Fulfilling Wishes - Episode 21

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“Reeva? I wasn’t expecting you...” He started but stopped as she came forward and began to tug at the ring on her finger, with this he relaxed, she had felt the same way.

“I thought that since you and I clearly have different goals, plan, and future, there is no reason to keep holding on to this.” She said as she handed the ring to him. For a while, he just stood there, looking at her, even though he had just said this to Ruthie, this becoming a reality was like a nightmare, it was like, something was happening so fast and he had every power to stop it but he couldn’t.

“Don’t I at least have a say?” He asked.

“Don’t you think that this is the right decision? I am sure that you yourself can attest to that.”

Andy sighed . She was right, he had just told Ruthie that this was going to happen and his wish had just come true. Well, be careful what you wish for, right?

“You made a promise to your father and I made a promise to my mum, let’s both not interfere with our goals and let’s just respect that we are two different people and we are not good for each other.” She explained further.

“Alright then. I think we should do this.” He finally said.

He opened his palm and the ring dropped in the middle of it, he could see the pain in her eyes, her face was wet and her eyes red, it was certain that she must have been crying

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. He thought of pulling her back as she turned to go but he couldn’t even flinch. He watched as she got back into her car and began to drive away.

 While she drove away, another car drove in, it was John, he drove so fast and halted abruptly, he then jumped out of his car and rushed to him.

“That was Reeva right?” He asked, pointing to the car that had just drove off.

“Yes.” Andy replied, clearing his voice which sounded as if it didn’t belong to him.

“Are you okay?” John asked, observing him. “Dude, are you crying?”

Andy sniffed. “We broke up.”

“Oh my God,” John exclaimed. “Dude, why did you attest to that? Why didn’t you two just chill? You just got engaged!”

“Yes, we realize that we are two different people and it would never have worked out,” Andy replied, trying to ignore the sharp pain that was tugging at his heart.

“It wouldn’t have worked? Since when? Since how many years ago that it has been working? You both just allowed pride and stupid desires to get in between your happiness!”

“We are two different people, didn’t you see that?” Andy demanded before walking into the house.

“Different? Different how?” John asked again.

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Ruthie set the tray on the table before Michael, his hand was around the mug. She carried the jug and began to pour the hot coffee into the mug, carelessly enough so that little could fall outside the mug and straight into Michael’s hand. He cursed and sprung up immediately while Ruthie hid her smile.

“I am so sorry, I didn’t know that your hand was there.”

Michael groaned in pain, “what is wrong with you Ruthie? Yesterday the same thing, you have been acting like this since yesterday. You almost poured the stew on my head! Do I need to be afraid of you?”

“I am sorry, I didn’t know that your hand was there.”

“The same way you didn’t see my foot last night before matching on me? The same way you didn’t see me coming before slamming the door and hurting my finger. Ruthie! Look is there anything you want to talk about? Please say it.”

Ruthie knew that he was right and everything she was doing was on purpose. She had started this since the very night after the engagement party, it was supposed to be a punishment for a while but after what happening between Andy and Reeva, she knew that he had caused everything and she had warned him several times about this.

“Ruthie, please, talk to me.” Michael said again with pleading eyes.

“Okay, I do have something to say to you.”

“I knew it. What is it that you can’t say directly but had to keep punishing me first?”

“Well about how you keep making a fool out of me? Not once or twice!”

“I don’t understand.”

Ruthie posed and straightened her back to mimic him, then in a hoarse voice and with a sorrowful look, she said, “Ruthie, you are my lifesaver, my angel, I don’t know what I would do without you. I don’t know how my life will look like without you.”

She looked and sounded so funny that Michael threw his back and began to laugh so hard.

“This is not funny!” Ruthie screamed angrily, “and that nonsense you did at the engagement party, looking at my lips only to take out a stupid paper! Do you think I’m twelve?”

Michael cleared his throat and was now looking serious. “I meant everything I said, I appreciate every of your kind gesture towards me excluding these past few  days when you have been practically hurting me on purpose.”

“This is not funny Michael!  You are either in or out! All this you have been doing, playing with me, it needs to stop.”

“I am sorry.”

“I don’t want you to be sorry, I need you to be a man!” Ruthie shouted.

“Well, I am saying sorry for making you think otherwise okay? I never meant anything, I was just trying to be nice.”

Ruthie was disappointed. “Really?”

“Yes, I saw the paper, I first of al thought it was a bug and..”

“What!: Ruthie shouted, now angrier than ever, “you thought I had a bug on my cloth? That I don’t know how to buy fine cloths except bug filled ones?”

“Oh no!” Michael realized she had misunderstood him, “that is not it at all, please, let me explain.”

“No. Do not explain anything. You just embarrassed me right now and I realized that poor son, Andy is not the orchestrator of his problem, it has always been you.”

This got him by surprise. “What are you talking about?”

“Of course he didn’t tell you. Did you know that he broke up with Reeva?”

Michael looked surprised at first then he shrugged, “oops, I’m sorry, he didn’t tell me, what happened?”

Ruthie shook her head. “You could at least pretend that you want him to be happy. Oops! Really? What kind of a father are you? You are not even a man yourself regardless of making your son a man! All the works I have been doing all these years go in the drain. You are so shameless Michael!”

“How in the world am I shameless Ruthie? He must have clearly seen that she doesn’t serve him and he decided to break up.”

“Really? Or he is afraid of making a big commitment just as you are?”

“I don’t understand what you are saying.”

“How would you understand? Every time you will appreciate my good looks, tell me how much you appreciate me and other things like that. I could see how badly you wanted to kiss me that night before you resorted into the bug nonsense!”

“Ruthie, look....”

