Love Hate Relationship by Goodness Shadrach (good books to read for 12 year olds TXT) 📖

But who could explain his shock when he saw how he was treating her, he had been perplexed and had thought to himself 'why have people watch her everyday life when you hate her? Or better still why marry her?' That's why he said, although he has stayed by his side for ten years now, the man is still a mystery to him because he finds it hard to decipher his thoughts. Gary sighed and sat on the chair outside the room, he really wonders about the fate of his mistress in this marriage and now his boss will be crippled temporarily, maybe things will work out now, who can tell? He heaved a low sigh.

Sasha stayed in the room for a long time beside Michael, doing nothing but just staring at him. Her tummy rumbled to remind her that she hadn't eaten since afternoon. She sighed and got up and walked out of the room to see Gary sitting on the chair, his head was resting on the wall and his eyes were closed. Sasha suddenly found it difficult to wake him up, she thought about going out to look for what to eat herself, she looked at phone time and it was already 10:30, it's been five hours now since Michael came out of the emergency room.

Three more hours and he would wake up just like the doctor said, she found herself praying silently that it will work like that, that he will wake up. She walked back into the room and got some money from her bag before walking out again, she debated about waking Gary up to tell him she was heading out but decided against it, it's still the same thing, waking him from sleep.

She walked down the hall in low spirit and walked out through the hospital doors. The night was pitch black and the breeze was cool more like cold. She looked around and thankfully there was a fast food just opposite the hospital and it was still open, she crossed the road and pushed opened the door of the shop, a bell jingled to signal the waiter or waitress about her presence. It wasn't up to five seconds and a middle age woman walked out from a room and smiled to her, the shop was almost empty with just a man and a woman sitting on a table at the far end of the room. 

"Hello, good evening" the lady greeted and Sasha nodded "what can I get for you?"

"Noodles" Sasha answered directly and went to sit down on one of the empty tables.

"Right way" the woman said after her before dashing back into the room she had emerged from.

Sasha sat on a table near the glass wall, she rested her hear on it and closed her eyes, both Michael's accident and what Gary told her has really changed her mood. She had concluded within herself that he hates her only to discover that he was responsible for the sudden growth of her company, at the moment, Sasha was lost, she doesn't know what to think anymore, does he love or hate her? Or does he love and hate her at the same time? Is their marriage a love hate relationship? She really can't tell.

She sat lost in thought there while she wait for her noodles, she tried to think about some happy moments but there was no happy moment she has with Michael except in highschool when he always respond to her formal greetings, she heaved a sigh. She can still remember the day of her birthday, she had received birthday wishes from everybody, she had thought her husband will wish her but he had walked in and went straight to his room as usual, she shook her head and heaved a sigh, that is not a happy moment, she chided herself.

The woman emerged again from the room carrying a tray which she dropped on the table Sasha was sitting on, her action had jolted Sasha out of her thoughts, she looked at the woman who smiled at her "I hope you enjoy it" she uttered and walked away.

Sasha stared at the noodles and her tummy rumbled again, she sighed and picked up her fork and started eating, she can't really tell the taste of the noodles but all she knows is that it was satisfying her hunger. She paid the woman when she was done and left the shop, she walked to the hospital with her head staring on the floor and her hands in her pant pockets.

"Whoa, finally. I have been worried sick" she heard and looked up to see Gary with his hand on his chest and he was breathing heavily as a sign of relief, his boss might be treating her coldly but he will really kill him if anything happens to her.

Sasha smiled faintly at his acting "when did you wake up?"

"Close to twenty minutes ago" he answered and they both started walking back to Michael's room "so where went you?"

"I got hungry, so I left in search of what to eat."

"Did you find?"

"Yea, there is a fast food just opposite the hospital."

"You could have just told me to get something for you" he rolled his eyes.

Sasha chuckled lightly at that, she found it amazing that Michael's assistant can be so easy to talk to "I couldn't bear to wake you up, you looked so tired and like you needed the sleep."

He heaved a sigh "yea, but still, you should have told me. I can always come back and continue sleeping."

Sasha smiled "next time then."

They both remained quiet after that and walked silently to the room, a thought suddenly occurred to Sasha and she looked at Gary "you said you have been with Michael since he was eighteen right?"

"That's right" he nodded.