''Till Death Do Us Part?''

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I still couldn't get out of the shock, i couldn't believe he had killed her and is being consoled for his loss.....

This all started on a cold day, i was in a very lazy mood mostly because of the showers of rain, i love a rainy weather by the way, it makes me very mushy (smiles), then a scream brought me to reality, i looked out my window, but saw nothing, i knew it came from the next apartment (it was a compound of only two flats).

This was the third time this week i had heard such screams and when i tried to find out the cause of these alarming screams all i got was a '' nothing, we are fine'' although i knew something was wrong.

They would both smile but i knew she was not fine, we (my husband and i) have tried to get her in a private corner, to get a little information on the cause of all her scars, but she always gave a ridiculous story of how she fell down the staircase or hit her head, which could be true, but who or what was the force behind it?, this was a question she never answered even though we both knew who the force was. We couldn't fight the battle for her if she never owned up to it all.

This time the screams were continuous and i could tell they were screams of pain but weaker, i felt something in me shrink, i wished dee was home (my husband), i was too scared to go over there all alone, i could be beaten too; then everywhere went really quiet, i was glad this round of beating was all over.

I heard him storm out and drive off as usual, after beating the hell out of her, i watched the car go out of site from my window, then i jumped into my slippers and ran to their apartment, i knocked for long but got no response, ''maybe she wanted to be alone'' i said to myself and walked away.

Later that evening i heard the sound of an ambulance and wondered what was the emergency, dee was home and we were trying enjoy a cool meal before the ''wiiiiiinnnn woooorrrrr'' sound intruded, the sound got closer, we got alarmed and rushed outside only to realize our neighbor (the wife) was being rushed to the hospital, i felt my heart stop for a moment, '' let her survive this'' i prayed, i saw the perpetrator explain that he just got home and met her in that state, but that was the state he left her, how couldn't they know he did that to her?, i had a lot of questions in my heard, why didn't she leave him, why didn't she save her self......

She was confirmed dead later that night, the doctors said her heart stopped and couldn't give a reason why, how did he cover all this up, how is he the aggrieved?..... 

''is marriage really till death do us part???''    ''isn't our lives and happiness priority??''