakfasts.

The maid would have even assisted Caleb and Nina in having their breakfasts at the dining table, but now, Jessica had to do it all alone, because Dylan was strongly against them having any maid.

Jessica had thought that the young maid tried to seduce her husband in her absence, but after the maid left, she didn't receive any complaints of such reports from the maid's parents. The housemaid had even cried to be sent away without doing anything wrong to offend Jessica.

Jessica had to give the young maid extra money, telling her that she would still be going to school and that she wouldn't stop paying the maid's school fees, even though the maid wasn't under her care anymore.

The young maid was very smart and nice, and she did all her house chores alone even before Jessica would wake up or send the maid on an errand.

Florence Gregson was a 15-year-old maid, and Jessica had seen how Florence cared for Caleb and Nina so much and even helped them with their homework, as if she were their real elder sister. Yet Florence was only a maid and not related to them.

"Time has gone for today, Caleb. Don't worry, I will try to wake up very early tomorrow morning to take you and Nina to school on time. Wait here; let me prepare something for you both to eat first, then I will go and prepare your bath afterwards," Jessica told her son, smiling at him as she squatted to meet his height along with her little daughter’s height.

She finally stood up from squatting on the floor in front of her two kids and went into the kitchen to prepare their breakfast.

Jessica wondered if Dylan was still serious about divorcing her, and she walked into the kitchen towards her cupboards to check what she could prepare.

She resumed mopping the kitchen floor since she didn't have any maid anymore.

After she was through with cleaning the kitchen floor and cabinet tops, she proceeded to prepare her kids' breakfasts. She made noodles and fried eggs for them and stepped out to the dining table to serve their breakfasts.

The aroma of the fried eggs and delicious noodles that Jessica had prepared attracted her two kids' nostrils, and they rushed up to meet her at the dining table to take their respective seats.

Nina was too small and unable to climb the dining chair by herself. She cried out and reached out to Jessica to carry her up, as Nina's third attempt to climb the dining chair by herself ended with her little bottom crashing to the tiled floor, and she cried out, "Mummy!"

"Wait, Nina, I'm coming," Jessica quickly rushed to carry Nina up in her arms. She dusted her little daughter's bottom and sat down with Nina on her thighs, proceeding to feed Nina with her small spoon.

Nina continued to stretch her small hand to take the spoon away from Jessica's hand to feed herself, but Jessica refused, continuing to feed her little daughter.

Jessica knew that her two kids were happy children, and she didn't want them to become sad while growing up, seeing that their parents were now quarreling and no longer in love with each other.

"Mummy, why are you crying?" Caleb asked Jessica, noticing that she was crying silently, with tears freely rolling down her cheeks.

Nina tried to look up at her mother's face, as she was seated on Jessica's thighs and eating her noodles while Jessica fed her.

Nina tried to look up again at her mother's face to see if her mummy was truly crying, but just then, Jessica heard footsteps behind her back. She quickly sniffed and plastered a fake smile on her face as she replied to Caleb, "I'm not crying; I'm just overwhelmed."

"Over what?" Caleb tried to ask, not understanding the big words his mother had used, but Dylan quickly cut the mother-to-son conversation short with his deep, sharp voice, replying to his son, "That's enough, Caleb. Now eat your food. You should know that talking isn't allowed when eating."

"Okay, Dad," Caleb smiled at his father's words. Dylan stood with a strict face, already wearing a black suit to leave for his company. He adjusted his black suit necktie properly over his inner white shirt.

Jessica glanced back at Dylan's face and saw the hardened expression on it.

She wanted to put Nina down on the next chair so that Nina could start eating by herself, as she wanted to stand up from the dining chair to go and prepare Dylan's breakfast for him. But Dylan quickly told her coldly, "There won't be any need for that, as I cannot wait to eat again."

Jessica had already stood up from the dining table and saw that Dylan didn't want to wait for his breakfast. He finished adjusting his suit and inner white shirt, placed some money on the center table for them, and left the house.

"Mummy..." Nina cried out, unable to reach the dining table by herself. Her little hands couldn't reach to carry her spoon and feed herself.

Nina's crying snapped Jessica out of her trance, and she rushed back to her little daughter again after looking back at Nina, who was crying and trying to feed herself.

Jessica carried Nina back on her thighs again and resumed feeding her little daughter at the dining table.

Jessica knew that Dylan wasn't joking about divorcing her, and she silently thought of what she could do to appease him as she continued to feed her daughter.

After Jessica was through with feeding Nina, Caleb was also finished with his meal.

Jessica knew that Dylan only left the security man at the gate to lock and open the gate for him whenever he was leaving the house for his office in the morning and returning home in the evening, as Dylan had sacked all the maids and domestic staff too.

Jessica heard the sound of Dylan's car starting in their garage, and he finally drove out of their compound. She knew that he was just leaving for the office.

She went to her kids' room downstairs to prepare their bath. After she was through bathing them, she dressed them in new clothes and finally brought Nina and Caleb back to the living room with their toys to play as she switched on the television and put it on a cartoon channel for her kids to watch before she went back upstairs to her bedroom.