“No, you listen. I have wasted my time here and I am tired of doing that. Maybe if I hadn’t thought and hoped that one day you will become a man of yourself, maybe I would have fallen in love with someone else. Someone who is a real man and who would never hide about how he really feels. Who would never take me for granted!”

Michael saw the tears in her eyes and began to come closer but she stepped further back and began to lose her apron. “I am done with you Michael, look for someone else that will take care of your frozen self. Your rigidity has rubbed on Andy so much that he doesn’t know what is right from wrong. You think all women are the same and you refuse to let go of that deadly notion.”

“Ruthie, please listen to me.  I have been through so much and I....”

“And it has been years ago  and I have wasted away times in this house! AM I not a proof to you to show that women can be the best thing ever? Clearly you will never know!

 I will go and find out how to help that poor child before he becomes old and alone like you will be from today.” With this she dropped her apron on the floor and walked out of the house while Michael watched unable to stop her.

 

**

Ruthie went straight to her room and straight to her closet. She began to remove the cloths on the hangers and was throwing them on the bed. She was boiling so fast that she was sweating. The veins on her forehead were showing so prominently.

Beside the closet was a big travelling bag which she dragged and unzipped, then carefully carried it on to the bed.

There was a light knock on the door, for a while she hesitated.

“Who is there?” She shouted, hoping it would not be Michael.

“It’s Adams Ruthie.”

She sighed, Adams was the butler and they were friends.

“Open up Adams, the door is unlocked.”

The door opened and the older man came in. He couldn’t have been lesser than fifty years. He was wearing a white shirt and a pair of brown trousers as he had always worn it since he had started working in the house. Almost every part of his head was grey.

He looked surprised as he saw Ruthie’s bag.

“Did he send you?” Ruthie asked.

“Nobody sent me Ruthie, I overhear your conversations, you both were loud enough.”

Ruthie colored for a while, “that means you must have known about the affection that I have for him.”

Adams chuckled, “I know of the affection that you both have always had for each other even though you never actually voiced it out. It has been more than twenty years and I have seen lots of things happen in the house.”

Ruthie adjusted and went ahead to pack her cloths. “And that is why you and I have been good friends over the years.” She said with a smile.

“Are you really going?” He asked, coming in further, “this has been your home for so many years.”

Ruthie fought back the tears that were trying to form. Adams was right, this has been her home for years, this has been her family for years and her family was falling apart.

“Yes Adams, I am going. I think I have wasted years doing the wrong thing.”

“Loving the same man or raising his child?”

‘Both.”

“I am not their family, they are both father and son, I am just a maid, I forgot my place and I thought I could do better. How stupid of me!” She hissed and dumped the packed cloths into the bag. She went to the other side of the closet and began to pull out her shoes one by one.

“I understand that you are hurting...”

This made her turn sharply to him, “I am not hurting, I am angry! You know why?”

“Because he doesn’t return your affection?”

“No! That, is not it. I know he feels the same way but he is just a coward who is unable to come out with the truth on how he feels. I have wasted years, trying to convince him that he could love again and he could trust again and that not all women are wicked like his wife, but now, it is happening to that poor boy that is just starting his life? He broke up with his fiancée. Can you imagine that? All because of the nonsense he had sealed into his brain?”

Adams looked surprised. “Wow!”

“And the worst part of it was that, he didn’t see anything wrong about it. He believed that she didn’t deserve him. So you see, there is absolutely nothing left here for me. Those two are a bunch of losers or cowards!” She concluded, wiping the tears from her face angrily, and continued her packing.

“I am so sorry Ruthie. What can I do?”

Ruthie straightened up, smiling. “Perhaps after I am long gone, you can talk some sense into his brain for me.”

Adams smiled, “I will do that,” he sat on the bed. “So, where will you go?”

“I will go to L.A, I will go find that lady whose heart is breaking just like mine here. I will find out what really happened and if there is any way that I can make amends, I will try my best.”

“I think that will be really a wonderful idea. But do you know where she lives?”

Ruthie shrugged, “not really, but I have her number. I will just give her a call once I get to L.A. Might spend few days. Will see how she actually feels about the whole thing.”

“What if she doesn’t want to come back?”

“I have seen the way she looked at him. She has a real love for him. No one can throw that away so soon.”

“The way she looked at him? Is it like the way you look at Michael?”

Ruthie stopped and then shook her head, “this has nothing to do with me.”

“But what if she feels the same way you are feeling?”

“That is more reason why we need to stay together.”

“No, I mean, what if she doesn’t want to come back like you.”

“I didn’t tell you that I am not coming back.” She replied.

“Then why are you packing all your things when you are coming back?”

Ruthie stopped and realized that she has packed all her cloths, what remained was her other make-up stuff.

She sighed and faced Adams.

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. “What if he doesn’t change? I can’t keep wasting my time. “

“So, are you willing to just give back, just like that?”

“I don’t know yet. All I know is that, a girl is hurting somewhere and I can help.”

“What about Andy? Who is going to talk sense into him?”

Ruthie stopped and faced Adams, “Michael will.”

He chuckled, “how is that going to be possible?”

“Maybe you can talk to him. You are the only man that can still talk to him. you have been married for more than thirty years and I know that you are always proud of Vivi every day and night. Even though  you both are grandparents , I know that you are so much in love and you both are happy together. Maybe he needs to realize that. Look Adams, if you can help him see some sense, I promise that I will come back.”

Adams sighed. “Okay, you know what, I will do that. I will work on Michael and in turn he will work on Andy, you can handle the lady.”

Ruthie smiled and brought out a hand for a handshake. “If you do a good job, maybe I will come back.”

Adams took her hand into his, “You will, eventually.”

OKAY LET'S SEE IF RUTHIE IS ABE TO DO SOMETHING.