“Lord, through love, life and eternity this is my prayer. I pray the love between me and Chris is more than enough to weather the storm, I pray you keep me strong the nights I’m alone. Lord, I pray here and now as I make this vow to last through the years, I pray that we’ll be all right. Amen.”
By the end of the prayer, she would have streams of tears running down her soft sweet cheeks leading to a small sea of tears on her pillow.
The next day Jada woke up to an empty bed. She went to see if the car was parked outside. As she crossed the living room floor, she saw him. The man she loved lay there asleep on the couch without a care in the world. When Chris woke up Jada was gone and so were the children. She had left a note for him.
‘Chris I’m taking the children to my sister’s house for the weekend so we can have the house to ourselves. I’ll be back around eight.’
It was six o’clock and Jada was running a little early. She had bought some things for a candle light dinner in an attempt to salvage what was left of her marriage. Jada pulled up to the house in the car, got her things, and went in. She couldn’t see Chris so she put the bags down and went to the bedroom. She slowly opened the door, and she saw Chris making love to another woman in their bed. Jada was speechless. It felt like nothing she had felt before. She gently backed away from the door, mesmerized by the sight of her husband giving himself to another woman. As she backed away, Chris’s eyes caught hers, his eyes full of shock and disbelief, and hers blank from despair. As Jada was walking away, it started to rain. She went and sat down on the steps of the front porch. It was like the world was crying for her because she had no more tears to shed; each raindrop was a reminder of all the pain and sorrow Chris had put her through. Jada sat there soaked from head to toe, in a sort of trance, mystified by what she had seen. She didn’t even look up when the girl her husband slept with hastily left without a word. Meanwhile Chris remained in the bedroom, lying back on the bed thinking about everything he had done. Then it dawned on him, all the hurt and hassle he had caused Jada- the woman he supposedly loved.
‘ What have I done? If, if only I had been faithful. Now she’s going to leave me for sure. How could I be so stupid?’
Chris was crying with his head in his hands. His tears ripped through the small gaps between his fingers. The thought of Jada leaving him was too much. He was a changed man; now all he had to do was show Jada that. Chris walked slowly to the front door, the closer he got the more he pondered on what he would say to Jada. As he walked out, he saw Jada sitting on the steps of the porch so he went and sat beside her.
“I’m sorry” were the first words that He said, but there was no reply.
…”I don’t know why I did it… all I know is that I am truly sorry. Because, beautiful I just want u to know you’re my favourite girl- I just want know that you are really special. Baby-look me in the eyes- I love u.
Jada replied in a tender voice.
“I thought you did to, but now I think about it what is love. Lying to me, sleeping around where’s the love in that?”
Chris answered with the uttermost sincerity.
“Love is gentle and kind, its unconditional, love is what I feel for you and I know that right know you probably hate me but ask yourself can you ever stop loving me.
“You’re right I can’t stop loving you but what’s love got to do with it…?”
“Everything, loves got everything to do with it. Love is the only thing that can keep us together.”
“What…what if I don’t want us to stay together, did you think about that- oh yeah that’s right you don’t think you just do?”
Sadness, anger, hate, these were just a few of the emotions Jada was felling right now but there was one emotion that had always been there love, but could she do it could she brings her self to forgive Chris. Then Jada looked at Chris and for the first time in her life she saw him cry, right there he broke down in the fear of loosing her. She forgot about the years that she’d wasted, the tears that she’d tasted, and she done it- she forgave him.
